Guardian Unlimited's "Top 50 Adaptations"

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These movies are listed in alphabetical order based on the books they’re adapted from
Close Range (inc Brokeback Mountain)
Different Seasons (inc The Shawshank Redemption)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (aka Bladerunner)
Heart of Darkness (aka Apocalypse Now)
A Kestrel for a Knave (aka Kes)
Schindler’s Ark (aka Schindler’s List)

  1. 1.
    Alice in Wonderland (Masterpiece Edition)
    by Wilfred Jackson

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  2. 2.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four
    by Michael Radford

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  3. 3.
    American Psycho (Uncut Killer Collector's Edition)
    by Mary Harron

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  4. 5.
    Brighton Rock
    by John Boulting 1947 (UK) 92min

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  5. 6.
    Catch-22
    by Mike Nichols

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  6. 7.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  7. 9.
    Brokeback Mountain (Full Screen Edition)
    by Ang Lee

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  8. 10.
    Day of the Triffids
    by Freddie Francis

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  9. 11.
    Devil in a Blue Dress
    by Carl Franklin

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  10. 12.
    The Shawshank Redemption (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Frank Darabont

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  11. 13.
    Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
    by Ridley Scott

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  12. 14.
    Doctor Zhivago (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by David Lean

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  13. 15.
    Empire of the Sun

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  14. 16.
    The English Patient (Miramax Collector's Edition)
    by Anthony Minghella

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  15. 17.
    Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by David Fincher

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  16. 18.
    The French Lieutenant's Woman
    by Karel Reisz

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  17. 19.
    Get Shorty

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  18. 20.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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  19. 21.
    Goldfinger (Special Edition)
    by Guy Hamilton

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  20. 22.
    Goodfellas (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese

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  21. 23.
    Apocalypse Now Redux

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  22. 24.
    Sherlock Holmes - The Hound of the Baskervilles
    by Sidney Lanfield

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  23. 25.
    Jaws (30th Anniversary Edition)

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  24. 26.
    The Jungle Book (Limited Issue)
    by Wolfgang Reitherman

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  25. 27.
    Kes
    by Ken Loach

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  26. 28.
    L.A. Confidential
    by Curtis Hanson

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  27. 29.
    Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1959) (Ws Sub)
    by Roger Vadim

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  28. 30.
    Lolita
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  29. 31.
    Lord of the Flies
    by Harry Hook

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  30. 32.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston

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  31. 33.
    Oliver Twist
    by Roman Polanski

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  32. 34.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Milos Forman

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  33. 35.
    Orlando
    by Sally Potter

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  34. 36.
    The Outsiders - The Complete Novel (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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  35. 37.
    Pride & Prejudice (Widescreen Edition)
    by Joe Wright (IV)

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  36. 38.
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
    by Ronald Neame

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  37. 39.
    The Railway Children
    by Lionel Jeffries

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  38. 40.
    Rebecca - Criterion Collection

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  39. 42.
    Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

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  40. 43.
    Sin City - Unrated (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Frank Miller (II)

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  41. 44.
    The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
    by Martin Ritt

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  42. 45.
    The Talented Mr. Ripley
    by Anthony Minghella

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  43. 46.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles
    by Ian Sharp

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  44. 47.
    To Kill a Mockingbird (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Robert Mulligan

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  45. 48.
    Trainspotting
    by Danny Boyle

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  46. 49.
    The Vanishing - Criterion Collection
    by George Sluizer

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  47. 50.
    Watership Down
    by Martin Rosen

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Created by Chuck on Apr 20, 2006.
 

Comments

Untitled — 1 year ago

Hardly anything not in English! The right versions of Dangerous Liaisons + Tess?