Movies: Based on short story

  • 2010
    The Princess of Montpensier

    The Princess of Montpensier (2010)

    The Princess of Montpensier

    6.32010HD

    Set in the high courts of 16th Century France, where the wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants are raging. Marie de Mézières, a beautiful young aristocrat, is in love with Henri de Guise, but her hand in marriage is promised to the Princ...

    The Princess of Montpensier
  • 1995
    Angels and Insects

    Angels and Insects (1995)

    Angels and Insects

    6.31995HD

    In Victorian England, wealthy patriarch Sir Harald Alabaster invites an impoverished biologist, William Adamson, into his home. There, William tries to continue his work, but is distracted by Alabaster's seductive daughter, Eugenia. William and Eugen...

    Angels and Insects
  • 1964
    Charulata

    Charulata (1964)

    Charulata

    7.61964HD

    In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband, Bhupati. Realizing that his wife is alienated and unhappy, he convinces his cousin, Amal, to spend time with Charulata and nourish h...

    Charulata
  • 1977
    The Duellists

    The Duellists (1977)

    The Duellists

    7.31977HD

    In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including ...

    The Duellists
  • 2020
    Children of the Corn

    Children of the Corn (2020)

    Children of the Corn

    4.82020HD

    A psychopathic twelve-year-old girl in a small town in Nebraska recruits all the other children and goes on a bloody rampage, killing the corrupt adults and anyone else who opposes her. A bright high schooler who won't go along with the plan is the t...

    Children of the Corn
  • 1968
    The Swimmer

    The Swimmer (1968)

    The Swimmer

    7.31968HD

    A man spends a summer day swimming home via all the pools in his quiet suburban neighborhood....

    The Swimmer
  • 1977
    The Chess Players

    The Chess Players (1977)

    The Chess Players

    7.11977HD

    In the year 1856, Nawab Wajid Ali Shah is the King of Awadh, one of the last independent kingdoms of India. The British intend to control this rich land and send General Outram to clear way for an annexation. Pressure is mounting amidst intrigue and ...

    The Chess Players
  • 2004
    Tony Takitani

    Tony Takitani (2004)

    Tony Takitani

    6.82004HD

    A reclusive illustrator falls in love with a young woman who addictively shops for clothing....

    Tony Takitani
  • 2013
    Lootera

    Lootera (2013)

    Lootera

    72013HD

    In a village, a young archaeologist falls in love with a landlord's daughter. Their union seems doomed. But destiny brings them together a year later. Will they live happily ever after?...

    Lootera
  • 1950
    Gun Crazy

    Gun Crazy (1950)

    Gun Crazy

    7.41950HD

    Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's b...

    Gun Crazy
  • 1997
    Bleeders

    Bleeders (1997)

    Bleeders

    4.41997HD

    A man with an unknown disease travels to an island with his girlfriend where his relatives once lived, hoping to find a cure to his illness. Although his relatives were all thought to be dead, he finds them living underground....

    Bleeders
  • 1983
    Testament

    Testament (1983)

    Testament

    6.41983HD

    It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been dropped along the Eastern Seaboard and, more locally, in California. As people begin coping with t...

    Testament
  • 1961
    Aimless Bullet

    Aimless Bullet (1961)

    Aimless Bullet

    7.11961HD

    Two brothers—Chul-ho, an accountant with a toothache and a pregnant wife, and Yong-ho, an unemployed ex-soldier wounded in battle—navigate life in post-war Korea....

    Aimless Bullet
  • 1998
    The Acid House

    The Acid House (1998)

    The Acid House

    6.21998HD

    A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casti...

    The Acid House
  • 1955
    The Man from Laramie

    The Man from Laramie (1955)

    The Man from Laramie

    7.21955HD

    Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells rifles to the Apache tribe, finding himself unwillingly drawn into the convoluted life of a local ranching family whose members seem to have a lot to hi...

    The Man from Laramie
  • 2007
    Ten Nights of Dreams

    Ten Nights of Dreams (2007)

    Ten Nights of Dreams

    6.42007HD

    Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki's same-titled short story collection, Ten Nights of Dreams brings ten fantastical dream sequences to film with great visual and psychological panache. Representing the combined efforts of eleven direct...

    Ten Nights of Dreams
  • 2008
    Morphine

    Morphine (2008)

    Morphine

    6.72008HD

    The year is 1917. We are in the Russian countryside. It is the middle of freezing winter. A pale young, newly educated doctor arrives. Having to deal with one medical challenge after another he soon becomes the center of everyone's attention. To soot...

    Morphine
  • 1991
    The Pit and the Pendulum

    The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)

    The Pit and the Pendulum

    5.71991HD

    Set during the height of Spanish Inquisition. The beautiful and kind-hearted Maria is arrested as a witch when she inadvertently cries out in horror at the public whipping of a child. As Maria’s husband Antonio tries to save her, Torquemada, the Gran...

    The Pit and the Pendulum
  • 2017
    How to Talk to Girls at Parties

    How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017)

    How to Talk to Girls at Parties

    62017HD

    In 1970s London, a teenage outsider named Enn falls in love with a rebellious alien girl named Zan, who has come to Earth for a party. Together, they navigate the complexities of intergalactic culture and the trials of first love....

    How to Talk to Girls at Parties
  • 2018
    Pataakha

    Pataakha (2018)

    Pataakha

    6.92018HD

    In a dusty Rajasthan village, two sisters, Badki and Chhutki, are constantly at each other's throats over trivial matters. Their father, a widower, struggles to keep them from tearing each other apart. Their meddling neighbour, Dipper, enjoys stirrin...

    Pataakha