Love Story. Poster of the 1970 movie and cover of the 1970 book
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Love Story
Erich Segal, 1970
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Arthur Hiller, 1970

The passionate and ill-fated love affair between Oliver Barrett IV, a wealthy Harvard student, and Jennifer Cavilleri, a working-class Radcliffe College student. Despite their different backgrounds, Oliver and Jennifer fall deeply in love and embark on a journey of happiness and heartache. However, their relationship faces numerous challenges, including disapproval from Oliver’s family and Jennifer’s terminal illness.


Men in Black 3. Poster of the 2012 movie and cover of the 1990 comic book, The Men in Black
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The Men in Black
Lowell Cunningham, Sandy Carruthers, 1990
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Barry Sonnenfeld, 2012

In 2012, an alien criminal named Boris the Animal, a Boglodite, escapes from a maximum-security prison on the Moon to take revenge on Agent K, who shot off his left arm and captured him in 1969. Back at MiB Headquarters, J discovers K was responsible not only for capturing Boris, but for deploying the ArcNet, a shield that prevented the Boglodites from conquering Earth, leading to their extinction.


The Client. Poster of the 1994 movie and cover of the 1993 book
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The Client
John Grisham, 1993
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Joel Schumacher, 1994

Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his little brother, Ricky, are smoking cigarettes in the woods near their home when they encounter mob lawyer W. Jerome Clifford. Authorities – and the mob – realize that Clifford may have told Mark where a Louisiana senator, murdered by Muldano, is buried.


Jason Bourne. Poster of the 2016 movie and cover of the 1980 book, The Bourne Identity
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The Bourne Identity
Robert Ludlum, 1980
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Paul Greengrass, 2016

Twelve years after he exposed Operation Blackbriar and disappeared, Jason Bourne has finally recovered from his amnesia, isolating himself from the world and making a living by taking part in savage, bareknuckle fighting bouts in Greece. In Reykjavík, Nicky Parsons, who has been collaborating with a hacktivist group led by Christian Dassault, hacks into the CIA’s mainframe computer server to expose its black ops programs.


The Homesman. Poster of the 2014 movie and cover of the 1988 book
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The Homesman
Glendon Swarthout, 1988
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Tommy Lee Jones, 2014

In 1854 Mary Bee Cuddy is a 31-year-old spinster from New York, a former teacher who journeyed to the Midwest for more opportunity. She is an active member of the small farming community of Loup in the Nebraska Territory, and has significant financial prospects and sizable land ownership. She seems strong and independent, but suffers from depression and feels isolated.


The Missing. Poster of the 2003 movie and cover of the 1995 book, The Last Ride
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The Last Ride
Thomas Eidson, 1995
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Ron Howard, 2003

In late 19th-century New Mexico, Samuel Jones reappears hoping to reconcile with his adult daughter Magdalena Maggie Gilkeson. She is unable to forgive him for abandoning the family and leaving her mother to a hard life and early death. This situation changes when renegade Apache Pesh-Chidin and a dozen of his followers pass through the area, ritualistically killing settlers and taking their daughters to be sold into sex slavery in Mexico.


U.S. Marshals. Poster of the 1998 movie and cover of the book novelization
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U.S. Marshals
Max Allan Collins, 1998
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Stuart Baird, 1998

Two Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) agents are killed while trying to intercept a briefcase exchange taking place in a United Nations parking garage in New York City. The murders are caught on a security camera, but the criminal escapes with top secret information.


The Family. Poster of the 2013 movie and cover of the 2004 book, Malavita
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Malavita
Tonino Benacquista, 2004
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Luc Besson, 2013

Mafia boss Giovanni Manzoni, who offended Don Luchese, a rival mafia boss, survives an attempted hit on him and his family at a barbecue. He beats a plumber who tries to shake him down for money to unnecessarily change all the pipes in his house, and a local fertilizer factory owner who interrupts him while he is talking.


Men in Black II. Poster of the 2002 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Men in Black II
Michael Teitelbaum, 2002
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Barry Sonnenfeld, 2002

In July 2002, Men in Black Agent J is called to investigate the murder of an alien, Ben, at his pizzeria. As he investigates the crime, every lead points to his former partner and mentor, Agent K, who was neuralyzed upon retirement five years previous and remembers nothing of his MiB service.


Small Soldiers. Poster of the 1998 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Small Soldiers
Gavin Scott, 1998
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Joe Dante, 1998

Top defense contractor GloboTech Industries acquires the Heartland Toy Company and as part of the move, Globotech CEO Gil Mars tells Heartland toy designers Larry Benson and Irwin Wayfair to develop actual live action toys capable of playing back. Faced with a tight three-month deadline for the toys’ release, Larry forgoes safety testing, then uses Irwin’s password and chooses GloboTech’s X1000 microprocessor to activate the toys.


In the Electric Mist. Poster of the 2009 movie and cover of the 1993 book, In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead
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In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead
James Lee Burke, 1993
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Bertrand Tavernier, 2009

Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. At the same time, after Elrod Sykes, the star of the film, reports finding another corpse in the Atchafalaya Swamp near the movie set, Robicheaux starts another investigation, believing the corpse to be the remains of a black man who he saw being murdered 35 years before.


Batman Forever. Poster of the 1995 movie and cover of the 1940 comic book, Batman
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Batman
Bob Kane, Bill Finger, 1940
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Joel Schumacher, 1995

In Gotham City, the vigilante Batman defuses a hostage situation orchestrated by a criminal known as Two-Face, but Two-Face escapes. Edward Nygma, an eccentric researcher at Wayne Enterprises, approaches his employer, Bruce Wayne with an invention that can beam television signals into a person’s brain.