Films based on American novels

1994 film directed by Robert Zemeckis

1999 film directed by David Fincher

1939 film directed by Victor Fleming

2007 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

1975 film directed by Miloš Forman

2011 film by Rob Marshall

1990 film by Francis Ford Coppola

Shutter Island is a 2010 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese. The screenplay was adapted by Laeta Kalogridis from the 2003 novel by Dennis Lehane. It follows Deputy U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels and his partner Chuck, who come to the fictional Shutter Island in Boston Harbor to investigate its criminal psychiatric facility after one of its patients goes missing; Daniels has his own ulterior motives for taking the case. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo, with Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow and Michelle Williams in supporting roles.

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, it was primarily directed by Victor Fleming, who left production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind. The screenplay is credited to Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf, but includes contributions from other writers. The film stars Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke, and Margaret Hamilton. The music was composed by Harold Arlen and adapted by Herbert Stothart, with lyrics by Edgar "Yip" Harburg.

1960 film directed by Stanley Kubrick

1997 film directed by Steven Spielberg

1987 film by Stanley Kubrick

1984 film by Sergio Leone

1979 film by Robert Benton

2009 film directed by Chris Weitz

1953 film by Fred Zinnemann

2014 film directed by David Fincher

2011 film directed by Tate Taylor

There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American epic period drama film co-produced, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, loosely based on the 1927 novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds, and Dillon Freasier. The film follows silver miner-turned-oilman Daniel Plainview (Day-Lewis) as he embarks on a ruthless quest for wealth during the Californian oil boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

1967 film by Mike Nichols

1915 film directed by D. W. Griffith

1969 film directed by John Schlesinger

The Devil Wears Prada is a 2006 American comedy-drama film directed by David Frankel and produced by Wendy Finerman. The screenplay, written by Aline Brosh McKenna, is based on the 2003 novel by Lauren Weisberger. The film stars Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci, and Emily Blunt. It follows Andy Sachs (Hathaway), an aspiring journalist who gets a job at a fashion magazine but finds herself at the mercy of her demanding editor, Miranda Priestly (Streep).

2010 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

1998 film by Terrence Malick

1962 film by Robert Mulligan

1967 film by Norman Jewison

1935 film by Frank Lloyd

2014 film by Neil Burger

1997 film directed by Quentin Tarantino

1962 USA film by Stanley Kubrick

1983 film directed by James L. Brooks

2014 film directed by Wes Ball

1945 film by Billy Wilder

2003 film by Tim Burton

1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler

1970 film directed by Arthur Hiller

1931 film by Wesley Ruggles

1993 film directed by Lasse Hallström

2003 film directed by Anthony Minghella

1997 film by Barry Levinson

1995 film directed by Clint Eastwood

1990 film directed by John McTiernan

1997 film directed by Paul Verhoeven

1998 film by Terry Gilliam

1949 film by Robert Rossen

1957 film directed by Stanley Kubrick

1969 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock

1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2013 film directed by Sam Raimi

2014 film directed by Josh Boone

2006 film directed by Stefen Fangmeier

1953 film by Howard Hawks

1993 film by Martin Scorsese

2007 film directed by Antoine Fuqua

2002 film directed by Alexander Payne

1980 film by Robert Redford

1994 film directed by Edward Zwick

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.

1944 US film by Billy Wilder