Books Deserving a New Film
Books are often a source of inspiration for great movies, but sometimes their adaptations are not well received.
In this poll we look at some books adapted as motion pictures, that received a rating below 6.0
Which of them would you like to see adapted into a new movie that could do them justice?
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Poll by Pencho15
In this poll we look at some books adapted as motion pictures, that received a rating below 6.0
Which of them would you like to see adapted into a new movie that could do them justice?
Discuss Here
Poll by Pencho15
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- DirectorKen RussellStarsAmanda DonohoeHugh GrantCatherine OxenbergWhen an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.By Bram Stoker
- DirectorKeith ThomasStarsZac EfronRyan Kiera ArmstrongSydney LemmonA young girl tries to understand how she mysteriously gained the power to set things on fire with her mind.By Stephen King
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsYvonne De CarloRock HudsonMaxwell ReedGilliat,a fisherman/smuggler is in jail, and is offered a pardon if he undertakes a mission to sail to France to rescue Droucette, an English agent whose cover has been blown, and who has now been jailed. Gilliat accepts the challenge.By Victor Hugo
- DirectorMartin CampbellStarsLiam NeesonGuy PearceTaj AtwalAn assassin-for-hire finds that he's become a target after he refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organization.By Jef Geeraerts (novel "De Zaak Alzheimer")
- DirectorBob RafelsonStarsJeff BridgesSally FieldArnold SchwarzeneggerSo-called 'special agent' infiltrates into the gym, which is targeted by a dirty business fraud.By Charles Gaines
- DirectorBigas LunaStarsFrancesca NeriÓscar LadoireMaría BarrancoThe story of a young woman's descent into the kinky and dangerous sexual underground in Madrid.By Almudena Grandes
- DirectorNorman LeeStarsLeslie BanksLilli PalmerRomilly LungeA murder is found to be connected to a false heir and a secret underground torture chamber.By Edgar Wallace
- DirectorHenrik Ruben GenzStarsJames FrancoKate HudsonTom WilkinsonDiscovering a stash of cash in their dead tenant's apartment, a couple in debt take the money and find themselves the target of a deadly adversary - the thief who stole it.By Marcus Sakey
- DirectorNeil JordanStarsAnnette BeningRobert Downey Jr.Katie SagonaA suburban housewife learns that she has a dreamworld connection to a serial murderer, and must stop him from killing again.By Bari Wood (novel "Doll's Eyes")
- DirectorJonathan MostowStarsSam WorthingtonOdeya RushAllen LeechAn assassin helps a young woman avenge the death of her family.By Kevin Wignall
- DirectorWil ShrinerStarsLogan LermanLuke WilsonBrie LarsonA young man (Lerman) moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls.By Carl Hiaasen
- DirectorJust JaeckinStarsCorinne CléryUdo KierAnthony SteelPhotographer O's lover takes her to a Château, where she is, like other women there, naked, humiliated by whipping, sexual abuse by men etc. When O leaves, her lover gives her to his much older step-brother.By Dominique Aury
- DirectorRoland JofféStarsDemi MooreGary OldmanRobert DuvallAn affair between a young woman and a pastor has disastrous consequences.By Nathaniel Hawthorne
- DirectorSean S. CunninghamStarsKate MulgrewRip TornJames NaughtonThe 11-year old daughter and girlfriend of a man whose wife had been raped and killed in front of his daughter three years earlier are kidnapped by the same killer. Held captive in a bunker below Grand Central Station, the two plot their escape while the police try to track the kidnapper.By Mary Higgins Clark
- DirectorTomas AlfredsonStarsMichael FassbenderRebecca FergusonCharlotte GainsbourgDetective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose scarf is found wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman.By Jo Nesbø
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsVirginia MayoPier AngeliJack PalanceA Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver, and sculpt around its rim, the faces of the disciples and Jesus. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to complete the task. Meanwhile, a nefarious interloper is trying to convince the crowds that he is the new Messiah, by using nothing more than cheap parlor tricks.By Thomas B. Constain
- DirectorFritz KierschStarsUrbano BarberiniRebecca FerrattiJack PalanceAmerican professor Tarl Cabot is transported via a magical ring to planet Gor, where he must help an oppressed country overthrow its evil king and his barbarian henchmen.By John Norman (novel "Tarnsman Of Gor")
- DirectorJim GoddardStarsSean PennMadonnaPaul FreemanShanghai, 1938: A missionary woman hires a fortune hunter to help her find 1100 lbs. opium lost, as wounded need the morphine. Adventure and romance follows.By Tony Kenrick (Novel "Faraday's Flowers")
- DirectorEdward ThomasStarsJoseph FiennesRhys IfansTara FitzgeraldPete in London inherits a company. The ambitious accountant makes a deal with a Russian mafia boss. The Russian wants hard currency and grand-kids but kills his daughter's lovers. His daughter needs an Englishman like Sir Francis Drake.By James Hawes
- DirectorKenneth BranaghStarsFerdia ShawLara McDonnellJosh GadArtemis Fowl, a young criminal prodigy, hunts down a secret society of fairies to find his missing father.By Eoin Colfer
- DirectorAva DuVernayStarsStorm ReidOprah WinfreyReese WitherspoonAfter the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.By Madeleine L'Engle
- DirectorDee ReesStarsAnne HathawayBen AffleckRosie PerezA veteran D.C. journalist loses the thread of her own narrative when a guilt-propelled errand for her father thrusts her from byline to unwitting subject in the very story she's trying to break. Adapted from Joan Didion's namesake novel.By Joan Didion
- DirectorGus Van SantStarsUma ThurmanLorraine BraccoPat MoritaSissy Hankshaw (Uma Thurman) is born with enormous thumbs that help her hitchhiking through the U.S. from a young age. She becomes a model in advertising, and her New York agent, "the Countess" (Sir John Hurt), sends her to his ranch in California to shoot a commercial, set against the background of mating whooping cranes. There, she befriends Bonanza Jellybean (Rain Phoenix), one of the cowgirls at the beauty ranch. The cowgirls take command of the ranch from the Countess and drug the cranes with peyote. The Police besiege the ranch.By Tom Robbins
- DirectorMathew CullenStarsTheo JamesAmber HeardCara DelevingneClairvoyant femme fatale Nicola Six has been living with a dark premonition of her impending death by murder. She begins a tangled love affair with three uniquely different men: one of whom she knows will be her murderer.By Martin Amis
- DirectorAdrian LyneStarsBen AffleckAna de ArmasTracy LettsA well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.By Patricia Highsmith
- DirectorJenny GageStarsJosephine LangfordHero Fiennes TiffinKhadijha Red ThunderA young woman falls for a guy with a dark secret and the two embark on a rocky relationship. Based on the novel by Anna Todd.By Anna Todd
- DirectorRandal KleiserStarsBrooke ShieldsChristopher AtkinsLeo McKernIn the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene.By Henry De Vere Stacpoole
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsRobert PattinsonJuliette BinocheSarah GadonRiding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's day devolves into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world apart.By Don DeLillo
- DirectorAdrian LyneStarsMickey RourkeKim BasingerMargaret WhittonA woman becomes involved with a man she barely knows. Complications develop during their sexual escapades.By Elizabeth McNeill
- DirectorBen JaggerStarsFrancesca XuerebViktoria VinyarskaEric WiegandTwo best friends and roommates are terrified by the vengeful spirits dwelling in their apartment. Based on the novel published by Kobunsha and written by Nanami Kamon.By Nanami Kamon
- DirectorFrank MarshallStarsLaura LinneyTim CurryDylan WalshWhen an expedition to the African Congo ends in disaster, a new team is assembled to find out what went wrong.By Michael Crichton
- DirectorHarald ZwartStarsLily CollinsJamie Campbell BowerRobert SheehanWhen her mother disappears, Clary Fray learns that she descends from a line of warriors who protect our world from demons. She joins forces with others like her and heads into a dangerous alternate New York called the Shadow World.By Cassandra Clare