Movies and TvShows featuring "based-in-a-novel" theme.

Choo Sang-woo is the epitome of an inflexible and strict rule-abiding person. Jang Jae-young is like a semantic error in the perfect world of Choo Sang-woo. Will Sang-woo be able to work with Jae-young as an artist and engineer?

When a millionaire's neighbor is shot dead and his dog starts howling, a private detective and a criminal lawyer join forces to unravel the truth. As they dig deeper, they uncover a web of lies, mistaken identities, and a series of strange coincidences. With the help of clues like a handkerchief, an automatic pistol, and a deaf woman, they navigate through a web of deceit and uncover shocking secrets.

Twin brothers are separated at birth and overcome various challenges including sword fights, love triangles, and vendettas in Corsica.

Fictionalized reconstruction of the life of the French spy Marthe Richard who decided to contact the secret services during the First World War.

A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn't know it, but a gang of jewel thieves does.

An Air Force major feels a volatile mixture of relief and anger when he is excused from performing a dangerous test in a new aircraft.

A federal agent learns the gangsters he's been investigating have kidnapped his sister.

A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unless they agree to help him rob the department store.

Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

One of a series of murder mysteries featuring the character Philo Vance. A Lost Movie

After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he's her father. When he returns her to her real father there's a job and a reward, but an old prisonmate gets in the way.