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The Eagle has landed
From the novel The Eagle has landed by Jack Higgins
Earth
Based on the novel Ice candy man (published in the U.S. as Cracking India) by Bapsi Sidhwa
Earth story
Tie-in book by Simon Lamb
Earthsea
Mini-series based on the Earthsea quartet by Ursula Le Guin
East is east
From the 1997 play East is east by Ayub Khan-Din
East side, west side (1949)
From the 1947 novel East side, west side by Marcia Davenport
The Echo of thunder
From the 1989 novel Thunderwith by Libby Hathorn
The Echo
From the novel The Echo by Minette Walters
Ed Wood
Based on a 1992 biography Nightmare of ecstasy: the life and art of Edward D Wood Jr by Rudolph Grey
Edward and Mrs Simpson
Based on the book Edward VIII by Frances Donaldson
The Education of Little Tree
From the 1976 book The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter
The Eiger Sanction
From the 1975 novel The Eiger Sanction by Trevanian
Eleanor and Franklin
From the book Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph Lash
Election
From the novel Election by Tom Perrotta
Elizabeth
Tie-in book is Elizabeth: apprenticeship by David Starkey
Elizabeth and Essex
From the play Elizabethe the queen by Maxwell Anderson
Elizabeth of Ladymead
From the 1948 play Elizabeth of Ladymead by Frank Harvey
Ella enchanted
Gail Carson Levine's 1997 children's novel, which won the Newbery Award in 1998, is a fantasy about a girl named Ella who receives a gift of obedience from a fairy and has to obey any order given to her. A Cinderella story that the film makers hope will be a winner with the lucrative pre-teenage girl market, it has Anne Hathaway (from The princess diaries) as Ella, Hugh Dancy, Cary Elwes and Minnie Driver.
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Ellen Foster
From the novel Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
The Emigrants
From the novel The Emigrants by Vilhelm Moberg
Emil and the detectives
From the novel Emil and the detectives by Erich Kastner
Emma
From the novel Emma by Jane Austen
Empire Falls
This highly readable 2001 novel by Richard Russo won the Pulitzer Prize and became a well deserved popular success. Russo's good natured and often funny tales of small town lives have been undervalued for years and it was good that this one, set in a small New England town, did so well.
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Empire of the sun
From the 1984 novel Empire of the sun by J. G. Ballard
Empire of the wolves
One of the biggest international successes of recent years for the French film industry has been Blood red rivers, a violent and quite ludicrously outlandish thriller that was adapted from a bestselling novel by Jean-Christophe Grange. This novel is a thriller set in the Turkish community in Paris dealing with some horrific torture-killings that have links to a ruthless group of Turkish mafia members. Jean Reno plays the same investigator character he played in the original film.
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Enchanted April
From the novel Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim
The End of the affair
From the novel The End of the affair by Graham Greene
The Endurance
From the 1998 book The Endurance by Caroline Alexander
Enduring love
Ian McEwan's 1997 novel is about two strangers whose lives become intertwined when they each witness a tragic accident. One of the two is obsessive and delusional and he disrupts the life of the other man and the man's girlfriend. Roger Michell, who made The mother and Notting Hill, directs and the cast includes Daniel Craig, Rhys Ifans, Samantha Morton and Corin Redgrave. Read the Book ~ About the Film
Enemy at the gates
From the 1973 book Enemy at the gates by William Craig
The Englishman who went up a hill and came down a mountain
From the novel The Englishman who went up a hill and came down a mountain by Chris Monger
The English patient
From the novel The English patient by Michael Ondaatje
Enigma
From the 1995 novel Enigma by Robert Harris
Ensemble C’est Tout
This is an adaptation of a hugely popular 2004 French novel by Anna Gavalda that has been translated into English (2006) as Hunting and gathering. It’s about four lonely people who end up living together in a grand apartment overlooking the Eiffel Tower. Two of them, Camille, a gamine anorexic, and Franck, a rude chef from the provinces, fall in love. One of the characters is an elderly lady who is abandoned by her family in a grim resthome and Gavalda based this character on her distress at the number of elderly people living alone who died during the 2003 heatwave. The novel ended up entrancing many readers and it is almost like a return to Amelie for Audrey Tautou who joins Guillaume Canet, Laurent Stocker and Helene Surgere. Claude Berri directs.
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Entertaining Mr Sloane
From the play Entertaining Mr Sloane by Joe Orton in his Collected plays
Epitaph
Tie-in book by Paul Gittins
Epitaph II
Tie-in book by Paul Gittins
Eragon coverEragon
Stefen Fangmeier, previously supervisor of visual effects on a number of big productions, makes his directing debut with this adaptation of the 2003 Young Adult novel by Christopher Paolini. It’s an imaginative fantasy about a boy who discovers a dragon egg, a discovery that leads him to becomes a knight and set out to battle an evil king. Newcomer Edward Speleers plays the title character and the large supporting cast includes Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Robert Carlyle, Djimon Hounsou, Alun Armstrong and Sienna Guillory.
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Erik the Viking
Based on the 1983 novel The Saga of Erik the Viking by Terry Jones
Escape from Absolom
From the novel The Penal colony by Richard Herley
Escape from Alcatraz
From the 1964 book Escape from Alcatraz by J. Campbell Bruce
Escape to Witch Mountain
Based on the 1974 novel Escape to Witch Mountain by Alexander Key
Eureka Street
From the 1996 novel Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson
Even cowgirls get the blues
From the 1976 novel Even cowgirls get the blues by Tom Robbins
Evening
This adaptation of the 1998 novel by Susan Minot explores the past and present of a woman (played by Vanessa Redgrave) and her daughters, Constance (played by Redgrave’s own daughter, Natasha Richardson and Aussie actress Toni Collette). As the woman is dying, she remembers, and is moved to convey to her daughters, the defining moments in her life 50 years prior, when she was a young woman (played at this stage of the proceedings by Claire Danes). Mamie Gummer and Meryl Streep, who are mother and daughter in real life, are portraying a college friend Lila as younger and older woman, respectively. A significant supporting cast includes Glenn Close, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Dancy and Eileen Atkins and the director is Hungarian film maker Lajos Koltai.
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The Evening star
From the novel The Evening star by Larry McMurtry
Everybody wins
From a minor Arthur Miller play Some kind of love story in Two way mirror
Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer's remarkable 2002 debut novel is about a young Jewish-American man who goes to the Ukraine to find the woman who helped save his grandfather during World War II. Actor Liev Schreiber makes his directing debut with the film version, made on location in Czechoslavakia. Schreiber has also written the adaptation. The leading part is played by Elijah Wood. The parts of the elderly man and his grandson who act as guides for the young American are played by Eugene Hutz and Boris Leskin.
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Everything you always wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask
Based on a book Everything you always wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask by David Reuben
Every woman knows a secret
From the 1996 novel Every woman knows a secret by Rosie Thomas
Evidence of love
From the 1984 book Evidence of love by John Bloom and Jim Atkinson
An Evil streak
From the 1977 novel An Evil streak by Andrea Newman
Evil under the sun
From the 1941 novel Evil under the sun by Agatha Christie
Evita
From the musical play Evita by Tim Rice
Exit to Eden
From the 1985 novel Exit to Eden by Anne Rice
Exit wounds
From the 1988 novel Exit wounds by John Westerman
The Exorcist
From the 1971 novel The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Exorcist lll
From the novel Legion by William Peter Blatty
Extreme measures
From the novel Extreme measures by Michael Palmer
An Eye for an eye
From the 1993 novel An Eye for an eye by Erika Holzer
Eye of the beholder
From the 1980 novel Eye of the beholder by Marc Behm