Top 5 movies adapted from books?

Name your Top 5 (or even Top 10) movies based on a book.

My Top 5:

1. Lord of the Rings (All three)
2. The Godfather
3. Trainspotting
4. Jurassic Park
5. Silence of the Lambs

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1. The Godfather
2. Jaws
3. To Kill a Mockingbird
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
5. Ben Hur

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"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."- Groucho Marx

1. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. The Godfather
4. The Lord of The Rings
5. The Shining

These would probably be a little different if I had taken the time to think about it.

SOME GREAT ADAPTATIONS (in no particular order)

• Tess (1980 - Roman Polanski), from the novel Tess of the d'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
• Far from the Madding Crowd (1967 - Jhon Schlesinger), from the novel by Thomas Hardy
• The Age of Innocence (1993 - Martin Scorsese), from the novel by Edith Wharton
• Dangerous Liaisons (1988 - Stephen Frears), from the novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Chonderlos de Lacos
• Valmont (1989 - Milos Forman), from the novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos
• The Innocents (1961 - Jack Clayton), from the novel The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
• Rosemary's Baby (1967 - Roman Polanski), from the novel by Ira Levin
• The Princess Bride (1987 - Rob Reiner), from the novel by William Goldman
• All the President's Men (1976 - Alan J. Pakula), from the book by Woodward & Bernstein
• Three Days of the Condor (1975 - Sydney Pollack), from the novel The Six Days of the Condor by James Grady
• The Manchurian Candidate (1962 - John Frankenheimer), from the novel by Richard Condon
• Prizzi's Honor (1985 - John Huston), from the novel by Richard Condon
• The Maltese Falcon (1941 - John Schlesinger), from the novel by Dashiell Hammett
• Under the Volcano (1984 - John Huston), from the novel by Malcolm Lowry
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948 - John Huston), from the novel by B. Traven
• The Man Who Would Be King (1975 - John Huston), from the novella by Rudyard Kipling
• Jaws (1975 - Steven Spielberg), from the novel by Peter Benchley
• Mother Night (1996 - Keith Gordon), from the novel by Kurt Vonnegut
• Catch-22 (1970 - Mike Nichols), from the novel by Joseph Heller
• Birdy (1984 - Alan Parker), from the novel by William Wharton
• A Clockwork Orange (1971 - Stanley Kubrick), from the novel by Anthony Burgess
• A Boy & His Dog (1975 - L.Q. Jones), from the story by Harlan Ellison
• The Witches of Eastwick (1987 - George Miller), from the novel by John Updike
• The Commitments (1991 - Alan Parker), from the novel by Roddy Doyle
• High Fidelity (2000 - Stephen Frears), from the novel by Nick Hornby
• The Grifters (1990 - Stephen Frears), from the novel by Jim Thompson
• After Dark, My Sweet (1990 - James Foley), from the novel by Jim Thompson
• L.A. Confidential (1997 - Curtis Hanson), from the novel by James Ellroy
• Wonder Boys (2000 - Curtis Hanson), from the novel by Michael Chabon
• The Player (1992 - Robert Altman), from the novel by Michael Tolkin
• Get Shorty (1995 - Barry Sonnenfeld), from the novel by Elmore Leonard
• Out of Sight (1998 - Steven Soderbergh), from the novel by Elmore Leonard
• Misery (1990 - Rob Reiner), from the novel by Stephen King
• Empire of the Sun (1987 - Steven Spielberg), from the book by J.G. Ballard
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968 - Robert Ellis Miller), from the novel by Carson McCullers
• The Last Picture Show (1971 - Peter Bogdanovich), from the novel by Larry McMurtry
• "Lonesome Dove" (made-for-TV 1989 - Simon Wincer), from the novel by Larry McMurtry
• Little Big Man (1970 - Arthur Penn), from the novel by Thomas Berger
• Missing (1982 - Costa-Gavras), from the book by Thomas Hauser
• The Mosquito Coast (1986 - Peter Weir), from the novel by Paul Theroux
• Zorba the Greek (1964 - Michael Cacoyannis), from the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis
• The Last Temptation of Christ (1988 - Martin Scorsese), from the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis
• Last Orders (2001 - Fred Schepisi), from the novel by Graham Swift
• The Music of Chance (1993 - Philip Haas), from the novel by Paul Auster
• GoodFellas (1990 - Martin Scorsese), from the book Wiseguy as told to Nic Pileggi
• Serpico (1973 - Sidney Lumet), from the book by Peter Maas
• Fletch (1985 - Michael Ritchie), from the novel by Gregory MacDonald
• Ragtime (1981 - Milos Forman), from the novel by E.L. Doctorow
• The Chocolate War (1988 - Keith Gordon), from the novel by Robert Cormier
• "Barbarians ot the Gate" (made-for-TV 1993 - Glenn Jordan), from the book by Burrough & Helyar
• BladeRunner (1982 - Ridley Scott) from the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001 - Peter Jackson), from the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (1998 - Terry Gilliam), from the book by Hunter S. Thompson

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Im suprised no one has mentioned 'Big Fish '

I'm not.

Nevermind... Holden did it for me.

i second that one

1. Fight Club
2. The Family (The Godfather)
3. Dangerous Liaisons
4. Rose Red
5. Lord Of The Rings

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Don't Look Now
3. The Outsiders
4. Apocalypse Now (from Heart of Darkness)
5. The Pianist

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Willy wonka and the chocolate factory ofcourse.

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"You need people like me..."

1. Sense and Sensibility (1995)
2. The Joy Luck Club (1993)
3. The Lord of the Rings series
4. Persuasion (1995)
5. Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
6. Emma (1996)

Pride and Prejudice (A&E Version) - Jane Austin
The Lord of the Rings - J.R. Tolkien
Jaws - Peter Benchley
Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey

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I can't believe I forgot this...shame on me! Thanks Caity~

I like both adaptations....and I'd like to squeeze these right after number 3.

3.b Pride and Prejudice (1940)
3.c Pride and Prejudice (A&E Version)

I wondered where it was...


I thought of one I forgot:

Skins (2002) - Adrian C. Louis

I must have been cracking my whip at the kids when I made my list and was momenarily distracted.

Oh good...I'm glad to see I'm not the only one...sooo...how about you? Were cracking your whip at work?

Although I saw the film before I read the documentary, I loved The Mothman Propechies. The book is much better, though, and the film is only loosely based on the true events anyway.

To Kill a Mockingbird

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Apocalypse Now (Heart of Darkness)
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket (The Short Timers)
The Godfather
Dr Strangelove

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Last movies I have seen

Platoon
Evil Dead
Goodfellas
Alice in Wonderland
Rocky Horror Picture Show

Full Metal Jacket
Goodfellas
Bladerunner
Rosemary's baby
A Clockwork Orange

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