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"book" Movies and TV Shows
#1
American Psycho II: All American Girl
Synopsis:
Rachel is a criminology student hoping to land a position as a teacher's assistant for professor Robert Starkman. She's sure this position will pave the way to an FBI career, and she's willing to do anything to obtain it -- including killing her classmates. The school psychiatrist, Dr. Daniels, becomes aware that Rachel is insane, but Rachel is skilled at her dangerous game of death and identity …
Starring:
Mila Kunis,
Lindy Booth,
William Shatner
#2
The Age of Adaline
Synopsis:
After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.
Starring:
Kathy Baker,
Blake Lively,
Harrison Ford
#3
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Synopsis:
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.
Starring:
Christoph Waltz,
Tim Blake Nelson,
Ewan McGregor
Plot:
italy,
based on novel or book,
fascism,
woodcutter,
musical,
magic,
monkey,
stop motion animation,
pinocchio character,
church
...
#4
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Synopsis:
Set during the Cold War, the Soviets—led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko—are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a mystical Lost City of Gold. Indy is coerced to head to Peru at the behest of a young man whose friend—and Indy's colleague—Professor Oxley has been captured for his knowledge of the skull's whereabouts.
Starring:
John Hurt,
Ray Winstone,
Harrison Ford
Plot:
saving the world,
riddle,
whip,
treasure,
crystal skull,
area 51,
female antagonist,
sequel,
alien,
amazon
...
#5
You Hurt My Feelings
Synopsis:
A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book.
Starring:
Julia Louis-Dreyfus,
David Cross,
Owen Teague
Plot:
dialogue driven,
struggling actor,
dramedy,
therapist,
reference to netflix,
opinion,
violence,
four word title,
f word,
love
...
#6
Zorba the Greek
Synopsis:
An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.
Starring:
Irene Papas,
Anthony Quinn,
Alan Bates
#7
Zardoz
Synopsis:
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
Starring:
Charlotte Rampling,
Sean Connery,
Bosco Hogan
#8
Zabriskie Point
Synopsis:
Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.
Starring:
Harrison Ford,
Philip Baker Hall,
Rod Taylor
#9
You've Got Mail
Synopsis:
Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.
Starring:
Meg Ryan,
Tom Hanks,
Dave Chappelle
Plot:
dog,
e mail,
rivalry,
bookstore,
internet,
new york city,
online identity,
courtship,
handkerchief,
shop owner
...
#10
You Only Live Twice
Synopsis:
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.
Starring:
Sean Connery,
Bernard Lee,
Lois Maxwell
#11
Young Frankenstein
Synopsis:
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.
Starring:
Richard Haydn,
Teri Garr,
Cloris Leachman
Plot:
spoof,
hunchback,
reanimation,
laboratory,
sexual joke,
experiment,
castle,
electricity,
corpse,
rain
...
#12
Willow
Synopsis:
The evil Queen Bavmorda hunts the newborn princess Elora Danan, a child prophesied to bring about her downfall. When the royal infant is found by Willow, a timid farmer and aspiring sorcerer, he's entrusted with delivering her from evil.
Starring:
Val Kilmer,
Phil Fondacaro,
Warwick Davis
Plot:
baby,
prophecy,
journey,
little person,
magic,
chase,
showdown,
battle,
talking animal,
reluctant hero
...
#13
WarGames
Synopsis:
High School student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his girlfriend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armaged…
Starring:
Matthew Broderick,
Barry Corbin,
John Wood
Plot:
hacker,
cold war,
computer,
modem,
phreaking,
telephone call,
nuclear attack,
game,
norad,
war game
...
#14
Vampyr
Synopsis:
Traveler Allan Gray arrives in the village of Courtempierre and takes lodgings in a small inn. Gray has a great interest in the supernatural, particularly vampires. He's barely settled in when he feels a sinister force descending upon him. In the night an old man enters his room to tell him 'she must not die'. One of the old man's daughters, Leone, has been bitten by a vampire. In order to break …
Starring:
Maurice Schutz,
Nicolas de Gunzburg,
Rena Mandel
Plot:
vampire,
doctor,
book,
shadow,
gothic horror,
drifter,
hallucination,
grave,
flour mill,
old woman
...
#15
Unforgiven
Synopsis:
William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.
Starring:
Clint Eastwood,
Morgan Freeman,
Frances Fisher
#16
Unfaithful
Synopsis:
Connie is a wife and mother whose 11-year marriage to Edward has lost its sexual spark. When Connie literally runs into handsome book collector Paul, he sweeps her into an all-consuming affair. But Edward soon becomes suspicious and decides to confront the other man.
Starring:
Diane Lane,
Erik Per Sullivan,
Richard Gere
#17
Umberto D.
Synopsis:
When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and aban…
Starring:
Lamberto Maggiorani,
Memmo Carotenuto,
Maria Pia Casilio
#18
To Sir, with Love
Synopsis:
A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.
Starring:
Ann Bell,
Sidney Poitier,
Suzy Kendall
#19
Torn Curtain
Synopsis:
During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution, but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border.
Starring:
Paul Newman,
Julie Andrews,
Ludwig Donath
Plot:
stasi,
nobility,
engaged couple,
asphyxiation,
doctor,
physicist,
professor,
norway,
steamship,
premarital sex
...
#20
Three Days of the Condor
Synopsis:
A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.
Starring:
Robert Redford,
Max von Sydow,
Cliff Robertson