Keyword: based on novel or book

That Most Important Thing: Love

7.3

1975

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Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies. Trying to help her, he borrows the money from the loan sharks to finance the theatrical production of Richard III and gives Nadine a part. Nadine is torn apart between Servais, for whom she is falling in love, and her husband Jacques, to whom she has moral obligations.

Little Women

7.3

1949

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The four daughters of a New England family fight for happiness during and after the Civil War.

Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

6.4

2009

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Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Igor Stravinskys The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. The revolutionary dissonances of Igors work parallel Cocos radical ideas. She wants to democratize womens fashion; he wants to redefine musical taste. Coco attends the scandalous first performance of The Rite in a chic white dress. The music and ballet are criticized as too modern, too foreign. Coco is moved but Igor is inconsolable. Paris 1920, Coco is newly wealthy and successful but grief-stricken after Boys death in a car crash. Igor, following the Russian Revolution is now a penniless refugee living in exile in Paris. Coco is introduced to Igor by Diaghilev, impresario of the Ballets Russes. The attraction between them is instant and electric. Coco invites Igor along with his wife - now sick with consumption - together with his four children and a menagerie of birds to stay at her new villa, Bel Respiro, in Garches.

The Kremlin Letter

6.1

1970

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During the Cold War a Naval Intelligence officer endowed with a powerful photographic memory is transferred to the CIA to participate in a covert operation in Moscow.

Samurai Marathon

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2019

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In 1855, a daimyo sends his men on a grueling marathon to discover if theyre tough enough to face the newly arrived Americans. Misunderstanding his intent, the Shogun dispatches assassins.

Submergence

5.3

2017

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James and Danielle meet on vacation and fall in love. Shes going to the dark North Atlantic bottom to find life. Hes going to Somalia to find a terrorist but gets a dark cell.

H.M.S. Defiant

7.4

1962

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On the H.M.S. Defiant, during the French Revolutionary War, fair Captain Crawford is locked in a battle of wills against his cruel second-in-command Lieutenant Scott-Padget, whose heavy-handed command style pushes the crew to mutiny.

Since You Went Away

7.6

1944

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With her husband away to fight in World War II, a housewife must care for their two daughters alone.

The Goldsmith's Secret

6.2

2025

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In 1999, a goldsmith revisits his hometown, triggering memories of his summer love affair with a seamstress 25 years prior. Despite their age gap, he vows to rewrite their story but struggles to find her upon his return.

The Scarlet Empress

7.7

1934

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A German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power.

Detour

7.4

1945

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Chance events trap hitchhiking nightclub pianist Al Roberts in a tightening net of death, deception and blackmail.

The Hawaiians

5.7

1970

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Captain Whip returns to Hawaii. Hes inherited worthless land. He starts a plantation, staffed with a Chinese couple from his ship. Drilling thru lava for water and stealing/smuggling pineapple from French Guyana, things look brighter.