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1. spyscape.com › article › spy-movies-based-on-books15 Top Spy Movies Adapted From Books - SPYSCAPE

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   No less than 10 movies have been based on John le Carré’s spy books and A Most Wanted Man starring Philip Seymour Hoffman ranks near the top, brushing shoulders with The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and The Little Drummer Girl (the TV series with Florence Pugh and the brilliant movie adaptation starring Diane ...

2. collider.com › netflix-original-movies-based-on10 Best Netflix Original Movies Based on Books, Ranked - Collider

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   15 hours ago · Directed by Charles Shyer. Image via Netflix. The Noel Diary is a heartwarming Christmas story about the meaning of family and the journey of hope and love. Rachel (Barrett Doss) and Jake (Justin ...

3. www.timeout.com › film › best-movies-based-on-true24 Best True Story Films Based On Real Life - Time Out

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   • All the President's Men (1976) Film. Drama. Wait, you’re telling us Watergate is an actual thing that happened, and in 1974 two reporters really did take down a sitting US president?
   • In Cold Blood (1967) Film. Before true crime podcasts and Dateline NBC marathons, there was Truman Capote, whose account of the 1959 massacre of a family in rural Kansas shocked a nation not yet desensitised to random acts of unspeakable violence.
   • Hustlers (2019) Film. Drama. A rare depiction of a r ecession that’s neither a teary drama about farmers losing their homes nor a political screed against greedy one-percenters, Hustlers is instead a hyperkinetic story of economic survival, set in a world hit particularly hard by the 2008 financial crisis: New York strip clubs.
   • Argo (2012) Film. Drama. It’s one of those stories too far-fetched for even the most inventive screenwriter to make up. At the onset of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, a movie-loving CIA agent hatched a plot to smuggle six diplomats out of the country by pretending to be a Canadian film crew shooting a fake Star Wars-alike sci-fi flick there.

4. www.ranker.com › list › best-movies-based-on-nonThe Best Movies Based on Non-Fiction Books - Ranker

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   • Schindler's List. 326 votes. Schindler's List, a poignant war drama directed by Steven Spielberg, unfolds through the life of Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), an unlikely hero during the Holocaust.
   • Goodfellas. 487 votes. Based on Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi. Goodfellas, an iconic mobster film directed by Martin Scorsese, is a gritty exploration of life within the Mafia.
   • Apollo 13. 424 votes. Based on Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by astronaut Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger. Apollo 13, a gripping space docudrama, chronicles the real-life, perilous lunar mission of 1970.
   • Catch Me If You Can. 204 votes. In the thrilling film Catch Me If You Can, we follow the intriguing escapades of Frank Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio), a master of deception and a skilled forger.

5. www.shortlist.com › lists › 40-best-film-adaptationsThe 53 best book-to-film adaptations ever, ranked - Shortlist

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   • Author: Marc Chacksfield

   • The Godfather (Mario Puzo) £9.99. Buy the Godfather trilogy at Amazon. Film: 1972. Director: Francis Ford Coppola. Mario Puzo himself assisted on the screenplay for Coppola’s classic.
   • The Silence Of The Lambs (Thomas Harris) £5.68. Buy the movie at Amazon. Film: 1991. Director: Jonathan Demme. That The Silence of the Lambs is a great movie goes without saying – it won the Big Five (best film; best director; best actor/actress and best writing) at the Oscars.
   • To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) £4.99. Buy the movie at Amazon. Film: 1962. Director: Robert Mulligan. If Harper Lee’s epoch-defining novel is about tolerance and compassion in the face of hatred and violence, then Robert Mulligan’s adaptation has it spot on.
   • Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk) £3.00. Buy the movie at Amazon. Film: 1999. Director: David Fincher. Critics often attack Hollywood for castrating a book’s central premise or diluting its message so as to garner a bigger audience.

6. www.panmacmillan.com › blogs › literaryThe best films based on books - Pan Macmillan

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   Sep 10, 2024 · Save your evening from the endless scroll with our edit of the best book-to-film adaptations. These are the movies that we think live up to their source material, and the books that are more than good enough to read even if you already love the films that inspired them.

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   Are movies based on a true story?

   • In Hollywood, it’s best to approach certain promotional tactics with suspicion, perhaps none more so than any movies that claims to be ‘based on a true story’. In many cases, what that typically means is a filmmaker took a small dollop of truth and stretched it as far as it could possibly go.

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   Is True Grit based on a true story?

   • True Grit (Charles Portis) The first adaptation of Charles Portis’s novel starred John Wayne and while noted for its excellence as a film, it certainly toned down the violent imagery and brutality in the book.

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   Which Deighton movies are based on a true story?

   • If you’re a Deighton fan, you may want to also stream Funeral in Berlin (1966), Billion-Dollar Brain (1967), and Spy Story (1976). The Day of The Jackal (1973), based on Frederick Forsyth’s book, involves a plot by a professional assassin (codenamed Jackal) to kill French President Charles de Gaulle.

   15 Top Spy Movies Adapted From Books - SPYSCAPE

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   Is Our Man in Havana based on a true story?

   • Our Man in Havana (1957) is a clever adaptation of Graham Greene’s classic novel about a British spy in Cuba. Alec Guinness is at his understated best - cold, satirical, and perfect. How did Harry Lime die?

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   Is Jacques Audiard based on a true story?

   • Loosely based on Craig Davidson’s short story collection, Jacques Audiard’s beautiful but brutal film exists in the same savage world, where it explores violence, masculinity and life on the most extreme of margins.

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   Is David Copperfield based on a true story?

   • Partly modelled on Dickens’s own experiences, David Copperfield follows the eponymous hero from childhood struggles to a successful career as a novelist. This is one of Dickens’s most energetic and enjoyable novels, and the one he called his ‘favourite child’.

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8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Bat*21Bat*21 - Wikipedia

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   Box office. $3.1 million [1] Bat*21 is a 1988 American war drama film directed by Peter Markle, and adapted from the book by William C. Anderson, novelist and retired United States Air Force colonel. [2][Note 1] Set during the Vietnam War, the film is a dramatization based upon the rescue of a U.S. air navigator shot down behind enemy lines in ...