Posts Tagged ‘based-on-book’

Seabiscuit (2003)

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: McCullough, David | Bridges, Jeff | O'Connor, Paul Vincent | Cooper, Chris | Ensign, Michael | Keane, James | Mahaffey, Valerie | Doty, David | Craig, Carl M. | O'Neill, Michael | Corley, Annie | Angarano, Michael | Bowen, Cameron | Luke, Noah | Bess, Mariah
Directors: Ross, Gary
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In an era when Americans were in great need of heroic figures to help them forget their troubles, SEABISCUIT comes to the rescue. The picture relates a moving story of friendship and devotion in rehabilitating the main characters’fractured lives, as it interweaves the interactions between horse, jockey, trainer and owner and their adoring fans. The film accurately portrays the real people and events of those troubled times and how Seabiscuit “fixed us, every one of us.”

Casualties of War (1989)

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Fox, Michael J. | Penn, Sean | Harvey, Don | Reilly, John C. | Leguizamo, John | Le, Thuy Thu | King, Erik | Gwaltney, Jack | Rhames, Ving | Martin, Dan | Dye, Dale | Larson, Steve | Linton, John | Ruginis, Vyto | Shannon, Al
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. The film is more about the realities of war, rather than this single event.

Seven Years in Tibet (1997)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Pitt, Brad | Thewlis, David | Wong, B. D. | Mako | Denzongpa, Danny | Wong, Victor | Dapkunaite, Ingeborga | Wangchuk, Jamyang Jamtsho | Tsamchoe, Lhakpa | Pema, Jetsun | Dongtse, Ama Ashe
Directors: Annaud, Jean-Jacques
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Heinrich Harrer runs from trouble at home in WWII Austria to climb Mt. Nanga Parbat. After meeting unforseen obstacles, he comes into contact with the forbidden city of Lhasa.

King and I, The (1956)

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kerr, Deborah | Brynner, Yul | Moreno, Rita | Benson, Martin | Saunders, Terry | Thompson, Rex | Rivas, Carlos | Adiarte, Patrick | Mowbray, Alan | Toone, Geoffrey | Banas, Robert | Bonilla, Dennis | Bonilla, Thomas | Fuentes, Reuben | Irwin, Charles
Directors: Lang, Walter
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After the death of her husband, Anna Owens moves from England to Siam with her son Louis to become a teacher for the children of the king of Siam. She finds Siamese customs to be quite different from English ones, which brings her often in conflict with the king. However, after some time they find themselves getting along much better.

Goodbye Bafana (2007)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: Belgium | France | Germany | Italy | Luxembourg | South Africa | UK
Actors: Fiennes, Joseph | Haysbert, Dennis | Kruger, Diane | Henderson, Shiloh | Lyster, Patrick | Ndukwana, Faith | Bawa, Mehboob | Galley, Adrian | Grier, Warrick | Mongezi, Leslie | Msutu, Sizwe | Roberts, Matthew | van Jaarsveldt, Eduan | Pheto, Terry | Troiano, Giulia
Directors: August, Bille
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GOODBYE BAFANA is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner’s name was Nelson Mandela.

Great Escape, The (1963)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: USA
Actors: McQueen, Steve | Garner, James | Attenborough, Richard | Donald, James | Bronson, Charles | Pleasence, Donald | Coburn, James | Messemer, Hannes | McCallum, David | Jackson, Gordon | Leyton, John | Lennie, Angus | Stock, Nigel | Graf, Robert | Taylor, Jud
Directors: Sturges, John
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Based on a true story, “The Great Escape” deals with the largest Allied escape attempt from a German POW camp during the Second World War. The first part of the film focuses on the escape efforts within the camp and the process of secretly digging an escape tunnel. The second half of the film deals with the massive effort by the German Gestapo to track down the over 70 escaped prisoners who are at this point throughout the Third Reich attempting to make their way to England and various neutral countries.

Control (2007)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music
Countries: Australia | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Morton, Samantha | Riley, Sam | Lara, Alexandra Maria | Anderson, Joe | Kebbell, Toby | Parkinson, Craig | Pearson, James Anthony | Treadaway, Harry | Sheridan, Andrew | Shelly, Robert | McNulty, Matthew | Naylor, Ben | Grönemeyer, Herbert | Harris, Nigel | Plester, Tim
Directors: Corbijn, Anton
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Ian Curtis is a quiet and rather sad lad who works for an employment agency and sings in a band called Warsaw. He meets a girl named Debbie whom he promptly marries and his band, of which the name in the meantime has been changed to Joy Division, gets more and more successful. Even though Debbie and he become parents, their relationship is going downhill rapidly and Ian starts an affair with Belgium Annik whom he met after one of the gigs and he’s almost never at home. Ian also suffers from epilepsy and has no-good medication for it. He doesn’t know how to handle the feelings he has for Debbie and Annik and the pressure the popularity of Joy Division and the energy performing costs him.

Bounty, The (1984)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | History
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Gibson, Mel | Hopkins, Anthony | Olivier, Laurence | Fox, Edward | Day-Lewis, Daniel | Hill, Bernard | Davis, Philip | Neeson, Liam | Kaa, Wi Kuki | Vernette, Tevaite | Brown, Philip Martin | Chandler, Simon | Terris, Malcolm | Adams, Simon | Sessions, John
Directors: Donaldson, Roger
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The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.

General’s Daughter, The (1999)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Travolta, John | Stowe, Madeleine | Cromwell, James | Hutton, Timothy | Stefanson, Leslie | von Bargen, Daniel | Williams III, Clarence | Woods, James | Weireter, Peter | Boone Junior, Mark | Beasley, John | Boyd Kestner | Beyer, Brad | Hickey, John Benjamin | Dial, Rick
Directors: West, Simon
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Military police detectives Paul Brenner and Sarah Sunhill investigate a horrifically bizarre rape and murder of a respected female Pysch-Ops officer who is also the daughter of a renowned retiring general. Yet the case becomes more complicated when the autopsy showed no evidence of sexual assault. Furthermore, that is but the beginning of the twists when they discover the victim’s secret life, her past and a disturbing determination by senior staff to keep this investigation short and quiet.

Hard Ball (2001)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sport
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Reeves, Keanu | Lane, Diane | Hawkes, John | Hearne, Bryan | Griffith, Julian | Jordan, Michael B. | Ellis Jr., A. Delon | Lofton, Kristopher | Perkins, Michael | Reed, Brian M. | Warren, DeWayne | Hall, Carol | Williams, Jacqueline | Coffey, Freeman | Sweeney, D.B.
Directors: Robbins, Brian
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An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.