I’ve Seen A Few of the 50 Best Book-to-Film Adaptations
While I think that there are a few good adapatations missing from this list (Lord of the Rings, Big Fish, High Fidelity, The Princess Bride), I decided to follow the pack and mark up the list with the films I’ve seen and the books I’ve read from that list.
- [BM] 1984
- [BM] Alice in Wonderland
- American Psycho
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- Brighton Rock
- Catch 22
- [BM] Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
- [M] A Clockwork Orange
- Close Range (inc Brokeback Mountain)
- The Day of the Triffids
- [M] Devil in a Blue Dress
- [BM] Different Seasons (inc The Shawshank Redemption)
- [M] Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (aka Bladerunner)
- Doctor Zhivago
- Empire of the Sun
- The English Patient
- [M] Fight Club
- The French Lieutenant’s Woman
- [M] Get Shorty
- [M] The Godfather
- [M] Goldfinger
- [M] Goodfellas
- [BM] Heart of Darkness (aka Apocalypse Now)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- [M] Jaws
- [M] The Jungle Book
- A Kestrel for a Knave (aka Kes)
- [M] LA Confidential
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Lolita
- [B] Lord of the Flies
- [M] The Maltese Falcon
- Oliver Twist
- [M] One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Orlando
- The Outsiders
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- The Railway Children
- Rebecca
- The Remains of the Day
- [M] Schindler’s Ark (aka Schindler’s List)
- [M] Sin City
- The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
- [M] The Talented Mr Ripley
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles
- Through a Glass Darkly
- [BM] To Kill a Mockingbird
- [M] Trainspotting
- The Vanishing
- [B] Watership Down
