Tag Archives: based on novel

The Guns of Navarone

IMDB Rating: 7.50
8247 votes

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1943. With the battle of Stalingrad turning the war against them, the Germans are attempting to bully neutral Turkey into joining the Axis; to this end they have trapped 2,000 British soldiers on Kiros, an island in the Aegean, with only one sea route for evacuation, a sea route commanded by two gigantic German antiship batteries deployed in a massive cliffside bunker on the island of Navarone. Immune to air attack and too much for Allied battleships to suppress, the British muster Keith Mallory, a commando officer who has been working on occupied Crete for nearly two years and who is an expert mountaineer, to ferry a team of British commandos to the only area of Navarone that is not monitored by the Germans, a 400-foot cliff. Greek resistance is to meet the team inland and guide them around German patrols to the area of the German guns. However, the commanding officer of the British team suffers grave injury in the climb and Mallory must take control of the mission, despite clashes with explosives expert John Anthony Miller, who upon the arrival of the night of the raid finds his equipment has been sabotaged, thus exposing a traitor in the team's ranks.
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Capt. Keith MalloryGregory Peck
Cpl. MillerDavid Niven
Col. Andrea StavrosAnthony Quinn
Also posted in 1961, Action, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (0)

Tideland

IMDB Rating: 6.70
3366 votes

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After her mother dies from a methadone overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to a rural farmhouse by her father. As she tries to settle into a new life in a house her father had purchased for his now-deceased mother, Jeliza-Rose's attempts to deal with what's happened result in increasingly odd behavior, as she begins to communicate mainly with her bodiless Barbie doll heads and Dell, a neighborhood woman who always wears a beekeeper's veil.
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Jeliza-Rose/Voices of DollsJodelle Ferland
DellJanet McTeer
DickensBrendan Fletcher
Also posted in 2005, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Bridge to Terabithia

IMDB Rating: 7.20
5911 votes

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Fifth grader Jesse Aaron's hopes of becoming the fastest runner in his class are dashed when new girl Leslie Burke outruns everybody, including him. However, Jess and Leslie soon begin a friendship, and create a magical kingdom in the forest, where the two of them reign together as king and queen.
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Jesse AaronsJosh Hutcherson
Leslie BurkeAnnaSophia Robb
Ms. EdmondsZooey Deschanel
Also posted in 2007, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Jindabyne

IMDB Rating: 7.10
752 votes

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Stewart Kane, an Irishman living in the Australian town of Jindabyne, is on a fishing trip in isolated hill country with three other men when they discover the body of a murdered girl in the river. Rather than return to the town immediately, they continue fishing and report their gruesome find days later. Stewart's wife Claire is the last to find out. Deeply disturbed by her husband's action, her faith in her relationship with Stewart is shaken to the core. She wants to understand and tries to make things right. In her determination to help the victim's family Claire sets herself not only against her own family and friends but also those of the dead girl. Her marriage is taken to the brink and her peaceful life with Stewart and their young son hangs in the balance. The story of a murder and a marriage. A powerful and original film about the things that haunt us.
Actors
Claire KaneLaura Linney
Stewart KaneGabriel Byrne
GregoryChris Haywood
Also posted in 2006, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Namesake

IMDB Rating: 7.80
1975 votes

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While traveling by train to visit his grandfather in Jamshedpur, Calcutta born, Bengali-speaking Ashoke Ganguli meets with fellow-traveler, Ghosh, who impresses upon him to travel, while Ashoke is deep into a book authored by Nicholai Gogol. The train meets with an accident, and after recuperating, Ashoke re-locates to America, settles down, returns home in 1977 to get married to aspiring singer, Ashima, and returns home to New York. Shortly thereafter they become parents of a boy, who they initially name Gogol, and a few years later both give birth to Sonia. The family then buy their own house in the suburbs and travel to India for the first time after their marriage. The second time they travel to India is when Gogol and Sonia are in their late teens, and after a memorable visit to Kolkata and then to the Taj Mahal, they return home. Gogol falls in love with Maxine Ratliff and moves in with her family, while Ashoke spends time traveling, and Sonia moves to California, leaving Ashima all her by herself. The Ganguli family will be destined to travel to India again soon - this time under very different circumstances - and after all have endured life-changing events.
Actors
Ashoke GanguliIrfan Khan
Gogol GanguliKal Penn
GhoshJagannath Guha
Also posted in 2006, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (1)

Evening

IMDB Rating: 6.70
2440 votes

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The love which binds mother and daughter — seen through the prism of one mother's life as it crests with optimism, navigates a turning point, and ebbs to its close. Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters; Constance, a content wife and mother, and Nina, a restless single woman. Both are bedside when Ann calls out for the man she loved more than any other. But who is this "Harris," wonder her daughters, and what is he to our mother? While Constance and Nina try to take stock of Ann's life and their own lives, their mother is tended to by a night nurse as she journeys in her mind back to a summer weekend some fifty years before, when she was Ann Grant, a young woman who has come from New York City to be maid of honor at the high-society Newport wedding of her dearest friend from college, Lila Wittenborn. The bride-to-be is jittery, and turns to her maid of honor rather than her own mother for support. Ann stays close to her friend, yet is even closer to Lila's irrepressible brother Buddy. Unexpected feelings surge forth once Ann meets wedding guest Harris Arden, a lifelong friend and intimate of the Wittenborn family. Ann's love for Harris will change her life, and those of her daughters, forever.
Actors
Harris ArdenPatrick Wilson
NinaToni Collette
Ann Grant LordVanessa Redgrave
Also posted in 2007, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Oliver Twist

IMDB Rating: 7.00
4777 votes

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In the Nineteenth Century, the orphan Oliver Twist is sent to a workhouse, where the children are barely fed and mistreated. He moves to the house of an undertaker, but after an unfair severe spank, he starts a seven day runaway to London. He arrives exhausted and starving, and is welcomed by a gang of pickpockets leaded by the old crook Fagin. When he is mistakenly taken as a thief, the wealthy victim Mr. Brownlow brings Oliver to his home and shelters him. But Fagin and the dangerous Bill Sykes decide to kidnap Oliver to burglarize Mr. Brownlow´s fancy house. Oliver is wounded, while Mr. Brownlow tries to save Oliver.
Actors
Oliver TwistBarney Clark
Mr. BumbleJeremy Swift
Mr. LimbkinsIan McNeice
Also posted in 2005, Drama, Family, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Invisible

IMDB Rating: 5.40
1509 votes

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Two young teens' real selves are invisible to others, one due to his untimely death and the other due to the neglect she's endured since the death of her mother.
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Nick PowellJustin Chatwin
Annie NewtonMargarita Levieva
Diane PowellMarcia Gay Harden
Also posted in 2007, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Bourne Ultimatum

IMDB Rating: 8.40
54724 votes

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Bourne is once again brought out of hiding, this time inadvertently by London-based reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation BlackBriar—an upgrade to Project Treadstone—in a series of newspaper columns. Bourne (Damon) sets up a meeting with Ross (Considine) and realizes instantly they're being scanned. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally, ultimately, uncover his dark past whilst dodging The Company's best efforts in trying to eradicate him.
Actors
Jason BourneMatt Damon
Sam RossPaddy Considine
PazEdgar Ramirez
Also posted in 2007, Action, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Shooter

IMDB Rating: 6.80
7706 votes

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Bob Lee Swagger, one of the world's great marksmen and the son of a Congressional Medal of Honoree, is a loner living in the Rockies. He's left the military, having been hung out to dry in a secret Ethiopian mission a few years before, when he's recruited by a lisping colonel to help find a way that the President of the US might be assassinated in one of three cities in the next two weeks. He does his work, but the shot is fired notwithstanding and Bob Lee is quickly the fall guy: wounded and hunted by thousands, he goes to ground and, aided by two unlikely allies, searches for the truth and for those who double-crossed him. All roads lead back to Ethiopia.
Actors
Bob Lee SwaggerMark Wahlberg
Nick MemphisMichael Pena
Colonel Isaac JohnsonDanny Glover
Also posted in 2007, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)