All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Liev Schreiber

The story of middleweight boxer Rubin ‘The Hurricane’ Carter, who was convicted of committing a triple murder in a bar in Paterson, New Jersey. The film concentrates on Rubin Carter’s life between 1966 and 1985. It describes his fight against the conviction for triple murder and how he copes with nearly 20 years in prison.

The story of middleweight boxer Rubin ‘The Hurricane’ Carter, who was convicted of committing a triple murder in a bar in Paterson, New Jersey. The film concentrates on Rubin Carter’s life between 1966 and 1985. It describes his fight against the conviction for triple murder and how he copes with nearly 20 years in prison.

On a brief trip back to London, earnest, bookish bacteriologist Walter Fane is dazzled by Kitty Garstin, a vain London socialite. When Walter discovers his wife’s infidelity, he seeks to punish her by threatening to divorce her on the grounds of adultery, if she doesn’t accompany him to a small village in a remote area of China.

Jonathan Safran Foer, a young American Jew, goes on a quest to find the woman, Augustina, who saved his grandfather, Safran Foer, during the Holocaust in a small Ukrainian town called Trachimbrod that was wiped off the map when the Nazis liquidated Eastern European shtetls. After traveling through much of rural Ukraine, they eventually find Augustina’s sister.

Nazi Einsatzgruppen are sweeping through Eastern Europe, systematically killing Jews. Among the survivors not killed or restricted to ghettoes are the Belarusian Jewish Bielski brothers: Tuvia, Zus, Asael and Aron. Over the next year, they shelter a growing number of refugees, raiding local farms for food and supplies and moving their camp whenever they are discovered by the collaborationist police.

In 2009, an elderly Cecil Gaines recounts his life story while waiting at the White House to meet the newly inaugurated president. Cecil was a sharecropper’s son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family. Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself. There, Cecil would serve numerous US Presidents over the decades as a passive witness of history.

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.

Anse Rainier, an American professor at Lahore University, is kidnapped and held for ransom. Bobby Lincoln, an American journalist in Pakistan, arranges to interview Rainer’s colleague Changez Khan, whom he suspects is involved in the kidnapping.

Doug Glatt is a polite, kind-hearted, but dimwitted bouncer at a bar in Massachusetts. Meanwhile, veteran enforcer and Doug’s idol Ross The Boss Rhea is demoted to the minors after serving a 20-game suspension for slashing an opponent in the head from behind.

Set in 1969, the film follows the true story of Elliot Tiber, whose parents own the small dilapidated El Monaco Resort in White Lake. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers thinking he could drum up some much-needed business for his parents’ run-down motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, New York.

In 1845, James Howlett, a boy living in Canada, witnesses his father being killed by groundskeeper Thomas Logan. Six years later, in 1979, Logan works as a logger in Canada, where he lives with his girlfriend Kayla Silverfox. Once the procedure is complete, Stryker orders that Logan’s memory be erased so he can be used as Stryker’s personal weapon, but Logan overhears and escapes to a nearby farm, where an elderly couple takes him in.

Major Bennett Marco is a war veteran who commanded a famous U.S. Army raid during the 1991 Gulf War. Years later in a dystopian near-future America defined by xenophobia, de facto martial law, environmental degradation and increasing corporate control, Shaw has gone on to become a famous U.S. Congressman.