I’ve got a little list… of 20 favorite movies made from great books

 

Some of my most favorite movies have been made from books. Admittedly, there’s also quite a few have been made from rather bad books (but that’s a list for another day, as is the list of bad movies made from great books.)

Here’s 20 films I can watch over and over again, from books I could read over and over again. As with previous lists, I’m limiting myself to one per author, otherwise we’d have more Raymond Chandler, Alistair MacLean, James Cain, Graham Greene and Philip K Dick among others.

The Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Exorcist
Angel Heart (Falling Angel)
L.A. Confidential
The Village of the Damned (The Midwich Cuckoos)
The Dead Zone
Where Eagles Dare
The Thirty Nine Steps
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
The Ipcress File
Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?)
Harper ( The Moving Target )
Brighton Rock
Three Days of the Condor (Six Days of the Condor)
The Manchurian Candidate
Psycho
Rosemary’s Baby
Lord of the Rings