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Movie title Book title & author MPAA Rating Genres
Across 110th Street
Across 110th, by Wally Ferris
R
crime, drama
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
G
family, musical, fantasy
Amazing Mr. Blunden
The Ghosts, by Antonia Barber
G
family, mystery, fantasy
And Hope To Die
Black Friday, by David Goodis
PG
foreign language (French), crime, drama
Avanti!
Avanti! Or, A Very Uncomplicated Girl [play], by Samuel Albert Taylor
R
comedy, drama
Black Girl
Black Girl [play] , by J.E. Franklin
PG
drama
The Blood Spattered Bride
"Carmilla" [short story], by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, in: Best ghost stories of J.S. LeFanu, and Vampires: two centuries of great vampire stories
R
horror
Bloodsuckers
Doctors Wear Scarlet, by Simon Raven
R
horror
Boxcar Bertha
Sister of the Road : the autobiography of Box-Car Bertha, by Box-Car Bertha, and Ben L. Reitman
R
drama
Butterflies Are Free
Butterflies Are Free [play], by Leonard Gershe
PG
comedy, drama, romance
Cabaret
I Am A Camera [play], by John VanDruten, and  The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris [and] Goodbye to Berlin, by Christopher Isherwood
PG
musical, drama, war
Call of the Wild
Call of the Wild, by Jack London
PG
adventure
Cancel My Reservation
The Broken Gun, by Louis L'Amour
G
comedy, mystery
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer
NC-17
drama, comedy
The Carey Treatment
A Case of Need, by Jeffery Hudson
PG
mystery
Child's Play
Child's Play [play], by Robert Marasco
PG
drama, mystery
Come Back, Charleston Blue
The Heat's On, by Chester Himes
PG
action, comedy
Cool Breeze
The Asphalt Jungle, by W.R. Burnett
R
crime, drama
The Cowboys
The Cowboys, by William Dale Jennings
PG
western
The Cross and the Switchblade
The Cross and the Switchblade, by David Wilkerson, with John & Elizabeth Sherrill
PG
drama
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg [play], by Peter Nichols
R
comedy, drama
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues, by Michael Douglas
R
comedy
Deliverance
Deliverance, by James Dickey
R
adventure, thriller, drama
Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon
"The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" [short story], by Edgar Allan Poe, in:  The Complete Stories, and Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
R
foreign language (Spanish), horror
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds [play], by Paul Zindel
PG
drama
Embassy
Embassy, by Stephen Coulter
PG
crime
Every Little Crook and Nanny
Every Little Crook and Nanny, by Evan Hunter
PG
comedy
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask, by David Reuben
R
comedy
The Exorcism of Hugh
Neither the Sea Nor the Sand, by Gordon Honeycombe
R
fantay, horror, romance
F.T.A.
Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo
R
documentary, comedy
A Fan's Notes
A Fan's Notes : a fictional memoir, by Frederick Exley
R
comedy
Fat City
Fat City, by Leonard Gardner
PG
drama, sports (boxing)
Fear Is the Key
Fear Is the Key, by Alistair MacLean
PG
action, thriller, crime
Frenzy
Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square, by Arthur La Bern
R
thriller, crime
Fuzz
Fuzz, by Evan Hunter writing as Ed McBain
PG
comedy, drama
The Getaway
The Getaway, by Jim Thompson
PG
thriller, action, crime, drama
The Godfather
The Godfather, by Mario Puzo
R
crime, drama
The Groundstar Conspiracy
The Alien, by L.P. Davies
PG
crime, science fiction, mystery
The Happiness Cage
The Happiness Cage [play], by Dennis Reardon
PG
drama, science fiction
Hit Man
Jack's Return Home, by Ted Lewis
R
crime, drama
The Hot Rock
The Hot Rock, by Donald E. Westlake
PG
comedy, crime
I Want What I Want
I Want What I Want, by Geoff Brown
R
drama
Jeremiah Johnson
Mountain Man: a novel of male and female in the early American West, by Vardis Fisher
PG
western
King, Queen, Knave
King, Queen, Knave, by Vladimir Nabokov
R
comedy
Lady Sings the Blues
Lady Sings the Blues, by Billie Holiday with William Dufty
R
drama, music
The Last of the Red Hot Lovers
The Last of the Red Hot Lovers [play], by Neil Simon
PG
comedy
The Little Ark
The Little Ark, by Jan De Hartog
G
adventure
Living Free
Living Free : the story of Elsa and her cubs, by Joy Adamson
G
adventure, drama, family
Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Malcolm X, and Alex Haley
PG
documentary
The Man
The Man, by Irving Wallace
G
drama
Man of La Mancha
Man of La Mancha [play], by Dale Wasserman
PG
comedy, drama, musical
The New Centurions
The New Centurions, by Joseph Wambaugh
R
crime, drama
The New Land
The Settlers, by Vilhelm Moberg
PG
foreign language (Swedish), drama
Night of the Lepus
The Year of the Angry Rabbit, by Russell Braddon
PG
horror, science fiction, thriller
The Other
The Other, by Thomas Tryon
PG
drama, horror, mystery
Play It Again, Sam
Play It Again, Sam [play], by Woody Allen
PG
comedy, romance
Play It As It Lays
Play It As It Lays, by Joan Didion
R
drama
Pocket Money
Jim Kane, by J.P.S. Brown
PG
western, comedy
Portnoy's Complaint
Portnoy's Complaint, by Philip Roth
R
comedy
The Poseidon Adventure
The Poseidon Adventure, by Paul Gallico
PG
adventure, thriller, action, drama
The Possession of Joel Delaney
The Possession of Joel Delaney, by Ramona Stewart
R
horror, thriller
The Public Eye
The Public Eye [play], by Peter Shaffer
G
comedy
The Ruling Class
The Ruling Class [play], by Peter Barnes
PG
comedy
The Salzburg Connection
The Salzburg Connection, by Helen MacInnes
PG
drama, thriller
Savage Messiah
Savage Messiah, by H.S. Ede
R
drama
A Separate Peace
A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
PG
drama
Seven Blows of the Dragon [also known as Water Margin]
All Men Are Brothers, by Nai'an Shi, or Guanzhong Luo. [Also published as Outlaws of the Marsh, and Water Margin]
R
foreign language (Cantonese, Mandarin), action, drama
Siddhartha
Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse
R
drama
Sitting Target
Sitting Target, by Laurence Henderson
R
thriller, drama
Skyjacked
Hijacked, by David Harper
PG
drama, thriller
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-five: or, The Children's Crusade, a Duty-dance with Death, by Kurt Vonnegut
R
comedy, science fiction, drama, war
Sleuth
Sleuth [play], by A. Shaffer
PG
mystery, thriller
Snowball Express
Château Bon Vivant, by Frankie and John O'Rear
G
comedy, family
Solaris
Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem
PG
drama, science fiction
Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me
Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me, by Henry Farrell
R
foreign language (French), comedy, drama
To Find a Man [also known as Sex and the Teenager (U.S. video title)]
To Find a Man, by S.J. Wilson
PG
comedy, drama
To Kill a Clown
"The Master of the Hounds" [short story], by Algis Budrys, in: The Saturday Evening Post Aug 27 1966, Blood & Burning, by Algis Budrys, and Treasury of American Horror Stories, edited by Frank McSherry, Jr., Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh
R
drama, horror
Tomorrow
Tomorrow [play], by Horton Foote, and "Tomorrow" [short story], by William Faulkner, in: The Saturday Evening Post, Nov. 3, 1940, and Knight's Gambit, by William Faulkner
PG
drama
Travels with My Aunt
Travels with My Aunt, by Graham Greene
PG
comedy
Treasure Island
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
G
adventure
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine [play], by Daniel Berrigan
PG
drama
Under Milk Wood
Under Milk Wood [play], by Dylan Thomas
PG
animation, comedy, drama
Up the Sandbox
Up the Sandbox!, by Anne Richardson Roiphe
R
comedy
When the Legends Die
When the Legends Die, by Hal Borland
PG
western, drama
The Wrath of God
The Wrath of God, by James Graham
PG
western
You'll Like My Mother
You'll Like My Mother, by Naomi A. Hintz
PG
thriller, drama
Young Winston
A Roving Commission : My Early Life, by Sir Winston Churchill
PG
adventure, war, drama


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