Films based on fantasy novels

2003 film by Peter Jackson

1953 animated fantasy-adventure film by Disney

1963 animated film directed by Wolfgang Reitherman

2004 anime film directed by Hayao Miyazaki

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.

2009 animation film directed by Henry Selick

1989 anime film directed by Hayao Miyazaki

2003 film by Tim Burton

2007 film directed by Matthew Vaughn

2006 film directed by Stefen Fangmeier

2013 film directed by Sam Raimi

Arrietty, titled in Japan and The Secret World of Arrietty in North America, is a 2010 Japanese animated fantasy film directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi as his feature film debut as a director, animated by Studio Ghibli for the Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Walt Disney Japan, Mitsubishi, Toho and Wild Bunch. The screenplay by Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa, was based on the 1952 novel The Borrowers by Mary Norton, an English author of children's books, about a family of tiny people who live secretly in the walls and floors of a typical household, borrowing items f

2007 film directed by Chris Weitz

Wicked is a 2024 American musical fantasy film directed by Jon M. Chu and written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox. It adapts the first act of the 2003 stage musical by Stephen Schwartz and Holzman, which was loosely based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel, a re-imagining of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande star as Elphaba Thropp and Glinda Upland, respectively; while Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Yeoh, and Jeff Goldblum appear in supporting roles. Set in the Land of Oz before the events of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the film explores the early relationship between Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, and her schoolmate Galinda, who becomes Glinda the Good.

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.

2010 film by Chris Columbus

1971 film directed by Mel Stuart

2013 film directed by Harald Zwart

2016 film directed by Tim Burton

2016 film by Steven Spielberg

1998 film by Vincent Ward

1978 animated film by Ralph Bakshi

2006 anime film directed by Gorō Miyazaki

1984 film directed by Wolfgang Petersen

2005 film directed by Mark Waters

1998 film directed by Griffin Dunne

1987 film by George Miller

2013 film by Thor Freudenthal

Wicked: For Good is a 2025 American musical fantasy film directed by Jon M. Chu and written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox. The sequel to Wicked (2024), it adapts the second act of the 2003 stage musical by Stephen Schwartz and Holzman, which was loosely based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel, a re-imagining of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation. Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Michelle Yeoh, and Jeff Goldblum reprise their roles from the first film. Set in the Land of Oz before and during the events of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the film follows Elphaba and Glinda in their new identities as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good.

2016 film directed by Juan Antonio Bayona

1951 film directed by Vittorio De Sica

2018 film directed by Ava DuVernay

2004 film by Timur Bekmambetov

2008 film by Iain Softley

2008 computer-animated film directed by Sam Fell

2006 film directed by Elizabeth Allen

2014 film by Akiva Goldsman

2011 film by Daniel Barnz

2020 film by Kenneth Branagh

1987 film directed by Vladimir Grammatikov

1982 American animated fantasy film

2017 anime film directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi

2014 film directed by Mark Waters

1994 comedy film by Rob Reiner

2006 film by Timur Bekmambetov

1985 film directed by Walter Murch

1947 film by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

1978 British animated adventure film

2022 film directed by Paul Feig

2009 film by Paul Weitz

1995 film by Frank Oz

1996 film directed by John Frankenheimer

2008 film by Marco Kreuzpaintner

1942 film by René Clair

1976 film by Gary Nelson

1980 animated musical television film directed by Jules Bass

2022 film directed by Sean McNamara

2007 film by David L. Cunningham

1974 film by Kevin Connor

1977 film by Carl Reiner