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
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) |
"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
D
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
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
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
M
N
O
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
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"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) |
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"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) |
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"Quitters, Inc." (1978), Stephen King | Cat's Eye (1985) |
No Smoking (2007) |
R
S
T
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
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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) |
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"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) |
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"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
Y
Short fiction | Film adaptation(s) |
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"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) |
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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
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 Television film.
- ↑ Later published as a complete novel under the title Meet Me in St. Louis.
- 1 2 3 4 Conflated with another work from the same author for the film adaptation.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Serial film.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 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.
References
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