List of fiction works made into feature films (K–R)

This is a list of fiction works that have been made into feature films. The title of the work and the year it was published are both 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.

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Contents 

• 0–9
• 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

• Short stories and novellas
• See also
• Notes

Books

K

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
Kaitei Gunkan (1902–1907), Shunro Oshikawa Kaitei Okoku (1931), Shigeru Komatsuzaki	Atragon (1963) Super Atragon (1995)
Kami no Tsuki (2012), Mitsuyo Kakuta	Pale Moon (2014)
Kenka erejii (1963), Takashi Suzuki	Fighting Elegy (1966)
The Keys of the Kingdom (1941), A. J. Cronin	The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Khamphiphaksa (The Judgment) (1981), Chart Korbjitti	Ai-Fak (2004)
Kidnapped (1886), Robert Louis Stevenson	Kidnapped (1938) Kidnapped (1960) Kidnapped (1971) Kidnapped (1995)
The King's Damosel (1976), Vera Chapman	Quest for Camelot (1998)
King Solomon's Mines (1885), Sir H. Rider Haggard	Allan Quatermain (1919) King Solomon's Mines (1937) King Solomon's Mines (1950) * Watusi (1959) King Solomon's Treasure (1977) King Solomon's Mines (1985) * Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987) King Solomon's Mines (1986) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) King Solomon's Mines (2004) (TV) (mini) Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls (2008)
King's Ransom (1959), Evan Hunter (as Ed McBain)	High and Low (1963)
Kings Go Forth (1956), Joe David Brown	Kings Go Forth (1958)
Kings Row (1940), Henry Bellamann	Kings Row (1942)
The Killer Angels (1974), Michael Shaara	Gettysburg (1993)
The Killer Inside Me (1952), Jim Thompson	The Killer Inside Me (1976) The Killer Inside Me (2010)
Kipps (1905), H. G. Wells	Kipps (1921) Kipps (1941) Kipps (1960) (TV) (serial) Half a Sixpence (1967)
Kirishima, bukatsu yamerutteyo (2010), Ryo Asai	The Kirishima Thing (2012)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1976), Manuel Puig	Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Kiss the Girls (1995), James Patterson	Kiss the Girls (1997)
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1948), Horace McCoy	Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)
The Klansman (1967), William Bradford Huie	The Klansman (1974)
Kolchak: The Kolchak Papers (1970), Jeff Rice	Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1972–1976) (series) The Night Stalker (1972) (TV) * The Night Strangler (1973) (TV) ** Crackle of Death (1974) (TV) *** The Demon and the Mummy (1976) (TV)
Kowloon Tong (1997), Paul Theroux	Chinese Box (1997)
Kuroi Ame (Black Rain) (1966), Masuji Ibuse	Black Rain (1989)

L

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
L.A. Confidential (1990), James Ellroy	L.A. Confidential (1997)
Lad, A Dog (1919), Albert Payson Terhune	Lad, A Dog (1963)
Lady Audley's Secret (1862), Mary Elizabeth Braddon	Lady Audley's Secret (1912) Lady Audley's Secret (a. k. a. Secrets of Society) (1915) Lady Audley's Secret (1920) Lady Audley's Secret (2000)
Lady L (1958), Romain Gary	Lady L (1965)
The Lady of the Camellias (1848), Alexandre Dumas, fils	Camille (1909) Camille (1915) Camille (1917) Camille (1921) Camille (1926) (made by Norma Talmadge) Camille (1926) (made by Ralph Barton, and starring Charlie Chaplin) Camille (1936) Camille 2000 (1969) Camille (1984)
The Lair of the White Worm (1911), Bram Stoker	The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
La lampe dans la fenêtre (1972), Pauline Cadieux	Cordélia (1980)
The Land That Time Forgot (1918), Edgar Rice Burroughs	The Caspak Trilogy (1975–1977) (series) The Land That Time Forgot (1975) * The People That Time Forgot (1977) The Land That Time Forgot (2009)
Lassie Come-Home (1940), Eric Knight	Lassie (1943–2005) (series) Lassie Come Home (1943) * Son of Lassie (1945) ** Courage of Lassie (1946) *** Hills of Home (1948) **** The Sun Comes Up (1949) ***** Challenge to Lassie (1950) ****** The Painted Hills (1951) ******* Lassie's Great Adventure (1963) ******** The Magic of Lassie (1988) ********* Lassie (1994) ********** Lassie (2005)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1834), Edward Bulwer-Lytton	The Last Days of Pompeii (1900) The Last Days of Pompeii (Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei) (1908) The Last Days of Pompeii (Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei) (1913) The Last Days of Pompeii (Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei) (1926) The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) The Last Days of Pompeii (Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei, Les Derniers Jours de Pompéi) (1950) The Last Days of Pompeii (Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei) (1959)
The Last Detail (1970), Darryl Ponicsan	The Last Detail (1973)
The Last Hunt (1954), Milton Lott	The Last Hunt (1956)
The Last of the Duanes (1913) (written), (1996) (published), Zane Grey	The Last of the Duanes (1919) The Last of the Duanes (1924) The Last of the Duanes (1930) El último de los Vargas (1930) Last of the Duanes (1941)
The Last of the Mohicans (1826), James Fenimore Cooper	The Last of the Mohicans (1912) The Last of the Mohicans (1920) (made in America) Der Letzte der Mohikaner (The Last of the Mohicans) (1920) (made in Germany) The Last of the Mohicans (1932) (serial) The Last of the Mohicans (1936) The Last of the Mohicans (1971) (TV) (serial) The Last of the Mohicans (1977) (TV) The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
The Last Picture Show (1966), Larry McMurtry	The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Last Ride (1996), Thomas Eidson	The Missing (2003)
The Last Song (2009), Nicholas Sparks	The Last Song (2010)
Last Stand at Papago Wells (1957), Louis L'Amour	Apache Territory (1958)
Last Stand at Saber River (1959), Elmore Leonard	Last Stand at Saber River (1997)
The Last Unicorn (1968), Peter S. Beagle	The Last Unicorn (1982)
The Late George Apley (1937), John P. Marquand	The Late George Apley (1947)
Lay This Laurel (1973), Lincoln Kirstein	Glory (1989)
Layer Cake (2000), J. J. Connolly	Layer Cake (2004)
Laura (1942) (serial), (1943) (novel), Vera Caspary	Laura (1944) Laura (1962) (TV) Laura (1968) (TV)
Law and Order (1973), Dorothy Uhnako	Law and Order (1976) (TV)
The Law at Randado (1954), Elmore Leonard	Border Shootout (1990)
Law Man (1955), Lauran Paine	The Quiet Gun (1957)
Lawyer Man (1932), Max Trell	Lawyer Man (1933)
Leaving Cheyenne (1963), Larry McMurtry	Lovin' Molly (1974)
The Ledger (1970), Dorothy Uhnak	Get Christie Love! (1974) (TV)
Left Behind (1995–2007) (series), Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins	Left Behind (2000–2005) (series) Left Behind: The Movie (2000) * Left Behind II: Tribulation Force (2002) ** Left Behind: World at War (2005)
Legion (1983), William Peter Blatty	The Exorcist III (1990)
Lemonade Mouth (2007), Mark Peter Hughes	Lemonade Mouth (2011) (TV) * Lemonade Mouth 2 (2012) (TV)
The Leopard (1958), Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa	The Leopard (1963)
Less Than Zero (1985), Bret Easton Ellis	Less Than Zero (1987)
Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) (2004), John Ajvide Lindqvist	Let the Right One In (2008) Let Me In (2010)
Letter to Five Wives (1946), John Klempner	A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
Let Me Count the Ways (1965), Peter De Vries	How Do I Love Thee? (1970)
Les Liaisons dangereuses (The Dangerous Liaisons) (1782), Pierre Choderlos de Laclos	Les liaisons dangereuses (1959) Les Liaisons dangereuses (1980) (TV) Dangerous Liaisons (1988) Valmont (1989) Cruel Intentions (1999) Untold Scandal (2003) Les Liaisons dangereuses (2003) (TV) (mini) Michael Lucas' Dangerous Liaisons (2005)
The Life Before Us (a. k. a. Momo) (1975), Romain Gary (as Émile Ajar)	Madame Rosa (1977) The Life Before Us (2010) (TV)
Life of Pi (2001), Yann Martel	Life of Pi (film) (2012)
The Lincoln Lawyer (2005), Michael Connelly	The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
A Lion Is in the Streets (1945), Adria Locke Langley	A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)
Little Dorrit (1855–1857) (serial), (1857) (novel), Charles Dickens	Little Dorrit (1913) Little Dorrit (1920) Klein Dorrit (1934) Little Dorrit (1988) Little Dorrit (2008) (TV) (serial)
The Lizard's Tail (1979), Marc Brandell	The Hand (1981)
Eine Liebe in Deutschland (A Love in Germany) (1978), Rolf Hochhuth	Eine Liebe in Deutschland (A Love in Germany) (1983)
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759–1767), Laurence Sterne	A Cock and Bull Story (2006)
The Light in the Forest (1953), Conrad Richter	The Light in the Forest (1958)
The Light of Western Stars (1914), Zane Grey	The Light of the Western Stars (1918) The Light of Western Stars (1925) The Light of Western Stars (1930) The Light of Western Stars (1940)
Like a Fire is Burning (1991), Gerald N. Lund	The Work and the Glory: American Zion (2005)
Little Caesar (1929), W. R. Burnett	Little Caesar (1931) Black Caesar (1973) * Hell Up in Harlem (1973)
The Little Drummer Girl (1983), John le Carré	The Little Drummer Girl (1984)
The Little White Horse (1946), Elizabeth Goudge	The Secret of Moonacre (2009)
Live and Let Die (1954), Ian Fleming	Live and Let Die (1973)
Live Flesh (1986), Ruth Rendell	Carne trémula (Live Flesh) (1997)
Loaded (1995), Christos Tsiolkas	Head On (1998)
Lobo (1900), Ernest Thompson Seton	The Legend of Lobo (1962)
Logan's Run (1967), William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson	Logan's Run (1976) Logan's Run (2012)
Lolita (1955), Vladimir Nabokov	Lolita (1962) Lolita (1997)
The Lone Star Ranger (1915), Zane Grey	The Lone Star Ranger (1919) The Lone Star Ranger (1923) The Lone Star Ranger (1930) Lone Star Ranger (1942)
The Long Goodbye (1953), Raymond Chandler	The Long Goodbye (1973)
The Looters (1968), John H. Reese	Charley Varrick (1973)
Lord Jim (1899–1900) (serial), (1900) (novel), Joseph Conrad	Lord Jim (1925) Lord Jim (1965)
Lord of the Flies (1954), William Golding	Lord of the Flies (1963) Alkitrang dugo (1976) Lord of the Flies (1990)
The Lord of the Rings (1953–1955) (series), J. R. R. Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring (1953) * The Two Towers (1954) ** The Return of the King (1955)	J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1978) The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy (2001–2003) (series) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) * The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) ** The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
The Lords of Discipline (1980), Pat Conroy	The Lords of Discipline (1983)
Lost Horizon (1933), James Hilton	Lost Horizon (1937) Lost Horizon (1973)
The Lost Ones (1961), Donald G. Payne	The Island at the Top of the World (1974)
The Lost Symbol (2009), Dan Brown	The Lost Symbol (2012)
The Lost World (1912), Arthur Conan Doyle	The Lost World (1925) The Lost World (1960) The Lost World (1992) * Return to the Lost World (1992) The Lost World (1998) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (1999–2002) (TV) The Lost World (2001) (TV) King of the Lost World (2005)
The Lost World (1995), Michael Crichton	The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Lottie and Lisa (Das doppelte Lottchen) (1949), Erich Kästner	Das doppelte Lottchen (1950) The Lullaby of Hibari (1951) Twice Upon a Time (1953) The Parent Trap (1961) * The Parent Trap II (1987) ** The Parent Trap III (1988) ** * The Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon (1989) Kuzanthaiyum Deivamum (1965) Letha Manasulu (1966) Do Kaliyan (1968) Animation Tomboy Angels (1980) Pyaar ke do Pal (1986) I and Myself: The Two Lottes (1991) Charlie & Louise - Das doppelte Lottchen (1994) khaharan-e- gharib (1995) The Parent Trap (1998) Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi (2001) Tur & Retur (2003)
The Loved One (1948), Evelyn Waugh	The Loved One (1965)
Love Story (1970), Erich Segal * Oliver's Story (1977), Erich Segal	Love Story (1970) * Oliver's Story (1978)
The Lovely Bones (2002), Alice Sebold	The Lovely Bones (2009)
The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844), William Makepeace Thackeray	Barry Lyndon (1975)
The Lucky One (2008), Nicholas Sparks	The Lucky One (2012)
El Lugar sin límites (Hell Has No Limits) (1966), José Donoso	El lugar sin límites (Hell Has No Limits) (1978)
Lunes de fiel (1981), Pascal Bruckner	Bitter Moon (1992)
The Lusty Men (1948), Claude Stanush	The Lusty Men (1952)

M

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
MacKenna's Gold (1963), Henry Wilson Allen (as Heck Allen)	Mackenna's Gold (1969)
Madame Doubtfire (a.k.a. Alias Madame Doubtfire) (1987), Anne Fine	Mrs. Doubtfire (1994)
The Maddening (1987), Andrew Neiderman	The Maddening (1995)
The Magic Bed Knob; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons (1943), Mary Norton * Bonfires and Broomsticks (1945), Mary Norton	Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
The Magician (1908), W. Somerset Maugham	The Magician (1926)
Magnificent Obsession (1929), Lloyd C. Douglas	Magnificent Obsession (1935) Magnificent Obsession (1954)
Martin Eden (1909), Jack London	The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942)
Maître du monde (Master of the World) (1904), Jules Verne	Master of the World (1961) Master of the World (1976) (TV)
Make Room! Make Room! (1966), Harry Harrison	Soylent Green (1973)
The Maltese Falcon (1930), Dashiell Hammett	The Maltese Falcon (1931) Satan Met a Lady (1936) The Maltese Falcon (1941) * The Black Bird (1975)
The Man Called Noon (1970), Louis L'Amour	The Man Called Noon (1973)
The Man in Black (1964), Marvin H. Albert	Rough Night in Jericho (1967)
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955), Sloan Wilson	The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
Man on Fire (1980), A. J. Quinnell	Man on Fire (1987) Man on Fire (2004)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1963), Walter Travis	The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) The Man Who Fell to Earth (1987) (TV) The Man Who Fell to Earth (future, TBA)
The Man Who Never Was (1954), Ewen Montagu	The Man Who Never Was (1956)
The Man with the Golden Gun (1965), Ian Fleming	The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
The Man Without a Face (1972), Isabelle Holland	The Man Without a Face (1993)
Man Without a Star (1952), Lee Dinford	Man Without a Star (1955)
The Manchurian Candidate (1959), Richard Condon	The Manchurian Candidate (1962) The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Manon des Sources (part two of L'Eau des collines) (1966), Marcel Pagnol	Manon des Sources (1953) Manon des Sources (1986)
Marnie (1961), Winston Graham	Marnie (1964)
Mary Poppins (1934), P. L. Travers	Mary Poppins (1964)
MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors (1968), Richard Hooker	MASH (1970)
Marathon Man (1974), William Goldman	Marathon Man (1976)
The Matarese Circle (1979), Robert Ludlum	The Matarese Circle (2012)
Matilda (1988), Roald Dahl	Matilda (1996)
Maurice (1971), E. M. Forster	Maurice (1987)
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Thomas Hardy	The Mayor of Casterbridge (1921) The Mayor of Casterbridge (1978) (TV) The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003) (TV) The Claim (2000)
McTeague (1899), Frank Norris	McTeague (1916) Greed (1924)
The Medusa Touch (1973), Peter Van Greenaway	The Medusa Touch (1978)
The Memoirs of Cleopatra (1997), Margaret George	Cleopatra (1999)
The Mephisto Waltz (1969), Fred Mustard Stewart	The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
Mercy Island (1941), Theodore Pratt	Mercy Island (1941)
Merton of the Movies (1919), Harry Leon Wilson	Merton of the Movies (1924) Make Me a Star (1932) Merton of the Movies (1947)
Message in a Bottle (1998), Nicholas Sparks	Message in a Bottle (1999)
Miami Mayhem (1960), Marvin H. Albert * The Lady in Cement (1961), Marvin H. Albert	Tony Rome (1967) * Lady in Cement (1968)
Midnight and Jeremiah (1943), Sterling North	So Dear to My Heart (1949)
A Midnight Clear (1982), William Wharton	A Midnight Clear (1992)
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), John Wyndham	Village of the Damned (1960) * Children of the Damned (1963) Village of the Damned (1995)
Mildred Pierce (1941), James M. Cain	Mildred Pierce (1945)
Millennium (1983), John Varley	Millennium (1989)
Millennium (2005–2007) (series), Stieg Larsson The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005) * The Girl Who Played with Fire (2006) ** The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (2007)	Millennium (2009–2014) (series) Swedish films The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) * The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009) ** The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (2009) American films The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) * The Girl Who Played with Fire (2013) ** The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (TBA 2014)
Mine-Haha, or On the Bodily Education of Young Girls (1903), Frank Wedekind	Innocence (2004) The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha (2005)
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1962), Agatha Christie	The Mirror Crack'd (1980) Subho Mahurat (2003)
Les Misérables (1862), Victor Hugo	On the Barricade (1907) Le Chemineau (1907) Les Misérables (1909) The Bishop's Candlesticks (1909) Les Misérables (1911) Les Misérables (1913) The Bishop's Candlesticks (1913) Les Misérables (1917) Les Misérables (1922) Aa Mujou (1923) Les Misérables (1925) The Bishop's Candlesticks (1929) Aa Mujou (1929) Jean Valjean (1931) Les Misérables (1934) Les Misérables (1935) Gavrosh (1937) Kyojinden (1938) Los Miserables (1943) El Boassa (1944) I Miserabili (1948)(Re-released in 1952) Les Nouveaux Misérables (1949) Re mizeraburu: Kami to Akuma (Les Misérables: Gods and Demons) (1950) Ezhai Padum Padu (1950) Beedala Patlu (1950) Les Misérables (1952) Kundan (1955) Duppathage Duka (1956) Sirakaruwa (1957) Les Misérables (1958) Os Miseráveis (1958) Jean Valjean (1961) (TV) Cosette (1961) (TV) Gavroche (1962) (TV) Jean Valjean (1963) (TV) I miserabili (1964) (TV) (mini) Les Misérables (1967) (TV) (mini) Os Miseráveis (1967) Sefiller (1967) Les Misérables (1972) (TV) (mini) Los Miserables (1973) (TV) Les Misérables (1978) (TV) Al Boasa (1978) Les Misérables (1982) (TV)(Later re-adapted as a four-part television miniseries in 1985) Les Misérables (1995) Les Misérables – The Dream Cast in Concert (1995) Les Misérables (1998) Les Misérables (2000) (TV) (mini) (Later re-adapted as an edited-down television film version the same year and dubbed into English) Les Misérables - 25th Anniversary Live from the O2 (2010) Les Misérables (2011) (TV) Les Misérables (2012)
Misery (1987), Stephen King	Misery (1990)
Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), Nathanael West	Advice to the Lovelorn (1933) Lonelyhearts (1958) Miss Lonelyhearts (1983) (TV)
Moby-Dick (1851), Herman Melville	The Sea Beast (1926) Moby Dick (1956) Tom and Jerry in: Dicky Moe (1962) Moby Dick (1978) Dot and the Whale (1986) Moby Dick (1998) (TV) Moby Dick (1999) Capitaine Achab (2004) Moby Dick (2010) Moby Dick (2010) (TV) (mini) Moby Dick (2011) (TV) Age of the Dragons (2011)
Moderato Cantabile (1958), Marguerite Duras	Seven Days... Seven Nights (1960)
The Molly Maguires (1969), Arthur H. Lewis	The Molly Maguires (1970)
Monkey in the Middle (1973), Robert Syd Hopkins (as Robert Rostand)	The Killer Elite (1975)
The Monster from Earth's End (1959), Murray Leinster	The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966)
Montana Rides Again (1934), Max Brand	Branded (1950)
The Moon and Sixpence (1919), W. Somerset Maugham	The Moon and Sixpence (1942)
Moonraker (1955), Ian Fleming	Moonraker (1979)
The Moon-Spinners (1962), Mary Stewart	The Moon-Spinners (1964)
The Moonstone (1868), Wilkie Collins	The Moonstone (1934) The Moonstone (1959) (TV) The Moonstone (1972) (TV) The Moonstone (1996) (TV)
Morpho Eugenia (1992), A. S. Byatt	Angels & Insects (1996)
The Mortal Instruments (2007–2013) (series), Cassandra Clare	The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)
Le Morte d'Arthur (The Death of Arthur) (1485), Sir Thomas Malory	Excalibur (1981)
The Mosquito Coast (1981), Paul Theroux	The Mosquito Coast (1986)
Mother Carey's Chickens (1911), Kate Douglas Wiggin	Mother Carey's Chickens (1938) Summer Magic (1963)
Mother Night (1961), Kurt Vonnegut	Mother Night (1996)
A Mother's Gift (2001), Britney Spears and Lynne Spears	Brave New Girl (2004) (TV)
The Moving Target (1949), Ross Macdonald (as John Macdonald)	Harper (1966)
Mr. Hobbs' Vacation (1954), Edward Streeter	Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)
Mr. Limpet (1942), Theodore Pratt	The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)
Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1943), Theodore Pratt	Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1971), Robert C. O'Brien	The Secret of NIMH (1982) * The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue (1999)
Mrs McGinty's Dead (1952), Agatha Christie	Murder Most Foul (1964)
Mud on the Stars' (1942), William Bradford Huie	Wild River (1960)
La Mujer de mi Hermano (My Brother's Wife) (2002), Jaime Bayly	La mujer de mi hermano (My Brother's Wife) (2005)
A Mule for the Marquesa (1964), Frank O'Rourke	The Professionals (1966)
Murder in Amityville (1979), Hans Holzer	Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
Murder on the Orient Express (1934), Agatha Christie	Murder on the Orient Express (1974) Murder on the Orient Express (2001) (TV)
Murphy’s Romance: A Novel (1980), Max Schott	Murphy's Romance (1985)
Mute Witness (1963), Robert L. Pike (as Robert L. Fish)	Bullitt (1968)
My Ántonia (1918), Willa Cather	My Antonia (1995) (TV)
My Philadelphia Father (1955), Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr. (as Cordelia Drexel Biddle)	The Happiest Millionaire (1967)
My Friend Flicka (1941), Mary O'Hara	My Friend Flicka (1943) * Thunderhead, Son of Flicka (1945) ** Green Grass of Wyoming (1948) Flicka (2006) * Flicka 2 (2010)
My Kingdom for a Woman (1952), Ismet Regeila	Abdulla the Great (1955)
My Reminiscences as a Cowboy (1930), Frank Harris	Cowboy (1968)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (unfinished) (1870), Charles Dickens	The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1909) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1914) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1993) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2012) (TV) (mini)
The Mysterious Island (The Mysterious Island) (1874), Jules Verne	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) The Mysterious Island (1929) Mysterious Island (1941) Mysterious Island (1951) (serial) Mysterious Island (1961) La Isla misteriosa y el capitán Nemo (L'Île mystérieuse) (1973) (TV) (mini) Mysterious Island (1982) Mysterious Island (2005) Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
Mystic River (2001), Dennis Lehane	Mystic River (2003)

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Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
The Name of the Rose (1980), Umberto Eco	The Name of the Rose (1986)
The Naked and the Dead (1948), Norman Mailer	The Naked and the Dead (1958)
The Naked Country (1960), Morris West (as "Michael East")	The Naked Country (1985)
The Naked Face (1970), Sidney Sheldon	The Naked Face (1984)
Naked Lunch (1959), William S. Burroughs	Naked Lunch (1991)
The Nanny (1987), Dan Greenburg	The Guardian (1990)
The Nanny Diaries (2002), Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus	The Nanny Diaries (2007)
The Natural (1952), Bernard Malamud	The Natural (1984)
National Velvet (1935), Enid Bagnold	National Velvet (1944) * International Velvet (1978)
Nest in a Fallen Tree (1967), Joy Cowley	The Night Digger (1971)
The Net (1912), Rex Beach	Fair Lady (1922)
Nevada (1928), Zane Grey	Nevada (1927) Nevada (1935) Nevada (1944)
Never Cry Wolf (1963), Farley Mowat	Never Cry Wolf (1983)
The Neverending Story (1979), Michael Ende	The NeverEnding Story (1984) * The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990) ** The NeverEnding Story III (1994) The NeverEnding Story (2014)
Nicholas Nickleby (1838–1839) (serial), (1839) (novel), Charles Dickens	Nicholas Nickleby (1903) Nicholas Nickleby (1912) Nicholas Nickleby (1947) Nicholas Nickleby (1957) Nicholas Nickleby (1968) Nicholas Nickleby (1977) (TV) (serial) Nicholas Nickleby (1985) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (2001) Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
The Nick Adams Stories (1972), Ernest Hemingway	Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
Night and the City (1938), Gerald Kersh	Night and the City (1950) Night and the City (1992)
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1945), Cornell Woolrich (as George Hopley)	Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
The Night of the Generals (1963), Hans Hellmut Kirst	The Night of the Generals (1967)
The Night of the Hunter (1953), Davis Grubb	The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Night of the Iguana (1961) (play), Tennessee Williams * Basis from One Arm and Other Stories (1967), Tennessee Williams	The Night of the Iguana (1964)
Night Shift (1942), Maritta Wolff	The Man I Love (1947)
Night Watch (1998), Sergey Lukyanenko	Night Watch (2004) * Day Watch (2006)
Nightmare (1942) (a.k.a. And So to Death), Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish)	Fear in the Night (1947) Nightmare (1956)
Nightmare Alley (1946), William Lindsay Gresham	Nightmare Alley (1947)
Nights in Rodanthe (2002), Nicholas Sparks	Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
Nightwing (1977), Martin Cruz Smith	Nightwing (1979)
Nine and a Half Weeks: A Memoir of a Love Affair (1978), Elizabeth McNeill	9½ Weeks (1986) * Another 9½ Weeks (1997) ** The First 9½ Weeks (1998)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), George Orwell	Nineteen Eighty-Four (1953) (TV) Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) (TV) 1984 (1956) Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
The Ninth Configuration (1978), William Peter Blatty	The Ninth Configuration (1980)
No Country for Old Men (2005), Cormac McCarthy	No Country for Old Men (2007)
No Down Payment (1957), John McPartland	No Down Payment (1957)
No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1939), James Hadley Chase	No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948) The Grissom Gang (1971) La Chair de l'orchidée (1975)
No se lo Digas a Nadie (Don't Tell Anyone) (1994), Jaime Bayly	No se lo Digas a Nadie (Don't Tell Anyone) (1998)
Nobody Loves a Drunken Indian (1967), Clair Huffaker	The Last Warrior (1970)
The North Star (1956), Henry Wilson Allen	Tashunga (The North Star) (1996)
Northern Lights (1995), Philip Pullman	The Golden Compass (2007)
Northwest Passage (1937), Kenneth Roberts	Northwest Passage (1940)
Nostromo (1904), Joseph Conrad	Nostromo (1996) (TV) (mini)
The Notebook (1996), Nicholas Sparks	The Notebook (2004)
Nothing Lasts Forever (1979), Roderick Thorp	Die Hard (1988)
Nurse Matilda (1964–1974) (series), Christianna Brand	Nanny McPhee (2005) * Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010)

O

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
Odd Man Out (1945), F. L. Green	Odd Man Out (1947)
Odds Against Tomorrow (1958), William P. McGivern	Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
Odyssey (8th century BC), Homer	Ulysses (1955) The Odyssey (1987) Ulysses' Gaze (Greek: Το βλέμμα του Οδυσσέα, translit. To Vlemma tou Odyssea) (1995) The Odyssey (1997) (TV) (mini) O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) Odysseus and the Isle of the Mists (2007) (TV)
Audition (1997), Ryu Murakami	Audition (1999)
Of Human Bondage (1915), W. Somerset Maugham	Of Human Bondage (1934) Of Human Bondage (1946) Of Human Bondage (1964)
Of Mice and Men (1937), John Steinbeck	Of Mice and Men (1939) Of Mice and Men (1981) (TV) Of Mice and Men (1992)
Oil! (1927), Upton Sinclair	There Will Be Blood (2007)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1840–1841) (serial) (1841) (novel), Charles Dickens	The Old Curiosity Shop (1911) The Old Curiosity Shop (1912) The Old Curiosity Shop (1914) The Old Curiosity Shop (1921) The Old Curiosity Shop (1934) The Old Curiosity Shop (1975) The Old Curiosity Shop (1979) (TV) (mini) The Old Curiosity Shop (1984) The Old Curiosity Shop (1995) (TV) The Old Curiosity Shop (2007) (TV)
The Old Man and the Sea (1951) (written), (1952) (published), Ernest Hemingway	The Old Man and the Sea (1958) The Old Man and the Sea (1990) The Old Man and the Sea (1999)
Old Yeller (1956), Fred Gipson	Old Yeller (1957) * Savage Sam (1963)
Oliver Twist (1837–1839), Charles Dickens	Oliver Twist (1909) Oliver Twist (1922) Oliver Twist (1933) Oliver Twist (1948) Oliver! (1968) Oliver Twist (1982) Oliver & Company (1988) Oliver Twist (1997) Twist (2003) Boy called Twist (2004) Oliver Twist (2005)
Oliver's Story (1977), Erich Segal	Oliver's Story (1978)
Oms en série (Oms by the Dozen) (1957), Stefan Wul	Fantastic Planet (1973)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963), Ian Fleming	On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
On Stranger Tides (1987), Tim Powers	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ken Kesey	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
One for the Money (1994), Janet Evanovich	One for the Money (2011)
One Gallant Rush (1965), Peter Burchard	Glory (1989)
One Hundred Years Ahead (Сто лет тому вперед) (1976), Kir Bulychev	Guest from the Future (Гостья из будущего) (1985) (TV)
One More Spring (1933), Robert Nathan	One More Spring (1935)
One Shot (novel) (2004), Lee Child	Jack Reacher (film) (2012)
One Thousand and One Nights (12th century), various Indian storytellers	Le Palais des Mille et une nuits (1905) The Thief of Bagdad (1924) The Thief of Bagdad (1940) 1001 Arabian Nights (1959) Il fiore delle Mille ed una notte (Arabian Nights) (1974) Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights (1994)
The Onion Field (1973), Joseph Wambaugh	The Onion Field (1979)
The Open Range Men (1990), Lauran Paine	Open Range (2003)
Operation Terror (1961), Gordon Gordon and Mildred Gordon	Experiment in Terror (1962)
Ordinary People (1976), Judith Guest	Ordinary People (1980)
Orlando: A Biography (1928), Virginia Woolf	Orlando (1992)
The Osterman Weekend (1972), Robert Ludlum	The Osterman Weekend (1983)
The Other Boleyn Girl (2001), Philippa Gregory	The Other Boleyn Girl (2003) (TV) The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
The Other One (1955), Catherine Turney	Back from the Dead (1957)
The Other Side of Midnight (1973), Sidney Sheldon	The Other Side of Midnight (1977)
Our Girl Friday (1951), Ernest K. Gann	Our Girl Friday (1953) (a. k. a. The Adventures of Sadie)
Our Man in Havana (1958), Graham Greene	Our Man in Havana (1959)
Out of Sight (1996), Elmore Leonard	Out of Sight (1998)
An Outcast of the Islands (1896), Joseph Conrad	An Outcast of the Islands (1952)
The Outsiders (1967), S. E. Hinton	The Outsiders (1983)
Over the River (1933), John Galsworthy	One More River (1934)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1940), Walter Van Tilburg Clark	The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

P

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
A Painted Devil (1966), Thomas P. Cullinan	The Beguiled (1971)
A Painted House (2001), John Grisham	A Painted House (2003) (TV)
The Painted Veil (1925), W. Somerset Maugham	The Painted Veil (1934) The Seventh Sin (1957) The Painted Veil (2006)
Pan Wolodyjowski (Fire in the Steppe) (1888), Henryk Sienkiewicz	Colonel Wolodyjowski (1968)
Parineeta (1914), Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay	Parineeta (1942) Parineeta (1953) Parineeta (1969) Parineeta (2005)
Paris Blues (1957), Harold Flender	Paris Blues (1961)
Les Particules Élémentaires (1998) (a.k.a. Atomised), Michel Houellebecq	The Elementary Particles (2006)
Pasó por aquí (Once in the Saddle) (1947), Eugene Manlove Rhodes	Four Faces West (1948)
A Passage to India (1924), E. M. Forster	A Passage to India (1984)
Patriot Games (1987), Tom Clancy	Patriot Games (1992)
The Peacock Spring (1975), Rumer Godden	The Peacock Spring (1996) (TV)
The Pelican Brief (1992), John Grisham	The Pelican Brief (1993)
The Penal Colony (1987), Richard Herley	No Escape (1994)
The People That Time Forgot (1918), Edgar Rice Burroughs	The People That Time Forgot (1977)
Percy Jackson & the Olympians (2005–2009) (series), Rick Riordan The Lightning Thief (2005) * The Sea of Monsters (2006)	Percy Jackson & the Olympians (2010–present) (series) Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010) * Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters (2013)
Perfect Little Angels (1989), Andrew Neiderman	Perfect Little Angels (1998) (TV)
Pet Sematary (1983), Stephen King	Pet Sematary (1989) * Pet Sematary Two (1992)
Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904) (play) Peter and Wendy (1911) (novel), J. M. Barrie	Peter Pan (1924) Peter Pan (1953) * Return to Never Land (2002) Peter Pan (1976) (TV) The Lost Boys (1978) Peter Pan (USSR, 1987) Hook (1991) Peter Pan (2003) Neverland (2003) Peter Pan (2003) Neverland (2003) Finding Neverland (2004) Tinker Bell (2008–2012) (series) Tinker Bell (2008) (V) * Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure (2009) ** Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (2010) (V) *** Pixie Hollow Games (2011) (V) **** Secret of the Wings (2012) (V)
Peyton Place (1956), Grace Metalious	Peyton Place (1957)
The Phantom Crown: The Story of Maximilian & Carlota of Mexico (1934), Bertita Harding	Juarez (1939)
Phantom Lady (1942), Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish)	Phantom Lady (1944)
The Phantom of the Opera (1909–1910, 1911), Gaston Leroux	The Phantom of the Opera (1925) Phantom of the Opera (1943) The Phantom of the Opera (1962) The Phantom of the Opera (1989) The Phantom of the Opera (1998) The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Pharaoh (1895), Bolesław Prus	Pharaoh (1966)
The Philadelphian (1957), Richard P. Powell	The Young Philadelphians (1959)
El Pianista (1985), Manuel Vázquez Montalbán	The Pianist (1998)
The Pickwick Papers (1836–1837) (serial), (1837) (novel), Charles Dickens	The Pickwick Papers (1913) The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick (1921) The Pickwick Papers (1952)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), Oscar Wilde	Dorian Grays Portræt (1910) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1913) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1916) Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray (1917) Az Élet királya (The Picture of Dorian Gray) (1918) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) El Retrato de Dorian Gray (1969) (TV) Dorian Gray (a. k. a. The Evils of Dorian Gray or The Secret of Dorian Gray) (1970) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1973) (TV) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1976) (TV) Le Portrait de Dorian Gray (1977) The Sins of Dorian Gray (1983) (TV) Dorian (a. k. a. Pact with the Devil) (2001) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) Dorian (2004) The Picture of Dorian Gray (2004) The Picture of Dorian Gray (2006) The Picture of Dorian Gray (2007) The Picture (of Dorian Gray) (2009) Dorian Gray (2009)
The Pillar of Light (1990), Gerald N. Lund	The Work and the Glory (2004)
Pin (1981), Andrew Neiderman	Pin (1988)
Pioneer, Go Home! (1959), Richard P. Powell	Follow That Dream (1964)
The Pirates! (2004–2012) (series), Gideon Defoe The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists (2004) * The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling (2005)	The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (2012)
Pity My Simplicity (1944), Christopher Massie	Love Letters (1945)
La Planète des singes (1963), Pierre Boulle	Planet of the Apes (1968–1973, 2001–present) (series) Planet of the Apes (1968) * Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) ** Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) ** * Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) ** ** Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) Planet of the Apes (2001) * Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Pleasure Island (1949), William Maier	The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953)
Point de lendemain: conte dédiée à la reine (1876), Dominique Vivant	The Lovers (Les Amants) (1958)
The Polar Express (1985), Chris Van Allsburg	The Polar Express (2004)
Pollyanna (1913), Eleanor H. Porter	Pollyanna (1920) Pollyanna (1960) Hayat sevince güzel (1971) Pollyanna (1973) (TV) (serial) The Adventures of Pollyanna (1982) (TV) Polly (1989) (TV) * Polly: Comin' Home! (1990) (TV) Pollyanna (2003) (TV)
Le Pont de la Rivière Kwai (1952), Pierre Boulle	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) * Return from the River Kwai (1988)
Poodle Springs (1959–1988) (written), (1989) (published), Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker	Poodle Springs (1998) (TV)
The Pope of Greenwich Village (1979), Vincent Patrick	The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
Popiół i diament (Ashes and Diamonds) (1948), Jerzy Andrzejewski	Popiół i diament (Ashes and Diamonds) (1958)
Portnoy's Complaint (1969), Philip Roth	Portnoy's Complaint (1972)
Portrait of Jennie (1940), Robert Nathan	Portrait of Jennie (1948)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Paul Gallico	The Poseidon Adventure (1972) * Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) The Poseidon Adventure (2005) Poseidon (2006)
The Positronic Man (1993), Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg	Bicentennial Man (1999)
Possession: A Romance (1990), A. S. Byatt	Possession (2002)
The Postman (1985), David Brin	The Postman (1997)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), James Cain	Le Dernier Tournant (The Last Turning) (1939) Ossessione (Obsession) (1942) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
The Power (1956), Frank M. Robinson	The Power (1968)
The Power and the Glory (1940), Graham Greene	The Fugitive (1947)
The Power of One (1989), Bryce Courtenay	The Power of One (1992)
Pożegnania (1948), Stanisław Dygat	Farewells (1958)
Presumed Innocent (1987), Scott Turow	Presumed Innocent (1990)
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice (1940) Pride & Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy (2003) Bride and Prejudice (2004) Pride & Prejudice (2005)
The Prince and the Pauper (1881), Mark Twain	The Prince and the Pauper (1909) The Prince and the Pauper (1915) Der Prinz und der Bettelknabe (1920) Yiskor (1933) The Prince and the Pauper (1937) The Prince and the Pauper (1943) The Prince and the Pauper (1962) Raja Aur Runk (1968) The Adventures of the Prince and the Pauper (1969) Princ a chudas (1971) (TV) Prints i nishchiy (1972) (TV) Crossed Swords (a. k. a. The Prince and the Pauper) (1977) Ringo (1978) (TV) (special) Trading Places (1983) The Prince and the Pauper (1990) (short film) Dave (1993) The Prince and the Pauper (1995) It Takes Two (1995) The Prince and the Pauper (1997) The Prince and the Surfer (1999) The Pooch and the Pauper (2000) (TV) The Prince and the Pauper (2000) (TV) Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper (2004) The Prince and the Pauper (2005) Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties (2006) A Modern Twain Story: The Prince and the Pauper (2007)
The Prince of Tides (1986), Pat Conroy	The Prince of Tides (1991)
The Princess Bride (1973), William Goldman	The Princess Bride (1987)
The Princess Diaries (2000–2009) (series), Meg Cabot	The Princess Diaries (2002–2004) (series) The Princess Diaries (2002) * The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
A Princess of Mars (1917), Edgar Rice Burroughs	Princess of Mars (2009) (V) John Carter (2012)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), Anthony Hope	The Prisoner of Zenda (1913) The Prisoner of Zenda (1915) The Prisoner of Zenda (1922) The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) The Prisoner of Zenda (1952) The Prisoner of Zenda (1979) The Prisoner of Zenda (1984)
Promise at Dawn (1961), Romain Gary	Promise at Dawn (1970)
Pronto (1993), Elmore Leonard	Pronto (1997) (TV)
Professor Unrat (1905), Heinrich Mann	Der blaue Engel (1930)
Psycho (1959), Robert Bloch	Psycho (1960) * Psycho II (1983) ** Psycho III (1986) ** * Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990) (TV) Psycho (1998)
Psycho II (1982), Robert Bloch	Psycho II (1983)
The Puppet Masters (1951), Robert A. Heinlein	The Brain Eaters (1958) The Puppet Masters (1994)
The Purple Cloud (1901), M. P. Shiel The End of the World (1955), Ferdinand Reyher	The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)
Pursuit (1963), Richard Unekis	Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974)

Q

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
Q & A (1977), Edwin Torres	Q & A (1990)
QB VII (1970), Leon Uris	QB VII (1974) (TV) (mini)
The Queen of the Damned (1988), Anne Rice	Queen of the Damned (2002)
Quentin Durward (1823), Sir Walter Scott	The Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955)
The Quick and the Dead (1973), Louis L'Amour	The Quick and the Dead (1987) (TV)
The Quiet American (1955), Graham Greene	The Quiet American (1958) The Quiet American (2002)

R

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
Radio Free Albemuth (1976), Philip K. Dick	Radio Free Albemuth (2011)
Ragtime (1975), E. L. Doctorow	Ragtime (1981)
Ramrod (1943), Luke Short	Ramrod (1947)
Raiders of Spanish Peaks (1938), Zane Grey	The Arizona Raiders (1936)
Rain (2000), V.C. Andrews	Rain (2006)
The Rainbird Pattern (1972), Victor Canning	Family Plot (1976)
The Rainbow (1915), D. H. Lawrence	The Rainbow (1989)
The Rainbow Trail (a. k. a. The Desert Crucible) (1915), Zane Grey	The Rainbow Trail (1918) The Rainbow Trail (1925) The Rainbow Trail (1932)
The Rainmaker (1995), John Grisham	The Rainmaker (1997)
Raise the Titanic! (1976), Clive Cussler	Raise the Titanic (1980)
Random Hearts (1984), Warren Adler	Random Hearts (1999)
Rascal (1963), Sterling North	Rascal (1969)
Ratman's Notebooks (1969), Gilbert Ralston (as Stephen Gilbert)	Willard (1971) * Ben (1972) Willard (2003)
The Razor's Edge (1944), W. Somerset Maugham	The Razor's Edge (1946) The Razor's Edge (1984)
The Reader (1995), Bernhard Schlink	The Reader (2008)
Rebecca (1938), Daphne du Maurier	Rebecca (1940)
The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales (1973) (a.k.a. Gone to Texas), Asa Earl Carter (as Forrest Carter)	The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Red Alert (1958), Peter George	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Red Dragon (1981), Thomas Harris	Manhunter (1986) Red Dragon (2002)
Red Hugh: Prince of Donegal (1957), Robert T. Reilly	The Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966)
The Red Pony (1937), John Steinbeck	The Red Pony (1949)
The Redhead from Sun Dog (1931), W. C. Tuttle	Range Feud (1931) The Red Rider (1934)
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941), Carson McCullers	Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1973), Max Simon Ehrlich	The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975)
The Reivers (1962), William Faulkner	The Reivers (1969)
The Remains of the Day (1989), Ishiguro	The Remains of the Day (1993)
Rendezvous in Black (1948), Cornell Woolrich	Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972)
The Rescuers (1959–1978) (series), Margery Sharp The Rescuers (1959) * Miss Bianca (1962)	The Rescuers (1977) * The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
The Return of the Condor Heroes (1959), Jin Yong	The Story of the Great Heroes (1960–1961) The Brave Archer and His Mate (1982) Little Dragon Maiden (1983)
The Return of the King (1955), J. R. R. Tolkien	The Return of the King (1980) (TV) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Return of the Living Dead (1977), John Russo	Return of the Living Dead (1985–2005) (series) The Return of the Living Dead (1985) * Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988) ** Return of the Living Dead 3 (1993) ** * Return of the Living Dead 4: Necropolis (2005) ** ** Return of the Living Dead 5: Rave from the Grave (2005) ** ** * More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead (TBA)
The Return of the Native (1878), Thomas Hardy	The Return of the Native (1994) (TV) The Return of the Native (2010)
The Return of the Soldier (1918), Rebecca West	The Return of the Soldier (1982)
Return to Paradise (1951), James A. Michener	Return to Paradise (1953) Until They Sail (1957)
Return to Peyton Place (1959), Grace Metalious	Return to Peyton Place (1961)
Reuben, Reuben (1964), Peter De Vries	Reuben, Reuben (1970)
Revolt (1929), Mary C. McCall, Jr.	Scarlet Dawn (1932)
The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1951), William Bradford Huie	The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956)
Revolutionary Road (1961), Richard Yates	Revolutionary Road (2008)
The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (1903), Robert Erskine Childers	The Riddle of the Sands (1979) Das Rätsel der Sandbank (The Riddle of the Sands) (1984) (TV)
Riders of the Purple Sage (1912), Zane Grey	Riders of the Purple Sage (1918) Riders of the Purple Sage (1925) Riders of the Purple Sage (1931) Riders of the Purple Sage (1941) Riders of the Purple Sage (1996)
Ripley Under Ground (1970), Patricia Highsmith	Ripley Under Ground (2005)
Ripley's Game (1974), Patricia Highsmith	Ripley's Game (2002)
Rising Sun (1992), Michael Crichton	Rising Sun (1993)
The River (1946), Rumer Godden	The River (1951)
Riverworld (1971–1983) (series), Philip José Farmer	Riverworld (2003) Riverworld (2010)
Les rivières pourpres (Blood Red Rivers) (1997), Jean-Christophe Grangé	Les rivières pourpres (The Crimson Rivers) (2000) Les rivières pourpres II: Les anges de l'apocalypse (Crimson Rivers 2: Angels of the Apocalypse) (2004)
The Road (2006), Cormac McCarthy	The Road (2009)
The Road Back (1930–1931) (serial), (1931) (novel), Erich Maria Remarque	The Road Back (1937)
The Highland Rogue (1723), Daniel Defoe Rob Roy (1917), Walter Scott	Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue (1953) Rob Roy (1995)
The Robe (1942), Lloyd C. Douglas	The Robe (1953)
Robinson Crusoe (1719), Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe (1927) Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1954) Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. (1966) Crusoe (1988) Shipwrecked (1991) Robinson Crusoe (1997)
Rogue Cop (1954), William P. McGivern	Rogue Cop (1954)
The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1937), MacKinlay Kantor	The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)
A Room with a View (1908), E. M. Forster	A Room with a View (1985)
The Roots of Heaven (1957), Romain Gary	The Roots of Heaven (1958)
Rosemary's Baby (1967), Ira Levin	Rosemary's Baby (1968) * Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (1976) (TV)
The Rover (1923), Joseph Conrad	L'avventuriero (The Rover) (1967)
The Rules of Attraction (1987), Bret Easton Ellis	The Rules of Attraction (2002)
Rum Punch (1992), Elmore Leonard	Jackie Brown (1997)
The Runaway Jury (1996), John Grisham	Runaway Jury (2003)
A Running Duck (a.k.a. Fair Game) (1974), Paula Gosling	Cobra (1986) Fair Game (1995)
The Running Man (1982), Stephen King (as Richard Bachman)	The Running Man (1987)
The Russia House (1989), John le Carré	The Russia House (1990)

See also

• Lists of film source material
• List of non-fiction works made into feature films
• List of plays made into feature films
• List of films based on stage plays or musicals

Notes