Films based on novels by Evan Hunter

1963 film by Akira Kurosawa

1955 film directed by Richard Brooks

Highest 2 Lowest is a 2025 American crime thriller film directed by Spike Lee from a screenplay by Alan Fox. It is an English-language remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 Japanese film High and Low, itself based on Ed McBain's 1959 novel King's Ransom. The film stars Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, ASAP Rocky, John Douglas Thompson, Dean Winters, LaChanze, Princess Nokia, and Ice Spice. It is the fifth collaboration between Lee and Washington and the first since Inside Man (2006).

1971 film by Philippe Labro

1972 film by Richard A. Colla

1978 film directed by Claude Chabrol

1959 film by William A. Berke