Most Adapted Novel to Films
Novels have been a great influence on the films. There are numerous films adapted from novels every year.
Which novel do you think most deserves to be adapted?
Note: All adaptation numbers are based on their Wikipedia pages. No TV adaptations included. Minimum 7 adaptations.
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Which novel do you think most deserves to be adapted?
Note: All adaptation numbers are based on their Wikipedia pages. No TV adaptations included. Minimum 7 adaptations.
Discuss the poll here
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- DirectorRob SchmidtStarsMonica KeenaEllen BarkinMichael IronsideA darkly romantic story of murder and redemption, set against an eerily familiar American landscape.33 Adaptations - Original novel "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Suggested by Pencho - DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsJim CarreyGary OldmanColin FirthAn animated retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.26 Adaptations - Original novel "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens
- DirectorJoel SchumacherStarsGerard ButlerEmmy RossumPatrick WilsonA young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opéra House.26 Adaptations - Original novel "The Phantom of the Opera" by Gaston Leroux
- DirectorBrian HensonStarsTim CurryBilly ConnollyJennifer SaundersThe Muppets set sail in search of treasure, with Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver.20 Adaptations - Original novel "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson
- DirectorCary Joji FukunagaStarsMia WasikowskaMichael FassbenderJamie BellA mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he's hiding a terrible secret.23 Adaptations - Original novel "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
- DirectorPaul W.S. AndersonStarsLogan LermanMatthew MacfadyenRay StevensonThe hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down-on-their-luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.22 Adaptations - Original novel "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas
- DirectorKevin ReynoldsStarsJim CaviezelGuy PearceChristopher AdamsonA young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friend", escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.21 Adaptations - Original novel "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas
- DirectorGeorge ScribnerStarsJoey LawrenceBilly JoelCheech MarinA lost and alone kitten joins a gang of dogs engaged in petty larceny in New York City.19 Adaptations - Original novel "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens
- DirectorPeter HewittStarsJonathan Taylor ThomasBrad RenfroCharles RocketTwo best friends witness a murder and embark on a series of adventures in order to prove the innocence of the man wrongly accused of the crime.16 Adaptations - Original novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain
- DirectorJoe WrightStarsKeira KnightleyJude LawAaron Taylor-JohnsonIn late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky.15 Adaptations - Original novel "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
- DirectorNorman FergusonT. HeeWilfred JacksonStarsDickie JonesChristian RubMel BlancA living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy.15 Adaptations - Original novel "The Adventures of Pinnochio" Carlo Collodi
Suggested by Pencho - DirectorEdwin CareweStarsJohn BolesLupe VelezNance O'NeilCountry girl Katusha is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov who, years later, finds himself on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime to which he now realizes that his actions drove her. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.14 Adaptations - Original novel "Resurrection" by Leo Tolstoy
Suggested by Pencho - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsGary OldmanWinona RyderAnthony HopkinsThe centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.13 Adaptations - Original novel "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
- DirectorGary TrousdaleKirk WiseStarsDemi MooreJason AlexanderMary Kay BergmanA deformed bell-ringer must assert his independence from a vicious government minister in order to help his friend, a gypsy dancer.13 Adaptations - Original novel "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" by Victor Hugo
- DirectorWalter HillStarsRichard PryorJohn CandyLonette McKeeA minor-league baseball player must spend $30 million in 30 days in order to inherit $300 million. However, he's not allowed to own any assets, destroy the money, gift it, give it to charity, or tell anyone about the deal.13 Adaptations - Original novel "Brewster's Millions" by George Barr McCutcheon
- DirectorAlfonso CuarónStarsEthan HawkeGwyneth PaltrowHank AzariaModernization of Charles Dickens' classic story finds the hapless Finn as a painter in New York City pursuing his unrequited and haughty childhood love.11 Adaptations - Original novel "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
- DirectorRoland JofféStarsDemi MooreGary OldmanRobert DuvallAn affair between a young woman and a pastor has disastrous consequences.11 Adaptations - Original novel "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- DirectorRandal KleiserStarsEthan HawkeKlaus Maria BrandauerJedJack London's classic adventure story about the friendship developed between a Yukon gold hunter and the mixed dog-wolf he rescues from the hands of a man who mistreats him.11 Adaptations - Original novel "White Fang" by Jack London
Suggested by Pencho - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMerle OberonLaurence OlivierDavid NivenA servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.11 Adaptations - Original novel "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte
Suggested by Pencho - DirectorMichael MannStarsDaniel Day-LewisMadeleine StoweRussell MeansThree trappers protect the daughters of a British Colonel in the midst of the French and Indian War.10 Adaptations - Original novel "The Last of the Mohicans" by James Fenimore Cooper
- DirectorJohn CromwellW.S. Van DykeStarsRonald ColmanMadeleine CarrollC. Aubrey SmithAn Englishman on a Ruritarian holiday must impersonate the king when the rightful monarch, a distant cousin, is drugged and kidnapped.10 Adaptations - Original novel "The Prisoner of Zenda" by Anthony Hope
- DirectorDavid YatesStarsAlexander SkarsgårdRory J SaperChristian StevensTarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.9 Adaptations - Original novel "Tarzan of the Apes" novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Suggested by Pencho - DirectorSophie BarthesStarsMia WasikowskaRhys IfansEzra MillerBored in her marriage to a country doctor and stifled by life in a small town, the restless Emma Bovary pursues her dreams of passion and excitement, whatever they may cost.9 Adaptations - Original novel "Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners" Gustave Flaubert
Suggested by Pencho - DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsBasil RathboneNigel BruceRichard GreeneSherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate.8 Adaptations - Original novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle
- DirectorRod HardyGeorge MillerStarsPierce BrosnanWilliam TakakuPolly Walker1703: Robinson Crusoe has to leave Scotland for a year, but after months sailing, a storm wrecks his ship. He ends up as only survivor on a desolate island.8 Adaptations - Original novel "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe
Suggested by Pencho - DirectorTerry GilliamStarsJosé Luis FerrerIsmael FritschiJuan López-TagleToby, a disillusioned film director, is pulled into a world of time-jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes himself to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from reality.8 Adaptations - Original novel "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes
Suggested by Pencho - DirectorTom HooperStarsHugh JackmanRussell CroweAnne HathawayIn 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter. The decision changes their lives forever.7 Adaptations - Original novel "Les Misérables" by Victor Hugo
- DirectorGreta GerwigStarsSaoirse RonanEmma WatsonFlorence PughJo March reflects back and forth on her life, telling the beloved story of the March sisters - four young women, each determined to live life on her own terms.7 Adaptations - Original novel "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
- DirectorShôgo FuruyaSatoshi KonStarsTôru EmoriYoshiaki UmegakiAya OkamotoOn Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.7 Adaptations - Original novel "The Three Godfathers" by Peter B. Kyne
- DirectorJohn FrankenheimerRichard StanleyStarsDavid ThewlisMarlon BrandoVal KilmerAfter being rescued and brought to an island, a man discovers that its inhabitants are experimental animals being turned into strange-looking humans, all of it the work of a visionary doctor.7 Adaptations - Original novel "The Island of Doctor Moreau" by H. G. Wells
- DirectorMira NairStarsReese WitherspoonRomola GaraiJames PurefoyGrowing up poor in London, Becky Sharp defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend, Amelia Sedley.7 Adaptations - Original novel "Vanity Fair" by William Makepeace Thackeray
- DirectorBob RafelsonStarsJack NicholsonJessica LangeJohn ColicosThe sensuous wife of a roadside diner proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordid, steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.7 Adaptations - Original novel "The Postman Always Rings Twice" by James M. Cain
- DirectorFrank CoraciStarsJackie ChanSteve CooganJim BroadbentTo win a bet, an eccentric British inventor embarks, with his Chinese valet and an aspiring French artist, on a trip full of adventures and dangers around the world in exactly 80 days.7 Adaptations - Original novel "Around the World in Eighty Days" by Jules Verne
- DirectorMichael GottliebStarsThomas Ian NicholasJoss AcklandArt MalikA Little League player is sent back into medieval times where he is given the task of saving Camelot.7 Adaptations - Original novel "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain