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0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U W Y

Robert Donat as Hannay

• The 39 Steps(1935)

• The 39 Steps(1959)

• The 39 Steps(2008)

Rathbone as Holmes

The
Adventures
of Sherlock
Holmes

• Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein

• The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

• The Adventures of Long John Silver

• The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes(1939)

• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes(1954–1955)

• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes(1984–1985)

• Alias Grace

• And Then There Were None (1945)

• And Then There Were None (2015)

• All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

• All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)

• All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

• Andy Warhol's Frankenstein

• Anna Karenina (1948)

• Another Thin Man

All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet
on the
Western
Front

Butler as Beowulf

Beowulf &
Grendel

• Beowulf (1999)

• Beowulf (1999)

• Beowulf (2007)

• Beowulf (2007)

• Beowulf & Grendel

• Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands

• The Big Sleep(1946)

• The Big Sleep(1978)

• The Black Bird

• Blackadder's Christmas Carol

• Bleak House (1985)

• Bleak House (2005)

• Bloom, or Bl.,m

• The Bonfire of the Vanities

• Bram Stoker's Dracula

• Bride of Frankenstein

• Brideshead Revisited

• The Brides of Dracula

Oldman as Dracula

Bram
Stoker's
Dracula

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas
Carol

• The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire

• The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (1991–1993)

• A Christmas Carol (1951)

• A Christmas Carol (1977)

• A Christmas Carol (1984)

• A Christmas Carol (1997)

• A Cock and Bull Story

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

• The Curse of Frankenstein

David Copperfield

David
Copperfield

• Dangerous Female

• David Copperfield (1935)

• David Copperfield (1986)

• David Copperfield (1999)

• David Copperfield (2000)

• The Day of the Locust

• Dead: And Loving It

• Death in Venice

• The Diviners

• Dorian Gray

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2008)

• Dracula (1931)

• Drácula (1931)

• Dracula (1958)

• Dracula (1979)

• Dracula (1992)

• Dracula (2006)

• Dracula 2000

• Dracula AD 1972

• Dracula Has Risen from the Grave

• Dracula's Daughter

• Dracula: Dead and Loving It

• Dracula: Prince of Darkness

• Dressed to Kill

• Dune (1984)

Huston in The Dead

James Dean as Cal Trask

• East of Eden (1955)

• East of Eden (1981)

• The Eligible Bachelor

• Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights

• Emma (1972)

• Emma (1996)

• Emma (2009)

• Ender's Game

• Eye of the Needle

Gwyneth Paltrow as Emma

A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell
to Arms

• Fabulous Journey to the Centre of the Earth

• The Falcon Takes Over

• Far from the Madding Crowd

• Farewell, My Lovely (1944)

• Farewell, My Lovely (1975)

• AFarewell to Arms

• Father Brown (1944)

• Father Brown (2013–present)

• Father Brown, Detective

• Felicia's Journey

• Flesh for Frankenstein

• For Whom the Bell Tolls

• Frankenstein

• Frankenstein and Me

• Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

• Frankenstein Unbound

• The French Lieutenant's Woman

Karloff as Frankenstein's monster

The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes
of Wrath

• The Golden Years of Sherlock Holmes

• The Ghost of Frankenstein

• The Good Earth

• The Grapes of Wrath

• Great Expectations (1946)

• Great Expectations (1981)

• Great Expectations (1989)

• Great Expectations (1998)

• Great Expectations (1999)

Jean Simmons as Miss Havisham

Great
Expect-
ations

Hamlet 1948

• Hamlet (1948)

• Hamlet (1969)

• Hamlet (1990, Zeffirelli)

• Hamlet (1990, Kline)

• Hamlet (1996)

• Hamlet (2000)

• Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

• The Handmaid's Tale

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy(1981)

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy(2005)

• Horror of Dracula

• The Hound of the Baskervilles(1939)

• The Hound of the Baskervilles(1959)

• The Hound of the Baskervilles(1982)

• The Hound of the Baskervilles(1988)

• The Hound of the Baskervilles(2000)

• House of Frankenstein

• House of Dracula

• House of Fright

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1981

The
Hitchhiker's
Guide to the
Galaxy

• I Am Legend

• I, Frankenstein

• Incident at Victoria Falls

• Jane Eyre (1943)

• Jane Eyre (1983)

• Jane Eyre (1997)

• Jane Eyre (2006)

• Jane Eyre (2011)

• Jekyll and Hyde

• Jekyll and Hyde: Direct from Broadway

• Joe MacBeth

• Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

• Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1989)

• Journey to the Centre of the Earth (2008b)

• Julius Caesar

Jekyll and Hyde 1990

Jekyll and
Hyde

• Kidnapped (1948)

• Kidnapped (1971)

• Kidnapped (2005)

Depp as Ichabod Crane

The Legend
of Sleepy
Hollow

• Lady in the Lake

• The Last Days of Pompeii(1913)

• The Last Days of Pompeii(1935)

• The Last Man on Earth

• The Last Vampyre

• Legend of Earthsea

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

• The Little Foxes

• Little Lost Robot

• Lolita (1962)

• Lolita (1997)

• The Long Goodbye

• Long John Silver

• Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island

• Love at First Bite

DaVis in Little Foxes

Bogart as Sam Spade

The Maltese
Falcon

• Macbeth (1948)

• Macbeth (1971)

• The Maltese Falcon(1931)

• The Maltese Falcon(1941)

• The Man in the High Castle

• The Man Who Would Be King

• Mansfield Park (1983)

• Mansfield Park (1999)

• Mansfield Park (2007)

• Marlowe (1969)

• Marlowe (2022)

• Mary Reilly

• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

• The Masks of Death

• The Master Blackmailer

• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes(1994)

• Mildred Pierce (1945)

• Mildred Pierce (2011)

• The Mill on the Floss

• Miss Robin Crusoe

• Mrs Dalloway

• Murder at the Baskervilles

• Murder by Decree

• Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

• Murder on the Orient Express (2010)

• Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

• Murder, My Sweet

• Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)

• Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)

• The Murders in the Rue Morgue(1986)

Crawford as Mildred Pierce

Hunnam as Nicholas

Nicholas
Nickleby

• The Naked and the Dead

• Nicholas Nickleby

• Northanger Abbey

• Nosferatu the Vampire

Katharine Schlesinger as Catherine Morland

Northanger
Abbey

Malkovich as Lenny

Of Mice and
Men

• Of Mice and Men (1939)

• Of Mice and Men (1992)

• The Old Man and the Sea(1958)

• The Old Man and the Sea(1990)

• The Old Man and the Sea(1999)

• Oliver Twist (1922)

• Oliver Twist (1933)

• Oliver Twist (1948)

• Oliver Twist (2005)

• Oliver Twist (2007)

• The Omega Man

• On the Beach

• Our Town (1940)

• Our Town (2003)

Coogan as Oliver

Hatfield as Dorian Gray

The Picture
of Dorian
Gray

• Paul's Case

• The Personal History, Adventures, Experience & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger

• Phantom of the Rue Morgue

• The Picture of Dorian Gray(1945)

• The Picture of Dorian Gray(2009)

• Poodle Springs

• The Postman Always Rings Twice(1948)

• The Postman Always Rings Twice(2011)

• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

• Pride and Prejudice (1980)

• Pride and Prejudice (1995)

• Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Colin Firth as Darcy

Pride and
Prejudice

The Red
Badge of
Courage

• The Red Badge of Courage

• The Revenge of Frankenstein

• The Return of Sherlock Holmes(1929)

• The Return of Sherlock Holmes(1986–1988)

• Return to Treasure Island

• Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped

• Riverworld (2003)

• Riverworld (2010)

• Robinson Crusoe

• Robinson Crusoe on Mars

• A Royal Scandal

O'Herlihy as Crusoe

Robinson
Crusoe

Brett as Holmes

Sherlock
Holmes

• Satan Met a Lady

• The Satanic Rites of Dracula

• The Scarlet Claw

• Scars of Dracula

• Scrooge (1935)

• Scrooge (1951)

• Scrooge (1970)

• The Secret Agent (1992(

• The Secret Agent (1996)

• The Secret Agent (2016)

• Sense and Sensibility (1981)

• Sense and Sensibility (1995)

• Sense and Sensibility (2008)

• The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

• Shadow of the Thin Man

• Shadow of the Vampire

• Shakespeare's Hamlet

• Sherlock: Case of Evil

• Sherlock Holmes (1922)

• Sherlock Holmes (1932)

• Sherlock Holmes (1964–1968)

• Sherlock Holmes (2009)

• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

• Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace

• Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady

• Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

• The Sign of Four(1932)

• The Sign of Four(1987)

• The Sign of Four(2001)

• The Sleeping Cardinal

• Sleepy Hollow

• The Snows of Kilimanjaro

• Son of Dracula

• Son of Frankenstein

• Song of the Thin Man

• The Speckled Band

• The Stingiest Man in Town

• The Stone Angel

• A Study in Scarlet

• A Study in TerrorA

• Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Gregory Peck in Snows of Kilimanjaro

The Snows
of
Kilimanjaro

Jones as Nicole

Tender Is
the Night

• Taste the Blood of Dracula

• Ten Little Indians (1959)

• Ten Little Indians (1989)

• Tender Is the Night

• Terror by Night

• The Thin Man

• The Thin Man Goes Home

• The 13th Warrior

• The Thirty-Nine Steps

• Throne of Blood

• The Tragedy of Macbeth

• Treasure Island (1934)

• Treasure Island (1950)

• Tristram Shandy

• The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes

• The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll

Newton as Silver

Treasure
Island

Wuthering Heights

The Woman
in White

• When Time Began

• William Shakespeare's Hamlet

• Without a Clue

• The Woman in Green

• The Woman in White

• The Woman in White

• Wuthering Heights (1939)

• Wuthering Heights (1992)

• Wuthering Heights (2009)

• Wuthering Heights (2022)

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering
Heights

• Young Frankenstein

0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U W Y

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The Top 99 Novels

Selected Critiques

Selected Authors

Movies for Great Readers

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