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based on novel or book

Costa-Gavras Director

Yves Montand as Gérard

Guy Mairesse as Le médecin

Simone Signoret as Lise

László Szabó as Secret policeman

The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement.

84 Charing Cross Road

1987

7.4

♡ 13

85%

81%

1950s

based on play or musical

David Hugh Jones Director

Anthony Hopkins as Frank P. Doel

Mercedes Ruehl as Kay

Connie Booth as The Lady from Delaware

Charles Lewsen as The Print Buyer

When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.

The Thick-Walled Room

1956

Japanese

7.1

♡ 4

60%

crime against humanity

Masaki Kobayashi Director

Takeshi Katô as

Shinichirô Minami as

Unpei Yokoyama as

Kô Mishima as Yokota

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.

Beautiful Rebel

2024

Italian

6.3

♡ 3

50%

Cinzia Th. Torrini Director

Alessandro Cucca as amico di Danilo

Max Lisa as Claudio

Andrea Delogu as Mara Maionchi

Emanuele Luigi Cuomo as Romina

The origin story of one of Italy's greatest rock stars, Gianna Nannini, who chased her dream despite obstacles from her family and the music industry.

Cross Creek

1983

6.9

♡ 6

61%

77%

1930s

Martin Ritt Director

Dana Hill as Ellie Turner

Mary Steenburgen as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Malcolm McDowell as Max Perkins

Joanna Miles as Mrs. Turner

In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editors and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.

Het Boek van Alle Dingen

2024

Dutch

6.6

♡ 2

Drama

Ineke Houtman Director

Gerardjan Rijnders as Dominee

Thomas Boer as Lid van de Gemeenschap

Sallie Harmsen as Mother / Jesus

Pippa te Winkel as Zusje van Eliza

The 1960s, Netherlands. Thomas doesn’t realise it yet, but he has special powers. The nine-year-old sees things others cannot. He lives in a strict, religious family where his father, quick to cite the word of God, often resorts to violence. As a sense of injustice grows within him and a longing for freedom takes hold, Thomas begins writing his Book on Everything. In it, he wishes for his father’s punishment and encounters a host of unusual characters: Jesus Christ, a levitating lady with a piano-loving cat, tropical fish swimming in city canals, a young peg-legged witch living next door, and many others.

Papillon

1973

8.0

♡ 106

73%

90%

Franklin J. Schaffner Director

Fred Sadoff as Deputy Warden

Len Lesser as Guard

Victor Jory as Indian Chief

Dustin Hoffman as Louis Dega

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

Christopher and His Kind

2011

7.0

♡ 9

66%

Geoffrey Sax Director

Alexander Dreymon as Caspar

Tom Wlaschiha as Gerhardt Neddermayer

Douglas Booth as Heinz Neddermayer

Imogen Poots as Jean Ross

In 1931, budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. He falls for street sweeper Heinz, paying medical bills for the boy's sickly mother, to the disapproval of her other son, Nazi Gerhardt.

Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window

2023

Japanese

7.6

♡ 7

Animation

based on novel or book

Shinnosuke Yakuwa Director

Anne Watanabe as Cho Kuroyanagi

Karen Takizawa as Miss Oishi

Shun Oguri as Moritsuna Kuroyanagi

Kôji Yakusho as Sôsaku Kobayashi

This engaging series of childhood recollections tells of an unconventional school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedom, and love. The school had old railroad cars for classrooms and was run by an extraordinary man – its founder and headmaster, Sōsaku Kobayashi – who deeply valued children's independence, and who was a firm believer in freedom of expression and activity.

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

2017

6.7

♡ 17

81%

68%

1970s

Paul McGuigan Director

Julie Walters as Bella Turner

Gloria Grahame as Herself

Stephen Graham as Joe Turner, jr.

Jamie Bell as Peter Turner

Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her young lover, British actor Peter Turner, quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort.

The Outrun

2024

6.9

♡ 50

82%

addiction

Nora Fingscheidt Director

Saskia Reeves as Annie

Paapa Essiedu as Daynin

Izuka Hoyle as Gloria

Saoirse Ronan as Rona

Fresh out of rehab, Rona returns to the Orkney Islands—a place both wild and beautiful, right off the Scottish coast. Now 29 and after more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, where she both found and lost love, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. As she reconnects with the dramatic landscape where she grew up, memories of her traumatic childhood merge with more recent challenging events that have set her on the path to recovery.

My Sassy Girl

2001

Korean

7.9

♡ 63

93%

boyfriend girlfriend relationship

Jae-young Kwak Director

Mu-yeong Lee as

Jae-young Kwak as Covered Cart Bar Customer

Tae-hyun Cha as Kyun-woo

Ji-hyun Jun as The Girl

A dweeby, mild-mannered man comes to the aid of a drunk young woman on a subway platform. Little does he know how much trouble he’s in for.

Toast

2010

6.5

♡ 4

61%

52%

adolescence

autobiography

S.J. Clarkson Director

Matthew McNulty as Josh

Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Potter

Freddie Highmore as Nigel Slater

Ben Aldridge as Stuart

Young Nigel Slater has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained between Nigel and his father, especially when he remarries a woman who wins his heart with a lemon meringue pie. Nigel enters culinary school, starts working in a pub, and finds himself competing with his stepmother - both in the kitchen and for his father's attention.

Promise at Dawn

2017

French

7.1

♡ 6

64%

85%

based on novel or book

Eric Barbier Director

Zoe Boyle as La poétesse

Catherine McCormack as Lesley Blanch

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Nina Kacew

Pierre Niney as Roman Kacew, dit Romain Gary

From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragi-comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature two times.

Heartburn

1986

6.1

♡ 14

46%

husband wife relationship

Comedy

Drama

infidelity

journalist

semi autobiographical

Mike Nichols Director

Kenneth Welsh as Dr. Appel

Jack Gilpin as Ellis

Natasha Lyonne as Rachel's Niece

Christian Clemenson as Sidney

She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that combination doesn't give a relationship heartburn, nothing will.

Boy Erased

2018

6.9

♡ 79

80%

74%

based on a true story

Joel Edgerton Director

Madelyn Cline as Chloe

Lucas Hedges as Jared Eamons

Russell Crowe as Marshall Eamons

Nicole Kidman as Nancy Eamons

Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith.

Nyad

2023

7.1

♡ 20

86%

affectation

Jimmy Chin Director

Jodie Foster as Bonnie Stoll

Karly Rothenberg as Dee Brady

Annette Bening as Diana Nyad

Rhys Ifans as John Bartlett

Athlete Diana Nyad sets out at 60 to achieve a nearly impossible lifelong dream: to swim from Cuba to Florida across more than 100 miles of open ocean.

The Theory of Everything

2014

7.7

♡ 256

81%

84%

based on a true story

husband wife relationship

physicist

Romance

James Marsh Director

Emily Watson as Beryl Wilde

Glenda Jackson as Cathy

David Thewlis as Dennis Sciama

Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking

The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.

12 Years a Slave

2013

♡ 381

95%

90%