# List of films based on arts books

This is a list of films based on arts books.

## Architecture
### Architects

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| The Fountainhead | 1949 | King Vidor | US | The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand | 1943 | Novel | - |

## Circus
### Performers

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| Dumbo α | 1941 | Ben Sharpsteen | US | Dumbo | Helen Aberson | 193? | Children's book | - |
| Horton Hatches the Egg α | 1942 | Robert Clampett | US | Horton Hatches the Egg | Dr. Seuss | 1940 | Children's book | - |
| The Man Who Laughs | 1928 | Paul Leni | US | The Man Who Laughs | Victor Hugo | 1869 | Novel | - |
* α Animated film.

### Carnies

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| 7 Faces of Dr. Lao | 1964 | George Pal | US | The Circus of Dr. Lao | Charles G. Finney | 1935 | Novel | - |

## Dance
### Dancers

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| Nijinsky | 1980 | Herbert Ross | US | Life of Nijinsky | Romola Nijinsky | 1934 | Memoir | Vaslav Nijinsky |

## Fine art
### Painters

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| Moulin Rouge | 1952 | John Huston | UK | Moulin Rouge  [d] | Pierre La Mure | 1950 | Novel | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
| Lust for Life | 1956 | Vincente Minnelli | US | Lust for Life | Irving Stone | 1934 | Novel | Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin |
| The Agony and the Ecstasy | 1965 | Carol Reed | US | The Agony and the Ecstasy | Irving Stone | 1961 | Novel | Michelangelo |
| Pollock | 2000 | Ed Harris | US | Jackson Pollock: An American Saga | Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith | 1989 | Biography | Jackson Pollock |
| Frida | 2002 | Julie Taymor | US | Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo | Hayden Herrera | 1983 | Biography | Frida Kahlo |
| Girl with a Pearl Earring | 2003 | Peter Webber | UK & Luxembourg | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Tracy Chevalier | 1999 | Novel | Jan Vermeer |
| Carrington | 1995 | Christopher Hampton | UK & France | Lytton Strachey: The New Biography | Michael Holroyd | 1994 | Biography | Dora Carrington |
| Goya – oder der arge Weg der Erkenntnis | 1971 | Konrad Wolf | East Germany & USSR | Goya oder der arge Weg der Erkenntnis | Lion Feuchtwanger | 1951 | Novel | Francisco Goya |
| Charlotte | 2021 | Éric Warin and Tahir Rana | Canada, Belgium & France | Life? or Theatre? | Charlotte Salomon | 1981 | Autobiography | Charlotte Salomon |

### Sculptors

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| Camille Claudel | 1988 | Bruno Nuytten | France | ? | Reine-Marie Paris | 198? | Biography | Camille Claudel, Auguste Rodin |
| Savage Messiah | 1972 | Ken Russell | UK | Savage Messiah | H.S. Ede | 1931 | Biography | Henri Gaudier-Brzeska |

### Life models

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| The Naked Civil Servant * | 1975 | Jack Gold | UK | The Naked Civil Servant | Quentin Crisp | 1968 | Autobiography | Quentin Crisp |
| Girl with a Pearl Earring | 2003 | Peter Webber | UK & Luxembourg | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Tracy Chevalier | 1999 | Novel | "Girl with a Pearl Earring" (incognita) |
* * TV movie.

## Literature
### Authors (fiction)

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man | 1962 | Martin Ritt | US | Nick Adams stories | Ernest Hemingway | 1920s | Stories | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick | US | The Shining | Stephen King | 1977 | Novel | - |
| The Moderns | 1988 | Alan Rudolph | US | A Moveable Feast | Ernest Hemingway | 1964 (posthumous) | Memoir | Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein |
| Old Gringo | 1989 | Luis Puenzo | US | The Old Gringo | Carlos Fuentes | 1985 | Novel | Ambrose Bierce |
| Naked Lunch | 1991 | David Cronenberg | Canada, UK, Japan | Naked Lunch | William S. Burroughs | 1959 | Novel | William S. Burroughs |
| Hammett | 1993 | Wim Wenders | US | Hammett | Joe Gores | 1975 | Novel | Dashiell Hammett |
| In Love and War | 1996 | Richard Attenborough | US | Hemingway in Love and War | Henry S. Villard & James Nagel (editors) | 1989$^¤$ | Diary | Ernest Hemingway |
| Hamsun | 1996 | Jan Troell | Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark | Processen mod Hamsun | Thorkild Hansen | 1978 | Non-fiction | Knut Hamsun |
| Hamsun | 1996 | Jan Troell | Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark | Regnbuen | Marie Hamsun | 1953 | Autobiography | Knut Hamsun |
| Misery | 1990 | Rob Reiner | US | Misery | Stephen King | 1987 | Novel | - |
| Children of the Century | 1999 | Diane Kurys | France | The Confession of a Child of the Century | Alfred de Musset | 1836 | Novel/ Memoir | George Sand, Alfred de Musset |
| Secret Window | 2004 | David Koepp | US | Secret Window, Secret Garden | Stephen King | 1990 | Novella | Stephen King (simulacrum) |
| Capote | 2005 | Bennett Miller | US | Capote | Gerald Clarke | 199? | Biography | Truman Capote, Harper Lee |
| Infamous | 2006 | Douglas McGrath | US | Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career | George Plimpton | 1997 | Biography | Truman Capote, Harper Lee |
| Miss Potter | 2006 | Chris Noonan | UK | The Tale of Peter Rabbit | Beatrix Potter | 1901/ 1902 | Children's book | Beatrix Potter |
| Daphne * | 2007 | Clare Beavan | UK | Daphne du Maurier: The Secret Life of the Renowned Storyteller | Margaret Forster | 1993 | Biography | Daphne du Maurier |
| The Hours | 2002 | Stephen Daldry | US & UK | The Hours | Michael Cunningham | 1998 | Novel | Virginia Woolf |
* * TV movie.

### Authors (non-fiction)

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| Paper Lion | 1968 | Alex March | US | Paper Lion | George Plimpton | 1967 | Memoir | George Plimpton |
| Reds | 1981 | Warren Beatty | US | Ten Days that Shook the World (uncredited) | John Reed (uncredited) | 1919 | Memoir | John Reed |
| Stealing Heaven | 1988 | Clive Donner | UK ? | Stealing Heaven | Marion Meade | 1979 | Novel | Peter Abelard |
| Regeneration | 1997 | Gillies MacKinnon | UK & Canada | Regeneration | Pat Barker | 1991 | Novel | Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves ♠ |
| Passage † | 2008 | John Walker | Canada | Fatal Passage | Ken McGoogan | 2001 | Non-fiction | Charles Dickens |
| Carrington | 1995 | Christopher Hampton | UK & France | Lytton Strachey: The New Biography | Michael Holroyd | 1994 | Biography | Lytton Strachey |
| Out of Africa | 1985 | Sydney Pollack | US | Out of Africa | Isak Dinesen | 1937 | Memoir | Isak Dinesen ♠ |
* ♠ Certain authors have written well-known fiction, in addition to their non-fiction.
* † Dramatized documentary.

### Authors (ghostwriting)

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| Winchell * | 1998 | Paul Mazursky | US | Winchell: His Life and Times | Herman Klurfeld | 1976 | Non-fiction | Herman Klurfeld |
| The Ghost Writer | 2010 | Roman Polanski | France, Germany, UK | The Ghost | Robert Harris | 2007 | Novel | - |
| The Front | 1976 | Martin Ritt | US | Inside Out: A Memoir of the Blacklist (uncredited) | Walter Bernstein | 1996 | Memoir | Hollywood blacklist |
* * TV movie.

### Authors (forgery)

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| The Hoax | 2006 | Lasse Hallström | US | The Hoax | Clifford Irving | 1981 | Non-fiction | Clifford Irving |

### Playwrights

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| Reds | 1981 | Warren Beatty | US | Ten Days that Shook the World (uncredited) | John Reed (uncredited) | 1919 | Non-fiction/ Memoir | Eugene O'Neill |
| Wilde | 1997 | Brian Gilbert | UK | Oscar Wilde | Richard Ellmann | 1989 | Biography | Oscar Wilde |
| En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud | 1993 | Gérard Mordillat | France | En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud | Jacques Prevel | 1974 | Journal/ Memoir | Antonin Artaud |
| The Trials of Oscar Wilde | 1960 | Ken Hughes | UK | The Stringed Lute | John Furnell | 195? | Play | Oscar Wilde |
| The Trials of Oscar Wilde | 1960 | Ken Hughes | UK | Famous Trials: Oscar Wilde | Montgomery Hyde | 1948 | Non-fiction | Oscar Wilde |

### Poets

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| Beautiful Dreamers | 1990 | John Kent Harrison | Canada | Walt Whitman | Maurice Bucke | 1883 | Biography | Walt Whitman |
| Regeneration | 1997 | Gillies MacKinnon | UK & Canada | Regeneration | Pat Barker | 1991 | Novel | Wilfred Owen |
| Bright Star | 2009 | Jane Campion | UK, Australia, France | Keats (uncredited) | Andrew Motion | 1998 | Biography | John Keats |
| In My Country | 2004 | John Boorman | UK ? | Country of My Skull | Antjie Krog | 1998 | Memoir | Antjie Krog |
| Hedd Wyn | 1992 | Paul Turner | Wales | Yr Arwr | Hedd Wyn | 1917 | Poem | Hedd Wyn |

### Scriptwriters

(radio drama)
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| Tune In Tomorrow | 1990 | John Amiel | US | Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter | Mario Vargas Llosa | 1977 | Novel/ Memoir | Mario Vargas Llosa (simulacrum) |

### Publishers

(books and magazines)
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| Bright Lights, Big City | 1988 | James Bridges | US | Bright Lights, Big City | Jay McInerney | 1984 | Novel | - |
| The Devil Wears Prada | 2006 | David Frankel | US | The Devil Wears Prada | Lauren Weisberger | 2003 | Novel | Anna Wintour (simulacrum) |

### Readers

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| The Jane Austen Book Club | 2007 | Robin Swicord | US | The Jane Austen Book Club | Karen Joy Fowler | 2004 | Novel | Jane Austen (œuvre) |
| Misery | 1990 | Rob Reiner | US | Misery | Stephen King | 1987 | Novel | - |
| The Hours | 2002 | Stephen Daldry | US & UK | The Hours | Michael Cunningham | 1998 | Novel | Virginia Woolf (œuvre) |

### Bibliophiles

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| The Ninth Gate | 1999 | Roman Polanski | Portugal, Spain, France, US | The Club Dumas | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | 1993 | Novel | - |

## Magic
### Magicians

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| Houdini | 1953 | George Marshall | US | Houdini | Harold Kellock | 195? | Non-fiction | Harry Houdini |

## Music
### Composers

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| Voices from a Locked Room | 1995 | Malcolm Clarke | UK & US | Double Jeopardy | Mark A. Stuart | 198? | Novel ? | Peter Warlock |
| Amadeus | 1984 | Miloš Forman | US | Amadeus | Peter Shaffer | 1979 | Play | W. A. Mozart, Antonio Salieri |

### Conductors

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| Taking Sides | 2001 | István Szabó | France, UK, Germany, Austria | Taking Sides | Ronald Harwood | 1995 | Play | Wilhelm Furtwängler |
| Taking Sides | 2001 | István Szabó | France, UK, Germany, Austria | ? (uncredited) | Wilhelm Furtwängler (uncredited) | 194? | Diary | Wilhelm Furtwängler |
| Voices from a Locked Room | 1995 | Malcolm Clarke | UK & US | Double Jeopardy | Mark A. Stuart | 198? | Novel ? | Thomas Beecham |

### Songwriters

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| Bound for Glory | 1976 | Hal Ashby | US | Bound for Glory | Woody Guthrie | 1943 | Autobiography | Woody Guthrie |
| The Buddy Holly Story | 1978 | Steve Rash | US | Buddy Holly: His Life and Music | John Goldrosen | 197? | Non-fiction | Buddy Holly |
| Great Balls of Fire! | 1989 | Jim McBride | US | ? | Myra Lewis with Murray M. Silver, Jr. | 197? | Autobiography | Jerry Lee Lewis |
| The Doors | 1991 | Oliver Stone | US | notes (unpublished) for No One Here Gets Out Alive (uncredited) | Jerry Hopkins & Danny Sugerman (both uncredited) | 1980 | Non-fiction | Jim Morrison, The Doors |
| The Doors | 1991 | Oliver Stone | US | Riders On The Storm: My Life With Jim Morrison and the Doors (uncredited) | John Densmore (uncredited) | 1990 | Memoir | John Densmore, Jim Morrison, The Doors |
| The Doors | 1991 | Oliver Stone | US | Illustrated History of the Doors (uncredited) | Danny Sugerman (uncredited) | 198? | Non-fiction | Jim Morrison, The Doors |
| Whale Music | 1994 | Richard J. Lewis | Canada | Whale Music | Paul Quarrington | 1989 | Novel | Brian Wilson (simulacrum) |
| Stoned | 2005 | Stephen Woolley | UK | The Murder of Brian Jones | Anna Wohlin | 198? | Non-fiction | Brian Jones |
| Walk the Line | 2005 | James Mangold | US | Cash: The Autobiography | Johnny Cash with Patrick Carr | 1997 | Autobiography | Johnny Cash, June Carter |
| Walk the Line | 2005 | James Mangold | US | Man in Black: His Own Story in His Own Words | Johnny Cash | 1975 | Autobiography | Johnny Cash, June Carter |
| Amazing Grace | 2006 | Michael Apted | UK & US | "Amazing Grace" | John Newton | 1779 | Hymn | John Newton |
| The Mambo Kings | 1992 | Arne Glimcher | US | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love | Oscar Hijuelos | 1989 | Novel | - |
| Crazy Heart | 2009 | Scott Cooper | US | Crazy Heart | Thomas Cobb | 1987 | Novel | Jennings, Kristofferson, Haggard, Thompson (composite simulacrum) |

### Singers

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| Lady Sings the Blues | 1972 | Sidney J. Furie | US | Lady Sings the Blues | Billie Holiday with William Dufty | 1956 | Autobiography | Billie Holiday |

### Instrumentalists

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| Hilary and Jackie | 1998 | Anand Tucker | UK | A Genius in the Family | Piers du Pré & Hilary du Pré | 1997 | Memoir | Jacqueline du Pré, Daniel Barenboim |
| Young Man with a Horn | 1950 | Michael Curtiz | US | Young Man with a Horn | Dorothy Baker | 1938 | Novel | Bix Beiderbecke (simulacrum) |

## Radio
### Performers

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| Talk Radio | 1988 | Oliver Stone | US | Talked to Death: The Life and Murder of Alan Berg | Stephen Singular | 198? | Non-fiction |

## Stage
### Burlesque

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| The Night They Raided Minsky's | 1968 | William Friedkin | US | The Night They Raided Minsky's | Rowland Barber | 1960 | Novel | Minsky's Burlesque |
| Applause | 1929 | Rouben Mamoulian | US | Applause | Beth Brown | 1928 | Novel | - |

### Cabaret

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| Moulin Rouge | 1952 | John Huston | UK | Moulin Rouge | Pierre La Mure | 1950 | Novel | Moulin Rouge |

### Theatre
#### Actors and actresses

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| Daphne * | 2007 | Clare Beavan | UK | Daphne du Maurier: The Secret Life of the Renowned Storyteller | Margaret Forster | 1993 | Biography | Gertrude Lawrence |

#### Stage directors

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud | 1993 | Gérard Mordillat | France | En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud | Jacques Prevel | 1974 | Journal/ Memoir | Antonin Artaud |

## Visual arts
### Photographers

| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
| The Bridges of Madison County | 1995 | Clint Eastwood | US | The Bridges of Madison County aka Love in Black and White | Robert James Waller | 1992 | Novel | - |