| Movie title |
Book title & author |
MPAA Rating |
Genres |
The Adventurers
|
The Adventurers, by Harold
Robbins
|
PG
|
adventure, drama
|
Airport
|
Airport, by Arthur Hailey
|
G
|
drama, thriller
|
The Bloody
Countess
|
The Bloody Countess, by
Valentine Penrose
|
PG
|
horror
|
The Body
|
The Body, by Anthony Smith
|
R
|
documentary
|
The Boys in the
Band
|
The Boys in the Band
[play], by Mart Crowley
|
R
|
drama
|
Brotherly Love
|
Household Ghosts, by James
Kennaway
|
R
|
drama
|
The Bushbaby
|
The Bushbabies, by William
Stevenson
|
G
|
adventure, drama
|
Catch-22
|
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
|
R
|
comedy, war
|
Chariots of the
Gods
|
Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved
Mysteries of the Past, and Gods From Outer Space; Return to
the Stars, or Evidence for the Impossible, by Erich von
Däniken
|
G
|
foreign language
(German), documentary
|
Cold Sweat
|
Ride the Nightmare, by
Richard Matheson, also published in Noir : three novels of suspense
|
PG
|
action,
thriller, drama
|
Colossus: The
Forbin Project
|
Colossus, by D.F. Jones
|
PG
|
science fiction,
thriller
|
The Conformist
|
The Conformist, by Alberto
Moravia
|
R
|
foreign language
(Italian), drama
|
Cotton Comes to
Harlem
|
Cotton Comes to Harlem, by
Chester Himes
|
R
|
action, comedy
|
Count Dracula
|
Dracula, by Bram Stoker
|
PG
|
foreign language
(Spanish), horror
|
Darker Than Amber
|
Darker Than Amber, by John
D. MacDonald
|
PG
|
mystery
|
The Delta Factor
|
The Delta Factor, by Mickey
Spillane
|
R
|
adventure, drama
|
Diary of a Mad
Housewife
|
Diary of a Mad Housewife,
by Sue Kaufman
|
R
|
comedy, drama
|
Doctor in Trouble
|
Doctor on Toast, by Richard
Gordon
|
R
|
comedy
|
Dorian Gray
|
The Picture of Dorian Gray,
by Oscar Wilde
|
R
|
horror
|
End of the Road
|
The End of the Road, by
John Barth
|
X
|
drama
|
Figures in a
Landscape
|
Figures in a Landscape, by
Barry England
|
PG
|
thriller
|
Flap
|
Nobody Loves a Drunken Indian,
by Clair Huffaker
|
PG
|
comedy
|
Fragment of Fear
|
A Fragment of Fear, by John
Bingham
|
PG
|
crime, mystery,
drama
|
The Games
|
The Games, by Hugh Atkinson
|
G
|
drama
|
The Garden of
the Finzi-Continis
|
The Garden of
the Finzi-Continis, by Giorgio Bassani
|
R
|
drama
|
Getting Straight
|
Getting Straight, by Ken
Kolb |
R
|
drama
|
The Go-Between
|
The Go-Between, by L.P.
Hartley
|
PG
|
drama, romance
|
Goodbye Gemini
|
Ask Agamemnon, by Jenni Hall
|
R
|
crime, drama
|
The Great White
Hope
|
The Great White Hope
[play], by Howard Sackler
|
PG
(original
rating), PG-13 (1997 re-rating)
|
drama, sports
(boxing)
|
The Hawaiians
|
Hawaii, by James Michener
|
PG
|
drama
|
Hoffman
|
Hoffman, by Ernest Gebler
|
PG
|
comedy
|
How Do I Love
Thee?
|
Let Me Count the Ways, by
Peter De Vries
|
PG
|
comedy, drama
|
I Never Sang for
My Father
|
I Never Sang for My Father
[play], by Robert Anderson
|
PG
|
drama
|
I Walk the Line
|
An Exile, by Madison Jones
|
PG
|
drama
|
Julius Caesar
|
Julius Caesar [play], by
William Shakespeare
|
G
|
drama
|
King of the
Grizzlies
|
The Biography of a Grizzly,
by Ernest Thompson Seton
|
G
|
western, family
|
The Kremlin
Letter
|
The Kremlin Letter, by Noel
Behn
|
PG
|
thriller, spy
|
The Lady in the
Car with Glasses and a Gun
|
The Lady in the Car with Glasses
and a Gun, by Sébastien Japrisot
|
R
|
foreign language
(French), drama
|
The Landlord
|
The Landlord, by Kristin
Hunter
|
R
|
comedy
|
The Last Grenade
|
The Ordeal of Major Grigsby,
by John Sherlock
|
M
[equivalent to
PG]
|
drama, war
|
Last of the
Mobile Hot Shots
|
Kingdom of Earth : the Seven
Descents of Myrtle [play], by Tennessee Williams
|
R
|
drama
|
The Liberation
of L.B. Jones
|
The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones,
by Jesse Hill Ford
|
R
|
drama, crime
|
Little Big Man
|
Little Big Man, by Thomas
Berger
|
PG
[original],
PG-13 [2002 re-rating]
|
comedy, drama,
western, adventure, war
|
Loot
|
Loot [play], by Joe Orton
|
R
|
comedy
|
Lovers and Other
Strangers
|
Lovers and Other Strangers
[play], by Joseph Bologna
|
R
|
comedy
|
The Man from
O.R.G.Y.
|
The Man from O.R.G.Y., by
Ted Mark
|
R
|
comedy, crime
|
M*A*S*H
|
M*A*S*H, by Richard Hooker
|
R
[uncut], PG
[cut]
|
comedy, war,
drama
|
The McKenzie
Break [also known as Escape (U.S. video title)]
|
The Bowmanville Break, by
Sidney Shelley
|
PG
|
war, drama
|
The Mind of Mr.
Soames
|
The Mind of Mr. Soames, by
David McIlwain writing as Charles Eric Maine
|
PG
|
science fiction,
drama
|
The Molly
Maguires
|
Lament for the Molly Maguires,
by Arthur H. Lewis
|
PG
|
drama
|
Monte Walsh
|
Monte Walsh, by Jack
Schaefer
|
PG
|
western
|
The Moonshine War
|
The Moonshine War, by
Elmore Leonard
|
PG
|
comedy, crime,
drama
|
Move
|
Move!, by Joel Lieber
|
R
|
comedy
|
My Lover My Son
|
Reputation For a Song, by
Edward Grierson
|
R
|
drama
|
Myra Breckinridge
|
Myra Breckinridge, by Gore
Vidal
|
R
|
comedy
|
No Blade of Grass
|
No Blade of Grass, by John
Christopher
|
R
|
drama, science
fiction
|
Norwood
|
Norwood, by Charles Portis
|
G
|
comedy
|
On a Clear Day
You Can See Forever
|
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
[play], by Alan Jay Lerner
|
G
|
comedy, musical
|
One Day in the
Life of Ivan Denisovich
|
One Day in the Life of Ivan
Denisovich, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
|
G
|
drama
|
The Only Game in
Town
|
The Only Game in Town
[play], by Frank D. Gilroy
|
PG
|
drama
|
Only the Cool
|
Woman Hunt, by Francis Ryck
|
PG
|
foreign language
(French), drama
|
The Owl and the
Pussycat
|
The Owl and the Pussycat
[play], by Bill Manhoff
|
PG,
R (original
rating)
|
comedy
|
Patton
|
A Soldier's Story, by Omar
N. Bradley, and Patton:
Ordeal and Triumph, by Ladislas Farago
|
PG
|
drama, war
|
The Phantom
Tollbooth
|
The Phantom Tollbooth, by
Norton Juster
|
G
|
family,
adventure, animation, fantasy
|
Pieces of Dreams
|
The Wine and the Music, by
William E. Barrett
|
PG
|
drama
|
Pippi on the Run
|
Pippi on the Run, by Astrid
Lindgren
|
G
|
foreign language
(Swedish), G
|
Promise at Dawn
|
Promise at Dawn, by Romain
Gary
|
PG
|
drama
|
Puppet on a Chain
|
Puppet on a Chain, by
Alistair MacLean
|
PG
|
thriller
|
Rabbit, Run
|
Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
|
R
|
drama
|
The Railway
Children
|
The Railway Children, by E.
Nesbit
|
G
|
family, drama
|
The Revolutionary
|
The Revolutionary, by Hans
Koning
|
PG
|
drama
|
Scrooge
|
A Christmas Carol, by
Charles Dickens
|
G
|
drama, musical,
family, fantasy
|
A Severed Head
|
A Severed Head, by Iris
Murdoch
|
R
|
comedy
|
Skullduggery
|
You Shall Know Them, by
Vercors
|
PG
|
adventure
|
Soldier Blue
|
Arrows in the Sun, by
Theodore V. Olsen
|
PG
|
western
|
Something for
Everyone
|
The Cook, by Harry Kressing
|
R
|
comedy, crime
|
The Strawberry
Statement
|
The Strawberry Statement Notes of
a College Revolutionary, by James Kunen
|
R
|
drama, romance
|
Sudden Terror
|
Eyewitness, by Mark Hebden
|
PG
|
thriller, drama
|
Take a Girl Like
You
|
Take a Girl Like You, by
Kingsley Amis
|
R
|
comedy
|
Tell Me That You
Love Me, Junie Moon
|
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie
Moon, by Marjorie Kellogg
|
PG
|
comedy, drama,
romance
|
There's a Girl
in My Soup
|
There's a Girl in My Soup
[play], by Terence Frisby
|
R
|
comedy
|
Three Sisters
|
The Three Sisters [play],
by Anton Chekhov
|
G
|
drama
|
Tora! Tora! Tora!
|
The Broken Seal: "Operation Magic"
and the Secret Road to Pearl Harbor, by Ladislas Farago, and
"Tora Tora Tora!" [article], by Gordon W. Prange in: Reader's Digest Oct. 1963, p.
251-299, & Nov. 1963 p. 274-324.
|
G
|
action, war,
adventure, drama
|
Tristana
|
Tristana, by Benito
Pérez Galdós
|
PG
|
foreign language
(Spanish), drama
|
Tropic of Cancer
|
Tropic of Cancer, by Henry
Miller
|
X
(original
rating), NC-17 (1992 re-rating)
|
drama
|
The Twelve Chairs
|
The Twelve Chairs, by Il’ia
Il’f and Evgenii Petrov
|
G
|
comedy
|
The Virgin and
the Gypsy
|
The Virgin and the Gypsy,
by D.H. Lawrence
|
R
|
drama, romance
|
Viva Max!
|
Viva Max!, by James Lehrer
|
G
|
comedy
|
A Walk in the
Spring Rain
|
A Walk in the Spring Rain,
by Rachel Maddux
|
PG
|
drama
|
The Walking Stick
|
The Walking Stick, by
Winston Graham
|
PG
|
drama, crime
|
Where's Poppa?
|
Where's Poppa?, by Robert
Klane
|
R
|
comedy
|
WUSA
|
A Hall of Mirrors, by
Robert Stone
|
PG
|
drama
|
The Year of the
Cannibals
|
Antigone [play], by
Sophocles
|
PG
|
foreign language
(Italian), drama
|
