Video Tagged based-on-novel

Download Movie - American History X

Genres: Crime, Drama
Year: 1998
Countries: USA
Actors: Elliott Gould, Edward Norton, Ethan Suplee, Guy Torry, Joseph Cortese, Fairuza Balk, Beverly D'Angelo, Stacy Keach, William Russ, Jennifer Lien, Jason Bose Smith, Antonio David Lyons, Alex Sol
Directors: Tony Kaye
Summary:

A Neo Nazi skinhead, named Derek Vineyard (Edward Norton) goes to jail for 3 years after committing a murder of 2 black guys. In the meanwhile, his younger brother, Danny Vineyard (Edward Furlong) goes in the same way and makes the same mistakes (racism and hatred) his eldest brother did (this is the result of the Neo Nazi environment he grows up into, and the influence Derek left behind). While Derek is in jail he realize that he choose the wrong path. after coming back from jail, Derek try to convince his brother not to go in his own way.

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Download Movie - No Escape

Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Year: 1994
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Dillon, Michael Lerner, Ray Liotta, Don Henderson, Jack Shepherd, Russell Kiefel, Brian M. Logan, Cheuk-Fai Chan, Machs Colombani, David Argue
Directors: Martin Campbell
Summary:

The year is 2022, prison systems from all over the world are now run by private corporations and have become business. After being sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his commanding officer who ordered him to wipe out innocent people. Convicted soldier John Robbins is dumped on the prison island Absolom (after he refused to execute his cell-mate and assaulted the Warden). On Absolom, convicts are put there to either survive or die. Robbins finds the prison island is inhabited by two camps, The Outsiders, tribes of savage prisoners led by the evil Walter Merrick and The Insiders, a community of prisoners living in a fortified village “The Compound” led by The Father. Robbins finds escape from Absolom is impossible, surveillance satellites monitor Absolom and gunships prevent all convicts from escaping from the prison island and The Warden has secretly put a spy on Absolom. Caught up in a feud between the two camps, Robbins is determined to escape from the prison island and finds it is his ultimate challenge as nobody has ever escaped and he agrees to help The Insiders defend “The Compound” from The Outsiders.

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Download Movie - Under the Tuscan Sun

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Year: 2003
Countries: Italy, USA
Actors: Diane Lane, Claudia Gerini, Sandra Oh, Valentine Pelka, Vincent Riotta, Pawel Szajda, Mario Monicelli, Roberto Nobile, Anita Zagaria, Evelina Gori, Giulia Steigerwalt, Sasa Vulicevic, Massimo Sarchielli
Directors: Audrey Wells
Summary:

Academy Award nominee ‘Diane Lane (I)’ (qv) stars as ‘Frances Mayes’ (qv), a 35-year-old San Francisco writer whose perfect life has just taken an unexpected detour. Her recent divorce has left her with terminal writer’s block and extremely depressed, and her best friend, Patti, is beginning to think she might never recover. Frances decides to take a break and she buys a villa in the beautiful Tuscan countryside and decides to begin anew. Restoring her new home, she eventually finds the fulfillment she was searching for, including love. Based on ‘Frances Mayes’ (qv)’ memoir of the same name.

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Download Movie - Caribbean Mystery, A

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Year: 1989
Countries: UK
Actors: Barbara Barnes, Donald Pleasence, Adrian Lukis, Michael Feast, Joan Hickson, Sophie Ward, T.P. McKenna, Sheila Ruskin, Frank Middlemass, Robert Swan, Sue Lloyd, Stephen Bent, Joseph Mydell, Valerie Buchanan, Isabelle Lucas
Directors: Christopher Petit
Summary:

Although Miss Marple wants only to bask quietly at a West Indian resort, she is badgered with boring reminiscences by an overly talkative ex-soldier and policeman, Major Palgrave. Although he claims to possess a picture of a murderer, Miss Marple is more interested in her omnipresent knitting than his long-winded stories. After the hard-drinking Major dies that night of an apparent heart attack, the maid tells her that the blood pressure medication found in his room belongs to another guest. When she later learns that the incriminating picture is missing and the maid is found stabbed to death, Miss Marple correctly predicts that more murders will follow.

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Download Movie - They Do It with Mirrors

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Year: 1991
Countries: UK
Actors: Jean Simmons, Christopher Villiers, Ian Brimble, Joan Hickson, David Horovitch, Faith Brook, Gillian Barge, Neal Swettenham, Jay Villiers, Holly Aird, Todd Boyce, Saul Reichlin, Matthew Cottle, John Bott
Directors: Norman Stone
Summary:

Miss Marple is invited to London to see her old friend Ruth. Miss Marple was a sort of traveling companion to Ruth and her sister, Carrie Louise. Ruth is worried about Carrie Louise. She doesn’t know why, though. Ruth asks Miss Marple to come with her to her sister’s estate, Stonygates. Stonygates is a huge manor house, and some of the buildings and the grounds are used by Carrie Louises’ current husband, Lewis, as a reformatory for juvenile criminals. Miss Marple meets the people who live there - Carrie Louise’s grand-daughter Gina and her malcontent American husband Walter; Stephen and Alex Restarick, Carrie Louise’s stepsons by her first marriage; Edgar Lawson, Lewis’ mentally unstable secretary; and Carrie Louise’s daughter, Mildred, who is jealous of Gina. Soon, Carrie Louise’s stepson by her second marriage shows up. He is Christian Guldbrandsen, and he runs the trust which contributes a fraction of the funds used to run Stonygates. He and Lewis talk in private. Later that night, Edgar begins waving a gun around and ranting that Lewis is his father. Lewis takes him to his office where the argument becomes even more heated. After a few minutes, two shots are heard, and then hysterical crying. The door opens to reveal Lewis, unhurt. Edgar missed him. However, the body of Christian Guldbrandsen is discovered, shot. Miss Marple sets out to find the murderer before it is too late for her good friend Carrie Louise.

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Download Movie - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Year: 2006
Countries: France, Germany, Spain
Actors: Simon Chandler, Ben Whishaw, Francesc Albiol, Gonzalo Cunill, Roger Salvany, Andr Herrera, David Calder, Richard Felix, Birgit Minichmayr, Reg Wilson, Catherine Boisgontier, N Casas, Carlos Gramaje, Sian Thomas, Michael Smiley
Directors: Tom Tykwer
Summary:

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of eighteenth century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world’s finest perfumes. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.

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Download Movie - 4.50 from Paddington

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Year: 1987
Countries: UK
Actors: Ian Brimble, Joan Hickson, Juliette Mole, David Beames, Mona Bruce, Nicholas Blane, Katy Jarrett, Leslie Adams, David Horovitch, Rhoda Lewis, Jill Meager, Joanna David, Maurice Denham, Andrew Burt, Pamela Pitchford
Directors: Martyn Friend
Summary:

Elspeth McGillicuddy, an old friend of Miss Marple’s, witnesses a strangulation murder in a passing train through the window of her coach compartment. When Police Inspector Slack can’t find a body along the tracks and doubts the validity of the story, Miss Marple and Elspeth locate the area where the body was probably thrown from the train, the isolated manor house of an aged, cantankerous millionaire, Luther Crackenthorpe. Miss Marple’s niece Lucy is recruited to apply for a job on the estate in hopes of locating the corpse. When she finds it in an ancient sarcophagus in an outbuilding housing Egyptian and Etruscan art treasures, the police and Miss Marple are brought in. Obviously someone in the large household is involved, but who?

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Download Movie - Three Way

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Year: 2004
Countries: USA
Actors: Dominic Purcell, Joy Bryant, Al Israel, Dwight Yoakam, Roxana Zal, Dan Martin, Christian Mills, Jason Sutliff, Marc Allen Lewis
Directors: Scott Ziehl
Summary:

Lew is a small time loser with a troubled past and a very big secret. Overhearing a couple plan a kidnapping, Lew is tempted to come up with a scheme of his own. He decides to get to the victim first and then blackmail the real criminals. His plan soon spins out of control.

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Download Movie - There Will Be Blood

Genres: Drama
Year: 2007
Countries: USA
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Paul F. Tompkins, Kevin Breznahan, Ciar Hinds, Dillon Freasier, Russell Harvard, Randall Carver, Brad Carr, Mark Flanagan, Vince Froio, Hans Howes, John Kerry, Jim Meskimen
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Summary:

Set in the early 20th century, the film follows the rise to power of Daniel Plainview — a charismatic and ruthless oil prospector, driven to succeed by his intense hatred of others and psychological need to see any and all competitors fail. When he learns of oil-rich land in California that can be bought cheaply, he moves his operation there and begins manipulating and exploiting the local landowners into selling him their property. Using his young adopted son H.W. to project the image of a caring family man, Plainview gains the cooperation of almost all the locals with lofty promises to build schools and cultivate the land to make their community flourish. Over time, Plainview’s gradual accumulation of wealth and power causes his true self to surface, and he begins to slowly alienate himself from everyone in his life.

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Download Movie - Reservation Road

Genres: Drama, Thriller
Year: 2007
Countries: USA
Actors: Jennifer Connelly, Antoni Corone, Elle Fanning, Samuel Ryan Finn, Eddie Alderson, Sean Curley, Susan Powell, Cordell Clyde, Kevin Herbst, Gary Kohn, Nora Ferrari
Directors: Terry George
Summary:

On a warm September evening, college professor Ethan Learner, his wife Grace, and their daughter Emma are attending a recital. Their 10-year-old son Josh is playing cello — beautifully, as usual. His younger sister looks up to him, and his parents are proud of their son. On the way home, they all stop at a gas station on Reservation Road. There, in one terrible instant, he is taken from them forever. On a warm September evening, law associate Dwight Arno and his 11-year-old son Lucas are attending a baseball game. Their favorite team, the Red Sox, is playing - and, hopefully, heading for the World Series. Dwight cherishes his time spent with Lucas. Driving his son back to his ex-wife, Lucas’ mother Ruth Wheldon, Dwight heads towards his fateful encounter at Reservation Road. The accident happens so fast that Lucas is all but unaware, while Ethan — the only witness — is all too aware, as a panicked Dwight speeds away. The police are called, and an investigation begins. Haunted by the tragedy, both fathers react in unexpected ways, as do Grace and Emma. As a reckoning looms, the two fathers are forced to make the hardest choices of their lives.

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