Keyword: based on novel or book
Shepherds and Butchers
6.8
2016
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A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions hes witnessed.
Shepherds and Butchers
All We Had
5.8
2016
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A mother struggles to make a better life for her daughter.
All We Had
On Guard
7
1997
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The Comte de Gonzague schemes against his cousin, the Duc de Nevers, even though he is the Dukes heir and will inherit his estates. The Count has kept secret the existence of the Dukes bastard, recently born. When the Duke learns of his child, he journeys to wed the mother, a barons daughter, in her fathers isolated chateau. The occupants of the castle are surprised and murdered by the Count and his men. The only ones to escape are the Dukes friend, the skilled swordsman Lagardère, and the infant, a girl, now the rightful heiress to the Dukes vast fortune. The Count believes the pair to have drowned, when in fact they have been concealed by a travelling troupe of Italian players. Twenty years pass. The Count has discovered that the two survive and seeks to have them slain. But Lagardère gains the confidence of the Count, and employment as his bookkeeper, through his clever disguise as a hunch-back...
On Guard
The Wrong Box
7
1966
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In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other, or can be made to have seemed to do so.
The Wrong Box
A Tale of Two Cities
6.7
1958
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During the turbulent days of the French Revolution, Frenchwoman Lucie Manette falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay, whos hiding his true identity and purpose.
A Tale of Two Cities
Madame Bovary
6.5
2000
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A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on her, she is soon bored and discontent. First, she gives her imagination to a law student in town, and next she takes a lover. When he refuses to run away with her, she takes up again with the law clerk. Her spending on dresses and furnishings mounts; these debts and her ill-advised professional counsel to her husband bring his ruin.
Madame Bovary
Witness for the Prosecution
7.2
1982
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Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months following his heart attack. Returning to the practise of his lawyer skills, he takes the case of Leonard Vole, an unemployed man who is accused of murdering an elderly lady friend of his, Mrs. Emily French. While Leonard Vole claims hes innocent, although all evidence points to him as the killer, his alibi witness, his cold German wife Christine, instead of entering the court as a witness for the defense, she becomes the witness for the prosecution and strongly claims her husband is guilty of the murder.
Witness for the Prosecution
Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter
7.3
1990
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A teenager from Las Vegas asks Perry Mason to defend her father who is accused of killing a notorius blackmailer who drove her uncle to suicide.
Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter
This Sporting Life
7.8
1963
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Despite success on the field, a rising rugby star senses the emerging emptiness of his life as his inner angst begins to materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo his landlady in hopes of finding reason to live.
This Sporting Life
White Night
6.6
2009
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A pawnbroker is found murdered in a remote town. Police suspect that he was murdered by an acquaintance, as even the most experienced investigator on the case could identify no signs of resistance. Three people come under suspicion but all of them have perfect alibis and the investigation comes to a standstill. One year later, one of them is found dead and the original murder case becomes even more mysterious. Almost fifteen years pass and the lead inspector, now approaching retirement, reflects on the only case he could not solve in an otherwise successful career. Haunted by a sense of responsibility and guilt that he caused suffering by letting the murder case go unsolved, he decides to re-investigate. His persistent search brings attention to the long forgotten case and reveals a hidden relationship between the victims son and the neighborhood womans daughter. As their love grows, more crimes happen. As their sin grows, the inspectors chase comes closer to them.
White Night
Despair
7.6
1978
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In early-1930s Berlin, an elegant Russian émigré and eccentric chocolatier convinces himself that he has seen his doppelgänger, and hatches a murderous plan to trade his existence for an entirely new one. Will he get over the deep despair?
Despair
At the Earth's Core
5.3
1976
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A Victorian era scientist and his assistant take a test run in their Iron Mole drilling machine and end up in a strange underground labyrinth ruled by a species of giant telepathic bird and full of prehistoric monsters and cavemen.
At the Earth's Core