Best Movies Based On Books
- 29 movies
We all know the books are usually better, but here are the greatest film adaptations of literature from all eras and genres!
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Sideways
2004 Movie •3.7/5
Comedy-drama road movie directed by Alexander Payne and written by...
1.8K
Raging Bull
1980 Movie •3.9/5
Biographical sports drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, produced...
15.7K
Memento
2000 Movie •4.5/5
Neo-noir psychological thriller film written and directed by...
943
Lawrence Of Arabia
1962 Movie •4.3/5
British epic historical drama film based on the life of T. E....
3.9K
Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
1964 Movie •4.5/5
Black comedy film that satirizes the Cold War fears of a nuclear...
6.3K
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 Movie •4.2/5
Epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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Great Expectations
1946 Movie •3.3/5
British film directed by David Lean, based on the 1861 novel by...
522
It's A Wonderful Life
1946 Movie •4/5
Christmas family fantasy drama film produced and directed by Frank...
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Apocalypse Now
1979 Movie •4.3/5
Epic psychological war film directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola.
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Goldfinger
1964 Movie •4.2/5
Spy film and the third instalment in the James Bond series produced...
1.4K
Lolita
1962 Movie •4.3/5
Comedy-drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on the 1955...
4.4K
The Virgin Suicides
1999 Movie •4.2/5
Drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola (in her feature...
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American Beauty
1999 Movie •4.3/5
Black comedy-drama film written by Alan Ball and directed by Sam Mendes.
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Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
1966 Movie •4/5
Drama film directed by Mike Nichols in his directorial debut.
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Casablanca
1942 Movie •4.4/5
Romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring Humphrey...
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Barry Lyndon
1975 Movie •3.9/5
Period drama film written, directed, and produced by Stanley Kubrick,...
7.7K
Fargo
1996 Movie •4.4/5
Crime drama written, produced and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.
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Network
1976 Movie •4.4/5
Satirical black comedy-drama film written by Paddy Chayefsky and...
8.1K
Full Metal Jacket
1987 Movie •4.4/5
War drama film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick, who also...
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The Apartment
1960 Movie •4.5/5
Romantic comedy-drama film directed and produced by Billy Wilder from...
1.2K
Gone With The Wind
1939 Movie •4.1/5
Epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell.
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A Streetcar Named Desire
1951 Movie •4.2/5
Drama film, adapted from Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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Citizen Kane
1941 Movie •3.9/5
Drama film produced and directed by Orson Welles, who also co-wrote...
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The Deer Hunter
1978 Movie •4.1/5
Epic war drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a...