Rosemary's Baby. Poster of the 1968 movie and cover of the 1967 book
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Rosemary's Baby
Ira Levin, 1967
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Roman Polanski, 1968

In 1965, Guy and Rosemary Woodhouse rent an apartment in the Bramford, a large Gothic building in New York City. They ignore their friend Hutch’s warning about the Bramford’s dark past with witchcraft and murder. Rosemary meets a young woman, Terry Gionoffrio, a recovering drug addict whom Minnie and Roman Castevet, the Woodhouses’ elderly neighbors, took in.


The Boys from Brazil. Poster of the 1978 movie and cover of the 1976 book
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The Boys from Brazil
Ira Levin, 1976
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Franklin J. Schaffner, 1978

Young, well-intentioned Barry Kohler stumbles upon a secret organization of Third Reich war criminals holding clandestine meetings in Paraguay and finds that Dr. Josef Mengele, the infamous Auschwitz doctor, is with them. Ezra Lieberman, an aging Nazi hunter, will discover a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.


The Stepford Wives. Poster of the 1975 movie and cover of the 1972 book
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The Stepford Wives
Ira Levin, 1972
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Bryan Forbes, 1975

Joanna Eberhart is a young wife who moves with her husband Walter and their two daughters from Manhattan to the idyllic Fairfield County, Connecticut, suburb of Stepford. Along with the glamorously beautiful tennis playing trophy wife Charmaine Wimperis, the three organize a women’s liberation meeting, but the gathering is a failure when the other wives continually divert the discussion to cleaning products.


The Stepford Wives. Poster of the 2004 movie and cover of the 1972 book
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The Stepford Wives
Ira Levin, 1972
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Frank Oz, 2004

Joanna Eberhart is a successful reality television executive producer, whose career suddenly ends after an attempted shootout by a disillusioned reality show participant. Walter tries to walk out of their marriage, but Joanna appeases him by trying to fit in with the other Stepford wives.


The Stepford Children. Poster of the 1987 movie and cover of the 1972 book, The Stepford Wives
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The Stepford Wives
Ira Levin, 1972
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Alan J. Levi, 1987

In this sequel to The Stepford Wives, Steven and Laura Harding have moved to the quiet community of Stepford, CT. Steven joins the men’s club, which is still assimilating their wives into robots. This time, they have begun to turn their out of control teens into robots as well. Once they are assimilated, they are obedient, homework loving, big band dancing droids.