Bookages Best Movies About Books List!
Stranger Than Fiction and Other Movies for Bookworms!
1. Stranger Than Fiction
Stranger Than Fiction is a reader's pipe dream – or, given on how you look at it, a reader's worst fear. Harold Crick (played by Will Ferrell) wakes up one morning to discover his every step being narrated by a lady he has never met.
What are the best movies for book lovers? Stranger Than Fiction. Courtesy Photo.
With the help of an outstanding cast (including Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Queen Latifah, and Maggie Gyllenhaal), he must figure out if he's in a comedy or a tragedy, and if he'll make it to the end of his story. This is a film that stands out from the crowd, hitting the perfect combination of humor and emotion. It is certain to appeal to book enthusiasts.
2. Adaptation
It doesn't get much more surreal than Charlie Kaufman's film Adaptation, which is about Kaufman's attempts to adapt the book The Orchid Thief, which he was working on at the time.
What are the best films for a book lovers movie marathon? Adaptation. Courtesy Photo.
This film is a gem that will bring readers, writers, and cinephiles together, and it should be seen by anyone who appreciates toying with the blurry boundary between fiction and reality – and anyone who is intrigued about how that line shifts from page to screen.
3. Book Club
The particular bonds that build in a book club are something that many book lovers can identify to. Four friends (Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen) find their lives transformed after they read Fifty Shades of Grey for their monthly meeting in this humorous romantic comedy from Bill Holderman.
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This film may sound like a strange concept and unreal, but it does exist, and it's the feel-good, hilarious classic we didn't realize we needed.
4. The Jane Austen Book Club
There are numerous good adaptations of Jane Austen's many renowned novels, but none do so as well as The Jane Austen Book Club does for her devotees.
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It's about a circle of friends who spend their time together analyzing Jane Austen's writings – and who start to detect parallels of their own lives in the stories they're reading. It's as warm and inviting as Austen's novels, and it's the ideal literary companion for a movie.
5. Austenland
If you haven't watched this quirky and odd romantic comedy before, now is the time to do so. Jane (Kerri Russell) is enamored with Jane Austen and takes a vacation to Austenland, a Jane Austen-themed resort, in the hopes of finding her true love.
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It's utterly cute and sweet, and if you've ever wished you could live inside a favorite book, you'll find a little bit of onscreen camaraderie here.
6. The History of Boys
The History Boys can be compared to Dead Poets Society's younger, more contemporary British brother. It's about young kids who love studying and, more specifically, who love books, and it's based on Alan Bennett's play.
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Anyone who enjoys reading will appreciate watching these characters examine great works of literature on TV, as well as the way their increasingly complicated dynamics develop over time.
7. Persepolis
Of course, there are hundreds – if not thousands – of movies based on books, in addition to the countless films about books and their readers. Some are better than others, as we all know.
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Persepolis, based on the graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi, is one of the best. Persepolis epitomizes what it means to use the art of adaptation miraculously, and it certainly helps that the film employs Satrapi's stunning artwork as its animation technique. If you haven't already done so, read this classic coming-of-age narrative about Satrapi's life in Iran in the 1970s before watching this equally fantastic, animated feature.
8. A Wrinkle in Time
The film adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time by Ava DuVernay is a rendition for the ages. There's something unique about witnessing the novels we loved as kids turned into big-budget blockbusters, especially when they're done with as much love and enchantment as DuVernay's version.
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With more passion than any movie you've seen in a while, this production stays loyal to the book's core while also stretching beyond it, demonstrating what cinema can offer to stories of all kinds.
9. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
This might well be the ideal book-lover film, as it is literally based on a novel about a book club. A novelist travels to a small island in the immediate aftermath of World War II to meet with the aforementioned literary and potato peel pie club, which was created out of need by Guernsey's people during German rule.
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This historical piece has a lot going on, but it's ultimately a gorgeous picture that will make you want to go read something fantastic as soon as the credits roll.
10. If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk, based on the James Baldwin novel of the same name, may have already been seen, but it is one of those films that you simply cannot watch too many times. Instead of copying the source material line for line, the best film adaptations appreciate the differences between the two mediums and use the superpower of film to breathe new life into it.
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Barry Jenkins' magnificent work is the prime example of this, portraying a beauty that feels literary in nature and that is normally only found on the page. Each shot's aesthetics are so rich that they almost feel like language, and this love story is so lovely that it practically glows on screen.