Movie List for "book by"

The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015)

12-year-old wisecracking Gilly Hopkins finds herself shuffled from foster home to foster home until she meets Maime Trotter. Year 2015.

Generes: Comedy, Drama, Family
Director: Stephen Herek
Writer: David Paterson (screenplay by), Katherine Paterson (based on the book by)
Actors: Sophie Nélisse, Kathy Bates, Glenn Close, Octavia Spencer

Red Sparrow (2018)

Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to ‘Sparrow School,’ a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations. Year 2018.

Generes: Action, Drama, Thriller
Director: Francis Lawrence
Writer: Justin Haythe (screenplay by), Jason Matthews (based upon the book by)
Actors: Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling

If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

A young woman embraces her pregnancy while she and her family set out to prove her childhood friend and lover innocent of a crime he didn’t commit. Year 2018.

Generes: Drama, Romance
Director: Barry Jenkins
Writer: Barry Jenkins (written for the screen by), James Baldwin (based on the book by)
Actors: KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King, Teyonah Parris

The BFG (2016)

An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world. Year 2016.

Generes: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Melissa Mathison (screenplay by), Roald Dahl (based on the book by)
Actors: Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton, Jemaine Clement

Mortal Engines (2018)

In a post-apocalyptic world where cities ride on wheels and consume each other to survive, two people meet in London and try to stop a conspiracy. Year 2018.

Generes: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director: Christian Rivers
Writer: Fran Walsh (screenplay by), Philippa Boyens (screenplay by), Peter Jackson (screenplay by), Philip Reeve (based on the book by)
Actors: Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan, Hugo Weaving, Jihae

Wildlife (2018)

A teenage boy must deal with his mother’s complicated response after his father temporarily abandons them to take a menial and dangerous job. Year 2018.

Generes: Drama
Director: Paul Dano
Writer: Paul Dano (screenplay by), Zoe Kazan (screenplay by), Richard Ford (based on the book by)
Actors: Ed Oxenbould, Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan, Travis W Bruyer

How to Train Your Dragon (2010)

A hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed. Year 2010.

Generes: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Director: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
Writer: William Davies (screenplay by), Dean DeBlois (screenplay by), Chris Sanders (screenplay by), Cressida Cowell (based on the book by), Marc Hyman (collaborating writer)
Actors: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera

The Last Rampage (2017)

The true story of the infamous prison break of Gary Tison and Randy Greenwalt from the Arizona State prison in Florence, AZ, in the summer of 1978. Year 2017.

Generes: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Dwight H. Little
Writer: James W. Clarke (based on the book by), Álvaro Rodríguez (screenplay by), Jason Rosenblatt (screenplay by)
Actors: Robert Patrick, Heather Graham, Bruce Davison, Alex MacNicoll

The Glass Castle (2017)

A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who’s an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children’s imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty. Year 2017.

Generes: Biography, Drama
Director: Destin Daniel Cretton
Writer: Destin Daniel Cretton (screenplay by), Andrew Lanham (screenplay by), Jeannette Walls (based upon the book by)
Actors: Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts, Ella Anderson

A Dog’s Way Home (2019)

A female dog travels four hundred miles in search of her owner throughout a Colorado wilderness. Year 2019.

Generes: Adventure, Drama, Family
Director: Charles Martin Smith
Writer: W. Bruce Cameron (screenplay by), Cathryn Michon (screenplay by), W. Bruce Cameron (based on the book by)
Actors: Ashley Judd, Jonah Hauer-King, Edward James Olmos, Alexandra Shipp

The Mountain Between Us (2017)

Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow-covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across the wilderness. Year 2017.

Generes: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Director: Hany Abu-Assad
Writer: Chris Weitz (screenplay by), J. Mills Goodloe (screenplay by), Charles Martin (based upon the book by)
Actors: Kate Winslet, Idris Elba, Beau Bridges, Dermot Mulroney

The Lost City of Z (2016)

A true-life drama, centering on British explorer Major Percival Fawcett, who disappeared whilst searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s. Year 2016.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History
Director: James Gray
Writer: James Gray (written for the screen by), David Grann (based on the book by)
Actors: Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, Tom Holland

Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)

Following the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever. Year 2019.

Generes: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Director: Jon Watts
Writer: Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Stan Lee (based on the Marvel comic book by), Steve Ditko (based on the Marvel comic book by)
Actors: Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Marisa Tomei

The Chaperone (2018)

In the early 1920s, a Kansas woman finds her life forever changed when she accompanies a young dancer on her fame-seeking journey to New York City. Year 2018.

Generes: Drama
Director: Michael Engler
Writer: Julian Fellowes (screenplay by), Laura Moriarty (based on the book by)
Actors: Miranda Otto, Haley Lu Richardson, Elizabeth McGovern, Blythe Danner

City of Lies (2018)

Russell Poole and Jack Jackson investigate the murders of rappers Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur. Year 2018.

Generes: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Brad Furman
Writer: Randall Sullivan (based on the non-fiction book by), Christian Contreras (screenplay)
Actors: Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker, Toby Huss, Dayton Callie

BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events. Year 2018.

Generes: Biography, Crime, Drama
Director: Spike Lee
Writer: Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee, Ron Stallworth (based on the book by)
Actors: Alec Baldwin, John David Washington, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Robert John Burke