Movie List for "book by"

Die letzte Nacht (1949)

N/A Year 1949.

Generes: Drama, Romance, War
Director: Eugen York
Writer: Friedrich Hartau (play), Otto-Heinz Jahn (book), Harald G. Petersson (book)
Actors: Sybille Schmitz, Karl John, Margarete Haagen, Catja Görna

The Ugly Swans (2006)

The writer is invited to the town of Tashlinsk by the mutants who emerged after an unnatural and constant rain causing the evacuation of the city, and by the children who are studying the unearthly knowledge of mutants. Year 2006.

Generes: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Director: Konstantin Lopushanskiy
Writer: Konstantin Lopushanskiy (screenplay), Vyacheslav Rybakov (screenplay), Arkadiy Strugatskiy (original book), Boris Strugatskiy (original book)
Actors: Gregory Hlady, Leonid Mozgovoy, Aleksey Kortnev, Rimma Sarkisyan

Dau (2018)

Biographical film, epically depicting the life of the famous scientist Lev Landau. Year 2018.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Ilya Khrzhanovskiy
Writer: Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, Kora Landau-Drobantseva (book), Susanne Marian, Vladimir Sorokin
Actors: Teodor Currentzis, Youriy Alekseev, Radmila Shchyogoleva, Lidiya Shchogolyeva

Lermontov (2015)

Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) was one of Russia’s greatest poets and writers. His famous novel, “A Hero of Our Time” was one of the most popular Russian books of all time. His works were … Year 2015.

Generes: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Director: Maksim Bespalyy
Writer: N/A
Actors: Vladimir Ablogin

Gogol’ (2017–2019)

The year 1829. Nikolay Gogol, a young Third Section clerk, is desperate: his own books seem shallow and mediocre, so he keeps buying entire print runs just to burn them all. He is suffering… Year 2017–2019.

Generes: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
Actors: Alexander Petrov, Evgeniy Stychkin, Taisiya Vilkova, Yan Tsapnik

Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer (2001)

N/A Year 2001.

Generes: N/A
Director: Stanislav Govorukhin
Writer: Mark Twain (book)
Actors: Vladislav Galkin, Mariya Mironova, Fyodor Stukov, Yekaterina Vasilyeva

Blutgeld (2015)

N/A Year 2015.

Generes: Action, Crime, Drama
Director: Alexander Dierbach
Writer: Andreas Brune, Sven Frauenhoff, Marc Hillefeld (book)
Actors: Erdogan Atalay, Vinzenz Kiefer, Inez Bjørg David, Mathias Herrmann

Country of the Deaf (1998)

Alyosha has a gambling problem and his girlfriend becomes a stripper to help pay off his debt. Year 1998.

Generes: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director: Valeriy Todorovskiy
Writer: Yuriy Korotkov, Renata Litvinova (book), Valeriy Todorovskiy
Actors: Chulpan Khamatova, Dina Korzun, Maksim Sukhanov, Nikita Tyunin

Unter Wölfen – Among Wolves (2019)

Eric is faced with his biggest journalistic challenge: A book about a clan. Moritz, his informant in the inner circle, hopes to escape the organization with the revenues of the book. … Year 2019.

Generes: N/A
Director: André J. Witt
Writer: André J. Witt
Actors: Lars Nover, Ruben Dietze, Kristin Heil, Marco Schlafke

Turetskiy gambit (2005)

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

The Cage (2017)

Based on 1947’s book ‘Ekoi Namer Golpo’ by Hasan azizul Haque. Year 2017.

Generes: Drama, History
Director: Akram Khan
Writer: Hasan Azizul Haque (story), Akram Khan (screenplay), Azad Abul Kalam (screenplay)
Actors: Jaya Ahsan, Azad Abul Kalam, Mamunur Rashid, Chandni

Nastya (1994)

A young Russian store clerk has a drab existence in times of shortages and is berated by her ailing mother for not seeing men. So she brings home an unknown young man who she met on the tram. She dreams many things but pines for this man. Year 1994.

Generes: Comedy, Romance
Director: Georgiy Daneliya
Writer: Aleksandr Adabashyan, Georgiy Daneliya, Aleksandr Volodin (book), Aleksandr Volodin (screenplay)
Actors: Polina Kutepova, Irina Markova, Valeriy Nikolaev, Evgeniy Leonov

Vendetta (2015)

N/A Year 2015.

Generes: Action, Crime, Drama
Director: Nico Zavelberg
Writer: Andreas Brune (book), Andreas Brune, Sven Frauenhoff (head writer), Boris von Sychowski (book), Boris von Sychowski
Actors: Erdogan Atalay, Vinzenz Kiefer, Jana Pallaske, Matthias Weidenhöfer

Die Muse (2011)

A young woman awakes in a cell in a basement. A man introduces himself to her: He is a writer and needs her as an inspiration for his new book. He forcibly tries to convince her to stay and… Year 2011.

Generes: Thriller
Director: Christian Genzel
Writer: Christian Genzel
Actors: Thomas Limpinsel, Henriette Müller, Jean-Luc Julien, Peter O. Kellerer

Dark Phoenix (2019)

Jean Grey begins to develop incredible powers that corrupt and turn her into a Dark Phoenix, causing the X-Men to decide if her life is worth more than all of humanity. Year 2019.

Generes: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Director: Simon Kinberg
Writer: Simon Kinberg, Stan Lee (comic book created by), Jack Kirby (comic book created by), Chris Claremont (story The Dark Phoenix Saga), John Byrne (story The Dark Phoenix Saga), Dave Cockrum (story The Dark Phoenix Saga)
Actors: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

On Halloween 1968, reclusive Stella and her two friends meet a mysterious drifter, Ramón, and uncover a sinister notebook of stories. Year 2019.

Generes: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Director: André Øvredal
Writer: Dan Hageman (screenplay by), Kevin Hageman (screenplay by), Guillermo del Toro (screenplay), Marcus Dunstan (story by), Patrick Melton (story by), Alvin Schwartz (novel)
Actors: Zoe Margaret Colletti, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush, Austin Abrams