| Movie title |
Book title & author |
MPAA Rating |
Genres |
| The Adventures of Huck Finn |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
by Mark Twain |
PG |
family, adventure, drama |
| The Age of Innocence |
The Age of Innocence, by Edith
Wharton |
PG |
drama, romance |
| Alive |
Alive: the story of the Andes
survivors,
by Piers Paul Read |
R |
drama, action, adventure, thriller |
| Bodies, Rest, and Motion |
Bodies, Rest, and Motion [play],
by
Roger Hedden |
R |
drama, romance |
Body & Soul
[TV mini series]
|
Body & Soul, by
Marcelle Bernstein
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
| Body Snatchers |
The Body Snatchers, by Jack
Finney |
R |
science fiction, horror, thriller |
| Boiling Point |
Money Men, by Gerald Petievich |
R |
action, drama |
| Born Yesterday |
Born Yesterday: a comedy in three
acts
[play], by Garson Kanin |
PG |
comedy, romance |
The Buddha of
Suburbia [TV mini series]
|
The Buddha of Suburbia, by
Hanif Kureishi
|
Not
Rated
|
comedy, drama
|
| Carlito's Way |
Carlito's Way, and After
Hours,
by Edwin Torres |
R |
crime, drama |
| Carnosaur |
Carnosaur, by Harry Adam Knight |
R |
science fiction, horror |
| The Cemetery Club |
The Cemetery Club [play], by
Ivan
Menchell |
PG-13 |
comedy |
| A Dangerous Woman |
A Dangerous Woman, by Mary
McGarry
Morris |
R |
drama, romance |
| The Dark Half |
The Dark Half, by Stephen King |
R |
horror, mystery |
| Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story |
Bruce Lee: The Biography, by
Robert
Clouse and Bruce Lee: the Man Only I Knew, by Linda Lee
Cadwell |
PG-13 |
action, drama |
| Eight Hundred Leagues Down the Amazon |
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon,
by Jules Verne |
PG-13 |
action, adventure |
| Ethan Frome |
Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton |
PG |
drama |
| Even Cowgirls Get the Blues |
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, by
Tom
Robbins |
R |
comedy, romance, drama |
| A Far Off Place |
A Story Like the Wind and A
Far-Off
Place, by Laurens Van Der Post |
PG |
family, adventure, drama, romance |
| Fearless |
Fearless, by Rafael Yglesias |
R |
drama |
| Fire in the Sky |
The Walton Experience, by Travis
Walton |
PG-13 |
mystery, drama, science fiction |
| The Firm |
The Firm, by John Grisham |
R |
thriller, drama |
| Germinal |
Germinal, by Émile Zola |
R |
foreign language (French), drama |
| Gettysburg |
The Killer Angels, by Michael
Shaara |
PG |
war (Civil), drama |
| The Hawk |
The Hawk, by Peter Ransley |
R |
thriller |
| Heaven & Earth |
Child of War, Woman of Peace, by
Le
Ly Hayslip and James Hayslip and When Heaven and Earth Changed
Places:
a Vietnamese woman's journey from war to peace, by Le Ly Hayslip
and
Jay Wurts |
R |
action, drama, war |
| Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey |
The Incredible Journey, by
Sheila
Burnford |
G |
adventure, drama, family, comedy |
| The House of the Spirits |
The House of the Spirits, by
Isabelle
Allende |
R |
drama, romance |
| Household Saints |
Household Saints, by Francine
Prose |
R |
drama |
| In Custody |
In Custody, by Anita Desai |
PG |
comedy, drama, foreign language
(Urdu/Hindi) |
| Indecent Proposal |
Indecent Proposal, by Jack
Engelhard |
R |
drama, romance |
| The Innocent |
The Innocent, by Ian McEwan |
R |
drama |
| Jack the Bear |
Jack the Bear, by Dan McCall |
PG-13 |
drama, comedy |
JFK Reckless
Youth [TV mini series]
|
JFK, Reckless Youth, by
Nigel Hamilton
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
| The Joy Luck Club |
The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan |
R |
drama |
| Jurassic Park |
Jurassic Park, by Michael
Crichton |
PG-13 |
action, adventure, science fiction |
| King of the Hill |
King of the Hill, by A.E.
Hotchner |
PG-13 |
drama |
| Lost in Yonkers |
Lost in Yonkers [play], by Neil
Simon |
PG |
comedy, drama |
| Love & Human Remains |
Unidentified Human Remains and the
True
Nature of Love [play], by Brad Fraser |
NC-17 (original),
R (edited) |
drama, comedy |
| M. Butterfly |
M. Butterfly [play], by David
Henry
Hwang |
R |
drama |
| The Man Without A Face |
The Man Without A Face, by
Isabelle
Holland |
PG-13 |
drama |
| Me and the Kid |
Taking Gary Feldman, by Stanley
Cohen |
PG |
comedy, drama |
| Mrs. Doubtfire |
Alias Madame Doubtfire, by Anne
Fine |
PG-13 |
comedy, drama |
| Much Ado About Nothing |
Much Ado About Nothing [play],
by
William Shakespeare |
PG-13 |
comedy, romance |
| The Music of Chance |
The Music of Chance, by Paul
Auster |
R |
drama |
| Needful Things |
Needful Things, by Stephen King |
R |
drama, horror, thriller |
| The Pelican Brief |
The Pelican Brief, by John
Grisham |
PG-13 |
thriller, drama, mystery |
| The Princess and the Goblin |
The Princess and the Goblin, by
George
MacDonald |
G |
animation, fantasy |
Queen [TV mini
series]
|
Alex Haley's Queen: the story of
an American family, by Alex Haley and David Stevens
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
| The Remains of the Day |
The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo
Ishiguro |
PG |
drama, romance |
| Rich in Love |
Rich in Love, by Josephine
Humphreys |
PG-13 |
drama |
| Rising Sun |
Rising Sun, by Michael Crichton |
R |
crime, drama, mystery, thriller |
| Roosters |
Roosters [play], by Milcha
Sanchez-Scott |
R |
drama |
| Schindler's List |
Schindler's List, by Thomas
Keneally |
R |
drama, war |
| Searching for Bobby Fischer |
Searching for Bobby Fischer: the
world
of chess, observed by the father of a child prodigy, by Fred Waitzkin |
PG |
drama |
| The Secret Garden |
The Secret Garden, by Frances
Hodgson
Burnett |
G |
drama, family |
| The Secret Rapture |
The Secret Rapture [play], by
David
Hare |
R |
drama |
| Shadowlands |
Shadowlands [play], by William
Nicholson |
PG |
drama, romance |
| Short Cuts |
Based on the short stories of Raymond
Carver |
R |
drama |
| Six Degrees of Separation |
Six Degrees of Separation
[play],
by John Guare |
R |
drama, mystery |
| Sliver |
Sliver, by Ira Levin |
R |
thriller |
| Sweet Killing |
Qualtrough, by Angus Hall |
R |
drama, thriller |
Tales of the
City [TV mini series]
|
Tales of the City, by
Armistead Maupin
|
Not
Rated
|
drama, mystery
|
| This Boy's Life |
This Boy's Life: A Memoir, by
Tobias
Wolff |
R |
drama |
| The Three Musketeers |
The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas |
PG |
comedy, action, adventure, family |
To Play the King
[TV mini series]
|
To Play the King, by
Michael Dobbs
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
| The Trial |
The Trial, by Franz Kafka |
PG-13 |
drama |
| The Vanishing |
The Vanishing, by Tim
Krabbé,
translated from the Dutch by Claire Nicolas White |
R |
mystery, thriller |
| We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story |
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story,
by
Hudson
Talbott |
G |
animation, family, fantasy |
| What's Eating Gilbert Grape |
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?,
by Peter
Hedges |
PG-13 |
comedy, drama |
| What's Love Got to Do with It |
I, Tina, by Tina Turner and Kurt
Loder |
R |
drama, musical, music |
| Where the Rivers Flow North |
Where the Rivers Flow North, by
Howard
Frank Mosher |
PG-13 |
drama |
| Wide Sargasso Sea |
Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys |
NC-17 |
drama |
A Year in
Provence [TV mini series]
|
A Year in Provence, by
Peter Mayle
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
