Based on a Book
From literary classics to modern masterpieces, many great films start out as books. Pick!
True Things
A sexual encounter with a charismatic stranger awakens a woman's life.
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Doctor Zhivago
A doctor (Omar Sharif) falls in love with the mistress of a political opportunist.
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An Ideal Husband
An MP's perfect life is threatened by blackmail and corruption. With Cate Blanchett.
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Red Dust
A lawyer returns to South Africa to work as prosecutor on a Truth Commission hearing.
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The Italian Job
A criminal gang take on an audacious plan to steal a cache of gold bullion in Italy.
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Tamara Drewe
A once ugly duckling, now a beauty, causes a stir in the Dorset village where she grew up.
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The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
Oscar-winning adaptation of the true story. With Shelley Winters.
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My Week with Marilyn
Eddie Redmayne stars as an assistant who worked with Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams).
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Witness for the Prosecution
Against his doctor's advice, a barrister decides to act as the defence in a murder case.
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Women Talking
The women of an isolated religious colony must decide how to respond to brutal events.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Rudolph Cartier's 1954 BBC adaptation of George Orwell's dystopian story.
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Mrs Dalloway
A woman struggles to come to terms with the feelings that a platonic friend has for her.
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Starter for 10
Comedy about a working-class boy (James McAvoy) stumbling through university.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Reese Witherspoon stars as the object of affection for two men using the same alias.
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Emma
Emma Woodhouse becomes an incorrigible matchmaker, oblivious to the consequences.
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War Horse
A farm horse is requisitioned by the army to serve at the front during wartime.
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Misery
A nurse's devotion towards an author injured in a car accident takes a sinister turn.
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A Cock and Bull Story
Tristram Shandy guides viewers through the epic tale of his life.
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Just Mercy
Based on the true story of a lawyer who fights to free wrongly convicted men on death row.
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Atonement
A 13-year-old accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
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Hideous Kinky
In the early 70s, a young English mother arrives in Morocco with her two daughters.
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Jude
A stonemason's aspirations are thwarted by unyielding social convention.
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Queen and Slim
A couple's first date takes an unexpected turn when a police officer pulls them over.
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The Theory of Everything
A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife.
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