Avainsana Literature

Omalaatuinen John Keating palaa lapsuutensa kouluun opettajaksi. Hän yllyttää oppilaitaan elämään täysillä, ja nämä herättävätkin henkiin Kuolleiden runoilijoiden seuran ja rikkovat koulun sääntöjä.

Edward ja Connie Sumner elävät täydellistä elämää: heidän avioliittonsa on onnellinen, heillä on 8-vuotias poika ja ihana talo arvostetulla alueella... Mutta kun Connie tapaa viettelevän muukalaisen ja antautuu tämän kanssa suhteeseen, intohimo muuttuu pakkomielteeksi ja petoksen kova hinta vaatii maksajan.

(USA-Britannia-Tsekki). Heath Ledger ja Matt Damon esittävät legendaarisia Grimmin veljeksiä jännittävässä seikkailuelokuvassa, jonka on ohjannut Monty Python -koomikkoryhmän visionääri Terry Gillia

Sama kaipuu, samat pelot ja sama kirja yhdistävät kolmea eri aikoina elävää naista. Yksi naisista on Virginia Woolf, joka kirjoittaa kirjaansa Clarissa Dallowaysta vuoden 1923 Englannissa. Kotiäiti Laura Brown elää 1950-luvun Amerikassa eikä voi laskea kirjaa käsistään ja kolmas nainen, Clarissa Vaughn, on rouva Dallowayn moderni versio.

16-vuotias koripallolahjakkuus Jamal Wallace hyväksytään maineikkaaseen manhattanilaiseen yksityiskouluun. Wallace osaa tehdä muutakin kuin pomputtaa palloa, nuori mies on todellinen suurlupaus myös luokkahuoneessa. Koulussa Jamal ystävystyy erakkokirjailija William Forresterin kanssa. Jamal rohkaisee Pulitzer-palkittua kirjailijalegendaa tulemaan esiin varjoista; Forrester auttaa nuorta Jamalia oppimaan elämän rasismin ja ennakkoluulojen kanssa. Kahden hyvin erilaisen miehen ystävyyden syventyessä Jamal saa rohkeutta toteuttaakseen unelmansa: hän haluaa kirjoittaa!

Kirjallisuutta ja etenkin Gustave Flaubertin teoksia rakastava leipuri Martin asuu pienessä kylässä Ranskan Normandiassa. Eräänä päivänä hänen naapureikseen muuttaa englantilainen pariskunta, joihin Martin haluaa heti tutustua paremmin. Syyt tähän ovat ymmärrettäviä: sen lisäksi, että uusien tulokkaiden nimet ovat Gemma ja Charles Bovery, myös pariskunta itsessään muistuttaa Martinia Flaubertin Rouva Bovary -klassikkokirjan kohutuista hahmoista. Voiko tarina tällä kertaa päättyä ilman skandaalia?

Tylsä verotarkastaja Harold alkaa kuulla kertojanäänen päässään ja tajuaa olevansa kirjan henkilöhahmo. Hänen on löydettävä tarinansa kirjoittaja ennen kuin tämä keksii kuinka Harold pääsee hengestään.

Tositapahtumiin perustuva elokuva sijoittuu 50-luvun Uuteen-Seelantiin. Kahden mielikuvitusleikkeihin hurahtavan teinitytön välille kehittyy hullu rakkaus, joka johtaa kauhistuttavaan veritekoon. Splatter-leffoista vielä tuolloin tunnettu Peter Jackson (Taru sormusten herrasta) luo kauniisti vinksahtanutta melodraamaa. Kate Winsletistä tuli sittemmin tähti, Melanie Lynskey päätyi Miehenpuolikkaisiin.

Bennett Millerin ohjaamassa Capotessa keskitytään kirjailijan menestysteokseen Kylmäverisesti. Kirja on tosipohjainen raportti vuonna 1959 Kansasissa tapahtuneesta maanviljelijäperheen raa’asta murhasta ja surmatyön tehneiden kahden nuoren miehen kohtalosta.

Kun viisi naista ja yksi mies kokoontuvat keskustelemaan englantilaiskirjailijan rakastetuista romaaneista, he huomaavat, etteivät Emman, Mr. Darcyn ja Bennetin sisarusten sydänsurut ole niin kovin kaukana heidän omistaan. Lohtu, turva ja viisaus, jonka ryhmä löytää toisistaan ja kirjojen sivuilta, saa heidät tajuamaan, että kaikkiin rakkauden koukeroihin löytyy vastaus yhdestä kysymyksestä: Mitä Jane tekisi?

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.

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."

The trials and tribulations of 108 outlaws during the mid Song Dynasty.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A journey through America that introduces our list of the 100 best-loved books and explores the many ways in which these novels affect, reflect and connect us all.

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.

"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!

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...

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.

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.

Sisters Laura and Diana enjoy reading, but Laura is passionate about it. She tells different stories from Peruvian and world literature, among which there are novels, poems, short stories and oral stories. Each one transmits a message.