Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Poster of the 2003 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Irene Trimble, 2003
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Gore Verbinski, 2003

In the year 1720, while sailing to Port Royal Jamaica aboard the HMS Dauntless, Governor Weatherby Swann, his daughter Elizabeth, Joshamee Gibbs, and Lieutenant James Norrington encounter a shipwreck and recover a boy, Will Turner. They duel, and Jack is captured and imprisoned. Barbossa takes her prisoner, believing her to be the daughter of William ‘Bootstrap Bill’ Turner, whose blood is needed to lift the curse.


The Imitation Game. Poster of the 2014 movie and cover of the 1983 book, Alan Turing: The Enigma
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Alan Turing: The Enigma
Andrew Hodges, 1983
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Morten Tyldum, 2014

In 1951, two policemen, Nock and Staehl, investigate the mathematician Alan Turing after an apparent break-in at his home. During his interrogation by Nock, Turing tells of his time working at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.


Pride & Prejudice. Poster of the 2005 movie and cover of the 1813 book, Pride and Prejudice
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen, 1813
movie vs book
Joe Wright, 2005

During the late 18th century, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their daughters – Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia – live at Longbourn, their estate in rural England. Mrs. Bennet, eager to secure her daughters’ futures through suitable marriages, is delighted when wealthy bachelor Charles Bingley moves into nearby Netherfield.


Atonement. Poster of the 2007 movie and cover of the 2001 book
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Atonement
Ian McEwan, 2001
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Joe Wright, 2007

Briony Tallis, a 13-year-old English girl with a talent for writing, lives at her family’s country estate with her parents Jack and Emily Tallis. Her older sister Cecilia has recently graduated from the University of Cambridge with Robbie Turner, the Tallis family housekeeper’s son and Cecilia’s childhood friend. Briony’s immaturity, and her inability to grasp certain situations changes the course of the lives of Cecilia and Robbie when she accuses Robbie of a crime he did not commit.


Oliver Twist. Poster of the 1999 TV series and cover of the 1838 book
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Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens, 1838
TV series vs book
Renny Rye, 1999

Little Oliver Twist, already abused, starved, and overworked, is apprenticed to an undertaker and runs away to London after being bullied by an older apprentice. There, he is taken in by Fagin, a fence and thief-trainer, and his gang of pickpockets. He is befriended by Nancy, a good-hearted prostitute, and meets her lover, the brutal housebreaker Bill Sikes.


Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Poster of the 2006 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Irene Trimble, 2006
movie vs book   [NOVELIZATION]
Gore Verbinski, 2006

The wedding of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann is halted when Lord Cutler Beckett, chairman of the East India Trading Company, arrives with arrest warrants for them, and also for Commodore James Norrington, who allowed Captain Jack Sparrow to escape. Meanwhile, Jack is visited by Will’s father, Bootstrap Bill Turner, aboard the Black Pearl.


Official Secrets. Poster of the 2019 movie and cover of the 2008 book, The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War
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The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War
Marcia Mitchell, Thomas Mitchell, 2008
movie vs book
Gavin Hood, 2019

In early 2003, GCHQ analyst Katharine Gun obtains a memo detailing a joint United States and British operation to spy on diplomats from several non-permanent United Nations Security Council member states Cameroon, Chile, Bulgaria and Guinea in order to dig dirt on them and influence the Security Council into passing a resolution supporting an invasion of Iraq.


Everest. Poster of the 2015 movie and cover of the 1997 book, Into Thin Air
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Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer, 1997
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Baltasar Kormákur, 2015

In May 1996, several commercial expeditions at the base camp of Mount Everest prepare to climb to the summit. Rob Hall, who popularized commercial Everest missions, leads Adventure Consultants; Scott Fischer is the chief guide for its rival, Mountain Madness. A month earlier in New Zealand, Rob says goodbye to his pregnant wife, Jan, and promises that he will be home for the birth.


Never Let Me Go. Poster of the 2010 movie and cover of the 2005 book
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Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro, 2005
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Mark Romanek, 2010

The lives of three friends, from their early school days into young adulthood. The film begins with on-screen captions explaining that a medical breakthrough in 1952 has permitted the human lifespan to be extended beyond 100 years. It is narrated by 28-year-old Kathy H as she reminisces about her childhood at a boarding school called Hailsham, as well as her adult life after leaving the school.


The Jacket. Poster of the 2005 movie and cover of the 1914 book, The Star Rover
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The Star Rover
Jack London, 1914
movie vs book
John Maybury, 2005

After miraculously recovering from an apparently fatal bullet wound to the head, Gulf War veteran Jack Starks returns to Vermont in 1992, suffering from periods of amnesia. While walking, he sees a young girl, Jackie, and her alcoholic mother in despair beside their broken-down truck. Starks and Jackie quickly form a certain affinity; she asks him to give her his dogtags and he does so.


The Duchess. Poster of the 2008 movie and cover of the 1998 book, Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
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Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
Amanda Foreman, 1998
movie vs book
Saul Dibb, 2008

The young Georgiana is contracted in marriage to William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire, with the expectation that she produce his male heir. Georgiana is quickly disillusioned by her husband, especially when Charlotte, a motherless child, comes to live with them while Georgiana is pregnant.


Anna Karenina. Poster of the 2012 movie and cover of the 1877 book
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy, 1877
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Joe Wright, 2012

In the Russian Empire in 1874, Princess Darya, nicknamed Dolly, banishes her unfaithful husband Prince Stephan Stiva Oblonsky. Stiva’s sister, Anna Karenina, a socialite living in Saint Petersburg with her older husband Count Alexei Karenin, and son Seryozha, travels to Moscow to persuade Dolly to forgive her husband.