Novel to Film: A Few Successes
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1.
The Tin Drum
(1979)
Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with... (142 mins.)
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
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A Clockwork Orange
(1971)
In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem... but not all goes to plan. (136 mins.)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Coup de torchon
(1981)
1938, in a French african colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually racialist and lustful)... (128 mins.)
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
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The Day of the Locust
(1975)
An art director in the 1930's falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father. (144 mins.)
Director: John Schlesinger
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Les Enfants Terribles
(1950)
Elisabeth is very protective of her teenage brother Paul, who is injured in a snowball fight at school and has to rest in bed most of the time... (105 mins.)
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
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Fight Club
(1999)
An insomniac office worker looking for a way to change his life crosses paths with a devil-may-care soap maker and they form an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more... (139 mins.)
Director: David Fincher
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The Godfather
(1972)
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. (175 mins.)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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The Graduate
(1967)
Recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock is trapped into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, who happens to be the wife of his father's business partner and then finds himself falling in love with her daughter, Elaine. (106 mins.)
Director: Mike Nichols
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Mister Foe
(2007)
Hallam's talent for spying on people reveals his darkest fears-and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, he instead finds himself searching the rooftops of the city for love. (95 mins.)
Director: David Mackenzie
10.
The Manchurian Candidate
(1962)
A former Korean War POW is brainwashed by Communists into becoming a political assassin. But another former prisoner may know how to save him. (126 mins.)
Director: John Frankenheimer
11.
MASH
(1970)
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. (116 mins.)
Director: Robert Altman
12.
Naked Lunch
(1991)
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa. (115 mins.)
Director: David Cronenberg
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The Night of the Hunter
(1955)
A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery. (93 mins.)
Director: Charles Laughton
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1984
(1984)
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love. (113 mins.)
Director: Michael Radford
15.
Notes on a Scandal
(2006)
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship. (92 mins.)
Director: Richard Eyre
16.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
(1975)
Upon admittance to a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients to take on the oppressive head nurse, a woman he views as more dictator than nurse. (133 mins.)
Director: Milos Forman
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The Piano Teacher
(2001)
A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher. (131 mins.)
Director: Michael Haneke
18.
The Trial
(1962)
An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges. (118 mins.)
Director: Orson Welles
19.
Rosemary's Baby
(1968)
A young couple move into a new apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins controlling her life. (136 mins.)
Director: Roman Polanski
20.
The Shining
(1980)
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. (146 mins.)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
21.
True Grit
(2010)
A tough U.S. Marshal helps a stubborn young woman track down her father's murderer. (110 mins.)
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
22.
Wise Blood
(1979)
A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church. (106 mins.)
Director: Jhon Huston
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