Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "based-on-novel", "coal"

1. Unbroken (I) (2014)

PG-13 | 137 min | Action, Biography, Drama

After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.

Director: Angelina Jolie | Stars: Jack O'Connell, Miyavi, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund

Votes: 182,692 | Gross: $115.64M

2. October Sky (1999)

PG | 108 min | Biography, Drama, Family

The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.

Director: Joe Johnston | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern, Chris Owen

Votes: 98,015 | Gross: $32.48M

3. East of Eden (1955)

PG | 118 min | Drama

Two brothers in 1910s California struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father's favor as an old secret about their long-absent mother comes to light.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: James Dean, Raymond Massey, Julie Harris, Burl Ives

Votes: 48,806

4. Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)

Not Rated | 145 min | Drama, Mystery

A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.

Directors: Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky | Stars: Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla, János Derzsi

Votes: 15,925 | Gross: $0.03M

5. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

R | 169 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A baby boy discovered on an ocean liner in 1900 grows into a musical prodigy, never setting foot on land.

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Mélanie Thierry, Bill Nunn

Votes: 69,125 | Gross: $0.26M

6. Angela's Ashes (1999)

R | 145 min | Biography, Drama

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.

Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens

Votes: 23,246 | Gross: $13.04M

7. Deadly Friend (1986)

R | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

After his friend is killed by her abusive father, the new kid in town attempts to save her by implanting a robotic microchip into her brain.

Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Matthew Labyorteaux, Kristy Swanson, Michael Sharrett, Anne Twomey

Votes: 8,736 | Gross: $8.99M

8. Young Adam (2003)

NC-17 | 98 min | Crime, Drama

A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.

Director: David Mackenzie | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan, Emily Mortimer

Votes: 14,670 | Gross: $0.77M

9. How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Passed | 118 min | Drama, Family

At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp

Votes: 26,480

10. Vanity Fair (2004)

PG-13 | 141 min | Drama

Growing up poor in London, Becky Sharp defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend, Amelia Sedley.

Director: Mira Nair | Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Romola Garai, James Purefoy, Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Votes: 23,502 | Gross: $16.14M

11. The Formula (1980)

R | 117 min | Crime, Thriller

The synthetic fuel production formula, invented by the Nazis at the end of World War II, is sought after by some who aim to sell it, and by others who wish to destroy it.

Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: George C. Scott, Marlon Brando, Marthe Keller, John Gielgud

Votes: 2,898

12. Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983)

G | 26 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

The classic Disney animated characters play the roles in this animated retelling of the Charles Dickens masterpiece.

Director: Burny Mattinson | Stars: Alan Young, Wayne Allwine, Hal Smith, Will Ryan

Votes: 15,354 | Gross: $21.00M

13. A Christmas Carol (1999 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy

An old bitter miser who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve.

Director: David Hugh Jones | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Joel Grey, Ian McNeice

Votes: 10,922

14. Germinal (1993)

R | 160 min | Drama, Romance

In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.

Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Renaud, Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet

Votes: 5,744 | Gross: $0.38M

15. A Christmas Carol (1938)

Passed | 69 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

An elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart, Terry Kilburn

Votes: 8,749

16. La Bête Humaine (1938)

Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama

In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.

Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Jean Gabin, Julien Carette, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux

Votes: 8,421

17. The Old Dark House (1963)

Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

In England, an American car salesman ends-up spending a stormy night at the mysterious and deadly mansion of a client's family.

Director: William Castle | Stars: Tom Poston, Robert Morley, Janette Scott, Joyce Grenfell

Votes: 2,458

18. Sons and Lovers (1960)

Approved | 103 min | Drama

A young man with artistic talent lives in a close-knit coal-mining town and finds himself inhibited by his emotionally manipulative mother.

Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller, Mary Ure

Votes: 1,772

19. Daens (1992)

138 min | Biography, Drama, History

In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the ... See full summary »

Director: Stijn Coninx | Stars: Jan Decleir, Gérard Desarthe, Antje de Boeck, Michael Pas

Votes: 4,396

20. Those Fantastic Flying Fools (1967)

Not Rated | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

In Victorian England, an American showman uses a wealthy Frenchman's finances to build a German explosives expert's giant cannon designed to fire a people-filled projectile to the Moon, but spies and saboteurs endanger the project.

Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Burl Ives, Jimmy Clitheroe, Terry-Thomas, Graham Stark

Votes: 939

21. Confidential Agent (1945)

Passed | 118 min | Drama, Thriller

In 1937, agents from the opposing sides of the Spanish Civil War travel to the neutral UK to secure coal contracts and to undermine each other's efforts.

Director: Herman Shumlin | Stars: Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Katina Paxinou, Peter Lorre

Votes: 1,370

22. Victory (1996)

R | 99 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Axel Heyst lives on a secluded island near the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya. The year is 1913. While on personal business to the port, he visits the hotel owned by racist German ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Peploe | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Irène Jacob, Rufus Sewell

Votes: 537

23. Lilika (1970)

80 min | Drama

A story about young orphan girl who was rejected by her mother.

Director: Branko Plesa | Stars: Dragana Kalaba, Branko Plesa, Ljerka Drazenovic, Nada Kasapic

Votes: 102

24. Blind Shaft (2003)

Unrated | 92 min | Crime, Drama

Two Chinese coal miners have hit upon the perfect scam: murder one of their fellow mine workers, make the death look like an accident, and extort money from the boss to keep the incident ... See full summary »

Director: Yang Li | Stars: Yixiang Li, Baoqiang Wang, Shuangbao Wang, Jing Ai

Votes: 2,914 | Gross: $0.03M

25. Black Beauty (1987 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 50 min | Animation, Family

This heartwarming adaptation of the novel tells the story of the courageous stallion Black Beauty, a well-bred horse in 19th century England. Black Beauty is happy as a country carriage ... See full summary »

Director: David Cherkasskiy | Stars: Bob Baines, Colin Borgonon, Patrick Dickson, Nicholas Gledhill

Votes: 98

26. Heart o' the Hills (1919)

87 min | Drama, Romance

Family tensions in the Kentucky hills are inflamed by an outsider's dishonest scheme to exploit the area for its coal.

Directors: Joseph De Grasse, Sidney Franklin | Stars: Mary Pickford, Harold Goodwin, Allan Sears, Fred Huntley

Votes: 573

27. Glowing Autumn (1979)

137 min | Drama, Romance

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Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Shinsuke Ashida, Hisashi Igawa, Tsunehiko Kamijô, Kin'ya Kitaôji

Votes: 32

28. Das Totenschiff (1959)

97 min | Adventure, Drama

After a line of mischief Philip Gale, an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the "Yorikke", a tramp cargo, by Lawski, a stoker from Poland. Still, the two become friends within the ... See full summary »

Director: Georg Tressler | Stars: Horst Buchholz, Mario Adorf, Helmut Schmid, Alf Marholm

Votes: 381

29. Germinal (1963)

110 min | Drama

1863. Etienne Lantier, who has been fired from a railway company for being involved in union activities, lands a miner's job in the North of France. He finds bed and lodging at the Maheus',... See full summary »

Director: Yves Allégret | Stars: Jean Sorel, Berthe Granval, Claude Brasseur, Claude Cerval

Votes: 132

30. Germinal; or, The Toll of Labor (1913)

150 min | Drama

The mechanic Etienne Lantier is a competent workman out of a job, whose tempestuous disposition is more than atoned for by a good heart. With bundle in hand he looks for work from town to ... See full summary »

Director: Albert Capellani | Stars: Mévisto, Jean Jacquinet, Henry Krauss, Sylvie

Votes: 173

31. Eight Bells (1935)

Passed | 69 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

Marge Walker, the daughter of a steamship-line owner, stows away on one of her father's ships bound for Shanghai. Roy Dale, the captain of the ship, is in love with her as is the first ... See full summary »

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Ann Sothern, Ralph Bellamy, John Buckler, Catherine Doucet

Votes: 53

32. 2 Become 1 (2006)

Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama

An advertising executive with a carefree lifestyle discovers she has breast cancer.

Director: Wing-Cheong Law | Stars: Miriam Chin-Wah Yeung, Richie Jen, Jo Kuk, Yujun Wu

Votes: 246

33. Dracula (2009 Video)

R | 82 min | Drama, Horror

Dracula arrives in Los Angeles to drain Hollywood of blood. Van Helsing is looking for Dracula to revenge his dead father. Lucy is missing in action and Mina is kidnapped.

Director: George Anton | Stars: Dave Vij, Wayne Baldwin, Dan Martino, Derek Baker

Votes: 90

34. O Passarinho da Ribeira (1960)

84 min | Comedy

Micas educated her daughter, Madalena, at the cost of sacrifices, because the father emigrated for Brazil.

Director: Augusto Fraga | Stars: Deolinda Rodrigues, António Silva, Antônio Spina, Maria Cristina

Votes: 26

35. Carol and Santa

Animation, Short, Family | Announced

Santa delivering a lump of coal to misbehaving kids on Christmas Eve is generally viewed as punishment. But what if that story is flipped and coal is a symbol of kindness and forgiveness? ... See full summary »

Director: Patrick Mallek

36. The Black Indies (1964 TV Movie)

88 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery

In 1870s Scotland mining engineer James Starr is asked by former colleague Simon Ford, who's living inside the abandoned Aberfoyle mine, to help solve mysterious occurrences taking place inside the mine.

Director: Marcel Bluwal | Stars: Alain Mottet, Georges Poujouly, André Valmy, Jean-Pierre Moulin

Votes: 30

37. Dalziel and Pascoe (1996–2007)
Episode: Under World (1998)

TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Mystery, Drama

The discovery of a skeleton deep underground in a mine shaft brings Dalziel and Pascoe to the Yorkshire coalfield. When the body is confirmed as a man missing for ten years they realise ... See full summary »

Director: Edward Bennett | Stars: Joe Duttine, Russell Dixon, Nathaniel Duncan, Susannah Corbett

Votes: 152

38. Masterpiece (1971– )
Episode: The Railway Children (2000)

108 min | Drama, History, Mystery

Dramatization of E. Nesbit's classic novel about three children whose lives change dramatically after they move to a Yorkshire cottage near a railway line.

Director: Catherine Morshead | Stars: Jack Blumenau, Clare Thomas, Jemima Rooper, Jenny Agutter

Votes: 1,003