Good Movies based on Books and Short Stories

Discover the best movies based on books and short stories! Explore our curated list of film adaptations that bring beloved literary works to life on the big screen.

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Close Range

by Annie Proulx

A collection of short stories, which includes the short story, Brokeback Mountain.
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Bad Behavior

by Mary Gaitskill

Powerful stories of dislocation, longing and desire which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban fringe generation that is groping for human connection. (Or, more simply …
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Monkey

by Cheng'en Wu

Immensely popular in the Far East, combines elements of the of picaresque novel with folk epic in a mix of satire, allegory, and history in …
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Fight Club: A Novel

by Chuck Palahniuk

"Fight Club's estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours …
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A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

Donation trade.
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Crash

by J. G. Ballard

In this hallucinatory novel, an automobile provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic …
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Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a …