These are the 8 best films about books

Books andbelong together like thatand that-one hardly goes without the other, especially since most films are based on (rotating) books. But there is definitelyFilms in which books play a key role in content.

It is also astonishing that there is almost no film adaptation that is accessible to the book template.are always better than the films emerging from them. In this respect, a double good idea to pay a lot of attention here in films.

Based on the Umberto Eco novel of the same name, the film came in 1986The name of the roseto the cinema. In it, some monks are murdered, which the monk William from Baskerville (Sean Connery) wants to educate together with his helper Adson by Melk (Christian Slater). As it turns out, a forbidden font is in the foreground in the murders, namely that of the strictly kept secretBooks of poeticsFrom Aristotle. But both this and some other precious books from the monasterythreat to burn when it is threatened by a fire. Apparently heads from the top want to make the books disappear and cover up the associated murders.

Also Spike Jonzes film classicAdaptionis one of the best books about films. At its center is Charlie Kaufman (), for his script tooBeing John Malkovichreceived several awards and enthusiastically accepts the order that The orchid thiefto adapt. Only: he does not want to succeed because there is neither a correct figure drawing nor an action. So he thinks about a different approach, namely that of the problems with the adaptation of the book. For this, Charlie, together with his twin brother Donald, begins to sniff behind the author of the original template (Meryl Streep).

One of the maybeis without a question the greatThe Club of the Dead PoetsWith the grandiose Robin Williams as a young teacher John Keating. He teaches an extremely conservative boys' college in New England at the end of the 1950s and tries to bring his students to new thoughts through poems and thereby help them out of their conservative corset-and this falls on fertile soil with his students. So much that the title -giving club of the dead poets is created, in which the members are in an old one at nightMeet to show classic poems at candlelight. Unfortunately, this is not particularly well received by the school management and the teachers, because free spirituality is considered frowned upon there. But the mental bonds will soon lead to a tragedy.

In the film adaptation of Michael Ende's classic literaryThe infinite storyis not just about a book, but also a story in it that is infinite - you have to come to that first. But now specifically to the content: Protagonist is the young Bastian Balthasar Bux, who - tyrannized by schoolmates - into oneFleet, a mysterious book discovered and steals. When he starts reading it, he sinks deep into the fabulous world of fantasies described there, in which a young adventurer named Atréju has to save the childish empress - with Bastians help. A wonderful, timelessly terrific and really stunning story that (almost) fascinates as a film as a book.

Dance of the devilorThe Evil DeadAs it is called in the original, it has long since brought it to world fame - even if the film was not a great success in its appearance in 1981. But the likeable, and therefore effective B-movie look has something, especially since the low budget ensures a comedy that, despite all the splatter sequences, give the film a pleasant lightness. What it is about? To a group of young people in oneFind a mysterious, ancient book and a tape device. The book is calledNature DemontoAnd seems to be involved in human skin and written with human blood. On the tape, the group reveals that the book, which is written in Sumerian and contains morbid drawings, contain formulas for summoning demons. What happens then you can imagine ...

InThe reader, the adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's novel of the same name, not only play books the leading role, he was also shot in Germany-and is waiting not only with Oscar winner Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes, but also with some German actors, including David Kross, Hannah Herzsprung, Bruno Ganz, Karoline Herfurth and many others. The story takes place in Neustadt in the early 1950s, where 15-year-old Michael (David Kross) an unknown woman in his mid-thirties () met. Michael has a jingle of juices and the woman takes care of him. When he is healthy again, he brings the woman who is called Hanna Schmitz as a thank you to a bouquet of flowers, from which an affair develops. Part of this is that Michael Hanna always reads after sex.

The specialSchräger as fictionIn connection with books, the fact that the book as such does not occur is not at all, but a book delivers the great superstructure, because: The life of Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) negotiated in the film is one that is currently being written down - by the successful author Karen Eifel (Emma Thompson). The book is almost finished, but of course Eifel has no idea that her story in the real world takes place parallel to what she is writing down. That only changes when Harold can suddenly hear Karen Eifel's voice in his head. This is particularly tragic when he learns by the fact that Karen's book should soon come to an end - with Harold's death.

It is probably the least noted film by scandal director Roman Polanski:The nine gateswithand Lena Olin. Johnny Depp plays the book detective Dean Corso, who is asked one day by a collector of devil books, the authenticity of a copy ofThe nine gates In the realm of the shadowTo check - one of only two existing editions. And Corso quickly finds out that the book is more than real - and that a lot of people are after him. An exciting and widely underestimated- and one of the best films about books ever.