Keyword: based on novel or book

The Grifters

7.3

1990

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A small-time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.

Obsession

6.8

1949

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Clive Riordan plans a devilish revenge against his wifes lover.

Our Kind of Traitor

6.5

2016

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A couple finds themselves lured into a Russian oligarchs plans to defect, and are soon positioned between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service, neither of whom they can trust.

Shane

7.7

1953

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A weary gunfighter in 1880s Wyoming begins to envision a quieter life after befriending a homestead family with a young son who idolizes him, but a smoldering range war forces him to act.

A Kismet Christmas

6.6

2022

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It tells the story of Sarah, a childrens book author who returns to her hometown where she reconnects with her family and her teenage crush. She soon discovers that a family legend might actually be true.

Brother and Sister

6.8

1953

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In Older Brother, Younger Sister, director Mikio Naruses adaptation of an oft-filmed popular novel by Saisei Murô, the eldest daughter (Machiko Kyô) of a rural family comes home pregnant, testing some already tenuous family bonds. Naruse shows his considerable skill at portraying household dynamics, filming Kyô in relaxed and/or reclining positions (indicative of her characters exhaustively maintained independence) that are then intruded upon by her ill-tempered older brother (Masayuki Mori), whose initially comic, brute-force presence grows increasingly menacing and treacherous as the film progresses.

The Drum

6.3

1938

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During the British Raj, Captain Carruthers works under cover to track smuggled shipments of arms on the restless Northwest Frontier of India. He fears a full-scale rebellion is brewing. To forestall this, the British governor signs a treaty with the friendly, peace-loving ruler of Tokot, a key kingdom in the region, which is described as four days march northward from Peshawar. Meanwhile, the kings son, Prince Azim, befriends Carruthers and a British drummer boy, Bill Holder, who teaches him how to play the instrument.

Black Beauty

5.8

2022

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A young English girl raising a horse named Black Beauty into a prize-winner. The motherless girl is thrown into a panic when Beauty disappears.

Death in the Garden

6.5

1956

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Adventurer Shark comes to a small village near a diamond-miners camp, and local police arrest him, accusing him of having committed a bank robbery in a neighboring town. The police also confiscate the diamond mine for the state, which incites the miners to revolt, but theyre defeated. Shark, Father Lizzardi, Castin, his daughter, and Djin, a whore Castin loves, flee into the jungle and fight for their lives.

The Emigrants

5.4

2021

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Based on the book by Vilhelm Moberg (published in 1949) depicting a few people emigrating from Sweden to the United States in the 1840 - early 1850.

Hot Blooded

5.9

2022

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A veteran gangster looking to retire from a life of crime in the violent port town of Kuam, Korea unexpectedly gets caught in the middle of a mob war with bloody consequences.

The River

7.5

1951

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The growing pains of three young women contrast with the immutability of the holy Bengal River, around which their daily lives unfold.