Based on Books
by dionnesharp19 | created - 01 May 2012 | updated - 14 Jun 2017 | PublicMovies based on books I've either read or want to read.
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1. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1905)
Short, Crime, Drama
The millionaire's child is kidnapped. Sherlock Holmes after many thrilling adventures and narrow escapes rescues the child.
Director: J. Stuart Blackton | Stars: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, H. Kyrle Bellew, Paul Panzer, J. Barney Sherry
Votes: 53
2. Brideshead Revisited (1981)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Romance
The life, friendships and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder-including his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle.
Stars: Jeremy Irons, Diana Quick, Roger Milner, Phoebe Nicholls
Votes: 8,029
3. Brideshead Revisited (2008)
PG-13 | 133 min | Drama, Romance
A poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to World War II.
Director: Julian Jarrold | Stars: Matthew Goode, Patrick Malahide, Hayley Atwell, Thomas Morrison
Votes: 13,662 | Gross: $6.41M
4. The Call of the Wild (1972)
PG | 100 min | Adventure, Family, Western
A house dog is abducted and brought to the north as a sled dog.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Charlton Heston, Michèle Mercier, Raimund Harmstorf, George Eastman
Votes: 1,970
5. Call of the Wild (1992 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 97 min | Adventure, Drama
A young boy heads off to the Yukon after hearing tales about the Gold Rush, and he forms an unwavering friendship with a heroic Alsatian dog called Buck.
Director: Michael Toshiyuki Uno | Stars: Ricky Schroder, Gordon Tootoosis, Duncan Fraser, Richard Newman
Votes: 427
6. Call of the Wild (2000)
60 min | Adventure, Family
The story is about the life of a dog which was stolen from his home in California and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska.
Stars: Nick Mancuso, Shane Meier, Rachel Hayward, Kathleen Duborg
Votes: 257
7. Call of the Wild (1923)
70 min | Adventure
Buck, a young Saint Bernard, is stolen from his home in England and shipped to Canada where he is used on a dogsled. He is treated badly until John Thornton, a prospector, befriends him. ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Jackman | Stars: Jack Mulhall, Walter Long, Sidney D'Albrook, Laura Roessing
Votes: 37
8. Call of the Wild (1935)
Passed | 95 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
During the Klondike Gold Rush, a traveler purchases a dog to lead the way toward the treasure, but reconsiders his journey when he finds a jilted married woman.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie, Reginald Owen
Votes: 2,527
9. The Call of the Wild (1997 TV Movie)
PG | 91 min | Adventure
Jack London's classic story from 1903 about Buck, a dog kidnapped from his home in California and taken to the Yukon where he is mistreated until a prospector discovers him and relates to ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Svatek | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Raymond Ducasse, Eric Hoziel, Deano Clavet
Votes: 1,011
10. The Call of the Wild (1976 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 99 min | Adventure
A prospector, a trapper and their sled dog battle the Klondike elements on their journey to get to the gold country.
Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: John Beck, Bernard Fresson, John McLiam, Donald Moffat
Votes: 157
11. The Call of the Wild (1908)
16 min | Short, Action
George Redfeather, the hero of this subject, returns from Carlisle, where he not only graduated with high honors, but was also the star of the college football team. At a reception given in... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Charles Inslee, Harry Solter, Florence Lawrence, George Gebhardt
Votes: 116
12. A Question of Faith (1979)
97 min | Biography, Drama
The last days of famous Russian author Leo Tolstoy which are paralleled with one of his last stories - The Death of Ivan Ilyich - about a man who is happy with his life until he finds out he's sick and is about to die.
Director: Colin Nears | Stars: Harry Andrews, Alan Dobie, Rosemary Leach, Annette Crosbie
Votes: 22
13. Elmer Gantry (1960)
Approved | 146 min | Drama
A fast-talking traveling salesman with a charming, loquacious manner convinces a sincere evangelist that he can be an effective preacher for her cause.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger
Votes: 12,806 | Gross: $11.34M
14. Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome (2010)
Short, Comedy
Director: Victor Quinaz | Stars: Philip Quinaz, Alison Fyhrie, A.M. Lukas, Giovanni P. Autran
15. The Age of Innocence (1934)
Approved | 81 min | Drama, Romance
An engaged attorney and a divorcee fall for each other in 1870s Manhattan.
Director: Philip Moeller | Stars: Irene Dunne, John Boles, Lionel Atwill, Helen Westley
Votes: 521
16. The Marriage Playground (1929)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A husband and wife have several children from their previous marriages and now they want to get divorced. The kids don't want to be separated and the oldest daughter and her boyfriend try to keep them together.
Director: Lothar Mendes | Stars: Mary Brian, Fredric March, Lilyan Tashman, Huntley Gordon
Votes: 117
17. Ethan Frome (1992)
PG | 99 min | Drama, Romance
A new pastor arrives in a stark Vermont village and is intrigued by crippled, misshapen Ethan Frome living on an isolated, hardscrabble farm with his sickly wife Zeena.
Director: John Madden | Stars: Liam Neeson, Patricia Arquette, Gil Rood, Tate Donovan
Votes: 2,281 | Gross: $0.30M
18. Passion's Way (1999 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Romance
Set in early 1900s France, a widow renews a former romantic interest, until it is discovered that he has had a past fling with one of her new employees, a nanny. This sets the two women ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Allan Ackerman | Stars: Sela Ward, Timothy Dalton, Alicia Witt, Jamie Glover
Votes: 211
19.
Great Performances (1971– )
Episode:
Edith Wharton: Looking Back
(1981)
TV-G | 60 min | Music, Musical
Noted American author Edith Wharton, in her later years, returns home and reminisces about her life. This was part of a PBS Great Performances trilogy, which also included dramatizations of... See full summary »
Director: Kirk Browning | Stars: Stephen Collins, John Cullum, John McMartin, Kathleen Widdoes
Votes: 13
20. The Game Is Over (1966)
R | 98 min | Drama
In Paris, Maxime visits his wealthy industrialist father Alexandre and his beautiful young Canadian wife, Renée. Alexandre fathered him years ago in a prior marriage and he has come to stay... See full summary »
Director: Roger Vadim | Stars: Jane Fonda, Michel Piccoli, Peter McEnery, Tina Aumont
Votes: 639
21. Lorna Doone (1922)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance
In 17th-century England, an outlaw clan kidnaps a young girl, who grows up among them. The farm boy who met her just before the kidnapping eventually rescues her, and they fall in love.
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Madge Bellamy, Mae Giraci, John Bowers, Charles Hatton
Votes: 328
22. Lorna Doone (1976– )
55 min | Drama, Romance
Lorna Doone is a swashbuckling tale of love, rivalry and revenge. As a child, John Ridd watches as his father is killed by the feared clan, the Doones, and swears to avenge his death. Years... See full summary »
Stars: Emily Richard, John Sommerville, Patrick Troughton, Ian Hogg
Votes: 40
23. Lorna Doone (1934)
90 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600's. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.
Director: Basil Dean | Stars: Victoria Hopper, John Loder, Margaret Lockwood, Roy Emerton
Votes: 107
24. Lorna Doone (1951)
Approved | 88 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Set in 17th century Scotland, a young woman falls in love with a humble villager whose community suffers under the rule of her despotic landowning family.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Barbara Hale, Richard Greene, Carl Benton Reid, William Bishop
Votes: 241
25. Lorna Doone (1963)
330 min | Drama, Romance
TV adaptation, believed to be lost, of the 1869 romance novel "Lorna Doone" by R. D. Blackmore.
Stars: Bill Travers, Jean Anderson, Andrew Faulds, Janet Pate
Votes: 14
26. Lorna Doone (1911)
Drama, Romance, Short
Lorna Dugal, the little daughter of an English nobleman, is carried off by her father's enemies, the Doones, when she is five years old. Sire Ensor Doone had been banished from court, and ... See full summary »
Director: Theodore Marston | Stars: Gladys Hulette, Frank Hall Crane, Marguerite Snow, William Garwood
27. Lorna Doone (1912)
Drama, Romance
Yeoman loves outlaw's daughter, who is stolen heiress.
Director: Wilfred Noy | Star: Dorothy Bellew
28. Lorna Doone (1915)
Short, Drama
The enmity between John Ridd and Carver Doone began when John, as a lad, saw his father slain in defense of the Earl of Lorne's family, whom the marauding Doones killed with the exception ... See full summary »
Director: J. Farrell MacDonald | Stars: Jack Drumier, G. Raymond Nye, William J. Butler, Vola Vale
29. Lorna Doone (1920)
Adventure, Drama, Romance
A yeoman loves an outlaw's daughter who is really a stolen heiress.
Director: Horace Lisle Lucoque | Stars: Dennis Wyndham, Bertie Gordon, Roy Raymond, George Bellamy
Votes: 15
30. Lorna Doone (2000 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama, Romance
Against a backdrop of political and religious upheaval, a farmer falls in love with the "queen" of the notorious Doone clan --a family that he has sworn vengeance on.
Director: Mike Barker | Stars: Neil Finnighan, Jack Baverstock, Trevor Cooper, Aidan Gillen
Votes: 2,008
31.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
A Midwife's Tale
(1998)
TV-PG | 89 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A docudrama adaptation of Ulrich's Pulitzer-winning book, which was based on thousands of entries in the journal of Martha Ballard, a Maine midwife, in the late 1700's and early 1800's. The... See full summary »
Director: Richard P. Rogers | Stars: Ron Tough, Ruth Anderson, Jim Belding, Wallace Brown
Votes: 105
32. Midwives (2001 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 92 min | Crime, Drama
A midwife in rural Vermont is wrongly accused of murder in the death of one of her patients by the woman's husband.
Director: Glenn Jordan | Stars: Sissy Spacek, Peter Coyote, Terry Kinney, Alison Pill
Votes: 488
33. Gal Young Un (1979)
105 min | Drama
Gal Young 'Un centers on a spinster woman who lives alone in the woods of north Florida until she is swept off her feet by an opportunistic bootlegger. He marries her for her place and her ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Nunez | Stars: Dana Preu, David Peck, J. Smith-Cameron, Gene Densmore
Votes: 165
34. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
Director: Albert Lewin | Stars: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury
Votes: 14,435
35. The Picture of Dorian Gray (2004)
90 min | Drama, Horror
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
Director: Dave Rosenbaum | Stars: Josh Duhamel, Branden Waugh, Rainer Judd, Darby Stanchfield
Votes: 592
36. The Picture of Dorian Gray (2007)
97 min | Mystery, Thriller
A contemporary adaptation of Oscar Wilde classic tale of vanity.
Director: Duncan Roy | Stars: David Gallagher, Noah Segan, Christian Camargo, Aleksa Palladino
Votes: 345
37. The Macomber Affair (1947)
Approved | 89 min | Adventure, Drama
In British East Africa, a fatal triangle develops involving a frustrated wife, a weak and coward husband, and an English big-game hunter who comes between the couple.
Director: Zoltan Korda | Stars: Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, Robert Preston, Reginald Denny
Votes: 928
38. So Big! (1932)
Unrated | 81 min | Drama, Romance
After Selina's father dies, she's offered a job as a teacher in a small town and a new chapter of her life begins.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Dickie Moore, Bette Davis
Votes: 1,824
39. So Big (1953)
Approved | 101 min | Drama, Romance, Western
In the late 1890s, a young widow becomes a successful farmer and can send her son, nicknamed 'So Big', to college. After graduating, he finds a job as an architect, but forgoes his dream in favor of an immediate financial success.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Jane Wyman, Sterling Hayden, Nancy Olson, Steve Forrest
Votes: 817
40. Tender Is the Night (1962)
Approved | 142 min | Drama
A Psychiatrist and his life with a patient he helped to recover.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Jennifer Jones, Jason Robards, Joan Fontaine, Tom Ewell
Votes: 899
41. The Beautiful and Damned (1922)
70 min | Drama
Gloria, the daughter in a wealthy family, has finally spent most of her father's money. She marries Tony, whose as much of a reckless spendthrift as she is, and they continue indulging ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Marie Prevost, Kenneth Harlan, Harry Myers, Tully Marshall
Votes: 44
42. The Winter of Our Discontent (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
This story tells those self-denials of an honest man what necessary to reach his object of life.
Director: Waris Hussein | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Teri Garr, Tuesday Weld, Michael V. Gazzo
Votes: 162
43. Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun (1988 TV Movie)
192 min | Drama
The singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer - is depicted. Raised by her father in colonial East Africa, Beryl hunted with the Maasai, bred thoroughbred ... See full summary »
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Stefanie Powers, Claire Bloom, Peter Bowles, Brian Cox
Votes: 95
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