Movie List for "book by"

The Counterfeiters (2007) Crime Drama History War Movie

The story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during WWII. Year 2007.

Generes: Crime, Drama, History, War
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Writer: Adolf Burger (book), Stefan Ruzowitzky (screenplay)
Actors: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach

Adventures of Don Quixote (1933) Adventure Comedy Drama Music Musical Romance Movie

In Spain, in the sixteenth century, an elderly gentleman named Don Quixote has gone mad from reading too many books on chivalry. Proclaiming himself a knight, he sets out with his squire, … Year 1933.

Generes: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Writer: Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra (novel), Alexandre Arnoux (dialogue), John Farrow (collaborator: english version), Paul Morand (scenario), Georg Wilhelm Pabst (screenplay)
Actors: Feodor Chaliapin Sr., George Robey, Oscar Asche, René Donnio

Black Friday (2004) Action Crime Drama History Movie

A film about the investigations following the 1993 serial Bombay bomb blasts, told through the different stories of the people involved –police, conspirators, victims, middlemen. Year 2004.

Generes: Action, Crime, Drama, History
Director: Anurag Kashyap
Writer: Anurag Kashyap (screenplay), Hussain Zaidi (book), Piyush Mishra (lyrics)
Actors: Kay Kay Menon, Pavan Malhotra, Aditya Srivastav, Dibyendu Bhattacharya

Dark Planet (2009) Action Adventure Sci-Fi Movie

A space traveler from the Earth of the 22th century – without wars, poverty and oppression – crashes on an unknown planet. Politically and economically that planet similar to the totalitarian human states of the 20th century. Year 2009.

Generes: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Director: Fedor Bondarchuk
Writer: Eduard Volodarskiy, Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko, Arkadiy Strugatskiy (original book), Boris Strugatskiy (original book)
Actors: Vasiliy Stepanov, Yulia Snigir, Pyotr Fyodorov, Sergey Garmash

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) Action Adventure Fantasy Romance Movie

A young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation. Year 2000.

Generes: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Director: Ang Lee
Writer: Du Lu Wang (book), Hui-Ling Wang (screenplay), James Schamus (screenplay), Kuo Jung Tsai (screenplay)
Actors: Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Chen Chang

Escape from Alcatraz (1979) Action Biography Crime Drama Thriller Movie

Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possible successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world. Year 1979.

Generes: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Don Siegel
Writer: J. Campbell Bruce (book), Richard Tuggle (screenplay)
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom, Jack Thibeau

Turetskiy gambit (2005) War Action Adventure Mystery Thriller Movie

The film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of novels written by the Russian author Boris Akunin. The film takes place in 1877 during the … Year 2005.

Generes: War, Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Dzhanik Fayziev
Writer: Boris Akunin (novel), Boris Akunin (screenplay)
Actors: Egor Beroev, Olga Krasko, Marat Basharov, Vladimir Ilin

Three Seconds (2017) Drama Sport Movie

Going Vertical is a film based on real events that occurred in 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. It focuses on a legendary final battle between USSR and USA basketball teams. Year 2017.

Generes: Drama, Sport
Director: Anton Megerdichev
Writer: Sergey Belov (book), Aleksandr Konovalov (book), Nikolay Kulikov, Andrey Kureychik
Actors: Vladimir Mashkov, John Savage, Marat Basharov, Sergey Garmash

Bury Me Behind the Baseboard (2009) Drama Movie

A small child is trapped in a tug-of-war battle between his frivolous, but loving mother and an emotionally abusive neurotic grandmother, who wants to “shelter” her beloved grandson at all cost. Year 2009.

Generes: Drama
Director: Sergey Snezhkin
Writer: Pavel Sanaev (book), Sergey Snezhkin (screenplay)
Actors: Svetlana Kryuchkova, Aleksey Petrenko, Mariya Shukshina, Konstantin Vorobyov

Khottabych (2006) Adventure Comedy Fantasy Sci-Fi Movie

Gena is a hacker by heart and soul. He’s a good fella. But he got himself in some real troubles. And the only thing that can save him – is a thousand years old Djinni, who attempts to learn how to live in the modern world. Year 2006.

Generes: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Director: Pyotr Tochilin
Writer: Sergey Klado (book), Veronika Voznyak (screenplay)
Actors: Vladimir Tolokonnikov, Marius Jampolskis, Liva Kruminya, Mark Geykhman

The Man Who Cheated Life (1926) Drama Horror Movie

For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a … Year 1926.

Generes: Drama, Horror
Director: Henrik Galeen
Writer: Hanns Heinz Ewers (novel), Henrik Galeen (book)
Actors: Conrad Veidt, Elizza La Porta, Fritz Alberti, Ágnes Eszterházy

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Comedy Crime Thriller Movie

A writer of books on the futility of marriage risks his reputation when he decides to get married. Things get even more complicated when he learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are habitual murderers. Year 1944.

Generes: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Director: Frank Capra
Writer: Julius J. Epstein (screen play), Philip G. Epstein (screen play), Joseph Kesselring (play)
Actors: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson

A Woman in Berlin (2008) Biography Drama History War Movie

A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II. Year 2008.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History, War
Director: Max Färberböck
Writer: Max Färberböck, Marta Hillers (book), Catharina Schuchmann
Actors: Nina Hoss, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Irm Hermann, Rüdiger Vogler

The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) Action Biography Crime Drama History Thriller Movie

A look at Germany’s terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings and assassinations in the late 1960s and ’70s. Year 2008.

Generes: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Director: Uli Edel
Writer: Bernd Eichinger (screenplay), Uli Edel (screenplay collaborator), Stefan Aust (book)
Actors: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Jan Josef Liefers

Downfall (2004) Biography Drama History War Movie

Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator’s final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. Year 2004.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History, War
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Writer: Bernd Eichinger (screenplay), Joachim Fest (book), Traudl Junge (book), Melissa Müller (book)
Actors: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes

Seventh Son (2014) Action Adventure Fantasy Movie

When Mother Malkin, the queen of evil witches, escapes the pit she was imprisoned in by professional monster hunter Spook decades ago and kills his apprentice, he recruits young Tom, the seventh son of the seventh son, to help him. Year 2014.

Generes: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Director: Sergei Bodrov
Writer: Charles Leavitt (screenplay by), Steven Knight (screenplay by), Matt Greenberg (screen story by), Joseph Delaney (based on the book titled “The Spook’s Apprentice” by)
Actors: Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes, Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander