Movies and TvShows featuring "loose-adaptation" theme.
Full House Take 2 is a 2012 South Korean television series that was jointly produced by Korean, Chinese and Japanese companies. It aired on Japan's TBS-cable affiliate TBS Channel 2, and South Korean cable channel SBS Plus. The term "sequel" is used loosely, since the series only shares the same premise as Won Soo-yeon's manhwa and the original 2004 hit Full House, but has a completely different set of characters and plot.
Bolt Crank is an "explorer"--a mercenary who only accepts jobs that fits his moral standards. Even so, explorers like him are rarely trusted, and employment both in getting and also doing the job is hazardous. However, despite the fact Bolt says it's the only job he's any good at, he's also the best explorer around. Moreover, he has a unique ability. He's able to eat anything at all, and later can reproduce it wholly intact and functional! As an enigmatic man of few words, it's hard to understand someone who can do something so strange, and who despite it all, just wants to be normal.
When a young boy named Will Stanton discovers he is the last of a group of immortals known as the Old Ones, he must fulfill his destiny to protect the world from the forces of the Dark. With the help of his newfound powers, Will must locate six hidden signs and use them to prevent the Dark from rising once again.
This is a survival thriller, based on true events. Three women with different connections to one man need to find a way to get out of the monster's grip. Will they be believed, or can he manipulate the surroundings once again?
Bates Motel is a dark comedy horror film that follows the story of an eccentric motel owner who becomes entangled in a series of mysterious and supernatural events. The film explores themes of insanity, deceit, and the supernatural as the owner's life takes a dark turn. As the plot unfolds, the audience is taken on a journey through a crumbling motel filled with secrets and a cast of eccentric characters.
When a fierce storm strands him on a deserted island, Robinson Crusoe must learn to survive with the help of his animal friends.
Set in a dystopian future, Brave New World follows a man who rebels against the totalitarian regime that controls society through genetic engineering and mind-altering drugs. The story explores themes of individuality, freedom, and the consequences of a perfect but soulless society.
Principal Bertilsson lives a peaceful small-town life in Kalmar. No one knows that he is hiding a million kronor in his basement. Money of a successful bank robbery.
Set in 1919 in a small German town, "Frantz" tells the story of a young woman named Anna who is mourning the loss of her fiancé, Frantz, who was killed during the war. One day, she notices a mysterious Frenchman, Adrien, visiting Frantz's grave and becomes intrigued by him. As Anna and Adrien spend more time together, a complex and emotional story of guilt, forgiveness, and healing unfolds.
Based on an Edgar Allan Poe story, this film tells the grimly comic tale of a bad-tempered old man (Howard Hesseman) who cheats death, only to go on tormenting the living. When a medical experiment leaves the grouch hovering between life and death (and able to describe the world beyond), things get tricky for his daughter (Jessica Capshaw) and her beau (Neil Patrick Harris, of "Doogie Howser, M.D." fame), who can't get their hands on his estate.
The stern, but kind-hearted, Kristiana from the country takes place as a maid with the Larsson family in Stockholm, previously (in)famous for its rapid turnover of housemaids.
P & B (1983) is a comedic drama that tells the story of a character who rises from poverty to wealth after orchestrating a business swindle in Eastern Europe. Based on a novel, the movie explores themes of ambition, deception, and the consequences of greed within the context of a loose adaptation.
Stockholm 1912. Site for the Olympic Games. Love entanglements and eroticism at hotel Eros.
Out 1 is a long-take avant-garde movie from the 1970s that follows a theater troupe as they navigate artistic creation, secret organizations, and conspiracy. The story unfolds through improvisational theater rehearsals and explores themes of unrequited love, stolen letters, coded messages, and the pursuit of a mysterious number 13.
The rich, aristocratic Katarina Hassel have an architect renovate her mansion. Katarina fall in love with the young architect, Gunnar Stenwall. Alas, he doesn't fall in love with her. But perhaps if Gunnar would meet her identical sister, who works in Stockholm as a waitress, he would fall in love with her instead? So Katarina travels to Stockholm to act as her non-existing sister.
Code Name Coq Rouge is a 1989 action thriller film based on the novel by Jan Guillou. The story follows a Swedish journalist named Carl Hamilton as he uncovers a political conspiracy while investigating a wrongful conviction. Hamilton's investigation leads him into a dangerous world of terrorism, espionage, and cover-ups.
"The Scam" - A truck driver and his job colleagues figures out how to make the smart move, on their many trips to Finland: Tinkering with cargo pallets that can be sold illegal.