Movies and TvShows featuring "2010s-literature-on-screen" theme.
The Catholic School is a gripping drama that takes place in a Catholic school in Rome during the year 1975. The story revolves around a teenage boy who is struggling with his sexuality while dealing with the strict religious environment of the school. As the plot unfolds, the boy becomes entangled in a web of violence, sexual repression, and neo-fascism that threatens his sanity and well-being. Based on a novel, this movie explores themes of religion, education, and coming-of-age in a thought-provoking manner.
Six months into a solo mission, a lonely astronaut confronts the cracks in his marriage with help from a mysterious creature he discovers on his ship.
A female immigrant, desperate for a better life, moves into a haunted house but soon realizes that escaping its clutches may be impossible as she uncovers its horrifying secrets.
The Marco Effect is a crime thriller movie set in Denmark and the Czech Republic. It revolves around themes of abuse of power, racial and ethnic stereotypes, gangs, and police investigations. The story follows a teenager named Marco who gets caught up in a dangerous criminal world while trying to uncover the truth behind a series of incidents. With the help of a police detective, Marco navigates through a complex web of corruption and violence.
Just before World War 1, the fifteen-year-old poverty-stricken Anne from a small Slovak town is sent to Prague to be a maid in a wealthy family. She meets Resi, the daughter of a noble family, who was born and raised to be an adornment and a trophy – of the house, of her family, of Austria-Hungary. Anne and Resi, two girls born in the same year, but at the other ends of the social ladder, find a soulmate in each other. They become best friends, lovers and the only light in a male-dominated world.
Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets is a coming-of-age drama that follows a 16-year-old boy, who turns to writing poetry as an escape from his dysfunctional family and the challenges of high school. With the help of his imaginary friend, a talking pigeon named Dr. Bird, he embarks on a poetic journey of self-discovery and finds the courage to confront his inner demons.
A story told through the eyes of a stray dog called Gump . On a journey to find his way home to his owner, Gump encounters many challenges, meets new people, and makes a few canine friends along the way. A story about the devotion of a dog, who without hesitation will give his own life for the life of its beloved owner.
An overburdened working mother temporarily leaves her family and rents a spare room from a taxi driver she just met to sort out her chaotic life.
This time the detectives deal with the case of a murdered professor. One day a cleaning woman finds him shot to death in his own study. The detectives will thus investigate whether the murder is connected with the victim's persistent effort for the removal of the University's quaestor because of the latter's strange machinations during the reconstruction of the University building. And they'll also want to know why the murderer took the great risk involved in killing the victim on the university soil. The search for the answer to the question who could wish the death of the peculiar but honest professor will take them farther than they have expected.
This darkly grotesque drama unfolds on multiple paths. The tangible one, now cruel, now crazy, along which the nomadic actor "Dad Mour", his wife "Mum" and two sons try to return home, but also the imaginary one, even more, tortuous and dusty, on which the often impressive mental youth (or immaturity, a scrooge might say) is welded with life circumstances forcing the protagonist to wise up. An anxious and exuberant cinematic faerie about love, the fear of loneliness and the gaze of sons fixed on their fathers.
The real fate of Jiří Arvéd Smíchovský, a prominent hermeticist, occultist, believer in black magic and an exceptionally well-educated person with a brilliant memory. This avid book lover had doctorates in law, theology and philosophy and was fluent in five languages. He was interested in occult teachings, practiced magical ceremonies, was in contact with the Freemasons, but at the same time he was a member of the National Fascist Community while being homosexual. During the war he cooperated with the Nazis, after the war with the communist StB.
In love with a girl that smells of oranges while in a complicated relationship with his father, Darek is gentle, strong and devoted to his little sister and their herd of horses. Darek's world is a story about the joy and pain of growing up in the isolated yet beautiful Lusatian Mountains. Here, horses are not expensive specimens of racing stables but beings you should care for and love. Not even that is enough in life though, as Darek finds out nearing the Summer's end, closing his childhood definitely. However, just like any ending, this is a start of something new.
After being expelled from a private boys' school, a 15-year-old boy finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world where he must navigate the dangers of a society on the brink of collapse. As he tries to survive and find his place, he becomes entangled in a web of intrigue, facing school shootings, drug theft, hostage situations, and the oppressive rule of a militia. Based on the novel, the movie explores themes of resilience, rebellion, and the consequences of societal breakdown.
Explosive conversational comedy based on the successful theater plays, which takes place one evening in a remote local pub, during the match of Ice Hockey World Championship. What can happen and can be told, when the kidnapped bride is getting drunk together with the best woman of her husband and experienced barmaid and the only one, who is able to stop and save everything, is not coming.
