All the books by Ernest Hemingway adapted to cinema and television, ranked

The film opens with the dream sequence of an old man named Santiago, who dreams about his childhood on the masts of a ship and lions on the shores. When he wakes up, we find out that he has gone 84 days without catching any fish at all. Manolin wants to come, but Santiago insists on going alone.

The life of a novelist unfolds across different decades and locations, ranging from 1920s Paris to 1950s New York and 1980s London. During this journey, encounters with notable figures such as Ernest Hemingway, Ian Fleming, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor— the exiled British king and his mistress Wallis Simpson—shape the course of the novelist’s experiences.

In the summer of 1940, world-weary Harry Morgan operates a small fishing-boat, the Queen Conch, in Fort-de-France, on the French colony of Martinique. The island is a tinder-box of dissent, harboring many people sympathetic to Free France. At his hotel home, hotel owner Gérard urges Harry to help the French Resistance by smuggling some people onto the island.

Two hitmen, Max and Al, arrive in Brentwood, New Jersey to kill Pete Lund, a former boxer known as The Swede. Rejecting Lubinsky’s suggestion to join the police force, the Swede becomes mixed up with crime boss Big Jim Colfax, and drops his girlfriend Lily for the more glamorous Kitty Collins.

The Old Man in the film is a Cuban fisherman who has gone 84 days without a catch. On the Old Man’s 85th day out, he finally hooks a huge marlin, which he then tries to bring in and haul in from far out from shore. For three days and nights he battles the fish, which is portrayed in the film as a trial of mental and physical courage that becomes the ultimate test for him of his worth as a man.

Across the River and Into the Trees tells the story of Colonel Richard Cantwell, a semi-autobiographical character wounded and damaged both physically and mentally by the war, seeking inner peace, and trying to come to terms with his own mortality.

Santiago goes out on his usual fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life. Then a shark attacks and tries to steal his catch. Santiago battles with the shark for days. He returns to the shore beaten, tattered and torn, and his catch consisting now…

Embarking on a final journey, John and Ella Spencer set forth in a classic Winnebago motorhome, embarking on a road trip that spans from Wellesley, Massachusetts to the Ernest Hemingway House in the Florida Keys. Their aim is to reach their destination before the challenges of John’s dementia and Ella’s battle with cancer can overcome them.

In New York City in 1929, Maxwell Perkins, a successful Scribner’s editor and discoverer of talented authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, lives in a cottage just outside the city with his wife and five daughters. One day, in his office, he reads the drafts of O Lost, a novel by Thomas Wolfe. Struck by the content, Perkins decides to publish it and begins to collaborate with the author.

The movie recounts the intense romantic relationship and turbulent union of Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway, as they traverse the thrilling journeys of writers during the major conflicts of their era, including the Spanish Civil War and beyond. Despite her husband’s influence, Gellhorn established herself as the greatest war correspondent of her time, male or female, and her exceptional drive and accomplishments elevated her beyond the boundaries of their marriage.