Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "novel"

51. Ashes (2024)

TV-MA | 100 min | Drama, Romance

A wealthy, married woman falling in love with a mysterious carpenter, which will lead to many conflicts.

Director: Erdem Tepegöz | Stars: Funda Eryigit, Alperen Duymaz, Mehmet Günsür, Gökçe Eyüboglu

Votes: 2,033

52. Duplex (2003)

PG-13 | 89 min | Comedy

A young couple has a chance to move into a gorgeous duplex in the perfect New York neighborhood. All they have to do is bump off the current tenant, a cute little old lady.

Director: Danny DeVito | Stars: Ben Stiller, Drew Barrymore, Eileen Essell, Harvey Fierstein

Votes: 62,224 | Gross: $9.69M

53. Kill Your Darlings (2013)

R | 104 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs.

Director: John Krokidas | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Ben Foster

Votes: 41,318 | Gross: $1.03M

54. Shirley (2020)

R | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery

A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.

Director: Josephine Decker | Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Odessa Young, Michael Stuhlbarg, Logan Lerman

Votes: 13,387

55. Venus in Fur (2013)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama

An actress attempts to convince a director how she's perfect for a role in his upcoming production.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Emmanuelle Seigner, Mathieu Amalric

Votes: 21,005 | Gross: $0.34M

56. Colette (I) (2018)

R | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History

Colette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name. Upon their success, she fights to make her talents known, challenging gender norms.

Director: Wash Westmoreland | Stars: Keira Knightley, Fiona Shaw, Dominic West, Robert Pugh

Votes: 26,479 | Gross: $5.14M

57. I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016)

89 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A young nurse takes care of an elderly author who lives in a haunted house.

Director: Oz Perkins | Stars: Ruth Wilson, Paula Prentiss, Bob Balaban, Lucy Boynton

Votes: 15,944

58. Wicked (2021)

114 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Ivy Morgan, a college student in New Orleans, falls for Ren Owens, the last person she expected to enter her rigidly controlled life. Based on the novel 'Wicked' by Jennifer L. Armentrout.

Director: Taryn O'Neill | Stars: Kevin Joy, Elyse Mirto, Joy Rovaris, Liam Hall

Votes: 1,252

59. Rendezvous with Rama

Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi | Announced

A team of astronauts are sent on a mission to explore a giant interstellar spaceship hurtling toward the sun. Based on the novel by Arthur C. Clarke.

Director: Denis Villeneuve

60. The Banger Sisters (2002)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama

Lavinia and Suzette, former rock groupies and best friends, reconnect after twenty years; one is still as wild as ever, while the other has adopted a more conservative lifestyle.

Director: Bob Dolman | Stars: Susan Sarandon, Goldie Hawn, Geoffrey Rush, Erika Christensen

Votes: 17,348 | Gross: $30.31M

61. Long Weekend (1978)

Not Rated | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

When a suburban couple go camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.

Director: Colin Eggleston | Stars: John Hargreaves, Briony Behets, Mike McEwen, Roy Day

Votes: 6,163

62. The Daily Life of the Immortal King (2020– )

TV-14 | 18 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Wang Ling is a near-invincible existence with powers far beyond his control. But now that he's sixteen, he faces his greatest battle yet - Senior High School.

Stars: Zhao Shuang, Erica Muse, Alex Mai, Matthan Harris

Votes: 2,624

63. Nim's Island (2008)

PG | 96 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Imagination and reality collide when young Nim's father goes missing at sea. Fate brings to her the author of the Alex Rover series, her favorite books, and together they try to find Nim's father.

Directors: Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin | Stars: Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler, Abigail Breslin, Michael Carman

Votes: 36,951 | Gross: $48.01M

64. Celebrity (1998)

R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama

The fortunes of a husband and wife differ drastically after they divorce.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Judy Davis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Greg Mottola

Votes: 28,469 | Gross: $5.03M

65. Essex County (2023)

43 min | Drama

Based on graphic novel by Jeff Lemire. Four disparate characters linked together through bloodlines. The lead characters ebb and flow into each other's lives, slowly weaving connections between them that ultimately save and redeem them.

Stars: Molly Parker, Stephen McHattie, Kevin Durand, Finlay Wojtak-Hissong

Votes: 137

66. A Separate Peace (1972)

PG | 104 min | Drama

Two roomates at a prep school in New England during World War II come to grips with the war, jealousy and betrayal. Based on a novel by John Knowles.

Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: John Heyl, Parker Stevenson, William Roerick, Peter Brush

Votes: 506 | Gross: $0.92M

67. The Last Tycoon (1976)

PG | 123 min | Drama, Romance

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau

Votes: 9,611 | Gross: $1.82M

68. Barkskins (2020– )

TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, History

Based on the novel by Pulitzer-winner Annie Proulx, BARKSKINS follows a disparate group of outcasts who must navigate brutal hardships, competing interests, and tangled loyalties at the crossroads of civilization- late 1600s New France.

Stars: David Thewlis, Marcia Gay Harden, Aneurin Barnard, James Bloor

Votes: 2,609

69. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)

Not Rated | 77 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Surreal tale in which love, fear, sex, and religion merge into one fantastic world. Based on a classical Czech novel of the same title.

Director: Jaromil Jires | Stars: Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anýzová, Petr Kopriva, Jirí Prýmek

Votes: 11,287

70. Infamous (2006)

R | 110 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

While researching his novel "In Cold Blood", Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.

Director: Douglas McGrath | Stars: Toby Jones, Daniel Craig, Sandra Bullock, Sigourney Weaver

Votes: 18,244 | Gross: $1.15M

71. Bright Young Things (2003)

R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, War

An adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies", is a look into the lives of a young novelist, his would-be lover, and a host of young people who beautified London in the 1930s.

Director: Stephen Fry | Stars: Stephen Campbell Moore, Emily Mortimer, Dan Aykroyd, Simon McBurney

Votes: 6,334 | Gross: $0.93M

72. The Ballad of Lefty Brown (2017)

R | 111 min | Action, Drama, Western

A thrilling and action-packed Western, The Ballad of Lefty Brown is a story about loyalty, friendship, and the relentless pursuit of justice.

Director: Jared Moshe | Stars: Bill Pullman, Peter Fonda, Stephen Alan Seder, Kathy Baker

Votes: 7,853 | Gross: $0.01M

73. Dirty Sexy Saint (2019)

R | 104 min | Drama, Romance

Of all the bars in all of Chicago, she walks into his. Based on the novel by New York Times best-selling authors Carly Phillips and Erika Wilde.

Director: Tosca Musk | Stars: Jordan Lane Price, David A. Gregory, Luke Guldan, Matt Magnusson

Votes: 1,709

74. Insomnia (1997)

Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

In a Norwegian city with a 24-hour daylight cycle a Swedish murder investigator has been brought in on a special case. Sleep deprived, he makes a horrible mistake which is discovered by the killer he has been hunting.

Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg | Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Maria Mathiesen, Gisken Armand

Votes: 15,641 | Gross: $0.22M

75. A Murder of Crows (1998)

R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A disbarred lawyer takes credit for a late friend's book, which becomes a smash hit but the tables turn on him sooner than he suspected.

Director: Rowdy Herrington | Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Berenger, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Eric Stoltz

Votes: 9,069

76. Bon Voyage (2003)

PG-13 | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

An actress, a writer, a student, and a government worker band together in an effort to escape Paris as the Germans move into the city.

Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Virginie Ledoyen, Grégori Derangère

Votes: 5,137 | Gross: $2.35M

77. The Nines (2007)

R | 100 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.

Director: John August | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Hope Davis, Melissa McCarthy, Elle Fanning

Votes: 34,643 | Gross: $0.06M

78. The Musketeer (2001)

PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

Alexander Dumas' novel is updated with an eastern influence as D'Artagnan attempts to join the king's elite guards, the Royal Musketeers, and find the man who killed his parents.

Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Justin Chambers, Catherine Deneuve, Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea

Votes: 15,082 | Gross: $27.07M

79. Dream Boy (2008)

R | 88 min | Drama, Romance

Based on the novel "Dream Boy" by Jim Grimsley, this film chronicles the relationship between two gay teenagers in the rural south in the late 70's.

Director: James Bolton | Stars: Stephan Bender, Thomas Jay Ryan, Diana Scarwid, Tom Gilroy

Votes: 4,385 | Gross: $0.01M

80. A Cry in the Wild (1990)

PG | 82 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

Adapted from Gary Paulsen's novel "Hatchet", a boy crash-lands in Canada's bear country and survives with a hatchet his divorced mother gave him.

Director: Mark Griffiths | Stars: Jared Rushton, Ned Beatty, Pamela Sue Martin, Stephen Meadows

Votes: 1,171 | Gross: $1.49M

81. Submission (2017)

R | 106 min | Drama, Mystery

A cynical college professor takes a keen interest in a talented young writing student.

Director: Richard Levine | Stars: Stanley Tucci, Addison Timlin, Janeane Garofalo, Kyra Sedgwick

Votes: 1,537 | Gross: $0.04M

82. Her Alibi (1989)

PG | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Phil has writer's block after 30 detective novels. In court for inspiration, he sees a cute Romanian murder suspect. He provides her alibi. She stays with him. Will he live to write another novel?

Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Tom Selleck, Paulina Porizkova, William Daniels, James Farentino

Votes: 7,821 | Gross: $18.70M

83. Honey (1981)

R | 89 min | Drama

A writer with a gun forces a publisher to read her story about a woman in a hotel of desire.

Director: Gianfranco Angelucci | Stars: Clio Goldsmith, Catherine Spaak, Fernando Rey, Donatella Damiani

Votes: 415

84. Mr. Pip (2012)

PG-13 | 116 min | Drama, War

As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village.

Director: Andrew Adamson | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Xzannjah Matsi, Healesville Joel, Eka Darville

Votes: 4,408

85. Strange Circus (2005)

Unrated | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.

Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Masumi Miyazaki, Issei Ishida, Rie Kuwana, Seiko Iwaidô

Votes: 6,277

86. Lost Illusions (2021)

149 min | Drama, Romance

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams.

Director: Xavier Giannoli | Stars: Benjamin Voisin, Cécile de France, Vincent Lacoste, Xavier Dolan

Votes: 6,406

87. Le bal des folles (2021)

122 min | Drama, Thriller

A woman who is unfairly institutionalized at a Paris asylum plots to escape with the help of one of its nurses. Based on the novel 'Le bal des folles' by Victoria Mas.

Director: Mélanie Laurent | Stars: Lou de Laâge, Mélanie Laurent, Emmanuelle Bercot, Benjamin Voisin

Votes: 4,176

88. True Memoirs of an International Assassin (2016)

TV-14 | 98 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

After a publisher changes a writer's debut novel about a deadly assassin from fiction to non-fiction, the author finds himself thrust into the world of his lead character, and must take on the role of his character for his own survival.

Director: Jeff Wadlow | Stars: Kevin James, Kim Coates, Maurice Compte, Zulay Henao

Votes: 24,476

89. We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)

R | 101 min | Drama, Romance

An indiscretion between two close friends tears down their respective marriages.

Director: John Curran | Stars: Mark Ruffalo, Laura Dern, Peter Krause, Naomi Watts

Votes: 9,963 | Gross: $2.04M

90. Princess Cyd (2017)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance

A 16-year-old girl visits her aunt in Chicago for the summer. While there, she falls for another girl, and she and her aunt challenge each other's sex and spirit.

Director: Stephen Cone | Stars: Marika Mashburn, Jessie Pinnick, Paul Brian Fagen, Keith Kupferer

Votes: 4,410

91. The Singing Detective (1986)

70 min | Drama, Musical, Mystery

Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.

Stars: Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide, Joanne Whalley, David Ryall

Votes: 4,823

92. Book of Love (2022)

106 min | Comedy, Romance

A British writer realizes that his novel is a success in Mexico because a peculiar translation of it.

Director: Analeine Cal y Mayor | Stars: Sam Claflin, Remmie Milner, Antonia Clarke, Lucy Punch

Votes: 3,873

93. Shopgirl (2005)

R | 106 min | Drama, Romance

A film adaptation of Steve Martin's novel about a complex love triangle between a bored salesgirl, a wealthy businessman and an aimless young man.

Director: Anand Tucker | Stars: Steve Martin, Claire Danes, Jason Schwartzman, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras

Votes: 24,708 | Gross: $10.28M

94. Mortal Wound (2021–2023)

50 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Story of drama, love, and crime among relatives all connected through a huge holding company.

Stars: Javad Ezati, Ra'na Azadivar, Morteza Amini Tabar, Ramin Nikoo

Votes: 8,196

95. Lolita 2000 (1998)

Unrated | 83 min | Sci-Fi

Lolita 2000 is a modern adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel from exotic and sci-fi perspective.

Director: Cybil Richards | Stars: Jacqueline Lovell, David Squires, Sky Nicholas, Robert John

Votes: 552

96. The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2017)

R | 119 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Sidney Hall finds accidental success and unexpected love at an early age, then disappears without a trace.

Director: Shawn Christensen | Stars: Logan Lerman, Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler, Michelle Monaghan

Votes: 11,775

97. The Flight of Dragons (1982 Video)

Passed | 95 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

A young Boston writer goes back in time into an era where wizards and dragon reign and science is just barely known.

Directors: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. | Stars: Victor Buono, James Gregory, James Earl Jones, Harry Morgan

Votes: 6,102

98. Hum Tum (2004)

Not Rated | 143 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A novel look at the eternal battle of the sexes and the trials and tribulations of Karan and Rhea and their attempts to understand each other.

Director: Kunal Kohli | Stars: Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukerji, Kirron Kher, Rati Agnihotri

Votes: 15,144 | Gross: $0.35M

99. The Protector (II) (2019)

R | 126 min | Comedy, Romance

Based on the novel by best selling author, Jodi Ellen Malpas.

Director: Tosca Musk | Stars: Emma Rigby, Rachel Allinson, David Bamber, Louise Bangay

Votes: 949

100. The Match Factory Girl (1990)

Not Rated | 69 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A woman's terribly dull life is upended by a one-night stand pregnancy, causing her to seek retribution.

Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Kati Outinen, Elina Salo, Esko Nikkari, Vesa Vierikko

Votes: 11,742