Skip to content
Curated category

Films based on American novels

  • Tales from Earthsea (film)Tales from Earthsea arrived in Japanese cinemas on the 29th of July 2006, carrying more weight than most debut films. Its director, Gorō Miyazaki, was making…
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest arrived in cinemas on the 19th of November 1975 and within months had become one of the highest-grossing films in American…
  • Fight ClubFight Club, the 1999 film directed by David Fincher, opens on a scene that still unsettles viewers: a gun barrel pushed down the throat of an unnamed man…
  • Gone with the Wind (film)Gone with the Wind premiered on the 15th of December 1939, and on that single night, roughly 300,000 people packed the streets of Atlanta for seven miles…
  • The Beguiled (1971 film)The Beguiled arrived in theaters on the 28th of May 1971, a film so strange and unsettling that Universal Pictures struggled to figure out what to do with it.
  • Mazes and MonstersMazes and Monsters, the 1982 television film, ends with Tom Hanks's character permanently convinced that he is a cleric named Pardieu.
  • Cold Mountain (film)Cold Mountain opens with a scene it insists on getting slightly wrong on purpose. The Battle of the Crater actually began at 4:44 in the morning, with the…
  • Gods and Generals (film)Ted Turner personally financed the 2003 film Gods and Generals after Warner Bros. Pictures rejected his initial pitch in 2000.
  • Paths of GloryPaths of Glory opens in 1916, in the trenches of Northern France, with a snare drum playing rhythms that recall wartime newsreels.
  • The Birth of a NationThe Birth of a Nation arrived in American theaters in 1915 and immediately changed what cinema could do. D. W. Griffith directed this silent epic, and within…
  • Ordinary PeopleOrdinary People arrived in theaters on the 19th of September 1980, and it carried a deceptively plain title for a film that would collect four Academy Awards…
  • The Red Badge of Courage (1951 film)The Red Badge of Courage, the 1951 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer war film directed by John Huston, arrived in theaters having already survived a war of its own.