| Movie title |
Book title & author |
MPAA Rating |
Genres |
| 101 Dalmations |
The One Hundred and One Dalmations,
by Dodie Smith |
G |
family, comedy, adventure |
| The Adventures of Pinocchio |
The Adventures of Pinocchio, by
Carlo
Collodi |
G |
fantasy, family, adventure |
| American Buffalo |
American Buffalo [play], by
David
Mamet |
R |
drama |
| The Associate |
El Socio, by Jenaro Prieto |
PG-13 |
comedy |
| August |
Uncle Vanya [play], by Anton
Chekhov |
PG |
drama |
| Bad Moon |
Thor, by Wayne Smith |
R |
action, horror, adventure |
| Bastard Out of Carolina |
Bastard Out of Carolina, by
Dorothy
Allison |
R |
drama |
| Beautiful Thing |
Beautiful Thing [play], by
Jonathan
Harvey |
R |
romance, drama |
| Before and After |
Before and After, by Rosellen
Brown |
PG-13 |
drama, thriller |
Boys
|
"Twenty Minutes"
[short story], by James Salter. In: Dusk and Other Stories, and
The Literary
Horse : great modern stories about horses
|
PG-13
|
mystery, drama
|
| Brilliant Lies |
Brilliant Lies [play], by David
Williamson |
R |
drama |
| Caligula |
Caligula [play], by Albert Camus |
R |
foreign language (Hungarian), drama |
| Carried Away |
Farmer, by Jim Harrison |
R |
drama, romance |
| Caught |
Into It, by Edward Pomerantz |
R |
drama, thriller |
| The Chamber |
The Chamber, by John Grisham |
R |
drama, thriller |
| Cosi |
Cosi [play], by Louis Nowra |
R |
comedy |
| Crash |
Crash, by J.G. Ballard |
R (cut), NC-17
(uncut) |
drama, thriller |
| The Crucible |
The Crucible [play], by Arthur
Miller |
PG-13 |
drama |
Dead Man's Walk
|
Dead Man's Walk, by Larry
McMurtry
|
PG-13
|
western
|
| Diabolique |
Diabolique, by Pierre Boileau
and
Thomas Narcejac |
R |
drama, thriller, mystery, horror |
| Emma |
Emma, by Jane Austen |
PG |
comedy, romance |
| The English Patient |
The English Patient, by Michael
Ondaatje |
R |
romance, drama |
| The Evening Star |
The Evening Star, by Larry
McMurtry |
PG-13 |
comedy, drama |
| Evita |
Evita : the legend of Eva
Perón
(1919-1952) [play], by Tim Rice |
PG |
drama, musical |
| Extreme Measures |
Extreme Measures, by Michael
Palmer |
R |
thriller |
| Eye for an Eye |
Eye for an Eye, by Erika Holzer |
R |
drama, thriller |
| Faithful |
Faithful, by Chazz Palminteri |
R |
comedy |
| The Fan |
The Fan, by Peter Abrahams |
R |
thriller, sports |
| Female Perversions |
Female Perversions: The Temptations
of
Emma Bovary, by Louise J. Kaplan |
R |
drama |
| The First Wives Club |
The First Wives Club, by Olivia
Goldsmith |
PG |
comedy |
| Foxfire |
Foxfire: confessions of a girl gang,
by Joyce Carol Oates |
R |
drama |
| Hamlet |
Hamlet [play], by William
Shakespeare |
PG-13 |
drama, crime, romance |
| Hard Core Logo |
Hard Core Logo, by Michael Turner |
R |
comedy, drama |
| Harriet the Spy |
Harriet the Spy, by Louise
Fitzhugh |
PG |
family, comedy |
| Heaven's Prisoners |
Heaven's Prisoners, by James Lee
Burke |
R |
mystery, thriller |
| Hit Me |
A Swell-Looking Babe, by Jim
Thompson |
R |
drama |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by
Victor
Hugo |
G |
animation, family, musical |
| I Love You, I Love You Not |
I Love You, I Love You Not
[play],
by Wendy Kesselman |
PG-13 |
drama, romance |
| Illtown |
The Cocaine Kids: the inside story
of
a teenage drug ring, by Terry Williams |
R |
crime, drama |
| I'm Not Rappaport |
I'm Not Rappaport [play], by
Herb
Gardner |
PG-13 |
comedy |
| In Love and War |
Hemingway in Love and War: the lost
diary
of Agnes von Kurowsky, her letters and correspondence of Ernest
Hemingway, by Agnes Von Kurowsky, Ernest Hemingway, Henry Serrano
Villard, and James Nagel |
PG-13 |
drama, romance, war |
| Infinity |
"Surely You're Joking, Mr.
Feynman!":
adventures of a curious character, and What Do YOU Care What
Other
People Think?: further adventures of a curious character, by
Richard
Feynman |
PG |
drama |
| The Island of Dr. Moreau |
The Island of Dr. Moreau, by
H.G.
Wells |
PG-13 |
horror, science fiction, thriller |
| James and the Giant Peach |
James and the Giant Peach, by
Roald
Dahl |
PG |
family, fantasy, musical, adventure,
animation |
| Jane Eyre |
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte
Brontë |
PG |
drama, romance |
| Jerusalem |
Jerusalem, by Selma Lagerlöf |
PG-13 |
drama |
| Jude |
Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy |
R |
drama |
| The Juror |
The Juror, by George Dawes Green |
R |
drama, thriller |
| Killer: A Journal of Murder |
Killer: A Journal of Murder, by
Thomas
E. Gaddis and James O. Long |
R |
crime, drama |
| The Last of the High Kings |
The Last of the High Kings, by
Ferdia
MacAnna |
R |
comedy, drama |
| Lilies |
Lilies, or, The revival of a
romantic
drama [play], by Michel Marc Bouchard |
R |
drama, romance |
| Mariette in Ecstasy |
Mariette in Ecstasy, by Ron
Hansen |
PG-13 |
drama |
| Marvin's Room |
Marvin's Room [play], by Scott
McPherson |
PG-13 |
drama |
| Mary Reilly |
Mary Reilly, by Valerie Martin |
R |
drama, horror, thriller |
| Matilda |
Matilda, by Roald Dahl |
PG |
adventure, family, fantasy, comedy |
Miracle at
Oxford [also known as True Blue]
|
True Blue : the Oxford Boat Race
mutiny, by Daniel Topolski with Patrick Robinson
|
Not Rated
|
drama, sport
|
| Mother Night |
Mother Night, by Kurt Vonnegut |
R |
drama |
| Mrs. Winterbourne |
I Married a Dead Man, by Cornell
Woolrich |
PG-13 |
comedy, romance |
| North Star [also known as Tashunga] |
The North Star, by Heck Allen
writing
as Will Henry |
R |
adventure, western |
Nostromo [TV
mini series]
|
Nostromo, by Joseph Conrad
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
| An Occasional Hell |
An Occasional Hell, by Randall
Silvis |
R |
drama, thriller |
| The Pillow Book |
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon,
by
Sei Shonagon |
Not Rated |
drama, romance |
| The Portrait of a Lady |
The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry
James |
PG-13 |
drama |
| The Preacher's Wife |
The Bishop's Wife, by Robert
Nathan |
PG |
drama, romance |
| Primal Fear |
Primal Fear, by William Diehl |
R |
drama, thriller, crime, mystery |
| Romeo + Juliet |
Romeo and Juliet [play], by
William
Shakespeare |
PG-13 |
modernization, drama, action, romance |
| The Secret Agent |
The Secret Agent, by Joseph
Conrad |
R |
drama |
| Shiloh |
Shiloh, by Phyllis Reynolds
Naylor |
PG |
family, drama |
| Sleepers |
Sleepers, by Lorenzo Carcaterra |
R |
thriller, crime, drama |
| Solo |
Weapon, by Robert Mason |
PG-13 |
action, science fiction |
| Spirit Lost |
Spirit Lost, by Nancy Thayer |
R |
drama |
| Striptease |
Striptease, by Carl Hiaasen |
R |
comedy, drama, crime, thriller |
| The Substance of Fire |
The Substance of Fire [play], by
Jon
Robin Baitz |
R |
drama |
| SubUrbia |
SubUrbia [play], by Eric Bogosian |
R |
comedy, drama |
| Surviving Picasso |
Picasso: Creator and Destroyer,
by
Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington |
R |
drama, romance |
The Tenant of
Wildfell Hall [TV mini series]
|
Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by
Anne Brontë
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
| Thinner |
Thinner, by Stephen King |
R |
horror, thriller |
The Tide of Life
{TV mini series]
|
The Tide of Life, by
Catherine Cookson
|
Not
Rated
|
drama, romance
|
| A Time to Kill |
A Time to Kill, by John Grisham |
R |
drama, thriller |
| To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday |
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
[play],
by Michael Brady |
PG-13 |
drama, romance |
| Trainspotting |
Trainspotting, by Irvine Welsh |
R |
drama |
| Tromeo and Juliet |
Romeo and Juliet [play], by
William
Shakespeare |
R |
modern adaptation, comedy, drama |
| Twelfth Night |
Twelfth Night [play], by William
Shakespeare |
PG |
comedy, drama, romance |
| Two Much |
Two Much, by Donald E. Westlake |
PG-13 |
comedy, romance |
| The Van |
The Van, by Roddy Doyle |
R |
comedy, drama |
| The War at Home |
Home Front [play], by James Duff |
R |
drama |
| White Squall |
The Last Voyage of the Albatross,
by Charles F. Gieg and Felix Sutton |
PG-13 |
adventure, drama |
| The Whole Wide World |
One Who Walked Alone: Robert E.
Howard,
the final years, by Novalyne Price Ellis |
PG |
drama |
| The Wind in the Willows [also known as
Mr.
Toad's Wild Ride (U.S. video title)] |
The Wind in the Willows, by
Kenneth
Grahame |
PG |
adventure, family, fantasy |
