On screen
The book behind
the film.
64 volumes here have been filmed — 307 adaptations in all, the earliest from 1792. If you came looking for the book a film was made from, that is as good a reason to open a classic as any, and better than most.
Filmed more than any other
Frankenstein 35 times
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- 1910 Frankenstein
- 1915 Life Without Soul
- 1920 The Monster of Frankenstein
- 1932 Frankenstein
- 1939 Son of Frankenstein
- 1957 The Curse of Frankenstein
Every one of them 64 volumes
- Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1910–2025 35 films
- Carmen Prosper Mérimée 1915–2022 25 films
- The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux 1916–2011 18 films
- Manon Lescaut Abbé Prévost 1914–2013 16 films
- The Turn of the Screw Henry James 1954–2020 16 films
- The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1792–2024 15 films
- Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1911–2005 12 films
- The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky 1921–2011 11 films
- Emma Jane Austen 1948–2020 10 films
- The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1917–1982 9 films
- The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle 1925–2001 8 films
- A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle 1914–2010 7 films
- Quo Vadis Henryk Sienkiewicz 1901–2001 6 films
- Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 1996–2011 6 films
- The Gambler Fyodor Dostoevsky 1919–2016 6 films
- Bleak House Charles Dickens 1901–1920 5 films
- Father Goriot Honoré de Balzac 1915–2004 5 films
- Persuasion Jane Austen 1960–2022 5 films
- The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1926–2013 5 films
- The Jewel of Seven Stars Bram Stoker 1971–2014 5 films
- If I Were King Justin H. McCarthy 1923–1938 4 films
- Mansfield Park Jane Austen 2000–2007 4 films
- The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas 1920–1964 4 films
- The Magic Skin Honoré de Balzac 2010 4 films
- The Princess of Cleves Madame de La Fayette 1961–2008 4 films
- The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad 1937–1996 4 films
- A Damsel in Distress P. G. Wodehouse 1919–1937 3 films
- Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 1924–1991 3 films
- East Lynne Mrs. Henry Wood 1913–1982 3 films
- Ferragus, Chief of the Dévorants Honoré de Balzac 1910–1923 3 films
- Northanger Abbey Jane Austen 1987–2007 3 films
- The Aspern Papers Henry James 1971–2018 3 films
- The Beast in the Jungle Henry James 1980–2024 3 films
- The Last Days of Pompeii Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1909–1959 3 films
- Howards End E. M. Forster 1992 2 films
- Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky 1997–2012 2 films
- The Monk M. G. Lewis 1949–1977 2 films
- The Rise and Fall of César Birotteau Honoré de Balzac 1911–1921 2 films
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1977 1 film
- At the Villa Rose A. E. W. Mason 1920 1 film
- Barry Lyndon William Makepeace Thackeray 1977 1 film
- Daisy Miller Henry James 1977 1 film
- Dracula's Guest Bram Stoker 1982 1 film
- Ethan Frome Edith Wharton 1993 1 film
- Lady Susan Jane Austen 2016 1 film
- Lord Arthur Savile's Crime Oscar Wilde 1955 1 film
- Moon of Israel H. Rider Haggard 1924 1 film
- My Lady Ludlow Elizabeth Gaskell 1 film
- Night and Day Virginia Woolf 2026 1 film
- Omoo Herman Melville 1949 1 film
- Rupert of Hentzau Anthony Hope 1915 1 film
- Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1952 1 film
- Siddhartha Hermann Hesse 1997 1 film
- St. Ives Robert Louis Stevenson 1998 1 film
- The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton 1993 1 film
- The Big Four Agatha Christie 2013 1 film
- The Home and the World Rabindranath Tagore 1984 1 film
- The Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan 1978 1 film
- The Portrait of a Lady Henry James 1997 1 film
- The Secret Sharer Joseph Conrad 2014 1 film
- Under the Red Robe Stanley John Weyman 1915 1 film
- What Maisie Knew Henry James 2014 1 film
- Where Angels Fear to Tread E. M. Forster 1992 1 film
- Women in Love D. H. Lawrence 1970 1 film