Cool Hand Luke. Poster of the 1967 movie and cover of the 1965 book
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Cool Hand Luke
Donn Pearce, 1965
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Stuart Rosenberg, 1967

In early 1950s Florida, decorated war veteran Lucas Jackson is arrested for cutting parking meters off their poles one drunken night. Carr the floorwalker tells the rules to the new set of prisoners. Luke refuses to observe the established pecking order among the prisoners and quickly runs afoul of the prisoners’ leader, Dragline.


Papillon. Poster of the 1973 movie and cover of the 1969 book
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Papillon
Henri Charrière, 1969
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Franklin J. Schaffner, 1973

Henri Charrière, a safecracker nicknamed Papillon because of the butterfly tattoo on his chest, is wrongly convicted of murdering a pimp. One day, Papillon defends Dega from a sadistic guard and escapes into the jungle, but is captured and sentenced to two years in solitary confinement.


The Dead Zone. Poster of the 1983 movie and cover of the 1979 book
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The Dead Zone
Stephen King, 1979
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David Cronenberg, 1983

In the town of Castle Rock, New Hampshire, John Smith, a young schoolteacher, is in love with his colleague Sarah Bracknell. As he drives home through stormy weather, he has a car accident that leaves him in a coma. Sarah is now married and has a 10-month old child, Dennis.


Farewell, My Lovely. Poster of the 1975 movie and cover of the 1940 book
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Farewell, My Lovely
Raymond Chandler, 1940
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Dick Richards, 1975

A Philip Marlowe’s case, the death of a client and the hunt for an ex-long-lost convict’s love, take a nasty turn when they start to intertwine, dragging the private eye deeper and deeper into 1940s Los Angeles’ seedy underbelly. It appears that Marlowe might be the next person to pass out as the stakes are heightened and the death toll rises.


Licence to Kill. Poster of the 1989 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Licence to Kill
John Gardner, 1989
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John Glen, 1989

DEA agents collect James Bond and his friend, CIA agent Felix Leiter, on their way to Leiter’s wedding in Key West, to have them assist in capturing drugs lord Franz Sanchez. Bond and Leiter capture Sanchez by attaching a hook and cord to Sanchez’s plane and pulling it out of the air with a Coast Guard helicopter.


The Ωmega Man. Poster of the 1971 movie and cover of the 1954 book, I Am Legend
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I Am Legend
Richard Matheson, 1954
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Boris Sagal, 1971

In March 1975, a Sino-Soviet border conflict escalates into full-scale war in which biological warfare destroys most of the human race. Struggling to maintain his sanity, he spends his days patrolling the now-desolate Los Angeles, hunting and killing members of the Family, a cult of plague victims who were turned into nocturnal albino mutants.


Star Trek: Insurrection. Poster of the 1998 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Star Trek Insurrection
J.M. Dillard, 1998
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Jonathan Frakes, 1998

Lieutenant Commander Data is temporarily transferred to an undercover mission observing the peaceful Ba’ku people. Picard confronts Dougherty and learns that top Federation officers colluded with the Son’a to deceptively move the Ba’ku to the ship and forcibly relocate them to another planet, allowing for the particles to be collected on a mass scale.


Touch. Poster of the 1997 movie and cover of the 1987 book
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Touch
Elmore Leonard, 1987
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Paul Schrader, 1997

A young man, Juvenal, is apparently able to cure the sick by the laying-on of hands. The former evangelist Bill Hill persuades his friend Lynn Faulkner to befriend the innocent ex-monk and encourage him to aim for the big-time. But matters become complicated when the young couple falls in love, and even more complicated when fundamentalist August Murray takes exception to their relationship.