Rebecca. Poster of the 1940 movie and cover of the 1938 book
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Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier, 1938
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Alfred Hitchcock, 1940

In Monte Carlo, Max de Winter stops to speak to Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper only after recognizing her companion, the girl he had encountered earlier. Maxim takes his new bride back to Manderley, his grand mansion by the sea in south-western England, dominated by its housekeeper Mrs. Danvers, a chilly individual who had been a close confidante of the first Mrs. De Winter—Rebecca—with whom she is clearly still obsessed.


Sleuth. Poster of the 1972 movie and cover of the 1970 book
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Sleuth
Anthony Shaffer, 1970
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1972

Andrew Wyke, a successful crime fiction author, lives in a large country manor house filled with elaborate games and automata. At the conclusion, Andrew pulls a gun on Milo and reveals the bogus theft was merely a ruse to frame Milo as a burglar so he can kill him.


Spartacus. Poster of the 1960 movie and cover of the 1951 book
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Spartacus
Howard Fast, 1951
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Stanley Kubrick, 1960

In the 1st century BC, the Roman Republic has slid into corruption, its menial work done by armies of slaves. When Spartacus is disarmed, his opponent, an African named Draba, spares his life in a burst of defiance and attacks the Roman audience, but is killed by an arena guard and Crassus.


Hamlet. Poster of the 1948 movie and cover of the 1603 book
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Hamlet
William Shakespeare, 1603
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Laurence Olivier, 1948

The action begins on the battlements of Elsinore where a sentry, Francisco, is relieved of his watch by another sentry, Bernardo, who, with yet another sentry, Marcellus, has twice previously seen the Ghost of King Hamlet. Marcellus then arrives with the skeptical Horatio, Prince Hamlet’s friend. Suddenly, all three see the Ghost, and Horatio demands that the ghost speak. The ghost vanishes then, without a word.


Marathon Man. Poster of the 1976 movie and cover of the 1974 book
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Marathon Man
William Goldman, 1974
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John Schlesinger, 1976

Thomas’Babe’ Levy is a history Ph.D. student and an avid runner researching the same field as his father, H.V. Levy, who committed suicide after being investigated during the Joseph McCarthy era. After Dr. Szell’s brother is killed in a fit of road rage, Szell feels that he can’t trust anybody anymore and proceeds to try to have all of the diamond handlers and couriers murdered, including Doc himself.


Pride and Prejudice. Poster of the 1940 movie and cover of the 1813 book
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen, 1813
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Robert Z. Leonard, 1940

Mrs. Bennet and her two eldest daughters, Jane and Elizabeth, are shopping for new dresses when they see two gentlemen and a lady alight from a very expensive carriage outside. They learn that the men are Mr. Bingley, who has just rented the local estate of Netherfield, and Mr. Darcy, both wealthy, eligible bachelors, which excites Mrs. Bennet.


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.


My Week with Marilyn. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the 2000 book
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My Week with Marilyn
Colin Clark, 2000
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Simon Curtis, 2011

Following his graduation from Christ Church, Oxford in 1956, aspiring filmmaker Colin Clark travels to London to get a job on Laurence Olivier’s next production. The press discover the house, but Colin reveals he secured a second house just in case, impressing Olivier and Marilyn’s publicist, Arthur P. Jacobs.


My Week with Marilyn. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the 1995 book, The Prince, The Showgirl and Me
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The Prince, The Showgirl and Me
Colin Clark, 1995
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Simon Curtis, 2011

Following his graduation from Christ Church, Oxford in 1956, aspiring filmmaker Colin Clark travels to London to get a job on Laurence Olivier’s next production. The press discover the house, but Colin reveals he secured a second house just in case, impressing Olivier and Marilyn’s publicist, Arthur P. Jacobs.


Clash of the Titans. Poster of the 1981 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Clash of the Titans
Alan Dean Foster, 1981
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Desmond Davis, 1981

King Acrisius of Argos imprisons his daughter Danaë, jealous of her beauty. Calibos, the spoiled and rebellious son of the sea goddess Thetis, is betrothed to Princess Andromeda, daughter of Queen Cassiopeia of Joppa; but for committing several atrocities against Zeus, including destroying Zeus’s sacred flying horses, Zeus transforms Calibos into a deformed monstrous satyr-like creature.


David Copperfield. Poster of the 1970 movie and cover of the 1850 book
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David Copperfield
Charles Dickens, 1850
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Delbert Mann, 1970

Charles Dickens’s story of a young man’s journey to maturity. Then virtually abandoned on the streets of Victorian London, David Copperfield is flung into manhood and contends bravely with the perils of big-city corruption and vice; hardships which ultimately fuel his triumph as a talented and successful writer.