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special author sections:
Raymond Chandler -- Tom Clancy -- Michael Crichton
Robert Daley -- E L Doctorow -- James Ellroy
F Scott Fitzgerald -- Ian Fleming -- John Grisham
Patricia Highsmith -- Stephen King -- John Le Carré -- Elmore Leonard
J K Rowling -- Dr. Seuss -- Georges Simenon -- Mickey Spillane
J R R Tolkien -- Donald E Westlake
Noël Coward -- David Mamet -- Neil Simon -- Tennessee Williams
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the following directors' filmographies have been checked to ensure that their major films (that is, excluding short films) which are literary adaptations are listed here. Those specifically interested in any filmmaker should use the search function of their Web browser.
Woody Allen (3) [+3 literary works, 2 of which adapted by himself as director]
Jack Clayton (7)
Stanley Kubrick (10)
Richard Lester (10)
Bob Rafelson (4)
The following directors have a large number of films listed here. Their entire filmographies have not been checked: if not because I simply haven't gotten around to the task, then because information about some of their films is not easily available. These totals do not include films noted in the Variants section at the end of this page.
Robert Altman: 10; Francis Ford Coppola: 8; David Cronenberg: 8; George Cukor: 5; Basil Dearden: 4; Brian De Palma: 5; Clint Eastwood: 4; David Fincher: 5; John Ford: 6; Miloš Forman: 4; Alfred Hitchcock: 9; John Huston: 25; Elia Kazan: 4; David Lean: 7; Ang Lee: 4; Sidney Lumet: 23; Mike Nichols: 6; Roman Polanski: 6; Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger: 3 (Powell alone: 2); Otto Preminger: 9; Martin Scorsese: 7; Rob Reiner: 5; Tony Richardson: 8; Nicholas Roeg: 4; Ken Russell: 6; John Schlesinger: 4; Steven Speilberg: 8; Orson Welles: 5; William Wyler: 7.
an asterisk next to the author's name indicates that he also wrote or co-wrote the screenplay
highlighted literary works are those found in the Greater Books master list
highlighted films are those found in the critics' and directors' top ten of Sight and Sound's decennial polls of the greatest films of all time (1952-2022); the Village Voice's 100 Best Films of the Twentieth Century (2001); the 100 Essential Films according to The National Society of Film Critics (2002); Entertainment Weekly's 100 Greatest Films of All Time (1999; the list is actually 125-long); Channel 4's 100 Greatest Films of All Time; or Leonard Maltin's 100 Must-See Films of the 20th Century (2000)
As seen in the repeated rows (those with dotted-line borders), the relation between literary work and film is not direct. Those repeated rows, when on the left-hand (literary work) side of the table, indicate that a book has been adapted multiple times. Repeated rows on the right-hand (film) side of the table, however, indicate that multiple works served as the basis for the film. In other words, this table assumes that the film is dependent upon the book and thus does not include novelizations of films.
| Novel | Film |
|---|---|
| El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha [1605; 1615] Miguel de Cervantes |
Don Quixote [1933] G W Pabst |
| '' | Don Quijote de la Mancha [1947] Rafael Gil |
| '' | Don Kihot [1957] Grigori Kozintsev |
| '' | Don Quixote [2000] Peter Yates |
| Koshoku Ichidai Onna [1686] (The Life of an Amorous Woman) Ihara Saikaku |
Saikaku Ichidai Onna (The Life of Oharu) [1952] Kenji Mizoguchi |
| The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner [1719] Daniel Defoe |
Aventuras de Robinson Crusoe [1954] Luis Buñuel |
| '' | Man Friday [1975] Jack Gold |
| '' | Crusoe [1989] Caleb Deschanel |
| The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling [1749] Henry Fielding |
Tom Jones [1963] Tony Richardson |
| Ugetsu Monogatari [1776] Ueda Akinari |
Ugetsu [1953] Kenji Mizoguchi |
| Die Marquise von O [1808] (The Marquise of O) Heinrich von Kleist |
Die Marquise von O [1979] Eric Rohmer |
| Sense and Sensibility [1811] Jane Auten |
Sense and Sensibility [1995] Ang Lee |
| Pride and Prejudice [1813] Jane Auten |
Pride and Prejudice [1940] Robert Z Leonard |
| '' | Pride and Prejudice [2005] Joe Wright |
| Emma [1815] Jane Auten |
Emma [1996] Douglas McGrath |
| Persausion [1817] Jane Auten |
Persuasion [1995] Roger Michell |
| Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus [1818] Mary Shelley |
Frankenstein [1931] James Whale |
| '' | The Curse of Frankenstein [1957] Terence Fisher |
| '' | Frankenstein: The True Story [1973] Jack Smight |
| '' | Frankenstein [1992] David Wickes |
| '' | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein [1994] Kenneth Branagh |
| The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 [1826] James Fenimore Cooper |
The Last of the Mohicans [1920] Maurice Tourneur, Clarence Brown |
| '' | The Last of the Mohicans [1936] George B Seitz |
| '' | The Last of the Mohicans [1992] Michael Mann |
| Le Rouge et Noir [1830] (The Red and the Black) Stendhal |
Le Rouge et Noir [1954] Claude Autant-Lara |
| '' | Il Corriere del Re [1954] (The Courier of the King) Claude Autant-Lara |
| La Chartreuse de Parme [1839] (The Charterhouse of Parma) Stendhal |
La Chartreuse de Parme [1948] Christian-Jaque |
| A Christmas Carol [1843] Charles Dickens |
Scrooge [1935] Henry Edwards |
| '' | A Christmas Carol [1938] Edwin L Marin |
| '' | Scrooge [1951] Brian Desmond Hurst |
| '' | Scrooge [1970] Ronald Neame |
| '' | A Muppet Christmas Carol [1992] Brian Henson |
| Les Trois Mousquetaires [1844] Alexandre Dumas |
The Three Musketeers [1973] Richard Lester |
| '' | The Four Musketeers [1974] Richard Lester |
| Vingt ans Apr`s [1845] Alexandre Dumas |
The Return of the Musketeers [1989] Richard Lester |
| The Luck of Barry Lyndon [1847] William Makepeace Thackeray |
Barry Lyndon [1975] Stanley Kubrick |
| Wuthering Heights [1847] Emily Brontë |
The Wuthering Heights [1939] William Wyler |
| '' | Abismos de Pasión [1954] Luis Buñuel |
| '' | The Wuthering Heights [1970] Robert Fuest |
| '' | Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights [1992] Peter Kosminsky |
| Moby-Dick; or, The Whale [1851] Herman Melville |
The Sea Beast [1928] Millard Webb |
| '' | Moby Dick [1956] John Huston |
| Madame Bovary [1856] Gustave Flaubert |
Madame Bovary [1934] Jean Renoir |
| '' | Madame Bovary [1937] Gerhard Lamprecht |
| '' | Madame Bovary [1949] Vincente Minnelli |
| '' | Madame Bovary [1991] Claude Chabrol |
| '' | Madame Bovary [2014] Sophie Barthes |
| Great Expectations [1861] Charles Dickens |
Great Expectations [1917] Robert G Vignola, Paul West |
| '' | Great Expectations [1934] Stuart Walker |
| '' | Great Expectations [1946] David Lean |
| '' | Great Expectations [1974] Joseph Hardy |
| '' | Great Expectations [1998] Alfonso Cuarón |
| '' | Great Expectations [2012] Mike Newell |
| Amor de Perdição [1862] Camilo Castelo Branco |
Amor de Perdição [1979] Manoel de Oliveira |
| '' | Amor de Perdição [2008] (Doomed Love) Mario Barroso |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865] Lewis Carroll |
Alice in Wonderland [1933] Norman Z McLeod |
| '' | Alice in Wonderland [1951] Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske |
| '' | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1972] William Sterling |
| '' | Alice [1988] Jan Švankmajer |
| '' | Alice in Wonderland [2010] Tim Burton |
| Voyna i Mir" [1869] (War and Peace) Leo Tolstoy |
War and Peace [1956] King Vidor |
| '' | Voyna i Mir" [1966-7] Sergei Bondarchuk |
| Little Women [1869] Louisa May Alcott |
Little Women [1933] George Cukor |
| '' | Little Women [1949] Mervyn LeRoy |
| '' | Little Women [1978] David Lowell Rich |
| '' | Little Women [1994] Gillian Armstrong |
| Around the World in 80 Days [1873] Jules Verne |
Around the World in 80 Days [1956] Michael Anderson |
| '' | Around the World in 80 Days [2004] Frank Coraci |
| Anna Karenina [1878] Leo Tolstoy |
Love [1927] Edmund Goulding |
| '' | Anna Karenina [1935] Clarence Brown |
| '' | Anna Karenina [1948] Julien Duvivier |
| '' | Anna Karenina [1967] Aleksandr Zarkhi |
| '' | Anna Karenina [1997] Bernard Rose |
| '' | Anna Karenina [2012] Joe Wright |
| Far From the Madding Crowd [1874] Thomas Hardy |
Far From the Madding Crowd [1967] John Schlesinger |
| '' | Far From the Madding Crowd [2015] Thomas Vinterberg |
| Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ [1880] Lew Wallace |
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ [1925] Fred Niblo |
| '' | Ben-Hur [1959] William Wyler |
| Nana [1880] Émile Zola |
Nana [1926] Jean Renoir |
| '' | Nana [1934] Jean Renoir |
| I Malavoglia [1881] Giovanni Verga |
La Terra Trema [1948] Luchino Visconti |
| The Portrait of a Lady [1881] Henry James |
The Portrait of a Lady [1996] Jane Campion |
| Le Avventure di Pinocchio [1883] Carlo Collodi |
Pinocchio [1940] Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske |
| '' | The Adventures of Pinocchio [1966] Steve Barron |
| '' | Pinocchio [2002] Roberto Benigni |
| Kidnapped [1886] Robert Louis Stevenson |
Kidnapped [1938] Otto Preminger |
| Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented [1891] Thomas Hardy |
Tess [1979] Roman Polanski |
| Tristana [1892] Benito Pérez Galdós |
Tristana [1970] Luis Buñuel |
| The Jungle Book [1894] Rudyard Kipling |
Jungle Book [1942] Zoltan Korda |
| '' | The Jungle Book [1967] Wolfgang Reitherman |
| '' | Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book [1994] Stephen Sommers |
| '' | The Jungle Book [2016] Jon Favreau |
| Effi Briest [1895] Theodor Fontane |
Der Schritt vom Wege [1939] (The False Step) Gustaf Gründgens |
| '' | Effi Briest [1974] Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| The Red Badge of Courage [1895] Stephen Crane |
The Red Badge of Courage [1951] John Huston |
| Dracula [1897] Bram Stoker |
Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie des Grauens [1929] F W Murnau |
| '' | Dracula [1931] Tod Browning |
| '' | Dracula [1958] Terence Fisher |
| '' | Count Dracula [1970] Jesús Franco |
| '' | Count Dracula [1977] Philip Saville |
| '' | Nosferatu the Vampyre [1979] Werner Herzog |
| '' | Dracula [1979] John Badham |
| '' | Bram Stoker's Dracula [1992] Francis Ford Coppola |
| McTeague: A Story of San Francisco [1899] Frank Norris |
Greed [1924] Erich von Stroheim |
| Heart of Darkness [1899] Joseph Conrad |
Apocalypse Now [1979] Francis Ford Coppola |
| '' | Heart of Darkness [1993] Nicolas Roeg |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [1900] L Frank Baum |
The Wizard of Oz [1939] Victor Fleming |
| The Wings of a Dove [1902] Henry James |
Les Ailes de la Colombe [1981] Benoît Jacquot |
| '' | The Wings of a Dove [1997] Iain Softley |
| The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus [1902] L Frank Baum |
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus [1985] Jules Bass; Arthur Rankin, Jr. |
| Les 120 Journées de Sodome ou l'École du Libertinage [1904] (The 120 Days of Sodom) Marquis de Sade |
Salò o le 120 Giornate di Sodoma [1975] Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| The Clansmen: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan [1905] Thomas F Dixon, Jr. |
The Birth of a Nation [1915] D W Griffith |
| The Railway Children [1905] E Nesbit |
The Railway Children [1970] Lionel Jeffries |
| The House of Mirth [1905] Edith Wharton |
The House of Mirth [2000] Terence Davies |
| Wagahai wa Neko de Aru [1906] (I Am a Cat) Natsume Soseki |
Wagahai wa Neko de Aru [1975] Kon Ichikawa |
| Körkarlen [1906] (Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness!) Selma Lagerlöf |
Körkarlen [1921] (The Phantom Carriage) Victor Sjöström |
| Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal [1907] Roy Horniman |
Kind Hearts and Coronets [1949] Robert Hamer |
| Anne Pedersdotter [1908] Hans Wiers-Jenssen |
Vredens Drag [1943] (Day of Wrath) Carl Theodor Dryer |
| A Room With a View [1908] E M Forster |
A Room With a View [1985] James Ivory |
| Pelle Erobreren [1910] Martin Andersen Nexø |
Pelle Erobreren [1987] Bille August |
| The Lair of the White Worm [1911] Bram Stoker |
The Lair of the White Worm [1988] Ken Russell |
| Sons and Lovers [1913] D H Lawrence |
Sons and Lovers [1960] Jack Cardiff |
| Teni Zabytyh Predkov [1913] (Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors) Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky |
Teni Zabytyh Predkov [1965] Sergei Parajanov |
| The Thirty-Nine Steps [1915] John Buchan |
The 39 Steps [1935] Alfred Hitchcock |
| '' | The 39 Steps [1959] Ralph Thomas |
| '' | The 39 Steps [1978] Don Sharp |
| '' | The 39 Steps [2008] James Hawes |
| The Magnificent Ambersons [1918] Booth Tarkington |
The Magnificent Ambersons [1942] Orson Welles |
| Billy Budd, Foretopman [1924] Herman Melville |
Beau Travail [1999] Claire Denis |
| The Age of Innocence [1920] Edith Wharton |
The Age of Innocence [1993] Martin Scorsese |
| Women in Love [1920] D H Lawrence |
Women in Love [1969] Ken Russell |
| Lûbov' Žanny Nej [1924] (The Love of Jeanne Ney) Ilya Ehrenburg |
Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney [1927] G W Pabst |
| A Passage to India [1924] E M Forster |
A Passage to India [1984] David Lean |
| Plumes [1925] Laurence Stallings |
The Big Parade [1925] King Vidor |
| Metropolis [1925] Thea von Harbou |
Metropolis [1927] Fritz Lang |
| Der Process [1925] Franz Kafka |
The Trial [1962] Orson Welles |
| '' | The Trial [1993] David Jones |
| Traumnovelle [1926] (Rhapsody: A Dream Novel) Arthur Schintzler |
Eyes Wide Shut [1999] Stanley Kubrick |
| Der Schatz der Sierra Madre [1927] B Traven |
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre [1948] John Huston |
| Thérèse Desqueyroux [1927] François Mauriac |
Thérèse Desqueyroux [1962] Georges Franju |
| Amerika [1927] Franz Kafka |
Klassenverhältnisse [1984] Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Staub |
| Belle de Jour [1928] Joseph Kessel |
Belle de Jour [1967] Luis Buñuel |
| Im Westen Nichts Neues [1928] Erich Maria Remarque |
All Quiet on the Western Front [1930] Lewis Milestone |
| '' | All Quiet on the Western Front [1979] Delbert Mann |
| Cimarron [1929] Edna Ferber |
Cimarron [1931] Wesley Ruggles |
| Menschen im Hotel [1929] Vicki Baum |
Grand Hotel [1932] Edmund Goulding |
| Scarface [1929] Armitage Trail |
Scarface [1932] Howard Hawks |
| '' | Scarface [1983] Brian De Palma |
| Dodsworth [1929] Sinclair Lewis |
Dodsworth [1936] William Wyler |
| The Maltese Falcon [1929] Dashiell Hammett |
The Maltese Falcon [1941] John Huston |
| Les Enfants Terribles [1929] Jean Cocteau |
Les Enfants Terribles [1950] Jean-Pierre Melville |
| Pather Panchali [1929] Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay |
Pather Panchali [1955] Satyajit Ray |
| Passing [1929] Nella Larsen |
Passing [2021] Rebecca Hall |
| Pépé le Moko [1931] Henri La Barthe* [pseudonym: Détective Ashelbé] |
Pépé le Moko [1937] Julien Duvivier |
| Kleiner Mann - Was Nun? [1932] Hans Fallada |
Kleiner Mann - Was Nun? [1933] Fritz Wendhausen |
| '' | Little Man, What Now? [1934] Frank Borzage |
| Mutiny on the Bounty [1928] Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall |
Mutiny on the Bounty [1935] Frank Lloyd |
| Aparajito [1932] Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay |
Aparajito [1956] Satyajit Ray |
| '' | Apur Sansar [1959] (The World of Apu) Satyajit Ray |
| The Thin Man [1934] Dashiell Hammett |
The Thin Man [1934] W. S. Van Dyke |
| The Postman Always Rings Twice [1934] James M Cain |
Le Dernier Tournant [1939] (The Last Turning) Pierre Chenal |
| '' | Ossessione [1943] Luchino Visconti |
| '' | The Postman Always Rings Twice [1946] Tay Garnett |
| '' | The Postman Always Rings Twice [1981] Bob Rafelson |
| '' | Szenvedély [1998] (Passion) György Fehér |
| The African Queen [1935] C S Forester |
The African Queen [1951] John Huston |
| Paths of Glory [1935] Humphrey Cobb |
Paths of Glory [1957] Stanley Kubrick |
| Jamaica Inn [1936] Daphne Du Maurier |
Jamaica Inn [1939] Alfred Hitchcock |
| Gone With the Wind [1936] Margaret Mitchell |
Gone With the Wind [1939] Victor Fleming |
| The Wheel Spins [1936] Ethel Lina White |
The Lady Vanishes [1938] Alfred Hitchcock |
| '' | The Lady Vanishes [1979] Anthony Page |
| Journal d'un Curé de Campagne [1936] (The Diary of a Country Priest) Georges Bernanos |
Journal d'un Curé de Campagne [1951] Robert Bresson |
| Of Mice and Men [1937] John Steinbeck |
Of Mice and Men [1939] Lewis Milestone |
| '' | Of Mice and Men [1992] Gary Sinise |
| To Have and Have Not [1937] Ernest Hemingway |
To Have and Have Not [1944] Howard Hawks |
| '' | The Breaking Point [1950] Michael Curtiz |
| '' | The Gun Runners [1958] Don Siegel |
| Thieves Like Us [1937] Edward Anderson |
They Live by Night [1948] Nicholas Ray |
| '' | Thieves Like Us [1974] Robert Altman |
| Nouvelle Histoire de Mouchette [1937] Georges Bernanos |
Mouchette [1967] Robert Bresson |
| Moj Drug Ivan Lapsin [1937] (My Friend Ivan Lapshin) Yuri German |
Moj Drug Ivan Lapsin [1985] Aleksei German |
| Rebecca [1938] Daphne du Maurier |
Rebecca [1940] Alfred Hitchcock |
| Who Goes There? [1938] John W Campbell, Jr. [pseudonym: Don A Stuart] |
The Thing From Another World [1951] Christian Nyby |
| '' | Horror Express [1972] Eugenio Martin |
| '' | The Thing [1982] John Carpenter |
| '' | The Thing [2011] Matthis van Heijningen, Jr. |
| Age of Consent [1938] Norman Lindsay |
Age of Consent [1969] Michael Powell |
| The Grapes of Wrath [1939] John Steinbeck |
The Grapes of Wrath [1940] John Ford |
| How Green Was My Valley [1939] Richard Llewellyn |
How Green Was My Valley [1941] John Ford |
| Black Narcissus [1939] Rumer Godden |
Black Narcissus [1947] Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger |
| Ungeduld des Herzens [1939] Stefan Zweig |
Beware of Pity [1946] Maurice Elvey |
| Johnny Got His Gun [1939] Dalton Trumbo* |
Johnny Got His Gun [1971] Dalton Trumbo |
| The Day of the Locust [1939] Nathanael West |
The Day of the Locust [1975] John Schlesinger |
| Mrs. Miniver [1939] Jan Struther |
Mrs. Miniver [1942] William Wyler |
| Coup de Grâce [1939] Marguerite Yourcenar |
Coup de Grâce [1976] Volker Schlöndorff |
| The Ox-Bow Incident [1940] Walter Van Tilberg Clark |
The Ox-Bow Incident [1943] William A Wellman |
| Wo Hu Cang Long [1940] Wang Dulu |
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon [2000] Ang lee |
| In This Our Life [1941] Ellen Glasgow |
In This Our Life [1942] John Huston |
| Mildred Pierce [1941] James M Cain |
Mildred Pierce [1945] Michael Curtiz |
| Reflections in a Golden Eye [1941] Carson McCullers |
Reflections in a Golden Eye [1967] John Huston |
| Conversazione in Sicilia [1941] Elio Vittorini |
Sicilia! [1999] Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Staub |
| Bodies Are Where You Find Them [1941] Davis Dresser [pseudonym: Brett Halliday] |
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang [2005] Shane Black |
| Double Indemnity [1943] James M Cain |
Double Indemnity [1944] Billy Wilder |
| Laura [1943] Vera Caspary |
Laura [1944] Otto Preminger |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn [1943] Betty Smith |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn [1945] Elia Kazan |
| Brighton Rock [1943] Graham Greene* |
Brighton Rock [1947] John Boulting |
| The Small Back Room [1943] Nigel Balchin |
The Small Back Room [1949] Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger |
| L'Armeé des Ombres [1943] (The Army of Shadows) Joseph Kessel |
L'Armeé des Ombres [1969] Jean-Pierre Melville |
| The Lost Weekend [1944] Charles R Jackson |
The Lost Weekend [1945] Billy Wilder |
| The Razor's Edge [1944] W Somerset Maugham |
The Razor's Edge [1946] Edmund Goulding |
| '' | The Razor's Edge [1984] John Byrum |
| Gigi [1944] Colette |
Gigi [1958] Vincente Minnelli |
| Glory for Me [1945] MacKinlay Kantor |
The Best Years of Our Lives [1946] William Wyler |
| Written on the Wind [1945] Robert Wilder |
Written on the Wind [1956] Douglas Sirk |
| Dark Passage [1946] David Goodis |
Dark Passage [1947] Delmer Daves |
| All the King's Men [1946] Robert Penn Warren |
All the King's Men [1949] Robert Rossen |
| Vios ke Politia Tou Alexi Zorba [1946] (Zorba the Greek) Nikos Kazantzakis |
Zorba the Greek [1964] Michael Cacoyannis |
| Śmierć Miasta [1946] (Death of a City) Wladyslaw Spzilman, Jerzy Waldorff |
The Pianist [2002] Roman Polanski |
| Gentleman's Agreement [1947] Laura Z Hobson |
Gentleman's Agreement [1947] Elia Kazan |
| Under the Volcano [1947] Malcolm Lowry |
Under the Volcano [1984] John Huston |
| The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy [1948] Evelyn Waugh |
The Loved One [1965] Tony Richardson |
| Father of the Bride [1949] Edward Streeter |
Father of the Bride [1950] Vincente Minnelli |
| '' | Father of the Bride [1991] Charles Shyer |
| The Asphalt Jungle [1949] W R Burnett |
The Asphalt Jungle [1951] Michael Anderson |
| The Man With the Golden Arm [1949] Nelson Algren |
The Man With the Golden Arm [1955] Otto Preminger |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four [1949] George Orwell |
1984 [1956] Michael Anderson |
| '' | Nineteen Eighty-Four [1984] Michael Radford |
| Chichi to Musume (Father and Daughter) Kazuo Hirotsu |
Late Spring [1949] Yasujiro Ozu |
| Moulin Rouge [1950] Pierre La Mure |
Moulin Rouge [1952] John Huston |
| The Cardinal [1950] Henry Morton Robinson |
The Cardinal [1963] Otto Preminger |
| Jack's Return Home [1950] Ted Lewis |
Get Carter [1971] Mike Hodges |
| La Colmena [1950] (The Hive) Camilo José Cela |
La Colmena [1982] Mario Camus |
| The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe [1950] C S Lewis |
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe [2005] Andrew Adamson |
| From Here to Eternity [1951] James Jones |
From Here to Eternity [1953] Fred Zinnemann |
| Beat the Devil [1951] Claud Cockburn* |
Beat the Devil [1953] John Huston |
| Madame de... [1951] Louis Lévêque de Vilmorin |
Madame de... [1953] (The Earrings of Madame de...) Max Ophüls |
| The Caine Mutiny [1951] Herman Wouk |
The Caine Mutiny [1954] Edward Dmytryk |
| Ukigumo [1951] (Floating Clouds) Fumiko Hayashi |
Ukigumo [1955] Mikio Naruse |
| Stella [1951] Jan de Hartog |
The Key [1958] Carol Reed |
| Nobi [1951] Ooka Shohei |
Nobi [1958] (Fires on the Plain) Kon Ichikawa |
| Spartacus [1951] Howard Fast |
Spartacus [1960] Stanley Kubrick |
| The Day of the Triffids [1951] John Wyndham |
The Day of the Triffids [1970] Steve Sekely |
| Il Conformista (The Conformist) [1951] Alberto Moravia |
Il Conformista [1970] Bernardo Bertolucci |
| Wake in Fright [1951] Kenneth Cook |
Wake in Fright [1971] Ted Kotcheff |
| Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia [1951] C S Lewis |
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian [2008] Andrew Adamson |
| Celle Qui N'Était Plus [1952] (The Woman Who Was No More) Pierre Boileau, Pierre Ayraud [collective pseudonym: Boileu-Narcejac] |
Les Diaboliques [1955] Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| The Tiger in the Smoke [1952] Margery Allingham |
Tiger in the Smoke [1956] Roy Ward Baker |
| Le Pont de la Rivière Kwai [1952] Pierre Boulle |
The Bridge on the River Kwai [1957] David Lean |
| Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison [1952] Charles Shaw |
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison [1957] John Huston |
| Charlotte's Web [1952] E B White |
Charlotte's Web [1973] Charles A Nichols, Iwao Takamoto |
| '' | Charlotte's Web [2006] Gary Winick |
| Wise Blood [1952] Flannery O'Connor |
Wise Blood [1979] John Huston |
| The Hoods [1952] Harry Grey |
Once Upon a Time in America [1984] Sergio Leone |
| The Natural [1952] Bernard Malamud |
The Natural [1984] Barry Levinson |
| The Voyage of the Dawn Treader [1952] C S Lewis |
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader [2010] Michael Apted |
| Johnny Guitar [1953] Roy Chanslor |
Johnny Guitar [1954] Nicholas Ray |
| The Night of the Hunter [1953] Davis Grubb |
The Night of the Hunter [1955] Charles Laughton |
| A Kiss Before Dying [1953] Ira Levin |
A Kiss Before Dying [1956] Gerd Oswald |
| '' | A Kiss Before Dying [1991] James Dearden |
| Jules et Jim [1953] Henri-Pierre Roché |
Jules et Jim [1962] François Truffaut |
| The Snatchers [1953] Lionel White |
The Night of the Following Day [1969] Hubert Cornfield |
| White Hunter Black Heart [1953] Peter Viertel |
White Hunter Black Heart [1990] Clint Eastwood |
| Du Rififi Chez les Hommes [1954] August Le Breton |
Du Rififi Chez les Hommes [1955] Jules Dassin |
| The Searchers [1954] Alan Le May |
The Searchers [1956] John Ford |
| The Body Snatchers [1954] Jack Finney |
Invasion of the Body Snatchers [1956] Don Siegel |
| '' | Invasion of the Body Snatchers [1978] Philip Kaufman |
| '' | Body Snatchers [1993] Abel Ferrara |
| D'Entre les Morts [1954] (The Living and the Dead) Pierre Boileau, Pierre Ayraud [collective pseudonym: Boileu-Narcejac] |
Vertigo [1958] Alfred Hitchcock |
| Il Disprezzo [1954] (A Ghost at Noon) Alberto Moravia |
Contempt [1963] Jean-Luc Godard |
| Lord of the Flies [1954] William Golding |
Lord of the Flies [1964] Peter Brook |
| '' | Alkitrang Dugo [1975] Lupita A Concio |
| '' | Lord of the Flies [1990] Harry Hook |
| I Am Legend [1954] Richard Matheson |
The Last Man on Earth [1964] Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow |
| '' | The Omega Man [1971] Boris Sagal |
| '' | I Am Legend [2007] Francis Lawrence |
| The Group [1954] Mary McCarthy |
The Group [1966] Sidney Lumet |
| The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit [1955] Sloan Wilson |
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit [1956] Nunnally Johnson |
| Clean Break [1955] Lionel White |
The Killing [1956] Stanley Kubrick |
| The Quiet American [1955] Graham Greene |
The Quiet American [1958] Joseph L Mankiewicz |
| '' | The Quiet American [2002] Philip Noyce |
| The Mouse That Roared [1955] Leonard Wibberley |
The Mouse That Roared [1959] Jack Arnold |
| Lolita [1955] Vladimir Nabokov |
Lolita [1962] Stanley Kubrick |
| '' | Lolita [1997] Adrian Lyne |
| Judith Hearne [1955] Brian Moore |
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne [1987] Jack Clayton |
| Badge of Evil [1956] Robert Allison Wade, H Bill Miller [collective pseudonym: Whit Masterson] |
Touch of Evil [1958] Orson Welles |
| Narayama Bushiko [1956] (The Ballad of Narayama) Shichiro Fukazawa |
Narayama Bushiko [1958] Keisuke Kinoshita |
| '' | Narayama Bushiko [1983] Shohei Imamura |
| Les Racines du Ciel [1956] Romain Gary |
The Roots of Heaven [1958] John Huston |
| The Temple of the Golden Pavilion [1956] Yukio Mishima |
Enjo [1958] Kon Ichikawa |
| Down There [1956] David Goodis |
Tirez sur le Pianiste [1960] (Shoot the Piano Player) François Truffaut |
| The Hundred and One Dalmations [1956] Dodie Smith |
One Hundred and One Dalmations [1961] Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi |
| '' | 101 Dalmations [1996] Stephen Herek |
| Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent [1956] Henri-Pierre Roché |
Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent [1971] François Truffaut |
| Kagio [1956] (The Key) Junichiro Tanizaki |
La Chiave [1983] Tinto Brass |
| Ice Cold in Alex [1957] Christopher Landon |
Ice Cold in Alex [1958] J Lee Thompson |
| Room at the Top [1957] John Braine |
Room at the Top [1959] Jack Clayton |
| The Unforgiven [1957] Alain Le May |
The Unforgiven [1960] John Huston |
| Dóktor Živágo [1957] Boris Pasternak |
Doctor Zhivago [1965] David Lean |
| Bunny Lake Is Missing [1957] Merriam Modell [pseudonym: Evelyn Piper] |
Bunny Lake Is Missing [1965] Otto Preminger |
| They're a Weird Mob [1957] John O'Grady [pseudonym: Nino Culotta] |
They're a Weird Mob [1966] Michael Powell |
| Tumannost' Andromedy [1957] (Andromeda: A Space-Age Tale) Ivan Efremov |
The Andromeda Nebula [1967] Yevgeni Sherstobitov |
| The Strange Case of Mr. Pelham [1957] Anthony Armstrong |
The Man Who Haunted Himself [1970] Basil Dearden |
| The Kill-Off [1957] Jim Thompson |
The Kill-Off [1990] Maggie Greenwald |
| Anatomy of a Murder [1958] John D Voelker [pseudonym: Robert Traver] |
Anatomy of a Murder [1959] Otto Preminger |
| Saturday Night and Sunday Morning [1958] Alan Sillitoe |
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning [1960] Karel Reisz |
| Exodus [1958] Leon Uris |
Exodus [1960] Otto Preminger |
| The League of Gentlemen [1958] John Boland |
The League of Gentlemen [1960] Basil Dearden |
| Breakfast at Tiffany's [1958] Truman Capote |
Breakfast at Tiffany's [1963] Blake Edwards |
| Il Gattopardo [1958] Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa |
The Leopard [1963] Luchino Visconti |
| Fool's Gold [1958] Dolores Hitchens |
Bande à Part [1964] (Band of Outsiders) Jean-Luc Godard |
| Two Hours to Doom [1958] (Red Alert) Peter George [pseudonym: Peter Bryant] |
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb [1964] Stanley Kubrick |
| Psycho [1959] Robert Bloch |
Psycho [1960] Alfred Hitchcock |
| The Hustler [1959] Walter Tevis |
The Hustler [1961] Robert Rossen |
| Advise and Consent [1959] Allen Drury |
Advise and Consent [1962] Otto Preminger |
| The Manchurian Candidate [1959] Richard Condon |
The Manchurian Candidate [1962] John Frankenheimer |
| The Haunting of Hill House [1959] Shirley Jackson |
The Haunting [1963] Robert Wise |
| '' | The Haunting [1999] Jan de Bont |
| Billard um Halb Zehn (Billiards at Half-Past Nine) [1959] Heinrich Böll |
Nicht Versöhnt [1965] (Not Reconciled) Jean-Marie Staub |
| McCabe [1959] Edmund Naughton |
McCabe and Mrs. Miller [1971] Robert Altman |
| Walkabout [1959] (The Children) James Vance Marshall |
Walkabout [1971] Nicolas Roeg |
| Die Blechtrommel [1959] (The Tin Drum) Günter Grass |
Die Blechtrommel [1979] Volker Schlöndorff |
| Mrs. Bridge [1959] Evan S Connell |
Mr. and Mrs. Bridge [1990] James Ivory |
| Mr. Bridge [1969] Evan S Connell |
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| Naked Lunch [1959] Willliam S Burroughs |
Naked Lunch [1991] David Cronenberg |
| Memento Mori [1959] Muriel Spark |
Memento Mori [1992] Jack Clayton |
| To Kill a Mockingbird [1960] Harper Lee |
To Kill a Mockingbird [1962] Robert Mulligan |
| This Sporting Life [1960] David Storey |
This Sporting Life [1963] Lindsay Anderson |
| The Pawnbroker [1961] Edward Lewis Wallant |
The Pawnbroker [1964] Sidney Lumet |
| Il Giorno Della Civetta [1961] (The Day of the Owl) Leonardo Sciascia |
Il Giorno Della Civetta [1968] Damiano Damiani |
| The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie [1961] Muriel Spark |
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie [1969] Ronald Neame |
| A Walk With Love and Death [1961] Hans Koning |
A Walk With Love and Death [1969] John Huston |
| Solaris [1961] Stanislaw Lem |
Solaris [1972] Andrei Tarkovsky |
| '' | Solaris [2002] Steven Soderbergh |
| James and the Giant Peach [1961] Roald Dahl |
James and the Giant Peach [1996] Henry Selick |
| Revolutionary Road [1961] Richard Yates |
Revolutionary Road [2008] Sam Mendes |
| The Mouse on the Moon [1962] Leonard Wibberley |
The Mouse on the Moon [1963] Richard Lester |
| The Pumpkin Eater [1962] Penelope Mortimer |
The Pumpkin Eater [1964] Jack Clayton |
| Fail-Safe [1962] Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler |
Fail Safe [1964] Sidney Lumet |
| '' | Fail Safe [2000] Stephen Frears |
| Suna no Onna [1962] (The Woman in the Dunes) Kobo Abe |
Suna no Onna [1964] Hiroshi Teshigahara |
| A Clockwork Orange [1962] Anthony Burgess |
A Clockwork Orange [1971] Stanley Kubrick |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [1962] Ken Kesey |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [1974] Miloš Forman |
| Something Wicked This Way Comes [1962] Ray Bradbury |
Something Wicked This Way Comes [1983] Jack Clayton |
| How I Won the War [1963] Patrick Ryan |
How I Won the War [1967] Richard Lester |
| Our Mother's House [1963] Julian Gloag |
Our Mother's House [1967] Jack Clayton |
| Erogotoshi-tachi [1963] (The Pornographers) Akiyuki Nosaka |
Erogotoshitachi Yori Jinruigaku Nyumon [1966] Shohei Imamura |
| The Graduate [1963] Charles Webb |
The Graduate [1967] Mike Nichols |
| La Motocyclette [1963] André Pieyre de Mandiargues |
The Girl on the Motorcycle [1968] (La Motocyclette) (Naked Under Leather) Jack Cardiff |
| La Planète des Singes [1963] Pierre Boulle |
Planet of the Apes [1968] Franklin J Schaffner |
| '' | Planet of the Apes [2001] Tim Burton |
| The Seed and the Sower [1963] Laurens Van der Post |
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence [1983] Nagisa Oshima |
| The Grifters [1963] Jim Thompson |
The Grifters [1990] Stephen Frears |
| Where the Wild Things Are [1963] Maurice Sendak |
Where the Wild Things Are [2009] Spike Jonze |
| To an Early Grave [1964] Wallace Markfield |
Bye Bye Braverman [1968] Sidney Lumet |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory [1964] Roald Dahl |
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory [1971] Mel Stuart |
| '' | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory [2005] Tim Burton |
| Le Locataire Chimérique [1964] Roland Topor |
The Tenant [1976] (Le Locataire) Roman Polanski |
| Last Exit to Brooklyn [1964] Hubert Selby, Jr. |
Last Exit to Brooklyn [1989] Uli Edel |
| Ostře Sledované Vlaky [1965] (Closely Watched Trains) Bohumil Hrabal |
Ostře Sledované Vlaky [1966] Jiří Menzel |
| Cool Hand Luke [1965] Donn Pearce |
Cool Hand Luke [1967] Stuart Rosenberg |
| In the Heat of the Night [1965] John Ball |
In the Heat of the Night [1967] Norman Jewison |
| Midnight Cowboy [1965] James Leo Herlihy |
Midnight Cowboy [1968] John Schlesinger |
| The Dark of the Sun [1965] Wilbur Smith |
The Mercenaries [1968] (Dark of the Sun) Jack Cardiff |
| Memorias del Subdesarrollo [1965] (Memories of Underdevelopment) Edmundo Desnoes |
Memorias del Subdesarrollo [1968] Tomás Gutié�rrez Alea |
| Mountain Man [1965] Vardis Fisher |
Jeremiah Johnson [1972] Sydney Pollack |
| Dune [1965] Frank Herbert |
Dune [1984] David Lynch |
| '' | Dune: Part One Denis Villeneuve |
| '' | Dune: Part Two Denis Villeneuve |
| A Ciascuno il Suo [1966] (To Each His Own) Leonardo Sciascia |
A Ciascuno il Suo [1967] (We Still Kill the Old Way) Elio Petri |
| Me and the Arch Kook Petulia [1966] John Haase |
Petulia [1968] Richard Lester |
| The Krelim Letter [1966] Noel Behn |
The Kremlin Letter [1970] John Huston |
| Sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag [1966] (In the Claws of Brightness) Edgardo M Reyes |
Maynila, sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag [1975] (Manila, in the Claws of Light) Lino Brocka |
| Poor Cow [1967] Neil Dunn |
Poor Cow [1967] Ken Loach |
| Rosemary's Baby [1967] Ira Levin |
Rosemary's Baby [1968] Roman Polanski |
| Les Cavaliers [1967] Joseph Kessel |
The Horsemen [1971] John Frankenheimer |
| The Valdez Horses [1967] Lee Hoffman |
Chino [1973] (Valdez, il Mezzosangue) John Sturges |
| Picnic at Hanging Rock [1967] Joan Lindsay |
Picnic at Hanging Rock [1975] Peter Weir |
| The Outsiders [1967] S E Hinton |
The Outsiders [1983] Francis Ford Coppola |
| Only When I Larf [1968] Len Deighton |
Only When I Larf [1968] Basil Dearden |
| A Kestrel for a Knave [1968] Barry Hines |
Kes [1969] Ken Loach |
| True Grit [1968] Charles Portis |
True Grit [1969] Henry Hathaway |
| '' | True Grit [2010] Joel Coen, Ethan Coen |
| MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors [1968] H Richard Hornberger, W C Heinz [collective pseudonum: Richard Hooker] |
MASH [1970] Robert Altman |
| Airport [1968] Arthur Hailey |
Airport [1970] George Seaton |
| Myra Breckinridge [1968] Gore Vidal |
Myra Breckinridge [1970] Michael Sarne |
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [1968] Philip K Dick |
Blade Runner [1982] Ridley Scott |
| L'Oeuvre au Noir [1968] (The Abyss) Marguerite Yourcenar |
L'Oeuvre au Noir [1988] André Delvaux |
| Fat City [1969] Leonard Gardner |
Fat City [1972] John Huston |
| The Godfather [1969] Mario Puzo* |
The Godfather [1972] Francis Ford Coppola |
| '' | The Godfather Part II [1974] Francis Ford Coppola |
| The French Lieutenant's Woman [1969] John Fowles |
The French Lieutenant's Woman [1981] Karel Reisz |
| Master and Commander [1969] Patrick O'Brien |
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World [2003] Peter Weir |
| The Anderson Tapes [1970] Lawrence Sanders |
The Anderson Tapes [1971] Sidney Lumet |
| Deliverance [1970] James Dickey* |
Deliverance [1972] John Boorman |
| Royal Flash [1970] George MacDonald Fraser |
Royal Flash [1975] Richard Lester |
| Fantastic Mr. Fox [1970] Roald Dahl |
Fantastic Mr. Fox [2009] Wes Anderson |
| The Other [1971] Thomas Tyron* |
The Other [1972] Robert Mulligan |
| The Exorcist [1971] William Peter Blatty* |
The Exorcist [1973] William Friedkin |
| The Freedom Trap [1971] Desmond Bagley |
The Mackintosh Man [1973] John Huston |
| Oh, God! [1971] Avery Corman |
Oh, God! [1977] Carl Reiner |
| Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH [1971] Robert C O'Brien |
The Secret of NIMH [1983] Don Bluth |
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream [1971] Hunter S Thompson |
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas [1998] Terry Gilliam |
| Death Wish [1972] Brian Garfield |
Death Wish [1974] Michael Winner |
| The Stepford Wives [1972] Ira Levin |
The Stepford Wives [1975] Bryan Forbes |
| '' | The Stepford Wives [2004] Frank Oz |
| Stay Hungry [1972] Charles Gaines* |
Stay Hungry [1976] Bob Rafelson |
| The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith [1972] Thomas Keneally |
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith [1978] Fred Schepisi |
| First Blood [1972] David Morrell |
First Blood [1982] Ted Kotcheff |
| Burnt Offerings [1973] Robert Marasco |
Burnt Offerings [1976] Dan Curtis |
| The Princess Bride [1973] William Goldman* |
The Princess Bride [1987] Rob Reiner |
| Das Boot [1973] Lothar-Günther Buchheim |
Das Boot [1981] Wolfgang Peterson |
| Crash [1973] J G Ballard |
Crash [1996] David Cronenberg |
| Jaws [1974] Peter Benchley |
Jaws [1975] Steven Spielberg |
| Marathon Man [1974] William Goldman* |
Marathon Man [1976] John Schlesinger |
| Dog Soldiers [1974] Robert Stone* |
Who'll Stop the Rain [1978] Karel Reisz |
| The Next-to-Last Train Ride [1974] Charles Dennis |
Finders Keepers [1984] Richard Lester |
| The Chocolate War [1974] Robert Cormier |
The Chocolate War [1988] Keith Gordon |
| If Beale Street Could Talk [1974] James Baldwin |
If Beale Street Could Talk [2018] Barry Jenkins |
| Julia [1975] Peter Straub |
Full Circle [1977] (The Haunting of Julia) Richard Loncraine |
| Just Tell Me What You Want [1975] Jay Presson Allen |
Just Tell Me What You Want [1980] Sidney Lumet |
| Rumble Fish [1975] S E Hinton |
Rumble Fish [1983] Francis Ford Coppola |
| Danny, the Champion of the World [1975] Roald Dahl |
Danny, the Champion of the World [1989] Gavin Millar |
| Carlito's Way [1975] Edwin Torres |
Carlito's Way: Rise to Power [2005] Michael Bregman |
| After Hours [1979] Edwin Torres |
'' |
| The Boys From Brazil [1976] Ira Levin |
The Boys From Brazil [1978] Franklin J Schaffner |
| The Great Santini [1976] Pat Conroy |
The Great Santini [1979] Lewis John Carlino |
| Ordinary People [1976] Judith Guest |
Ordinary People [1980] Robert Redford |
| Even Cowgirls Get the Blues [1976] Tom Robbins |
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues [1993] Gus Van Sant |
| El Beso de Mujer Araña [1976] Manuel Puig |
The Kiss of the Spider Woman [1994] Héctor Babenco |
| Interview With the Vampire [1976] Anne Rice |
Interview With the Vampire [1994] Neil Jordan |
| Tinereţe Fără Tinereţe [1976] Mircea Eliade |
Youth Without Youth [2007] Francis Ford Coppola |
| A River Runs Through It and Other Stories [1976] Norman Maclean |
A River Runs Through It [1992] Robert Redford |
| The Amityville Horror [1977] Jay Anson |
The Amityville Horror [1979] Stuart Rosenberg |
| Kramer Vs. Kramer [1977] Avery Corman |
Kramer Vs. Kramer [1979] Robert Benton |
| Twins [1977] Bari Wood and Jack Geasland |
Dead Ringers [1988] David Cronenberg |
| Q and A [1977] Edwin Torres |
Q and A [1990] Sidney Lumet |
| Altered States [1978] Paddy Chayefsky* |
Altered States [1980] Ken Russell |
| The Wolfen [1978] Whitley Streiber |
Wolfen [1980] Michael Wadleigh |
| The Year of Living Dangerously [1978] C J Koch |
The Year of Living Dangerously [1982] Peter Weir |
| 9 1/2 Weeks [1978] Ingeborg Day [pseodnym: Elizabeth McNeill] |
9 1/2 Weeks [1986] Adrian Lyne |
| Requiem for a Dream [1978] Hubert Selby, Jr. |
Requiem for a Dream [2000] Darren Aronofsky |
| Ghost Story [1979] Peter Straub |
Ghost Story [1981] John Irvin |
| Fanny Owen [1979] Agustina Bessa-Luís |
Francisca [1981] Manoel de Oliveira |
| Sophie's Choice [1979] William Styron |
Sophie's Choice [1982] Alan J Pakula |
| The Executioner's Song [1979] Norman Mailer* |
The Executioner's Song [1982] Lawrence Schiller |
| The Pope of Greenwich Village [1979] Vincent Patrick |
The Pope of Greenwich Village [1984] Stuart Rosenberg |
| Die Uendliche Geschichte [1979] (The Neverending Story) Michael Ende |
Die unendliche Geschichte [1984] Wolfgang Petersen |
| The Short-Timers [1979] Gustva Hasford |
Full Metal Jacket [1987] Stanley Kubrick |
| Nothing Lasts Forever [1979] Roderick Thorp |
Die Hard [1988] John McTiernan |
| Legends of the Fall [1979] Jim Harrison |
Legends of the Fall [1994] Edward Zwick |
| The Verdict [1980] Barry Reed |
The Verdict [1982] Sidney Lumet |
| Il Nome Della Rosa [1980] Umberto Eco |
The Name of the Rose [1986] Jean-Jacques Annaud |
| The Brave Little Toaster: A Bedtime Story for Small Appliances [1980] Thomas M Disch |
The Brave Little Toaster [1987] Jerry Rees |
| The Hunger [1981] Whitley Streiber |
The Hunger [1983] Tony Scott |
| De Vierde Man [1981] Gerard Reve |
De Vierde Man [1983] (The Fourth Man) Paul Verhoeven |
| The Quiet Earth [1981] Craig Harrison |
The Quiet Earth [1985] Geoff Murphy |
| Red Dragon [1981] Thomas Harris |
Manhunter [1986] Michael Mann |
| '' | Red Dragon [2002] Brett Ratner |
| Who Censored Roger Rabbit? [1981] Gary K Wolf |
Who Framed Roger Rabbit [1988] Robert Zemeckis |
| The War of the Roses [1981] Warren Adler |
The War of the Roses [1989] Danny DeVito |
| Household Saints [1981] Francine Prose |
Household Saints [1993] Nancy Savoca |
| Prizzi's Honor [1982] Richard Condon* |
Prizzi's Honor [1985] John Huston |
| The Color Purple [1982] Alice Walker |
The Color Purple [1985] Steven Spielberg |
| De Aanslag [1982] (The Assault) Harry Mulisch |
De Aanslag [1986] Fons Rademakers |
| Shoeless Joe [1982] W P Kinsella |
Field of Dreams [1989] Phil Alden Robinson |
| Burton and Speke [1982] William Harrison* |
Mountains of the Moon [1992] Bob Rafelson |
| Schindler's Ark [1982] Thomas Keneally |
Schindler's List [1993] Steven Spielberg |
| The B. F. G. [1982] Roald Dahl |
The B. F. G. [1989] Brian Cosgrove |
| '' | The B. F. G. [2016] Steven Speilberg |
| Legion [1983] William Peter Blatty* |
The Exorcist III [1989] William Peter Blatty |
| The Witches [1983] Roald Dahl |
The Witches [1990] Nicolas Roeg |
| '' | The Witches [2020] Robert Zemeckis |
| The Sheep-Pig [1983] Dick King-Smith |
Babe [1995] Chris Noonan |
| The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford [1983] Ron Hansen |
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford [2007] Andrew Dominik |
| The Color of Money [1984] Walter Tevis |
The Color of Money [1986] Martin Scorsese |
| Empire of the Sun [1984] J G Ballard |
Empire of the Sun [1987] Steven Spielberg |
| Het Gouden Ei [1984] (The Golden Egg) Tim Krabbé |
Spoorloo [1988] George Sluizer |
| Nesnesitelná Lehkost Bytí [1984] Milan Kundera |
The Unbearable Lightness of Being [1988] Philip Kaufman |
| The Accidental Tourist [1985] Anne Tyler |
The Accidental Tourist [1988] Lawrence Kasdan |
| Family Business [1985] Vincent Patrick |
Family Business [1989] Sidney Lumet |
| Ardiente Paciencia [1985] Antonio Skármeta |
Il Postino [1994] (The Postman) Michael Radford; Massimo Troisi |
| Sátántangó [1985] László Krasznahorkai |
Sátántangó [1994] Béla Tarr |
| The Hellbound Heart [1986] Clive Barker* |
Hellraiser [1987] Clive Barker |
| 36 Fillette [1986] Catherine Breillat* |
36 Fillette [1987] Catherine Breillat |
| Hong Gaoliang [1986] (Red Sorghum) Mo Yan |
Hong Gaoliang [1987] Zhang Yimou |
| The Prince of Tides [1986] Pat Conroy |
The Prince of Tides [1991] Barbara Streisand |
| Forrest Gump [1986] Robert Groom |
Forrest Gump [1994] Robert Zemeckis |
| Postcards From the Edge [1987] Carrie Fisher* |
Postcards From the Edge [1990] Mike Nichols |
| Fuxi Fuxi [1987] Liu Heng |
Ju Dou [1990] Zhang Yimou |
| The Commitments [1987] Roddy Doyle* |
The Commitments [1991] Alan Parker |
| Madame Doubtfire [1987] Anne Fine |
Mrs. Doubtfire [1993] Chris Columbus |
| Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe [1987] Fannie Flagg |
Fried Green Tomatoes [1991] Jon Avnet |
| Dances With Wolves [1988] Michael Blake* |
Dances With Wolves [1990] Kevin Costner |
| The Silence of the Lambs [1988] Thomas Harris |
The Silence of the Lambs [1991] Jonathan Demme |
| The Player [1988] Michael Tolkin* |
The Player [1992] Robert Altman |
| Matilda [1988] Roald Dahl |
Matilda [1996] Danny DeVito |
| Kari-Shakuho [1988] (On Parole) Akira Yoshimura |
Unagi [1997] (The Eel) Shohei Imamura |
| The Remains of the Day [1989] Kazuo Ishiguro |
The Remains of the Day [1993] James Ivory |
| The Joy Luck Club [1989] Amy Tan |
The Joy Luck Club [1993] Wayne Wang |
| Stardust [1989] Neil Gaiman |
Stardust [2007] Matthew Vaughn |
| Qique Chengquin [1990] (Wives and Concubines) Su Tong |
Da Hong Denglong Gaogao Gua [1991] (Raise the Red Lantern) Zhang Yimou |
| Once Were Warriors [1990] Alan Duff |
Once Were Warriors [1994] Lee Tamohori |
| Devil in a Blue Dress [1990] Walter Mosely |
Devil in a Blue Dress [1995] Carl Franklin |
| Circle of Friends [1990] Maeve Bincy |
Circle of Friends [1995] Pat O'Connor |
| Shrek! [1990] William Steig |
Shrek [2001] Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson |
| Spider [1990] Patrtick McGrath |
Spider [2002] David Cronenberg |
| FernGully [1991] Diana Young |
FernGully: The Last Rainforest [1992] Billy Kroyer |
| Silver [1991] Ira Levin |
Silver [19953] Philip Noyce |
| Ringu [1991] Suzuki Koji |
Ringu: Kanzenban [1995] Chisui Takigawa |
| '' | Ringu [1998] Hideo Nakata |
| '' | Ring [1999] (The Ring Virus) Kim Dong-Bin |
| '' | The Ring [2002] Gore Verbinski |
| The Sweet Hereafter [1991] Russell Banks |
The Sweet Hereafter [1997] Atom Egoyan |
| American Psycho [1991] Bret Easton Ellis |
American Psycho [2000] Mary Harron |
| To Die For [1992] Joyce Maynard |
To Die For [1995] Gus Van Sant |
| The English Patient [1992] Michael Ondaatje |
The English Patient [1996] Anthony Minghella |
| Children of Men [1992] P D James |
Children of Men [2006] Alfonso Cuarón |
| Trainspotting [1993] Irvine Welsh |
Trainspotting [1996] Danny Boyle |
| American Hero [1993] Larry Beinhart |
Wag the Dog [1997] Barry Levinson |
| The Virgin Suicides [1993] Jeffrey Eugenides |
The Virgin Suicides [1999] Sofia Coppola |
| The Ice Storm [1994] Rick Moody |
The Ice Storm [1997] Ang Lee |
| Der Vorleser [1995] Bernhard Schlink |
The Reader [2008] Stephen Daldry |
| Fight Club [1996] Chuck Palahniuk |
Fight Club [1999] David Fincher |
| Bridget Jones's Diary [1996] Helen Fielding |
Bridget Jones's Diary [2001] Sharon Maguire |
| The Notebook [1996] Nicholas Sparks |
The Notebook [2004] Nick Cassavetes |
| Push [1996] Sapphire |
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire [2009] Lee Daniels |
| Audition [1997] Ryu Murakami |
Audition [1999] Takashi Miike |
| Cold Mountain [1997] Charles Frazier |
Cold Mountain [2003] Anthony Minghella |
| The History of Violence [1997] John Wagner and Vince Locke |
The History of Violence [2005] David Cronenberg |
| Memoirs of a Geisha [1997] Arthur Golden |
Memoirs of a Geisha [2005] Rob Marshall |
| Election [1998] Tom Perrotta |
Election [1999] Alexander Payne |
| The Hours [1998] Michael Cunningham |
The Hours [2002] Stephen Daldry |
| The Last King of Scotland [1998] Giles Foden |
The Last King of Scotland [2006] Kevin Macdonald |
| Gone, Baby, Gone [1998] Dennis Lehane |
Gone, Baby, Gone [2007] Ben Affleck |
| Hannibal [1999] Thomas Harris |
Hannibal [2001] Ridley Scott |
| Girl With a Pearl Earring [1999] Tracy Chevalier |
Girl With a Pearl Earring [2003] Peter Webber |
| Thumbsucker [1999] Walter Kirn |
Thumbsucker [2005] Mike Mills |
| The Perks of Being a Wallflower [1999] Stephen Chobsky* |
The Perks of Being a Wallflower [2012] Stephen Chobsky |
| Under the Skin [2000] Michael Faber |
Under the Skin [2013] Jonathan Glazer |
| Rope Burns: Stories From the Corner [2000] F X Toole |
Million Dollar Baby [2004] Clint Eastwood |
| Pornocratie [2001] Catherine Breillat* |
Anatomie de l'Enfre [2004] Catherine Breillat |
| Atonement [2001] Ian McEwan |
Atonement [2007] Joe Wright |
| The Other Boleyn Girl [2001] Philippa Gregory |
The Other Boleyn Girl [2003] Philippa Lowthorpe |
| '' | The Other Boleyn Girl [2008] Justin Chadwick |
| Up in the Air [2001] Walter Kirn |
Up in the Air [2009] Jason Reitman |
| Mystic River [2002] Dennis Lehane |
Mystic River [2003] Clint Eastwood |
| Coraline [2002] Neil Gaiman |
Coraline [2009] Henry Selick |
| The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge [2002] Michael Punke |
The Revenant [2015] Alejandro G Iñárritu |
| The Devil Wears Prada [2003] Lauren Weisberger |
The Devil Wears Prada [2006] David Frankel |
| The Kite Runner [2003] Khaled Hosseini |
The Kite Runner [2007] Marc Forster |
| Shutter Island [2003] Dennis Lehane |
Shutter Island [2010] Martin Scorsese |
| Sideways [2004] Rex Pickett |
Sideways [2004] Alexander Payne |
| Låt den Rätte Komma In (Let the Right One In) [2004] John Ajvide Lindqvist |
Låt den Rätte Komma In [2008] Tomas Alfredson |
| No Country for Old Men [2005] Cormac McCarthy |
No Country for Old Men [2007] Joel Coen, Ethan Coen |
| Q and A [2005] Vikas Swarup |
Slumdog Millionaire [2008] Danny Boyle |
| Män som Hatar Kvinnor [2005] Stieg Larsson |
Män som Hatar Kvinnor [2009] Niels Arden Oplev |
| '' | The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo [2011] David Fincher |
| Drive [2005] James Sallis |
Drive [2011] Nicolas Winding Refn |
| Hannibal Rising [2006] Thomas Harris |
Hannibal Rising [2007] Peter Webber |
| Flickan som Lekte med Elden [2006] (The Girl Who Played With Fire) Stieg Larsson |
Flickan som Lekte med Elden [2009] Daniel Alfredson |
| The Road [2006] Cormac McCarthy |
The Road [2009] John Hilcoat |
| Water for Elephants [2006] Sara Gruen |
Water for Elephants [2011] Francis Lawrence |
| Luftslottet som Sprängdes [2007] (The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest) Stieg Larsson |
Luftslottet som Sprängdes [2009] Daniel Alfredson |
| Call Me by Your Name [2007] André Aciman |
Call Me by Your Name [2017] Luca Guadagnino |
| The Hunger Games [2008] Suzanne Collins |
The Hunger Games [2012] Gary Ross |
| Feuchtgebiete [2008] (Wetlands) Charlotte Roche |
Feuchtgebiete [2013] David Wnendt |
| Le Bleu Est une Couleur Chaude [2008] (Blue Is the Warmest Coilor) Julie Maroh |
La Vie d'Adèle [2013] Abdellatif Kechiche |
| Catching Fire [2009] Suzanne Collins |
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire [2013] Francis Lawrencez |
| Mockingjay [2010] Suzanne Collins |
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 [2014] Francis Lawrence |
| '' | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 [2015] Francis Lawrence |
| The Silver Linings Playbook [2012] Matthew Quick |
Silver Linings Playbook [2012] David O Russell |
| Gone Girl [2012] Gillian Flynn |
Gone Girl [2014] David Fincher |
| Abus de Faiblesse [2013] Catherine Breillat* |
Abus de Faiblesse [2014] Catherine Breillat |
| Crazy Rich Asians [2013] Kevin Kwan |
Crazy Rich Asians [2018] Jon M. Chu |
| Story | Film |
|---|---|
| 'The Fall of the House of Usher' [1839] Edgar Allan Poe |
House of Usher [1960] Roger Corman |
| 'The Pit and the Pendulum' [1843] Edgar Allan Poe |
The Pit and the Pendulum [1961] Roger Corman |
| 'The Premature Burial' [1844] Edgar Allan Poe |
The Premature Burial [1962] Roger Corman |
| 'Ligeia' [1845] Edgar Allan Poe |
The Tomb of Ligeia [1965] Roger Corman |
| 'The Man Who Would Be King' [1888] Rudyard Kipling |
The Man Who Would Be King [1975] John Huston |
| 'The Monkey's Paw' [1902] W W Jacobs |
Deathdream [1974] (Dead of Night) Bob Clark |
| 'The Dead' [1902] James Joyce |
The Dead [1987] John Huston |
| 'Rashoman' [1915] Ryunosuke Akutagawa |
Rashoman [1950] Akira Kurosawa |
| 'In a Grove' [1922] Ryunosuke Akutagawa |
'' |
| 'Die Reise Nach Tilsit' [1917] (The Excursion to Tilset) Hermann Sudermann |
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans [1927] F W Murnau |
| '' | Die Reise Nach Tilsit [1939] Veit Harlan |
| 'Herbert West—Reanimator' [1922] H P Lovecraft |
Re-Animator [1985] Stuart Gordon |
| 'The Most Dangerous Game' [1924] Richard Connell |
The Most Dangerous Game [1932] Irving Pichel, Ernest B Schoedsack |
| '' | A Game of Death [1945] Robert Wise |
| '' | Run for the Sun [1956] Ray Boulting |
| '' | Bloodlust! [1961] Ralph Brooke |
| '' | Hard Target [1993] John Woo |
| '' | Surviving the Game [1994] Ernest R Dickerson |
| 'The House in Turk Street' [1924] Dashiell Hammett |
No Good Deed [2002] Bob Rafelson |
| 'Night Bus' [1933] Samuel Hopkins Adams |
It Happened One Night [1934] Frank Capra |
| 'Opera Hat' [1936] Clarence Buddington Kelland |
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town [1936] Frank Capra |
| 'Bringing Up Baby' [1937] Hagar Wilde* |
Bringing Up Baby [1938] Howard Hawks |
| 'Stage to Lordsburg' [1937] Ernest Haycox |
Stagecoach [1939] John Ford |
| 'The Sobbin' Women' [1937] Stephen Vincent Benét |
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers [1954] Stanley Donen |
| 'Gun Crazy' [1937] MacKinley Kantor |
Gun Crazy [1950] Joseph H Lewis |
| 'Aloha Means Goodbye' [1941] Robert Carson |
Across the Pacific [1942] John Huston, Vincent Sherman |
| 'The Greatest Gift' [1944] Philip Van Doren Stern |
It's a Wonderful Life [1946] Frank Capra |
| '' | It Happened One Christmas [1977] Donald Wrye |
| 'The Wisdom of Eve' [1946] Mary Orr |
All About Eve [1950] Joseph L Mankiewicz |
| ''The Tin Star' [1947] John W Cunningham |
High Noon [1950] Fred Zinnemann |
| 'The Birds' [1952] Daphne du Maurier |
The Birds [1963] Alfred Hitchcock |
| 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' [1953] Dorothy M Johnson |
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance [1962] John Ford |
| 'The Minority Report' [1956] Philip K Dick |
Minority Report [2002] Steven Spielberg |
| 'The Fly' [1957] George Langelaan |
The Fly [1958] Kurt Neumann |
| '' | The Fly [1986] David Cronenberg |
| 'The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner' [1959] Alan Sillitoe* |
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner [1962] Tony Richardson |
| 'The Swimmer' [1964] John Cheever |
The Swimmer [1968] Frank Perry |
| 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been' [1966] Joyce Carol Oates |
Smooth Talk [1985] Joyce Chopra |
| 'We Can Remember It for You Wholesale' [1966] Philip K Dick |
Total Recall [1990] Paul Verhoeven |
| '' | Total Recall [2012] Len Wiseman |
| 'Don't Look Now' [1971] Daphne Du Maurier |
Don't Look Now [1973] Nicolas Roeg |
| 'Secretary' [1988] Mary Gaitskill |
Secretary [2002] Steven Shainberg |
| 'Brokeback Mountain' [1999] Annie Proulx |
Brokeback Mountain [2005] Ang Lee |
| Novel | Film |
|---|---|
| The Big Sleep [1939] Raymond Chandler |
The Big Sleep [1946] Howard Hawks |
| '' | The Big Sleep [1978] Michael Winner |
| Farewell, My Lovely [1940] Raymond Chandler |
Murder, My Sweet [1944] Edward Dmytryk |
| '' | Farewell, My Lovely [1975] Dick Richards |
| The High Window [1942] Raymond Chandler |
Time to Kill [1942] Herbert I Leeds |
| '' | The Brasher Doubloon [1942] John Brahm |
| The Lady in the Lake [1943] Raymond Chandler |
The Lady in the Lake [1947] Robert Montgomery |
| The Little Sister [1949] Raymond Chandler |
Marlowe [1969] Paul Bogart |
| The Long Goodbye [1953] Raymond Chandler |
The Long Goodbye [1973] Robert Altman |
| Novel | Film |
|---|---|
| The Hunt for Red October [1984] Tom Clancy |
The Hunt for Red October [1990] John McTiernan |
| Patriot Games [1987] Tom Clancy |
Patriot Games [1992] Philip Noyce |
| Clear and Present Danger [1989] Tom Clancy |
Clear and Present Danger [1994] Philip Noyce |
| The Sum of All Fears [1991] Tom Clancy |
The Sum of All Fears [2002] Phil Alden Robinson |
| Novel | Film |
|---|---|
| The Andromeda Strain [1969] Michael Crichton |
The Andromeda Strain [1971] Robert Wise |
| The Terminal Man [1972] Michael Crichton |
The Terminal Man [1974] Mike Hodges |
| The Great Train Robbery [1975] Michael Crichton* |
The First Great Train Robbery [1979] Michael Crichton |
| Coma [1977] Robin Cook |
Coma [1978] Michael Crichton |
| Jurassic Park [1990] Michael Crichton* |
Jurassic Park [1993] Steven Spielberg |
| The Lost World [1995] Michael Crichton |
The Lost World: Jurassic Park [1997] Steven Spielberg |
| Novel | Film |
|---|---|
| Year of the Dragon [1981] Robert Daley |
Year of the Dragon [1985] Michael Cimino |
| Tainted Evidence [1993] Robert Daley |
Night Falls on Manhattan [1997] Sidney Lumet |
| Verity | Film |
| Prince of the City: The True Story of a Cop Who Knew Too Much [1978] Robert Daley |
Prince of the City [1981] Sidney Lumet |
| Novel | Film |
|---|---|
| Welcome to Hard Times [1960] E L Doctorow |
Welcome to Hard Times [1967] Burt Kennedy |
| The Book of Daniel [1971] E L Doctorow |
Daniel [1983] Sidney Lumet |
| Ragtime [1975] E L Doctorow |
Ragtime [1981] Miloš Forman |
| Billy Bathgate [1989] E L Doctorow |
Billy Bathgate [1991] Robert Benton |
| Novel | Film |
|---|---|
| Brown's Requiem [1981] James Ellroy |
Brown's Requiem [1998] Jason Freeland |
| Blood on the Moon [1984] James Ellroy |
Cop [1988] James B Harris |
| The Black Dahlia [1987] James Ellroy |
The Black Dahlia [2006] Brian De Palma |
| L A Confidential [1990] James Ellroy |
L A Confidential [1997] Curtis Hanson |
| Novel | Film |
|---|---|
| The Great Gatsby [1925] F Scott Fitzgerald |
The Great Gatsby [1949] Elliott Nugent |
| '' | The Great Gatsby [1974] Jack Clayton |
| '' | The Great Gatsby [2000] Robert Markowitz |
| '' | The Great Gatsby [2013] Baz Luhrmann |
| Tender Is the Night [1934] F Scott Fitzgerald |
Tender Is the Night [1962] Henry King |
| Story | Film |
| 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' [1922] F Scott Fitzgerald |
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [2008] David Fincher |
| Novel | Film |
|---|---|
| Casino Royale [1953] Ian Fleming |
Casino Royale [1967] Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, Val Guest, Richard Talmadge |
| '' | Casino Royale [2006] Martin Campbell |
| Live and Let Die [1954] Ian Fleming |
Live and Let Die [1973] Guy Hamilton |
| Moonraker [1955] Ian Fleming |
Moonraker [1979] Lewis Gilbert |
| Diamonds Are Forever [1956] Ian Fleming |
Diamonds Are Forever [1971] Guy Hamilton |
| From Russia, With Love [1957] Ian Fleming |
From Russia With Love [1963] Terence Young |
| Dr. No [1958] Ian Fleming |
Dr. No [1962] Terence Young |
| Goldfinger [1959] Ian Fleming |
Goldfinger [1964] Guy Hamilton |
| For Your Eyes Only [1960] Ian Fleming |
For Your Eyes Only [1981] John Glen |
| Thunderball [1961] Ian Fleming |
Thunderball [1965] Terence Young |
| '' | Never Say Never Again [1983] Irvin Kershner |
| The Spy Who Loved Me [1962] Ian Fleming |
The Spy Who Loved Me [1977] Lewis Gilbert |
| On Her Majesty's Secret Service [1963] Ian Fleming |
On Her Majesty's Secret Service [1969] Peter R Hunt |
| You Only Live Twice [1964] Ian Fleming |
You Only Live Twice [1967] Lewis Gilbert |
| The Man With the Golden Gun [1965] Ian Fleming |
The Man With the Golden Gun [1974] Guy Hamilton |
| Novel | Film |
|---|---|
| A Time to Kill [1989] John Grisham |
A Time to Kill [1996] Joel Schumacher |
| The Firm [1991] John Grisham |
The Firm [1993] Sydney Pollack |
| The Pelican Brief [1992] John Grisham |
The Pelican Brief [1993] Alan J Pakula |
| The Client [1993] John Grisham |
The Client [1994] Joel Schumacher |
| The Chamber [1994] John Grisham |
The Chamber [1996] James Foley |
| The Rainmaker [1995] John Grisham |
The Rainmaker [1997] Francis Ford Coppola |
| Novel | Film |
|---|---|
| Strangers on a Train [1950] Patricia Highsmith |
Strangers on a Train [1951] Alfred Hitchcock |
| The Price of Salt [1952] Patricia Highsmith |
Carol [2014] Todd Haynes |
| The Blunderer [1954] Patricia Highsmith |
Le Meurtrier [1963] (Enough Rope) Claude Autant-Lara |
| '' | A Kind of Murder [2016] Andy Goddard |
| The Talented Mr. Ripley [1955] Patricia Highsmith |
The Talented Mr. Ripley [1999] Anthony Minghella |
| The Cry of the Owl [1962] Patricia Highsmith |
The Cry of the Owl [2014] Jamie Thraves |
| The Two Faces of January [1964] Patricia Highsmith |
The Two Faces of January [2014] Hossein Amini |
| The Glass Cell [1964] Patricia Highsmith |
Die Gläserne Zelle [1978] Hans Geißendörfer |
| Ripley Under the Ground [1970] Patricia Highsmith |
Ripley Under the Ground [2005] Roger Spottiswoode |
| Ripley's Game [1974] Patricia Highsmith |
Der Amerikanische Freund [1977] (The American Friend) Wim Wenders |
| '' | Ripley's Game [2002] Liliana Cavani |
| Novel | Film |
|---|---|
| Carrie [1974] Stephen King |
Carrie [1976] Brian De Palma |
| '' | Carrie [2002] David Carson |
| '' | Carrie [2013] Kimberly Peirce |
| The Shining [1977] Stephen King |
The Shining [1980] Stanley Kubrick |
| The Dead Zone [1979] Stephen King |
The Dead Zone [1983] David Cronenberg |
| Firestarter [1980] Stephen King |
Firestarter [1984] Mark L Lester |
| Cujo [1981] Stephen King |
Cujo [1983] Lewis Teague |
| The Running Man [1982] Stephen King [pseudonym: Richard Bachman] |
The Running Man [1987] Paul Michael Glaser |
| Christine [1983] Stephen King |
Christine [1983] John Carpenter |
| Cycle of the Werewolf [1983] Stephen King |
Silver Bullet [1985] Dan Attias |
| Pet Sematary [1983] Stephen King |
Pet Sematary [1989] Mary Lambert |
| Misery [1987] Stephen King |
Misery [1990] Rob Reiner |
| The Dark Half [1989] Stephen King |
The Dark Half [1993] George A Romero |
| Needful Things [1991] Stephen King |
Needful Things [1993] Fraser C Heston |
| Dolores Claiborne [1992] Stephen King |
Dolores Claiborne [1995] Taylor Hackford |
| The Green Mile [1996] Stephen King |
The Green Mile [1999] Frank Darabont |
| Dreamcatcher [2001] Stephen King |
Dreamcatcher [2003] Lawrence Kasdan |
| Doctor Sleep [2013] Stephen King |
Doctor Sleep [2018] Mike Flanagan |
| Story | Film |
| 'Beware of the Dog' [1944] Roald Dahl |
36 Hours [1965] George Seaton |
| '' | Breaking Point [1989] Peter Markle |
| 'Graveyeard Shift' [1970] Stephen King |
Graveyeard Shift [1990] Ralph S Singleton |
| 'The Mangler' [1972] Stephen King |
The Mangler [1995] Tobe Hooper |
| 'Trucks' [1973] Stephen King* |
Maximum Overdrive [1986] Stephen King |
| 'Sometimes They Come Back' [1974] Stephen King |
Sometimes They Come Back [1991] Tom McLoughlin |
| 'Children of the Corn' [1977] Stephen King |
Children of the Corn [1984] Fritz Kiersch |
| 'The Body' [1982] Stephen King |
Stand by Me [1986] Rob Reiner |
| 'Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption' [1982] Stephen King |
The Shawshank Redemption [1994] Frank Darabont |
| 'Secret Window, Secret Garden' [1990] Stephen King |
Secret Window [2004] David Koepp |
| Novel | Film |
|---|---|
| Call for the Dead [1961] John Le Carré |
The Deadly Affair [1966] Sidney Lumet |
| The Spy Who Came In From the Cold [1963] John Le Carré |
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold [1967] Martin Ritt |
| The Looking Glass War [1965] John Le Carré |
The Looking Glass War [1969] Frank Pierson |
| Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [1974] John Le Carré |
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [2011] Tomas Alfredson |
| The Little Drummer Girl [1983] John Le Carré |
The Little Drummer Girl [1984] John Irvin |
| The Russia House [1989] John Le Carré |
The Russia House [1990] Fred Schepisi |
| The Tailor of Panama [1996] John Le Carré |
The Tailor of Panama [2001] John Boorman |
| The Constant Gardener [2001] John Le Carré |
The Constant Gardener [2007] Fernando Meirelles |
| A Most Wanted Man [2008] John Le Carré |
A Most Wanted Man [2014] Anton Corbijn |
| Our Kind of Traitor [2010] John Le Carré |
Our Kind of Traitor [2016] Susanna White |
| Novel | Film |
|---|---|
| Last Stand at Saber River [1959] Elmore Leonard |
Last Stand at Saber River [1997] Dick Lowry |
| Hombre [1961] Elmore Leonard |
Hombre [1967] Martin Ritt |
| The Big Bounce [1969] Elmore Leonard |
The Big Bounce [1969] Alex March |
| '' | The Big Bounce [2004] George Armitage |
| The Moonshine War [1969] Elmore Leonard |
The Moonshine War [1969] Richard Quine |
| Valdez Is Coming [1970] Elmore Leonard |
Valdez Is Coming [1971] Edwin Sherwin |
| 52 Pick-Up [1974] Elmore Leonard |
The Ambassador [1984] J Lee Thompson |
| '' | 52 Pick-Up [1986] John Frankenheimer |
| The Switch [1978] Elmore Leonard |
Life of Crime [2013] Daniel Schechter |
| Cat Chaser [1982] Elmore Leonard |
Cat Chaser [1989] Abel Ferrara |
| Stick [1983] Elmore Leonard |
Stick [1985] Burt Reynolds |
| Touch [1987] Elmore Leonard |
Touch [1997] Paul Schrader |
| Killshot [1989] Elmore Leonard |
Killshot [1997] John Madden |
| Get Shorty [1990] Elmore Leonard |
Get Shorty [1995] Barry Sonnenfield |
| Rum Punch [1992] Elmore Leonard |
Jackie Brown [1997] Quentin Tarantino |
| Out of Sight [1996] Elmore Leonard |
Out of Sight [1998] Steven Soderbergh |
| Be Cool [1999] Elmore Leonard |
Be Cool [2005] F Gary Gray |
| Story | Film |
| 'Three-Ten to Yuma' [1953] Elmore Leonard |
3:10 to Yuma [1957] Delmer Daves |
| '' | 3:10 to Yuma [2007] James Mangold |
| 'The Captives' [1955] Elmore Leonard |
The Tall T [1957] Budd Boetticher |
| Novel | Film |
|---|---|
| Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone [1997] J K Rowling |
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone [2001] Chris Columbus |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [1998] J K Rowling |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [2002] Chris Columbus |
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [1999] J K Rowling |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [2004] Alfonso Cuarón |
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [2000] J K Rowling |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [2005] Mike Newell |
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [2003] J K Rowling |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [2007] David Yates |
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [2005] J K Rowling |
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [2009] David Yates |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [2007] J K Rowling |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 [2010] David Yates |
| '' | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 [2011] David Yates |
| Novel | Film |
|---|---|
| Horton Hears a Who! [1954] Dr. Seuss |
Horton Hears a Who! [2008] Jimmy Hayward; Steve Martino |
| How the Grinch Stole Christmas [1957] Dr. Seuss |
How the Grinch Stole Christmas [2000] Ron Howard |
| '' | The Grinch [2018] Scott Mossier; Yarrow Cheney |
| The Cat in the Hat [1957] Dr. Seuss |
The Cat in the Hat [2003] Bo Welch |
| The Lorax [1971] Dr. Seuss |
The Lorax [2012] Chris Renaud |
| Novel | Film |
|---|---|
| La Tête d'un Homme (A Man's Head) [1931] Georges Simenon |
The Man on the Eiffel Tower [1932] Burgess Meredith |
| La Nuit du Carrefour (Maigret at the Crossroads) [1931] Georges Simenon |
La Nuit du Carrefour (Night at the Crossroads) [1932] Jean Renoir |
| Les Fiançailles de M. Hire [1933] Georges Simenon |
Panique [1947] Julien Duvivier |
| '' | Monsieur Hire [1989] Patrice Leconte |
| L'Homme des Londres [1934] (The Man From London) Georges Simenon |
A London Férfi [2007] Béla Tarr |
| Les Inconnus dans la Maison [1940] Georges Simenon |
Les Inconnus dans la Maison [1942] Henri Decoin |
| '' | Stranger in the House [1967] Pierre Rouve |
| '' | Stranger in the House [1997] Rodney Gibbons |
| L'Aîné des Ferchau (Magnet of Doom) [1945] Georges Simenon |
L'Aîné des Ferchau [1963] Jean-Pierre Melville |
| L'Horloger d'Everton [1954] (The Clockmaker) (The Watchmaker) Georges Simenon |
L'Horloger de Saint-Paul [1974] (The Clockmaker of St. Paul) Jean-Pierre Melville |
| Maigret Tend un Piège [1955] (Maigret Sets a Trap) Georges Simenon |
Maigret Tend un Piège [1958] Jean Delannoy |
| Betty [1961] Georges Simenon |
Betty [1992] Claude Chabrol |
| La Chambre Bleue [1964] Georges Simenon |
The Blue Room [2014] Matthieu Amalric |
| Novel | Film |
|---|---|
| I, the Jury [1947] Mickey Spillane |
I, the Jury [1953] Harry Essex |
| '' | I, the Jury [1982] Richard T Heffron |
| My Gun Is Quick [1950] Mickey Spillane |
My Gun Is Quick [1957] Victor Saville [pseudonym: Phil Victor], George White |
| Kiss Me, Deadly [1952] Mickey Spillane |
Kiss Me Deadly [1955] Robert Aldrich |
| The Girl Hunters [1962] Mickey Spillane |
The Girl Hunters [1963] Roy Rowland |
| Novel | Film |
|---|---|
| The Hobbit [1936] J R R Tolkien |
The Hobbit [1977] Arthur Rankin, Jr., Bass |
| '' | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey [2012] Peter Jackson |
| '' | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug [2013] Peter Jackson |
| '' | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies [2014] Peter Jackson |
| The Lord of the Rings [1955] J R R Tolkien |
The Lord of the Rings [1978] Ralph Bakshi |
| '' | The Return of the King [1980] Arthur Rankin, Jr., Jules Bass |
| '' | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring [2001] Peter Jackson |
| '' | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers [2002] Peter Jackson |
| '' | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King [2003] Peter Jackson |
| Novel | Film |
|---|---|
| The Hunter [1962] Donald E Westlake [pseudonym: Richard Stark] |
Point Blank [1967] John Boorman |
| '' | Payback [1999] Brian Helgeland |
| The Outfit [1963] Donald E Westlake [pseudonym: Richard Stark] |
The Outfit [1973] John Flynn |
| The Busy Body [1966] Donald E Westlake [pseudonym: Richard Stark] |
The Busy Body [1967] William Castle |
| The Seventh [1966] Donald E Westlake [pseudonym: Richard Stark] |
The Split [1968] Gordon Flemyng |
| The Hot Rock [1970] Donald E Westlake |
The Hot Rock [1972] Peter Yates |
| The Ax [1997] Donald E Westlake |
Le Couperet [2005] Costa-Gavras |
| Poem | Film |
|---|---|
| William Wallace [1488] (The Wallace) Blind Harry |
Braveheart Mel Gibson [1995] |
| 'The Raven' [1845] Edgar Allan Poe |
The Raven [1963] Roger Corman |
| 'The Man From Snowy River' [1890] Banjo Paterson |
The Man From Snowy River [1982] George T Miller |
| White Cliffs [1940] Alice Duer Miller |
White Cliffs of Dover [1944] Clarence Brown |
| Play | Film |
|---|---|
| Edward II [1593] Christopher Marlowe |
Edward II [1991] Derek Jarman |
| Romeo and Juliet [1597] William Shakespeare |
Romeo and Juliet [1936] George Cukor |
| '' | Romeo and Juliet [1954] Renato Castellani |
| '' | Romeo and Juliet [1968] Franco Zeffirelli |
| '' | William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet [1996] Baz Luhrmann |
| The Merchant of Venice [1598] William Shakespeare |
The Merchant of Venice [2004] Michael Radford |
| Henry V [1599] William Shakespeare |
Henry V [1943] Laurence Olivier |
| '' | Henry V [1989] Kenneth Branagh |
| '' | Henry V [2012] Thea Sharrock |
| Hamlet [1602] William Shakespeare |
Hamlet [1948] Dimitri Buchowetzki |
| '' | Hamlet [1964] Grigori Kozintsev, Iosif Shapiro |
| '' | Hamlet [1969] Tony Richardson |
| '' | Hamlet [1990] Franco Zeffirelli |
| '' | Hamlet [1996] Kenneth Branagh |
| Othello [1603] William Shakespeare |
Othello [1922] Laurence Olivier |
| '' | The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice [1951] Orson Welles |
| '' | Othello [1955] Sergei Yutkevich |
| '' | All Night Long [1962] Basil Dearden |
| '' | Othello [1965] Stuart Burge |
| '' | Black Commando [1982] (Othello, el Comando Negro) Max H Boulois |
| '' | Othello [1995] Oliver Parker |
| Macbeth [1606] William Shakespeare |
Macbeth [1948] Orson Welles |
| '' | Macbeth [1971] Roman Polanski |
| The Tempest [1611] William Shakespeare |
The Tempest [1979] Derek Jarman |
| Le Carrosse du Saint Sacrement [1829] Prosper Mérimée |
Le Carrosse d'Or [1952] (The Golden Coach) Jean Renoir |
| Les Caprices de Marianne [1833] (The Moods of Marianne) Alfred de Musset |
La Règle du Jeu [1939] (The Rules of the Game) Jean Renoir |
| Et Dukkehjem [1879] (A Doll's House) Henrik Ibsen |
A Doll's House [1973] Patrick Garland |
| Arms and the Man [1894] George Bernard Shaw |
Helden [1958] Franz Peter Wirth |
| Erdgeist [1895] (Earth Spirit) Frank Wedekind |
Die Büchse der Pandora [1929] (Pandora's Box) G W Pabst |
| Die Büchse der Pandora [1904] Frank Wedekind |
'' |
| Čajka [1896] (The Seagull) Anton Chekhov |
The Sea Gull [1968] Sidney Lumet |
| Dâdâ Vanâ [1899] (Uncle Vanya) Anton Chekhov |
Vanya on 42nd Street [1994] Louis Malle |
| Gertrud [1906] Hjalmar Söderberg |
Gertrud [1994] Carl Theodor Dryer |
| Le Million [1913] George Berr, Marcel Guillemaud |
Le Million [1931] René Clair |
| Pygmalion [1913] George Bernard Shaw* |
Pygmalion [1938] Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard |
| The Cocoanuts [1925] George S Kaufman, Irving Berlin |
The Cocoanuts [1929] Robert Florey and Joseph Santley |
| Front Page [1928] Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur |
Front Page [1931] Lewis Milestone |
| '' | His Girl Friday [1940] Howard Hawks |
| '' | The Front Page [1974] Billy Wilder |
| A Becsületes Megtaláló [1931] (The Honest Finder) László Aladár |
Trouble in Paradise [1932] Ernst Lubitsch |
| Ordet [1932] Kaj Munk |
Ordet [1955] Carl Theodor Von Dryer |
| You Can't Take It With You [1936] George S Kaufman, Moss Hart |
You Can't Take It With You [1938] Frank Capra |
| Illatszertár [1937] (Parfumerie) Miklós Lászlo |
The Shop Around the Corner [1940] Ernst Lubitsch |
| '' | In the Good Old Summertime [1949] Robert Z Leonard |
| '' | You've Got Mail [1998] Nora Ephron |
| Gas Light [1938] Patrick Hamilton |
Gas Light [1940] Thorold Dickinson |
| '' | Gas Light [1944] George Cukor |
| Key Largo [1938] Maxwell Anderson |
Key Largo [1948] John Huston |
| The Philadelphia Story [1939] Philip Barry |
The Philadelphia Story [1940] George Cukor |
| Oklahoma! [1943] Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers |
Oklahoma! [1955] Fred Zinnemann |
| Annie Get Your Gun [1946] Dorothy Fields, Herbert Fields, Irving Berlin |
Annie Get Your Gun [1950] George Sidney |
| The Heiress [1947] Ruth Goetz, Augustus Goetz |
The Heiress [1949] William Wyler |
| The Browning Version [1948] Terence Rattigan |
The Browning Version [1951] Anthony Asquith |
| '' | The Browning Version [1994] Mike Figgis |
| Death of a Salesman [1949] Arthur Miller *[1966 film] |
Death of a Salesman [1951] Lászlo Benedek |
| '' | Death of a Salesman [1966] James B Clark, Alex Segal |
| '' | Death of a Salesman [1985] Volker Schlöndorff |
| Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [1949] Joseph Fields, Anita Loos, Leo Robin, and Jule Styne |
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [1953] Howard Hawks |
| South Pacific [1949] Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan, Richard Rodgers |
South Pacific [1958] Joshua Logan |
| The Fourposter [1951] Jan de Hartog |
The Four Poster [1952] Irving Reis |
| The Moon Is Blue [1951] F Hugh Herbert* |
The Moon Is Blue [1952] Otto Preminger |
| Paint Your Wagon [1951] Alan J Lerner, Frederick Loewe |
Paint Your Wagon [1969] Joshua Logan |
| The Boy Friend [1953] Sandy Wilson |
The Boy Friend [1971] Ken Russell |
| The Crucible [1953] Arthur Miller* |
The Crucible [1996] Nicholas Hytner |
| The Diary of Anne Frank [1955] Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett |
The Diary of Anne Frank [1959] George Stevens |
| A View From the Bridge [1955] Arthur Miller |
A View From the Bridge [1962] Sidney Lumet |
| Look Back in Anger [1956] John Osborne |
Look Back in Anger [1959] Tony Richardson |
| '' | Look Back in Anger [1980] Lindsay Anderson |
| A Long Day's Journey Into Night [1956] Eugene O'Neill* |
Long Day's Journey Into Night [1962] Sidney Lumet |
| My Fair Lady [1956] Alan Jay Lerner*, Frederick Loewe |
My Fair Lady [1964] George Cukor |
| The Entertainer [1957] John Osborne |
The Entertainer [1961] Tony Richardson |
| West Side Story [1957] Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins |
West Side Story [1961] Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins |
| The Music Man [1957] Meredith Wilson, Franklin Lacey |
The Music Man [1962] Morton DaCosta |
| A Taste of Honey [1958] Shelagh Delaney* |
A Tatse of Honey [1961] Tony Richardson |
| A Raisin in the Sun [1959] Lorraine Hansberry* |
A Raisin in the Sun [1961] Daniel Petrie |
| The Sound of Music [1959] Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse, Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers |
The Sound of Music [1965] Robert Wise |
| Critic's Choice [1960] Ira Levin |
Critic's Choice [1963] Don Weis |
| Bye Bye Birdie [1960] Michael Stewart, Lee Adams, Charles Strouse |
Bye Bye Birdie [1963] George Sidney |
| A Man for All Seasons [1960] Robert Bolt* |
A Man for All Seasons [1966] Fred Zinnemann |
| Camelot [1960] Alan Jay Lerner*, Frederick Loewe |
Camelot [1967] Joshua Logan |
| Oliver! [1960] Lionel Bart |
Oliver! [1968] Carol Reed |
| The Fantastiks [1960] Tom Jones*, Harvey Schmidt* |
The Fantastiks [1995] Guy Ritchie |
| They Might Be Giants [1961] James Goldman* |
They Might Be Giants [1971] Anthony Harvey |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? [1962] Edward Albee |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? [1966] Mike Nichols |
| Alfie [1963] Bill Naughton* |
Alfie [1966] Lewis Gilbert |
| Funny Girl [1963] Isobel Lennart*, Bob Merrill*, Jule Styne* |
Funny Girl [1968] William Wyler |
| Fiddler on the Roof [1964] Joseph Stein*, Sheldon Harnick*, Jerry Bock* |
Fiddler on the Roof [1971] Norman Jewison |
| Don't Drink the Water [1966] Woody Allen [*: 1994 film] |
Don't Drink the Water [1969] Howard Moss |
| '' | Don't Drink the Water [1994] Woody Allen |
| A Delicate Balance [1966] Edward Albee* |
A Delicate Balance [1973] Tony Richardson |
| Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical [1967] James Rado, Gerome Ragni, and Gait MacDermot |
Hair [1979] Miloš Forman |
| Indians [1968] Arthur Kopit |
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson [1976] Robert Altman |
| Play It Again, Sam [1968] Woody Allen* |
Play It Again, Sam [1972] Herbert Ross |
| Child's Play [1970] Robert Marasco |
Child's Play [1972] Sidney Lumet |
| The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds [1971] Paul Zindel |
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds [1972] Paul Newman |
| Grease [1971] Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey, John Farrar |
Grease [1978] Randal Kleiser |
| The Rocky Horror Picture Show [1973] Richard O'Brien* |
The Rocky Horror Picture Show [1975] Jim Sharman |
| Equus [1973] Peter Shaffer* |
Equus [1977] Sidney Lumet |
| The Ritz [1974] (The Tubs) Terence McNally |
The Ritz [1976] Richard Lester |
| Death [1975] Woody Allen* |
Shadows and Fog [1991] Woody Allen |
| Chicago [1975] Fred Ebb, Bob Fosse, John Kander |
Chicago [2002] Rob Marshall |
| Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean [1976] Ed Graczyk* |
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean [1982] Robert Altman |
| Streamers [1976] David Rabe* |
Streamers [1983] Robert Altman |
| Deathtrap [1978] Ira Levin |
Deathtrap [1982] Sidney Lumet |
| The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas [1978] Larry L King*, Peter Masterson*, Carol Hall |
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas [1982] Colin Higgins |
| Curse of the Starving Class [1978] Sam Shepard |
Curse of the Starving Class [1994] J Michael McClary |
| Evita [1978] Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber |
Evita [1996] Alan Parker |
| On Golden Pond [1979] Ernest Thompson* |
On Golden Pond [1981] Mark Rydel |
| Amadeus [1979] Peter Shaffer* |
Amadeus [1984] Miloš Forman |
| Agnes of God [1979] John Pielmeier* |
Agnes of God [1985] Norman Jewison |
| Beyond Therapy [1981] Christopher Durang* |
Beyond Therapy [1987] Robert Altman |
| Fool for Love [1983] Sam Shepard |
Fool for Love [1985] Robert Altman |
| The Normal Heart [1985] Larry Kramer* |
The Normal Heart [1988] Ryan Murphy |
| Les Liaisons Dangereuses [1985] Christopher Hampton* |
Dangerous Liaisons [1988] Stephen Frears |
| M Butterfly [1988] David Henry Hwang |
M Butterfly [1993] David Cronenberg |
| Steel Magnolias [1987] Robert Harling |
Steel Magnolias [1989] Herbert Ross |
| Driving Miss Daisy [1987] Alfred Uhry |
Driving Miss Daisy [1989] Bruce Beresford |
| Bondage [1989] David Hines |
Whore [1991] Ken Russell |
| A Few Good Men [1989] Aaron Sorkin* |
A Few Good Men [1992] Rob Reiner |
| Six Degrees of Separation [1990] John Guare* |
Six Degrees of Separation [1993] Fred Schepisi |
| Death and the Maiden [1990] Ariel Dorfman* |
Death and the Maiden [1994] Roman Polanski |
| The House of Yes [1990] Wendy MacLeod |
The House of Yes [1997] Mark Waters |
| The Madness of George III [1991] Alan Bennett* |
The Madness of King George [1994] Nicholas Hytner |
| Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes [1992] Tony Kushner* |
Angels in America [2003] Mike Nichols |
| Simpatico [1994] Sam Shepard |
Simpatico [1999] Matthew Warchus |
| Closer [1997] Patrick Marber* |
Closer [2004] Mike Nichols |
| Hedwig and the Angry Inch [1998] John Cameron Mitchell*, Stephen Trask |
Hedwig and the Angry Inch [2001] John Cameron Mitchell |
| Doubt: A Parable [2004] John Patrick Shanley* |
Doubt [2008] John Patrick Shanley |
| Frost/ Nixon [2006] Peter Morgan* |
Frost/ Nixon [2008] Ron Howard |
| Play | Film |
|---|---|
| Easy Virtue [1925] Noël Coward |
Easy Virtue [1928] Alfred Hitchcock |
| '' | Easy Virtue [2008] Stephan Elliott |
| Bitter Sweet [1929] Noël Coward |
Bitter Sweet [1933] Herbert Wilcox |
| '' | Bitter Sweet [1940] W S Van Dyke |
| Private Lives [1930] Noël Coward |
Private Lives [1931] Sidney Franklin |
| Cavalcade [1931] Noël Coward |
Cavalcade [1933] Frank Lloyd |
| Design for Living [1933] Noël Coward |
Design for Living [1933] Ernest Lubitsch |
| Still Life [1936] Noël Coward |
Brief Encounter [1945] David Lean |
| This Happy Breed [1939] Noël Coward |
This Happy Breed [1944] David Lean |
| Blithe Spirit [1941] Noël Coward |
Blithe Spirit [1945] David Lean |
| Play | Film |
|---|---|
| Sexual Peversity in Chicago [1974] David Mamet |
About Last Night... [1986] Edward Zwick |
| '' | About Last Night [2014] Steve Pink |
| American Buffalo [1975] David Mamet* |
American Buffalo [1996] Michael Corrente |
| Glengary Glen Ross [1983] David Mamet* |
Glengary Glen Ross [1992] James Foley |
| Oleanna [1992] David Mamet* |
Oleanna [1994] David Mamet |
| Play | Film |
|---|---|
| Come Blow Your Horn [1961] Neil Simon* |
Come Blow Your Horn [1963] Bud Yorkin |
| Barefoot in the Park [1963] Neil Simon* |
Barefoot in the Park [1967] Gene Saks |
| The Odd Couple [1965] Neil Simon* |
The Odd Couple [1968] Gene Saks |
| Sweet Charity [1966] Neil Simon, Dorothy Fields, Cy Coleman |
Sweet Charity: The Adventures of a Girl Who Wanted to Be Loved [1969] Bob Fosse |
| Plaza Suite [1968] Neil Simon* |
Plaza Suite [1971] Arthur Hiller |
| '' | Plaza Suite [1987] Roger Beatty |
| The Prisoner of Second Avenue [1972] Neil Simon* |
The Prisoner of Second Avenue [1975] Melvin Frank |
| The Sunshine Boys [1972] Neil Simon* |
The Sunshine Boys [1975] Herbert Ross |
| California Suite [1976] Neil Simon* |
California Suite [1978] Herbert Ross |
| Brighton Beach Memoirs [1982] Neil Simon* |
Brighton Beach Memoirs [1986] Gene Saks |
| Biloxi Blues [1984] Neil Simon* |
Biloxi Blues [1988] Mike Nichols |
| Broadway Bound [1986] Neil Simon* |
Broadway Bound [1992] Paul Bogart |
| Lost in Yonkers [1990] Neil Simon* |
Lost in Yonkers [1993] Martha Coolidge |
| Play | Film |
|---|---|
| The Glass Menagerie [1944] Tennessee Williams* |
The Glass Menagerie [1950] Irving Rapper |
| '' | The Glass Menagerie [1987] Paul Newman |
| A Streetcar Named Desire [1947] Tennessee Williams |
A Streetcar Named Desire [1951] Elia Kazan |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof [1955] Tennessee Williams |
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof [1958] Richard Brooks |
| '' | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof [1984] Jack Hofsiss |
| Orpheus Descending [1957] Tennessee Williams* |
The Fugitive Kind [1960] Sidney Lumet |
| Suddenly Last Summer [1958] Tennessee Williams |
Suddenly Last Summer [1959] Joseph L Mankiewicz |
| Sweet Bird of Youth [1959] Tennessee Williams |
Sweet Bird of Youth [1962] Richard Brooks |
| '' | Sweet Bird of Youth [1989] Nicolas Roeg |
| The Night of the Iguana [1961] Tennessee Williams |
The Night of the Iguana [1964] John Huston |
| The Seven Descents of Myrtle [1968] Tennessee Williams |
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots [1970] Sidney Lumet |
| Verity | Film |
|---|---|
| The Valachi Papers [1969] Peter Maas |
The Valachi Papers [1972] Terence Young |
| Serpico: The Cop Who Defied the System [1973] Peter Maas |
Serpico [1973] Sidney Lumet |
| King of the Gypsies [1974] Peter Maas |
King of the Gypsies [1978] Frank Pierson |
| Marie [1983] Peter Maas |
Marie [1985] Roger Donaldson |
| Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia [1997] Peter Maas |
Witness to the Mob [1998] Thaddeus O'Sullivan |
Variants:
Loose Leaves:
The Adventures of Robin Hood [1938] {1}, directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley, and the numerous other Robin Hood films, including for example Robin and Marian [1976] {73} directed by Richard Lester, all derive from English folklore about the eponymous character; while they variably make use of literary works, the major adaptations such as the 1938 film do not credit them; that said, Howard Pyle's The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood [1883] ~1~ has been highly influential on most modern versions of the tale.
The Beauty and the Beast fairly tale [1740] ~2~, written by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, has produced numerous movie adaptations: notably, Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête [1946] {2}; Lev Atamanov's Alen'kij Cvetoče (The Scarlet Flower) [1952] {3}; Disney's animated Beauty and the Beast [1991] {4}; Christophe Gans's La Belle et la Bête [2014] {5} ; and Bill Condon's Beauty and the Beast [2017] {6}.
Other films based on fairy tales include: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [1937] {7}, from the Brothers Grimm tale 'Schneewittchen' [1812] ~3~; The Little Mermaid [1989] {8} from the Hans Christian Andersen story, 'Den Lille Havfrue' [1837] ~4~; Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Red Shoes [1948] {9}, from Andersen's 'De Røde Sko' [1845] ~5~; Frozen [2013] {10}, from Andersen's 'Snedronningen' ('The Snow Queen') [1844] ~6~; and Cinderella [1950] {11} and Sleeping Beauty [1959] {12}, both based on Charles Perrault tales ('Cendrillon' [1697] ~7~ and 'La Belle au Bois Dormant' [1697] ~8~, respectively).
The second category of literary works fitting into this vague category are works left unfinished, either later completed by other authors or not. Raymond Chandler's Poodle Springs ~164~ for decades existed only in the form of the four chapters that the author had finished by the time he died, published in Raymond Chandler Speaking [1962]. Robert B Parker completed the novel, published in 1989. In turn, Bob Rafelson directed an adaptation for H B O also called Poodle Springs [1998] {74}.
What Came First:
John Luther Long's short story, 'Madame Butterfly' [1898] ~25~ was based partially on the Pierre Loti novel, Madame Chrysanthème ~27~, and in turn was adapted by David Belasco as Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan ~26~, a play first performed in 1900. All of these works inspired the Giacomo Puccini opera Madama Butterfly. Both works in turn led to the films: Madame Butterfly [1915] {30}, directed by Sidney Olcott; Madame Butterfly [1932], directed by Marion Gering {28}; and Madame Butterfly [1954] {29}, directed by Carmine Gallone—among numerous other, looser adaptations.
Besides the famous film adaptation of L Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz noted above, that film also inspired the play, The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" [1975] ~9~ by Charlie Smalls and William F Brown; and the resulting film, The Wiz [1978] {13}, directed by Sidney Lumet.
J M Barrie's play Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up [1904] ~10~ was adapted by Barrie as a novel, Peter and Wendy [1911] ~11~; and both works in turn have been adapted numerous times since, in print, on stage, and on screen; Disney's Peter Pan [1953] {14} not least among them.
Murray Bennett and Joan Alison's play, Everbody Comes to Rick's ~12~, had not been performed when it was was adapted for the screen as Casablanca [1942] {15}.
Graham Greene wrote the screenplay for The Third Man [1949] {16}, but had also written a novella version to prepare for writing the script; the novella ~13~ was published the year after the movie.
Arthur Miller's 1950 version of Henrik Ibsen's En Folkefiende (An Enemy of the People) [1882] ~14~ was the basis for the 1978 film {17} directed by George Schaefer.
Frederick Knott's play, Dial M for Murder ~15~, was performed live on B B C television in 1952 (a teleplay, that is, not a television feature film but a play performed live and broadcast simultaneously, as was common in the early years of television) before premiering on stage in London that same year. In turn, it was adapted {18} by Alfred Hitchcock in 1954.
Marty [1955] {19} was also originally a teleplay ~16~, as an episode of The Philco Television Playhouse, 24 May 1953. Paddy Chayefsky wrote both.
Ira Levin's play, No Time for Sergeants ~43~ became a teleplay for The United States Steel Hour; a Broadway play; a 1958 film {67}; and a 1964 television series ^1^.
The novel, 2001: A Space Odyssey [1968] ~17~ by Arthur C Clarke, and the film, 2001: A Space Odyssey [1968] {20}, directed by Stanley Kubrick, were developed in tandem, the novel published soon after the film was released. Both were credited for the screenplay; while Kubrick apparently worked with Clarke on the novel, only the latter was credited.
Jerzy Kosinski's novel, Being There [1970] ~18~, basis for the Hal Ashby film of the same name [1979] {21}, has been accused of plagiarizing the Polish novel, The Career of Nikodem Dyzma ~19~, by Tadeusz Doega-Mostowicz.
James Fogle's novel, Drugstore Cowboy [1990] ~204~, had not yet been published when the film, Drugstore Cowboy [1989] {80}, directed by Gus Van Sant was released.
Carl Sagan's Contact [1985] ~20~ began as a screenplay, co-written with Ann Druyan in 1979; became a novel when a film was not made; and was finally adapted for the cinema as Contact [1997] {22}.
A rough draft of the story, 'Memento Mori' [2001] ~21~, by Jonathan Nolan, was the basis for the screenplay of the film Memento [2000] {23}, written and directed by his brother, Christopher Nolan, but the film came out before the story was published.
Bruce Wagner wrote the screenplay for David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars [2014] {24} and a novel ~22~ based on that script, entitled Dead Stars, published in 2012 after the film's production had temporarily come to a halt.
Tarell Alvin McCraney's unpublished play, In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue ~23~, written in 2003, was adapted by Barry Jenkins as Moonlight [2016] {25}.
Unlike Woody Allen and Catherine Breillat, both arguably best defined as filmmakers who also write, two others, Marcel Pagnol and Alain Robbe-Grillet, are better described as writers and filmmakers equally. Robbe-Grillet for the most part has kept his novels and movies separate. Marcel Pagnol did not. He adapted his own film, Manon des Sources [1952] {26}, as one of two parts of a novel, L'Eau des Collines [1963] ~24~, the other part being Jean de Florette. That novel was later adapted into two films, Jean de Florette [1986] {70} and Manon des Sources [1986] {27}, both directed by Claude Berri.
Interlocking Parts:
The Henry James novel The Turn of the Screw [1898] ~162~ became a play called The Innocents [1950] ~163~, written by William Archibald. When that play was adapted for the cinema, also entitled The Innocents [1961] {72}, director Jack Clayton asked Truman Capote to re-do Archibald's script, the final result being significantly more like the novel than the play.
Helen Keller's autobiography The Story of My Life ~28~ was turned into a 1957 episode of Playhouse 90, entitled The Miracle Worker; which was in turn adapted by its author, William Gibson, into a play [1959] ~29~ and a film {31}. Further film versions, both made for T V, followed in 1979 {32} and 2000 {33}.
Although ostensibly based on its subject's autobiography, Seven Pillars of Wisdom [1926] ~30~, Lawrence of Arabia [1962] {34} incorporates information from other sources.
Zoe Akins's play The Greeks Had a Word for It [1930] ~31~ was adapted as The Greeks Had a Word for Them [1932] {35}; both inspired the play, Three Blind Mice ~32~, by Stephen Powys (a pseudonym for Virginia de Lanty, wife of the playwright Guy Bolton, though the pseudonym was used for works that they co-authored and, supposedly, in this case for a week by Bolton alone), and the 1938 film of the same name {68} directed by William A Seiter. The film, How to Marry a Millionaire [1953] {36}, directed by Jean Negulesco, was based both on Akins's play and the Dale Eunson/ Katherine Albert play, Loco ~33~. Three Blind Mice, the play, was also adapted as Three Little Girls in Blue [1946] {81}, directed by H Bruce Humberstone. Slightly less convoluted is the fate of Akins's then-unpublished play, Morning Glory ~34~, adapted as the film {37} of the same name; then remade as Stage Struck [1958] {38}, directed by Sidney Lumet.
Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death [1964] {39} is based on both the story of the same name [1845] ~35~ and 'Hop-Frog' [1849] ~36~, both written by Edgar Allan Poe. The later version of The Masque of the Red Death [1989] {40}, directed by Larry Band, is only based on the story of the same name.
The Heroes of Telemark [1965] {41}, directed by Anthony Mann, is based on both a memoir, Skis Against the Atom [1954] ~37~, written by Knut Haukelid, and a novel based on the events depicted in the memoir: But for These Men ~38~, by John Drummond.
In the realm of musical theatre, the links among films and plays, and the material they are both based on, at times gets too intricate to be defined in one-to-one relationships: for example, Cabaret [1972] {42}, the film, was based on Cabaret [1966] ~39~, the musical, which was based on the play, I Am a Camera [1951] ~40~, as was the film, I Am a Camera [1955] {43}; all of them being based on the Christopher Isherwood novel, Goodbye to Berlin [1939] ~41~. More recently, another Christopher Isherwood novel, A Single Man [1964] ~54~ became a film of the same name [2009] {69}, directed by Tom Ford.
Porgy and Bess is another example. Originally, a novel ~159~ called Porgy [1925] by DuBose Heyward that was adapted by the author as a play ~160~ that premiered in 1927. The opera [1935] composed by George Gerswhin with a libretto by Heyward followed. A film {71} directed by Otto Preminger flopped, whereas Miles Davis and Gil Evans's album of new arrangements of the musical material—released the same year—was a success and has only grown in stature since. (Operas are not included in the tally of literary works, only musicals; following standard definition of the two forms. The film is included only because it is based on an opera that was based on a novel and play. A film based only on an opera—or, for that matter, a song or any other musical composition—would not be included.)
Parts of Wholes:
Marcel Proust's seven-volume À la Recherche du Temps Perdu ~42~ has been adapted once in its entirety [2011] {44} directed by Nina Companéez; and three of its volumes have had their own filmic adaptation: Un Amour de Swann {45}, directed by Volker Schlöndorff, of the first volume, Du Côté de Chez Swann; Chantal Ackerman's La Captive {46}, of the fifth volume, La Prisonnière; and Le Temps Retrouvé {47}, directed by Raül Ruiz, of the seventh volume of the same name.
Chimes at Midnight [1965] {48}, directed by Orson Welles, incorporates portions of William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; Richard II; Henry V; and The Merry Wives of Windsor ~44-48~.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ~49~, a 1962 play based loosely on the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus, namely Pseudolus ~50~, Miles Gloriosus ~51~, and Mostellaria ~52~, became the 1966 film {49} directed by Richard Lester.
Two noteworthy films adapting portions of the Bible ~53~: The Bible: In the Beginning... [1966] {50}; and Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo [1964] {51}.
Series From a Whole:
Among the television series adapting literary works: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz ^2^ based on the Alfred Döblin novel of the same name [1929] ~183~; the series, Peyton Place ^3^, based on the Grace Metalious novel of the same name [1956] ~55~ —that novel had already been adapted for the cinema [1957] {52}; The Flying Nun ^4^, based on Tere Ríos's novel The Fifteenth Pelican [1966] ~184~; Roots ^5^ and Roots: The Next Generations ^6^, based on Alex Haley's Roots: The Saga of an American Family [1976] ~185~; The Women of Brewster Place ^7^, based on Gloria Naylor's novel of the same name [1982] ~186~; and the soap opera version of José Marqia de Eça de Queirós's Os Maias: Episódios da Vida Romântica [1888] ~187~, simply titled Os Maias ^8^, produced in 2001 by the Brazilian network Rede Globo, directed by Luiz Fernando Carvalho. In the non-fiction—excuse me, veritable—world, David Simon's Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets [1991] ~188~ became Homicide: Life on the Street ^9^.
The British Broadcasting Corporation, the Public Broadcasting Service (P B S), and other T V films and series of "classic" literature have became ubiquitous, whether as stand-alone productions or as part of a larger program. (By the way, a two-part production gets counted here as a feature and would be included in the tables. Anything of three episodes or more counts here as a series and is noted in this section of the page.) A good example of a B B C series is the eight-part version ^10^ of Charles Dickens's Bleak House [1985] ~189~.
As television has become more prestigious, more novels that perhaps would have been adapted again as feature films instead are being adapted as series. Besides the film adaptation included in the tables above, James M. Cain's Mildred Pierce has been adapted as five-part T V series ^32^ directed by Todd Payne. And, in addition to the two film adaptations noted above, The Haunting of Hill House was adapted as a 10-episode series ^33^ of the same name
Series and Series:
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emma Orczy (Baroness Orczy), was originally a play, performed 1903 in an early version before its revised version became a success in 1905 on the West End. It is remembered more as a novel, that version published in 1905 as well. Sequels and off-shoots followed, a total of 17 books, the last in 1940 ~165-182~. Among the numerous theatrical, cinematic, radio, and television adaptations of these works: The Scarlet Pimpernel [1934], directed by Harold Young, and "Pimpernel" Smith [1941], directed by Leslie Howard (both of these films starred Howard); Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel [1937], the sequel to the '34 film (but starring Barry K Barnes as the titular character); The Elusive Pimpernel [1950] directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger; The Scarlet Pimpernel [1982] directed by Clive Donner {75-79}. More recently, a musical adaptation was written by Nan Knighton ~161~.
In addition, the B.B.C has aired several series based on characters from series of mystery novels: e.g. The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries [1990, 1993-4] ^24^ adapting nine novels by Ngaio Marsh ~74-82~; The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries [1998-2000] ^25^ adapating five novels by Gladys Mitchell ~83-87~; Wallander [2008-16] ^26^ adapting 11 Henning Mankell novels ~88-98~. Granada offered a decade-long run of Sherlock Holmes ^27^ series in the 1980's and early '90's, generally considered as a single show, adapting a total of 39 stories and two novels ~99-139~. More recently, the B B C's Sherlock ^28^ sets some of the stories and novels in Twenty-First-Century England. Agatha Christie's Miss Marple character has birthed numerous films and series in the U.K and the U.S, perhaps most significantly the B.B.C's Miss Marple series ^29^, which adapted all 12 of the novels ~140-151~. In the States we also had Father Dowling Mysteries [1987, 1989-91], more loosely based on its literary precusor, a series of novels by Ralph McInerny.
In a similar vein, the character Fantômas, the subject of numerous novels written by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre, in turn became the subject of numerous film and T V adaptations, notably those directed by Louis Feuillade in the silent era and André Hunebelle in the 1960's.
Agatha Christie's novel, Murder on the Orient Express ~56~, has been adapted numerous times for both the cinema and T V, most prominently Sidney Lumet's 1974 film {53}.
Unsurprisingly, series of novels lead to T V series, just as we've seen series of novels (such as the James Bond titles) leading to series of films: notably, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House novels, or, rather, the third (Little House on the Prarie [1935] ~152~) and fourth (On the Banks of Plum Creek [1937] ~153~) of the series, and the T V series, The Little House on a Prairie [1974-82] ^30^; George R R Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire ~154-158~ and Game of Thrones [2011- ] ^31^, with the T V series having notably out-paced the author's own progress on his ongoing series; elements of all five of the novels published so far have been included in the show.
Some authors' work produces series and films equally well. Robert Ludlum's trilogy of Jason Bourne novels: The Bourne Identity [1980] ~57~; The Bourne Supremacy [1986]; and The Bourne Ultimatum [1990] produced films: The Bourne Identity [1988], a two-part T V movie {54}; and The Bourne Identity [2002] {55}, the first of the Matt Damon-featured franchise—the third film in the series, The Bourne Ultimatum {56} is loosely based on the novel of the same name ~58~, while two other films, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Legacy by most accounts merely take the name of the accompanying novel but not the story (The Bourne Legacy novel being one of numerous novels, all written by Eric Van Lustbader, continuing the original trilogy)—while his novel The Apocalypse Watch [1995] ~190~ led to a mini-series [1997] ^11^. Earlier, The Osterman Weekend [1972] ~59~ had led to a film of the same name [1983] {57} directed by Sam Peckinpah, as did The Holcroft Covenant [1978] ~60~: the film of the same name [1985] {58} directed by John Frankenheimer.
A bit less convoluted.... Patrick Hamilton's Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky trilogy of novels [1929-34] ~61, 62, 63~ has birthed both a film, Bitter Harvest {59}, and a B B C series ^12^.
Elmore Leonard's fictional character, U.S Marshall Raylan Givens, the subject of the novels Pronto [1993] ~191~, Riding the Gap [1995] ~192~, and the story 'Fire in the Hole' ~193~, became the subject of his own T.V series, Justified ^13^. In turn, Leonard wrote another novel, Raylan [2012] ~194~, based on the series.
Besides the numerous adaptations of his work (many more beyond what's listed above here), several Stephen King novels gave rise to T.V mini-series: ~195~ Salem's Lot ^14^; ~196~ It ^15^; ~197~ The Tommyknockers ^16^; and ~198~ The Stand ^17^.
Well before the recent feature-film version of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, that novel was adapted for a mini-series: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [1979], directed by John Irvin.
In addition to the three works noted above, the Robert Daley novel To Kill a Cop [1976] ~199~ was turned into a T V mini-series of the same name and a 13-episode series, ^18^ Eischied.
Larry McMurty would get a special section above if the most popular of the many adaptations of his works had not been a T V mini-series, Lonesome Dove [1989] ^19^, based on the novel [1985] of the same name ~200~ (in turn, there were sequel mini-series based on the novel's sequels: Streets of Laredo; Dead Man's Walk; Comanche Moon ~200-202~ ^20, 21, 22^). That said, the most acclaimed of adaptations of his work surely remains The Last Picture Show [1971] {60}, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, and based on the novel of the same name [1966] ~64~. Terms of Endearment [1983] {61}, directed by James L Brooks and based on the novel of the same name [1975] ~65~, ranks highly as well. The Last Picture Show had a sequel, both novel [1987] ~66~ and film [1990] {62}: Texasville; as did Terms of Endearment: again both novel [1992] ~67~ and film [1996] {63}: The Evening Star. More films: Hud [1963] {64}, based on Horseman, Pass By [1961] ~68~; Lovin' Molly [1974] {65}, directed by Sidney Lumet, based on Leaving Cheyenne [1962] ~69~; and another T V mini-series: Buffalo Girls [1995] ^23^, based on the novel of the same name [1990] ~203~.
Less Is More:
Though filmmakers tend to make more from less (series from single novels) or at least (most?) more from more (series from series of novels), they can also make single films based on series of novels: the first-fourth of the eight Mary Poppins novels ~70, 71, 72, 73~ got turned into one film, Mary Poppins [1964] {66}. A series of books by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir, The Destroyer, birthed only a single film, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins [1985]. Further movies never came to be, though a television pilot, picking up where the film left off, made it to air.
But More Is Still More Too:
While the category of novelizations of films and T.V series is a gargantuan one (see: Doctor Who) more compelling perhaps are novels based or expanding upon films and T.V series. Star Wars clearly became the leader in this regard in the early 1990's as several novelists, notably Timothy Zahn, offered their own take on what happened after the events depicted in the original trilogy. More compelling still, Twin Peaks has given rise to four novels that arguably play important roles in understanding the "entire mystery": The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer [1990] by Jennifer Lynch and My Life, My Tapes: The Autobiography of F B I Special Agent Dale Cooper [1991] by Scott Frost, both written during the show's first run, and Mark Frost's The Secret History of Twin Peaks [2016], published before the new series, and Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier [2017] coming soon after the new series concluded. Less significantly, Twin Peaks: An Access Guide to the Town [1991], by Gregg Almquist, is a parody of local tourist guides; and an audio-only "book" by Scott Frost, "Diane..." The Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper [1990], overlaps with the T.V series to an extent, perhaps also My Life, My Tapes (either way the content that is exclusive to it could presumably be incorporated into a new version of My Life, My Tapes). All of these books overlap to some extent with the two series but, like the Star Wars sequels and prequels, are not adaptations.
How many of the films generally considered to be the best are based on literary works?
If one includes the works noted in the Variants section, in Leonard Maltin's list, 55 of 100 films are based on a literary work; 54 of 106 in Channel 4's list; 49 of 107 films in the National Society of Film Critics list; 59 of 125 in Entertainment Weekly's list; 37 of 101 in the Village Voice's list; and 16 of 38 films that have placed in the top ten of any of Sight and Sound's polls.