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The Girl with Green Eyes
Girl with Green Eyes (The Girl with Green Eyes) is a 1964 British drama, Desmond Davis's directorial debut, adapted by Edna O'Brien from her novel The Lonely Girl, starring Rita Tushingham, Peter Finch, and Lynn Redgrave; it won the 1965 Golden Globe for Best English-Language Foreign Film.
The Goldfinch (film)
The Goldfinch (2019) is John Crowley's drama adaptation of Donna Tartt's Pulitzer-winning novel, written by Peter Straughan, starring Ansel Elgort, Oakes Fegley, and Nicole Kidman; a $40 million Warner Bros. film that grossed about $10 million and scored 24% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (film)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is Mike Newell's 2018 film adaptation of Shaffer and Barrows's epistolary novel, starring Lily James and Michiel Huisman, about a writer and a Guernsey book club formed during the German Occupation; released theatrically in April 2018 and on Netflix in August 2018.
The Handmaid's Tale (film)
The Handmaid's Tale (1990 film), directed by Volker Schlöndorff from Harold Pinter's screenplay of Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel, stars Natasha Richardson as Offred; released 7 March 1990, panned by critics, later overshadowed by the 2017 Hulu series.
The Hexer (film)
The Hexer (Wiedźmin), 2001 Polish fantasy film by Marek Brodzki adapting Andrzej Sapkowski's witcher stories, starring Michał Żebrowski as Geralt; a condensed cut of the 2002 TV series, poorly received.
The Hours (film)
The Hours is a 2002 drama film directed by Stephen Daldry, adapted from Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, interweaving three women's lives linked by Mrs Dalloway.
The Indian in the Cupboard (film)
The Indian in the Cupboard (1995), also known by its source novel by Lynne Reid Banks, is a Frank Oz family fantasy film written by Melissa Mathison, starring Hal Scardino and Litefoot, about a magic cupboard that brings toy figures to life; 96 min, PG, Paramount/Columbia.
The Jane Austen Book Club (film)
The Jane Austen Book Club is a 2007 Sony Pictures Classics romantic comedy-drama directed by Robin Swicord from Karen Joy Fowler's 2004 novel: six Sacramento friends, five women and one man, read Austen's six novels over six months as their love lives parallel the plots; 106 minutes, PG-13, 66% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Life of Chuck
The Life of Chuck is Mike Flanagan's 2025 drama adapting Stephen King's 2020 novella from If It Bleeds, telling accountant Charles Krantz's life in reverse across three acts; it won TIFF's People's Choice Award and was released by Neon with Tom Hiddleston starring.
The Light Between Oceans (film)
The Light Between Oceans is a 2016 period drama directed by Derek Cianfrance, adapted from M. L. Stedman's novel, starring Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, and Rachel Weisz; a lighthouse-keeping couple in post-WWI Western Australia raise a baby from an adrift rowboat, with devastating consequences.
The Light in the Forest
The Light in the Forest is Walt Disney's 1958 Technicolor drama directed by Herschel Daugherty, adapted from Conrad Richter's 1953 novel about Johnny Butler/True Son, a white captive returned by the Delaware in 1764, starring James MacArthur, Fess Parker, and Carol Lynley.
The Little Stranger (film)
The Little Stranger is a 2018 gothic drama film directed by Lenny Abrahamson, adapted by Lucinda Coxon from Sarah Waters' 2009 novel, starring Domhnall Gleeson and Ruth Wilson.
The Little Vampire (film)
The Little Vampire (German: Der kleine Vampir) is a 2000 children's fantasy-comedy film directed by Uli Edel, based on Angela Sommer-Bodenburg's novels about a boy who befriends a young vampire.
The Long Home
The Long Home is an unreleased 2015 American drama directed by James Franco, adapted from William Gay's novel, starring Josh Hutcherson, Josh Hartnett, and Ashton Kutcher; filmed in Ohio, it remains without distribution.
The Lost Daughter (film)
The Lost Daughter (2021) is Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial debut, adapted from Elena Ferrante's 2006 novel, starring Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, and Dakota Johnson; it premiered at Venice, won Best Screenplay, and streams on Netflix.
The Lovely Bones (film)
The Lovely Bones (2009) is Peter Jackson's adaptation of Alice Sebold's novel, starring Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg, and Stanley Tucci; a murdered girl watches her family from the afterlife. Mixed reviews, Metacritic 42, $93 million gross on a $65 million budget.
The Marsh King's Daughter
The Marsh King's Daughter (2023) is a Neil Burger thriller starring Daisy Ridley and Ben Mendelsohn, adapted from Karen Dionne's 2017 novel about a woman hunting her kidnapper father after his prison escape.
The Namesake (film)
The Namesake (2006) is Mira Nair's drama adapting Jhumpa Lahiri's novel, with screenplay by Sooni Taraporevala, starring Kal Penn, Tabu, and Irrfan Khan as the Bengali-American Ganguli family, released by Fox Searchlight in March 2007.
The NeverEnding Story (film)
The NeverEnding Story (Die unendliche Geschichte) is Wolfgang Petersen's 1984 German-American fantasy film adapting the first half of Michael Ende's 1979 novel, starring Barret Oliver, Noah Hathaway, and Tami Stronach; the author disowned it, and it spawned two sequels.
The Nickel Boys (film)
The Nickel Boys (film): 2024 American drama directed by RaMell Ross, adapting Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer-winning novel; shot in first-person POV; stars Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson; Oscar-nominated Best Picture.
The Night House (upcoming film)
The Night House is an upcoming horror-thriller film directed by Jesper Ganslandt, based on a best-selling novel by Jo Nesbø, and starring Aaron Paul, Jacob Trembly, and Charlie Murphy.
The Ninth Configuration
The Ninth Configuration (1980), also released as Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane, is William Peter Blatty's directorial debut: a castle-set military-asylum drama starring Stacy Keach and Scott Wilson, funded partly by PepsiCo and winner of a Golden Globe screenplay.
The Old Man and the Sea (1958 film)
The Old Man and the Sea (1958) is John Sturges's Warner Bros. adaptation of Hemingway's novella, starring Spencer Tracy as Santiago. Over budget at $5 million, it won an Oscar for Tiomkin's score but failed at the box office.
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008 film)
The Other Boleyn Girl is a 2008 historical drama film directed by Justin Chadwick, adapted from Philippa Gregory's 2001 novel and starring Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, and Eric Bana.
The Pearl
The Pearl (La perla) is John Steinbeck's 1947 novella about Mexican pearl diver Kino, whose great pearl brings tragedy; expanded from a 1945 short story and filmed by Emilio Fernández, winning the 1947 Venice Golden Lion.
The Reader (2008 film)
The Reader is a 2008 drama film directed by Stephen Daldry, adapted from Bernhard Schlink's novel about an affair with a woman tried as a Nazi guard; Kate Winslet won the Best Actress Oscar.
The Remains of the Day (film)
The Remains of the Day (1993) is James Ivory's Merchant Ivory drama adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker-winning novel, starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, with eight Oscar nominations and a 96% Rotten Tomatoes score.
The Rule of Jenny Pen
The Rule of Jenny Pen is a 2024 New Zealand psychological horror film by James Ashcroft, adapted from an Owen Marshall short story, starring Geoffrey Rush as a stroke-stricken judge tormented in a care home by John Lithgow's puppet-wielding resident Dave Crealy.
The Secret Life of Bees (film)
The Secret Life of Bees (2008), Gina Prince-Bythewood's drama adapted from Sue Monk Kidd's novel, starring Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, and Sophie Okonedo; set in 1964 South Carolina, released by Fox Searchlight, grossing about $40 million worldwide.
The Seeker (film)
The Seeker is a 2007 American fantasy film based on Susan Cooper's novel The Dark Is Rising, starring Alexander Ludwig as a boy who fights the Dark.