List of films based on crime books
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This is a list of films that are based on books about crime. Films are listed according to the decade in which the depicted crime occurred, rather than by the film's date of release.
This page includes "crimes" where the "criminal" was later exonerated. This page includes suicides or other deaths which have been deemed to be suspicious by some and have therefore become the subject of conspiracy theories.
12th century
[edit]England
[edit]Frequently filmed: A Morbid Taste for Bones and sequels
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One Corpse Too Many * | 1994 | ? | UK | One Corpse Too Many | "Ellis Peters" | 1979 | Novel |
- * TV movie
Japan
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rashomon 羅生門 |
1950 | Akira Kurosawa | Japan | "In a Grove" | Ryūnosuke Akutagawa | 1922 | Story |
14th century
[edit]Italy
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Name of the Rose | 1986 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Germany, France, Italy | The Name of the Rose Il nome della rosa |
Umberto Eco | 1980 | Novel |
16th century
[edit]England
[edit]1536
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Man for All Seasons | 1966 | Fred Zinnemann | UK | A Man for All Seasons | Robert Bolt | 1960 | Play |
Scotland
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17th century
[edit]United States
[edit]Frequently filmed: The Scarlet Letter
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | The Scarlet Letter | 1926 | Victor Sjöström | USA | The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1850 | Novel |
1692–1693
Frequently filmed: The Crucible
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Les Sorcières de Salem ♠ | 1957 | Raymond Rouleau | France & East Germany |
The Crucible [1][2] | Arthur Miller | 1953 | Play |
| 2 | The Crucible | 1996 | Nicholas Hytner | USA | The Crucible | Arthur Miller | 1953 | Play |
- ♠ The Witches of Salem has an adapted screenplay by Jean-Paul Sartre.[3]
18th century
[edit]France
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Das Parfum – Die Geschichte eines Mörders |
2006 | Tom Tykwer | Germany, Spain, France | Perfume [4] Das Parfum |
Patrick Süskind | 1985 | Novel |
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Bossu aka On Guard | 1997 | Philippe de Broca | France, Italy, Germany | Le Bossu | Paul Féval | 1858 | Novel |
1785
Frequently filmed: Doctor Syn and sequels
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Doctor Syn | 1937 | Roy William Neill | UK | Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh | Russell Thorndike | 1915 | Novel |
| 2 | Captain Clegg | 1962 | Peter Graham Scott | UK | Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh | Russell Thorndike | 1915 | Novel |
| 3 | The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh | 1963 | James Neilson | USA | Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh | Russell Thorndike | 1915 | Novel |
Frequently filmed: Moll Flanders
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|
1737
Bulletin ... upcoming film: Jew Suss: Rise and Fall by Oskar Roehler
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jew Suss | 1934 | Michael Balcon | UK | Jud Süß | Lion Feuchtwanger | 1925 | Novel |
| 2 | Jud Süß | 1940 | Veit Harlan | Nazi Germany | Jud Süß | Lion Feuchtwanger | 1925 | Novel |
| 2 | Jud Süß | Wilhelm Hauff | 1827 | Novella |
19th century
[edit]Australia
[edit]For bushrangers, see List of films based on westerns.
Brazil
[edit]For cangaceiros, see List of films based on westerns.
Canada
[edit]For Mounties, see List of films based on westerns.
France
[edit]Corsica
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vendetta | 1950 | Howard Hughes (producer) | USA | Colomba | Prosper Mérimée | 1840 | Novella |
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See List of films based on war books — peace.
1894–1897
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Judge and the Assassin Le juge et l'assassin |
1976 | Bertrand Tavernier | France | Le juge et l'assassin | Henri Garet & René Tavernier |
1976 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
| 1 | Vacher l'éventreur et les crimes sadiques | Alexandre Lacassagne | 1899 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
India
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Deceivers | 1988 | Nicholas Meyer | India & UK | The Deceivers | John Masters | 1952 | Novel |
Russia
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Siberian Lady Macbeth Сибирская леди Макбет |
1961 | Andrzej Wajda | Poland | Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District Леди Макбет Мценского уезда |
Nikolai Leskov | 1865 | Novel |
| 2 | Katerina Izmailova Катерина Измайлова |
1966 | Mikhail Shapiro | USSR | Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District Леди Макбет Мценского уезда |
Alexander Preis & Dmitri Shostakovich |
1932 | Libretto |
| 2 | Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District Леди Макбет Мценского уезда |
Nikolai Leskov | 1865 | Novel |
Frequently filmed: The Winter Queen and sequels
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Azazel * Азазель |
2002 | Aleksandr Adabashyan | Russia | The Winter Queen Азазель |
"Boris Akunin" | 1998 | Novel |
- * TV miniseries
United Kingdom
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Seven Percent Solution | 1976 | Herbert Ross | UK & USA | The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. |
Nicholas Meyer | 1974 | Novel |
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jamaica Inn | 1939 | Alfred Hitchcock | UK | Jamaica Inn | Daphne du Maurier | 1936 | Novel |
February 1820
1827–1828
Twice filmed: "The Body Snatcher"
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|
15 May 1855
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The First Great Train Robbery aka The Great Train Robbery |
1979 | Michael Crichton | UK | The Great Train Robbery | Michael Crichton | 1975 | Novel |
1888–1891 (Jack the Ripper)
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pandora's Box Die Büchse der Pandora |
1929 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Germany | Pandora's Box | Frank Wedekind | 1904 | Play |
| 1 | Earth Spirit | Frank Wedekind | 1895 | Play | ||||
| n | From Hell | 2001 | Hughes brothers | USA | From Hell | Alan Moore | 1991–1996 | Graphic novel |
| n | Murder by Decree | 1979 | Bob Clark | Canada & UK | The Ripper File | Elwyn Jones & John Lloyd | 197? | Non-fiction |
Frequently filmed: The Lodger
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|
United States
[edit]For outlaws and lawmen, see List of films based on westerns.
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|
Frequently filmed: "The Tell-Tale Heart"
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Tell-Tale Heart [5] α | 1953 | Ted Parmelee | USA | "The Tell-Tale Heart" | Edgar Allan Poe | 1843 | Story |
- α Animated film
14 April 1865
See List of films based on war books — 1775–1898.
See also Assassinations in fiction.
24 February 1868
4 August 1892
1900s
[edit]United States
[edit]11 July 1906
Twice filmed: An American Tragedy
[edit]The novel was the subject of an unproduced 1930 screenplay by Sergei Eisenstein.
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|
1910s
[edit]France
[edit]1914–1918
United Kingdom
[edit]after 31 January 1910
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales El esqueleto de la señora Morales |
1960 | Rogelio A. González | Mexico | "The Islington Mystery" | Arthur Machen | 1927 | Story |
1920s
[edit]France
[edit]Frequently filmed: L'Affaire Crainquebille
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crainquebille Crainquebille |
1922 | Jacques Feyder | France | Crainquebille | Anatole France[6] | 1903 | Play |
| 1 | L'Affaire Crainquebille | Anatole France | 1901 | Story |
Germany
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pandora's Box Die Büchse der Pandora |
1929 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Germany | Pandora's Box | Frank Wedekind | 1904 | Play |
| 1 | Earth Spirit | Frank Wedekind | 1895 | Play |
1929
United States
[edit]21 May 1924 (Leopold and Loeb)
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rope | 1948 | Alfred Hitchcock | USA | Rope | Patrick Hamilton | 1929 | Play |
| 2 | Compulsion | 1959 | Richard Fleischer | USA | Compulsion | Meyer Levin | 1957 | Novel |
19 November 1924
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Cat's Meow | 2001 | Peter Bogdanovich | UK & Germany | The Cat's Meow | Steven Peros | 19?? | Play |
1925
Frequently filmed: Inherit the Wind
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inherit the Wind | 1960 | Stanley Kramer | USA | Inherit the Wind | Jerome Lawrence & Robert Edwin Lee | 1955 | Play |
1925–1931
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Scarface [7] | 1932 | Howard Hawks | USA | Scarface | Armitage Trail | 1930 [8]¤ | Novel |
| n | Road to Perdition | 2002 | Sam Mendes | USA | Road to Perdition | Max Allan Collins | 1998 | Graphic novel |
| n | Legends of the Fall | 1994 | Edward Zwick | USA | Legends of the Fall | Jim Harrison | 1979 | Novella |
14 February 1929
20 March 1927
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | USA | Double Indemnity | James M. Cain | 1936/ 1943 |
Novel |
1930s
[edit]Algeria
[edit]Frequently filmed: Pépé le Moko
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pépé le Moko | 1937 | Julien Duvivier | France | Pépé le Moko | "Ashelbé" | 193? | Novel |
France
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judas Was a Woman La Bête humaine |
1938 | Jean Renoir | France | La Bête Humaine | Émile Zola | 1890 | Novel |
2 February 1933
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Les Abysses Les Abysses |
1963 | Nikos Papatakis | France | The Maids Les Bonnes |
Jean Genet | 1947 | Play |
| 2 | The Maids | 1974 | Christopher Miles | UK | The Maids Les Bonnes |
Jean Genet | 1947 | Play |
| 3 | Sister My Sister | 1994 | Nancy Meckler | UK | My Sister in This House [9] | Wendy Kesselman | 1981 | Play |
| 4 | Murderous Maids Les Blessures assassines |
2000 | Jean-Pierre Denis | France | L'affaire Papin, Le diable dans la peau | Paulette Houdyer | 1988 | Non-fiction |
Twice filmed: A Judgement in Stone
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Judgement in Stone | 1986 | Ousama Rawi | Canada & UK | A Judgement in Stone | Ruth Rendell | 1977 | Novel |
| 2 | La Cérémonie La Cérémonie |
1995 | Claude Chabrol | France & Germany | A Judgement in Stone | Ruth Rendell | 1977 | Novel |
Japan
[edit]18 May 1936
United States
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Petrified Forest | 1936 | Archie Mayo | USA | The Petrified Forest | Robert E. Sherwood | 1935 | Play |
| n | Paper Moon | 1973 | Peter Bogdanovich | USA | Addie Pray | Joe David Brown | 1971 | Novel |
| n | Brother Orchid | 1940 | Lloyd Bacon | USA | "Brother Orchid" (?) | Richard Connell | 1938 | Story |
23 April 1931
1 March 1932
Frequently filmed: Murder on the Orient Express
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Murder on the Orient Express | 1974 | Sidney Lumet | UK | Murder on the Orient Express | Agatha Christie | 1934 | Novel |
[informative page deleted over copyright violations] [10]
9 December 1932
1940s
[edit]Austria
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed | UK | The Third Man | Graham Greene | 1950 | Novella |
Bahamas
[edit]7 July 1943
Canada
[edit]1949–1952 (Boyd Gang)
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Life and Times of Edwin Alonzo Boyd * | 1982 | Les Rose | Canada | The Boyd Gang | Marjorie Lamb & Barry Pearson |
1976 | Non-fiction |
- * TV movie
France
[edit]before 31 October 1944
Italy
[edit]1 May 1947
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Sicilian | 1987 | Michael Cimino | USA | The Sicilian | Mario Puzo | 1984 | Novel |
Frequently filmed: The Adventures of Pinocchio
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pinocchio ♠ α [7] | 1940 | Walt Disney (producer) | USA | The Adventures of Pinocchio | Carlo Collodi | 1883 | Children's book |
- ♠ A young innocent is deceived by swindlers and sold into slavery.
- α Animated film
Kenya
[edit]1941
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | White Mischief | 1987 | Michael Radford | UK | White Mischief: The Murder of Lord Erroll | James Fox | 197? | Non-fiction |
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Young Triffie | 2007 | Mary Walsh | Canada | Young Triffie's Been Made Away With | Ray Guy | 1985 | Play |
United States
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dishonored Lady | 1947 | Robert Stevenson | USA | Dishonored Lady | Edward Sheldon & Margaret Ayer Barnes | 1930 | Play |
| n | Intruder in the Dust | 1949 | Clarence Brown | USA | Intruder in the Dust | William Faulkner[11] | 1948 | Novel |
| n | Undercurrent | 1946 | Vincente Minnelli | USA | You Were There | Thelma Strabel | 194? | Novel |
2 August 1942
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zoot Suit | 1981 | Luis Valdez | USA | Zoot Suit | Luis Valdez | 1979 | Play |
c. 15 January 1947
West Germany
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Good German | 2006 | Steven Soderbergh | USA | The Good German | Joseph Kanon | 2001 | Novel |
1950s
[edit]Canada
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I Confess | 1953 | Alfred Hitchcock | USA | Nos deux consciences | "Paul Anthelme" | 1902 | Play |
France
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Irma la Douce | 1963 | Billy Wilder | USA | Irma la douce | Alexandre Breffort | 1956 | Musical |
United Kingdom
[edit]25 December 1950 (Christmas Day robbery of a church)
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stone of Destiny | 2008 | Charles Martin Smith | UK & Canada | No Stone Unturned: The Story of the Stone of Destiny aka Taking of the Stone of Destiny | Ian R. Hamilton | 1952 | Memoir |
1955
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pierrepoint | 1995 | Adrian Shergold | UK | Executioner: Pierrepoint | Albert Pierrepoint | 1974 | Memoir |
United States
[edit]17 January 1950
31 July 1952
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anatomy of a Murder | 1959 | Otto Preminger | USA | Anatomy of a Murder | "Robert Traver" | 1958 | Novel |
1957
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme | USA | The Silence of the Lambs | Thomas Harris | 1988 | Novel |
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | USA | Psycho | Robert Bloch | 1959 | Novel |
16 June 1959
15 November 1959
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In Cold Blood | 1967 | Richard Brooks | USA | In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | 1966 | Nonfiction |
| 2 | In Cold Blood | 1996 | Jonathan Kaplan | USA | In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | 1966 | Nonfiction |
| 3 | Capote | 2005 | Bennett Miller | USA | Capote | Gerald Clarke | 199? | Biography |
| 4 | Infamous | 2006 | Douglas McGrath | USA | Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career | George Plimpton | 1997 | Biography |
1960s
[edit]Argentina
[edit]1965 [12]
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burnt Money ♣ Plata quemada |
2000 | Marcelo Piñeyro | Argentina, France, Spain, Uruguay | Money to Burn Plata quemada |
Ricardo Piglia | 1997 | Novel |
- ♣ The robbery took place in Argentina; the pursuit ended in Uruguay.
France
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | La Horse ♠ La Horse |
1970 | Pierre Granier-Deferre | France | La Horse | Michel Lambesc | 196? | Novel |
- ♠ The film was remade for television in 2005 as Joseph.[13]
Sweden
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Stockholm Marathon Stockholm Marathon |
1994 | Peter Keglevic | Sweden & Germany | The Terrorists | Sjöwall and Wahlöö | 1975 | Novel |
| n | The Laughing Policeman Δ | 1973 | Stuart Rosenberg | USA | The Laughing Policeman [14] | Sjöwall and Wahlöö | 1968 | Novel |
- Δ The film adaptation changes the setting from Stockholm to San Francisco.
Turkey
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Topkapi | 1964 | Jules Dassin | USA | The Light of Day | Eric Ambler | 1962 | Novel |
United Kingdom
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Loot | 1970 | Silvio Narizzano | UK | Loot | Joe Orton | 1965 | Play |
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1963
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scandal [15] | 1989 | Michael Caton-Jones | UK | Scandal (uncredited) | Christine Keeler (uncredited) | 1989 | Memoir |
Uruguay
[edit]1965
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burnt Money ♣ Plata quemada |
2000 | Marcelo Piñeyro | Argentina, France, Spain, Uruguay | Money to Burn Plata quemada |
Ricardo Piglia | 1997 | Novel |
- ♣ The robbery took place in Argentina; the pursuit ended in Uruguay.
United States
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fitzwilly | 1967 | Delbert Mann | USA | A Garden of Cucumbers | Poyntz Tyler | 1960 | Novel |
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3 June 1961
9 March 1963
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Onion Field | 1979 | Harold Becker | USA | The Onion Field | Joseph Wambaugh | 1973 | Non-fiction |
1962–1964
22 November 1963
Bulletin ... film currently in development: Reclaiming History
[edit]- ♣ Lane is credited as screenwriter, rather than as author.
- ♦ Bugliosi's preparation for the televised "trial" of deceased defendant Oswald became the book Reclaiming History.
- ♠ The authors are credited as technical advisors on JFK.
- ♥ Prouty's book has an introduction by Oliver Stone.
- * TV special
- ** TV miniseries
- δ Documentary
- † Dramatized documentary[19]
See also Assassinations in fiction.
13 March 1964
26 October 1965
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Girl Next Door | 2007 | Gregory Wilson | USA | The Girl Next Door | Jack Ketchum | 2005 | Novel |
13 July 1966
1969 (Manson Family)
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zodiac | 2007 | David Fincher | USA | Zodiac | Robert Graysmith | 1986 | Non-fiction |
1970s
[edit]Canada
[edit]13 November 1971
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conspiracy of Silence * | 1991 | Francis Mankiewicz | Canada | Conspiracy of Silence | Lisa Priest | 1989 [20]¤ | Non-fiction |
- * TV movie
Guyana
[edit]18 November 1978
Italy
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Don't Look Now | 1973 | Nicolas Roeg | UK & Italy | "Don't Look Now" from Not After Midnight |
Daphne du Maurier | 1971 | Story |
Sweden
[edit]23–28 August 1973 (Stockholm syndrome)
United Kingdom
[edit]Bulletin ... film now in production: Straw Dogs by Rod Lurie
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Straw Dogs | 1971 | Sam Peckinpah | USA | The Siege of Trencher's Farm | Gordon Williams | 197? | Novel |
| n | The Wicker Man | 1973 | Robin Hardy | UK | The Ritual | David Pinner | 1967 | Novel |
11 September 1971
What if ...
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | UK | A Clockwork Orange ♠ | Anthony Burgess | 1962 | Novel |
- ♠ The earliest editions of the novel did not contain a glossary, or any indication that the slang was based on Russian.
United States
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|
New England
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Catamount Killing ♠ Lohngelder für Pittsville Morderstwo w Catamount |
1974 | Krzysztof Zanussi | USA & West Germany[21] | I'd Rather Stay Poor | James Hadley Chase | 1962 | Novel |
- ♠ The film, shot in Bennington, Vermont, involves a "bank in a remote town in New England".[22]
"Catamount" is an infrequently used term for a cougar, but here refers to the fictitious town.
17 February 1970
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fatal Vision ** | 1984 | David Greene | USA | Fatal Vision | Joe McGinniss | 1983 | Non-fiction |
- ** TV miniseries
Knapp Commission on NYPD corruption
[edit]1970–1972
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Serpico | 1973 | Sidney Lumet | USA | Serpico: The Cop Who Defied the System | Peter Maas | 1973? | Non-fiction |
17 June 1972
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All the President's Men | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula | USA | All the President's Men | Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward | 1974 | Memoir |
| 2 | Blind Ambition * | 1979 | George Schaefer | USA | Blind Ambition: The White House Years | John Dean with Taylor Branch | 1976 | Memoir |
| 3 | Nixon | 1995 | Oliver Stone | USA | The Final Days | Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein | 1976 | Non-fiction |
| 3 | Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character [23] (uncredited) | Fawn Brodie (uncredited) | 1981 | Non-fiction | ||||
| 3 | Nixon: the Education of a Politician 1913-62 [23] (uncredited) | Stephen Ambrose (uncredited) | 1991 | Non-fiction | ||||
| 3 | Nixon: the Triumph of a Politician 1962-72 [23] (uncredited) | Stephen Ambrose (uncredited) | 1991 | Non-fiction | ||||
| 3 | Nixon: Ruin and Recovery 1973-90 [23] (uncredited) | Stephen Ambrose (uncredited) | 1991 | Non-fiction | ||||
| 3 | Nixon: A Life [23] (uncredited) | Jonathan Aitken (uncredited) | 1996 | Non-fiction | ||||
| 3 | "The Second Coming" [24] (uncredited) | W.B. Yeats[25] (uncredited) | 1920 | Poem |
- * TV movie
22 August 1972 [26]
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dog Day Afternoon [27] | 1975 | Sidney Lumet | USA | "The Boys in the Bank" | P.F. Kluge | 1972 | Article |
1974–1978
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Deliberate Stranger * | 1986 | Marvin J. Chomsky | USA | Bundy: The Deliberate Stranger | Richard W. Larsen | 1980 | Non-fiction |
- * TV movie
before 1975
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | American Gangster | 2007 | Ridley Scott | USA | "The Return of Superfly" | Mark Jacobson | 197? | Article |
31 October 1975
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Murder in Greenwich * | 2002 | Tom McLoughlin | USA | Murder in Greenwich: Who Killed Martha Moxley? | Mark Fuhrman | 1998 | Non-fiction |
- * TV movie
1977–1978
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Case of the Hillside Stranglers * | 1989 | Steve Gethers | USA | Two of a Kind: The Story of the Hillside Stranglers | Darcy O'Brien | 1985 | Non-fiction |
- * TV movie
29 June 1978
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Auto Focus | 2002 | Paul Schrader | USA | The Murder of Bob Crane: Who Killed the Star of Hogan's Heroes? | Robert Graysmith | 199? | Biography |
What if ...
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Night Stalker * | 1972 | John Llewellyn Moxey | USA | The Kolchak Papers aka The Night Stalker | Jeff Rice[28] | 197? | Novel |
- * TV movie
1980s
[edit]Australia
[edit]17 August 1980 (dingo baby abduction)
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evil Angels (aka A Cry in the Dark[29]) | 1988 | Fred Schepisi | Australia and USA | Evil Angels [30] | John Bryson | 1985 | Non-fiction |
Canada
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Suicide Murders * | 1985 | Graham Parker | Canada | The Suicide Murders | Howard Engel | 1980 | Novel |
- * TV movie
21 January 1983
6 December 1989
France
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Choc Le Choc |
1982 | Robin Davis | France | The Prone Gunman La Position du tireur couché |
Jean-Patrick Manchette | 1982 ? | Novel |
1980s
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roberto Succo Roberto Succo |
2001 | Cédric Kahn | France | Je te tue : histoire vraie de Roberto Succo, assassin sans raison |
Pascale Froment | 1991 | Non-fiction |
India
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bandit Queen | 1994 | Shekhar Kapur | India | India's Bandit Queen: The True Story of Phoolan Devi | Mala Sen | 1993? | Non-fiction |
Iran
[edit]Soraya M. case
[edit]1986
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Stoning of Soraya M. سنگسار ثریا م. |
2008 | Cyrus Nowrasteh | USA | The Stoning of Soraya M. La Femme lapidée |
Freidoune Sahebjam | 1990 | Novel |
Mexico
[edit]9 February 1985
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drug Wars: The Camarena Story ** | 1990 | Brian Gibson | USA | Desperados | Elaine Shannon | 1988 | Non-fiction |
- ** TV miniseries
Soviet Union
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gorky Park | 1983 | Michael Apted | USA | Gorky Park | Martin Cruz Smith | 1981 | Novel |
1978–1990
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Citizen X * | 1995 | Chris Gerolmo | USA | The Killer Department | Robert Cullen | 1993 | Non-fiction |
- * TV movie
What if ...
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evilenko ♠ | 2004 | David Grieco | Italy | The Communist Who Ate Children | David Grieco | 199? | Novel |
- ♠ In this version, the murderer, renamed Evilenko, has psychic powers.
United States
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Scarface | 1983 | Brian De Palma | USA | Scarface (uncredited) | Armitage Trail (uncredited) | 1930 [8] | Novel |
| n | The Local Stigmatic | 1990/ 2007 |
Al Pacino[31][32] (uncredited) & David Wheeler |
USA | The Local Stigmatic | Heathcote Williams | 196? | Play |
| n | Die Hard | 1988 | John McTiernan | USA | Nothing Lasts Forever | Roderick Thorp | 1979 | Novel |
10 March 1980 (Scarsdale Diet author death)
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mrs. Harris * | 2005 | Phyllis Nagy | USA | Very Much a Lady: The Untold Story of Jean Harris and Dr. Herman Tarnower [33] |
Shana Alexander | 1983 | Non-fiction |
- * TV movie
8 December 1980
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chapter 27 | 2005 | J. P. Schaefer | USA | Let Me Take You Down | Jack Jones | 200? | Non-fiction |
| 1 | Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon (uncredited) | Robert Rosen (uncredited) | 2000 | Non-fiction |
See also Assassinations in fiction.
28 May 1981
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Woman on the Run: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story * aka Woman on Trial: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story |
1993 | Sandor Stern | Canada & USA | Woman on Trial | Lawrencia Bembenek | 1992 | Memoir |
- * TV movie
before 11 June 1983
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer | 1986 | John McNaughton | USA | Lucas Report (uncredited) | Jim Mattox, Texas Attorney General (office of) (uncredited) | 1986 | Report |
18 June 1984
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Talk Radio | 1988 | Oliver Stone | USA | Talk Radio | Eric Bogosian | 1987 | Play |
| 1 | Talked to Death: The Life and Murder of Alan Berg | Stephen Singular | 198? | Non-fiction |
See also Assassinations in fiction.
23 March 1989
West Germany
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buffalo Soldiers | 2001 | Gregor Jordan | USA | Buffalo Soldiers | Robert O'Connor | 1993 | Novel |
1990s
[edit]Australia
[edit]Belgium
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Memory of a Killer De zaak Alzheimer |
2003 | Erik Van Looy | Belgium | De zaak Alzheimer | Jef Geeraerts | 1985 | Novel |
Canada
[edit]up to 1992
France
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Crimson Rivers Les Rivières pourpres |
2000 | Mathieu Kassovitz | France | Blood Red Rivers | Jean-Christophe Grangé | 1998 | Novel |
| n | Fuck Me aka Rape Me Baise-moi |
2000 | Virginie Despentes & Coralie Trinh Thi | France | Baise-moi | Virginie Despentes | 1993 | Novel |
India
[edit]12 March 1993
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black Friday | 2004 | Anurag Kashyap | India | Black Friday – The True Story of the Bombay Bomb Blasts | S. Hussain Zaidi | 199? | Non-fiction |
Singapore
[edit]1995
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rogue Trader | 1999 | James Dearden | UK | Rogue Trader: How I Brought Down Barings Bank and Shook the Financial World |
Nick Leeson | 199? | Memoir |
Spain
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nadie conoce a nadie ♠ | 1999 | Mateo Gil | Spain | El que apaga la luz | Juan Bonilla | 1994 | Novel (?) |
- ♠ A crossword puzzle writer becomes involved in a bizarre mystery in Seville.
United Kingdom
[edit]12 February 1993
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boy A ♠ | 2007 | John Crowley | UK | Boy A | Jonathan Trigell | 2004 | Novel | – |
- ♠ The principal connection to the Bulger case appears to be the youthfulness of the convicted boys.
United States
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Night Falls on Manhattan | 1997 | Sidney Lumet | USA | Tainted Evidence | Robert Daley | 1997 ? | Novel |
20 July 1993
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Primary Colors | 1998 | Mike Nichols | USA | Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics | "Anonymous" (Joe Klein) |
1996 | Novel |
Vietnam
[edit]2000s
[edit]30 May 2005
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Natalee Holloway* | 2009 | Mikael Salomon | USA | Loving Natalee: A Mother's Testament of Hope and Faith | Beth Holloway | 2007 | Non-fiction |
- * TV movie
Brazil
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | City of God Cidade de Deus |
2002 | Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund | Brazil | City of God Cidade de Deus |
Paulo Lins | 1997 | Novel |
Italy
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gomorrah Gomorra |
2008 | Matteo Garrone | Italy | Gomorrah Gomorra – Viaggio nell'impero economico e nel sogno di dominio della camorra |
Roberto Saviano | 2006 | Non-fiction |
Mexico
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trade | 2007 | Marco Kreuzpaintner | Germany | "The Girls Next Door" | Peter Landesman | 2004 | Article |
South Korea
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Memories of Murder | 2003 | Bong Joon-ho | South Korea | Memories of Murder | Shim Sung-bo | 1996 | Play |
United States
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sin City д | 2005 | Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez | USA | The Hard Goodbye | Frank Miller | 1991–1992 | Graphic novel |
| n | Reversible Errors ** | 2004 | Mike Robe | USA | Reversible Errors | Scott Turow | 2002 | Novel |
- д Decade when story occurs is presumed.
- ** TV miniseries
14 July 2003
Bulletin ... upcoming film: Fair Game by Doug Liman
[edit]| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fair Game | 2010 | Doug Liman | USA | Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House | Valerie Plame Wilson | 2007 | Memoir |
Political crimes
[edit]For political prisoners, see List of films based on civics books.
Drug trade
[edit]For traffickers, see above.
For addicts, see List of films based on civics books.
Prisons
[edit]For punishment and prisons, see List of films based on civics books.
References
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Recipient of the Tony Award in 1953.
- ^ Nominated for the Tony Award for Best Revival in 2002.
- ^ Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, but declined to accept.
- ^ Recipient of the World Fantasy Award in 1987.
- ^ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2001.
- ^ France was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921.
- ^ a b Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1994.
- ^ a b Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the US Library of Congress.
Source: Library of Congress Online Catalog. - ^ Recipient of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 1981.
- ^ Sources to employ if attempting to rewrite deleted article:
"The Reward". Time magazine. August 27, 1945. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved 2009-12-13.
"$35,000 Going to Man Wrongfully Imprisoned". Associated Press in The Hartford Courant. July 23, 1965. Retrieved 2009-12-13.
Center on Wrongful Convictions - ^ Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.
- ^ Details about the 1965 robbery are difficult to find, but the event occurred in the Buenos Aires suburb called San Fernando.
Source: Plata Quemada, en el umbral de la novela policiaca posmoderna, Carlos Luis Torres Gutiérrez, profesor de literatura, Pontificia Universidad Javierana, 1999. (in Spanish) - ^ Source: French Wikipédia.
- ^ Recipient of the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1971.
- ^ The film was later spoofed as The Man Who Knew Too Little, with Joanne Whalley-Kilmer playing a similar role in both films.
- ^ The film's opening credits include "Film and Research Sources". The first such source listed is the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy.
- ^ a b Recipient of the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime book in 2008.
- ^ Source: Lavington (q.v.), p. 169.
- ^ The opening credits state that "[c]ertain scenes have been recreated in the original locations by the actual participants."
Although the film is essentially a compilation film of high quality, certain minor situations have been recreated, typically a person (a priest, a judge) travelling to his destination (the hospital, the airport). These scenes are seamlessly integrated. - ^ Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of Library and Archives Canada.
Source: Library Search. - ^ The IMDb describes the film as a Polish–West German production, which seems unlikely, especially for a film in angielski (English), according to Polish Wikipedia. The IMDb lists countries alphabetically by default, so this could be West German–Polish. A reasonable scenario is West German, with a noted Polish director hired for the production. Polish Wikipedia says the film is an amerykańsko–niemiecki film which fits the facts well and has therefore been used in the table.
- ^ Source: IMDb review by "John Seal", 2008.
- ^ a b c d e Source: Lavington (q.v.), p. 226.
- ^ The poem is recited by Richard Helms (Sam Waterston) in the extended version.
- ^ Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.
- ^ Source: Dog day aftertaste, Eric Holm, Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, no. 10-11, 1976, pp. 3–4.
It is unclear what the common name for the robbery was prior to the release of the film. - ^ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2009.
- ^ Rice is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
- ^ "A Cry in the Dark (1988) – Release dates". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2012-06-15.
- ^ Recipient of the Allen Lane Award in 1985.
- ^ Source: Kamp and Levi (q.v.), p. 89.
- ^ Pacino is described as the director in the Wikipedia article on the playwright Heathcote Williams.
- ^ Recipient of the Edgar Award for Best fact crime book in 1984.
Bibliography
[edit]- Kamp, David with Lawrence Levi. The Film Snob's Dictionary. Broadway Books, New York, 2006.
- Lavington, Stephen. Virgin Film: Oliver Stone, Virgin Books, London, 2004.
See also
[edit]- Pages with the same format
- List of films based on arts books
- List of films based on civics books
- List of films based on film books
- List of films based on sports books
- List of films based on spy books
- List of films based on war books
- List of films based on westerns
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