Movies (106) tagged by 'Based On Short Story'
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Hachiko: A Dog's Story (2009)
A drama based on the true story of a college professor's bond with the abandoned dog he takes into his home.
All About Eve (1951)
Stage star Margo Channing is friend to playwright Lloyd Richards and his wife Karen, in love with director Bill Samson, and the idol of Eve Harrington who beco...
The Box (2009) (2009)
Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysteriou...
Real Steel (2011)
A movie including the upcoming time where all robotics boxing has been the renowned sport as well as focuses on a promoter in crisis (Jackman), who believes he ...
Total Recall (2012)
As the nation states Euromerica and New Shanghai vie for supremacy, a factory worker (Farrell) begins to suspect that he's a spy, ...
The Babysitter (1995)
The film adaptation of Ann Martin's popular series of children's books -- which also became a TV show on HBO. The eponymous clique is comprised of seven pre-t...
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
The rancher Daniel Evans, who lost part of his leg in the Civil War, is broken and owing a large amount to a powerful man in Bisbee. When the outlaw Ben Wade i...
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
A day-dreamer escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance and action. When his job along with that of his ...
The Drop (2014)
Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, fa...
Jolene (2008)
A teenage orphan spends ten years traveling cross-country experiencing life, love and heartbreak. Based on E.L. Doctorow's story, "Jolene: A Life."
Bel Ami (2012)
A chronicle of a young man's rise to power in Paris via his manipulation of the city's most influential and wealthy women.
Shortcut to Happiness (2007)
In Manhattan, the aspirant writer Jabez Stone is a complete loser: he is not able to sell his novels, he lives in a lousy apartment and he does not have success...
The Mangler (1995)
When an accident involving a folding machine at an old laundry occurs, detective John Hunton decides to investigate. What he finds is the owner of the laundry,...
Shake (2012)
When Bryan Brown, one of Cleveland's most respected street hustlers, takes the rap on a drug deal gone bad, it forces him out of the game and out of his family'...
Amal (2008)
New Delhi-based Amal Kumar lives a poor lifestyle along with his widowed mother, Radha, and drives a three-wheeled auto rickshaw for a living, fully aware that ...
Caterpillar (2010)
Durin the Second Sino-Japanese War, in 1940, Lieutenant Kurokawa returns home as a honoured and decorated soldier... but deprived of his arms and legs lost in b...
The Electric Grandmother (1982)
To a family whose children are traumatized by the death of their mother, help comes in a most bizarre way. They receive three pieces, that when joined together,...
Spirits of the Dead (1968)
Three giants of world cinema conspire to bring the dark prose of Edgar Allan Poe to the screen in Spirits of the Dead. Roger Vadim, Luis Malle, and Federico F...
The Tomb (2009)
Successful writer and scholar Jonathan Merrick falls under the spell of the irresistible, bewitchingly beautiful Ligeia. She's fighting a fatal illness and she ...
Rawhead Rex (1986)
Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows ...
Stonehearst Asylum (2014)
A recent medical school grad who takes a position at a mental institution soon finds himself taken with one of his colleagues -- though he has no initial idea o...
All God's Children Can Dance (2008)
In Korea Town Los Angeles, a young man, Kengo, believes he's the son of God - that's what his mother told him since he was a young boy. He spends his days work...
Touched by Love (1980)
A young nurse becomes determined to reach an unresponsive teenage cerebral palsy patient by encouraging her to write to her favorite rock singer, Elvis Presley.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1958)
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Nutcracker Fantasy (1979)
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Return of the Fly (1959)
Fifteen years after his father's experiments with matter transmission fail, Philippe Delambre and his uncle François attempt to create a matter transmission dev...
Lurking Fear (1994)
The town of Leffert's Corners has been plagued by unearthly beings for decades, and now there is only a few people left, including the local priest and a woman...
Mercy (2014)
A single mom and her two boys help take care of their grandmother with mystical powers.
Lady for a Day (1933)
Frank Capra's story of an apple peddler who poses as a socialite to impress the daughter she hasn't seen since birth.
Children of the Corn VII: Revelation (2001)
The seventh in the series of films loosely based on a short story by Stephen King. When FBI agents come to the small town of Omaha in Nebraska to track down a...
Requiem for the Damned (2012)
Edgar Allan Poe. For nearly two hundred years his stories of the macabre have shocked and terrified audiences. And now, inspired by five of Poe's most terrifyin...
The Mysterious Stranger (1982)
Based on both the short story by John W. Campbell, Jr. and the 1951 film produced by Howard Hawks, THE THING is John Carpenter's stunning masterpiece of horro...
Twice-Told Tales (1963)
3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of...
Lootera (2013)
The year is 1953. A visiting archaeologist called Varun Shrivastav comes to the village of Manikpur in West Bengal to excavate the temple grounds of the local Z...
The 10th Victim (1965)
Some people like violence so much, that they decide to create a club in which human hunts are organized - members being alternately hunters, and prey, until the...
Forgetting the Girl (2012)
Haunted by a traumatic history, photographer Kevin Wolfe (Christopher Denham) struggles to systematically forget all his bad memories, but erasing his past thre...
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed (1981)
Mark Twain tale of cowardly Confederate soldiers.
Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022)
When Mr. Harrigan dies, the teen who befriended and did odd jobs for him, puts his smart phone in his pocket before burial and when the lonely youth leaves his ...
Dama s sobachkoy (1960)
On holiday in Yalta, Muscovite banker Dimitri Gurov contrives to meet a young woman who walks her dog. She's Anna Sergeyovna, trapped in a loveless marriage to ...
The Sisterhood of Night (2014)
When a teenage girl says she's the victim of a secret network called The Sisterhood of Night, a quiet suburban town becomes the backdrop for a modern-day Salem ...
The Tell-Tale Heart (2016)
A haunting account of a tormented man who continually re-admits himself into a medical facility, in a futile attempt to escape from his pending madness. Based o...
Far from Men (2014)
A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a dissident, and is then ordered to turn him in to the author...
Walter (2015)
A ticket-taker at the local cinema believes he is the son of God. He has agreed to decide the eternal fate of everyone he comes in to contact with.
The Battle of the Sexes (1960)
Angela Barrows, an accomplished business analyst from the US, attempts to contemporize the late MacPherson's tweed manufacture, shaking the very foundation of a...
Two Jacks (2012)
Jack Hussar is a legendary Hollywood director, whose persona commands respect and adoration from his fans. Can his son, Jack Jr. maintain his legacy?
Number 13 (2006)
In order to authenticate some historical papers in a cathedral town, Oxbridge academic Anderson stays at a local hotel in room 12, initially disregarding the la...
Going by the Book (2007)
Things get out of control when Doman, an eager and saintly traffic cop, is asked the play the role of the bank robber in a robbery intervention police training ...
The Bear That Wasn't (1967)
The Bear That Wasn't is a ten minute animated short about a bear that settles down for his long winter nap. While he is asleep the progress of man continues. He...
Light and the Sufferer (2007)
Realism and fantasy collide in Jonathan Lethem's genre-bending coming-of-age story, which follows two estranged brothers as they try to leave New York City for ...
Masque of the Red Death (1989)
Lovely photographer Rebecca winds up in a Bavarian castle at a "Masque of the Red Death" party hosted by the wealthy Ludwig. Mayhem ensues as assorted Poe story...
Maska (2010)
Maska is an animated film set in a world that is technologically developed, but at the same time, feudal.
Disciples of the Crow (1983)
A couple passing through a small Oklahoma town discover that it has been taken over by a homicidal cult that worships a crow god--and that all the cult members ...
Children of the Corn (2023)
The film describes the events leading up to, and including, the massacre of the adults of a small town in Nebraska by their children, after the adults' irr...
Imitation General (1958)
Sergeant Murphy Savage impersonates a dead general in order to inspire the demoralized troops in fighting their way out of Nazi encirclement.
We Have a Ghost (2023)
Finding a ghost named Ernest haunting their new home turns Kevin's family into overnight social media sensations. But when Kevin and Ernest investigate the...
The Killers (1964)
Surprised that their contract victim didn't try to run away from them, two professional hit men try to find out who hired them and why.
Keith (2008)
Natalie has it all: yearbook editor, scholarship to college, star athlete, reigning social queen. Then Keith enters her life. Secretive and enigmatic, he slowly...
Lieberman in Love (1995)
Short film directed by Christine Lahti. It won an Academy Award in 1996 for Best Short Subject. A short story by W.P. Kinsella, "Lieberman in Love", was the bas...
Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules (1991)
Three short stories about women and men relationship. The first about a successful boxer in New York City, whose wife only wants to return to her home town in K...
Gotham Cafe (2005)
A man named Steve Davis comes home to find his wife gone and a Dear John note on the table. He goes through a stage of depression, and abruptly decides to quit ...
Carmen, Baby (1967)
A sexy temptress no man can resist and a local police officer who falls hard for her become embroiled in a complicated intrigue of passion and jealousy in Radle...
"The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes" The Eligible Bachelor (0)
Sherlock Holmes' problem with disturbing dreams proves to be both an impediment and an aid in the search for a missing woman.
The Haunted Pumpkin of Sleepy Hollow (2003)
It's Halloween and friends Nick and Kate are on a mission to find the biggest pumpkin in the patch. Unfortunately, the pumpkin they choose is haunted by the gho...
Return to Paradise (1953)
Based on the short story "Mr. Morgan" from "Return To Paradise" (James Michener's sequel to "Tales of the South Pacific"). Morgan (Gary Cooper), a drifter and s...
The Woman in the Room (1984)
She is incurably ill, but she cannot die. Only her son, a lawyer, could bring her relief. When he decides to do so, it starts his personal nightmare. The short ...
Nothing But the Best (1964)
Success has James Brewster's name written all over it, and he also has his heart set on his boss' daughter. A con artist hires him to help out on a bank...
The Whisperer in Darkness (2007)
A hermit living in the 1920's, discovers a race of aliens plot to enslave mankind with a horrible mind control.
Cat Person (2023)
When Margot, a college sophomore goes on a date with the older Robert, she finds that IRL Robert doesn't live up to the Robert she has been flirting with o...
In the Gloaming (1997)
Danny, dying of Aids, returns home for his last months. Always close to his mother, they share moments of openness that tend to shut out Danny's father and his ...
Lot No. 249 (2023)
Follows a group of Oxford students, one of them becomes the collegiate talk of the town by conducting study into the mysteries of Ancient Egypt. Can the horribl...
Leonora addio (2022)
Three surreal funerals are intertwined by the murder of a Sicilian immigrant boy in Brooklyn.
Le semeur (2017)
Violette is old enough to get married when her village in the Lower Alps is cruelly deprived of all its men by the repression that followed the republican upris...
Old Man (1997)
A prisoner is tempted by the opportunity to escape during the Great Flood of 1927.
Ernie & Cerbie (2018)
Cupid's brother Ernie has been sending arrows to people, creating love connections just like Cupid. Ernie is bored and leaps down to earth taking a child human ...
The Boogeyman (1982)
A man tries to explain to his psychiatrist that the Boogeyman is real and has been killing his children.
People Are Becoming Clouds (2015)
John and Eleanor work to save their marriage after discovering her tendency to turn into a cloud.
The Shepherd (2023)
On Christmas Eve, a fighter pilot on his way home gets lost mid-flight over water and needs a miracle to land safely.
The Headless Horseman (1922)
The village of Sleepy Hollow is getting ready to greet the new schoolteacher, Ichabod Crane, who is coming from New York. Crane has already heard of the village...
Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989)
This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels (Randy Quaid) sells his body to science just as he realizes that ...
Shelter (2018)
A Lebanese informer and an Israeli Mossad agent are trapped together in a safehouse where nothing is safe and no one can be trusted.
Lost Hearts (1973)
A young orphan, Stephen, is sent to go and live with his strange, much older cousin at his remote country house. Once there, Stephen experiences terrible dreams...
Pigs Is Pigs (1954)
Flannery is a station master who does everything by the book. One day, a package of guinea pigs arrives at his station. Flannery assumes by their name that they...
The Night of the Headless Horseman (1999)
In this classic tale based on "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," Ichabod Crane, the town's new schoolmaster, is instantly enamored with Katrina Van T...
Nightfall (1988)
Far across the cosmos from our world lies a planet bathed in perpetual daylight. Soon nightfall will come and bring with it tremendous destruction. Science stru...
Back Pay (1922)
Hester Bevins is a simple country girl who yearns for adventure. Though she has a handsome young man, Jerry, who is devoted to her, she leaves her village and g...
Schmitke (2015)
Schmitke is an old German wind turbine engineer. One day, he is dispatched to the Czech side of the Ore Mountains to fix an old squeaking wind turbine. His coll...
The Pedlar (1982)
A traveling salesman wishes to settle down in town and marries a younger pregnant girl.
One for the Road (2024)
When his brother goes missing in the woods outside the deserted town of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, Jake Booth must take matters into his own hands to find him...
Kaidan yukijorô (1968)
The lives of a master sculptor and his young apprentice are changed forever when they meet an evil witch during a snow storm.
The Rule of Jenny Pen (2025)
Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath who employs a child's puppet to ...
Naku na Aka-Oni (2019)
What was once a superlative varsity baseball coach is now a jaded middle-aged man. He and a former student meet and the older man discovers that his now married...
La bête dans la jungle (2023)
For 25 years, in an enormous nightclub, a man and a woman watch and wait for an unknown event. From 1979 to 2004, we follow the evolution of disco to techno mus...
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