Adaptation Movies (Page #45)

A twentysomething woman learns she is a descendant of one of the feuding families made infamous in Romeo and Juliet. She travels to Italy and discovers that the 600-year-old curse is still in effect and her fate is tied to literature’s greatest lovers.

London, 1997: the British music industry is on a winning streak. Britpop bands Blur, Oasis, and Radiohead rule the airwaves, and Cool Britannia is in full swing. 27-year-old hit-chasing A&R man Steven Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music business, a world where careers are made and broken by chance and the fickle tastes of the general public. Fueled by greed, ambition and inhuman quantities of drugs, Stelfox searches for his next hit record amid a relentless orgy of self-gratification. Created by an industry that demands success at any price, Stelfox takes the concept of "killer tunes" to a murderous new level in a desperate attempt to salvage his career. Balanced against the backdrop of the music business and its characters, Stelfox is the ultimate anti-hero: chronically sexist, racist, and everything else-ist.

George Leslie comes to New York appearing to be a mannered gentleman, but secretly he puts together a crew and masterminds a heist of nearly $3 million in cash and securities from the Manhattan Savings Institution in 1878.

A young woman entertains a disturbing offer which lets her pursue her dreams, for better or for much, much worse.

Focuses on a successful traveling saleswoman, who decides to go on the lam from her life. A master of reinvention, she develops elaborate scams for sneaking into hotel rooms, alone or with a guest, and a passion for swimming in their pools.

Focuses on the imminent closing of a homeless shelter for woman and how the leaders of the shelter move to reintegrate the women back into society.

A snowstorm hits a small town on a cold Christmas Eve, affecting the friendships, love lives and futures of several high school seniors.

Members of a secret, ancient, global organization of people with an aptitude for persuasion in general use words as potentially lethal weapons for persuading others to do what they want. Their most gifted and troubled member, a young woman, breaks the society’s primary rule and falls in love.

After a terrorist attack on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, a teenager finds himself wrongfully pursued by a corrupt Department of Homeland Security agent. Using technological tricks, he must elude capture while exposing the truth.

Lina, an American high school graduate, would rather spend her summer preparing for her semester at MIT than fly to Rome to fulfill her mother’s last wish. Once abroad however, she is caught in a whirlwind of new experiences — searching for her long-lost father, learning how to make gelato and maybe… falling in love?

British Naval officer Lord Horatio Nelson makes a name for himself while fighting Napoleon's forces on the Mediterranean stage and also for engaging in a scandalous love affair with Lady Emma Hamilton.

Judith Rashleigh works in a prestigious London auction house by day and an insalubrious bar at night. When she stumbles across a conspiracy, she ends up in a battle for her life.

The journey of six DNA-enhanced young orphans with the ability to fly — on a mission to rescue the youngest of their flock while discovering the diabolical, scientific secrets of how they came to exist. Their leader is Max, wise beyond her years, who must summon all her courage and acumen to outmaneuver the brutal half-human/half-wolf creations known as “Erasers,” confront her own inner demons and ultimately face a stunning betrayal.

A Swedish scientist invents a device that allows disabled people to surf the web with the power of thought, but the invention runs afoul when a virus is created by a revenge-seeking terrorist. The man races against time to save his wife.

Set in New York in 1954, Lionel Essrog, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette’s syndrome, tries to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend. Armed only with few clues and an obsessive mind, Lionel slowly unravels closely guarded secrets that have major ramifications. It leads him through Harlem jazz clubs, Brooklyn slums and sets him against thugs and Gotham power brokers to honor his friend and save a woman who might his own salvation.

What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the most stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mysteries ever told. From the novel by best selling author Agatha Christie, "Murder on the Orient Express" tells the tale of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone's a suspect. One man must race against time to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.