Browse Movies : Adaptation : I (Page #2)

In 1968, the Memphis sanitation workers strike becomes a turning point in the U.S. civil rights movement. The strike, carried out by black employees over poor working conditions and discrimination, draws Martin Luther King Jr, the National Guard and the national media for what is a 65-day, often violent labor action.

An 18-year-old's best friend takes her own life. Looking for answers, the teen begins a brave and dangerous journey that takes her from her dead-end Washington town to Meg’s college dorm, to the clubs of Seattle, to the deserts of Nevada, and to the darkest parts of her own psyche. And as she looks for the whys and hows of her friend’s death, she is forced to face the meanings of love, friendship, guilt and forgiveness.

Despite second thoughts about their relationship, a young woman (Jessie Buckley) takes a road trip with her new boyfriend (Jesse Plemons) to his family farm. Trapped at the farm during a snowstorm with Jake’s mother (Toni Collette) and father (David Thewlis), the young woman begins to question the nature of everything she knew or understood about her boyfriend, herself, and the world.

A romantic comedy featuring a lost engagement ring, a stolen cell phone, and two strangers who find each other…just as one of them is about to marry someone else.

Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario.

Set in a world run by computer, Finn, a 17-year old, is a prisoner in Incarceron. He is determined to escape the prison fashioned centuries ago as a solution to the chaos created by man. Claudia, the warden's daughter, lives sequestered in a castle surrounded by servants. But she, too, longs for escape—from a father who frightens her and from betrothal to an insipid prince. Finn and Claudia each discover a crystal key and are amazed to find that they can communicate with each other. As their trust in one another builds, each pledges to help the other.

A recently bereaved teenage girl finds herself the focus of everyone's attention at her elitist private school, which is home to a nest of vampires.

A strong-willed teenaged daughter of first-generation Mexican immigrants must help hold her family together after a tragic accident.

A teenage girl is forced to move in with her off-the-grid dad in the Canadian wilderness after her mother is killed in a car crash. After a series of events and only her father’s dog for company, she’ll discover she’s stronger than she ever imagined.

After a skilled but morally corrupt and narcissistic divorce attorney finds himself framed for a series of brutal murders, he embarks on his own investigation to find the killer.

A woman in her twenties with vulnerability and no sexual guilt dates all the wrong men, and tries to survive a generation of guys who know more about love songs than love.

Just days from getting released from Soledad State Prison, Nate McClusky runs afoul of the powerful leader of the Aryan Brotherhood, who runs its state-wide Meth network from his cell. Marked for death his release, Nate soon realizes that everyone he has ever loved is a target — including his daughter, who he hasn't seen for years. Soon the two of them find themselves on a non-stop struggle for survival, and along the way, discover the bonds that eluded them for so many years.

A teenager in an eccentric family has his life upended by the return of his absentee father. While his mother heads to Vegas for her third honeymoon, dad offers his son the opportunity to collect the $70,000 bounty on his head.

Indignation takes place in 1951, as Marcus Messner (Logan Lerman), a brilliant working class Jewish boy from Newark, New Jersey, travels on scholarship to a small, conservative college in Ohio, thus exempting him from being drafted into the Korean War. But once there, Marcus’s growing infatuation with his beautiful classmate Olivia Hutton (Sarah Gadon), and his clashes with the college’s imposing Dean, Hawes Caudwell (Tracy Letts), put his and his family’s best laid plans to the ultimate test.

Set during World War III, a 14-year-old gamer enrolls in an elite military training academy. Before long he discovers that the military intends to turn him into a superhuman fighter by installing a computer in his brain.

A 16-year-old boy is literally invisible. He then meets and falls for his new neighbor, the one person who can actually see him. The two the set out to discover the truth behind his affliction, uncovering curses and spells along the way.

Clara Bow, best known for her work in silent films, was Hollywood’s first sex symbol.