Total Film's 50 Best Book to Movie Adaptations

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  1. 1 new

    The Silence of the Lambs

    1991, in 36 top lists Check
  2. 2 new

    The 39 Steps

    1935, in 16 top lists Check
  3. 3 new

    The Road

    2009, in 1 top list Check
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    Wuthering Heights

    2011, in 1 top list Check
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    Il gattopardo

    1963 — a.k.a. The Leopard, in 18 top lists Check
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    Carrie

    1976, in 11 top lists Check
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    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

    1969, in 1 top list Check
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    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    1975, in 35 top lists Check
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    To Kill a Mockingbird

    1962, in 18 top lists Check
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    Jurassic Park

    1993, in 23 top lists Check
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    American Psycho

    2000, in 12 top lists Check
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    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
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    The Maltese Falcon

    1941, in 27 top lists Check
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    The Shawshank Redemption

    1994, in 24 top lists Check
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    Män som hatar kvinnor

    2009 — a.k.a. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, in 1 top list Check
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    Doctor Zhivago

    1965, in 17 top lists Check
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    Bridget Jones's Diary

    2001, in 3 top lists Check
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    True Grit

    2010, in 6 top lists Check
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    Brighton Rock

    1948, in 8 top lists Check
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    All Quiet on the Western Front

    1930, in 19 top lists Check
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    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

    2004, in 9 top lists Check
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    We Need to Talk About Kevin

    2011, in 5 top lists Check
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    The Howling

    1981, in 1 top list Check
  24. 24 new

    Brokeback Mountain

    2005, in 21 top lists Check
  25. 25 new

    Children of Men

    2006, in 12 top lists Check
  26. 26 new

    Babe

    1995, in 12 top lists Check
  27. 27 new

    Great Expectations

    1946, in 17 top lists Check
  28. 28 new

    Blade Runner

    1982, in 36 top lists Check
  29. 29 new

    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    2001, in 31 top lists Check
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    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    2002, in 26 top lists Check
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    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    2003, in 29 top lists Check
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    Dracula

    1931, in 11 top lists Check
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    Schindler's List

    1993, in 35 top lists Check
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    Drive

    2011, in 8 top lists Check
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    The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    1988, in 6 top lists Check
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    Empire of the Sun

    1987, in 9 top lists Check
  37. 37 new

    Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

    2008, in 0 top lists Check
  38. 38 new

    Lord of the Flies

    1963, in 1 top list Check
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    Fight Club

    1999, in 19 top lists Check
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    The Day of the Jackal

    1973, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Heiress

    1949, in 10 top lists Check
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    Atonement

    2007, in 6 top lists Check
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    The Big Sleep

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
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    Stand by Me

    1986, in 11 top lists Check
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    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 37 top lists Check
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    The Remains of the Day

    1993, in 5 top lists Check
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    Trainspotting

    1996, in 18 top lists Check
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    No Country for Old Men

    2007, in 23 top lists Check
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    Girl, Interrupted

    1999, in 0 top lists Check
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    Shutter Island

    2010, in 8 top lists Check
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