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A Kiss Before Dying (1991 film)
A Kiss Before Dying (1991) is James Dearden's thriller adaptation of Ira Levin's 1953 novel, starring Matt Dillon, Sean Young in a double role, and Max von Sydow; released by Universal in April 1991, poorly reviewed (31% RT, Metascore 40).
A Little Princess (1995 film)
A Little Princess (1995) is Alfonso Cuarón's American drama adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1905 novel, starring Liesel Matthews as Sara Crewe, set in WWI New York, with two 1996 Oscar nominations and a 97% Rotten Tomatoes score.
A Place in the Sun (1951 film)
A Place in the Sun (1951) is George Stevens's Paramount drama adapting Dreiser's An American Tragedy, starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Shelley Winters; it won six Oscars including Best Director and entered the National Film Registry in 1991.
A Room with a View (1985 film)
A Room with a View (1985) is James Ivory and Ismail Merchant's British adaptation of E.M. Forster's 1908 novel, starring Helena Bonham Carter, Maggie Smith, and Daniel Day-Lewis; it won three Oscars and was Merchant Ivory's first commercial hit.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a 1971 Disney live-action/animated musical directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Angela Lansbury as apprentice witch Eglantine Price, adapted from Mary Norton's books, with Sherman songs and four Oscar nominations.
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980 film)
Berlin Alexanderplatz is a 1980 West German television miniseries directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, adapting Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel in fourteen parts totaling more than 15 hours, following ex-convict Franz Biberkopf in late-1920s Berlin.
Brideshead Revisited (film)
Brideshead Revisited is a 2008 British drama film directed by Julian Jarrold, the first feature-film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel, starring Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, and Emma Thompson.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 Ken Hughes musical fantasy produced by Albert R. Broccoli, adapted by Roald Dahl from Ian Fleming's 1964 children's novel, starring Dick Van Dyke, with Sherman Brothers songs and an Oscar-nominated title song.
Das fliegende Klassenzimmer
Das fliegende Klassenzimmer is a 2003 German family comedy-drama directed by Tomy Wigand, adapted from Erich Kästner's 1933 novel and starring Ulrich Noethen, Sebastian Koch, and Hauke Diekamp.
Diary of a Chambermaid
Diary of a Chambermaid (Le Journal d'une femme de chambre) is Octave Mirbeau's 1900 novel about the maid Célestine, adapted by Renoir (1946), Buñuel (1964), Jacquot (2015), and Jude (2026).
Dolittle (film)
Dolittle is a 2020 American fantasy adventure comedy directed by Stephen Gaghan, starring Robert Downey Jr. as the veterinarian who speaks to animals, loosely based on Hugh Lofting's novel.
Doña Bárbara
Doña Bárbara (1943) is a Mexican film by Fernando de Fuentes adapting Rómulo Gallegos's 1929 Venezuelan novel, starring María Félix as a ruthless landowner; it won 1944 Mexican critics' awards and inspired later films and telenovelas.
Down a Dark Hall (film)
Down a Dark Hall, 2018 supernatural horror film directed by Rodrigo Cortés, adapted from Lois Duncan's 1974 gothic YA novel; stars AnnaSophia Robb and Uma Thurman as headmistress Madame Duret at the sinister Blackwood boarding school; mixed reviews (46% Rotten Tomatoes).
East of Eden (film)
East of Eden (1955) is Elia Kazan's Warner Bros. drama adapted by Paul Osborn from Steinbeck's novel, covering only its final third; James Dean's first major role as Cal Trask, Jo Van Fleet's Oscar, Cannes and Golden Globe wins.
Elmer Gantry (film)
Elmer Gantry (1960), Richard Brooks's United Artists drama adapted from Sinclair Lewis's 1927 novel, stars Burt Lancaster as a revivalist con man with Jean Simmons and Oscar winner Shirley Jones; it won three Academy Awards.
Emil und die Detektive
Emil und die Detektive (Emil and the Detectives) is Erich Kästner's 1929 children's novel about Emil Tischbein, robbed on a train to Berlin, who recovers his money with a children's gang; first filmed in 1931 by Gerhard Lamprecht with a Billy Wilder screenplay, and adapted repeatedly since.
Exodus (1960 film)
Exodus (1960) is Otto Preminger's epic drama, scripted by blacklisted Dalton Trumbo from Leon Uris's novel, starring Paul Newman as Ari Ben Canaan smuggling 600 refugees from Cyprus to Palestine; it won Ernest Gold an Oscar and helped end the Hollywood blacklist.
From Time to Time (film)
From Time to Time is a 2009 British family fantasy film written and directed by Julian Fellowes, adapted from Lucy M. Boston's The Chimneys of Green Knowe, starring Maggie Smith and Alex Etel as a boy who travels back to the Napoleonic era at Green Knowe.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939 film)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) is Sam Wood's MGM British Studios drama adapted from James Hilton's novella, starring Robert Donat and a debuting Greer Garson; Donat won the 1939 Best Actor Oscar, beating Clark Gable.
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes is a 1984 Warner Bros. adventure drama directed by Hugh Hudson, based on Burroughs's Tarzan of the Apes, with a screenplay credited to P.H. Vazak (Robert Towne's pseudonym), starring Christopher Lambert, and earning three Oscar nominations.
How Green Was My Valley (film)
How Green Was My Valley (1941) is John Ford's black-and-white 20th Century-Fox drama adapted from Richard Llewellyn's 1939 novel about the Welsh Morgan mining family, shot on a Malibu backlot, and the Best Picture Oscar winner that beat Citizen Kane with five Academy Awards.
Howards End (film)
Howards End (1992) is James Ivory and Ismail Merchant's adaptation of E.M. Forster's 1910 novel, scripted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, starring Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, and Helena Bonham Carter; it won three Oscars from nine nominations and the Cannes 45th Anniversary Prize.
Kipps
Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul is H. G. Wells's 1905 comic novel of a draper's apprentice who inherits a fortune; adapted as silent film (1921), Carol Reed film (1941), ITV serial (1960), and the musical Half a Sixpence.
Kleiner Mann – was nun?
Kleiner Mann – was nun? (Little Man, What Now?) is Hans Fallada's 1932 Depression-era novel about clerk Johannes Pinneberg, his wife Lämmchen and their slide into unemployment in Berlin, a New Objectivity bestseller filmed in 1933, 1934, 1967, and 1973.
Kull the Conqueror
Kull the Conqueror is a 1997 American sword-and-sorcery film directed by John Nicolella and starring Kevin Sorbo as Kull, a barbarian who becomes king of Valusia.
Lady Chatterley's Lover (2015 film)
Lady Chatterley's Lover (2015) is a BBC One television film adapted and directed by Jed Mercurio from D.H. Lawrence's 1928 novel, starring Holliday Grainger, Richard Madden, and James Norton, broadcast 6 September 2015.
Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022 film)
Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022) is a Netflix romantic drama directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, adapted from D.H. Lawrence's 1928 novel, starring Emma Corrin and Jack O'Connell, released theatrically November 23 and on Netflix December 2, 2022.
Lolita (1997 film)
Lolita (1997), Adrian Lyne's second film adaptation of Nabokov's 1955 novel, stars Jeremy Irons and 15-year-old Dominique Swain. A $50 million production refused by every major Hollywood studio, it premiered in Spain in 1997 and reached US audiences via Showtime in 1998.
Lord of the Flies (1963 film)
Lord of the Flies (1963) is Peter Brook's black-and-white British adaptation of William Golding's 1954 novel, shot on Vieques, Puerto Rico, with 34 non-professional boys; Cannes Palme d'Or nominee, Criterion release, distinct from the 1990 Harry Hook remake.
Lord of the Flies (1990 film)
Lord of the Flies (1990) is Harry Hook's American remake of Golding's novel, the second film adaptation after Peter Brook's 1963 version, recasting the boys as US military cadets, adding a pilot, credited to pseudonym Sara Schiff, and receiving mixed reviews.