Films based on short fiction

2000 film by Christopher Nolan

is a 1950 Japanese period drama (jidaigeki) film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay he co-wrote with Shinobu Hashimoto. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura, it follows various people who describe how a samurai was murdered in a forest. The plot and characters are based upon Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's short story "In a Grove", with the title and framing story taken from Akutagawa's "Rashōmon". Every element is largely identical, from the murdered samurai speaking through a Shinto psychic to the bandit in the forest, the monk, the assault of the wife, an

1949 film directed by Carol Reed

2004 film directed by Alex Proyas

1987 film by John Glen

Octopussy is a 1983 spy film and the thirteenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It is the sixth to star Roger Moore as the MI6 agent James Bond and the second to be directed by John Glen. The screenplay was written by George MacDonald Fraser, Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson.

1989 film by John Glen

1981 film by John Glen

1962 film by Andrei Tarkovsky

Stand by Me is a 1986 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Rob Reiner. Based on Stephen King's 1982 novella The Body, the film is set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Oregon, in 1959. Stand by Me stars Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'Connell as four boys who set out on a journey to find the dead body of a missing boy. The film's title is derived from the 1961 song of the same name by Ben E. King, which plays during the film's closing credits.

Blowup (also styled Blow-Up) is a 1966 psychological mystery film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, co-written by Antonioni, Tonino Guerra and Edward Bond and produced by Carlo Ponti. It is Antonioni's first entirely English-language film and stars David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles. Model Veruschka von Lehndorff is featured as herself, and Jane Birkin makes her first film appearance. The film's non-diegetic music was scored by American jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, and the English rock group The Yardbirds are seen performing "Stroll On". The cinematographer was Carlo di Palma.

1986 film by David Cronenberg

2010 film directed by Nimród Antal

2014 film by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

1995 American fantasy film directed by Brad Silberling

1971 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2002 film by Kathryn Bigelow

1959 American Western film directed by Howard Hawks

1947 film by George Seaton

1937 film by William A. Wellman

1975 film by John Huston

2010 film by Josh Gordon, Will Speck

2007 film by Wong Kar-wai

1955 Film

1944 American survival film by Alfred Hitchcock

1957 film by Alexander Mackendrick

2021 film directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi

1965 film by Akira Kurosawa

1919 film by D. W. Griffith

1961 film by Frank Capra

Ugetsu (雨月物語, Ugetsu Monogatari, lit. "Rain-moon tales") is a 1953 Japanese period fantasy film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi starring Masayuki Mori and Machiko Kyō. It is based on the stories "The House in the Thicket" and "The Lust of the White Serpent" from Ueda Akinari's 1776 book Ugetsu Monogatari, combining elements of the jidaigeki (period drama) genre with a ghost story.

2003 film directed by John Woo

1992 film by Robert Redford

1939 film by Raoul Walsh

1948 film by Max Ophüls

Re-Animator (also known as '''''H. P. Lovecraft's Re-Animator''''') is a 1985 American comedy horror film loosely based on the 1922 H. P. Lovecraft serial novelette "Herbert West–Reanimator". Directed by Stuart Gordon and produced by Brian Yuzna, the film stars Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West, a medical student who has invented a reagent which can re-animate deceased bodies. He and his classmate Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) begin to test the serum on dead human bodies, and conflict with Dr. Carl Hill (David Gale), who is infatuated with Cain's fiancée (Barbara Crampton) and wants to claim the inventi

2020 film by Vadim Perelman

Creepshow is a 1982 American horror comedy anthology film directed by George A. Romero and written by Stephen King in his screenwriting debut. It consists of five segments intercut with a sixth story acting mostly as an opening and epilogue; two of the segments, "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" and "The Crate", are based on stories by King, while the others are original material he wrote for the film.

1983 film by Steven Spielberg, John Landis, George Miller, Joe Dante

1933 film by Frank Capra

1967 film by Jean-Luc Godard

2013 film directed by Mohit Suri

1958 film by Martin Ritt

1948 film by Carol Reed

1985 film by Wolfgang Petersen

2008 film by A. R. Murugadoss

1950 film by Elia Kazan

1996 film by Deepa Mehta

2018 film by Lee Chang-dong

1946 film

1936 film by Alfred Hitchcock

1927 lost film directed by Tod Browning

1961 film by Roger Corman

1949 film

1955 American musical film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

1964 Japanese film by Masaki Kobayashi

1959 film by Mikhail Kalatozov

1957 film by Luchino Visconti

2002 film by Callie Khouri

1987 film by Nikita Mikhalkov