Efteråret 1959. Verden er i forandring, men på Welton Academy gør man sig klar til gennemførelsen af et århundrede gammelt ritual: Modtagelsen af et nyt hold drenge til kostskolens nådeløse disciplin. Men i år skal det blive anderledes – bag metertykt mure af granit og traditioner bliver lærebøger revet i stykker… John Keating er kommet til skolen!
New York. Connie og Edward er et lykkeligt forstadsægtepar. Da Connie indleder en affære med en ung fyr fra Greenwich Village, hyrer Edward en detektiv til at skygge hende. Edward konfronterer den unge fyr og gør noget han ikke skulle have gjort. Ægteskabet får efterfølgende nyt liv, men det bliver straks sværere at holde stand overfor verden udenfor.
De verdensberømte eventyrdigtere brødrene Grimm startede deres karrierer som platugler, der i 1800-tallets Tyskland drev dæmoner og spøgelser på flugt! Det gav gode penge, og risikoen var lille – det var nemlig de to brødres assistenter, der meget overbevisende spillede de ånder og dæmoner, som lod sig uddrive! Men platuglerne får pludselig deres sag for, da de pludselig står overfor en rigtig forhekset skov med rigtige varulve, rigtige hekse og rigtig livsfare! Brødrene Grimm er blevet iscenesat af selveste Mr. Monty Python (instruktør og manuskriptforfatter Terry Gilliam) og spillet af Matt Damon og Heath Ledger i et actionbrag af et eventyr mindst lige så dramatisk og fantastisk som mange af deres over 200 eventyrfortællinger. En fantastisk filmatisering tilsat 80.000.000 dollars, spindelvæv fra de kendte Grimm-eventyr, en imponerende, uhygge og et velkendt stænk af den skæve Monty Python-humor. Eventyr har aldrig været mere underholdende.
Det sker sjældent, at tre af de største kvindelige Hollywood-stjerner er med i samme film. Endnu sjældnere, at alle tre forsvarer deres roller så hudløst og brillant, at man vanskeligt kan fremhæve én uden at være uretfærdig mod de to andre. Men det mest usædvanlige er, at vi her har en stor, flot, stjernespækket Hollywood-film!"Urban:"Uden at overdrive sine virkemidler sniger filmen sig ind på os tilskuere og rører og river i følelsesregisteret. 'The Hours' er en historie om livet og døden. Kærligheden og smerten. Tag godt med lommetørklæder med i biografen, og sæt tid af til eftertanke!"Berlingske Tidende:"Elegance, trodsig humor og bevægende følsomhed, og den er en berigende, dybt tilfredsstillende oplevelse!
Juliet og Pauline har et ganske særligt venskab. Når de er alene lever de i en fantasiverden, som ingen andre kender til. Da deres forældre forsøger at skille dem ad for at undgå, at de påvirker hinanden uheldigt, bliver pigerne besat af tanken om for enhver pris at blive sammen - med uhyggelige konsekvenser til følge.
Kay kan ikke få sin bog færdig og derfor er både hendes forlægger og fans er utålmodige. Hendes hovedperson Harold er en desillusioneret embedsmand, der underligt nok viser sig også at være en virkelig person, der er stærkt plaget af en mytisk fortæller stemme inde i sit hoved. Da Kay beslutter at gøre det af med sin hovedperson, forsøger Harold samtidig at opspore kilden til den mærkelige stemme.
6 måneder. 6 romaner. 6 medlemmer. The Jane Austen Book Club løfter læsning af klassiske romaner til nye passionsniveauer i denne romantiske komedie med en stjernebesat rolleliste. Da fem kvinder og en enkelt mand mødes for at diskutere den engelske forfatterindes populære romaner, indser de, at Emmas, Mr. Darcys og Bennet-søstrenes hjertesorger ikke er så forskellige fra deres egne. De finder trøst, indsigt og kloge ord i bøgerne og hinanden og opdager, at når det gælder spørgsmål om kærlighed, behøver de bare at spørge: “Hvad ville Jane gøre?”
Yao, en ung dreng, der elsker eventyr, stikker af fra sin landsby i det nordlige Senegal for at tage til Dakar og møde sin helt, Seydou Tall. Seydou, der er en berømt fransk skuespiller på besøg i sit hjemland, bliver overvældet af Yaos ildhu og entusiasme, og beslutter sig for at følge ham hjem. Men i Senegal går tingene ikke altid som planlagt og på deres forunderlige og underholdende rejse tilbage til Yaos landsby, indser Seydou, at turen også bringer ham i kontakt med sine egne rødder – på godt og ondt… Rollen som den franske skuespiller, Seydou Tall spilles af ingen ringere end Omar Sy, der er kendt for sine præstationer i klassikere som bl.a. ”De urørlige”, ”En nuance af blå” og ”Samba”, samt i nyere actionfilm som ”X-Men: Days of Future Past”, ”Jurassic World” og Ron Howards indspilning af Dan Browns ”Inferno”.
Den litteraturelskende bager Martin lever et stille liv i en lille normanisk landsby. Men alt forandrer sig, da et britisk par flytter ind i huset ved siden af. Ikke nok med at de hedder Gemma og Charles Bovery, deres liv minder rigtig meget om personerne i Flaubert klassiker “Madame Bovery”. Filmen er en adaption af den engelske tegneserieforfatter Posy Simmonds fortælling, som udkom i bogform i 1999.
Jamal Wallace er en yderst velbegavet ung sort dreng, som er vokset op i Bronx. Både i skolen og på basketball-banen er hans talent ikke sådan at overse, og netop det skaffer ham billet til et overklasse-college. Da han begynder at aflevere nogle meget geniale skriftlige opgaver, får en bitter lektor, som ikke selv kan forfatte noget stort og derfor mener, at han skal lære andre kunsten, en mistanke om, at Jamal snyder. En sort knægt fra Bronx kan umuligt have skrevet, hvad Jamal rent faktisk gør! Sideløbende er Jamal, uden at vide det, stødt på forfatteren til et yderst hædret og berømt mesterværk med den sigende titel Avalon Landing, nemlig William Forrester.
Jesse er en mand i trediveårsalderen, som bliver inviteret tilbage til sit gamle college, og der falder han modvilligt for en 19-årig student
Det brutale mord på en familie i en lille by i Kansas i november 1959 fanger Truman Capotes (Philip Seymour Hoffman) interesse. Den berømte forfatter af ”Frokost på Tiffany” begynder sammen med sin barndomsven Nelle Harper Lee (Catherine Keener), der senere skriver ”Dræb ikke en sangfugl", sin egen efterforskning, og det lykkes ham at vinde lokalbefolkningens tillid på trods af sin affekterede adfærd og ekstravagante levestil. Arbejdet med bogen ”Med koldt blod” (som lægger fundamentet til en helt ny genre i amerikansk litteratur) begynder at tære på Capote i takt med, at han lærer morderne at kende og deres henrettelse nærmer sig – han bliver påvirket på en måde, som han aldrig havde forestillet sig.
Atsushi Nakajima was kicked out of his orphanage, and now he has no place to go and no food. While he is standing by a river, on the brink of starvation, he rescues a man whimsically attempting suicide. That man is Osamu Dazai, and he and his partner Kunikida are members of a very special detective agency. They have supernatural powers and deal with cases that are too dangerous for the police or the military. They're tracking down a tiger that has appeared in the area recently, around the time Atsushi came to the area. The tiger seems to have a connection to Atsushi, and by the time the case is solved, it is clear that Atsushi's future will involve much more of Dazai and the rest of the detectives!
Oreki Houtarou is a minimalistic high school boy. One day, he joins the Classic Literature Club at his elder sister's request. There he meets Chitanda Eru, Fukube Satoshi, and Ibara Mayaka. Chitanda is a calm beautiful girl but she turns into an embodiment of curiosity once she says, "I'm curious." Fukube is a smiling boy with a fantastic memory who calls himself a database. Ibara is a short girl and is strict with others and herself. They begin to investigate a case that occurred 45 years ago. Hints of the mystery are buried in an old collection of works of the former members of Classics Club. The collection is titled "Hyouka."
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.
The trials and tribulations of 108 outlaws during the mid Song Dynasty.
The girls in a high school literature club do a little icebreaker to get to know each other: answering the question, "What's one thing you want to do before you die?" One of the girls blurts out, "Sex." Little do they know, the whirlwind unleashed by that word pushes each of these girls, with different backgrounds and personalities, onto their own clumsy, funny, painful, and emotional paths toward adulthood.
The publication of a new dictionary titled The Great Passage progresses. Mitsuya Majime, originally from publisher Genbu Shobo's sales department, has been recruited by Kouhei Araki, a veteran editor of the dictionary department who is looking to retire soon. The dictionary department is known internally as the "money-eating insect," but Mitsuya uses his perseverance and attachment to the words in order to become a great editor. Mitsuya, who has poor social skills, finds himself working with another man named Masashi Nishioka, who is able to express himself better.
An animated adaptation of six classical Japanese literature pieces, including No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku) and Run, Melos (Hashire, Melos) by Osamu Dazai, Kokoro by Natsume Souseki, Hell Screen (Jigoku Hen) and The Spider's Thread (Kumo no Ito) by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom (Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita) by Ango Sakaguchi.
A dreamy seamstress and mother of three's life is turned upside down when she's wrongly diagnosed with a terminal disease along with an actually terminally ill wealthy book publisher.
A teacher starts her job at a high school but is haunted by a suspicious death that occurred there weeks before and begins fearing for her own life.
Wishbone is a children's television show. The show's title character is a Jack Russell Terrier of the same name. Wishbone lives with his owner Joe Talbot in the fictional modern town of Oakdale, Texas. He daydreams about being the lead character of stories from classic literature He was known as "the little dog with a big imagination". Only the viewers and the characters in his daydreams can hear Wishbone speak. The characters from his daydreams see Wishbone as whatever famous character he is currently portraying and not as a dog.
Based on the popular mobile game of the same name. Bungo and Alchemist -Gears of Judgement- is set in a fantasy world with famous and handsome historical figures from the field of literature, who must call upon their magical abilities to save books that have been tainted by evil forces.
An anthology of erotic stories by famous writers like Guy de Maupassant, Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne, Marquis de Sade, Giovanni Boccaccio, Marquis de Foudras, Daniel Defoe, Anton Tchekov, Jin Ping Mei, and Aristophanes.
Tincho is a teen vlogger who dreams of becoming Argentinian rock's next big star in this adaptation of "The Gaucho Martín Fierro" by José Hernández.
At first glance Yukishiro Nanako seems like a normal high school girl, but she has a notable eccentricity: instead of speaking, she communicates only through written senryu poetry! This means she expresses herself only in 5-7-5 syllables. To most this might seem like an inconvenience, but for Nanako and her ex-delinquent bestie, Busujima Eiji, it adds to the experience of their high school lives as they run the Literature Club.
Based on the light novel series by Nomura Mizuki.
1837: Another year of the grueling Caucasian war. A young officer, Grigory Pechorin, was sent into exile to the active army for participating in a duel. Here in the Caucasus, Pechorin will have to become an unwitting participant in rapidly unfolding events - a fight with smugglers, the abduction of a young Circassian princess, another duel. And when the whole world turns against Pechorin, and a close friend falls by his hand, he will continue his journey alone, a hero, a product of the new age...
"Miss Bernard" herself, Machida Sawako, and her book-loving friends live their literary days in the library. This gag series glorifying famous literature is filled with love for books of all sorts, as well as the kinds of things that all readers experience!
When Kazusa enters high school, she joins the Literature Club, where she leaps from reading innocent fiction to diving into the literary classics. But these novels are a bit more...adult than she was prepared for. Between euphemisms like fresh dewy grass and pork stew, crushing on the boy next door, and knowing you want to do that one thing before you die--discovering your budding sexuality is no easy feat! As if puberty wasn't awkward enough, the club consists of a brooding writer, the prettiest girl in school, an agreeable comrade, and an outspoken prude. Fumbling over their own discomforts, these five teens get thrown into chaos over three little letters: S...E...X...!
