Movies and the Books they are based on

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Movies have been based on books since the beginning of the film industry. Here are some such books and their movies.

When adding to this list, please add the original literary source first, followed by the film(s) based on it. Keep in alphabetical order by original author’s surname so others can verify the list if needed.

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    Dumbo the Flying Elephant
    by Helen, and Pearl, Harold Aberson
  2. 2.
    Dumbo (60th Anniversary Edition)
    by Ben Sharpsteen
  3. 3.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams
  5. 5.
    Random Hearts
    by Warren Adler
  6. 6.
    Random Hearts

  7. 7.
    War of the Roses
    by Warren Adler
  8. 8.
    The War of the Roses
    by Danny DeVito
  9. 9.
    Vibrator: A Novel
    by Mari Akasaka
  10. 10.
    Vibrator
    by Ryuichi Hiroki
  11. 11.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott
  12. 12.
    Little Women
    by Mervyn LeRoy
  13. 13.
    Little Women (Collector's Series)
    by Gillian Armstrong
  14. 14.
    Tevye's Daughters: Collected Stories of Sholom Aleichem
    by Sholem Aleichem
  16. 16.
    Fiddler on the Roof (Special Edition)
    by Norman Jewison
  17. 17.
    How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
    by Michele Alexander
  18. 18.
    How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (Widescreen Edition)
    by Donald Petrie
  19. 19.
    The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
    by Sherman Alexie
  20. 20.
    Smoke Signals
    by Chris Eyre
  21. 21.
    Flowers in the Attic ( 1st/1st )
    by V.C. Andrews
  22. 22.
    Flowers in the Attic
    by Jeffrey Bloom
  23. 23.
    The Amityville Horror
    by Jay Anson
  24. 24.
    The Amityville Horror
    by Stuart Rosenberg
  25. 25.
    The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
    by Herbert Asbury
  26. 26.
    Gangs of New York (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese
  27. 27.
    I, Robot (Bantam Spectra Book)
    by Isaac Asimov
  28. 28.
    I, Robot (Widescreen Edition)
    by Alex Proyas
  29. 29.
    The Positronic Man
    by Isaac Asimov
  30. 30.
    Bicentennial Man

  31. 31.
    The Handmaid's Tale
    by Margaret Atwood
  32. 32.
    The Handmaid's Tale

  34. 34.
    Northanger Abbey (BBC)
    by Giles Foster
  35. 35.
    Mansfield Park (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  36. 36.
    Mansfield Park

  37. 37.
    Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  38. 38.
    Persuasion
    by Roger Michell
  39. 39.
    Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  40. 40.
    Pride & Prejudice
    by Joe Wright (IV)
  41. 41.
    Bride and Prejudice
    by Gurinder Chadha
  42. 42.
    Sense and Sensibility (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  43. 43.
    Sense & Sensibility (Special Edition)
    by Ang Lee
  44. 44.
    Emma (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  45. 45.
    Clueless
    by Amy Heckerling
  46. 46.
    Emma

  47. 47.
    Tuck Everlasting
    by Natalie Babbitt
  48. 48.
    Tuck Everlasting

  50. 50.
    Syriana (Widescreen Edition)

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Created by kalavinka on May 09, 2006.
 

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Larry Gilbert

"Hitchhiker's Guide" and hair-splitting — 4 years ago

Is it fair to include Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy since it originated not as a book but as a radio play?

Jul 25, 10:47AM | 2 comments | Reply to this

IYG

Treasure Island — 4 years ago

I can’t believe this classic book and its subsequent film adaptations aren’t on the list.

Jul 17, 09:40AM | 1 comment | Reply to this

merillupin

Flags of Our Fathers — 4 years ago

Don’t have time now to add it, but one that’s missing is Flags of Our Fathers, by James Bradley.

Apr 18, 06:29PM | 1 comment | Reply to this

mia trix

duplicates — 4 years ago

every single harry potter on page 19 but it was already an item

Mar 28, 10:36AM | 1 comment | Reply to this

gubbe

Animal Farm on 681 — 5 years ago

Just added the classic animated movie “Animal Farm” in slot 681.

Jan 05, 03:22AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

gubbe

The Three Musketeers - classic added — 5 years ago

I’ve just added The Three Musketeers (1948) to the list on id 245. That’s the original classic – still worth consuming, I might add.

Jan 05, 02:44AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

kalavinka

sorted — 5 years ago

The list is now sorted by original book author, followed by the films that have been based on it. This should make it much easier to spot duplicates and figure out what films based on books are not on the list.

While sorting out the list, I deleted a few duplicates and made some corrections.

Dec 06, 05:12PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

Neil Moakley

Memento — 5 years ago

The movie “Memento” is not based on the book by Muriel Spark. Chris Nolan adapted it from his brother Jonathan Nolan’s short story “Memento Mori”.

Aug 21, 09:22PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

LifesComplexity

Lolita — 5 years ago

I added the book and both movies to the list

Aug 17, 01:00PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

kalavinka

under the tuscan sun duplicate — 5 years ago

under the tuscan sun was added to page 18 but I deleted it as it was already listed on page 14. I might have even added it myself, I just can’t remember.

I realize this list needs to get organized in some fashion but right now I am not sure of the best way to do it (by original work title? by original work’s author?).

Plus, the way listsofbests is set up right now, reordering things is messy and there is quite a large chance of losing the order of connectedness. (Films based on books will most likely become separated from their original source book.) If this happened it would require a lot of research to set things straight again. (This list did get out of order due to a listsofbests error when I was first creating the list and it was a huge pain to sort it out.)

Aug 16, 03:13PM | 0 comments | Reply to this


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