Category
page 1American films based on plays
The Lion King
1994 animated film directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff
Casablanca
1942 film directed by Michael Curtiz
Lawrence of Arabia
1962 film directed by David Lean
Peter Pan
1953 animated fantasy-adventure film by Disney
Amadeus
1984 film directed by Miloš Forman
Chicago
2002 film by Rob Marshall
Tootsie
Tootsie is a 1982 American satirical romantic comedy film directed by Sydney Pollack from a screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal and a story by Gelbart and Don McGuire. It stars Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, and Charles Durning. In the film, Michael Dorsey (Hoffman), a talented actor with a reputation for being professionally difficult, runs into romantic trouble after adopting a female persona to land a job.
The Lion King
2019 film directed by Jon Favreau
The Birth of a Nation
1915 film directed by D. W. Griffith
Moonlight
2016 film directed by Barry Jenkins
Driving Miss Daisy
1989 film directed by Bruce Beresford
Sabrina
1954 film directed by Billy Wilder
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951 film directed by Elia Kazan
Finding Neverland
2004 historical fantasy drama film by Marc Forster
Grand Hotel
1932 film directed by Edmund Goulding
Closer
2004 film directed by Mike Nichols
The Jazz Singer
1927 film by Alan Crosland
You've Got Mail
1998 film by Nora Ephron
Rope
1948 film by Alfred Hitchcock
Frankenstein
1931 film directed by James Whale
A Few Good Men
A Few Good Men is a 1992 American legal drama film, produced and directed by Rob Reiner and written by Aaron Sorkin, who adapted his 1989 play. It stars an ensemble cast including Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Pollak, J. T. Walsh, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Kiefer Sutherland. The plot follows the court-martial of two U.S. Marines charged with the murder of a fellow Marine and the tribulations of their lawyers as they prepare a case.
Dial M for Murder
1954 film by Alfred Hitchcock
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958 American drama film directed by Richard Brooks
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
2002 film by Joel Zwick
Cavalcade
1933 film by Frank Lloyd
Dracula
1931 film directed by Tod Browning
The Great Train Robbery
1903 American silent short Western film directed by Edwin Stanton Porter
You Can't Take It With You
1938 film by Frank Capra
A Place in the Sun
1951 film by George Stevens
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966 film directed by Mike Nichols
Witness for the Prosecution
1957 American film directed by Billy Wilder
Doubt
2008 film by John Patrick Shanley
Gaslight
1944 film by George Cukor
Frost/Nixon
2008 film by Ron Howard
The Philadelphia Story
1940 film by George Cukor
Romeo + Juliet
1996 film directed by Baz Luhrmann
Oliver!
1968 film directed by Carol Reed
The Seven Year Itch
1955 film directed by Billy Wilder
Marvin's Room
1996 film by Jerry Zaks
The Two Popes
2019 film directed by Fernando Meirelles
The Whale
2022 film directed by Darren Aronofsky
Beasts of the Southern Wild
2012 film directed by Benh Zeitlin
Dreamgirls
2006 film by Bill Condon
Dangerous Liaisons
1988 film by Stephen Frears
Born Yesterday
1950 film directed by George Cukor
How to Marry a Millionaire
1953 film by Jean Negulesco
On Golden Pond
1981 film by Mark Rydell
A Bronx Tale
1993 film directed by Robert De Niro
Return to Never Land
2002 American animated film
The Ides of March
2011 film directed by George Clooney
Seventh Heaven
1927 film directed by Frank Borzage
Jezebel
1938 film by William Wyler
The Awful Truth
1937 film by Leo McCarey
The Heiress
1949 American drama film directed by William Wyler
August: Osage County
2013 film directed by John Wells
Harvey
1950 film by Henry Koster
Peter Pan
2003 children's film directed by P. J. Hogan
Fences
2016 film by Denzel Washington
His Girl Friday
1940 film by Howard Hawks
Children of a Lesser God
1986 film by Randa Haines