Browse Movies : Adaptation : S (Page #4)

Rookie Los Angeles police officer Scott James loses his partner in a shooting and, in a form of therapy, is tasked with taking care of Maggie, a German Shepherd who lost her Marine handler in Afghanistan and who now suffers from PTSD. The relationship grows between the policeman and the dog as they help each other heal and chase his partner's killers.

Follows four children who dream of escaping from the tedium of a summer holiday. When finally given permission to camp on their own on a remote island in the middle of a vast lake, they are overjoyed. But when they arrive, they discover they may not be alone and a desperate yet whimsical battle for ownership of the island ensues, where both skill and luck play a hand. Simultaneously, the dangers of an adult world, on the brink of war, encroach on their paradise and intertwine with their lives, in the form of a mysterious pair of Russian spies hot on the tail of the enigmatic Jim Turner. The children must ban together from both groups, learn skills of survival, responsibility, and the all-important value of friendship to save a family member.

Follows an Alabama man named John who contacts podcast host Brian Reed to have him investigate a supposed murder by the son of a wealthy family in his hometown.

The Beaumonts, a unique Midwestern family, is made up truly talented individuals with superpowers. As each kid hits the age of thirteen, his or her inherent power comes to light. They call this talent "savvy," and it can be anything. When a Beaumont celebrates that fateful, lucky thirteen, everyone waits with baited breath to see what happens.

A war correspondent and a librarian strive to solve the cold case murder of a blind student who disappeared years before.

While on a personal/spiritual mission, an Apache ex-Army Ranger investigates the disappearance of young women and ultimately uncovers a conspiracy involving local gangs, human slavers, oil companies and corrupt government officials.

Ben, a struggling filmmaker, lives in Berkeley, California, with his girlfriend, Miko, who works for a local Asian American film festival. When he’s not managing an arthouse movie theater as his day job, Ben spends his time obsessing over unavailable blonde women, watching Criterion Collection DVDs, and eating in diners with his best friend Alice, a queer grad student with a serial dating habit. When Miko moves to New York for an internship, Ben is left to his own devices, and begins to explore what he thinks he might want.

Set in a world where gravity suddenly becomes a fraction of what it is now, humanity has adapted to its new low-gravity reality. A woman born just after G-Day has become accustomed to it, but has come across a dangerous plan to bring gravity back.

A filmmaker, who is hired to document a wealthy man’s hidden past, unleashes the buried secrets of a Midwestern town that was once America’s most luxurious resort.

A K-pop star and a tabloid photographer wander through Hong Kong resulting in both adventure and love.

A fierce musical contest has arisen in the wake of a great galactic war known as the Metagalactic Grand Prix. Part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, and part continuation of the wars of the past, species far and wide compete in feats of song, and dance.

Set in the near-future and questions the meaning of freedom and self-determination in a world without either.

A past crime returns to devastate the lives of a photojournalist, a suburban mother with a hidden past, and a homicide detective obsessed with a series of unsolved disappearances. The three people are plunged into a dark world of sex, secrets and shocking violence.

A surrealist story about all the ways we hurt our friends without knowing it, and all the ways they stick around to save us.

Set in New York when Gotham was emerging from the trauma of World War II, an 18-year-old girl breaks free of her rich, smothering, family to discover her own identity and sexuality.

Set in a rural community, Sunset Song is driven by the young heroine Chris and her intense passion for life, for the unsettling Ewan and for the unforgiving land. The First World War reaches out from afar, bringing the modern world to bear on the community in the harshest possible way, yet in a final moment of grace, Chris endures, now a woman of remarkable strength who is able to draw from the ancient land in looking to the future.