List of short fiction made into feature films
This is a list of short stories and novellas that have been made into feature films. The title of the work is followed by the work's author, the title of the film, and the year of the film. If a film has an alternate title based on geographical distribution, the title listed will be that of the widest distribution area.
0–9
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
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"12:01 PM" (1973), Richard A. Lupoff | 12:01 PM (1993)[N 1] |
"1408" (1999), Stephen King | 1408 (2007) |
5135 Kensington (1941–1942) (series)[N 2], Sally Benson | Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) |
A
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
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The Abiding Vision (1935), Rebecca West | A Life of Her Own (1950) |
The Acid House (1994), Irvine Welsh | The Acid House (1998) |
"Adjustment Team" (1954), Philip K. Dick | The Adjustment Bureau (2011) |
"Adultery" (1977)[N 3], Andre Dubus | We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) |
"The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton" (1904), Arthur Conan Doyle | The Missing Rembrandt (1932) |
"The Adventure of Silver Blaze" (1892), Arthur Conan Doyle | Silver Blaze (1937) |
Silver Blaze (1977)[N 1] | |
"The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" (1892), Arthur Conan Doyle | The Blue Carbuncle (Russian: Голубой карбункул) (1980)[N 1] |
"The Adventure of the Dancing Men" (1903), Arthur Conan Doyle | Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943) |
"The Adventure of the Empty House" (1903), Arthur Conan Doyle | The Sleeping Cardinal (1931) |
The Woman in Green (1945) | |
"The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" (1904), Arthur Conan Doyle | The Pearl of Death (1944) |
"The Adventure of the Speckled Band" (1892), Arthur Conan Doyle | The Speckled Band (1931) |
"The Adventures of Joe Smith, American" (1940), Paul Gallico | Joe Smith, American (1942) |
"A-Hunting We Will Go" (1946), D. D. Beauchamp | Father's Wild Game (1950) |
"Air Raid" (1977), John Varley | Millennium (1989) |
"All You Zombies" (1959), Robert A. Heinlein | Predestination (2014) |
Animal Farm (1945), George Orwell | Animal Farm (1954) |
Animal Farm (1999)[N 1] | |
An Apartment for Jenny (1947), Faith Baldwin | Apartment for Peggy (1938) |
"Appointment with Fear" (1946), Roy Huggins | The Good Humor Man (1950) |
Apt Pupil (1982), Stephen King | Apt Pupil (1998) |
Armageddon 2419 A.D. (1928), Philip Francis Nowlan | Buck Rogers (1939)[N 4] |
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) | |
"Ate, Memos or the Miracle" (1992), James Lasdun | Sunday (1997) |
"August Week-End" (1933), Faith Baldwin | August Weekend (1936) |
B
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
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"B" (1916), Edgar Franklin | The Rail Rider (1916) |
"Baa, Baa Black Sheep" (1921) W. C. Tuttle | Black Sheep (1921) |
"Baby in the Ice-Box" (1933), James M. Cain | She Made Her Bed (1934) |
"The Baby's Had a Hard Day" (1940), Anne Wormser | West Point Widow (1941) |
"Back Pay" (1919), Fannie Hurst | Back Pay (1922) |
Back Pay (1930) | |
"Bad Time at Honda" (1947), Howard Breslin | Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) |
"Barn Burning" (1983), Haruki Murakami | Burning (2018) |
"The Basement Room" (1936), Graham Greene | The Fallen Idol (1948) |
"Basterd", F.W. Remmler | Bastard (1940) |
"The Bear Came Over the Mountain" (1999), Alice Munro | Away from Her (2006) |
"Bedside Manner" (1944), Robert Carson | Bedside Manner (1945) |
"Beryl and the Croucher" (1916), Thomas Burke | No Way Back (1949) |
"Beware of the Dog" (1944), Roald Dahl | 36 Hours (1965) |
Breaking Point (1989)[N 1] | |
"The Bicentennial Man" (1976), Isaac Asimov | Bicentennial Man (1999) |
"The Birds" (1952), Daphne du Maurier | The Birds (1963) |
"The Biscuit Eater" (1939), James H. Street | The Biscuit Eater (1940) |
The Biscuit Eater (1972) | |
"The Bleeders" (1919), Margery Land May | The Beauty Market (1919) |
"Blow-Up" (Spanish: "Las Babas del Diablo", "The Droolings of the Devil") (1959), Julio Cortázar | Blowup (1966) |
The Body (1982), Stephen King | Stand by Me (1986) |
"The Body Snatcher" (1881), Robert Louis Stevenson | The Body Snatcher (1945) |
"The Boogeyman" (1973), Stephen King | The Boogeyman (2023) |
"Boule de Suif" (1880), Guy de Maupassant | Boule de Suif (Russian: Пышка) (1934) |
The Escape (Spanish: La fuga) (1944) | |
Mademoiselle Fifi (1944) | |
Boule de Suif (1945) | |
"Bow Tamely to Me" (1936), Kenneth Perkins | Escape to Burma (1955) |
"The Boy Cried Murder" (1947), Cornell Woolrich | The Window (1949) |
The Boy Cried Murder (1966) | |
"The Branded Sombrero" (1927), Cherry Wilson | The Branded Sombrero (1928) |
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), Truman Capote | Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) |
"Bringing Up Baby" (1937), Hagar Wilde | Bringing Up Baby (1938) |
"Broadway Gold" (1922), William Carey Wonderly | Broadway Gold (1923) |
"Brokeback Mountain" (1997), Annie Proulx | Brokeback Mountain (2005) |
"Brother Orchid" (1938), Richard Connell | Brother Orchid (1940) |
C
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
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Cabal (1988), Clive Barker | Nightbreed (1990) |
"Caballero of the Law" (1933), Ben Hecht | Crime Without Passion (1934) |
"A Call from Mitch Miller" (1956), Mary Agnes Thompson | Loving You (1957) |
"The Call of Cthulhu" (1928), H. P. Lovecraft | The Call of Cthulhu (2005) |
"A Call on the President" (1934), Damon Runyon | Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939) |
"The Captives" (1955), Elmore Leonard | The Tall T (1957) |
Career in C Major (1938), James M. Cain | Wife, Husband and Friend (1939) |
Everybody Does It (1949) | |
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1941), H. P. Lovecraft | The Haunted Palace (1963) |
The Resurrected (1992) | |
"The Cat from Hell" (1977), Stephen King | Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) |
"Chattery Teeth" (1992), Stephen King | Quicksilver Highway (1997)[N 1] |
"Children of the Corn" (1977), Stephen King | Children of the Corn (1984) |
Children of the Corn (2009) | |
"Children on Their Birthdays" (1948), Truman Capote | Children on Their Birthdays (2002) |
"The Chink and the Child" (1928), Thomas Burke | Broken Blossoms (1919) |
Broken Blossoms (1936) | |
"Christmas '59" (1980), John Hughes | National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) |
A Christmas Carol (1843), Charles Dickens | The Right to Be Happy (1916) |
Scrooge (1935) | |
A Christmas Carol (1938) | |
A Christmas Carol (Spanish: Leyenda de Navidad) (1947) | |
Scrooge (1951) | |
A Carol for Another Christmas (1964)[N 1] | |
Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1964)[N 1] | |
A Christmas Carol (1969)[N 1] | |
Scrooge (1970) | |
A Christmas Carol (1977)[N 1] | |
Rich Little's Christmas Carol (1978)[N 1] | |
The Stingiest Man in Town (1978)[N 1] | |
An American Christmas Carol (1979)[N 1] | |
A Christmas Carol (1982)[N 1] | |
A Christmas Carol (1984)[N 1] | |
Scrooged (1988) | |
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) | |
A Christmas Carol (1994)[N 5] | |
A Flintstones Christmas Carol (1994)[N 1] | |
A Christmas Carol (1997)[N 1] | |
An All Dogs Christmas Carol (1998)[N 5] | |
Ebenezer (1998)[N 1] | |
A Christmas Carol (1999)[N 1] | |
A Diva's Christmas Carol (2000)[N 1] | |
A Christmas Carol (2000)[N 1] | |
Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001) | |
A Carol Christmas (2003)[N 1] | |
A Christmas Carol (2004)[N 1] | |
A Christmas Carol (2006) | |
Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas (2006)[N 5] | |
A Sesame Street Christmas Carol (2006)[N 5] | |
An American Carol (2008) | |
Barbie in A Christmas Carol (2008)[N 5] | |
A Christmas Carol (2009) | |
A Christmas Carol (2012) | |
A Christmas Carol (2015) | |
The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) | |
A Christmas Carol (2018; directed by Tom Cairns) | |
A Christmas Carol (2018; directed by David Izatt) (TV) | |
The Passion of Scrooge (2018) | |
Spirited (2022) | |
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022) | |
"The Christmas Cross" (1998), Max Lucado | Christmas Child (2003) |
"Christmas Eve at Pilot Butte" (1921), Courtney Ryley Cooper | Desperate Trails (1921) |
"Comet Over Broadway" (1937), Faith Baldwin | Comet Over Broadway (1938) |
"The Commandos" (1942), C. S. Forester | Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942) |
"Cool Air" (1928), H. P. Lovecraft | Cool Air (1999) |
"The Corpse Next Door" (1937), Cornell Woolrich | Union City (1980) |
"Count Pete" (1935), Francis M. Cockrell | Walking on Air (1936) |
"Courtin' Calamity" (1917), William Dudley Pelley | The Sawdust Trail (1924) |
Courtin' Wildcats (1929) | |
"The Coward" (1920), Arthur Stringer | The Coward (1927) |
"The Crate" (1979), Stephen King | Creepshow (1982) |
"Criminal's Mark" (1950), John Hawkins and Ward Hawkins | Crime Wave (1954) |
"Crosstown" (1945), George Zuckerman | 99 River Street (1953) |
"The Cruise of the Prairie Queen" (1947), D. D. Beauchamp | Leave It to Henry (1949) |
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (1922), F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) |
Cycle of the Werewolf (1983), Stephen King | Silver Bullet (1985) |
D
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
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"The Dancing Girl" (舞姫, Maihime) (1890), Mori Ōgai | Shishi no Gotoku (1978)[N 1] |
The Dancer (1989) | |
"The Dancing Girl of Izu" (伊豆の踊子, Izu no odoriko) (1926), Yasunari Kawabata | The Dancing Girl of Izu (1933) |
The Dancing Girl of Izu (1954) | |
The Dancing Girl of Izu (1960) | |
The Dancing Girl of Izu (1963) | |
The Dancing Girl of Izu (1966) | |
The Dancing Girl of Izu (1974) | |
"The Dead" (1914), James Joyce | The Dead (1987) |
"The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1936), Stephen Vincent Benét | The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) |
Shortcut to Happiness (2003) | |
"The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye" (1994), A. S. Byatt | Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) |
"The Dock Walloper", John Monk Saunders | The Docks of New York, 1928 |
"Don Juan DeMarco and the Centerfold", Jeremy Leven | Don Juan DeMarco (1995) |
"Don't Look Now" (1970), Daphne du Maurier | Don't Look Now (1973) |
"The Doubters" (1950), George Tabori | Crisis (1950) |
Dream Story (German: Traumnovelle) (1926), Arthur Schnitzler | Dream Story (1969) (TV) |
The Knight, Death and the Devil (Italian: Il cavaliere, la morte e il diavolo) (1989) | |
Nightmare in Venice (Italian: Ad un passo dall'aurora) (1989) | |
Eyes Wide Shut (1999) | |
"Drive My Car" (2013), Haruki Murakami | Drive My Car (2021) |
"The Duel" (1908), Joseph Conrad | The Duellists (1977) |
E
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
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"Eagle Squadron" (1941), C. S. Forester | Eagle Squadron (1942) |
"Eight O'Clock in the Morning" (1963), Ray Nelson | They Live (1988) |
"Eisenheim the Illusionist" (1990), Steven Millhauser | The Illusionist (2006) |
"Empire of the Ants" (1905), H. G. Wells | Empire of the Ants (1977) |
"The Enemy" (1951), Charlotte Armstrong | Talk About a Stranger (1952) |
Enemy Mine (1979), Barry B. Longyear | Enemy Mine (1985) |
"Enough for Happiness" (1951), D. D. Beauchamp | She Couldn't Say No (1954) |
"Escape from Spiderhead" (2010), George Saunders | Spiderhead (2022) |
F
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
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"The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839), Edgar Allan Poe | The Fall of the House of Usher (French: La chute de la maison Usher) (1928) |
The Fall of the House of Usher (1950) | |
House of Usher (1960) | |
Satan of All Horrors (Spanish: Satanás de todos los horrores) (1974) | |
The Fall of the House of Usher (1982)[N 1][N 6] | |
Revenge in the House of Usher (1982)[N 1] | |
The House of Usher (1989) | |
The Fall of the Louse of Usher (2002) | |
Descendant (2003) | |
Usher (2004) | |
The House of Usher (2006) | |
House of Usher (2008) | |
Extraordinary Tales (2013) | |
Fall of the House of Usher (2014) | |
The Fall of Usher (2021) | |
A Far-Off Place (1974)[N 3], Laurens van der Post | A Far Off Place (1993) |
"Farewell to the Master" (1940), Harry Bates | The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) |
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) | |
"The Fashion Plate" (1932), Harry Collins and Warren B. Duff | Fashions of 1934 (1934) |
"Fifty-two Weeks for Florette" (1921), Elizabeth Alexander | You Belong to Me (1934) |
"The Five Orange Pips" (1891), Arthur Conan Doyle | The House of Fear (1945) |
"Floating Water" (浮遊する水, "Fuyū Suru Mizu") (1996), Koji Suzuki | Dark Water (2002) |
Dark Water (2005) | |
Flowers for Algernon (1959), Daniel Keyes | Charly (1968) |
Flowers for Algernon (2000)[N 1] | |
Flowers for Algernon (French: Des fleurs pour Algernon) (2006)[N 1] | |
Flowers for Algernon (2014)[N 1] | |
"The Fly" (1957), George Langelaan | The Fly (1958) |
Return of the Fly (1959) | |
Curse of the Fly (1965) | |
The Fly (1986) | |
The Fly II (1989) | |
"The Fog Horn" (1952), Ray Bradbury | The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) |
The Forged Coupon (Russian: Фальшивый купон, Fal'shivyi kupon) (1911), Leo Tolstoy | L'Argent (1983) |
Frozen Land (Finnish: Paha maa) (2005) | |
"For Your Eyes Only" (1960), Ian Fleming | For Your Eyes Only (1981) |
The Fox (1923), D. H. Lawrence | The Fox (1967) |
"From a View to a Kill" (1960), Ian Fleming | A View to a Kill (1985) |
"From Beyond" (1934), H. P. Lovecraft | From Beyond (1986) |
"Frontier Frenzy" (1954), John Reese | The Young Land (1959) |
G
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
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"A Gentle Creature" (Russian: Кроткая, Krotkaya; 1876), Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Krotkaya (1962) |
Une femme douce (1969) | |
Łagodna (1995) | |
Nazar (1989) | |
The Shade (1963) | |
"The Gentleman from Paris" (1950), John Dickson Carr | The Man with a Cloak (1951) |
"The Golden Man" (1953), Philip K. Dick | Next (2007) |
"Ghost Walker" (2004), Ian MacKenzie Jeffers | The Grey (2011) |
"The Gift of Cochise" (1952), Louis L'Amour | Hondo (1953) |
Gigi (1944), Colette | Gigi (1949) |
Gigi (1958) | |
Goodbye, Columbus (1959), Philip Roth | Goodbye, Columbus (1969) |
"The Gossamer World" (1948), Faith Baldwin | Queen for a Day (1951) |
"Graveyard Shift" (1970), Stephen King | Graveyard Shift (1990) |
"The Greatest Gift" (written 1939; published 1943), Philip Van Doren Stern | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) |
It Happened One Christmas (1977)[N 1] | |
Clarence (1990)[N 1] | |
"Gun Crazy" (1940), MacKinlay Kantor | Gun Crazy (1950) |
H
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
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"Happy Dan, the Cynical Dog" (1945), Ward Greene | Lady and the Tramp (1955) |
Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure (2000)[N 5] | |
Lady and the Tramp (2019) | |
"The Hairless Mexican" (1928), W. Somerset Maugham | Secret Agent (1936) |
"Harrison Bergeron" (1961), Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | Between Time and Timbuktu (1972) |
Harrison Bergeron (1995)[N 1] | |
"He That Is Without Sin" (1916), May Edginton | The Love Auction (1919) |
"The Heart is Young" (1930), May Edginton | The False Madonna (1931) |
Heart of Darkness (serialised 1899, published as a book 1903), Joseph Conrad | Apocalypse Now (1979) |
Heart of Darkness (1993)[N 1] | |
"Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling" (1999), Stephen King | Hearts in Atlantis (2001) |
"Heartbreak" (1940), Leslie Bush-Fekete [de] | Appointment for Love (1941) |
The Hellbound Heart (1986), Clive Barker | Hellraiser (1987) |
"High Diver" (1948), John Ashworth | Queen for a Day (1951) |
"The Horla" (French: "Le Horla") (1887), Guy de Maupassant | Diary of a Madman (1963) |
"A Horse for Mrs. Custer" (1955), Glendon Swarthout | 7th Cavalry (1956) |
"Horsie" (1932), Dorothy Parker | Queen for a Day (1951) |
I
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
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"Idgah" (1938), Munshi Premchand | 5 Rupya (2017) |
"Impostor" (1953), Philip K. Dick | Impostor (2002) |
"In Conference" (1933), Vera Caspary | Private Scandal (1934) |
"The Interruption" (1925), W.W. Jacobs | Footsteps in the Fog (1955) |
"Inventing the Abbotts" (1987), Sue Miller | Inventing the Abbotts (1997) |
"It Had to Be Murder" (1942), Cornell Woolrich | Rear Window (1954) |
Rear Window (1998)[N 1] |
J
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
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"Jan of the Jungle" (1931), Otis Adelbert Kline | The Call of the Savage (1935) |
"Johnny Mnemonic" (1981), William Gibson | Johnny Mnemonic (1995) |
"Journal of Linnett Moore" (1947), James Edward Grant | The Proud Rebel (1958) |
"Journey at Sunrise" (1946), D. D. Beauchamp | Father Makes Good (1950) |
"The Joy Girl" (1926), May Edginton | The Joy Girl (1927) |
"Judgement" (1924), May Edginton | Her Husband's Secret (1925) |
Junior Miss (1941), Sally Benson | Junior Miss (1945) |
K
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
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"The Killers" (1927), Ernest Hemingway | The Killers (1946) |
The Killers (1956) | |
The Killers (1964) | |
"Killings" (1979), Andre Dubus | In the Bedroom (2001) |
"Killing a Mouse on Sunday" (1961), Emeric Pressburger | Behold a Pale Horse (1964) |
L
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
---|---|
"Ladies in Lavender" (1908) William Locke | Ladies in Lavender (2004) Charles Dance |
"A Lady Comes to Burkburnett" (1939), James Edward Grant | Boom Town (1940) |
"The Lady with the Dog" (Russian: "Дама с собачкой", Dama s sobachkoy; 1899), Anton Chekhov | The Lady with the Dog (1960) |
Dark Eyes (1987) | |
The Langoliers (1990), Stephen King | The Langoliers (1995; TV miniseries) |
"The Lawnmower Man" (1975), Stephen King | The Lawnmower Man (1992) |
Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996) | |
"The Ledge" (1976), Stephen King | Cat's Eye (1985) |
"The Ledger of Life" (1922), George Pattullo | Private Affairs (1925) |
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), Washington Irving[N 7] | The Headless Horseman (1922) |
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) | |
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1980) | |
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1988)[N 1] | |
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1999)[N 1] | |
Sleepy Hollow (1999) | |
The Night of the Headless Horseman (1999) | |
The Haunted Pumpkin of Sleepy Hollow (2003) | |
The Hollow (2004) | |
"Leiningen Versus the Ants" (1938), Carl Stephenson | The Naked Jungle (1954) |
"Lisbon" (1950), Martin Rackin | Lisbon (1956) |
"Little Bear Bongo" (1936), Sinclair Lewis | Fun and Fancy Free (1947) |
"The Living Daylights" (1962), Ian Fleming | The Living Daylights (1987) |
"The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (1959), Alan Sillitoe | The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) |
"Lot No. 249" (1892), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) |
"The Luck of Roaring Camp" (1868), Bret Harte | The Luck of Roaring Camp (1909) |
The Luck of Roaring Camp (1911) | |
Four of the Apocalypse (1975) | |
"The Lurking Fear" (publ. 1923), H. P. Lovecraft | Dark Heritage (1989) |
The Lurking Fear (1994) | |
Bleeders (1997) |
M
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
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"Madame la Gimp" (1929), Damon Runyon | Lady for a Day (1933) |
Pocketful of Miracles (1961) | |
Miracles (1989) | |
"Madman's Holiday" (1943), Fredric Brown | Crack-Up (1946) |
"A Man Called Horse" (1950), Dorothy M. Johnson | A Man Called Horse (1970) |
The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976) | |
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1983) | |
"The Man Who Would Be King" (1888), Rudyard Kipling | The Man Who Would Be King (1975) |
"The Man Who Could Work Miracles" (1898), H.G. Wells | The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936) |
"A Man Without a Country" (1939), Noel Monkman | The Power and the Glory (1941) |
"The Mangler" (1972), Stephen King | The Mangler (1995) |
The Mangler 2 (2001) | |
The Mangler Reborn (2005) | |
"Memento Mori" (1996), Jonathan Nolan | Memento (2000) |
"Mimsy Were the Borogoves" (1943), Lewis Padgett | The Last Mimzy (2007) |
"The Minority Report" (1956), Philip K. Dick | Minority Report (2002) |
"Miss Thompson" (a.k.a. "Rain"; 1951), W. Somerset Maugham | Sadie Thompson (1928) |
Rain (1932) | |
Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.(1946) | |
Miss Sadie Thompson (1953) | |
The Mist (1980), Stephen King | The Mist (2007) |
"Malloy Campeador" (1921), Ralph G. Kirk | The Scrapper (1922) |
"Morpho Eugenia" (1992), A. S. Byatt | Angels & Insects (1996) |
"The Most Dangerous Game" (1924), Richard Connell | The Most Dangerous Game (1932) |
A Game of Death (1945) | |
The Dangerous Game (1953) | |
Run for the Sun (1956) | |
Bloodlust! (1961) | |
The Naked Prey (1965) | |
The Woman Hunt (1973) | |
Mottomo kiken na yuugi (1978) | |
Turkey Shoot (1982) | |
Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity (1987) | |
Deadly Prey (1988) | |
Lethal Woman (1988) | |
Death Ring (1992) | |
Hard Target (1993) | |
Surviving the Game (1994) | |
The Pest (1997) | |
The Tournament (2009) | |
Naked Fear (2007) | |
Taxidermy (2011) |
N
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
---|---|
Nick Adams (1924–1933) (series), Ernest Hemingway | Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) |
"Night Bus" (1933), Samuel Hopkins Adams | It Happened One Night (1934) |
You Can't Run Away from It (1956) | |
"The Night Flier" (1988), Stephen King | The Night Flier (1997) |
"The Night of the Iguana" (1948), Tennessee Williams | The Night of the Iguana (1964) |
"The Night Runner" (1955), Owen Cameron | The Night Runner (1957) |
"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (1961), Richard Matheson | Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) |
"Now You See It" (1946), Roy Huggins | The Fuller Brush Man (1948) |
"The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (German: Nussknacker und Mausekönig) (1816), E. T. A. Hoffmann | Fantasia (1940) |
The Enchanted Nutcracker (1961)[N 1] | |
The Nutcracker (1965)[N 1] | |
The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик) (1973) | |
Nutcracker Fantasy (1979) | |
Nutcracker: The Motion Picture (1986) | |
Care Bears Nutcracker Suite (1988)[N 1] | |
The Nutcracker Prince (1990) | |
George Balanchine's The Nutcracker (1993) | |
The Nutcracker (1993) | |
The Nuttiest Nutcracker (1999) | |
Barbie in the Nutcracker (2001) | |
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (2004) | |
Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale (2007) | |
The Secret of the Nutcracker (2007) | |
The Nutcracker in 3D (2010) | |
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018) |
O
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
---|---|
"Octopussy" (1965), Ian Fleming | Octopussy (1983) |
"Odd Thursday" (1932), Vera Caspary | Such Women Are Dangerous (1934) |
"Old Joy" (2004), Jonathan Raymond | Old Joy (2006) |
"Opera Hat" (1935), Clarence Budington Kelland | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) |
Mr. Deeds (2002) | |
"Out of the Blue" (1947), Vera Caspary | Out of the Blue (1947) |
"The Outcasts of Poker Flat" (1869), Bret Harte | The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1919) |
The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1937) | |
The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1952) | |
Four of the Apocalypse (Italian: I quattro dell'apocalisse) (1975) | |
"The Outsider" (1926), H. P. Lovecraft | Castle Freak (1995) |
P
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
---|---|
"The Palace Thief" (1994), Ethan Canin | The Emperor's Club (2002) |
"Paycheck" (1953), Philip K. Dick | Paycheck (2003) |
"Pete's Dragon and the USA (Forever After)", Seton I. Miller and S.S. Field | Pete's Dragon (1977) Pete's Dragon (2016) |
Portrait of Jennie (1940), Robert Nathan | Portrait of Jennie (1948) |
"The Postmaster" (or "The Post Office"; 1914) * "Monihara (The Lost Jewels)" (1891) ** "Samapti (The Conclusion)" (1892) | Teen Kanya ('Three Daughters'; 1961) |
"The Princess of Montpensier" (1662), Madame de La Fayette | The Princess of Montpensier (2011) |
"Purple and Fine Linen" (1926), May Edginton | Three Hours (1937) Adventure in Manhattan (1936) |
Q
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
---|---|
"Quitters, Inc." (1978), Stephen King | Cat's Eye (1985) |
No Smoking (2007) |
R
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
---|---|
"The Racer" (1956), Ib Melchior | Death Race 2000 (1975) |
Death Race (2008) | |
Death Race 2 (2011)[N 8] | |
Death Race 3: Inferno (2012) | |
Death Race 2050 (2017) | |
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy (2018) | |
"The Raft" (1982), Stephen King | Creepshow 2 (1987) |
"The Rainmaker" (1949), D. D. Beauchamp | Henry, the Rainmaker (1949) |
"Random Quest" (1961), John Wyndham | Quest for Love (1971) |
Random Quest (2006) | |
"The Reformer and the Redhead" (1949), Robert Carson | The Reformer and the Redhead (1950) |
"The Reign of the Superman" (1933), Jerry Siegel[N 9] | Superman franchise (1938–present) |
"The Return" (written 1897, published 1898), Joseph Conrad | Gabrielle (2005) |
Riding the Bullet (2000), Stephen King | Riding the Bullet (2004) |
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (1982), Stephen King | The Shawshank Redemption (1994) |
"Roller Ball Murder" (1973), William Harrison | Rollerball (1975) |
Rollerball (2002) | |
Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner (2000), F.X. Toole | Million Dollar Baby (2004) |
"R.S.V.P" (1950), Jerome Weidman | Invitation (1952) |
"Ruidoso" (1974), John McPhee | Casey's Shadow (1978) |
"Running for Rooney" (1928), Sam Hellman | The Dark Horse (1946) |
Rust and Bone (2005), Craig Davidson | Rust and Bone (2012) |
S
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
---|---|
"Sardonicus" (1961), Ray Russell | Mr. Sardonicus (1961) |
"Saw" (2003), James Wan | Saw (2004) |
"Second Chance" (1948), Faith Baldwin | Second Chance (1950) |
"Second Variety" (1953), Philip K. Dick | Screamers (1995) |
Screamers: The Hunting (2009) | |
"Secretary" (1989), Mary Gaitskill | Secretary (2002) |
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1939), James Thurber | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) |
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) | |
Secret Window, Secret Garden (1990), Stephen King | Secret Window (2004) |
"Secrets" (1918), May Edginton | Secrets (1924) |
Secrets (1933) | |
"See How They Run" (1951), Mary Elizabeth Vroman | Bright Road (1953) |
The Seed and the Sower (1963), Laurens van der Post | Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) |
"The Self-Made Wife" (1922), Elizabeth Alexander | The Self-Made Wife (1923) |
"The Sentinel" (or "Sentinel of Eternity") (1951), Arthur C. Clarke | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) |
"The Shadow Over Innsmouth" (1936), H. P. Lovecraft | Lemora (1973) |
Dagon (2001) | |
Cthulhu (2007) | |
"Shopgirl" (2000), Steve Martin | Shopgirl (2005) |
"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (1936), Ernest Hemingway | The Macomber Affair (1947) |
"The Silver Mask" (1932), Hugh Walpole | Kind Lady (1935) |
Kind Lady (1951) | |
"A Situation of Gravity" (1957), Samuel W. Taylor | The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) |
Son of Flubber (1963) | |
The Absent-Minded Professor (1988)[N 1] | |
The Absent-Minded Professor: Trading Places (1989)[N 1] | |
Flubber (1997) | |
"Shatranj ke Khiladi", Munshi Premchand | The Chess Players, 1977 |
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1936), Ernest Hemingway | The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) |
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (2011) | |
"The Sobbin' Women" (1938), Stephen Vincent Benét | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) |
"Sometimes They Come Back" (1974), Stephen King | Sometimes They Come Back (1991)[N 1] |
Sometimes They Come Back... Again (1996)[N 1] | |
Sometimes They Come Back... for More (1998)[N 1] | |
"Spinster Dinner" (1934), Faith Baldwin | Love Before Breakfast (1936) |
"Spurs" (1923), Tod Robbins | Freaks (1932) |
"St. Dragon and the George" (1957), Gordon R. Dickson | The Flight of Dragons (1982)[N 1] |
"Starr of the Southwest" (1936), Cherry Wilson | Sandflow (1937) |
"The Statement of Randolph Carter" (1920), H. P. Lovecraft | The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1993) |
13:de mars, 1941 (2004) | |
Kammaren (2007) | |
The Testimony of Randolph Carter (2009) | |
"The Star" (Russian: Звезда, romanized: Zvezda) (1947), Emmanuil G. Kazakevich | The Star (1949) |
The Star (2002) | |
"Steel" (1956), Richard Matheson | Real Steel (2011) |
"A Story Like the Wind" (1972)[N 3], Laurens van der Post | A Far Off Place (1993) |
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Robert Louis Stevenson | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) |
The Head of Janus (German: Der Januskopf) (1920) | |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) | |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) | |
The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951) | |
The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957) | |
The Doctor's Horrible Experiment (French: Le Testament du docteur Cordelier) (1959) | |
The Ugly Duckling (1959) | |
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960) | |
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968)[N 1] | |
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971) | |
I, Monster (1971) | |
Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo (1972) | |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1973)[N 1] | |
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1981)[N 1] | |
Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again (1982) | |
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1985) | |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1986)[N 1] | |
Edge of Sanity (1989) | |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1989)[N 1] | |
Jekyll & Hyde (1990) (TV) | |
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1995) | |
Mary Reilly (1996)[N 1] | |
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1999)[N 1] | |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2002)[N 1] | |
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2006)[N 1] | |
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (2008)[N 1] | |
"Suburbs" (1930), Vera Caspary | Scandal Street (1938) |
"The Summons" (1914), George Pattullo | The First Degree (1923) |
"Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" (1969), Brian Aldiss | A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"The Swimmer" (1964), John Cheever | The Swimmer (1968) |
T
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
---|---|
Tales of the South Pacific (1947), James A. Michener | South Pacific (1958) |
South Pacific (2001)[N 1] | |
Takekurabe (たけくらべ) (1895–96), Ichiyō Higuchi | Takekurabe (1924) |
Takekurabe (1955) | |
"There Shall Be No Darkness" (1950), James Blish | The Beast Must Die (1974) |
"Third Girl from the Right" (1949), Robert Carson | Ain't Misbehavin' (1951) |
The Third Man (1948), Graham Greene | The Third Man (1949) |
"The Thought Monster" (1930), Amelia Reynolds Long | Fiend Without a Face (1958) |
"Tonī Takitani" (1990), Haruki Murakami | Tony Takitani (2004) |
"Toomai of the Elephants" (1894), Rudyard Kipling | Elephant Boy (1937) |
"Train Choir" (2008), Jonathan Raymond | Wendy and Lucy (2008) |
"The Traitor" (1928), W. Somerset Maugham | Secret Agent (1936) |
"Trucks" (1973), Stephen King | Maximum Overdrive (1986) |
Trucks (1997)[N 1] | |
The Turn of the Screw (1898), Henry James | Matinee Theater (1957) |
The Turn of the Screw (1959/I; TV) | |
The Turn of the Screw (1959/II; TV) | |
The Innocents (1961) | |
Die sündigen Engel (1962)[N 1] | |
The Nightcomers (1971)[N 10] | |
Le tour d'écrou (1974)[N 1] | |
The Turn of the Screw (1974)[N 1] | |
The Turn of the Screw (1982)[N 1] | |
Otra vuelta de tuerca (1985) | |
Nightmare Classics: The Turn of the Screw (1989; TV) | |
The Turn of the Screw - Die Drehung der Schraube (1990; TV) | |
The Turn of the Screw (1992) | |
The Turn of the Screw (1994) | |
The Haunting of Helen Walker (a.k.a. The Turn of the Screw) (1995)[N 1] | |
Presence of Mind (1999) | |
The Turn of the Screw (1999)[N 1] | |
Le tour d'écrou (2001)[N 1] | |
The Others (Spanish: Los otros) (2001) | |
The Turn of the Screw (2003) | |
In a Dark Place (2006) | |
The Turn of the Screw (2009)[N 1] | |
The Turn of the Screw 3D (2013) | |
"Twenty Minutes" (1988), James Salter | Boys (1992) |
"Two Bad Hats" (1937), Monckton Hoffe | The Lady Eve (1941) |
The Birds and the Bees (1956) |
U
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
---|---|
"The Undefeated" (1996), Irvine Welsh | Ecstasy (2009) |
"United States Flavor" (1924), Ralph G. Kirk | Men of Steel (1926) |
"The Unnamable" (1925), H. P. Lovecraft | The Unnamable (1988) |
Up at the Villa (1941), W. Somerset Maugham | Up at the Villa (2000) |
V
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
---|---|
"Vacation '58" (1979), John Hughes | National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) |
"The Vessel of Wrath" (1931), W. Somerset Maugham | Vessel of Wrath (1938) |
The Beachcomber (1954) | |
The Vessel of Wrath (1970)[N 1] | |
Wilson's Reward (1980)[N 1] | |
Vigil in the Night (1939), A. J. Cronin | Vigil in the Night (1940) |
The Virgin and the Gypsy (written 1926, published 1930), D. H. Lawrence | The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970) |
W
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
---|---|
"The Wax Works" (1930), Charles Spencer Belden | Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) |
House of Wax (1953) | |
House of Wax (2005) | |
"We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (1966), Philip K. Dick | Total Recall (1990) |
Total Recall (2012) | |
"We Don't Live Here Anymore" (1975)[N 3], Andre Dubus | We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) |
"Weeds" (1976), Stephen King | Creepshow (1982) |
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (1966), Joyce Carol Oates | Smooth Talk (1985) |
"The Whipsaw" (1934), James Edward Grant | Whipsaw (1935) |
"White Nights" (Russian: Белые ночи, romanized: Belye nochi) (1848), Fyodor Dostoyevsky | White Nights (Italian: Le notti bianche, French: Nuits blanches) (1957) |
White Nights (1959) | |
Chhalia (1960) | |
Four Nights of a Dreamer (French: Quatre nuits d'un rêveur) (1971) | |
White Nights (1992) | |
White Nights (Persian: شبهای روشن) (2003) | |
Iyarkai (2003) | |
White Nights (2005) | |
Ahista Ahista (2006) | |
Saawariya (2007) | |
Two Lovers (2009) | |
White Nights on the Pier (French: Nuits blanches sur la jetée) (2014) | |
White Nights (Malayalam: വെളുത്ത രാത്രികൾ, Velutha Rathrikal) (2015) | |
"Who Am I This Time?" (1961), Kurt Vonnegut | Who Am I This Time? (1982)[N 1] |
Who Goes There? (1938), John W. Campbell, Jr. | The Thing from Another World (1951) |
The Thing (1982) | |
The Thing (2011)[N 11] | |
"Wife Versus Secretary" (1935), Faith Baldwin | Wife vs. Secretary (1936) |
"The Wisdom of Eve" (1946), Mary Orr | All About Eve (1950) |
"The Wonderful Race at Rimrock" (1946), D. D. Beauchamp | Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' (1948) |
"The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap" (1947), William Bowers and D. D. Beauchamp | The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947) |
"World Without End" (1925), May Edginton | His Supreme Moment (1925) |
Y
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
---|---|
"Your Arkansas Traveler" (1955), Budd Schulberg | A Face in the Crowd (1957) |
"Youth Without Youth" (Romanian: "Tinereţe fără tinereţe") (1976), Mircea Eliade | Youth Without Youth (2007) |
Z
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
---|---|
Zorro (1919–1959) (series), Johnston McCulley | The Mark of Zorro (1920) |
Don Q, Son of Zorro (1925) | |
In the Way of Zorro (French: À la manière de Zorro, Dutch: Op Zorro wize) (1926) | |
The Bold Caballero (1936) | |
Zorro Rides Again (1937)[N 4] | |
The Mark of Zorro (1940) | |
Zorro's Fighting Legion (1939)[N 4] | |
Zorro's Black Whip (1944)[N 4] | |
Son of Zorro (1947)[N 4] | |
The Grandson of Zorro (Spanish: El nieto del zorro) (1948) | |
Ghost of Zorro (1949)[N 4] | |
The Dream of Zorro (Italian: Il sogno di Zorro ) (1952) | |
Lawless Mountain (Spanish: La montaña sin ley) (1953) | |
The Sign of Zorro (1957) | |
El Jinete solitario (1958) | |
El jinete solitario en el valle de los buitres (1958) | |
El Zorro escarlata en la venganza del ahorcado (1958) | |
The Return of the Monster (Spanish: El regreso del monstruo) (1959) | |
El Zorro escarlata en diligencia fantasma (1959) | |
Zorro, the Avenger (1959) | |
Zorro: El Bandido (1960)[N 1] | |
Zorro: Adios El Cuchillo (1960)[N 1] | |
Zorro in the Valley of Ghosts (Spanish: El jinete solitario en el valle de los desaparecidos) (1960) | |
Northern Courier (Spanish: El correo del norte) (1960) | |
Zorro: The Postponed Wedding (1961)[N 1] | |
Zorro: Auld Acquaintance (1961)[N 1] | |
La máscara de la muerte (1961) | |
La trampa mortal (1962) | |
La venganza de la Sombra (1962) | |
El Zorro Vengador (1962) | |
Zorro at the Spanish Court (Italian: Zorro alla corte di Spagna) (1962) | |
Zorro the Avenger (Spanish: La venganza del Zorro, Italian: Zorro il vendicatore) (1962) | |
The Shadow of Zorro (Spanish: Cabalgando hacia la muerte; Italian: L'ombra di Zorro) (1962) | |
The Three Swords of Zorro (Italian: Le tre spade di Zorro) (1963) | |
Zorro and the Three Musketeers (Italian: Zorro e i tre moschettieri) (1963) | |
Samson and the Slave Queen (Italian: Zorro contro Maciste) (1963) | |
Duel at the Rio Grande (1963) | |
The Daughters of Zorro (Spanish: Las hijas del Zorro) (1964) | |
The Invinicibles (Spanish: Las hijas del Zorro) (1964) | |
Behind the Mask of Zorro (Spanish: E Zorro cabalga otra vez, Italian: Il Giuramento di Zorro) (1965) | |
Zorro the Rebel (Italian: Zorro il ribelle) (1966) | |
Zorro the Fox (Spanish: El Zorro, Italian: La Volpe) (1968) | |
The Nephews of Zorro (Italian: I nipoti di Zorro) (1968) | |
Zorro, the Navarra Marquis (Italian: Zorro marchese di Navarra) (1969) | |
Zorro in the Court of England (Italian: Zorro alla corte d'Inghilterra) (1969) | |
Zorro's Latest Adventure (Spanish: La última aventura del Zorro, Italian: Zorro il dominatore) (1969) | |
Zorro Kamçılı Süvari (1969) | |
Zorro'nun İntikamı (1970) | |
Zorro, Rider of Vengeance (Italian: Zorro, il cavaliere della vendetta) (1971) | |
Zorro the Invincible (Italian: Zorro, la maschera della vendetta) (1971) | |
The Avenger, Zorro (Spanish: El Zorro justiciero, Italian: E continuavano a chiamarlo figlio di...) (1972) | |
The Erotic Adventures of Zorro (1972) | |
Red Hot Zorro (French: Les aventures galantes de Zorro) (1972) | |
Man with the Golden Winchester (Italian: Il figlio di Zorro, Spanish: El hijo del Zorro) (1973) | |
The Mark of Zorro (1974)[N 1] | |
The Great Adventure of Zorro (Spanish: La gran aventura del Zorro) (1974) | |
Grandson of Zorro (1975) | |
Zorro (1975; Italian) | |
Zorro (1975; Hindi) | |
Mark of Zorro (Italian: Ah sì? E io lo dico a Zzzzorro!) (1975) | |
Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981) | |
The Mask of Zorro (1998) | |
The Amazing Zorro (2002)[N 1] | |
The Legend of Zorro (2005) |
See also
- Lists of literature made into feature films
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv Television film.
- ^ Later published as a complete novel under the title Meet Me in St. Louis.
- ^ a b c d Conflated with another work from the same author for the film adaptation.
- ^ a b c d e f Serial film.
- ^ a b c d e f Direct-to-video film.
- ^ Produced in 1979, but left unreleased until three years later.
- ^ Written as Geoffrey Crayon.
- ^ Prequel to the film.
- ^ Written as Herbert S. Fine.
- ^ Prequel to the 1961 film.
- ^ Prequel to the 1982 film.