Films based on adventure novels

2007 film directed by Chris Weitz

The Princess Bride is a 1987 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner and starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, André the Giant, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, Peter Falk, Fred Savage, Billy Crystal and Carol Kane. Adapted by William Goldman from his novel of the same name, it tells the story of a swashbuckling farmhand named Westley, accompanied by companions befriended along the way, who must rescue his kidnapped true love Princess Buttercup from the evil Prince Humperdinck. The film preserves the novel's metafictional narrative style by presenting the story as a book being read by a grandfather to his sick grandson.

2007 film directed by Doug Lefler

2005 film directed by Breck Eisner

1979 film by Irwin Allen

1993 film directed by Stephen Sommers

2022 film directed by Sean McNamara

1980 film directed by Michael Ritchie

1962 film by Robert Stevenson

1973 film by Joseph McGrath

1948 film by Gordon Douglas

1926 film by George W. Hill

1918 film by David Smith