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From classics to the more contemporary, some of the greatest movies ever made started out as books. Check out these films that made the big leap from page to screen.
- Movies Based on Books
From classics to the more contemporary, some of the greatest...
- Movies Based on Books
- Leave The World Behind
- Lady Chatterley's Lover
- You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah
- All Quiet on The Western Front
- Passing
- The Irishman
- To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before
- I'm Thinking of Ending Things
- The Old Guard
- Enola Holmes
Ever wonder what the end of life as we know it might look like? Sam Esmail’s unsettling adaptation of Rumaan Alam’s novel posits that it could resemble an ordinary day — until it very much would not. When a Brooklyn couple (Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke) go on vacation with their children, their getaway is interrupted by a pair of strangers(Mahersh...
Following its private publication in 1928, D.H. Lawrence’s novel was banned for obscenity in the United States for over 30 years; luckily, as the book approaches its 100th anniversary, there’s nothing stopping you from streaming Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s 2022 adaptation of it. Emma Corrin starsas the lady of the title, Constance Chatterley, whos...
Is there any variety of personal drama more intense than the kind that comes between middle-school besties? You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah would suggest there isn’t. Based on Fiona Rosenbloom’s young adult novel of the same name, Sammi Cohen’s coming-of-age comedy stars Sunny Sandler (whose real-life dad, Adam Sandler, produces and plays ...
There was plenty of noise for All Quiet on the Western Front when it came out in 2022: Edward Berger’s German adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel collected nine Oscar nominations, winning four (Best International Feature Film, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, and Best Production Design). The stunning anti-war epic follows an id...
Poetically, actor turned director Rebecca Hall chose to shoot her adaptation of Nella Larsen’s seminal 1929 novel in expressive black and white; Passing tells the story of two childhood friends — both Black women with light complexions — who meet again as adults in New York in the 1920s. One of them (Tessa Thompson) lives in Harlem and is married t...
Few filmmakers can get away with making a three-and-a-half-hour movie (and expecting people to watch the whole thing), but it’s safe to say that Martin Scorsese is among them — and The Irishman earns all of its 209 minutes. Based on former investigator Charles Brandt’s nonfiction book I Heard You Paint Houses, which recounts the life of mob enforce...
Nobody writes love letters anymore, but a good case is made for picking up the old-fashioned practice in Susan Johnson’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, based on Jenny Han’s YA novel of the same name (it’s the first of a trilogy; the film’s sequels P.S. I Still Love Youand Always and Foreverare available to stream as well). Lana Condor and Noah ...
There’s no straightforward way to describe the kaleidoscopic I’m Thinking of Ending Things, written and directed by Charlie Kaufman and based on Iain Reid’s 2016 novel, but here’s an attempt: A young man (Jesse Plemons) takes his girlfriend (Jessie Buckley) on a trip to meet his parents (Toni Collette and David Thewlis). Simple, right? Except that’...
The Old Guard got the film treatment in 2020 with Gina Prince-Bythewood’s take on Greg Rucka’s comic, about a group of immortals who have spent hundreds of years taking on dangerous missions for the good of humanity. Charlize Theron stars as the leader of the centuries-old team of mercenaries, who enter a new era of their eternal lives when a new h...
How about an adaptation of a reinvention? Nancy Springer’s series of young adult detective novels imagines the younger sister of Sherlock Holmes — the titular Enola — as a clever young woman in Victorian England solving her own mysteries, despite the limiting conventions of the era. Millie Bobby Brown produced and starred in Harry Bradbeer’s charmi...
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
- Secretariat (2010) Penny Chenery Tweedy and her associates guide her long-shot stallion to set the still-unbeaten world record for winning the Triple Crown in 1973.
- Room (2015) A woman who has been held captive in a tiny garden shed for seven years raises her five-year-old son, Jack, who was born in captivity. Based On: Room by Emma Donoghue.
- The Reader (2008) In 1958 Germany, a teenage boy named Michael Berg has an affair with an older woman named Hanna Schmitz, who then mysteriously disappears.
- The Irishman (2019) The Irishman. R. Release Date. November 1, 2019. Director. Martin Scorsese. Cast. Jesse Plemons , Robert De Niro , Anna Paquin , Al Pacino , Joe Pesci , Harvey Keitel.
- To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018) To All the Boys I've Loved Before is another popular young adult novel that received its film adaptation via Netflix.
- Mudbound (2017) Mudbound. R. Release Date. November 16, 2017. Director. Dee Rees. Cast. Carey Mulligan , Garrett Hedlund , Jason Clarke , Jonathan Banks , Jason Mitchell , Rob Morgan.
- Gerald's Game (2017) Aided by performances from some of his most frequent collaborators, Mike Flanagan successfully adapted Gerald's Game, a Stephen King novel that was long thought to be unfilmable (per Cinema Blend).
Jul 29, 2024 · This coming year, popular books like Colleen Hoover’s fan favorite It Ends With Us and John Green’s YA screen return Turtles All the Way Down will also be adapted, with stars such as Blake ...
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May 10, 2024 · The Queen’s Gambit, Bridgerton, and Lupin had literary revivals following their corresponding book-to-screen adaptations, which turned into Netflix hits with A-list talent in front of and...
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