Keyword: based on novel or book

The Great Gilly Hopkins

6.5

2015

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12-year-old wisecracking Gilly Hopkins finds herself shuffled from foster home to foster home until she meets Maime Trotter.

Boxcar Bertha

6.1

1972

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During the Great Depression, a union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad.

Spasms

4.5

1983

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A gigantic serpent is captured on a remote island and shipped to an American college for experimentation. A British millionaire and an American scientist find themselves in hot pursuit of the beast when it escapes from captivity and starts to kill innocent people.

Odds Against Tomorrow

7.4

1959

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In need of quick money, a fallen former cop recruits a hard-bitten ex-con and a debt-ridden nightclub singer to pull off a bank job. But as the animosity between them boils over, the entire plan threatens to implode.

The Kirishima Thing

7.3

2012

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A story about the disappearance of Kirishima, a star athlete of the volleyball club, and how this affects every person in his school.

Pelle the Conqueror

7.8

1987

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When his wife dies, Lasse takes his 12-year-old son, Pelle, from their home in Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life.

In Dubious Battle

6.1

2016

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An activist gets caught up in the labor movement for farm workers in California during the 1930s.

The Chocolate War

6.9

1988

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The Vigils are a gang of students at Trinity Catholic School... part of the tradition. They control the other boys by intimidation and the threat of violence.

Oscar and Lucinda

6.7

1997

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In mid-1800s England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel. As a boy, even though from a strict Pentecostal family, he felt God told him through a sign to leave his father and his faith and join the Church of England. Lucinda is a teen-aged Australian heiress who has an almost desperate desire to liberate her sex from the confines of the male-dominated culture of the Australia of that time. She buys a glass factory and has a dream of building a church made almost entirely of glass, and then transporting it to Bellingen, a remote settlement on the north coast. Oscar and Lucinda meet on a ship going to Australia; once there, they are for different reasons ostracized from society, and as a result join forces together. Oscar and Lucinda are both passionate gamblers, and Lucinda bets Oscar her entire inheritance that he cannot transport the glass church to the Outback safely. Oscar accepts her wager, and this leads to the events that will change both their lives forever.

Desperate Hours

5.4

1990

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An escaped con, on the run from the law, moves into a married couples house and takes over their lives.

Sanctuary

6.2

1961

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William Faulkners steamy tale set in the South in the 1920s. Governers daughter is seduced and raped by a Cajun who returns after shes married to cause her further trouble.

Boycott

6.6

2001

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Black Americans boycott the public buses during the 1950s civil rights movement.