What an incredible trick: to take a supernatural novel written decades before in another country – Japanese author Taichi Yamada’s Tokyo ghost story ‘Strangers’, published in 1987 – and turn it into a work of semi-autobiography. That’s the miracle achieved by Andrew Haigh in All of Us...
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This is Sherry Hormann’s moving adaptation of Waris Dirie’s autobiography “Desert Flower”." Quoting the synopsis on the Zurich Film Festival site. Released: 2009 Directed by: Sherry Hormann 45 Dream Demon Timothy Spall, Jimmy Nail, Jemma Redgrave 2 votes Dream Demon is a 1988 British ...
Also ranks #3 on The Best 1970s Football Movies, Ranked 33 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Cicely Tyson, Odetta, Richard Dysart 49 votes A groundbreaking television movie that has stood the test of time, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman traces the life of a woman who ...
This off-kilter spy film is based on the autobiography of 1960s game show host Chuck Barris, who claimed that he had been secretly employed as a CIA assassin. Sam Rockwell plays Barris in George Clooney’s darkly funny directorial debut. Hanna(2011) Fifteen-year-old Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) ...
Denzel Washington brings the civil rights activist to life in this Spike Lee-directed biopic based on "The Autobiography of Malcolm X." (Which should be required reading for everyone—regardless of race.) This movie is complicated, just like its subject, and earned Washington an Oscar nom *and...
This is another classic Irish movie Based on the best-selling autobiography by Irish expatriate Frank McCourt; Angela’s Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. ...
This is also the first film Lee made that he didn’t write himself, adapting Alex Haley’s The Autobiography of Malcolm X with Arnold Perl, but it still feels like a Spike Lee joint, as a result of his signature style present in every frame. With its decades-spanning scope, Malcolm X...
The Best Anime Movies of the 2010s 98.Ah! My Goddess: The Movie(2000) Director:Hiroaki Goda A sequel to a five-part OVA from 1993, based on a popular manga,Ah! My Goddess: The Movieis the very rare example of a film based on an existing anime/manga franchise that’s superior to ...
Based largely on Katherine Jackson's 1990 autobiographyMy Family,this biopic on the brothers Jackson charts the rise of the chart-topping siblings from their early "ABC" days to theVictorytour — as well as the subsequent solo career of Michael as he tries to both retain a fleeting sense of...