List of short fiction made into feature films

This is a list of short stories and novellas that have been made into feature films. The title of the work is followed by the work's author, the title of the film, and the year of the film. If a film has an alternate title based on geographical distribution, the title listed will be that of the widest distribution area.

0–9

Short fiction	Film adaptation(s)
"12:01 PM" (1973), Richard A. Lupoff	12:01 PM (1993)
"1408" (1999), Stephen King	1408 (2007)
5135 Kensington (1941–1942) (series), Sally Benson	Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

A

Short fiction	Film adaptation(s)
The Abiding Vision (1935), Rebecca West	A Life of Her Own (1950)
The Acid House (1994), Irvine Welsh	The Acid House (1998)
"Adjustment Team" (1954), Philip K. Dick	The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
"Adultery" (1977), Andre Dubus	We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)
"The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton" (1904), Arthur Conan Doyle	The Missing Rembrandt (1932)
"The Adventure of Silver Blaze" (1892), Arthur Conan Doyle	Silver Blaze (1937)
	Silver Blaze (1977)
"The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" (1892), Arthur Conan Doyle	The Blue Carbuncle (Russian: Голубой карбункул) (1980)
"The Adventure of the Dancing Men" (1903), Arthur Conan Doyle	Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943)
"The Adventure of the Empty House" (1903), Arthur Conan Doyle	The Sleeping Cardinal (1931)
	The Woman in Green (1945)
"The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" (1904), Arthur Conan Doyle	The Pearl of Death (1944)
"The Adventure of the Speckled Band" (1892), Arthur Conan Doyle	The Speckled Band (1931)
"The Adventures of Joe Smith, American" (1940), Paul Gallico	Joe Smith, American (1942)
"A-Hunting We Will Go" (1946), D. D. Beauchamp	Father's Wild Game (1950)
"Air Raid" (1977), John Varley	Millennium (1989)
"All You Zombies" (1959), Robert A. Heinlein	Predestination (2014)
Animal Farm (1945), George Orwell	Animal Farm (1954)
	Animal Farm (1999)
An Apartment for Jenny (1947), Faith Baldwin	Apartment for Peggy (1938)
"Appointment with Fear" (1946), Roy Huggins	The Good Humor Man (1950)
Apt Pupil (1982), Stephen King	Apt Pupil (1998)
Armageddon 2419 A.D. (1928), Philip Francis Nowlan	Buck Rogers (1939)
	Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
"Ate, Memos or the Miracle" (1992), James Lasdun	Sunday (1997)
"August Week-End" (1933), Faith Baldwin	August Weekend (1936)

B

Short fiction	Film adaptation(s)
"B" (1916), Edgar Franklin	The Rail Rider (1916)
"Baa, Baa Black Sheep" (1921) W. C. Tuttle	Black Sheep (1921)
"Baby in the Ice-Box" (1933), James M. Cain	She Made Her Bed (1934)
"The Baby's Had a Hard Day" (1940), Anne Wormser	West Point Widow (1941)
"Back Pay" (1919), Fannie Hurst	Back Pay (1922)
	Back Pay (1930)
"Bad Time at Honda" (1947), Howard Breslin	Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
"Barn Burning" (1983), Haruki Murakami	Burning (2018)
"The Basement Room" (1936), Graham Greene	The Fallen Idol (1948)
"Basterd", F.W. Remmler	Bastard (1940)
"The Bear Came Over the Mountain" (1999), Alice Munro	Away from Her (2006)
"Bedside Manner" (1944), Robert Carson	Bedside Manner (1945)
"Beryl and the Croucher" (1916), Thomas Burke	No Way Back (1949)
"Beware of the Dog" (1944), Roald Dahl	36 Hours (1965)
	Breaking Point (1989)
"The Bicentennial Man" (1976), Isaac Asimov	Bicentennial Man (1999)
"The Birds" (1952), Daphne du Maurier	The Birds (1963)
"The Biscuit Eater" (1939), James H. Street	The Biscuit Eater (1940)
	The Biscuit Eater (1972)
"The Bleeders" (1919), Margery Land May	The Beauty Market (1919)
"Blow-Up" (Spanish: "Las Babas del Diablo", "The Droolings of the Devil") (1959), Julio Cortázar	Blowup (1966)
The Body (1982), Stephen King	Stand by Me (1986)
"The Body Snatcher" (1881), Robert Louis Stevenson	The Body Snatcher (1945)
"The Boogeyman" (1973), Stephen King	The Boogeyman (2023)
"Boule de Suif" (1880), Guy de Maupassant	Boule de Suif (Russian: Пышка) (1934)
	The Escape (Spanish: La fuga) (1944)
	Mademoiselle Fifi (1944)
	Boule de Suif (1945)
"Bow Tamely to Me" (1936), Kenneth Perkins	Escape to Burma (1955)
"The Boy Cried Murder" (1947), Cornell Woolrich	The Window (1949)
	The Boy Cried Murder (1966)
"The Branded Sombrero" (1927), Cherry Wilson	The Branded Sombrero (1928)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), Truman Capote	Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
"Bringing Up Baby" (1937), Hagar Wilde	Bringing Up Baby (1938)
"Broadway Gold" (1922), William Carey Wonderly	Broadway Gold (1923)
"Brokeback Mountain" (1997), Annie Proulx	Brokeback Mountain (2005)
"Brother Orchid" (1938), Richard Connell	Brother Orchid (1940)

C

Short fiction	Film adaptation(s)
Cabal (1988), Clive Barker	Nightbreed (1990)
"Caballero of the Law" (1933), Ben Hecht	Crime Without Passion (1934)
"A Call from Mitch Miller" (1956), Mary Agnes Thompson	Loving You (1957)
"The Call of Cthulhu" (1928), H. P. Lovecraft	The Call of Cthulhu (2005)
"A Call on the President" (1934), Damon Runyon	Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939)
"The Captives" (1955), Elmore Leonard	The Tall T (1957)
Career in C Major (1938), James M. Cain	Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
	Everybody Does It (1949)
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1941), H. P. Lovecraft	The Haunted Palace (1963)
	The Resurrected (1992)
"The Cat from Hell" (1977), Stephen King	Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
"Chattery Teeth" (1992), Stephen King	Quicksilver Highway (1997)
"Children of the Corn" (1977), Stephen King	Children of the Corn (1984)
	Children of the Corn (2009)
"Children on Their Birthdays" (1948), Truman Capote	Children on Their Birthdays (2002)
"The Chink and the Child" (1928), Thomas Burke	Broken Blossoms (1919)
	Broken Blossoms (1936)
"Christmas '59" (1980), John Hughes	National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
A Christmas Carol (1843), Charles Dickens	The Right to Be Happy (1916)
	Scrooge (1935)
	A Christmas Carol (1938)
	A Christmas Carol (Spanish: Leyenda de Navidad) (1947)
	Scrooge (1951)
	A Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
	Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1964)
	A Christmas Carol (1969)
	Scrooge (1970)
	A Christmas Carol (1977)
	Rich Little's Christmas Carol (1978)
	The Stingiest Man in Town (1978)
	An American Christmas Carol (1979)
	A Christmas Carol (1982)
	A Christmas Carol (1984)
	Scrooged (1988)
	The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
	A Christmas Carol (1994)
	A Flintstones Christmas Carol (1994)
	A Christmas Carol (1997)
	An All Dogs Christmas Carol (1998)
	Ebenezer (1998)
	A Christmas Carol (1999)
	A Diva's Christmas Carol (2000)
	A Christmas Carol (2000)
	Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001)
	A Carol Christmas (2003)
	A Christmas Carol (2004)
	A Christmas Carol (2006)
	Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas (2006)
	A Sesame Street Christmas Carol (2006)
	An American Carol (2008)
	Barbie in A Christmas Carol (2008)
	A Christmas Carol (2009)
	A Christmas Carol (2012)
	A Christmas Carol (2015)
	The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
	A Christmas Carol (2018; directed by Tom Cairns)
	A Christmas Carol (2018; directed by David Izatt) (TV)
	The Passion of Scrooge (2018)
	Spirited (2022)
	Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022)
"The Christmas Cross" (1998), Max Lucado	Christmas Child (2003)
"Christmas Eve at Pilot Butte" (1921), Courtney Ryley Cooper	Desperate Trails (1921)
"Comet Over Broadway" (1937), Faith Baldwin	Comet Over Broadway (1938)
"The Commandos" (1942), C. S. Forester	Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)
"Cool Air" (1928), H. P. Lovecraft	Cool Air (1999)
"The Corpse Next Door" (1937), Cornell Woolrich	Union City (1980)
"Count Pete" (1935), Francis M. Cockrell	Walking on Air (1936)
"Courtin' Calamity" (1917), William Dudley Pelley	The Sawdust Trail (1924)
	Courtin' Wildcats (1929)
"The Coward" (1920), Arthur Stringer	The Coward (1927)
"The Crate" (1979), Stephen King	Creepshow (1982)
"Criminal's Mark" (1950), John Hawkins and Ward Hawkins	Crime Wave (1954)
"Crosstown" (1945), George Zuckerman	99 River Street (1953)
"The Cruise of the Prairie Queen" (1947), D. D. Beauchamp	Leave It to Henry (1949)
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (1922), F. Scott Fitzgerald	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Cycle of the Werewolf (1983), Stephen King	Silver Bullet (1985)

D

Short fiction	Film adaptation(s)
"The Dancing Girl" (舞姫, Maihime) (1890), Mori Ōgai	Shishi no Gotoku (1978)
	The Dancer (1989)
"The Dancing Girl of Izu" (伊豆の踊子, Izu no odoriko) (1926), Yasunari Kawabata	The Dancing Girl of Izu (1933)
	The Dancing Girl of Izu (1954)
	The Dancing Girl of Izu (1960)
	The Dancing Girl of Izu (1963)
	The Dancing Girl of Izu (1966)
	The Dancing Girl of Izu (1974)
"The Dead" (1914), James Joyce	The Dead (1987)
"The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1936), Stephen Vincent Benét	The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
	Shortcut to Happiness (2003)
"The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye" (1994), A. S. Byatt	Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)
"The Dock Walloper", John Monk Saunders	The Docks of New York, 1928
"Don Juan DeMarco and the Centerfold", Jeremy Leven	Don Juan DeMarco (1995)
"Don't Look Now" (1970), Daphne du Maurier	Don't Look Now (1973)
"The Doubters" (1950), George Tabori	Crisis (1950)
Dream Story (German: Traumnovelle) (1926), Arthur Schnitzler	Dream Story (1969) (TV)
	The Knight, Death and the Devil (Italian: Il cavaliere, la morte e il diavolo) (1989)
	Nightmare in Venice (Italian: Ad un passo dall'aurora) (1989)
	Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
"Drive My Car" (2013), Haruki Murakami	Drive My Car (2021)
"The Duel" (1908), Joseph Conrad	The Duellists (1977)

E

Short fiction	Film adaptation(s)
"Eagle Squadron" (1941), C. S. Forester	Eagle Squadron (1942)
"Eight O'Clock in the Morning" (1963), Ray Nelson	They Live (1988)
"Eisenheim the Illusionist" (1990), Steven Millhauser	The Illusionist (2006)
"Empire of the Ants" (1905), H. G. Wells	Empire of the Ants (1977)
"The Enemy" (1951), Charlotte Armstrong	Talk About a Stranger (1952)
Enemy Mine (1979), Barry B. Longyear	Enemy Mine (1985)
"Enough for Happiness" (1951), D. D. Beauchamp	She Couldn't Say No (1954)
"Escape from Spiderhead" (2010), George Saunders	Spiderhead (2022)

F

Short fiction	Film adaptation(s)
"The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839), Edgar Allan Poe	The Fall of the House of Usher (French: La chute de la maison Usher) (1928)
	The Fall of the House of Usher (1950)
	House of Usher (1960)
	Satan of All Horrors (Spanish: Satanás de todos los horrores) (1974)
	The Fall of the House of Usher (1982)
	Revenge in the House of Usher (1982)
	The House of Usher (1989)
	The Fall of the Louse of Usher (2002)
	Descendant (2003)
	Usher (2004)
	The House of Usher (2006)
	House of Usher (2008)
	Extraordinary Tales (2013)
	Fall of the House of Usher (2014)
	The Fall of Usher (2021)
A Far-Off Place (1974), Laurens van der Post	A Far Off Place (1993)
"Farewell to the Master" (1940), Harry Bates	The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
	The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
"The Fashion Plate" (1932), Harry Collins and Warren B. Duff	Fashions of 1934 (1934)
"Fifty-two Weeks for Florette" (1921), Elizabeth Alexander	You Belong to Me (1934)
"The Five Orange Pips" (1891), Arthur Conan Doyle	The House of Fear (1945)
"Floating Water" (浮遊する水, "Fuyū Suru Mizu") (1996), Koji Suzuki	Dark Water (2002)
	Dark Water (2005)
Flowers for Algernon (1959), Daniel Keyes	Charly (1968)
	Flowers for Algernon (2000)
	Flowers for Algernon (French: Des fleurs pour Algernon) (2006)
	Flowers for Algernon (2014)
"The Fly" (1957), George Langelaan	The Fly (1958)
	Return of the Fly (1959)
	Curse of the Fly (1965)
	The Fly (1986)
	The Fly II (1989)
"The Fog Horn" (1952), Ray Bradbury	The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
The Forged Coupon (Russian: Фальшивый купон, Fal'shivyi kupon) (1911), Leo Tolstoy	L'Argent (1983)
	Frozen Land (Finnish: Paha maa) (2005)
"For Your Eyes Only" (1960), Ian Fleming	For Your Eyes Only (1981)
The Fox (1923), D. H. Lawrence	The Fox (1967)
"From a View to a Kill" (1960), Ian Fleming	A View to a Kill (1985)
"From Beyond" (1934), H. P. Lovecraft	From Beyond (1986)
"Frontier Frenzy" (1954), John Reese	The Young Land (1959)

G

Short fiction	Film adaptation(s)
"A Gentle Creature" (Russian: Кроткая, Krotkaya; 1876), Fyodor Dostoyevsky	Krotkaya (1962)
	Une femme douce (1969)
	Łagodna (1995)
	Nazar (1989)
	The Shade (1963)
"The Gentleman from Paris" (1950), John Dickson Carr	The Man with a Cloak (1951)
"The Golden Man" (1953), Philip K. Dick	Next (2007)
"Ghost Walker" (2004), Ian MacKenzie Jeffers	The Grey (2011)
"The Gift of Cochise" (1952), Louis L'Amour	Hondo (1953)
Gigi (1944), Colette	Gigi (1949)
	Gigi (1958)
Goodbye, Columbus (1959), Philip Roth	Goodbye, Columbus (1969)
"The Gossamer World" (1948), Faith Baldwin	Queen for a Day (1951)
"Graveyard Shift" (1970), Stephen King	Graveyard Shift (1990)
"The Greatest Gift" (written 1939; published 1943), Philip Van Doren Stern	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
	It Happened One Christmas (1977)
	Clarence (1990)
"Gun Crazy" (1940), MacKinlay Kantor	Gun Crazy (1950)

H

Short fiction	Film adaptation(s)
"Happy Dan, the Cynical Dog" (1945), Ward Greene	Lady and the Tramp (1955)
	Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure (2000)
	Lady and the Tramp (2019)
"The Hairless Mexican" (1928), W. Somerset Maugham	Secret Agent (1936)
"Harrison Bergeron" (1961), Kurt Vonnegut Jr.	Between Time and Timbuktu (1972)
	Harrison Bergeron (1995)
"He That Is Without Sin" (1916), May Edginton	The Love Auction (1919)
"The Heart is Young" (1930), May Edginton	The False Madonna (1931)
Heart of Darkness (serialised 1899, published as a book 1903), Joseph Conrad	Apocalypse Now (1979)
	Heart of Darkness (1993)
"Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling" (1999), Stephen King	Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
"Heartbreak" (1940), Leslie Bush-Fekete	Appointment for Love (1941)
The Hellbound Heart (1986), Clive Barker	Hellraiser (1987)
"High Diver" (1948), John Ashworth	Queen for a Day (1951)
"The Horla" (French: "Le Horla") (1887), Guy de Maupassant	Diary of a Madman (1963)
"A Horse for Mrs. Custer" (1955), Glendon Swarthout	7th Cavalry (1956)
"Horsie" (1932), Dorothy Parker	Queen for a Day (1951)

I

Short fiction	Film adaptation(s)
"Idgah" (1938), Munshi Premchand	5 Rupya (2017)
"Impostor" (1953), Philip K. Dick	Impostor (2002)
"In Conference" (1933), Vera Caspary	Private Scandal (1934)
"The Interruption" (1925), W.W. Jacobs	Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
"Inventing the Abbotts" (1987), Sue Miller	Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
"It Had to Be Murder" (1942), Cornell Woolrich	Rear Window (1954)
	Rear Window (1998)

J

Short fiction	Film adaptation(s)
"Jan of the Jungle" (1931), Otis Adelbert Kline	The Call of the Savage (1935)
"Johnny Mnemonic" (1981), William Gibson	Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
"Journal of Linnett Moore" (1947), James Edward Grant	The Proud Rebel (1958)
"Journey at Sunrise" (1946), D. D. Beauchamp	Father Makes Good (1950)
"The Joy Girl" (1926), May Edginton	The Joy Girl (1927)
"Judgement" (1924), May Edginton	Her Husband's Secret (1925)
Junior Miss (1941), Sally Benson	Junior Miss (1945)

K

Short fiction	Film adaptation(s)
"The Killers" (1927), Ernest Hemingway	The Killers (1946)
	The Killers (1956)
	The Killers (1964)
"Killings" (1979), Andre Dubus	In the Bedroom (2001)
"Killing a Mouse on Sunday" (1961), Emeric Pressburger	Behold a Pale Horse (1964)

L

Short fiction	Film adaptation(s)
"Ladies in Lavender" (1908) William Locke	Ladies in Lavender (2004) Charles Dance
"A Lady Comes to Burkburnett" (1939), James Edward Grant	Boom Town (1940)
"The Lady with the Dog" (Russian: "Дама с собачкой", Dama s sobachkoy; 1899), Anton Chekhov	The Lady with the Dog (1960)
	Dark Eyes (1987)
The Langoliers (1990), Stephen King	The Langoliers (1995; TV miniseries)
"The Lawnmower Man" (1975), Stephen King	The Lawnmower Man (1992)
	Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996)
"The Ledge" (1976), Stephen King	Cat's Eye (1985)
"The Ledger of Life" (1922), George Pattullo	Private Affairs (1925)
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), Washington Irving	The Headless Horseman (1922)
	The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
	The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1980)
	The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1988)
	The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1999)
	Sleepy Hollow (1999)
	The Night of the Headless Horseman (1999)
	The Haunted Pumpkin of Sleepy Hollow (2003)
	The Hollow (2004)
"Leiningen Versus the Ants" (1938), Carl Stephenson	The Naked Jungle (1954)
"Lisbon" (1950), Martin Rackin	Lisbon (1956)
"Little Bear Bongo" (1936), Sinclair Lewis	Fun and Fancy Free (1947)
"The Living Daylights" (1962), Ian Fleming	The Living Daylights (1987)
"The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (1959), Alan Sillitoe	The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
"Lot No. 249" (1892), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
"The Luck of Roaring Camp" (1868), Bret Harte	The Luck of Roaring Camp (1909)
	The Luck of Roaring Camp (1911)
	Four of the Apocalypse (1975)
"The Lurking Fear" (publ. 1923), H. P. Lovecraft	Dark Heritage (1989)
	The Lurking Fear (1994)
	Bleeders (1997)

M

Short fiction	Film adaptation(s)
"Madame la Gimp" (1929), Damon Runyon	Lady for a Day (1933)
	Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
	Miracles (1989)
"Madman's Holiday" (1943), Fredric Brown	Crack-Up (1946)
"A Man Called Horse" (1950), Dorothy M. Johnson	A Man Called Horse (1970)
	The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976)
	Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1983)
"The Man Who Would Be King" (1888), Rudyard Kipling	The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
"The Man Who Could Work Miracles" (1898), H.G. Wells	The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
"A Man Without a Country" (1939), Noel Monkman	The Power and the Glory (1941)
"The Mangler" (1972), Stephen King	The Mangler (1995)
	The Mangler 2 (2001)
	The Mangler Reborn (2005)
"Memento Mori" (1996), Jonathan Nolan	Memento (2000)
"Mimsy Were the Borogoves" (1943), Lewis Padgett	The Last Mimzy (2007)
"The Minority Report" (1956), Philip K. Dick	Minority Report (2002)
"Miss Thompson" (a.k.a. "Rain"; 1951), W. Somerset Maugham	Sadie Thompson (1928)
	Rain (1932)
	Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.(1946)
	Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)
The Mist (1980), Stephen King	The Mist (2007)
"Malloy Campeador" (1921), Ralph G. Kirk	The Scrapper (1922)
"Morpho Eugenia" (1992), A. S. Byatt	Angels & Insects (1996)
"The Most Dangerous Game" (1924), Richard Connell	The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
	A Game of Death (1945)
	The Dangerous Game (1953)
	Run for the Sun (1956)
	Bloodlust! (1961)
	The Naked Prey (1965)
	The Woman Hunt (1973)
	Mottomo kiken na yuugi (1978)
	Turkey Shoot (1982)
	Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity (1987)
	Deadly Prey (1988)
	Lethal Woman (1988)
	Death Ring (1992)
	Hard Target (1993)
	Surviving the Game (1994)
	The Pest (1997)
	The Tournament (2009)
	Naked Fear (2007)
	Taxidermy (2011)

N

Short fiction	Film adaptation(s)
Nick Adams (1924–1933) (series), Ernest Hemingway	Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
"Night Bus" (1933), Samuel Hopkins Adams	It Happened One Night (1934)
	You Can't Run Away from It (1956)
"The Night Flier" (1988), Stephen King	The Night Flier (1997)
"The Night of the Iguana" (1948), Tennessee Williams	The Night of the Iguana (1964)
"The Night Runner" (1955), Owen Cameron	The Night Runner (1957)
"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (1961), Richard Matheson	Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
"Now You See It" (1946), Roy Huggins	The Fuller Brush Man (1948)
"The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (German: Nussknacker und Mausekönig) (1816), E. T. A. Hoffmann	Fantasia (1940)
	The Enchanted Nutcracker (1961)
	The Nutcracker (1965)
	The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик) (1973)
	Nutcracker Fantasy (1979)
	Nutcracker: The Motion Picture (1986)
	Care Bears Nutcracker Suite (1988)
	The Nutcracker Prince (1990)
	George Balanchine's The Nutcracker (1993)
	The Nutcracker (1993)
	The Nuttiest Nutcracker (1999)
	Barbie in the Nutcracker (2001)
	The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (2004)
	Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale (2007)
	The Secret of the Nutcracker (2007)
	The Nutcracker in 3D (2010)
	The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)

O

Short fiction	Film adaptation(s)
"Octopussy" (1965), Ian Fleming	Octopussy (1983)
"Odd Thursday" (1932), Vera Caspary	Such Women Are Dangerous (1934)
"Old Joy" (2004), Jonathan Raymond	Old Joy (2006)
"Opera Hat" (1935), Clarence Budington Kelland	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
	Mr. Deeds (2002)
"Out of the Blue" (1947), Vera Caspary	Out of the Blue (1947)
"The Outcasts of Poker Flat" (1869), Bret Harte	The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1919)
	The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1937)
	The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1952)
	Four of the Apocalypse (Italian: I quattro dell'apocalisse) (1975)
"The Outsider" (1926), H. P. Lovecraft	Castle Freak (1995)

P

Short fiction	Film adaptation(s)
"The Palace Thief" (1994), Ethan Canin	The Emperor's Club (2002)
"Paycheck" (1953), Philip K. Dick	Paycheck (2003)
"Pete's Dragon and the USA (Forever After)", Seton I. Miller and S.S. Field	Pete's Dragon (1977) Pete's Dragon (2016)
Portrait of Jennie (1940), Robert Nathan	Portrait of Jennie (1948)
"The Postmaster" (or "The Post Office"; 1914) * "Monihara (The Lost Jewels)" (1891) ** "Samapti (The Conclusion)" (1892)	Teen Kanya ('Three Daughters'; 1961)
"The Princess of Montpensier" (1662), Madame de La Fayette	The Princess of Montpensier (2011)
"Purple and Fine Linen" (1926), May Edginton	Three Hours (1937) Adventure in Manhattan (1936)

Q

Short fiction	Film adaptation(s)
"Quitters, Inc." (1978), Stephen King	Cat's Eye (1985)
	No Smoking (2007)

R

Short fiction	Film adaptation(s)
"The Racer" (1956), Ib Melchior	Death Race 2000 (1975)
	Death Race (2008)
	Death Race 2 (2011)
	Death Race 3: Inferno (2012)
	Death Race 2050 (2017)
	Death Race: Beyond Anarchy (2018)
"The Raft" (1982), Stephen King	Creepshow 2 (1987)
"The Rainmaker" (1949), D. D. Beauchamp	Henry, the Rainmaker (1949)
"Random Quest" (1961), John Wyndham	Quest for Love (1971)
	Random Quest (2006)
"The Reformer and the Redhead" (1949), Robert Carson	The Reformer and the Redhead (1950)
"The Reign of the Superman" (1933), Jerry Siegel	Superman franchise (1938–present)
"The Return" (written 1897, published 1898), Joseph Conrad	Gabrielle (2005)
Riding the Bullet (2000), Stephen King	Riding the Bullet (2004)
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (1982), Stephen King	The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
"Roller Ball Murder" (1973), William Harrison	Rollerball (1975)
	Rollerball (2002)
Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner (2000), F.X. Toole	Million Dollar Baby (2004)
"R.S.V.P" (1950), Jerome Weidman	Invitation (1952)
"Ruidoso" (1974), John McPhee	Casey's Shadow (1978)
"Running for Rooney" (1928), Sam Hellman	The Dark Horse (1946)
Rust and Bone (2005), Craig Davidson	Rust and Bone (2012)

S

Short fiction	Film adaptation(s)
"Sardonicus" (1961), Ray Russell	Mr. Sardonicus (1961)
"Saw" (2003), James Wan	Saw (2004)
"Second Chance" (1948), Faith Baldwin	Second Chance (1950)
"Second Variety" (1953), Philip K. Dick	Screamers (1995)
	Screamers: The Hunting (2009)
"Secretary" (1989), Mary Gaitskill	Secretary (2002)
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1939), James Thurber	The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
	The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
Secret Window, Secret Garden (1990), Stephen King	Secret Window (2004)
"Secrets" (1918), May Edginton	Secrets (1924)
	Secrets (1933)
"See How They Run" (1951), Mary Elizabeth Vroman	Bright Road (1953)
The Seed and the Sower (1963), Laurens van der Post	Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
"The Self-Made Wife" (1922), Elizabeth Alexander	The Self-Made Wife (1923)
"The Sentinel" (or "Sentinel of Eternity") (1951), Arthur C. Clarke	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
"The Shadow Over Innsmouth" (1936), H. P. Lovecraft	Lemora (1973)
	Dagon (2001)
	Cthulhu (2007)
"Shopgirl" (2000), Steve Martin	Shopgirl (2005)
"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (1936), Ernest Hemingway	The Macomber Affair (1947)
"The Silver Mask" (1932), Hugh Walpole	Kind Lady (1935)
	Kind Lady (1951)
"A Situation of Gravity" (1957), Samuel W. Taylor	The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
	Son of Flubber (1963)
	The Absent-Minded Professor (1988)
	The Absent-Minded Professor: Trading Places (1989)
	Flubber (1997)
"Shatranj ke Khiladi", Munshi Premchand	The Chess Players, 1977
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1936), Ernest Hemingway	The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
	The Snows of Kilimanjaro (2011)
"The Sobbin' Women" (1938), Stephen Vincent Benét	Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
"Sometimes They Come Back" (1974), Stephen King	Sometimes They Come Back (1991)
	Sometimes They Come Back... Again (1996)
	Sometimes They Come Back... for More (1998)
"Spinster Dinner" (1934), Faith Baldwin	Love Before Breakfast (1936)
"Spurs" (1923), Tod Robbins	Freaks (1932)
"St. Dragon and the George" (1957), Gordon R. Dickson	The Flight of Dragons (1982)
"Starr of the Southwest" (1936), Cherry Wilson	Sandflow (1937)
"The Statement of Randolph Carter" (1920), H. P. Lovecraft	The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1993)
	13:de mars, 1941 (2004)
	Kammaren (2007)
	The Testimony of Randolph Carter (2009)
"The Star" (Russian: Звезда, romanized: Zvezda) (1947), Emmanuil G. Kazakevich	The Star (1949)
	The Star (2002)
"Steel" (1956), Richard Matheson	Real Steel (2011)
"A Story Like the Wind" (1972), Laurens van der Post	A Far Off Place (1993)
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Robert Louis Stevenson	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
	The Head of Janus (German: Der Januskopf) (1920)
	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
	The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951)
	The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957)
	The Doctor's Horrible Experiment (French: Le Testament du docteur Cordelier) (1959)
	The Ugly Duckling (1959)
	The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)
	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968)
	Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)
	I, Monster (1971)
	Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo (1972)
	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1973)
	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1981)
	Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again (1982)
	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1985)
	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1986)
	Edge of Sanity (1989)
	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1989)
	Jekyll & Hyde (1990) (TV)
	Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1995)
	Mary Reilly (1996)
	Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1999)
	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2002)
	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2006)
	Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (2008)
"Suburbs" (1930), Vera Caspary	Scandal Street (1938)
"The Summons" (1914), George Pattullo	The First Degree (1923)
"Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" (1969), Brian Aldiss	A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
"The Swimmer" (1964), John Cheever	The Swimmer (1968)

T

Short fiction	Film adaptation(s)
Tales of the South Pacific (1947), James A. Michener	South Pacific (1958)
	South Pacific (2001)
Takekurabe (たけくらべ) (1895–96), Ichiyō Higuchi	Takekurabe (1924)
	Takekurabe (1955)
"There Shall Be No Darkness" (1950), James Blish	The Beast Must Die (1974)
"Third Girl from the Right" (1949), Robert Carson	Ain't Misbehavin' (1951)
The Third Man (1948), Graham Greene	The Third Man (1949)
"The Thought Monster" (1930), Amelia Reynolds Long	Fiend Without a Face (1958)
"Tonī Takitani" (1990), Haruki Murakami	Tony Takitani (2004)
"Toomai of the Elephants" (1894), Rudyard Kipling	Elephant Boy (1937)
"Train Choir" (2008), Jonathan Raymond	Wendy and Lucy (2008)
"The Traitor" (1928), W. Somerset Maugham	Secret Agent (1936)
"Trucks" (1973), Stephen King	Maximum Overdrive (1986)
	Trucks (1997)
The Turn of the Screw (1898), Henry James	Matinee Theater (1957)
	The Turn of the Screw (1959/I; TV)
	The Turn of the Screw (1959/II; TV)
	The Innocents (1961)
	Die sündigen Engel (1962)
	The Nightcomers (1971)
	Le tour d'écrou (1974)
	The Turn of the Screw (1974)
	The Turn of the Screw (1982)
	Otra vuelta de tuerca (1985)
	Nightmare Classics: The Turn of the Screw (1989; TV)
	The Turn of the Screw - Die Drehung der Schraube (1990; TV)
	The Turn of the Screw (1992)
	The Turn of the Screw (1994)
	The Haunting of Helen Walker (a.k.a. The Turn of the Screw) (1995)
	Presence of Mind (1999)
	The Turn of the Screw (1999)
	Le tour d'écrou (2001)
	The Others (Spanish: Los otros) (2001)
	The Turn of the Screw (2003)
	In a Dark Place (2006)
	The Turn of the Screw (2009)
	The Turn of the Screw 3D (2013)
"Twenty Minutes" (1988), James Salter	Boys (1992)
"Two Bad Hats" (1937), Monckton Hoffe	The Lady Eve (1941)
	The Birds and the Bees (1956)

U

Short fiction	Film adaptation(s)
"The Undefeated" (1996), Irvine Welsh	Ecstasy (2009)
"United States Flavor" (1924), Ralph G. Kirk	Men of Steel (1926)
"The Unnamable" (1925), H. P. Lovecraft	The Unnamable (1988)
Up at the Villa (1941), W. Somerset Maugham	Up at the Villa (2000)

V

Short fiction	Film adaptation(s)
"Vacation '58" (1979), John Hughes	National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
"The Vessel of Wrath" (1931), W. Somerset Maugham	Vessel of Wrath (1938)
	The Beachcomber (1954)
	The Vessel of Wrath (1970)
	Wilson's Reward (1980)
Vigil in the Night (1939), A. J. Cronin	Vigil in the Night (1940)
The Virgin and the Gypsy (written 1926, published 1930), D. H. Lawrence	The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970)

W

Short fiction	Film adaptation(s)
"The Wax Works" (1930), Charles Spencer Belden	Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
	House of Wax (1953)
	House of Wax (2005)
"We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (1966), Philip K. Dick	Total Recall (1990)
	Total Recall (2012)
"We Don't Live Here Anymore" (1975), Andre Dubus	We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)
"Weeds" (1976), Stephen King	Creepshow (1982)
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (1966), Joyce Carol Oates	Smooth Talk (1985)
"The Whipsaw" (1934), James Edward Grant	Whipsaw (1935)
"White Nights" (Russian: Белые ночи, romanized: Belye nochi) (1848), Fyodor Dostoyevsky	White Nights (Italian: Le notti bianche, French: Nuits blanches) (1957)
	White Nights (1959)
	Chhalia (1960)
	Four Nights of a Dreamer (French: Quatre nuits d'un rêveur) (1971)
	White Nights (1992)
	White Nights (Persian: شب‌های روشن) (2003)
	Iyarkai (2003)
	White Nights (2005)
	Ahista Ahista (2006)
	Saawariya (2007)
	Two Lovers (2009)
	White Nights on the Pier (French: Nuits blanches sur la jetée) (2014)
	White Nights (Malayalam: വെളുത്ത രാത്രികൾ, Velutha Rathrikal) (2015)
"Who Am I This Time?" (1961), Kurt Vonnegut	Who Am I This Time? (1982)
Who Goes There? (1938), John W. Campbell, Jr.	The Thing from Another World (1951)
	The Thing (1982)
	The Thing (2011)
"Wife Versus Secretary" (1935), Faith Baldwin	Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
"The Wisdom of Eve" (1946), Mary Orr	All About Eve (1950)
"The Wonderful Race at Rimrock" (1946), D. D. Beauchamp	Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' (1948)
"The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap" (1947), William Bowers and D. D. Beauchamp	The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947)
"World Without End" (1925), May Edginton	His Supreme Moment (1925)

Y

Short fiction	Film adaptation(s)
"Your Arkansas Traveler" (1955), Budd Schulberg	A Face in the Crowd (1957)
"Youth Without Youth" (Romanian: "Tinereţe fără tinereţe") (1976), Mircea Eliade	Youth Without Youth (2007)

Z

Short fiction	Film adaptation(s)
Zorro (1919–1959) (series), Johnston McCulley	The Mark of Zorro (1920)
	Don Q, Son of Zorro (1925)
	In the Way of Zorro (French: À la manière de Zorro, Dutch: Op Zorro wize) (1926)
	The Bold Caballero (1936)
	Zorro Rides Again (1937)
	The Mark of Zorro (1940)
	Zorro's Fighting Legion (1939)
	Zorro's Black Whip (1944)
	Son of Zorro (1947)
	The Grandson of Zorro (Spanish: El nieto del zorro) (1948)
	Ghost of Zorro (1949)
	The Dream of Zorro (Italian: Il sogno di Zorro ) (1952)
	Lawless Mountain (Spanish: La montaña sin ley) (1953)
	The Sign of Zorro (1957)
	El Jinete solitario (1958)
	El jinete solitario en el valle de los buitres (1958)
	El Zorro escarlata en la venganza del ahorcado (1958)
	The Return of the Monster (Spanish: El regreso del monstruo) (1959)
	El Zorro escarlata en diligencia fantasma (1959)
	Zorro, the Avenger (1959)
	Zorro: El Bandido (1960)
	Zorro: Adios El Cuchillo (1960)
	Zorro in the Valley of Ghosts (Spanish: El jinete solitario en el valle de los desaparecidos) (1960)
	Northern Courier (Spanish: El correo del norte) (1960)
	Zorro: The Postponed Wedding (1961)
	Zorro: Auld Acquaintance (1961)
	La máscara de la muerte (1961)
	La trampa mortal (1962)
	La venganza de la Sombra (1962)
	El Zorro Vengador (1962)
	Zorro at the Spanish Court (Italian: Zorro alla corte di Spagna) (1962)
	Zorro the Avenger (Spanish: La venganza del Zorro, Italian: Zorro il vendicatore) (1962)
	The Shadow of Zorro (Spanish: Cabalgando hacia la muerte; Italian: L'ombra di Zorro) (1962)
	The Three Swords of Zorro (Italian: Le tre spade di Zorro) (1963)
	Zorro and the Three Musketeers (Italian: Zorro e i tre moschettieri) (1963)
	Samson and the Slave Queen (Italian: Zorro contro Maciste) (1963)
	Duel at the Rio Grande (1963)
	The Daughters of Zorro (Spanish: Las hijas del Zorro) (1964)
	The Invinicibles (Spanish: Las hijas del Zorro) (1964)
	Behind the Mask of Zorro (Spanish: E Zorro cabalga otra vez, Italian: Il Giuramento di Zorro) (1965)
	Zorro the Rebel (Italian: Zorro il ribelle) (1966)
	Zorro the Fox (Spanish: El Zorro, Italian: La Volpe) (1968)
	The Nephews of Zorro (Italian: I nipoti di Zorro) (1968)
	Zorro, the Navarra Marquis (Italian: Zorro marchese di Navarra) (1969)
	Zorro in the Court of England (Italian: Zorro alla corte d'Inghilterra) (1969)
	Zorro's Latest Adventure (Spanish: La última aventura del Zorro, Italian: Zorro il dominatore) (1969)
	Zorro Kamçılı Süvari (1969)
	Zorro'nun İntikamı (1970)
	Zorro, Rider of Vengeance (Italian: Zorro, il cavaliere della vendetta) (1971)
	Zorro the Invincible (Italian: Zorro, la maschera della vendetta) (1971)
	The Avenger, Zorro (Spanish: El Zorro justiciero, Italian: E continuavano a chiamarlo figlio di...) (1972)
	The Erotic Adventures of Zorro (1972)
	Red Hot Zorro (French: Les aventures galantes de Zorro) (1972)
	Man with the Golden Winchester (Italian: Il figlio di Zorro, Spanish: El hijo del Zorro) (1973)
	The Mark of Zorro (1974)
	The Great Adventure of Zorro (Spanish: La gran aventura del Zorro) (1974)
	Grandson of Zorro (1975)
	Zorro (1975; Italian)
	Zorro (1975; Hindi)
	Mark of Zorro (Italian: Ah sì? E io lo dico a Zzzzorro!) (1975)
	Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981)
	The Mask of Zorro (1998)
	The Amazing Zorro (2002)
	The Legend of Zorro (2005)

See also

• Lists of literature made into feature films
  • Lists of works of fiction made into feature films
  • List of children's books made into feature films
  • List of non-fiction works made into feature films
  • List of comics and comic strips made into feature films
  • List of plays adapted into feature films