Movies and TvShows featuring "1990s-literature-on-screen" theme.
Tim, a rising executive, questions the merits of his invitation after discovering that his work superiors host a dinner mocking their special guests. He befriends Barry, a man who would be the perfect guest. Together, they navigate through a series of chaotic events and confront their own insecurities as they prepare to attend the dinner.
A woman named Mathilde embarks on a relentless search for her fiancé, who mysteriously disappeared during World War I. As she uncovers clues and follows leads, Mathilde unravels a complex web of secrets and revelations, all while navigating the aftermath of the war and the impact it has had on those left behind. Will she ever find out the truth about her fiancé's fate?
Alex Haley's Queen is a TV show that explores the life of Queen, a light-skinned black woman who passes for white. Set during the American Civil War, Queen's story focuses on her relationships, her fight for freedom, and the social injustices she faces as she navigates a world divided by race and prejudice.
In the 1920s, four brothers from Texas become notorious bank robbers. They plan and execute a series of daring heists, using their knowledge of nitroglycerin to blow open safes. As their crime spree continues, they gain notoriety and the law closes in on them. Based on a true story, The Newton Boys is an action-packed crime drama that explores the dynamics of a family of criminals.
The Rag Nymph is a TV show set in 1850s Victorian-era England. It revolves around the life of a young orphaned girl who is forced to live in poverty and faces numerous challenges. She is taken in by an adoptive mother and faces an attempted rape, as well as forming an adoptive brother-adoptive sister relationship. The story also explores themes of Irish dancing, the working class poor, and the harsh realities of life in Newcastle-upon-Tyne during the 1800s. Based on a novel, this costume drama mini-series provides an insight into the struggles of the time, including the role of girls' convents in the society.
The Libertine is a comedic and historical movie set in 18th-century Europe. It revolves around a libertine writer who leads a scandalous life, indulging in sexual attractions, adultery, and freedom of speech. The story explores themes of enlightenment, religion, and censorship. With a touch of sensuality and high society, the movie presents a period piece filled with intriguing characters and societal dynamics.
Colette is a pregnant writer who finds herself imprisoned in a concentration camp during World War II. She faces the horrors of the Holocaust, including showers, selection, and the constant threat of death. Throughout her imprisonment, Colette forms relationships with other prisoners and experiences the resilience of the human spirit.
In 1940s Czechoslovakia, a Czech resistance fighter named Eliska is forced to go into hiding in a small village called Želary. There, she assumes a new identity, working as a nurse and living a quiet life. However, her world is disrupted when she falls in love with a married man and becomes entangled in a dangerous affair. As the war rages on, Eliska must make difficult choices and navigate the complexities of love, identity, and survival.
Based on true events. USSR, 1950s. As the reach of the oppressive communist regime escalates,
When an absorbing new manuscript finds its way across his desk, Marcus Walwyn (Gideon Turner), an impressionable young publisher, befriends the book's author (Peter Davison) and suddenly has trouble leaving his work at the office. Intrigued by the volume's step-by-step instructions on how to stalk and murder an unsuspecting victim, Marcus grows obsessed with becoming an expert. This made-for-television drama is based on the book by M.S. Power.
Lovers & Murderers is about the ongoing war between those who have and those who want to have what the others have. The have-nots see themselves as poor victims trying to get for themselves what is justly theirs. But when the have-nots become haves, they continue to see themselves as victims of the hordes baying for what is justly theirs, and they have neither the energy nor the security to enjoy what they have obtained. The movie takes place in the microcosm of a small apartment building. The principal goal of the young people who share rooms in the building is to move into their own room and, some day, a real apartment. They scheme to get what they're after: form short-lived alliances, petition, frighten, marry, become pregnant, anything that might work. Lovers & Murderers presents Páral's vision of mankind caught in a cyclical process in which ideology pales before the pettiness, cruelty, and self-justification of human nature.
François Pignon, an accountant in a condom factory, learns that he is going to be fired. Already overwhelmed by personal problems, he decides to throw himself out the window. He is stopped in his tracks by his next-door neighbor who suggests an unexpected plan to keep his job: pretend to be a homosexual. Assuming that in this age of political correctness, one does not fire a gay man, he manages to convince Pignon to play along while remaining a discreet and shy little man... What will change is the way others look at him. Pignon will thus benefit from an unusual reintegration by coming out of a closet where he had never entered.
The first installment of a two-part movie adaptation of the Vladimír Páral's novel about three friends who decide to start up an erotic enterprise. All plot complications ensue from running their 'amateur' pleasure parlor.
The Wonderful Years That Sucked is a comedy movie based on a novel, depicting the life of a pregnant woman and her humorous encounters with her husband, family, and a dog. Set in 1960s Czechoslovakia during the Velvet Revolution, the story explores themes of family relationships, humoristic literature, and the cultural context of the time.
Although shot simultaneously with the first part, director Vít Olmer's sequel to the story of three businesswomen dealing in erotic services stands on its own. The film abandons a majority of the topics important to the original and focuses instead on a new plot and characters: the erotic club's new owner introduces an element of crime by blackmailing her customers.
In Painkillers, a talented pianist falls in love and faces numerous challenges, including family relationships, hospital rooms, and a private investigation. Set in the 1990s, the movie explores themes of literature, music, and personal growth.
A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s.
