Adaptation Movies (Page #42)

After a night of romance and imagining a future with a man she just met, a woman discovers he's terminally ill. She helps him spend his last days living life to the fullest.

A young woman living the fast life in New York attempts suicide before being saved by a selfless psychiatrist who is hiding the fact he is dying of cancer.

The story centers on a Korean exchange student who moves to the United States. Her parents set up various (matchmaker) dates to meet appropriate young men from Seoul to San Francisco.

Recaptures the circumstances behind the fatal shootings at Kent State University in 1970.

Set in early 18th century London against the backdrop of the beginnings of stock speculation and the retreat from a mineral-based currency, Benjamin Weaver, a Jewish former boxer living on the fringes of criminal society, becomes entangled with powerful financial giants.

Follows the plight of two sisters – one a concert pianist, the other a children’s author – who contemplate their strict Mennonite upbringing following their father’s suicide.

Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars.

Set in the near future, nanotech-enhanced people and ordinary humans are at war with one another.

The daughter of one of Haiti's richest sons is kidnapped in broad daylight by a gang of heavily armed men, in front of her father's Port au Prince estate. Held captive by a man who calls himself The Commander, Mireille waits for her father to pay her ransom.

Story of the 1948 conflict in the Middle East immediately after the state of Israel was formed, which triggered a nine-month war waged by five Arab nations.

Using his homemade time machine, a brilliant reclusive scientist gathers a roundtable of the greatest minds in history (Shakespeare, George Washington, Aristotle, etc.) to solve all of humanity's problems.

Anya is a less than popular 16-year-old who gets stranded in an underground cave. There, she meets and rescues Emily, the apparent ghost of a teen who died a century earlier. While Anya thinks her new “friend” is the best thing to ever happen to her, the alliance has unforeseen consequences for Anya, her friends and her family.

The crown jewel of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton (Theron) is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission. Sent alone into Berlin to deliver a priceless dossier out of the destabilized city, she partners with embedded station chief David Percival (James McAvoy) to navigate her way through the deadliest game of spies.

Described as having the world building elements of films such as Highlander and Interview With The Vampire.

Jane Charlotte is arrested for murder. She says she's a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil and that she's working with the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons — aka "Bad Monkeys." This confession lands her in the jail’s psychiatric wing, where she is probed by professionals.

Tells the story of Marianne Winckler, a well-known author, who goes to live in northern France to research a new book on the subject of precarious working conditions. Without revealing her true identity, she is hired as a cleaner, working with a group of other women. In this new role, she experiences first-hand the financial instability and social invisibility of the ‘gig economy'. But she also discovers mutual assistance and solidarity amongst this fraternity of working-class women. As she becomes more entwined in the community and strikes up a close friendship with a woman called Christèle, she begins to question the ethics of the deception in the name of her writing.

A 79-year-old man wants to reconnect with his estranged adult children before Alzheimer's ruins his mind. He hatches a plan to "kidnap" his 14-year-old granddaughter for a summer road trip and drops clues along the way in hopes his relatives will unite in an effort to find them.

The story of a Washington D.C. publicist and blogger who jokingly suggest that senior citizens should voluntarily commit suicide to solve the social security crisis -- only to see a politician, with whom she becomes romantically involved, take up the cause.

The film will tell the story of Jared (Hedges), the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, who is outed to his parents (Kidman, Crowe) at age 19. Jared is quickly pressured into attending a gay conversion therapy program – or else be shunned by his family, friends, and church. It is within the program that Jared comes into conflict with its head therapist (Edgerton).

The unease between Bostonians and British troops turns violent after the Boston Tea Party, when violent sieges erupt in Lexington and Concord and a British blockade leads to outright war in the Battle of Bunker Hill, a bloody clash that unites the colonies and starts the war for independence. A group of participants, including a 33-year-old physician named Joseph Warren, who becomes a leader of the Patriot cause; Paul Revere, George Washington, British General Thomas Gage, and others.