Keyword: based on novel or book

The Old Curiosity Shop

4.7

2007

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A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.

A Little Christmas Charm

7

2020

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A jewelry designer finds a charm bracelet and teams up with a magazine reporter to locate its rightful owner by Christmas Eve.

The Borrowers

5.5

1973

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An eight-year-old boy discovers a family of tiny people, only a few inches tall, living beneath the floorboards of a Victorian country home.

Vares: Garter Snake

5.3

2011

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In the heat of the night, a man from faraway plays the piano. In the local hillside prison, a bitter double-crossed convict stares at the city life over the roofs. A revenge is brewing in his mind; the blood-thirsty killer prepares his escape. Vares gets a client who needs private investigations. Despite the beautiful wife, Vares smells a rat... In the middle of the summer night, a shot rings out. One life comes to an end and Vares finds changes in his assignment. The clues lead him to first-hand encounters and second-hand bookshops; a visit to the gym reveals a drug-smuggling route from Stockholm... Vares finds himself entangled in hot money and cool silk. In the background slithers a cunning garter snake.

Venus in Furs

4.7

1967

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Via DVD Drive-In: \A muscular hunk works selling shoes, but has a very overactive imagination. He falls asleep while reading \Venus in Furs\ and dreams of Venus herself, speaking to him in poetry while he caresses her feet and waits on her as a servant. He also stares at women on the subway and imagines kissing and making love to them. After spending his day waiting on beautiful flirtatious women on his knees, he picks up Marna, a mysterious woman in the library, who invites him to her secluded mansion to join her assorted other guests for a weekend of sensual depravity.\

The Aspern Papers

5.2

2018

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A young writer tries to obtain romance letters a poet sent to his mistress.

Billionaire Boy

5.4

2016

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The story of Len, who made a billion dollars from inventing a new toilet roll, and his 12-year-old son Joe who appears to have everything he could want but what he really needs is a friend.

Murder by Proxy

6.3

1954

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An American in London, down on his luck, runs into a beautiful blonde in a bar who offers him a lot of money to marry her. Broke and unemployed, he takes her up on it. When he wakes up the next day, he finds himself in a strange room that turns out to be an artists studio, there is blood on his coat, and he discovers that his new wifes father had been murdered the night before.

The Strange One

6.8

1957

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Students faced with an ethical dilemma about the dehumanization associated with the tradition of hazing, at a military college in the Southern United States, take matters in their own hands.

Under the North Star

6.8

2009

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Based on the novel by Väinö Linna, the story takes place during the time of the Finnish Civil War.

One Night in the Tropics

6.5

1940

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Jim Lucky Moore (Allan Jones), an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve (Robert Cummings): a love insurance policy, that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry his fiancee, Cynthia (Nancy Kelly). The upcoming marriage is jeopardized by Steves ex-girlfriend, Mickey (Peggy Moran), and Cynthias disapproving Aunt Kitty. The policy is underwritten by a nightclub owner, Roscoe (William Frawley), who sends two enforcers - Abbott and Costello - to ensure that the wedding occurs as planned. Everyone involved in the situation winds up sailing or flying to San Marcos (a fictional South American country), where another complication arises, when Lucky falls for Cynthia. Lucky winds up marrying Cynthia, but Roscoe does not have to pay the $1-million because Steve ends up marrying Mickey.

David Copperfield

5.9

1970

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The legendary novel by Charles Dickens comes to life in this colorful interpretation directed by Delbert Mann.