Mark Twain's immortal tale of the fraud, hypocrisy and bigotry of adults as seen through the eyes of an innocent boy and his friend Jim, a runaway slave.
As they make their way along the...
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A beautifully moving love story based on Alice Munro's short story, 'The Bear Came Over the Mountain'.
Married for 50 years, Grant and Fiona's life together has been full of tenderness and humour,...
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Although lacking much of the depth and complexity of the book, this film version is a beautiful adaptation which preserves the novel's flavour while focusing on its love story set against the...
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From a fantastic opening sequence, this satire after the novel by Joseph Heller takes the lid off war and US imperialism.
Catch 22 is the tale of a small group of flyers in the Mediterranean in...
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Based on Charles Frazier's novel, this film by Anthony Menghella is set convincingly against the background of the American Civil War. With its high calibre cast, it is a saga of friendship, romance...
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Based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer prize-winning novel, The Color Purple is the richly textured story of Celie, an uneducated woman living in the rural American South.
Forced to marry a brutal man...
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This excellent adaptation of Alan Paton's novel gives a graphic insight into life in South Africa under apartheid.
Father Stephen Kumalo lives in a small town, detached from the racial injustices...
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In 1865, Civil War hero Lt John Dunbar asks to be reassigned to the Western frontier before it disappears. At his isolated post he develops a relationship with the peaceful Lakota Sioux and a white...
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Boris Pasternak's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, with screenplay by Robert Bolt, is here given the full David Lean treatment.
Sumptuous settings, haunting music (Maurice Jarre) and an all-star...
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Based on Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel, this beautiful film was the winner of nine 'Oscars' - including Best Picture.
Set during the Second World War, this epic romance tells the...
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An American in the Italian Army is wounded in action. He is nursed back to health by a pretty nurse. A 1957 remake of the 1932 original based on the novel by Ernest Hemmingway.
Starring Rock...
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Robert Redford and Mia Farrow star in this faithful adaptation of Scott Fitzgerald's popular novel set in the USA of the 1920's with its 'flapper'parties and hot jazz.
Scripted by Francis Ford...
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Trapped on a small provincial French farm with her widowed father, Emma dreams of marrying her way up the social ladder to lead a glittering, fairytale life amid the bright lights of the big...
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John Malcovich and Gary Sinese star in this adaptation of John Steenbeck's celebrated novel.
Two farm workers in Depression-era California befriend an ageing farmhand on a ranch where they work...
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Milos Forman's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest emphasises the humanistic story at the heart of Ken Kesey's more hallucinogenic novel.
Jack Nicholson plays the part of Randle Patrick McMurphy, the...
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Living a life of leisure on the sun-drenched Italian coast, Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law) has it all: friends, the love of a beautiful woman (Gwyneth Paltrow) and the best things his father's money can...
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'A Story of hope over prejudice.'
A beautiful adaptation of Harper Lee's Pullitzer Prize-winning novel, this film retains a timeless quality that transcends its subject matter (racism in the...
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An adaptation, by Harold Pinter, of Franz Kafka's classic novel about one man's paranoia and persecution.
An innocent bank clerk - Josef K - is arrested for no obvious reason than perhaps to...
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Based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque. A group of German schoolboys, goaded by their schoolmaster to join the glorious war, set off to become soldiers.
Their disenchantment begins with...
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