Novels on the Big Screen
Whether faithful adaptations or daring reimaginings, these are films that deserve to be appreciated alongside their printed progenitors.
| Spine # | Title | Director | Country | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 984 |
|
1984 | Michael Radford | United Kingdom, | 1984 |
| 913 |
|
The Age of Innocence | Martin Scorsese | United States, | 1993 |
| 1234 |
|
All of Us Strangers | Andrew Haigh | United Kingdom, | 2023 |
| 214 |
|
All That Money Can Buy (a.k.a. The Devil and Daniel Webster) | William Dieterle | United States, | 1941 |
| 600 |
|
Anatomy of a Murder | Otto Preminger | United States, | 1959 |
| 782 |
|
The Apu Trilogy | |||
| 886 |
|
L’argent | Robert Bresson | France, | 1983 |
| 385 |
|
Army of Shadows | Jean-Pierre Melville | France, | 1969 |
| 645 |
|
The Ballad of Narayama | Keisuke Kinoshita | Japan, | 1958 |
| 897 |
|
Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | United States, | 1975 |
|
The Beast | Bertrand Bonello | France, | 2023 | |
| 1042 |
|
Beau travail | Claire Denis | France, | 1999 |
| 411 |
|
Berlin Alexanderplatz | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Germany, | 1980 |
| 324 |
|
La bête humaine | Jean Renoir | France, | 1938 |
| 1269 |
|
The Big Heat | Fritz Lang | United States, | 1953 |
| 765 |
|
The Black Stallion | Carroll Ballard | United States, | 1979 |
| 889 |
|
The Breaking Point | Michael Curtiz | United States, | 1950 |
|
Buchanan Rides Alone | Budd Boetticher | United States, | 1958 | |
| 893 |
|
Certain Women | Kelly Reichardt | United States, | 2016 |
| 1176 |
|
Chilly Scenes of Winter | Joan Micklin Silver | United States, | 1979 |
| 1043 |
|
Christ Stopped at Eboli | Francesco Rosi | Italy, | 1979 |
| 131 |
|
Closely Watched Trains | Jiří Menzel | Czechoslovakia, | 1966 |
| 1041 |
|
The Comfort of Strangers | Paul Schrader | Italy, | 1990 |
| 1059 |
|
Crash | David Cronenberg | Canada, | 1996 |
|
David Golder | Julien Duvivier | France, | 1930 | |
| 962 |
|
Death in Venice | Luchino Visconti | Italy, | 1971 |
|
Decision at Sundown | Budd Boetticher | United States, | 1957 | |
| 1135 |
|
Devil in a Blue Dress | Carl Franklin | United States, | 1995 |
| 902 |
|
Desert Hearts | Donna Deitch | United States, | 1985 |
| 745 |
|
Don’t Look Now | Nicolas Roeg | United Kingdom, | 1973 |
| 1126 |
|
Double Indemnity | Billy Wilder | United States, | 1944 |
| 1136 |
|
Drive My Car | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Japan, | 2021 |
| 1251 |
|
Drugstore Cowboy | Gus Van Sant | United States, | 1989 |
|
The Eight Mountains | Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch | Italy, | 2022 | |
| 904 |
|
Election | Alexander Payne | United States, | 1999 |
|
The Emigrants/The New Land | ||||
| 398 |
|
Les enfants terribles | Jean-Pierre Melville | France, | 1950 |
| 1011 |
|
Fail Safe | Sidney Lumet | United States, | 1964 |
| 700 |
|
Fantastic Mr. Fox | Wes Anderson | United States, | 2009 |
| 1228 |
|
Farewell My Concubine | Chen Kaige | China, | 1993 |
| 175 |
|
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Terry Gilliam | United States, | 1998 |
| 430 |
|
The Fire Within | Louis Malle | France, | 1963 |
| 1116 |
|
The Flight of the Phoenix | Robert Aldrich | United States, | 1965 |
|
Freaks | Tod Browning | United States, | 1932 | |
| 768 |
|
The French Lieutenant’s Woman | Karel Reisz | United Kingdom, | 1981 |
| 475 |
|
The Friends of Eddie Coyle | Peter Yates | United States, | 1973 |
| 435 |
|
The Furies | Anthony Mann | United States, | 1950 |
| 31 |
|
Great Expectations | David Lean | United Kingdom, | 1946 |
| 1246 |
|
The Grifters | Stephen Frears | United States, | 1990 |
| 1201 |
|
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio | Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson | Mexico, | 2022 |
| 974 |
|
The Heiress | William Wyler | United States, | 1949 |
| 1099 |
|
High Sierra | Raoul Walsh | United States, | 1941 |
|
The Home and the World | Satyajit Ray | India, | 1984 | |
|
I Walked with a Zombie | Jacques Tourneur | United States, | 1943 | |
| 426 |
|
The Ice Storm | Ang Lee | United States, | 1997 |
|
The Idiot | Akira Kurosawa | Japan, | 1951 | |
| 1167 |
|
Imitation of Life | John M. Stahl | United States, | 1934 |
| 781 |
|
In Cold Blood | Richard Brooks | United States, | 1967 |
| 959 |
|
In the Heat of the Night | Norman Jewison | United States, | 1967 |
| 1058 |
|
The Irishman | Martin Scorsese | United States, | 2019 |
| 586 |
|
Island of Lost Souls | Erle C. Kenton | United States, | 1932 |
| 1257 |
|
Jean de Florette / Manon of the Spring: Two Films by Claude Berri | |||
| 1199 |
|
La cérémonie | Claude Chabrol | France, | 1995 |
| 422 |
|
The Last Emperor | Bernardo Bertolucci | China, | 1987 |
| 549 |
|
The Last Picture Show | Peter Bogdanovich | United States, | 1971 |
| 70 |
|
The Last Temptation of Christ | Martin Scorsese | United States, | 1988 |
| 1107 |
|
The Learning Tree | Gordon Parks | United States, | 1969 |
| 235 |
|
The Leopard | Luchino Visconti | Italy, | 1963 |
|
Les misérables | Raymond Bernard | France, | 1934 | |
| 43 |
|
Lord of the Flies | Peter Brook | United Kingdom, | 1963 |
| 239 |
|
The Lower Depths | |||
| 952 |
|
The Magnificent Ambersons | Orson Welles | United States, | 1942 |
| 457 |
|
Magnificent Obsession | Douglas Sirk | United States, | 1954 |
| 567 |
|
The Makioka Sisters | Kon Ichikawa | Japan, | 1983 |
| 1160 |
|
Malcolm X | Spike Lee | United States, | 1992 |
| 803 |
|
The Manchurian Candidate | John Frankenheimer | United States, | 1962 |
| 661 |
|
Marketa Lazarová | František Vláčil | Czechoslovakia, | 1967 |
| 827 |
|
McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Robert Altman | United States, | 1971 |
| 535 |
|
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence | Nagisa Oshima | United Kingdom, | 1983 |
| 860 |
|
Mildred Pierce | Michael Curtiz | United States, | 1945 |
| 1119 |
|
Miracle in Milan | Vittorio De Sica | Italy, | 1951 |
| 774 |
|
Mister Johnson | Bruce Beresford | United States, | 1990 |
| 363 |
|
Mouchette | Robert Bresson | France, | 1967 |
| 1205 |
|
Mudbound | Dee Rees | United States, | 2017 |
| 973 |
|
My Brilliant Career | Gillian Armstrong | Australia, | 1979 |
| 220 |
|
Naked Lunch | David Cronenberg | Canada, | 1991 |
| 1243 |
|
No Country for Old Men | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | United States, | 2007 |
| 32 |
|
Oliver Twist | David Lean | United Kingdom, | 1948 |
|
Orlando, My Political Biography | Paul B. Preciado | France, | 2023 | |
| 1241 |
|
Paper Moon | Peter Bogdanovich | United States, | 1973 |
| 894 |
|
The Piano Teacher | Michael Haneke | France, | 2001 |
| 29 |
|
Picnic at Hanging Rock | Peter Weir | Australia, | 1975 |
|
Poil de carotte | Julien Duvivier | France, | 1932 | |
| 1158 |
|
The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion | United States, | 2021 |
| 1022 |
|
The Prince of Tides | Barbra Streisand | United States, | 1991 |
| 948 |
|
The Princess Bride | Rob Reiner | United States, | 1987 |
| 637 |
|
Purple Noon | René Clément | France, | 1960 |
| 1221 |
|
Querelle | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Germany, | 1982 |
| 135 |
|
Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock | United States, | 1940 |
| 1208 |
|
The Roaring Twenties | Raoul Walsh | United States, | 1939 |
| 775 |
|
A Room with a View | James Ivory | United Kingdom, | 1986 |
| 630 |
|
Rosemary’s Baby | Roman Polanski | United States, | 1968 |
| 1129 |
|
Rouge | Stanley Kwan | Hong Kong, | 1987 |
| 869 |
|
Rumble Fish | Francis Ford Coppola | United States, | 1983 |
| 17 |
|
Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Italy, | 1976 |
| 1239 |
|
Scarface | Howard Hawks | United States, | 1932 |
| 667 |
|
Seconds | John Frankenheimer | United States, | 1966 |
| 1182 |
|
The Servant | Joseph Losey | United Kingdom, | 1963 |
| 1130 |
|
Shaft | Gordon Parks | United States, | 1971 |
| 315 |
|
Shoot the Piano Player | François Truffaut | France, | 1960 |
| 755 |
|
Le silence de la mer | Jean-Pierre Melville | France, | 1949 |
| 13 |
|
The Silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme | United States, | 1991 |
| 441 |
|
The Small Back Room | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | United Kingdom, | 1949 |
| 164 |
|
Solaris | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet Union, | 1972 |
| 1267 |
|
Sorcerer | William Friedkin | United States, | 1977 |
| 452 |
|
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | Martin Ritt | United States, | 1965 |
| 888 |
|
Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet Union, | 1979 |
| 728 |
|
Sundays and Cybèle | Serge Bourguignon | France, | 1962 |
| 1013 |
|
Teorema | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Italy, | 1968 |
| 697 |
|
Tess | Roman Polanski | United Kingdom, | 1979 |
|
La tête d’un homme | Julien Duvivier | France, | 1933 | |
| 880 |
|
They Live by Night | Nicholas Ray | United States, | 1948 |
| 691 |
|
Thief | Michael Mann | United States, | 1981 |
| 536 |
|
The Thin Red Line | Terrence Malick | United States, | 1998 |
| 1263 |
|
The Three Musketeers / The Four Musketeers: Two Films by Richard Lester | |||
| 234 |
|
The Tin Drum | Volker Schlöndorff | Germany, | 1979 |
| 1213 |
|
To Die For | Gus Van Sant | United States, | 1995 |
| 910 |
|
Tom Jones | Tony Richardson | United Kingdom, | 1963 |
| 1204 |
|
Trainspotting | Danny Boyle | United Kingdom, | 1996 |
| 1191 |
|
The Trial | Orson Welles | France, | 1962 |
| 1172 |
|
Two Films by Marguerite Duras | |||
| 309 |
|
Ugetsu | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan, | 1953 |
| 410 |
|
Under the Volcano | John Huston | United States, | 1984 |
| 1223 |
|
The Underground Railroad | Barry Jenkins | United States, | 2021 |
| 677 |
|
The Uninvited | Lewis Allen | United States, | 1944 |
| 920 |
|
The Virgin Suicides | Sofia Coppola | United States, | 1999 |
| 36 |
|
The Wages of Fear | Henri-Georges Clouzot | France, | 1953 |
| 10 |
|
Walkabout | Nicolas Roeg | United Kingdom, | 1971 |
| 983 |
|
War and Peace | Sergei Bondarchuk | Soviet Union, | 1966 |
| 1037 |
|
The War of the Worlds | Byron Haskin | United States, | 1953 |
| 748 |
|
Watership Down | Martin Rosen | United Kingdom, | 1978 |
| 1215 |
|
Werckmeister Harmonies | Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky | Hungary, | 2000 |
|
White Mane | Albert Lamorisse | France, | 1953 | |
| 1031 |
|
Wildlife | Paul Dano | United States, | 2018 |
| 470 |
|
Wise Blood | John Huston | United States, | 1979 |
| 1264 |
|
The Wiz | Sidney Lumet | United States, | 1978 |
| 916 |
|
Women in Love | Ken Russell | United Kingdom, | 1969 |
| 96 |
|
Written on the Wind | Douglas Sirk | United States, | 1956 |
|
Xala | Ousmane Sembène | Senegal, | 1975 | |
| 279 |
|
Young Törless | Volker Schlöndorff | Germany, | 1966 |
| 570 |
|
Zazie dans le métro | Louis Malle | France, | 1960 |