Films Based on Nobel Prize Winners Books
...or based on short stories or plays. Some films or docs about literary themes are included too.
Jean-Paul Sartre declined the Nobel Prize in Literature, which he was awarded in 1964.
Jean-Paul Sartre declined the Nobel Prize in Literature, which he was awarded in 1964.
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- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsIsabelle HuppertAnnie GirardotBenoît MagimelA young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsDavid BennentMario AdorfAngela WinklerIn 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
- DirectorPeter HandkeStarsEdith CleverMarkus MühleisenBruno GanzAfter returning from a business trip in Finland, Bruno (Bruno Ganz) find that his wife Marianne (Edith Clever) wants her husband to leave her alone with their son. A struggle with loneliness and adapting to the new situation ensues.
- DirectorPeter HandkeStarsBruno GanzJeanne MoreauAlex DescasFour nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsReda KatebSophie SeminJens HarzerA beautiful summer day. A garden. A terrace. A woman and a man sit at a table beneath the trees, with a soft summer wind. In the distance, in the vast plain, the silhouette of Paris. A conversation begins: questions and answers between the woman and the man. It deals with sexual experiences, childhood, memories, the essence of summer and the difference between men and women. It illustrates both, feminine perspective and masculine perception. In the background, inside the house that opens onto the terrace, on the woman and the man: the writer, in the process of imagining this dialogue and typing it down. Or is it the other way around? Might it be that those two characters over there tell him what he's putting down on paper: a long, final dialogue between a man and a woman?
- DirectorHerbert VeselyStarsGeraldine ChaplinThomas AstanAlexandra HayA young German man who has just arrived in America, hopes to get over the collapse of his marriage. However, he soon discovers that his ex-wife is pursuing him.
- DirectorAgnieszka HollandKasia AdamikStarsAgnieszka MandatWiktor ZborowskiJakub GierszalJanina Duszejko, an elderly woman, lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who or what is the murderer, but nobody believes her.
- DirectorFrancisco J. LombardiStarsPablo SerraGustavo BuenoLuis ÁlvarezFour angry cadets form an inner circle to beat the system, boredom and the stifling confinement of the military academy, sparking a chain of events that begins with a robbery and leads to murder.
- DirectorJosé María Gutiérrez SantosMario Vargas LlosaStarsJosé SacristánPancho CórdovaKaty JuradoThe Peruvian army captain Pantaleon Pantoja, a very serious and efficient officer, is chosen to set up a special service of 'visitors' to satisfy the sexual needs of the soldiers posted on remote jungle outposts.
- DirectorRicardo FrancoStarsJosé Luis GómezDiana Pérez de GuzmánPaca OjeaEarly Spain of the 20th century. Bad luck, misery and tragedies are a trend in Pascual Duarte's family. But when the weight of the things are too heavy to bear, a reckless man who only follows his impulses, will fall into a descent to madness that slowly alters the course of his life and of others as well.
- DirectorMario CamusStarsVictoria AbrilAna BelénConcha VelascoAs in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsAyako WakaoJerry FujioJun FujimakiAfter failing the entrance exam for university for the fourth time, a young man pretends to be a student to avoid the shame of his family.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsRentarô MikuniAkiko KoyamaYôko MiharaTowards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their "catch."
- DirectorJûzô ItamiStarsMasayuki ImaiNobuko MiyamotoHinako SaekiMelodrama about the life of a mentally handicapped young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to Australia on a business trip.
- DirectorClaudia MüllerStarsValie ExportElfriede JelinekSami LorisShe is the godmother of performance art. With her shocking public actions she created in the late 60s images that have burned into the general visual memory until today.
- DirectorKelly CopperPavol LiskaStarsGeorg BeyerLukas EiglGreta KostkaBased on the 1995 novel "The Children of the Dead" by unorthodox author Elfriede Jelinek. About the mental repression of the Holocaust in post-war Austria, with zombie children.
- DirectorHarold PinterStarsIan HolmPenelope WiltonBeth sits in an armchair to the left of the table, and Duff in a chair at the opposite end. Duff refers normally to Beth but does not appear to hear her voice and Beth never looks at Duff and does not appear to hear his voice.
- DirectorHarold PinterStarsDerek NewarkJames GrantAngela PleasenceIrregular occurrences in a government psychiatric hospital - including a mystery birth and a mystery death.
- DirectorAlan SchneiderStarsBurgess MeredithZero MostelKurt KasznarTwo derelicts, Vladimir and Estragon, occupy themselves as they wait for 'Godot' to make an appearance on Pozzo's estate.
- DirectorDavid HeeleyStarsIrene WorthGeorge VoskovecSuffused with tenderness, lucidity and humor, this Samuel Becket play is a comedy in pure, music-hall style. Legendary actress, Irene Worth, stars as Winnie, an optimist who deep down senses she has little to feel "happy" about. Irene Worth gives a tour-de-force performance as she chatters incessantly and cheerily on a variety of subjects. Winnie never allows a day to pass without looking her best and hoping for better. Worth portrays Winnie as the embodiment of humankind's nobler virtues: wise, majestic and committed to her conviction that "this will have been a happy day."
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsViktor SukhorukovAnzhelika NevolinaEvgeniy MerkurevThe story begins when a young man with a head injury is released from the hospital and begins searching modern-day St. Petersburg for a room or a place to stay.
- DirectorPatricia RozemaStarsRosaleen LinehanRichard JohnsonA middle-aged woman, half-buried in the earth, chatters away to a taciturn man, who lives in a hole behind her. Later, she is buried up to her neck, and the man does not seem to be about.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsBulle OgierLuís Miguel CintraAxel BogousslavskyFour versions of the same story, first in the perspective of a theatre play, second in the perspective of a silent film, third in the perspective of a film of the 50s and finally in a biblical philosophical perspective.
- DirectorMichael Lindsay-HoggStarsBarry McGovernJohnny MurphyAlan StanfordTwo tramps wait for a man named Godot, but instead meet a pompous man and his stooped-over slave.
- DirectorDavid GladwellStarsJulie ChristieChristopher GuardLeonie MellingerSet in a bleak future where roving gangs of children terrorize city streets, and reality is often an illusion.