Movies: Based on short story

  • 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
  • 2020
    Calm with Horses

    Calm with Horses (2020)

    Calm with Horses

    6.22020HD

    In darkest rural Ireland, ex-boxer Douglas 'Arm' Armstrong has become the feared enforcer for the drug-dealing Devers family, whilst also trying to be a good father to his autistic five-year-old son, Jack. Torn between these two families, Arm's loyal...

    Calm with Horses
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2003
    The Mother Who Became a Kite

    The Mother Who Became a Kite (2003)

    The Mother Who Became a Kite

    62003HD

    The second film in Shin-Ei's series of annual WWII themed anime television movies for children "Sensou Douwa"....

    The Mother Who Became a Kite
  • 2005
    A Sound of Thunder

    A Sound of Thunder (2005)

    A Sound of Thunder

    4.92005HD

    When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways....

    A Sound of Thunder
  • 2018
    Pad Man

    Pad Man (2018)

    Pad Man

    7.42018HD

    Upon realizing the extent to which women are affected by their menses, a man sets out to create a sanitary pad machine and to provide inexpensive sanitary pads to the women of rural India....

    Pad Man
  • 1990
    Graveyard Shift

    Graveyard Shift (1990)

    Graveyard Shift

    5.31990HD

    John Hall is a drifter who wanders into a small town in Maine. He needs a job and decides to seek employment at the community's top business: a large textile mill. He is hired to work the "graveyard shift" -- from around midnight to dawn -- and, alon...

    Graveyard Shift
  • 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
  • 1953
    The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

    The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

    The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

    6.61953HD

    The controlled explosion of an atomic bomb in the Arctic Circle awakens a frozen dinosaur that will wreak havoc in New York City....

    The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
  • 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
  • 1952
    O. Henry's Full House

    O. Henry's Full House (1952)

    O. Henry's Full House

    6.51952HD

    Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accos...

    O. Henry's Full House
  • 1996
    East Palace, West Palace

    East Palace, West Palace (1996)

    East Palace, West Palace

    6.41996HD

    A young gay man, identified as a writer, encounters a local policeman, who arrests him for public cruising in a park. The policeman is more than professionally curious about the young man, who seems to have the cop's number and suddenly kisses him....

    East Palace, West Palace
  • 2015
    Far from Men

    Far from Men (2015)

    Far from Men

    6.82015HD

    A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a dissident who is ordered to be turned in to the authorities....

    Far from Men
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1985
    The Fourth Wise Man

    The Fourth Wise Man (1985)

    The Fourth Wise Man

    6.91985HD

    Artaban is a young Magus (Wise Man) who desires to follow the star to the birthplace of the coming King, against the counsel of his friends and family. Carrying three precious jewels to give to the baby Messiah, Artaban and his reluctant servant Oron...

    The Fourth Wise Man
  • 1989
    Millennium

    Millennium (1989)

    Millennium

    5.31989HD

    An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a no...

    Millennium