Adaptation Movies (Page #38)

After the war, a wealthy former WWI officer of the Loamshire Regiment spends his new-found leisure time as a private detective.

A team of gifted teens control biological nanobot robots warriors and they battle another group that is controlled by conjoined twins whose nanobots are brainwashing world leaders. The megalomaniacal twins are trying to take over the world.

Set in the Golden Age of piracy, with the story seeing the con-artist Captain Pugwash put on a ship to Botany Bay. But when he escapes, he finds himself at the helm of the Black Pig on a mission to rescue Cabin Boy Tom’s father, who has been marooned on a volcanic island with a hoard of treasure protected by an army of angry ghosts. Just to make things more complicated, Pugwash soon finds he has the infamous pirate Cut-Throat Jake on his tail.

Betty and Barney Hill, an interracial couple from Portsmouth, New Hampshire are captured by a UFO the night of September 19, 1961. A black postal clerk and a white social worker, the Hills claim that they had been studied by extraterrestrials, and then returned to their lives with missing memories that were later retrieved under hypnosis.

Story centers on 26-year-old Cassandra, whose life is turned upside down when she finds out her identical twin, Jude, is about to drop out of college and marry a man she's known only three months.

A 12-year old witch shows up at a dark castle that needs a master or be decommissioned by the bureaucratic Board of Magic and its many minions, such as a hypochondriac fish and a letter "Q" averse minotaur, dispersed into the world. She projects confidence as she tackles the series of tasks laid forth by the board but underneath lie several simmering secrets, including one of her being an imposter.

England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that bubble to the surface at such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover from the previous summer, who throws her feelings into turmoil. Dolly's mother will not allow her carefully laid plans for her daughter's future to be threatened, and as the clock ticks the bride can't decide whether to run away with Joseph or start a new life in Argentina with her husband-to-be.

When Ruka was younger, she saw a ghost in the water at the aquarium where her dad works. Now she feels drawn toward the aquarium and the two mysterious boys she meets there, Umi and Sora. They were raised by dugongs and hear the same strange calls from the sea as she does. Ruka's dad and the other adults who work at the aquarium are only distantly aware of what the children are experiencing as they get caught up in the mystery of the worldwide disappearance of the oceans' fish.

In a fading Midwestern town, the local legend of Frendo the clown becomes all too real as teenagers start to go missing one by one, before meeting spectacularly sticky ends.

Over the course of one night in a closed department store, a teddy bear goes on an adventure to find his lost button so that he can find the home and the friend that he has always wanted.

Set in 1950s London, Private Investigator Charles Hayward is persuaded by his former lover Sophia Leonides to investigate the poisoning of her wealthy grandfather. Arriving at the opulent country estate, Charles is thrown into the middle of a ruthless family all of which hated the patriarch, including his adult children, grandchildren and his brazen sister-in-law. With time against him, Charles must solve the case before the murderer strikes again.

A self-made business man at the peak of his game suffers a cerebral hemorrhage leaving him comatose in a hospital ICU. He awakens to find himself in a surreal world.

A half-Korean daughter returns to small town Oregon to care for her Korean mother. They learn to see and accept one another through the formative power of music and the vibrant flavors of Korean cooking.

A 17-year-old art student's father occasionally sends her on errands around the world collecting human teeth for a mysterious purpose. The young woman gradually becomes aware that she is part of an ancient struggle between devils and angels and finds herself in a forbidden romance with a warrior angel.

Tells the story of Catherine Lakey, a chemistry professor who vanishes while vacationing in Cape Cod. Though her disappearance is assumed to be a suicide, her niece, Nancy, is unconvinced and begins to uncover clues in her aunt's beach house signaling a far more sinister plot.

A guardian angel in a rehab program for wayward souls accidentally kills the girl he's supposed to watch over, and fails to get her into heaven. These two lost souls must figure out where they went wrong and whether they can make things right before the girl's time is up and her soul is lost forever.

The film follows a woman (Rachel Weisz) as she returns to the community that shunned her decades earlier for an attraction to a childhood friend (Rachel McAdams). Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.

A boy discovers he can jump into other people's dreams. But that power turns into a nightmare, literally, when his friends begin falling into an endless sleep and something in the dream world wants the boy's abilities for itself.

Dumplin’ (Danielle Macdonald) is the plus-size, teenage daughter of a former beauty queen (Jennifer Aniston), who signs up for her mom’s pageant as a protest that escalates when other contestants follow her footsteps, revolutionizing the pageant and their small Texas town.