This is a list of short stories and novellas that have been made into feature films. The title of the work is followed by the work's author, the title of the film, and the year of the film. If a film has an alternate title based on geographical distribution, the title listed will be that of the widest distribution area.
0–9 Short fiction Film adaptation(s) "12:01 P.M." (1973), Richard A. Lupoff 12:01 PM (1993) "1408" (1999), Stephen King 1408 (2007) 5135 Kensington (1941–1942) (series), Sally Benson Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
A Short fiction Film adaptation(s) The Abiding Vision (1935), Rebecca West A Life of Her Own (1950) The Acid House (1994), Irvine Welsh The Acid House (1998) "Adjustment Team" (1954), Philip K. Dick The Adjustment Bureau (2011) "Adultery" (1977), Andre Dubus We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton" (1904), Arthur Conan Doyle The Missing Rembrandt (1932) "The Adventure of Silver Blaze" (1892), Arthur Conan Doyle Silver Blaze (1937) Silver Blaze (1977) "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" (1892), Arthur Conan Doyle The Blue Carbuncle () (1980) "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" (1903), Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943) "The Adventure of the Empty House" (1903), Arthur Conan Doyle The Sleeping Cardinal (1931) The Woman in Green (1945) "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual" (1893), Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" (1904), Arthur Conan Doyle The Pearl of Death (1944) "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" (1892), Arthur Conan Doyle The Speckled Band (1931) "The Adventures of Joe Smith, American" (1940), Paul Gallico Joe Smith, American (1942) "A-Hunting We Will Go" (1946), D. D. Beauchamp Father's Wild Game (1950) "Air Raid" (1977), John Varley Millennium (1989) "All You Zombies" (1959), Robert A. Heinlein Predestination (2014) "An Altar on Little Thunder" (1912), Elmore Elliott Peake His Divorcing Wife (1919) "And So to Death" (1941), Cornell Woolrich Fear in the Night (1947) Nightmare (1956) Animal Farm (1945), George Orwell Animal Farm (1954) Animal Farm (1999) Animal Farm (2025) An Apartment for Jenny (1947), Faith Baldwin Apartment for Peggy (1938) "Appointment with Fear" (1946), Roy Huggins The Good Humor Man (1950) Apt Pupil (1982), Stephen King Apt Pupil (1998) Armageddon 2419 A.D. (1928), Philip Francis Nowlan Buck Rogers (1939) Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) "Assisting Ananias" (1920), W. C. Tuttle Fools of Fortune (1922) "Ate, Memos or the Miracle" (1992), James Lasdun Sunday (1997) "August Week-End" (1933), Faith Baldwin August Weekend (1936)
B Short fiction Film adaptation(s) "B" (1916), Edgar Franklin The Rail Rider (1916) "Baa, Baa Black Sheep" (1921) W. C. Tuttle Black Sheep (1921) "Baby in the Ice-Box" (1933), James M. Cain She Made Her Bed (1934) "The Baby's Had a Hard Day" (1940), Anne Wormser West Point Widow (1941) "Back Pay" (1919), Fannie Hurst Back Pay (1922) Back Pay (1930) "Bad Time at Honda" (1947), Howard Breslin Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) "Barn Burning" (1983), Haruki Murakami Burning (2018) "The Basement Room" (1936), Graham Greene The Fallen Idol (1948) "Basterd", F.W. Remmler Bastard (1940) "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" (1999), Alice Munro Away from Her (2006) "The Bear Trap" (1919), Byron Morgan Excuse My Dust (1920) "Bedside Manner" (1944), Robert Carson Bedside Manner (1945) "Beryl and the Croucher" (1916), Thomas BurkeNo Way Back (1949) "Beware of the Dog" (1944), Roald Dahl 36 Hours (1965) Breaking Point (1989) "The Bicentennial Man" (1976), Isaac Asimov Bicentennial Man (1999) "The Birds" (1952), Daphne du Maurier The Birds (1963) "The Biscuit Eater" (1939), James H. Street The Biscuit Eater (1940) The Biscuit Eater (1972) "The Blackbird" (1928), Robert Musil Feketerigó (2015) "The Bleeders" (1919), Margery Land May The Beauty Market (1919) "Blow-Up" (, "The Droolings of the Devil") (1959), Julio Cortázar Blowup (1966) The Body (1982), Stephen King Stand by Me (1986) "The Body Snatcher" (1881), Robert Louis Stevenson The Body Snatcher (1945) "The Boogeyman" (1973), Stephen King The Boogeyman (2023) "Boule de Suif" (1880), Guy de Maupassant Boule de Suif () (1934) The Escape () (1944) Mademoiselle Fifi (1944) Boule de Suif (1945) "Bow Tamely to Me" (1936), Kenneth Perkins Escape to Burma (1955) "The Boy Cried Murder" (1947), Cornell Woolrich The Window (1949) The Boy Cried Murder (1966) "The Branded Sombrero" (1927), Cherry Wilson The Branded Sombrero (1928) Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), Truman Capote Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) "Bring Me His Ears" (1922), Clarence E. Mulford Borderland (1937) "Bringing Up Baby" (1937), Hagar Wilde Bringing Up Baby (1938) "Broadway Gold" (1922), William Carey Wonderly Broadway Gold (1923) "Brokeback Mountain" (1997), Annie Proulx Brokeback Mountain (2005) "Brother Orchid" (1938), Richard Connell Brother Orchid (1940)"Button, Button" (1970), Richard MathesonThe Box (2009)
C Short fiction Film adaptation(s) Cabal (1988), Clive Barker Nightbreed (1990) "Caballero of the Law" (1933), Ben Hecht Crime Without Passion (1934) "A Call from Mitch Miller" (1956), Mary Agnes Thompson Loving You (1957) "The Call of Cthulhu" (1928), H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (2005) "A Call on the President" (1934), Damon Runyon Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939) "The Captives" (1955), Elmore Leonard The Tall T (1957) Career in C Major (1938), James M. Cain Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)Everybody Does It (1949) The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1941), H. P. Lovecraft The Haunted Palace (1963) The Resurrected (1992) "The Cat from Hell" (1977), Stephen King Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) "Chattery Teeth" (1992), Stephen King Quicksilver Highway (1997) "Children of the Corn" (1977), Stephen King Children of the Corn (1984) Children of the Corn (2009) Children of the Corn (2020) "Children on Their Birthdays" (1948), Truman Capote Children on Their Birthdays (2002) "Ching, Ching, Chinaman" (1917), Wilbur Daniel Steele Shadows (1922) "The Chink and the Child" (1928), Thomas Burke Broken Blossoms (1919) Broken Blossoms (1936) "Christmas '59" (1980), John Hughes National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) A Christmas Carol (1843), Charles Dickens The Right to Be Happy (1916) Scrooge (1935) A Christmas Carol (1938) A Christmas Carol () (1947) Scrooge (1951) It's Never Too Late () (1953) Ein Weihnachtslied in Prosa (1955) Ein Weihnachtslied in Prosa oder Eine Geistergeschichte zum Christfest (1960) A Carol for Another Christmas (1964) Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1964) A Christmas Carol (1969) Scrooge (1970) A Christmas Carol (1977) Rich Little's Christmas Carol (1978) Scrooge (1978) The Stingiest Man in Town (1978) An American Christmas Carol (1979) Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol (1979) A Christmas Carol (1982) Scrooge's Rock 'N' Roll Christmas (1984) A Christmas Carol (1984) John Grin's Christmas (1986) Scrooged (1988) Brer Rabbit's Christmas Carol (1992) The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) A Christmas Carol (1994) A Flintstones Christmas Carol (1994) Ebbie (1995) A Christmas Carol (1997) Ms. Scrooge (1997) The Ghosts of Dickens' Past (1998) An All Dogs Christmas Carol (1998) Ebenezer (1998) A Christmas Carol (1999) A Diva's Christmas Carol (2000) A Christmas Carol (2000) Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001) Scrooge & Marley (2001) A Carol Christmas (2003) A Christmas Carol (2004) Karroll's Christmas (2004) A Christmas Carol (2006) Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas (2006) A Sesame Street Christmas Carol (2006) An American Carol (2008) Barbie in A Christmas Carol (2008) A Christmas Carol (2009) A Christmas Carol (2012) It's Christmas, Carol! (2012) Scrooge & Marley (2012) Mister Scrooge to See You! (2013) A Christmas Carol (2015) The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) A Christmas Carol (2018; directed by Tom Cairns) A Christmas Carol (2018; directed by David Izatt) The Passion of Scrooge (2018) A Christmas Carol (2020) Spirited (2022) Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022) Christmas Karma (2025) Ebenezer (2026) "The Christmas Cross" (1998), Max Lucado Christmas Child (2003) "Christmas Eve at Pilot Butte" (1921), Courtney Ryley Cooper Desperate Trails (1921) "Come Again Another Day" (1950), Edward Newhouse Shadow in the Sky (1952) "Comet Over Broadway" (1937), Faith Baldwin Comet Over Broadway (1938) "The Commandos" (1942), C. S. Forester Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942) "Cool Air" (1928), H. P. Lovecraft Cool Air (1999) "The Corpse Next Door" (1937), Cornell Woolrich Union City (1980) "Cottonwood Gulch" (1924), Clarence E. Mulford North of the Rio Grande (1937) "Count Pete" (1935), Francis M. Cockrell Walking on Air (1936) "Courtin' Calamity" (1917), William Dudley Pelley The Sawdust Trail (1924) Courtin' Wildcats (1929) "The Coward" (1920), Arthur Stringer The Coward (1927) "The Crate" (1979), Stephen King Creepshow (1982) "Criminal's Mark" (1950), John Hawkins and Ward Hawkins Crime Wave (1954) "Crosstown" (1945), George Zuckerman 99 River Street (1953) "The Cruise of the Prairie Queen" (1947), D. D. Beauchamp Leave It to Henry (1949) "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (1922), F. Scott Fitzgerald The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) Cycle of the Werewolf (1983), Stephen King Silver Bullet (1985)
D Short fiction Film adaptation(s) (1890), Mori Ōgai Shishi no Gotoku (1978) The Dancer (1989) (1926), Yasunari Kawabata The Dancing Girl of Izu (1933) The Dancing Girl of Izu (1954) The Dancing Girl of Izu (1960) The Dancing Girl of Izu (1963) The Dancing Girl of Izu (1966) The Dancing Girl of Izu (1974) "The Dead" (1914), James Joyce The Dead (1987) "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1936), Stephen Vincent Benét The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) Shortcut to Happiness (2003) "The Devil's Dooryard" (1921), W. C. Tuttle The Devil's Dooryard (1923) Discipline and Genevra (1917), Harold Vickers The Talk of the Town (1918) "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye" (1994), A. S. Byatt Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) "The Dock Walloper", John Monk Saunders The Docks of New York, 1928 "Don Juan DeMarco and the Centerfold", Jeremy Leven Don Juan DeMarco (1995) "Don't Look Now" (1970), Daphne du Maurier Don't Look Now (1973) "Doubling for Cupid" (1924), Nina Wilcox Putnam The Beautiful Cheat (1926) "The Doubters" (1950), George Tabori Crisis (1950) Dream Story () (1926), Arthur Schnitzler Dream Story (1969) (TV) The Knight, Death and the Devil () (1989) Nightmare in Venice () (1989) Eyes Wide Shut (1999) "Drive My Car" (2013), Haruki Murakami Drive My Car 021) "The Drover's Wife" (1917), Henry Lawson The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson (2021) "The Duel" (1908), Joseph Conrad The Duellists (1977) "" (1971), Richard Matheson Duel (1971)
E Short fiction Film adaptation(s) "Eagle Squadron" (1941), C. S. Forester Eagle Squadron (1942) "Eight O'Clock in the Morning" (1963), Ray Nelson They Live (1988) "Eisenheim the Illusionist" (1990), Steven Millhauser The Illusionist (2006) "Empire of the Ants" (1905), H. G. Wells Empire of the Ants (1977) "The Enemy" (1951), Charlotte Armstrong Talk About a Stranger (1952) Enemy Mine (1979), Barry B. Longyear Enemy Mine (1985) "Enough for Happiness" (1951), D. D. Beauchamp She Couldn't Say No (1954) "Escape from Spiderhead" (2010), George Saunders Spiderhead (2022)
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