Schindler's List. Poster of the 1993 movie and cover of the 1982 book
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Schindler's List
Thomas Keneally, 1982
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Steven Spielberg, 1993

In Kraków during World War II, the Germans have forced local Polish Jews into the overcrowded Kraków Ghetto. To better protect his workers, Schindler bribes Göth into allowing him to build a sub-camp. As the Germans begin to lose the war, Göth is ordered to ship the remaining Jews at Płaszów to Auschwitz concentration camp. Schindler asks Göth to allow him to move his workers to a new munitions factory he plans to build in Brünnlitz near his home town Zwittau.


Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the 2007 book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling, 2007
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David Yates, 2011

Following Dumbledore’s death, Voldemort is attempting to take control of the Ministry of Magic. During Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour’s wedding, the Ministry falls to Voldemort, and the wedding is attacked by Death Eaters.


The Grand Budapest Hotel. Poster of the 2014 movie and cover of the 1925 book, Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
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Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
Stefan Zweig, 1925
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Wes Anderson, 2014

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.


The Grand Budapest Hotel. Poster of the 2014 movie and cover of the 1939 book, Beware of Pity
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Beware of Pity
Stefan Zweig, 1939
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Wes Anderson, 2014

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.


The Grand Budapest Hotel. Poster of the 2014 movie and cover of the 1942 book, The World of Yesterday
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The World of Yesterday
Stefan Zweig, 1942
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Wes Anderson, 2014

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.


Kubo and the Two Strings. Poster of the 2016 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Kubo and the Two Strings: The Junior Novel
Sadie Chesterfield, 2016
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Travis Knight, 2016

In feudal Japan, a 12-year-old boy with only one eye named Kubo tends to his ill mother Sariatu in a mountain cave near a village. He earns their living by magically manipulating origami with music from his shamisen for the village folk, telling the tale of his missing father Hanzo, a samurai warrior.


Skyfall. Poster of the 2012 movie and cover of the 1953 book, Casino Royale
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Casino Royale
Ian Fleming, 1953
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Sam Mendes, 2012

In Istanbul, MI6 agents James Bond and Eve Moneypenny pursue mercenary Patrice, who has stolen a hard drive containing details of undercover agents. He fails a series of physical, medical, and psychological examinations, but M approves his return to the field, ordering him to identify Patrice’s employer, recover the hard drive, and kill Patrice.


The Reader. Poster of the 2008 movie and cover of the 1995 book
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The Reader
Bernhard Schlink, 1995
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Stephen Daldry, 2008

In 1995 Berlin, after a woman he has spent the night with leaves his apartment abruptly after he has made her breakfast, Michael Berg watches a U-Bahn pass by, setting up a flashback to a tram in 1958. Pausing nearby an apartment building he vomits. After a bicycling trip with Michael, Hanna learns that she was promoted to a clerical job at the tram company’s office, upon which she suddenly leaves her home, without telling Michael or anyone else where she has moved to.


No Time to Die. Poster of the 2021 movie and cover of the 1953 book, Casino Royale
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Casino Royale
Ian Fleming, 1953
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Cary Joji Fukunaga, 2021

Five years after the capture of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, James Bond has left active service. He is approached by his friend and CIA officer Felix Leiter, who enlists his help in the search for Valdo Obruchev, a missing scientist. When it becomes apparent that Obruchev has been abducted, Bond must confront a villain whose schemes could see the death of millions.


Quiz Show. Poster of the 1994 movie and cover of the 1988 book, Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties
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Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties
Richard N. Goodwin, 1988
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Robert Redford, 1994

In 1958, the questions and answers to be used for the latest broadcast of NBC’s popular quiz show Twenty-One are transported from a secure bank vault to the studio. He refuses, but when he comes within reach of a game-winning 21 points on the show, he is asked one of the questions from his audition.


The English Patient. Poster of the 1996 movie and cover of the 1992 book
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The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje, 1992
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Anthony Minghella, 1996

In the final days of the Italian Campaign of World War II, Hana, a French-Canadian nurse of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, gains permission from her unit to move into a bombed-out Italian monastery, to look after a dying, critically burned man who speaks English but can not remember his name. They are soon joined by Kip, a Sikh sapper in the British Army posted with his sergeant to clear mines and unexploded bombs in the local area, including one in the monastery where Hana and the English Patient are staying.


The Constant Gardener. Poster of the 2005 movie and cover of the 2001 book
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The Constant Gardener
John le Carré, 2001
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Fernando Meirelles, 2005

Justin Quayle, a low-level British diplomat and horticultural hobbyist posted in Kenya, learns that his wife Tessa was found dead in the veld. Her colleague, Dr. Arnold Bluhm, initially suspected of her murder, is then found to have been murdered on the same day as Tessa. Despite their loving marriage, Tessa keeps from Justin the reason why she approached him in the first place: to investigate a suspicious drug trial in Kenya and expose it.