# List of plays adapted into feature films: J to Q

This is a list of plays that have been adapted into feature films, whose titles fall into the J to Q alphabetic range. Entries are sorted alphabetically by the title of the play. The title of the play is followed by its first public performance, its playwright, the title of the film adapted from the play, the year of the film and the film's director. If a film has an alternate title based on geographical distribution, the title listed will be that of the widest distribution area. This is a dynamic list and may never be complete. It is limited to entries in which either the play or its film adaptation have an existing article on the English-language Wikipedia. It does not include films based on plays with an unknown title. See also List of plays adapted into feature films: A to I and List of plays adapted into feature films: R to Z.

## List of plays adapted into feature films
### J

| Play | Playwright | Film | Film director |
| Jack Goes Boating (2007) | Robert Glaudini | Jack Goes Boating (2010) | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| Jack Straw (1908) | W. Somerset Maugham | Jack Straw (1920) | William C. deMille |
| Jack Tar (1896) | Ben Landeck Arthur Shirley | Jack Tar (1915) | Bert Haldane |
| Jacobowsky und der Oberst | Franz Werfel | Me and the Colonel (1958) | Peter Glenville |
| Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris | Eric Blau Mort Shuman | Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1975) | Denis Héroux |
| Jagdszenen aus Niederbayern (1965) | Martin Sperr | Hunting Scenes from Bavaria (1969) | Peter Fleischmann |
| Jake's Women (1992) | Neil Simon | Jake's Women (1996) | Glenn Jordan |
| Jane (1890) | William Lestocq Harry Nicholls | Jane (1915) | Frank Lloyd |
| Janice Meredith (1900) | Paul Leicester Ford Edward Everett Rose | Janice Meredith (1924) | |
| Janie (1942) | Josephine Bentham Herschel V. Williams Jr. | Janie (1944) | Michael Curtiz |
| The Jazz Singer (1925) | Samson Raphaelson | The Jazz Singer (1927) | Alan Crosland |
| The Jazz Singer (1925) | Samson Raphaelson | The Jazz Singer (1952) | Michael Curtiz |
| The Jazz Singer (1925) | Samson Raphaelson | The Jazz Singer (1980) | Richard Fleischer |
| Jean | Ladislaus Bus-Fekete | The Baroness and the Butler (1938) | Walter Lang |
| Jean le cocher (1852) | Joseph Bouchardy | The Courier of Moncenisio (1927) | Baldassarre Negroni |
| Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (1938) | Paul Claudel | Joan of Arc at the Stake (1954) | Roberto Rossellini |
| Jeannie (1940) | Aimée Stuart | Jeannie (1941) | Harold French |
| Jeannie (1940) | Aimée Stuart | Let's Be Happy (1957) | Henry Levin |
| Jedermann (1911) | Hugo von Hofmannsthal | Jedermann (1961) | Gottfried Reinhardt |
| Jeffrey (1992) | Paul Rudnick | Jeffrey (1995) | Christopher Ashley |
| Jennie's Story (1981) | Betty Lambert | Heart of the Sun (1998) | Francis Damberger |
| Jeppe on the Hill (1722) | Ludvig Holberg | Jeppe på bjerget (1933) | Per Aabel Harry Ivarson |
| Jeppe on the Hill (1722) | Ludvig Holberg | Jeppe på bjerget (1981) | Kaspar Rostrup |
| The Jester's Supper (1909) | Sem Benelli | The Jester's Supper (1942) | Alessandro Blasetti |
| The Jest of Haha Laba | Lord Dunsany | It Happened Tomorrow (1944) | René Clair |
| Jewel Robbery (1931) | Ladislas Fodor | The Peterville Diamond (1942) | Walter Forde |
| The Jeweler's Shop | Karol Józef Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II) | The Jeweller's Shop (1988) | Michael Anderson |
| The Jewess of Toledo (1872) | Franz Grillparzer | The Jewess of Toledo (1919) | Otto Kreisler |
| Jezebel (1933) | Owen Davis | Jezebel (1938) | William Wyler |
| The Joan Danvers (1916) | Frank Stayton | A Gamble in Lives (1920) | George Ridgwell |
| Joan of Lorraine (1946) | Maxwell Anderson | Joan of Arc (1948) | Victor Fleming |
| John Loves Mary (1947} | Norman Krasna | John Loves Mary (1949) | David Butler |
| Johnny Belinda (1940) | Elmer Blaney Harris | Johnny Belinda (1948) | Jean Negulesco |
| Johnny Belinda (1940) | Elmer Blaney Harris | Johnny Belinda (1967) | Paul Bogart |
| Journey's End (1928) | R. C. Sherriff | Aces High (1976) | Jack Gold |
| Journey's End (1928) | R. C. Sherriff | Journey's End (1930) | James Whale |
| Journey's End (1928) | R. C. Sherriff | The Other Side (1931) | Heinz Paul |
| Journey's End (1928) | R. C. Sherriff | Journey's End (2017) | Saul Dibb |
| Juarez and Maximilian (1925) | Franz Werfel | Juarez (1939) | William Dieterle |
| Judah (1890) | Henry Arthur Jones | The Cheater (1920) | Henry Otto |
| Judgment at Nuremberg (1959) | Abby Mann | Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) | Stanley Kramer |
| Judith and the Holofernes (1896) | Thomas Bailey Aldrich | Judith of Bethulia (1914) | D. W. Griffith |
| Juicy and Delicious (2007) | Lucy Alibar | Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) | Benh Zeitlin |
| Julius Caesar (1599) | 'William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar (1914 film) | Enrico Guazzoni |
| Julius Caesar (1599) | 'William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar (1950) | David Bradley |
| Julius Caesar (1599) | 'William Shakespeare | An Honourable Murder (1960) | Godfrey Grayson |
| Julius Caesar (1599) | 'William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar (1970) | Stuart Burge |
| Julius Caesar (1599) | 'William Shakespeare | Caesar Must Die (2012) | Paolo Taviani Vittorio Taviani |
| Julius Caesar (1599) | 'William Shakespeare | Zulfiqar (2016) | Srijit Mukherji |
| Jump (2006) | Lisa McGee | Jump (2012) | Kieron J. Walsh |
| June Moon (1929) | George S. Kaufman Ring Lardner | June Moon (1931) | A. Edward Sutherland |
| Junior Miss (1941) | Jerome Chodorov Joseph Fields | Junior Miss (1945) | George Seaton |
| Juno and the Paycock (1924) | Seán O'Casey | Juno and the Paycock (1930) | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Jupiter Laughs (1940) | A. J. Cronin | Shining Victory (1925) | Irving Rapper |
| The Just Assassins (1949) | Albert Camus | Bajo la metralla (1983) | Felipe Cazals |
| Just a Wife (1910) | Eugene Walter | Just a Wife (1920) | Howard C. Hickman |
| Just a Woman (1916) | Eugene Walter | Just a Woman (1918) | Julius Steger |
| Just a Woman (1916) | Eugene Walter | Just a Woman (1925) | Irving Cummings |
| Just a Woman (1916) | Eugene Walter | No Other Woman (1933) | J. Walter Ruben |
| Just Suppose (1920) | Albert E. Thomas | Just Suppose (1926) | Kenneth Webb |
| Justice (1910) | John Galsworthy | Justice (1917) | Maurice Elvey |
| Juurakon Hulda (1937) | Hella Wuolijoki | The Farmer's Daughter (1947 film) (1947) | H. C. Potter |

### K

| Play | Playwright | Film | Film director |
| Kanjinchō (1840) | Namiki Gohei III | The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1945) | Akira Kurosawa |
| Katharina Knie (1928) | Carl Zuckmayer | Katharina Knie (1929) | Karl Grune |
| Kathleen Mavourneen | Dion Boucicault | Kathleen Mavourneen (1906) | Edwin S. Porter |
| Kathleen Mavourneen | Dion Boucicault | Kathleen Mavourneen (1913) | Herbert Brenon |
| Kathleen Mavourneen | Dion Boucicault | Kathleen Mavourneen (1919) | Charles J. Brabin |
| Kathleen Mavourneen | Dion Boucicault | Kathleen Mavourneen (1930) | Albert Ray |
| Kathleen Mavourneen | Dion Boucicault | Kathleen Mavourneen (1937) | Norman Lee |
| Kauboji (2008) | Saša Anočić | Cowboys (2013) | Tomislav Mršić |
| Kean (1836) | Alexandre Dumas | Kean (1921 film) | Rudolf Biebrach |
| Kean (1836) | Alexandre Dumas | A Stage Romance (1922) (1922) | Herbert Brenon |
| Kean (1836) | Alexandre Dumas | Kean (1924 film) | Alexandre Volkoff |
| Kean (1836) | Alexandre Dumas | Kean (1940 film) | Guido Brignone |
| Kean (1836) | Alexandre Dumas | Kean: Genius or Scoundrel (1956) | Vittorio Gassman |
| Keane of Kalgoorlie (1908) | Edward William O'Sullivan Arthur Wright | Keane of Kalgoorlie (1911) | John Gavin |
| Keepers of Youth (1929) | Arnold Ridley | Keepers of Youth (1932) | Thomas Bentley |
| Kelinlar qoʻzgʻoloni (1976) | Said Ahmad | The Rebellion of the Brides (1984) | Melis Abzalov |
| Key Largo (1939) | Maxwell Anderson | Key Largo (1948) | John Huston |
| Khanuma (1882) | Avksenty Tsagareli | Khanuma (1978) | Georgy Tovstonogov |
| The Kibitzer (1929) | Jo Swerling Edward G. Robinson | The Kibitzer (1930) | Edward Sloman |
| Kick In (1914) | Willard Mack | Kick In (1917) | George Fitzmaurice |
| Kick In (1914) | Willard Mack | Kick In (1922) | George Fitzmaurice |
| Kick In (1914) | Willard Mack | Kick In (1931) | Richard Wallace |
| Kiki (1918) | André Picard | Kiki (1926) | Clarence Brown |
| Kiki (1918) | André Picard | Kiki (1931) | Sam Taylor |
| Killer Joe (1993) | Tracy Letts | Killer Joe (2011) | William Friedkin |
| The Killing of Sister George (1964) | Frank Marcus | Killing of Sister George|The Killing of Sister George (1968) | Robert Aldrich |
| Kill Me, Deadly (2009) | Bill Robens | Kill Me, Deadly (2015) | Darrett Sanders |
| Kind Lady (1935) | Edward Chodorov | Kind Lady (1935) | George B. Seitz |
| Kind Lady (1935) | Edward Chodorov | Kind Lady (1951) | John Sturges |
| Kind Sir (1953) | Norman Krasna | Indiscreet (1958) | Stanley Donen |
| King Charles III (2014) | Mike Bartlett | King Charles III (2017) | Rupert Goold |
| King Dave (2005) | Alexandre Goyette | King Dave (2016) | Daniel Grou |
| King of Hearts (1954) | Jean Kerr Eleanor Brooke | That Certain Feeling (1956) | Norman Panama Melvin Frank |
| Kismet (1911) | Edward Knoblock | Kismet (1920) | Louis J. Gasnier |
| Kismet (1911) | Edward Knoblock | Kismet (1930) | John Francis Dillon |
| Kismet (1911) | Edward Knoblock | Kismet (1931) | William Dieterle |
| Kismet (1911) | Edward Knoblock | Kismet (1944) | William Dieterle |
| Kismet (1953) | Charles Lederer Luther Davis | Kismet (1955) | Vincente Minnelli |
| Kismet (1953) | Charles Lederer Luther Davis | Kismet (1967) | Bob Henry |
| Kiss and Tell (1943) | F. Hugh Herbert | Kiss and Tell (1945) | Richard Wallace |
| The Kiss Before the Mirror (1932) | Ladislas Fodor | The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933) | James Whale |
| The Kiss Before the Mirror (1932) | Ladislas Fodor | Wives Under Suspicion (1938) | James Whale |
| Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1938) | Clare Boothe Luce | Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1941) | Victor Schertzinger |
| Kiss Them for Me (1945) | Luther Davis | Kiss Them for Me (1957) | Stanley Donen |
| The Kitchen (1957) | Arnold Wesker | The Kitchen (1961) | James Hill |
| Knickerbocker Holiday (1938) | Maxwell Anderson | Knickerbocker Holiday (1944) | Harry Joe Brown |
| Kolportage (1924) | Georg Kaiser | The Farmer from Texas (1925) | Joe May |
| Kongo (1926) | Charles de Vonde Kilbourn Gordon | West of Zanzibar (1928 film) | Tod Browning |
| Kongo (1926) | Charles de Vonde Kilbourn Gordon | Kongo (1932) | William J. Cowen |
| Konig Harlekin (1900) | Rudolf Lothar | The Magic Flame (1927) | Henry King |
| Kosher Kitty Kelly | Leon De Costa | Kosher Kitty Kelly (1926) | James W. Horne |
| Kozmetika | István Békeffy | Kiss and Make-Up (1934) | Harlan Thompson |
| Krach um Jolanthe | August Hinrichs | Trouble with Jolanthe (1934) | Carl Froelich |
| Krach um Jolanthe | August Hinrichs | The Happy Village (1955) | Rudolf Schündler |
| Krach um Jolanthe | August Hinrichs | Jolanta the Elusive Pig (1945) | Hugo Bolander Oscar Winge |
| Krechinsky's Wedding (1854) | Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin | The Marriage of Krechinsky (1908) | Alexander Drankov |
| Krechinsky's Wedding (1854) | Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin | Krechinsky's Wedding (1953) | |
| Kyrsyä | Neea Viitamäki | Kyrsyä – Tuftland (2017) | Roope Olenius |

### L

| Play | Playwright | Film | Film director |
| La banque Nemo (1931) | Louis Verneuil | Nemo's Bank (1934) | Marguerite Viel |
| La Bataille de dames, ou un duel en amour (1851) | Ernest Legouvé Eugène Scribe | Devil-May-Care (1929) | Sidney Franklin |
| La bella addormentata (1919) | Pier Maria Rosso di San Secondo | Sleeping Beauty (1942) | Luigi Chiarini |
| La Belle Aventure (1912) | Gaston Arman de Caillavet Robert de Flers Étienne Rey | The Beautiful Adventure (1932, French language) | Roger Le Bon Reinhold Schünzel |
| La Belle Aventure (1912) | Gaston Arman de Caillavet Robert de Flers Étienne Rey | The Beautiful Adventure (1932, German language) | Reinhold Schünzel |
| La Belle Aventure (1912) | Gaston Arman de Caillavet Robert de Flers Étienne Rey | The Beautiful Adventure (1942) | Marc Allégret |
| La belle marinière (1929) | Marcel Achard | The Beautiful Sailor (1932) | Harry Lachman |
| La Belle Russe (1882) | David Belasco | La Belle Russe (1919) | Charles Brabin |
| Laburnum Grove (1933) | J. B. Priestley | Laburnum Grove (1936) | Carol Reed |
| La bohème | Luigi Illica Giuseppe Giacosa | La Bohème (1926) | King Vidor |
| La bugiarda (1956) | Diego Fabbri | Six Days a Week (1965) | Luigi Comencini |
| La Cage aux Folles (1973) | Jean Poiret | La Cage aux Folles (1978) | Édouard Molinaro |
| La Cage aux Folles (1973) | Jean Poiret | The Birdcage (1996) | Mike Nichols |
| La Calandria | Bernardo Dovizi | La calandria (1972) | Pasquale Festa Campanile |
| La casa de salud (1922) | Joaquín Dicenta Alfonso Paso | Unexpected Conflict (1948) | Ricardo Gascón |
| La Chienne (1930) | André Mouëzy-Éon | La Chienne (1931) | Jean Renoir |
| La Chienne (1930) | André Mouëzy-Éon | Scarlet Street (1945) | Fritz Lang |
| Lackawanna Blues (2001) | Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Lackawanna Blues (2005) | George C. Wolfe |
| La Couturière de Lunéville (1923) | Alfred Savoir | The Dressmaker of Luneville (1932) | Harry Lachman |
| La Couturière de Lunéville (1923) | Alfred Savoir | Dressed to Thrill (1935, musical) | Harry Lachman |
| La Cuisine Des Anges (1952) | Albert Husson | We're No Angels (1955) | Michael Curtiz |
| La Dame de chez Maxim (1899) | Georges Feydeau | La dama de Chez Maxim's (1923) | Amleto Palermi |
| La Dame de chez Maxim (1899) | Georges Feydeau | La dame de chez Maxim's (1933) | Alexander Korda |
| La Dame de chez Maxim (1899) | Georges Feydeau | The Girl from Maxim's (1933) | Alexander Korda |
| La Dame de chez Maxim (1899) | Georges Feydeau | The Girl from Maxim's (1950 film) (1950) | Marcel Aboulker |
| La Dame de Saint-Tropez | Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois Adolphe d'Ennery | Appassionatamente (1954) | Giacomo Gentilomo |
| Ladies and Gentlemen (1937) | Ernest Vajda | The Great Garrick (1937) | James Whale |
| Ladies and Gentlemen (1939) | Charles MacArthur Ben Hecht | Perfect Strangers (1950) | Bretaigne Windust |
| Ladies in Retirement (1940) | Reginald Denham Edward Percy | Ladies in Retirement (1941) | Charles Vidor |
| Ladies in Retirement (1940) | Reginald Denham Edward Percy | The Mad Room (1969) | Bernard Girard |
| Ladies of the Jury (1929) | John Frederick Ballard | We're on the Jury (1937) | Ben Holmes |
| Ladies Room | Robin Schiff | Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997) | David Mirkin |
| La Duchesse des Folies-Bergère (1902) | Georges Feydeau | The Queen of Moulin Rouge (1926) | Robert Wiene |
| Lady Behave (1941) | Stanley Lupino | Don't Give Up (1947) | Lars-Eric Kjellgren |
| Lady Frederick (1907) | W. Somerset Maugham | The Divorcee (1919) | Herbert Blaché |
| The Lady from Trévelez (1916) | Carlos Arniches | The Lady from Trévelez (1936) | Edgar Neville |
| The Lady from Trévelez (1916) | Carlos Arniches | Calle Mayor (1956) | Juan Antonio Bardem |
| The Lady in Ermine (1922) | Frederick Lonsdale Cyrus Wood | Bride of the Regiment (1930, musical) | John Francis Dillon |
| The Lady of the Camellias | Alexandre Dumas, fils | Kameliadamen (1907) | Viggo Larsen |
| The Lady of the Camellias | Alexandre Dumas, fils | Camille (1909) | Ugo Falena |
| The Lady of the Camellias | Alexandre Dumas, fils | La Dame aux Camélias (1912) | André Calmettes Louis Mercanton Henri Pouctal |
| The Lady of the Camellias | Alexandre Dumas, fils | La Signora delle Camelie (1915) | Baldassarre Negroni |
| The Lady of the Camellias | Alexandre Dumas, fils | Camille (1915) | Albert Capellani |
| The Lady of the Camellias | Alexandre Dumas, fils | Camille (1917) | J. Gordon Edwards |
| The Lady of the Camellias | Alexandre Dumas, fils | Camille (1921) | Ray C. Smallwood |
| The Lady of the Camellias | Alexandre Dumas, fils | Damen med kameliorna (1925) | Olof Molander |
| The Lady of the Camellias | Alexandre Dumas, fils | Camille (1926) | Fred Niblo |
| The Lady of the Camellias | Alexandre Dumas, fils | La Dame aux Camélias (1934) | Fernand Rivers Abel Gance |
| The Lady of the Camellias | Alexandre Dumas, fils | Camille (1936) | George Cukor |
| The Lady of the Camellias | Alexandre Dumas, fils | La Dame aux Camélias (1953) | Raymond Bernard |
| The Lady of the Camellias | Alexandre Dumas, fils | La Mujer de las camelias (1953) | Ernesto Arancibia |
| The Lady of the Camellias | Alexandre Dumas, fils | La Dame aux Camélias (1981) | Mauro Bolognini |
| The Lady of the Camellias | Alexandre Dumas, fils | Camille (1984) | Desmond Davis |
| Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) | Oscar Wilde | Lady Windermere's Fan (1916) | Fred Paul |
| Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) | Oscar Wilde | Lady Windermere's Fan (1925) | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) | Oscar Wilde | Story of a Bad Woman (1948) | Luis Saslavsky |
| Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) | Oscar Wilde | The Fan (1949) | Otto Preminger |
| Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) | Oscar Wilde | A Good Woman (2004) | Mike Barker |
| La Fausse Suivante (1724) | Pierre de Marivaux | False Servant (2000) | Benoît Jacquot |
| La Femme de ta jeunesse (1947) | Jacques Deval | Tuesday's Guest (1950) | Jacques Deval |
| La Femme et le Pantin (1911) | Pierre Frondaie Pierre Louÿs | The Woman and the Puppet (1920) | Reginald Barker |
| La Femme et le Pantin (1911) | Pierre Frondaie Pierre Louÿs | The Woman and the Puppet (1929) | Jacques de Baroncelli |
| La Femme Masquee (1923) | Charles Méré | The Masked Woman (1927) | Silvano Balboni |
| La Femme nue (1908) | Henry Bataille | The Naked Truth (1914) | Carmine Gallone |
| La Femme nue (1908) | Henry Bataille | The Nude Woman (1922) | Roberto Roberti |
| La Femme nue (1908) | Henry Bataille | The Nude Woman (1926) | Léonce Perret |
| La Femme nue (1908) | Henry Bataille | The Nude Woman (1932) | Jean-Paul Paulin |
| La fille et le garçon (1927) | André Birabeau Georges Dolley | The Girl and the Boy (1931) | Wilhelm Thiele Roger Le Bon |
| La fille et le garçon (1927) | André Birabeau Georges Dolley | Two Hearts Beat as One (1932) | Wilhelm Thiele |
| La Flamme | Charles Méré | The Flame (1926) | René Hervil |
| La Flamme | Charles Méré | The Flame (1936) | André Berthomieu |
| La gibigianna | Carlo Bertolazzi | Vanity (1947) | Giorgio Pastina |
| La Gorgona (1913) | Sem Benelli | The Gorgon (1942) | Guido Brignone |
| La governante (1952) | Vitaliano Brancati | La governante (1974) | Giovanni Grimaldi |
| La Grande Duchesse et le garçon d'étage (1924) | Alfred Savoir | The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926) | Malcolm St. Clair |
| La Grande Duchesse et le garçon d'étage (1924) | Alfred Savoir | Here Is My Heart (1934) | Frank Tuttle |
| La Gringa (1928) | Tom Cushing | South Sea Rose (1929) | Allan Dwan |
| La huitième femme de Barbe-Bleue (1921) | Alfred Savoir | Bluebeard's 8th Wife (1923) | Sam Wood |
| La huitième femme de Barbe-Bleue (1921) | Alfred Savoir | Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938) | Ernst Lubitsch |
| L'Aigle à deux têtes (1946) | Jean Cocteau | The Mystery of Oberwald (1980) | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| L'Aiglon (1900) | Edmond Rostand | The Eaglet | Émile Chautard |
| La Livrée de M. Le Comte | Francis de Croisset | Take My Tip (1937) | Herbert Mason |
| La Maison cernée | Pierre Frondaie | La Route impériale (1935) | Marcel L'Herbier |
| La Marche nupitale (1905) | Henry Bataille | The Wedding March (1915) | Carmine Gallone |
| La Marche nupitale (1905) | Henry Bataille | The Wedding March (1929) | André Hugon |
| La Marche nupitale (1905) | Henry Bataille | The Wedding March (1934) | Mario Bonnard |
| The Lame Dog Inn | Leslie Bush-Fekete | The Roadhouse Murder (1932) | J. Walter Ruben |
| La Merveilleuse Journée (1922) | Yves Mirande | The Wonderful Day (1929 film) | René Barberis |
| La Merveilleuse Journée (1922) | Yves Mirande | The Wonderful Day (1932 film) | Robert Wyler Yves Mirande |
| La Merveilleuse Journée (1922) | Yves Mirande | The Wonderful Day (1980 film) | Claude Vital |
| La morte in vacanza (1924) | Alberto Casella | Death Takes a Holiday (1934) | Mitchell Leisen |
| L'Amour à l'américaine (1930) | André Mouëzy-Éon Robert Spitzer | American Love (1931) | Claude Heymann |
| L'amour veille (1907) | Gaston Arman de Caillavet Robert de Flers | Love Watches (1918) | Henry Houry |
| La muette de Portici (1828) | Germain Delavigne Eugène Scribe | The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916) | Phillips Smalley Lois Weber |
| L'Amuse-gueule (1986) | Gérard Lauzier | Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator (1988) | Édouard Molinaro |
| The Land of Promise (1913) | W. Somerset Maugham | The Canadian (1926) | William Beaudine |
| L'âne de Buridan | Gaston Arman de Caillavet Robert de Flers | Buridan's Donkey (1932) | Alexandre Ryder |
| L'Angoisse | Pierre Mills Celia de Vilyars | Latin Quarter (1945 film) | Vernon Sewell |
| L'Angoisse | Pierre Mills Celia de Vilyars | Ghost Ship (1952) | Vernon Sewell |
| L'Angoisse | Pierre Mills Celia de Vilyars | House of Mystery (1961) | Vernon Sewell |
| L'Annonce faite à Marie (1912) | Paul Claudel | The Annunciation of Marie (1991) | Alain Cuny |
| L'Antenato (1923) | Carlo Veneziani | The Ancestor (1936) | Guido Brignone |
| La nuit est à nous (1925) | Henry Kistemaeckers | The Night Belongs to Us (1929) | Carl Froelich Henry Roussel |
| La nuit est à nous (1925) | Henry Kistemaeckers | The Night Is Ours (1930) | Roger Lion Carl Froelich Henry Roussel |
| La nuit est à nous (1925) | Henry Kistemaeckers | The Night Is Ours (1953) | Jean Stelli |
| La paix chez soi(1903) | Georges Courteline | Scènes de ménage (1954) | André Berthomieu |
| La petite chocolatière (1909) | Paul Gavault | The Chocolate Girl (1927) | René Hervil |
| La petite chocolatière (1909) | Paul Gavault | The Chocolate Girl (1932) | Marc Allégret |
| La petite chocolatière (1909) | Paul Gavault | The Chocolate Girl (1950) | André Berthomieu |
| La Peur des coups (1895) | Georges Courteline | Scènes de ménage (1954) | André Berthomieu |
| La Possession (1921) | Henry Bataille | La Possession (1929) | Léonce Perret |
| La Présidente (1912) | Maurice Hennequin Pierre Veber | Mademoiselle Gobete (1952) | Pietro Germi |
| La Présidente (1912) | Maurice Hennequin Pierre Veber | La presidentessa (1977) | Luciano Salce |
| La Prétentaine (1957) | Jacques Deval | Beloved Impostor (1961) | Ákos Ráthonyi |
| La Rabouilleuse | Émile Fabre | Honor of the Family (1931) | Lloyd Bacon |
| La Reina Mora (1903) | Quintero brothers | The Moorish Queen (1937) | Eusebio Fernández Ardavín |
| La reine de Biarritz (1927) | Romain Coolus | The Queen of Biarritz (1934) | Jean Toulout |
| Larger than Life (1936) | Joseph Schrank | He Couldn't Say No (1938) | Lewis Seiler |
| La Rivale (1907) | Henry Kistemaeckers Eugene Delard | The Woman of Bronze (1923) | King Vidor |
| La Robe Rouge (1900) | Eugène Brieux | The Red Robe (1933) | Jean de Marguenat |
| La Ronde (1897) | Arthur Schnitzler | The Merry-Go-Round (1920) | Richard Oswald |
| La Ronde (1897) | Arthur Schnitzler | La Ronde (1950) | Max Ophüls |
| La Ronde (1897) | Arthur Schnitzler | Circle of Love (1964) | Roger Vadim |
| La Ronde (1897) | Arthur Schnitzler | Sexual Life (2005) | Ken Kwapis |
| 360 (2011) | Fernando Meirelles |
| L'Arpete | Yves Mirande | It Happened in Paris (1935) | Robert Wyler Carol Reed |
| Las Brutas | Juan Radrigan | The Quispe Girls (2013) | Sebastian Sepulveda |
| Las estrellas (1904) | Carlos Arniches | Yo quiero ser tonta (1950) | Eduardo Ugarte |
| The Last Chance | Arnold Ridley | The Warren Case (1934) | Walter Summers |
| The Last Coupon | Ernest E. Bryan | Spring Handicap (1937) | Herbert Brenon |
| Last Warning ''The Last Warning'' | Thomas F. Fallon | The House of Fear (1939) | Joe May |
| La tavola dei poveri | Raffaele Viviani | The Table of the Poor (1932) | Alessandro Blasetti |
| The Late Christopher Bean (1932) | René Fauchois | Christopher Bean (1933) | Sam Wood |
| La Tentation | Charles Méré | Temptation (1929) | René Barberis René Leprince |
| La Tosca | Victorien Sardou | The Chalice of Sorrow (1916) | Rex Ingram |
| La Tosca | Victorien Sardou | Tosca (1941 film) | Carl Koch |
| La Tosca | Victorien Sardou | Tosca (1956 film) | Carmine Gallone |
| La Tosca | Victorien Sardou | La Tosca (1973 film) | Luigi Magni |
| The Laughing Lady | Alfred Sutro | A Society Scandal (1924) | Allan Dwan |
| La vedova (1902) | Renato Simoni | The Widow (1939 film) | Goffredo Alessandrini |
| La veille d'armes (1917) | Claude Farrère Lucien Népoty | The Woman from Monte Carlo (1932) | Michael Curtiz |
| L'Aventurier (1910) | Alfred Capus | L'Aventurier (1934) | Marcel L'Herbier |
| La Vie de chantier | Dany Boon | La Maison du Bonheur (2006) | Dany Boon |
| La Vierge folle (1910) | Henry Bataille | A Foolish Maiden (1929) | Luitz-Morat |
| La vita che ti diedi (1923) | Luigi Pirandello | The Wait (2015) | Piero Messina |
| La Voie Lactee (1933) | Alfred Savoir | The King of Paris (1934) | Jack Raymond |
| La Voyante | Sacha Guitry | The Clairvoyant (1924) | Leon Abrams |
| Le Berceau (1898) | Eugène Brieux | The Cradle (1922) | Paul Powell |
| Le Bois sacré (1910) | Gaston Arman de Caillavet Robert de Flers | Sacred Woods (1939) | Léon Mathot |
| Le Bonheur (1933) | Henri Bernstein | Le Bonheur (1934) | Marcel L'Herbier |
| Le Chevalier au masque | Paul Armont Jean Manouss | The Purple Mask (1955) | H. Bruce Humberstone |
| Le Cocu magnifique (1921) | Fernand Crommelynck | The Magnificent Cuckold (1964) | Antonio Pietrangeli |
| Le Contrat (1969) | Francis Veber | L'emmerdeur (1973) | Édouard Molinaro |
| Le Contrat (1969) | Francis Veber | Buddy Buddy (1981) | Billy Wilder |
| Le Dindon (1908) | Georges Feydeau | The Turkey (1931) | Claude Barma |
| Le Dindon (1908) | Georges Feydeau | The Straw Lover (1951) | Gilles Grangier |
| Le Dîner de Cons (1993) | Francis Veber | The Dinner Game (1998) | Francis Veber |
| Le Diplomate (1827) | Eugène Scribe Germain Delavigne | The Ambassador (1936) | Baldassarre Negroni |
| Le journal d'une femme de Chambre (1931) | André de Lorde | The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) | Jean Renoir |
| Le Flambée (1911) | Henry Kistemaeckers | The Flame (1952) | Alessandro Blasetti |
| Le fruit vert (1924) | Régis Gignoux Jacques Théry | Unripe Fruit (1934) | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia |
| Le fruit vert (1924) | Régis Gignoux Jacques Théry | A Precocious Girl (1934) | Max Neufeld |
| Le fruit vert (1924) | Régis Gignoux Jacques Théry | Between Us Girls (1942) | Henry Koster |
| Le Mariage de mademoiselle Beulemans (1910) | Frantz Fonson Fernand Wicheler | The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans (1927) | Julien Duvivier |
| Le Médecin malgré lui (1666) | Molière | The Doctor in Spite of Himself (1931) | Carlo Campogalliani |
| Le Médecin malgré lui (1666) | Molière | The Doctor in Spite of Himself (1999) | Lau Kwok Fai |
| Le Million (1911) | Georges Berr Marcel Guillemaud | Le Million (1931) | René Clair |
| Le Monsieur de cinq heures | Maurice Hennequin Pierre Veber | A Kiss in a Taxi (1927) | Clarence Badger |
| L'Enfant du miracle (1903) | Paul Gavault Robert Charvay | The Miracle Child (1932) | André Gillois |
| Le Père de Mademoiselle (1953) | Roger Ferdinand | The Father of the Girl (1953) | Marcel L'Herbier |
| Le père Noël est une ordure (1979) | Le Splendid | Santa Claus Is a Stinker (1982) | Jean-Marie Poiré |
| L'Épervier (1925) | Francis de Croisset | L'Épervier (1933) | Marcel L'Herbier |
| Le Père (2012) | Florian Zeller | Floride (2015) | Philippe Le Guay |
| Le Phalène (1913) | Henry Bataille | La falena (1916) | Carmine Gallone |
| Le Reveillon (1872) | Henri Meilhac Ludovic Halévy | So This Is Paris (1926) | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Le Roi (1908) | Gaston Arman de Caillavet Robert de Flers Emmanuel Arène | The King (1936) | Pierre Colombier |
| Le Roi (1908) | Gaston Arman de Caillavet Robert de Flers Emmanuel Arène | The King on Main Street (1925) | Monta Bell |
| Le Roi des palaces (1911) | Henry Kistemaeckers | King of the Hotel (1932) | Carmine Gallone |
| Le Roi des palaces (1911) | Henry Kistemaeckers | King of the Ritz (1933) | Carmine Gallone Herbert Smith |
| Le roi s'amuse (1832) | Victor Hugo | Rigoletto (1918) | Jacob Fleck Luise Fleck |
| Le roi s'amuse (1832) | Victor Hugo | The King's Jester (1941) | Mario Bonnard |
| Le ruisseau (1907) | Pierre Wolff | The Virtuous Model (1919) | Albert Capellani |
| Les Avariés (1901) | Eugène Brieux | Damaged Goods (1914) | Tom Ricketts |
| Les Avariés (1901) | Eugène Brieux | Damaged Goods (1919) | Alexander Butler |
| Les Avariés (1901) | Eugène Brieux | Damaged Lives (1933) | Edgar G. Ulmer |
| Les Avariés (1901) | Eugène Brieux | Damaged Goods (1937) | Phil Goldstone |
| Le Scandale (1909) | Henry Bataille | The Scandal (1923) | Arthur Rooke |
| Le Scandale (1909) | Henry Bataille | The Scandal (1934) | Marcel L'Herbier |
| Les Beaux Jours d'Aranjuez | Peter Handke | The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez (2016) | Wim Wenders |
| Les Boulingrin(1898) | Georges Courteline | Scènes de ménage (1954) | André Berthomieu |
| Les Contes de la reine de Navarre (1850) | Eugène Scribe | The Queen of Navarre (1942) | Carmine Gallone |
| Les Côtelettes (1997) | Bertrand Blier | Les Côtelettes (2003) | Bertrand Blier |
| Les Deux Timides (1860) | Eugène Labiche | Two Timid Souls (1928) | René Clair |
| Les Deux Timides (1860) | Eugène Labiche | Two Timid Souls (1943) | Yves Allégret |
| Les Dragées d'Hercule | Maurice Hennequin Paul Bilhaud | Le pillole di Ercole (1960) | Luciano Salce |
| Les Gaîtés de l'escadron (1904) | Georges Courteline | The Gaieties of the Squadron (1913) | Maurice Tourneur Joseph Faivre |
| Les Gaîtés de l'escadron (1904) | Georges Courteline | Fun in the Barracks (1932) | Maurice Tourneur |
| Les Gaîtés de l'escadron (1904) | Georges Courteline | The Cheerful Squadron (1954) | Paolo Moffa |
| Les J3 | Roger Ferdinand | Les J3 (1946) | Roger Richebé |
| Les Joies du foyer (1910) | Maurice Hennequin Pierre Veber | El Calavera (1954) | Carlos F. Borcosque |
| Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1985) | Christopher Hampton | Dangerous Liaisons (1988) | Stephen Frears |
| Les Marionnettes (1910) | Pierre Wolff | The Marionettes (1918) | Émile Chautard |
| Les Muses orphelines | Michel Marc Bouchard | The Orphan Muses (2000) | Robert Favreau |
| Les Nouveaux Messieurs | Robert de Flers Francis de Croisset | The New Gentlemen (1929) | Jacques Feyder |
| Le Souper (1989) | Jean-Claude Brisville | The Supper (1992) | Édouard Molinaro |
| Les Vignes du Seigneur | Francis de Croisset Robert de Flers | Our Lord's Vineyard (1932) | René Hervil |
| Le Tailleur au château | Paul Armont Léopold Marchand | Love Me Tonight (1932, musical) | Rouben Mamoulian |
| Le Trou dans le mur | Yves Mirande | Hole in the Wall|A Hole in the Wall (1930) | René Barberis |
| Le Trou dans le mur | Yves Mirande | A Lucky Man (1930) | Benito Perojo |
| Le Trou dans le mur | Yves Mirande | Hole in the Wall|A Hole in the Wall (1950) | Émile Couzinet |
| The Letter (1927) | W. Somerset Maugham | The Letter (1929) | Jean de Limur |
| The Letter (1927) | W. Somerset Maugham | The Letter (1940) | William Wyler |
| The Letter (1927) | W. Somerset Maugham | The Unfaithful (1947) | Vincent Sherman |
| Letty | Arthur Wing Pinero | The Loves of Letty (1919) | Frank Lloyd |
| L'Étudiante et Monsieur Henri | Ivan Calbérac | The Student and Mister Henri (2015) | Ivan Calbérac |
| Le veau gras (1924) | Bernard Zimmer | The Fatted Calf (1939) | Serge de Poligny |
| Le venin | Henri Bernstein | Orage (1938) | Marc Allégret |
| Le Vertige | Charles Méré | Le Vertige (1926) | Marcel L'Herbier |
| Le Voyageur sans bagage (1937) | Jean Anouilh | Traveling Light (1944) | Jean Anouilh |
| Le Zebre (1920) | Paul Armont | The Glad Eye (1920) | James Reardon Kenelm Foss |
| Le Zebre (1920) | Paul Armont | The Glad Eye (1927) | Maurice Elvey |
| L'Habit vert (1912) | Gaston Arman de Caillavet Robert de Flers | The Green Jacket (1937) | Roger Richebé |
| L'homme à la Rose (1920) | Henry Bataille | The Private Life of Don Juan (1934) | Alexander Korda |
| L'homme en habit (1920) | Yves Mirande André Picard | She Wolves (1925) | Maurice Elvey |
| L'homme en habit (1920) | Yves Mirande André Picard | Evening Clothes (1927) | Luther Reed |
| L'homme en habit (1920) | Yves Mirande André Picard | A Gentleman in Tails (1931) | Roger Capellani |
| L'homme que j'ai tué (1925) | Maurice Rostand | Broken Lullaby (1932) | Ernst Lubitsch |
| L'homme qui assassina | Claude Farrère | The Man Who Murdered (1931) | Curtis Bernhardt |
| L'Homme qui assassina (1913) | Pierre Frondaie | The Right to Love (1920) | George Fitzmaurice |
| L'Homme riche | Jean Jose Frappa | Billions (1920) | Ray C. Smallwood |
| L'Hôtel du libre échange (1894) | Georges Feydeau Maurice Desvallières | Hotel Paradiso (1966) | Peter Glenville |
| Libby | Budd Grossman | Bachelor Flat (1961) | Frank Tashlin |
| Liebelei (1894) | Arthur Schnitzler | Flirtation (1927) | Jacob Fleck |
| Liebelei (1894) | Arthur Schnitzler | Liebelei (1933) | Max Ophüls |
| Liebelei (1894) | Arthur Schnitzler | A Love Story (1933) | Max Ophüls |
| Liebelei (1894) | Arthur Schnitzler | Christine (1958) | Pierre Gaspard-Huit |
| Life During Wartime | Keith Reddin | The Alarmist (1997) | Evan Dunsky |
| Life Eternal (1943) | Viktor Rozov | The Cranes Are Flying (1957) | Mikhail Kalatozov |
| Life Is Pretty Much the Same | Arthur Jarvis Black | The Plaything (1929) | Castleton Knight |
| Life of Galileo (1943) | Bertolt Brecht | Galileo (1975) | Joseph Losey |
| The Lifted Veil (1921) | Henry Arthur Jones | Beyond (1921) | William Desmond Taylor |
| Lights Out (1922) | Paul Dickey | Crashing Hollywood (1938) | Lew Landers |
| Lights Out at Eleven | W. Armitage Owen | Save a Little Sunshine (1938) | Norman Lee |
| The Likes of Her (1923) | Charles McEvoy | Sally in Our Alley (1931) | Maurice Elvey |
| Lilas blanc | Ladislas Fodor | La Cinquième empreinte (1934) | Karl Anton |
| Lilas blanc | Ladislas Fodor | The White Lilac (1935) | Albert Parker |
| Liliom (1909) | Ferenc Molnár | A Trip to Paradise (1921) | Maxwell Karger |
| Liliom (1909) | Ferenc Molnár | Liliom (1930) | Frank Borzage |
| Liliom (1909) | Ferenc Molnár | Liliom (1934) | Fritz Lang |
| Liliom (1909) | Ferenc Molnár | Carousel (1956) | Henry King |
| The Limping Man (1930) | William Matthew Scott | Creeping Shadows (1931) | J. O. C. Orton |
| Linger Longer Letty (1919) | Anne Nichols | Give Me a Sailor (1938) | Elliott Nugent |
| L'innesto (1917) | Luigi Pirandello | The Choice (2015) | Michele Placido |
| L'Insoumise (1923) | Pierre Frondaie | Fazil (1928) | Howard Hawks |
| L'Instinct (1905) | Henry Kistemaeckers | Instinct (1930) | André Liabel Léon Mathot |
| The Lion in Winter (1966) | James Goldman | The Lion in Winter (1968) | Anthony Harvey |
| The Lion in Winter (1966) | James Goldman | The Lion in Winter (2003) | Andrei Konchalovsky |
| Little Accident (1928) | Floyd Dell Thomas Mitchell | The Little Accident (1930) | William James Craft |
| Little Accident (1928) | Floyd Dell Thomas Mitchell | Little Accident (film) (1939) | Charles Lamont |
| Little Accident (1928) | Floyd Dell Thomas Mitchell | Casanova Brown (1944) | Sam Wood |
| The Little Cafe (1911) | Tristan Bernard | Playboy of Paris (1930, musical) | Ludwig Berger |
| Little Miss Bluebeard | Avery Hopwood Gábor Drégely | Miss Bluebeard (1925) | Frank Tuttle |
| Little Miss Bluebeard | Avery Hopwood Gábor Drégely | Her Wedding Night (1930) | Frank Tuttle |
| Little Tommy Tucker | Desmond Carter Caswell Garth | Out of the Blue (1931) | Gene Gerrard |
| The Live Wire (1950) | Garson Kanin | The Right Approach (1961) | David Butler |
| L'Occident (1913) | Henry Kistemaeckers | Eye for Eye (1918 film) | Albert Capellani |
| Loco (1947) | Dale Eunson Katherine Albert | How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) | Jean Negulesco |
| London Wall (1931) | John Van Druten | After Office Hours (1932) | Thomas Bentley |
| Long Ago Ladies (1934) | David Carb | Chatterbox (1936) | George Nicholls Jr. |
| Long Day's Journey into Night (1956) | Eugene O'Neill | Long Day's Journey into Night (1962) | Sidney Lumet |
| Long Day's Journey into Night (1956) | Eugene O'Neill | Long Day's Journey into Night (1996) | David Wellington |
| The Long Stay Cut Short, or The Unsatisfactory Supper (1946) | Tennessee Williams | Baby Doll (1956) | Elia Kazan |
| Looking for Normal (2001) | Jane Anderson | Normal (2003) | Jane Anderson |
| Lord Chumley (1888) | Henry Churchill de Mille David Belasco | Forty Winks (1925) | Paul Iribe Frank Urson |
| Los Cuervos están de luto (1960) | Hugo Argüelles | Los Cuervos están de luto (1965) | Francisco del Villar |
| A Loss of Roses (1959) | William Inge | The Stripper (1963) | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| Lost in Yonkers (1990) | Neil Simon | Lost in Yonkers (1993) | Martha Coolidge |
| Louisiana (1933) | J. Augustus Smith | Drums O' Voodoo (1934) | Arthur Hoerl |
| The Lovebirds | Basil Thomas | The Night We Got the Bird (1961) | Darcy Conyers |
| The Love Dreams | Elmer Blaney Harris Anne Nichols | Her Gilded Cage (1922) | Sam Wood |
| Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926) | George Abbott John V. A. Weaver | The Saturday Night Kid (1929) | A. Edward Sutherland |
| Love from a Stranger (1936) | Frank Vosper | Love from a Stranger (1937) | Rowland V. Lee |
| Love from a Stranger (1936) | Frank Vosper | Love from a Stranger (1947) | Richard Whorf |
| Love Letters (1988) | A. R. Gurney | Love Letters (1999) | Stanley Donen |
| The Love Race | Stanley Lupino | The Love Race (1931) | Lupino Lane |
| The Lovers (1956) | Leslie Stevens | The War Lord (1965) | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| Lovers and Other Strangers | Joseph Bologna Renée Taylor | Lovers and Other Strangers (1970) | Cy Howard |
| Lovers' Lane (1901) | Clyde Fitch | Lovers' Lane (1924) | Phil Rosen |
| Love's a Luxury | Edward Hole and Guy Paxton, | Love's a Luxury (1952) | Francis Searle |
| The Love Suicides at Amijima | Chikamatsu Monzaemon | Double Suicide (1969) | Masahiro Shinoda |
| Love! Valour! Compassion! (1994) | Terrence McNally | Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997) | Joe Mantello |
| Loyalties (1933) | John Galsworthy | Loyalties (1933) | Basil Dean |
| The Luck of the Navy (1919) | Clifford Mills | The Luck of the Navy (1927) | Fred Paul |
| The Luck of the Navy (1919) | Clifford Mills | Luck of the Navy (1938) | Norman Lee |
| The Luck of Roaring Camp | Mark Blow Ida Molesworth | The Luck of Roaring Camp (1911) | W. J. Lincoln |
| Lullaby (1923) | Edward Knoblock | The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) | Edgar Selwyn |
| Lulu play cycle: Earth Spirit (1895) and Pandora's Box (1904) | Frank Wedekind | Lulu (1917) | Alexander Antalffy |
| Lulu play cycle: Earth Spirit (1895) and Pandora's Box (1904) | Frank Wedekind | Lulu (1962) | Rolf Thiele |
| Lulu play cycle: Earth Spirit (1895) and Pandora's Box (1904) | Frank Wedekind | Lulu by Night (1986) | Emilio Martínez-Lázaro |
| Lulu Belle (1926) | Edward Sheldon Charles MacArthur | Lulu Belle (1948) | Leslie Fenton |
| L'uomo, la bestia e la virtù (1919) | Luigi Pirandello | Man, Beast and Virtue (1953) | Steno |
| The Lure (1913) | George Scarborough | The Lure (1914) | Alice Guy-Blaché |
| The Lure of London | Arthur Applin | The Lure of London (1914) | Bert Haldane |
| Luther (1961) | John Osborne | Luther (1974) | Guy Green |
| Luv (1964) | Murray Schisgal | Luv (1967) | Clive Donner |
| The Lyons Mail (1877) | Charles Reade | The Lyons Mail (1916) | Fred Paul |
| The Lyons Mail (1877) | Charles Reade | The Lyons Mail (1931) | Arthur Maude |
| Lysistrata (411 BC) | Aristophanes | The Second Greatest Sex (1955) | George Marshall |
| Lysistrata (411 BC) | Aristophanes | The Girls (1968) | Mai Zetterling |
| Lysistrata (411 BC) | Aristophanes | Şalvar Davası (1983) | Kartal Tibet |
| Lysistrata (411 BC) | Aristophanes | The Source (2011) | Radu Mihăileanu |
| Lysistrata (411 BC) | Aristophanes | Chi-Raq (2015) | Spike Lee |
| | | The Lacquered Box (1932) | |
| | | Ladies' Day (1943) | |
| | | Ladies in Love (1936) | |
| | | Ladies Love Brutes (1930) | |
| | | Ladies Must Live (1940) | |
| | | Ladies of Leisure (1930) | |
| | | Ladies of the Jury (1932) | |
| | | Ladies Should Listen (1934) | |
| | | Ladies They Talk About (1933) | |
| | | Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath (1928) | |
| | | Lady Be Careful (1936) | |
| | | Lady Gangster (1942) | |
| | | The Lady Is Willing (1934) | |
| | | The Lady of Scandal (1930) | |
| | | Lady in Ermine (1947) | |
| | | A Lady Mislaid (1958) | |
| | | Lady Tetley's Decree (1920) | |
| | | A Lady's Name (1918) | |
| Lakeboat (1980) | David Mamet | Lakeboat (2000) | Joe Mantegna |
| | | The Lamb (1915) | |
| | | The Lame Devil (1948) | |
| | | The Land of Promise (1917) | |
| | | Landslide (1940) | |
| | | Lantana (2001) | |
| | | The Laramie Project (2002) | |
| | | Larceny, Inc. (1942) | |
| | | The Lark (1957) | |
| | | The Lark (1959) | |
| | | The Lash (1934) | |
| | | The Last Chance (1937) | |
| | | The Last Mile (1932) | |
| | | The Last Mile (1959) | |
| | | The Last Night (1949) | |
| The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1925) | Frederick Lonsdale | The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929) | Sidney Franklin |
| The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1925) | Frederick Lonsdale | The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937) | Richard Boleslawski |
| | | Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970) | |
| | | Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972) | |
| | | The Last Shot You Hear (1969) | |
| | | The Last Warning (1928) | |
| | | The Late Edwina Black (1951) | |
| | | The Late George Apley (1947) | |
| | | Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) | |
| | | The Laughing Lady (1929) | |
| | | Laughing Sinners (1931) | |
| | | The Laughter of Fools (1933) | |
| | | Laughter on the 23rd Floor (2001) | |
| | | The Law and the Lady (1951) | |
| | | The Law of the Land (1917) | |
| | | Law of the Underworld (1938) | |
| Lawful Larceny (1922) | Samuel Shipman | Lawful Larceny (1923) | Allan Dwan |
| Lawful Larceny (1922) | Samuel Shipman | Lawful Larceny (1930) | Lowell Sherman |
| | | The Lay of the Land (1997) | |
| | | Lazybones (1925) | |
| | | Leathernecking (1930) | |
| | | Leave It to Me (1933) | |
| | | Leave It to Smith (1933) | |
| | | Leaving (2011) | |
| | | Leaving Metropolis (2002) | |
| | | The Legend of 1900 (1998) | |
| | | The Legend of Faust (1949) | |
| | | The Leghorn Hat (1939) | |
| | | Lenny (1974) | |
| | | Leo the Last (1970) | |
| | | Leontine's Husbands (1928) | |
| | | The Leopard Lady (1928) | |
| Les Parents terribles (1938) | Jean Cocteau | Les Parents terribles (1948) | Jean Cocteau |
| Les Parents terribles (1938) | Jean Cocteau | Intimate Relations (1953) | Charles Frank |
| Les Parents terribles (1938) | Jean Cocteau | Les Parents terribles (1980) | Yves-André Hubert |
| | | Let Me Explain, Dear (1932) | |
| | | Let Us Be Gay (1930) | |
| | | Let's Be Happy (1947) | |
| | | Let's Do It Again (1953) | |
| | | Let's Face It (1943) | |
| | | Let's Get Married (1926) | |
| | | Let's Get Married (1931) | |
| | | Let's Make a Night of It (1937) | |
| L'Hôtel du libre échange (1894) | Georges Feydeau Maurice Desvallières | Äktenskapsbrottaren (1964) | Hasse Ekman |
| | | Libahunt (1968) | |
| | | Libel (1959) | |
| | | The Libertine (2000) | |
| | | The Libertine (2004) | |
| | | Liberty Hall (1914) | |
| | | The Lie (1918) | |
| | | Life (1928) | |
| | | Life Begins (1932) | |
| | | Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942) | |
| | | Life for Ruth (1962) | |
| | | A Life in the Theatre (1979) | |
| | | A Life in the Theatre (1993) | |
| | | The Life Line (1919) | |
| | | Life of Riley (2014) | |
| | | Life of an Expert Swordsman (1959) | |
| | | Life With Father (1947) | |
| | | Light Up the Sky! (1960) | |
| Lightnin' (1918) | Winchell Smith Frank Bacon | Lightnin' (1925) | John Ford |
| Lightnin' (1918) | Winchell Smith Frank Bacon | Lightnin' (1930) | Henry King |
| | | Lights of London (1914) | |
| | | Lights of London (1923) | |
| | | Like the Leaves (1935) | |
| | | Lilac Time (1928) | |
| | | Lili (1918) | |
| | | Lilies (1996) | |
| | | Lilies of the Field (1924) | |
| | | Lilies of the Field (1930) | |
| | | Lilly Turner (1933) | |
| | | Lily in Love (1984) | |
| The Colleen Bawn (1860) | Dion Boucicault | Lily of Killarney (1929) | George Ridgwell |
| The Colleen Bawn (1860) | Dion Boucicault | Lily of Killarney (1934) | Dion Boucicault |
| | | The Limping Man (1936) | |
| | | The Lincoln Highwayman (1919) | |
| | | Liolà (1963) | |
| | | The Lion and the Mouse (1914) | |
| | | The Lion and the Mouse (1919) | |
| | | The Lion and the Mouse (1928) | |
| | | The Lion in Winter (1968) | |
| | | The Lion in Winter (2003) | |
| | | The Lioness of Castille (1951) | |
| | | Lip Service (1988) | |
| | | A Little Bit of Fluff (1919) | |
| | | A Little Bit of Fluff (1928) | |
| Lipschtick | Heather Juergensen Jennifer Westfeldt | Kissing Jessica Stein (2001) | Charles Herman-Wurmfeld |
| | | The Little Cafe (1919) | |
| | | The Little Cafe (1931) | |
| | | The Little Clown (1921) | |
| | | The Little Foxes (1941) | |
| | | The Little Hut (1957) | |
| | | Little Johnny Jones (1923) | |
| | | Little Johnny Jones (1929) | |
| | | A Little Journey (1927) | |
| | | Little Malcolm (1974) | |
| | | The Little Minister (1934) | |
| | | Little Miss Nobody (1923) | |
| | | Little Murders (1971) | |
| | | Little Nellie Kelly (1940) | |
| Little Old New York (1920) | Rida Johnson Young | Little Old New York (1923) | Sidney Olcott |
| Little Old New York (1920) | Rida Johnson Young | Little Old New York (1940) | Henry King |
| | | Little Voice (1998) | |
| | | The Littlest Rebel (1935) | |
| | | The Living Corpse (1929) | |
| | | Living Dangerously (1936) | |
| | | Living It Up (1954) | |
| | | The Locked Door (1929) | |
| | | Lola Leaves for the Ports (1947) | |
| | | Lola the Coalgirl (1952, musical) | |
| | | Lock Up Your Daughters (1969) | |
| | | London by Night (1937) | |
| | | London Suite (1996, TV) | |
| | | Lonelyhearts (1958) | |
| | | The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961) | |
| | | Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) | |
| | | The Long Intermission (1927) | |
| | | The Long Voyage Home (1940) | |
| Look Back in Anger (1956) | John Osborne | Look Back in Anger (1959) | Tony Richardson |
| Look Back in Anger (1956) | John Osborne | Look Back in Anger (1980) | Lindsay Anderson David Jones |
| | | Looking Forward (1933) | |
| | | Loot (1970) | |
| | | Lord Babs (1932) | |
| | | Lorenzaccio (1951) | |
| | | Lost: A Wife (1925) | |
| | | Lost in the Stars (1974) | |
| | | Lost in Yonkers (1993) | |
| | | Lost Kisses (1945) | |
| | | A Lost Letter (1953) | |
| The Lottery Man (1909) | Rida Johnson Young | The Lottery Man (1916) | Leopold Wharton Theodore Wharton |
| The Lottery Man (1909) | Rida Johnson Young | The Lottery Man (1919) | James Cruze |
| | | Love '47 (1949) | |
| | | Love and Kisses (1965) | |
| | | Love and Human Remains (1993) | |
| | | Love at First Child (2015) | |
| | | The Love Ban (1973) | |
| | | The Love Captive (1934) | |
| | | Love Comes Along (1930) | |
| | | Love Lies (1932) | |
| | | The Love Contract (1932) | |
| | | The Love Doctor (1929) | |
| | | Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926) | |
| The Lower Depths (1902) | Maxim Gorky | The Lower Depths (1936) | Jean Renoir |
| The Lower Depths (1902) | Maxim Gorky | Night Inn (1947) | Huang Zuolin |
| The Lower Depths (1902) | Maxim Gorky | The Lower Depths (1957) | Akira Kurosawa |

### M

| Play | Playwright | Film | Film director |
| Macbeth (1623) | William Shakespeare | Macbeth (1908) | J. Stuart Blackton |
| Macbeth (1623) | William Shakespeare | Macbeth (1909) | André Calmettes |
| Macbeth (1623) | William Shakespeare | Macbeth (1909) | Mario Caserini |
| Macbeth (1623) | William Shakespeare | Macbeth (1911) | Will Barker |
| Macbeth (1623) | William Shakespeare | Macbeth (1913) | Arthur Bourchier |
| Macbeth (1623) | William Shakespeare | Macbeth (1915) | Séverin-Mars |
| Macbeth (1623) | William Shakespeare | Macbeth (1916) | John Emerson |
| Macbeth (1623) | William Shakespeare | Macbeth (1922) | H. B. Parkinson |
| Macbeth (1623) | William Shakespeare | Macbeth (1948) | Orson Welles |
| Macbeth (1623) | William Shakespeare | Macbeth (1954) | George Schaefer |
| Macbeth (1623) | William Shakespeare | Macbeth (1960) | George Schaefer |
| Macbeth (1623) | William Shakespeare | Macbeth (1960) | William Sterling |
| Macbeth (1623) | William Shakespeare | Macbeth (1961) | Paul Almond |
| Macbeth (1623) | William Shakespeare | Macbeth (1965) | Alan Burke |
| Macbeth (1623) | William Shakespeare | Macbeth (1971) | Roman Polanski |
| Macbeth (1623) | William Shakespeare | Macbeth (1979) | Philip Casson |
| Macbeth (1623) | William Shakespeare | Macbeth (1982) | Béla Tarr |
| Macbeth (1623) | William Shakespeare | Macbeth (2006) | Geoffrey Wright |
| Macbeth (1623) | William Shakespeare | Macbeth (2010) | Rupert Goold |
| Macbeth (1623) | William Shakespeare | Macbeth (2015) | Justin Kurzel |
| Macbeth (1623) | William Shakespeare | The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) | Joel Coen |
| Ma cousine de Varsovie | Louis Verneuil | My Cousin from Warsaw (1931) | Carmine Gallone |
| Madame Butterfly (1900) | David Belasco | Madame Butterfly (1915 film) | Sidney Olcott |
| Madame Butterfly (1900) | David Belasco | Harakiri (1919) | Fritz Lang |
| Madame Butterfly (1900) | David Belasco | Madame Butterfly (1932) | Marion Gering |
| Madame Butterfly (1900) | David Belasco | Madame Butterfly (1954) | Carmine Gallone |
| Madame Louise (1945) | Vernon Sylvaine | Madame Louise (1951) | Maclean Rogers |
| Madame Sans-Gêne (1893) | Victorien Sardou Émile Moreau | Madame Sans-Gêne (1911) | André Calmettes Henri Desfontaines |
| Madame Sans-Gêne (1893) | Victorien Sardou Émile Moreau | Madame Sans-Gêne (1925) | Léonce Perret |
| Madame Sans-Gêne (1893) | Victorien Sardou Émile Moreau | Madame (1961) | Christian-Jaque |
| Madea's Big Happy Family (2010) | Tyler Perry | Madea's Big Happy Family (2011) | Tyler Perry |
| A Madea Christmas (2011) | Tyler Perry | A Madea Christmas (2013) | Tyler Perry |
| Madea Goes to Jail (2005) | Tyler Perry | Madea Goes to Jail (2009) | Tyler Perry |
| Madea's Family Reunion (2002) | Tyler Perry | Madea's Family Reunion (2006) | Tyler Perry |
| Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman (1906) | Paul Gavault Robert Charvay | Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman (1926) | Gaston Ravel |
| Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman (1906) | Paul Gavault Robert Charvay | Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman (1933) | André Berthomieu |
| Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman (1906) | Paul Gavault Robert Charvay | Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman (1950) | André Berthomieu |
| Mademoiselle ma mère | Louis Verneuil | Mademoiselle ma mère (1937) | Henri Decoin |
| The Madness of George III (1991) | Alan Bennett | The Madness of King George (1994) | Nicholas Hytner |
| data-sort-value="Madness of Love !" | The Madness of Love (1855) | Manuel Tamayo y Baus | Madness for Love (1948) | Juan de Orduña |
| data-sort-value="Madness of Love !" | The Madness of Love (1855) | Manuel Tamayo y Baus | Mad Love (2001) | Vicente Aranda |
| The Madwoman of Chaillot (1945) | Jean Giraudoux | The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969) | Bryan Forbes |
| Maggie | Caesar Dun | The Mating Season (1951) | Mitchell Leisen |
| Maggie Pepper (1911) | Charles Klein | Maggie Pepper (1919) | Chester Withey |
| The Magistrate (1885) | Arthur Wing Pinero | The Magistrate (1921) | Bannister Merwin |
| Mágnás Miska | Károly Bakoni Andor Gábor | Miska the Magnate (1916) | Alexander Korda |
| Mágnás Miska | Károly Bakoni Andor Gábor | Mickey Magnate (1949) | Márton Keleti |
| The Magnificent Yankee (1940) | Emmet Lavery | The Magnificent Yankee (1950) | John Sturges |
| The Magnificent Yankee (1940) | Emmet Lavery | The Magnificent Yankee (1965) | George Schaefer |
| The Maid of the Mountains (1917) | Frederick Lonsdale | The Maid of the Mountains (1932) | Lupino Lane |
| The Maids | Jean Genet (1947) | The Maids (1975) | Christopher Miles |
| Maitre Bolbec et son mari (1927) | Georges Berr Louis Verneuil | The World at Her Feet (1927) | Luther Reed |
| Maitre Bolbec et son mari (1927) | Georges Berr Louis Verneuil | Feminine Wiles (1951) | Carlos Schlieper |
| Major Barbara (1905) | George Bernard Shaw | Major Barbara (1941) | Gabriel Pascal |
| A Majority of One (1959) | Leonard Spigelgass | A Majority of One (1961) | Mervyn LeRoy |
| Maku ga Agaru | Oriza Hirata | Maku ga Agaru (2015) | Katsuyuki Motohiro |
| data-sort-value="Male Animal !" | The Male Animal (1940) | Elliott Nugent James Thurber | The Male Animal (1942) | Elliott Nugent |
| data-sort-value="Male Animal !" | The Male Animal (1940) | Elliott Nugent James Thurber | She's Working Her Way Through College (1952) | H. Bruce Humberstone |
| Malvaloca (1912) | Quintero brothers | Malvaloca (1926) | Benito Perojo |
| Malvaloca (1912) | Quintero brothers | Malvaloca (1942) | Luis Marquina |
| Malvaloca (1912) | Quintero brothers | Malvaloca (1954) | Ramón Torrado |
| Maman Colibri (1904) | Henry Bataille | Second Youth (1938) | Michał Waszyński |
| Mama's Affair (1920) | Rachel Barton Butler | Mama's Affair (1921) | Victor Fleming |
| Mama, I Want to Sing! (1983) | Vy Higginsen Ken Wydro | Mama, I Want to Sing! (2009) | Charles Randolph-Wright |
| The Man (1950) | Mel Dinelli | Beware, My Lovely (1952) | Harry Horner |
| Mandingo (1961) | Jack Kirkland | Mandingo (1975) | Richard Fleischer |
| The Mandrake (1518) | Niccolò Machiavelli | The Mandrake (1965) | Alberto Lattuada |
| The Man-Eating Tiger (1927) | Ben Hecht Rose Caylor | Spring Tonic (1935) | Clyde Bruckman |
| A Man for All Seasons (1960) | Robert Bolt | A Man for All Seasons (1966) | Fred Zinnemann |
| The Man from Home (1906) | Booth Tarkington Harry Leon Wilson | The Man from Home (1914) | Cecil B. DeMille |
| The Man from Home (1906) | Booth Tarkington Harry Leon Wilson | The Man from Home (1922) | George Fitzmaurice |
| The Man from Mexico | Henry A. DuSouchet | The Man from Mexico (1914) | Thomas N. Heffron |
| Mangeuses d'Hommes | Daniel Colas | Mangeuses d'Hommes (1988) | Daniel Colas |
| The Man in Evening Clothes (1924) | André Picard Yves Mirande | She Wolves (1925) | Maurice Elvey |
| The Man in Half Moon Street (1939) | Barré Lyndon | The Man in Half Moon Street (1945) | Ralph Murphy |
| The Man in Half Moon Street (1939) | Barré Lyndon | The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959) | Terence Fisher |
| The Man in Possession | H. M. Harwood | The Man in Possession (1931) | Sam Wood |
| The Man in the Glass Booth (1968) | Robert Shaw | The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) | Arthur Hiller |
| Man's Castle | Frank Borzage | Man's Castle (1933) | Lawrence Hazard |
| A Man's World (1910) | Rachel Crothers | A Man's World (1918) | Herbert Blaché |
| The Man Who Came Back | John Fleming Wilson | The Man Who Came Back (1931) | Raoul Walsh |
| The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939) | George S. Kaufman | The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) | William Keighley |
| The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939) | George S. Kaufman | The Man Who Came to Dinner (1972) | Buzz Kulik |
| The Man Who Changed His Name (1928) | Edgar Wallace | The Man Who Changed His Name (1928) | A. V. Bramble |
| The Man Who Was Peter Pan (1998) | Allan Knee | Finding Neverland (2004) | Marc Forster |
| Many Waters (1928) | Monckton Hoffe | Many Waters (1931) | Milton Rosmer |
| Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1982) | August Wilson | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) | George C. Wolfe |
| Maratonci trče počasni krug (1973) | Dušan Kovačević | The Marathon Family (1982) | Slobodan Šijan |
| Marat/Sade (1963) | Peter Weiss | Marat/Sade (1967) | Peter Brook |
| Marauders (1905) | August Strindberg | Comrades (1919) | Johannes Guter |
| Marcelle (1895) | Victorien Sardou | Marcella (1937) | Guido Brignone |
| Margin for Error (1939) | Clare Boothe Luce | Margin for Error (1943) | Otto Preminger |
| Marie and Bruce (1978) | Wallace Shawn | Marie and Bruce (2004) | Tom Cairns |
| Marie Tudor (1833) | Victor Hugo | Marie Tudor (1912) | Albert Capellani |
| Marigold (1927) | Lizzie Allen Harker Francis R. Pryor | Marigold (1938) | Thomas Bentley |
| Marika | István Zágon | Marika (1938) | Viktor Gertler |
| Marika | István Zágon | Marili (1959) | Josef von Báky |
| Marius (1929) | Marcel Pagnol | Marius (1931) | Alexander Korda |
| Marius (1929) | Marcel Pagnol | Marius (2013) | Daniel Auteuil |
| Marjorie Prime (2014) | Jordan Harrison | Marjorie Prime (2017) | Michael Almereyda |
| The Marriage Counselor (2008) | Tyler Perry | Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013) | Tyler Perry |
| The Marriage-Go-Round (1958) | Leslie Stevens | The Marriage-Go-Round (1961) | Walter Lang |
| The Marriage of Figaro (1784) | Pierre Beaumarchais | The Marriage of Figaro (1920) | Max Mack |
| The Marriage of Figaro (1784) | Pierre Beaumarchais | Figaro (1929) | Tony Lekain Gaston Ravel |
| The Marriage of Figaro (1784) | Pierre Beaumarchais | The Marriage of Figaro (1949) | Georg Wildhagen |
| The Marriage of Figaro (1784) | Pierre Beaumarchais | The Marriage of Figaro (1960) | Alan Burke |
| The Marriage of Figaro (1784) | Pierre Beaumarchais | The Crazy Day or The Marriage of Figaro (2003, TV) | Semen Gorov |
| The Marriage of Kitty (1902) | Cosmo Gordon-Lennox | The Marriage of Kitty (1915) | George Melford |
| The Marriage of Kitty (1902) | Cosmo Gordon-Lennox | Afraid to Love (1927) | Edward H. Griffith |
| Married Life | John Baldwin Buckstone | Married Life (1921) | Georges Tréville |
| Marry the Girl (1930) | George Arthurs Arthur Miller | Marry the Girl (1935) | Maclean Rogers |
| Martinique (1920) | Laurence Eyre | Volcano! (1926) | William K. Howard |
| Marty (1953) | Paddy Chayefsky | Marty (1955) | Delbert Mann |
| Martyre! | Adolphe d'Ennery | Martyr (1927) | Charles Burguet |
| Märtyrer (2012) | Marius von Mayenburg | The Student (2016) | Kirill Serebrennikov |
| Marvin's Room (play) | Scott McPherson | Marvin's Room (1996) | Jerry Zaks |
| Mary Magdalene (1910) | Maurice Maeterlinck | Mary Magdalene (1914) | Arthur Maude |
| Mary, Mary | Jean Kerr | Mary, Mary (1963) | Mervyn LeRoy |
| Mary of Scotland (1933) | Maxwell Anderson | Mary of Scotland (1936) | John Ford |
| Mary the Third (1923) | Rachel Crothers | Wine of Youth (1924) | King Vidor |
| Masks and Faces (1852) | Charles Reade Tom Taylor | Peg of Old Drury (1935) | Herbert Wilcox |
| Ma sœur et moi | Georges Berr Louis Verneuil | My Sister and I (1929) | Manfred Noa |
| Ma sœur et moi | Georges Berr Louis Verneuil | Mischievous Susana (1945) | Fernando Cortés |
| The Masquerader (1917) | John Hunter Booth | The Masquerader (1933) | Richard Wallace |
| The Masqueraders (1894) | Henry Arthur Jones | The Masquerader (1915) | James Kirkwood Sr. |
| The Masqueraders | Cyril Campion | The Four Masked Men (1934) | George Pearson |
| Mass Appeal | Bill C. Davis | Mass Appeal (1984) | Glenn Jordan |
| The Master Builder (1892) | Henrik Ibsen | A Master Builder (2013) | Jonathan Demme |
| "Master Harold"...and the Boys (1982) | Athol Fugard | Master Harold...and the Boys (1985) | Michael Lindsay-Hogg |
| "Master Harold"...and the Boys (1982) | Athol Fugard | Master Harold...and the Boys (2010) | Lonny Price |
| The Master Mind (1913) | Daniel David Cohen | The Master Mind (1920) | Kenneth Webb |
| The Matchmaker (1954) | Thornton Wilder | The Matchmaker (1958) | Joseph Anthony |
| The Matchmaker (1954) | Thornton Wilder | Hello, Dolly! (1969) | Gene Kelly |
| Mateo (1923) | Armando Discépolo | Mateo (1937) | Daniel Tinayre |
| Matilda Shouted Fire (1958) | Janet Green | Midnight Lace (1960) | David Miller |
| The Matrimonial Bed (1927) | Seymour Hicks | The Matrimonial Bed (1930) | Michael Curtiz |
| Matroni et moi (1995) | Alexis Martin | Matroni and Me (1999) | Jean-Philippe Duval |
| Matura (1934) | Ladislas Fodor | A Very Young Lady (1941) | Harold Schuster |
| Matura (1934) | Ladislas Fodor | Girls' Dormitory (1936) | Cummings |
| May Blossom | David Belasco | May Blossom (1915) | Allan Dwan |
| The Mayor of Zalamea (1636) | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | The Mayor of Zalamea (1920) | Ludwig Berger |
| The Mayor of Zalamea (1636) | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | The Mayor of Zalamea (1954) | José Gutiérrez Maesso |
| Maytime (1917) | Rida Johnson Young Cyrus Wood | Maytime (1923) | Louis J. Gasnier |
| Maytime (1917) | Rida Johnson Young Cyrus Wood | Maytime (1937) | Robert Z. Leonard |
| May We Come In | Harry Segal | For Heaven's Sake (1950) | George Seaton |
| Mąż Fołtasiówny | Jerzy Jurandot | Husband of His Wife (1961) | Stanisław Bareja |
| M. Butterfly (1988) | David Henry Hwang | M. Butterfly (1993) | David Cronenberg |
| The Meanest Man in the World | George M. Cohan | The Meanest Man in the World (1943) | Sidney Lanfield |
| Mećava (1952) | Pero Budak | Snowstorm (1977) | Antun Vrdoljak |
| Medea (431 BC) | Euripides | Medea (1969) | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| Medea (431 BC) | Euripides | A Dream of Passion (1978) | Jules Dassin |
| Medea (431 BC) | Euripides | Medea (1988) | Lars von Trier |
| Medea (431 BC) | Euripides | Médée (2001) | Don Kent |
| A media luz los tres (1953) | Miguel Mihura | A media luz los tres (1958) | Julián Soler |
| The Medicine Man | Elliott Lester | The Medicine Man (1930) | Scott Pembroke |
| Meet a Body (1954) | Frank Launder | The Green Man (1956) | Robert Day |
| Meet the Browns (2004) | Tyler Perry | Meet the Browns (2008) | Tyler Perry |
| Mélo (1929) | Henri Bernstein | Dreaming Lips (1932) | Paul Czinner |
| Mélo (1929) | Henri Bernstein | Dreaming Lips (1937) | Paul Czinner |
| Mélo (1929) | Henri Bernstein | Dreaming Lips (1953) | Josef von Báky |
| Mélo (1929) | Henri Bernstein | Mélo (1986) | Alain Resnais |
| The Melody Man (1924) | Herbert Fields | The Melody Man (1930) | Roy William Neill |
| The Melting Pot (1909) | Israel Zangwill | The Melting Pot (1915) | James Vincent Oliver D. Bailey |
| The Member of the Wedding (1950) | Carson McCullers | The Member of the Wedding (1952) | Fred Zinnemann |
| A Memory of Two Mondays (1955) | Arthur Miller | A Memory of Two Mondays (1971) | Paul Bogart |
| Menschen im Hotel (1930, adapted from the novel Grand Hotel) | Vicki Baum | Grand Hotel (1932) | William A. Drake |
| Menschen im Hotel (1930, adapted from the novel Grand Hotel) | Vicki Baum | Week-End at the Waldorf (1945) | Robert Z. Leonard |
| Men and Women (1890) | David Belasco Henry Churchill de Mille | Men and Women (1925) | William C. deMille |
| Men in White (1933) | Sidney Kingsley | Men in White (1934) | Richard Boleslawski |
| Men Must Fight (1932) | Reginald Lawrence S. K. Lauren | Men Must Fight (1933) | Edgar Selwyn |
| Men Without a Past | Jean Martet | S.O.S. Sahara (1938) | Jacques de Baroncelli |
| Men Without a Past | Jean Martet | Station Six-Sahara (1962) | Seth Holt |
| Mercadet Le Faiseur (1848) | Honoré de Balzac | The Lovable Cheat (1949) | Richard Oswald |
| The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare | The Venetian Looking-Glass (1905) | Georges Méliès |
| The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice (1914) | Phillips Smalley |
| The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice (1916) | Walter West |
| The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice (1923) | Peter Paul Felner |
| The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare | Shylock (1940) | Kinema Ramu Serukalathur Sama (as Sama-Ramu) |
| The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice (1953) | Pierre Billon |
| The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice (1969) | Orson Welles |
| The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare | The Maori Merchant of Venice (2002) | Don Selwyn |
| The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice (2004) | Michael Radford |
| Merely Mary Ann (1903) | Israel Zangwill | Merely Mary Ann (1931) | Henry King |
| Merry Andrew (1929) | Lewis Beach | Handy Andy (1934) | David Butler |
| Merry Andrew (1929) | Lewis Beach | Young as You Feel (1940) | Malcolm St. Clair |
| Merry-Go-Round (1932) | Albert Maltz George Sklar | Afraid to Talk (1932) | Edward L. Cahn |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | William Shakespeare | The Merry Wives of Windsor (1918) | William Wauer |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | William Shakespeare | The Merry Wives of Windsor (1950) | Georg Wildhagen |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | William Shakespeare | The Merry Wives of Windsor (1965) | Georg Tressler |
| Merton of the Movies (1922) | George S. Kaufman Marc Connelly | Merton of the Movies (1924) | James Cruze |
| Merton of the Movies (1922) | George S. Kaufman Marc Connelly | Make Me a Star (1932) | William Beaudine |
| Merton of the Movies (1922) | George S. Kaufman Marc Connelly | Merton of the Movies (1947) | Robert Alton |
| A Message from Mars (1899) | Richard Ganthony | A Message from Mars (1913) | J. Wallett Waller |
| Messrs. Glembay (1929) | Miroslav Krleža | The Glembays (1988) | Antun Vrdoljak |
| Meter Man|The Meter Man (1964) | C. Scott Forbes | The Penthouse (1967) | Peter Collinson |
| Mexican Hayride (1944) | Herbert Fields Dorothy Fields | Mexican Hayride (1948) | Charles Barton |
| Mezhugu Bommaigal | R. Venkat | Pilot Premnath (1978) | A. C. Tirulokchandar |
| Mice and Men (1901) | Madeleine Lucette Ryley | Mice and Men (1916) | J. Searle Dawley |
| Middle-Age Spread (1977) | Roger Hall | Middle Age Spread (1979) | John Reid |
| Middle of the Night (1954) | Paddy Chayefsky | Middle of the Night (1959) | Delbert Mann |
| The Middle Watch (1929; revised 1940) | Stephen King-Hall Ian Hay | The Middle Watch (1930) | Norman Walker |
| The Middle Watch (1929; revised 1940) | Stephen King-Hall Ian Hay | The Middle Watch (1940) | Thomas Bentley |
| The Middle Watch (1929; revised 1940) | Stephen King-Hall Ian Hay | Girls at Sea (1958) | Gilbert Gunn |
| A Midnight Bell (1889) | Charles H. Hoyt | A Midnight Bell (1921) | Charles Ray |
| The Midshipmaid (1931) | Ian Hay Stephen King-Hall | The Midshipmaid (1932) | Albert de Courville |
| The Mighty Barnum | Gene Fowler Bess Meredyth | The Mighty Barnum (1934) | Walter Lang |
| Milestones (1912) | Arnold Bennett Edward Knoblock | Milestones (1916) | Thomas Bentley |
| The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963) | Tennessee Williams | Boom! (1968) | Joseph Losey |
| The Milky Way (1934) | Lynn Root Harry Clork | The Milky Way (1936) | Leo McCarey |
| The Milky Way | Reginald Simpson James Wedgwood Drawbell | The Innocents of Chicago (1932) | Lupino Lane |
| The Millionairess (1936) | George Bernard Shaw | The Millionairess (1960) | Anthony Asquith |
| Minha Mãe é uma Peça (2006) | Paulo Gustavo | Minha Mãe é uma Peça (2013) | André Pellenz |
| Minick (1924) | Edna Ferber George S. Kaufman | Welcome Home (1925 | James Cruze |
| Minick (1924) | Edna Ferber George S. Kaufman | The Expert (1932) | Archie Mayo |
| Minick (1924) | Edna Ferber George S. Kaufman | No Place to Go (1939) | Terry O. Morse |
| Minna von Barnhelm (1767) | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | The Girl from Barnhelm (1940) | Hans Schweikart |
| Miquette et sa mère (1906) | Gaston Arman de Caillavet Robert de Flers | Miquette (1934) | Henri Diamant-Berger André Gillois Henri Rollan |
| Miquette et sa mère (1906) | Gaston Arman de Caillavet Robert de Flers | Papacito lindo (1939) | Fernando de Fuentes |
| Miquette et sa mère (1906) | Gaston Arman de Caillavet Robert de Flers | Miquette (1940) | Jean Boyer |
| Miquette et sa mère (1906) | Gaston Arman de Caillavet Robert de Flers | Miquette (1950) | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| The Miracle (1911) | Karl Vollmöller | The Miracle (1912) | Max Reinhardt Michel-Antoine Carré |
| The Miracle (1911) | Karl Vollmöller | Das Mirakel (1912) | Mime Misu |
| The Miracle (1911) | Karl Vollmöller | The Miracle (1959) | Irving Rapper |
| The Miracle Man (1914) | George M. Cohan | The Miracle Man (1919) | George Loane Tucker |
| The Miracle Man (1914) | George M. Cohan | The Miracle Man (1932) | Norman Z. McLeod |
| The Miracle Worker (1959) | William Gibson | The Miracle Worker (1962) | Arthur Penn |
| The Miracle Worker (1959) | William Gibson | The Miracle Worker (1979) | Paul Aaron |
| The Miracle Worker (1959) | William Gibson | The Miracle Worker (2000) | Nadia Tass |
| The Mirage (1920) | Edgar Selwyn | Possessed (1931) | Clarence Brown |
| Miranda | Peter Blackmore | Miranda (1948) | Ken Annakin |
| The Misanthrope (1666) | Molière | The Misanthrope (1974) | Carl Schultz |
| Mischief (1928) | Ben Travers | Mischief (1931) | Jack Raymond |
| The Miser (1668) | Molière | L'Avare (1980) | Louis de Funès Jean Girault |
| The Miser (1668) | Molière | The Miser (1990) | Tonino Cervi |
| Miseria e Nobiltà (1888) | Eduardo Scarpetta | Poverty and Nobility (1954) | Mario Mattoli |
| The Misleading Lady | Charles Goddard Paul Dickey | The Misleading Lady (1916) | Arthur Berthelet |
| The Misleading Lady | Charles Goddard Paul Dickey | The Misleading Lady (1920) | George Irving George Terwilliger |
| The Misleading Lady | Charles Goddard Paul Dickey | The Misleading Lady (1932) | Stuart Walker |
| Miss Benton, R.N. (1930) | Florence Johns Wilton Lackaye Jr. | Registered Nurse (1934) | Robert Florey |
| The Miss Firecracker Contest (1979) | Beth Henley | Miss Firecracker (1989) | Thomas Schlamme |
| Miss Julie (1888) | August Strindberg | Miss Julie (1922 film) | Felix Basch |
| Miss Julie (1888) | August Strindberg | The Sin of Julia (1946) | Mario Soffici |
| Miss Julie (1888) | August Strindberg | Miss Julie (1951) | Alf Sjöberg |
| Miss Julie (1888) | August Strindberg | Miss Julie (1999) | Mike Figgis |
| Miss Julie (1888) | August Strindberg | Miss Julie (film) (2014) | Liv Ullmann |
| Miss Lulu Bett (1920) | Zona Gale | Miss Lulu Bett (1921) | William C. deMille |
| Mister Roberts (1948) | Thomas Heggen | Mister Roberts (1955) | John Ford Mervyn LeRoy |
| Mister Roberts (1948) | Thomas Heggen | Mister Roberts (1984) | Melvin Bernhardt |
| Mistigri | Marcel Achard | Mistigri (1931) | Harry Lachman |
| Mistress Nell (1900) | George Cochrane Hazelton | Mistress Nell (1915) | James Kirkwood Sr. |
| The Mistress of the Inn (1753) | Carlo Goldoni | The Innkeeper (1944) | Luigi Chiarini |
| The Mistress of the Inn (1753) | Carlo Goldoni | La locandiera (film) (1980) | Paolo Cavara |
| The Mistress of the Inn (1753) | Carlo Goldoni | Miranda (1985 film) | Tinto Brass |
| Mlle. Modiste | Henry Blossom | Mademoiselle Modiste (1926) | Robert Z. Leonard |
| Mlle. Modiste | Henry Blossom | Kiss Me Again (1931) | William A. Seiter |
| A Modern Magdalen (1902) | C. Haddon Chambers | A Modern Magdalen (1915) | Will S. Davis |
| Mojo Mickybo | Owen McCafferty | Mickybo and Me (2004) | Terry Loane |
| The Moment of Death | Israel Zangwill | The Moment Before (1916) | Robert G. Vignola |
| Mon Crime (1934) | Georges Berr Louis Verneuil | True Confession (1937) | Wesley Ruggles |
| Mon Crime (1934) | Georges Berr Louis Verneuil | Cross My Heart (1946) | John Berry |
| Money (1840) | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Money (1921) | Duncan McRae |
| Money By Wire | Edward A. Paulton | Get Off My Foot (1935) | William Beaudine |
| Mon Homme | Francis Carco André Picard | Shadows of Paris (1924) | Herbert Brenon |
| The Monk and the Woman (1912) | Frederick Melville | The Monk and the Woman (1917) | Franklyn Barrett |
| The Monk from Santarem | Almeida Garrett | The Monk from Santarem (1924) | Lothar Mendes |
| Monna Vanna | Maurice Maeterlinck | Monna Vanna (1915) | Mario Caserini |
| Monna Vanna | Maurice Maeterlinck | Monna Vanna (1922) | Richard Eichberg |
| Monsieur Brotonneau (1914) | Gaston Arman de Caillavet | Monsieur Brotonneau (1939) | Alexander Esway |
| Monsieur de Pourceaugnac (1669) | Molière | Monsieur de Pourceaugnac (1985) | Michel Mitrani |
| The Monster (1922) | Crane Wilbur | The Monster (1925) | Roland West |
| Monster in a Box | Spalding Gray | Monster in a Box (1992) | Nick Broomfield |
| The Moon Is Blue (1951) | F. Hugh Herbert | The Moon Is Blue (1953) | Otto Preminger |
| In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue | Tarell Alvin McCraney | Moonlight (2016) | Barry Jenkins |
| Moonlight and Honeysuckle (1919) | George Scarborough | Moonlight and Honeysuckle (1921) | Joseph Henabery |
| Moonlight and Valentino | Ellen Simon | Moonlight and Valentino (1995) | David Anspaugh |
| Monsieur Lamberthier (1927) | Louis Verneuil | Jealousy (1929) | Jean de Limur |
| Monsieur Lamberthier (1927) | Louis Verneuil | Deception (1946) | Irving Rapper |
| A Month in the Country (1872) | Ivan Turgenev | Secrets (1943) | Pierre Blanchar |
| A Month in the Country (1872) | Ivan Turgenev | Two Women (2014) | Vera Glagoleva |
| A Month of Sundays (1985) | Bob Larbey | Age-Old Friends (1989, TV) | Allan Kroeker |
| The Moods of Marianne (1833) | Alfred de Musset | Two Friends (2015) | Louis Garrel |
| The Moon-Flower (1924) | Zoe Akins | Eve's Secret (1925) | Clarence Badger |
| The Moon Is Blue (1951) | F. Hugh Herbert | The Moon Is Blue (1953) | Otto Preminger |
| The Moon Is Blue (1951) | F. Hugh Herbert | Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach (1953) | Otto Preminger |
| Morgen ist Feiertag | Leo Perutz | Historia de una noche (1941) | Luis Saslavsky |
| Morning Departure | Kenneth Woollard | Morning Departure (1950) | Roy Ward Baker |
| Morning Glory (1939) | Zoë Akins | Morning Glory (1933 film) | Lowell Sherman |
| Morning Glory (1939) | Zoë Akins | Stage Struck (1958) | Sidney Lumet |
| Morning's at Seven (1939) | Paul Osborn | Morning's at Seven (1982) | Vivian Matalon |
| Mostly Fools | G. R. Malloch | The Devil's Maze (1929) | Gareth Gundrey |
| The Moth and the Flame (1898) | Clyde Fitch | The Moth and the Flame (1915) | Sidney Olcott |
| Mother (1910) | Jules Eckert Goodman | Mother (1914) | Maurice Tourneur |
| Mother Carey's Chickens (1917) | Kate Douglas Wiggin Rachel Crothers | Mother Carey's Chickens (1938) | Rowland V. Lee |
| Mother Courage and Her Children (1939) | Bertolt Brecht | Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (1961) | Peter Palitzsch Manfred Wekwerth |
| The Mountebank | Ernest Denny | The Side Show of Life (1924) | Herbert Brenon |
| Mourning Becomes Electra (1931) | Eugene O'Neill | Mourning Becomes Electra (1947) | Dudley Nichols |
| Mouthpiece (2015) | Norah Sadava Amy Nostbakken | Mouthpiece (2018) | Patricia Rozema |
| The Mouthpiece (1930) | Edgar Wallace | The Mouthpiece (1932) | James Flood Elliott Nugent |
| Mr. Bones (never produced) | Irving Berlin | Mammy (1930) | Michael Curtiz |
| Mr Faint-Heart (1931) | Ian Hay | All at Sea (1935) | Anthony Kimmins |
| Mr. Fox of Venice | Frederick Knott | The Honey Pot (1967) | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| Mr. Imperium | Edwin H. Knopf | Mr. Imperium (1951) | Don Hartman |
| Mr. Pim Passes By (1919) | A. A. Milne | Mr. Pim Passes By (1921) | Albert Ward |
| Mr. Prohack (1927) | Edward Knoblock | Dear Mr. Prohack (1949) | Thornton Freeland |
| Mr Puntila and His Man Matti (1948) | Bertolt Brecht | Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti (1960) | Alberto Cavalcanti |
| Mr. Sycamore (1942) | Ketti Frings | Mr. Sycamore (1975) | Pancho Kohner |
| Mr. What's-His-Name? (1927) | Seymour Hicks | Mr. What's-His-Name? (1935) | Ralph Ince |
| Mr. Wu (1913) | Maurice Vernon Harold Owen | Mr. Wu (1919) | Maurice Elvey |
| Mrs. Black Is Back (1904) | George V. Hobart | Mrs. Black Is Back (1914) | Thomas N. Heffron |
| Mrs Dane's Defence (1900) | Henry Arthur Jones | Mrs. Dane's Defense (1918) | Hugh Ford |
| Mrs Dane's Defence (1900) | Henry Arthur Jones | Mrs. Dane's Defense (1933) | A. V. Bramble |
| Mrs. Gibbons' Boys (1949) | Joseph Stein Will Glickman | Mrs. Gibbons' Boys (1962) | Max Varnel |
| Mrs. Warren's Profession (1894) | George Bernard Shaw | Mrs. Warren's Profession (1960) | Ákos Ráthonyi |
| Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1904) | Anne Crawford Flexner | Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1914) | Harold Entwistle |
| Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1904) | Anne Crawford Flexner | Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1919) | Hugh Ford |
| Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1904) | Anne Crawford Flexner | Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934) | Norman Taurog |
| Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1904) | Anne Crawford Flexner | Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942) | Ralph Murphy |
| Mr. What's His Name (1927) | Seymour Hicks | Kisses for Breakfast (1941) | Lewis Seiler |
| Much Ado About Nothing (1600) | William Shakespeare | Viel Lärm um nichts (1964) | Martin Hellberg |
| Much Ado About Nothing (1600) | William Shakespeare | Much Ado About Nothing (1973) | Samson Samsonov |
| Much Ado About Nothing (1600) | William Shakespeare | Much Ado About Nothing (1993) | Kenneth Branagh |
| Much Ado About Nothing (1600) | William Shakespeare | Dil Chahta Hai (2001) | Farhan Akhtar |
| Much Ado About Nothing (1600) | William Shakespeare | Much Ado About Nothing (2012) | Joss Whedon |
| Much Ado About Nothing (1600) | William Shakespeare | Anyone but You (2023) | Will Gluck |
| The Mud Turtle (1925) | Elliott Lester | City Girl (1930) | F. W. Murnau |
| Muhammad bin Tughluq (1968) | Cho Ramaswamy | Muhammad bin Tughluq (1971) | Cho Ramaswamy |
| Mumsie (1920) | Edward Knoblock | Mumsie (1927) | Herbert Wilcox |
| Murder Gang | Basil Dean George Munro | Sensation (1936) | Brian Desmond Hurst |
| Murder in the Cathedral (1935) | T. S. Eliot | Murder in the Cathedral (1951) | George Hoellering |
| Murder Mistaken (1952) | Janet Green | Cast a Dark Shadow (1955) | Lewis Gilbert |
| Murder on the Second Floor (1929) | Frank Vosper | Murder on the Second Floor (1932) | William C. McGann |
| Murder on the Second Floor (1929) | Frank Vosper | Shadows on the Stairs (1941) | D. Ross Lederman |
| Music in the Air (1932) | Oscar Hammerstein II | Music in the Air (1934) | Joe May |
| The Music Master (1904) | Charles Klein | The Music Master (1927) | Allan Dwan |
| My Boy Jack (1997) | David Haig | My Boy Jack (2007) | Brian Kirk |
| My Lady Friends (1919) | Frank Mandel Emil Nyitray | My Lady Friends (1921) | Lloyd Ingraham |
| My Lady's Dress (1916) | Edward Knoblock | Blind Wives (1920) | Charles Brabin |
| My Night with Reg | Kevin Elyot | My Night with Reg (1996) | Roger Michell |
| My Old Dutch (1919) | Albert Chevalier Arthur Shirley | My Old Dutch (1926) | Laurence Trimble |
| My Old Dutch (1919) | Albert Chevalier Arthur Shirley | My Old Dutch (1934) | Sinclair Hill |
| My Old Lady (1996) | Israel Horovitz | My Old Lady (2014) | Israel Horovitz |
| My Philadelphia Father | Cordelia Drexel Biddle | The Happiest Millionaire (1967) | Norman Tokar |
| My Sister Eileen | Joseph A. Fields Jerome Chodorov | My Sister Eileen (1942) | Alexander Hall |
| My Sister Eileen | Joseph A. Fields Jerome Chodorov | My Sister Eileen (1955) | Richard Quine |
| Mystery Submarine | Jon Manchip White | Mystery Submarine (1963) | C. M. Pennington-Richards |
| Madame X (1908) | Alexandre Bisson | Madame X (1929) | Lionel Barrymore |
| Madame X (1908) | Alexandre Bisson | The Trial of Madame X (1948) | Paul England |
| Madame X (1908) | Alexandre Bisson | Madame X (1955) | Julián Soler |
| Madame X (1908) | Alexandre Bisson | Madame X (1966) | David Lowell Rich |
| Madame X (1908) | Alexandre Bisson | Madame X (1981) | Robert Ellis Miller |

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| Play | Playwright | Film | Film director |
| Nagy Szerelem (1935) | Ferenc Molnár | Double Wedding (1937) | Richard Thorpe |
| Naked Boys Singing! (1998) | Robert Schrock | Naked Boys Singing! (2007) | Troy Christian Robert Schrock |
| The Naked Genius (1943) | Gypsy Rose Lee | Doll Face (1945) | Lewis Seiler |
| The Naked King (1934) | Evgeny Schwartz | Cain XVIII (1963) | Nadezhda Kosheverova |
| Nancy's Private Affair (1930) | Myron Coureval Fagan | Smart Woman (1931) | Gregory La Cava |
| Napoli milionaria! | Eduardo De Filippo | Side Street Story (1950) | Eduardo De Filippo |
| Nathan Hale (1898) | Clyde Fitch | The Heart of a Hero (1916) | Émile Chautard |
| Nathan the Wise (1779) | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Nathan the Wise (1922) | Manfred Noa |
| The National Health (1969) | Peter Nichols | The National Health (1973) | Jack Gold |
| Naughty Cinderella | Henri Falk René Peter | Good and Naughty (1926) | Malcolm St. Clair |
| Naughty Cinderella (1925) | Avery Hopwood | This Is the Night (1932) | Frank Tuttle |
| Naughty Marietta (1910) | Rida Johnson Young | Naughty Marietta (1935) | Robert Z. Leonard W. S. Van Dyke |
| The Nelson Touch | Neil Grant | His Lordship (1936) | Herbert Mason |
| Nənawā́te (1986) | William Mastrosimone | The Beast (1988) | Kevin Reynolds |
| The Net (1919) | Maravene Thompson | The Net (1923) | J. Gordon Edwards |
| Never Say Die (1912) | William H. Post William Collier Sr. | Never Say Die (1939) | Elliott Nugent |
| Never Too Late (1962) | Sumner Arthur Long | Never Too Late (1965) | Bud Yorkin |
| New Faces of 1952 | Ronny Graham Mel Brooks | New Faces (1954) | Harry Horner |
| The New Henrietta | Victor Mapes Winchell Smith | The Saphead (1920) | Herbert Blaché Winchell Smith |
| The New Moon (1927) | Oscar Hammerstein II | New Moon (1940) | Robert Z. Leonard |
| The New York Idea (1907) | Langdon Mitchell | The New York Idea (1920) | Herbert Blache |
| New York Town | Ward Morehouse | Big City Blues (1932) | Mervyn LeRoy |
| Next of Kin | Lonnie Coleman | Hot Spell (1958) | Daniel Mann |
| Nice Girl? | Phyllis Duganne | Nice Girl? (1941) | William A. Seiter |
| Nice People (1921) | Rachel Crothers | Nice People (1922) | William C. deMille |
| The Nightcap (1922) | Guy Bolton Max Marcin | Secrets of the Night (1924) | Herbert Blaché |
| Night Court | Mark Hellinger | Night Court (1932) | W. S. Van Dyke |
| A Night Like This (1930) | Ben Travers | A Night Like This (1932) | Tom Walls |
| 'night, Mother (1982) | Marsha Norman | 'night, Mother (1986) | Tom Moore |
| Night Must Fall (1935) | Emlyn Williams | Night Must Fall (1937) | Richard Thorpe |
| Night Must Fall (1935) | Emlyn Williams | Night Must Fall (1964) | Karel Reisz |
| Night of January 16th (1934) | Ayn Rand | The Night of January 16th (1941) | William Clemens |
| The Night of the Iguana (1961) | Tennessee Williams | The Night of the Iguana (1964) | John Huston |
| Nightstick | Elaine Sterne Carrington J.C. Nugent Elliott Nugent John Wray | Alibi (1929) | Roland West |
| Night Watch (1972) | Lucille Fletcher | Night Watch (1973) | Brian G. Hutton |
| Nilo, mi hijo (1963) | Antonio González Caballero | La casa del pelícano (1977) | Sergio Véjar |
| Nine till Six (1930) | Aimée Stuart Philip Stuart | Nine till Six (1932) | Basil Dean |
| Ninette, modas de París | Miguel Mihura | Ninette (2005) | José Luis Garci |
| Ninette y un señor de Murcia | Miguel Mihura | Ninette (2005) | José Luis Garci |
| Niniche (1878) | Albert Millaud Alfred Hennequin | Niniche (1918) | Camillo De Riso |
| Niobe (All Smiles) (1895) | Edward A. Paulton Harry Paulton | Niobe (1915) | Hugh Ford Edwin S. Porter |
| Nobody's Money (1921) | William LeBaron | Nobody's Money (1923) | Wallace Worsley |
| Nobody's Widow (1910) | Avery Hopwood | Nobody's Widow (1927) | Donald Crisp |
| No Crime of Passion | Hubert G. Griffith | Betrayal (1932) | Reginald Fogwell |
| No Exit (1944) | Jean-Paul Sartre | Huis clos (1954) | Jacqueline Audry |
| No Exit (1944) | Jean-Paul Sartre | Closed Door (1962) | Pedro Escudero |
| No Exit (1944) | Jean-Paul Sartre | No Exit (1962) | Tad Danielewski |
| Noises Off (1982) | Michael Frayn | Noises Off... (1992) | Peter Bogdanovich |
| Noix de coco (1935) | Marcel Achard | Cocoanut (1939) | Jean Boyer |
| No Names, No Pack Drill | Bob Herbert | Rebel (1985) | Michael Jenkins |
| Noose | Richard Llewellyn | Noose (1948) | Edmond T. Gréville |
| The Noose (1926) | Willard Mack | The Noose (1928) | John Francis Dillon |
| The Noose (1926) | Willard Mack | I'd Give My Life (1936) | Edwin L. Marin |
| The Normal Heart (1985) | Larry Kramer | The Normal Heart (2014) | Ryan Murphy |
| Norman, Is That You? (1970) | Sam Bobrick Ron Clark | Norman... Is That You? (1976) | George Schlatter |
| No Room at the Inn (1945) | Daniel Birt | No Room at the Inn (1948) | Daniel Birt |
| Nos deux consciences (1902) | Paul Anthelme Bourde | I Confess (1953) | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Nostra Signora dei Turchi | Carmelo Bene | Our Lady of the Turks (1968) | Carmelo Bene |
| Not Herbert | Howard Irving Young | The Perfect Sap (1927) | Howard Higgin |
| No Time for Comedy (1939) | S. N. Behrman | No Time for Comedy (1940) | William Keighley |
| Not Now, Darling (1967) | Ray Cooney John Chapman | Not Now, Darling (1973) | Ray Cooney David Croft |
| No Time for Sergeants (1955) | Ira Levin | No Time for Sergeants (1958) | Mervyn LeRoy |
| Not Quite Jerusalem (1982) | Paul Kember | Not Quite Paradise (1985) | Lewis Gilbert |
| Nothing But the Truth (1916) | James Montgomery | The Pure Truth (1931) | Manuel Romero Florián Rey |
| Nothing But the Truth (1916) | James Montgomery | Nothing but the Truth (1929) | Victor Schertzinger |
| Nothing But the Truth (1916) | James Montgomery | Nothing but the Truth (1941) | Elliott Nugent |
| Novas Diretrizes em Tempos de Paz | Bosco Brasil | Peacetime (2009) | Daniel Filho |
| Now Barabbas (1947) | William Douglas Home | Now Barabbas (1949) | Gordon Parry |
| Nukegara | Norihiko Tsukada | Shed Skin Papa (2016) | Roy Szeto |
| Number 17 | Joseph Jefferson Farjeon | Number 17 (1928) | Géza von Bolváry |
| Number 17 | Joseph Jefferson Farjeon | Number Seventeen (1932) | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Number 17 | Joseph Jefferson Farjeon | Number 17 (1949) | Gösta Stevens |
| Nunzio | Spiro Scimone | Two Friends (2002) | Spiro Scimone Francesco Sframeli |
| Nurse Marjorie | Israel Zangwill | Nurse Marjorie (1920) | William Desmond Taylor |
| Nuts (1979) | Tom Topor | Nuts (1987) | Martin Ritt |
| 'Nu turco napulitano (1888) | Eduardo Scarpetta | Neapolitan Turk (1953) | Mario Mattoli |

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| Play | Playwright | Film | Film director |
| Occupe-toi d'Amélie! (1908) | Georges Feydeau | Take Care of Amelia (1925) | Telemaco Ruggeri |
| Occupe-toi d'Amélie! (1908) | Georges Feydeau | Take Care of Amelie (1932) | Marguerite Viel |
| Occupe-toi d'Amélie! (1908) | Georges Feydeau | Keep an Eye on Amelia (1949) | Claude Autant-Lara |
| The Odd Couple (1965) | Neil Simon | The Odd Couple (1968) | Gene Saks |
| Ode to Liberty (1934 | Sidney Howard | He Stayed for Breakfast (1940) | Alexander Hall |
| Odette (1881) | Victorien Sardou | Odette (1916 film) | Giuseppe de Liguoro |
| Odette (1881) | Victorien Sardou | Odette (1928 film) | Luitz-Morat |
| Odette (1881) | Victorien Sardou | Odette (1934 film) | Jacques Houssin |
| Odette (1881) | Victorien Sardou | Distress (1946) | Robert-Paul Dagan |
| Oedipus Rex (429 BC) | Sophocles | Oedipus Rex (1957) | Tyrone Guthrie |
| Oedipus Rex (429 BC) | Sophocles | Oedipus Rex (1967) | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| Oedipus Rex (429 BC) | Sophocles | Oedipus the King (1968) | Philip Saville |
| Oedipus Rex (429 BC) | Sophocles | Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981) | William Asher |
| Oedipus Rex (429 BC) | Sophocles | Oedipus Mayor (1996) | Jorge Alí Triana |
| Oedipus at Colonus (401 BC) | Sophocles | Hercules Unchained (1959) | Pietro Francisci |
| Official Secret | Jeffrey Dell | Spies of the Air (1939) | David MacDonald |
| Off the Map | Joan Ackermann | Off the Map (2003) | Campbell Scott |
| Off the Record | John Hay Beith Stephen King-Hall | Carry On Admiral (1957) | Val Guest |
| Of Mice and Men (1937) | John Steinbeck | Of Mice and Men (1939) | Lewis Milestone |
| Ofoti (1966) | John Wheatcroft | The Boy Who Loved Trolls (1984, TV) | Harvey Laidman |
| O Gebo e a Sombra (1923) | Raul Brandão | Gebo and the Shadow (2012) | Manoel de Oliveira |
| Oh, Boy! (1917) | Guy Bolton P. G. Wodehouse | Oh, Boy! (1919) | Albert Capellani |
| Oh Brother (1945) | Jacques Deval | Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948) | Richard Haydn |
| Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad (1961) | Arthur Kopit | Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad (1967) | Richard Quine |
| Oh, Kay! (1926) | Guy Bolton P. G. Wodehouse | Oh, Kay! (1928) | Mervyn LeRoy |
| Oh, Lady! Lady!! (1918) | Guy Bolton P. G. Wodehouse | Oh, Lady, Lady (1920) | Maurice S. Campbell |
| Oh, Men! Oh, Women! | Nunnally Johnson | Oh, Men! Oh, Women! (1957) | Edward Chodorov |
| Oklahoma! (1943) | Oscar Hammerstein II | Oklahoma! (1955) | Fred Zinnemann |
| Old Acquaintance (1940) | John Van Druten | Old Acquaintance (1940) | Vincent Sherman |
| Old Acquaintance (1940) | John Van Druten | Rich and Famous (1981) | George Cukor |
| Old English (1924) | John Galsworthy | Old English (1930) | Alfred E. Green |
| Old Heidelberg (1901) | Joseph Victor von Scheffel | Old Heidelberg (1915) | John Emerson |
| Old Heidelberg (1901) | Joseph Victor von Scheffel | Old Heidelberg (1923) | Hans Behrendt |
| Old Heidelberg (1901) | Joseph Victor von Scheffel | The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Old Heidelberg (1901) | Joseph Victor von Scheffel | The Student Prince (1954) | Richard Thorpe |
| Old Lady 31 (1916) | Rachel Crothers | Old Lady 31 (1920) | John Ince |
| Old Lady 31 (1916) | Rachel Crothers | The Captain Is a Lady (1940) | Robert B. Sinclair |
| The Old Maid (1935) | Zoë Akins | The Old Maid (1939) | Edmund Goulding |
| Old Man Murphy (1931) | Patrick Kearney | His Family Tree (1935) | Charles Vidor |
| The Old Soak (1921) | Don Marquis | The Old Soak (1926) | Edward Sloman |
| Oleanna (1992) | David Mamet | Oleanna (1994) | David Mamet |
| Olympia (1928) | Ferenc Molnár | His Glorious Night (1929) | Lionel Barrymore |
| Olympia (1928) | Ferenc Molnár | A Breath of Scandal (1960) | Michael Curtiz |
| O miedeco d'e pazze (1908) | Eduardo Scarpetta | The Doctor of the Mad (1954) | Mario Mattoli |
| On Approval (1926) | Frederick Lonsdale | On Approval (1930) | Tom Walls |
| On Approval (1926) | Frederick Lonsdale | On Approval (1944) | Clive Brook |
| On Borrowed Time (1938) | Paul Osborn | On Borrowed Time (1939) | Harold S. Bucquet |
| Once a Crook (1939) | Evadne Price Ken Attiwell | Once a Crook (1941) | Herbert Mason |
| Once in a Lifetime (1930) | Moss Hart George S. Kaufman | Once in a Lifetime (1932) | Russell Mack |
| Once More, with Feeling (1958) | Harry Kurnitz | Once More, with Feeling! (1960) | Stanley Donen |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1963) | Ken Kesey | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) | Miloš Forman |
| One Night in Istanbul (2009) | Nicky Allt | One Night in Istanbul (2014) | James Marquand |
| One Night Stand (1977) | Carol Bolt | One Night Stand (1978) | Allan King |
| One of the Best | Seymour Hicks | One of the Best (1927) | T. Hayes Hunter |
| One of Our Girls (1885) | Bronson Howard | One of Our Girls (1914) | Thomas N. Heffron |
| One Sunday Afternoon | James Hagan | One Sunday Afternoon (1933) | Stephen Roberts |
| One Sunday Afternoon | James Hagan | The Strawberry Blonde (1941) | Raoul Walsh |
| One Sunday Afternoon | James Hagan | One Sunday Afternoon (1948) | Raoul Walsh |
| One Touch of Venus (1943) | Ogden Nash S. J. Perelman | One Touch of Venus (1948) | William A. Seiter |
| One Way Pendulum (1959) | N. F. Simpson | One Way Pendulum (1965) | Peter Yates |
| One Wild Oat | Vernon Sylvaine | One Wild Oat (1951) | Charles Saunders |
| On Golden Pond (1979) | Ernest Thompson | On Golden Pond (1981) | Mark Rydell |
| On Golden Pond (2001) | Marty Pasetta |
| Only a Dream (1909) | Lothar Schmidt | The Marriage Circle (1924) | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Only a Dream (1909) | Lothar Schmidt | One Hour with You (1932) | George Cukor |
| The Only Game in Town (1968) | Frank D. Gilroy | The Only Game in Town (1970) | George Stevens |
| The Only Son (1911) | Winchell Smith | The Only Son (1914) | Oscar Apfel Cecil B. DeMille |
| The Only Way | Frederick Longbridge Freeman Wills | The Only Way (1926) | Herbert Wilcox |
| On ne badine pas avec l'amour (1834) | Alfred de Musset | One Does Not Play with Love (1926) | G. W. Pabst |
| On purge bébé! (1910) | Georges Feydeau | On purge bébé (1931) | Jean Renoir |
| On the Quiet (1901) | Augustus Thomas | On the Quiet (1918) | Chester Withey |
| On Trial (1914) | Elmer Rice | On Trial (1928) | Archie Mayo |
| On Trial (1914) | Elmer Rice | On Trial (1939) | Terry O. Morse |
| O Pagador de Promessas | Dias Gomes | O Pagador de Promessas (1962) | Anselmo Duarte |
| An Optimistic Tragedy (1933) | Vsevolod Vishnevsky | Optimistic Tragedy (1963) | Samson Samsonov |
| Orders Are Orders (1932) | Ian Hay Anthony Armstrong | Orders Is Orders (1933) | Walter Forde |
| Orders Are Orders (1932) | Ian Hay Anthony Armstrong | Orders Are Orders (1955) | David Paltenghi |
| Ordet (1932) | Kaj Munk | The Word (1943 film) | Gustaf Molander |
| Ordet (1932) | Kaj Munk | Ordet (1955) | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| An Ordinary Miracle | Evgeny Schwartz | An Ordinary Miracle (1964) | Erast Garin Khesya Lokshina |
| An Ordinary Miracle | Evgeny Schwartz | An Ordinary Miracle (1978) | Mark Zakharov |
| Oresteia (5th century BCE) | Aeschylus | The Forgotten Pistolero (1969) | Ferdinando Baldi |
| Orfeu da Conceição (1956) | Vinicius de Moraes | Black Orpheus (1959) | Marcel Camus |
| Orfeu da Conceição (1956) | Vinicius de Moraes | Orfeu (1999) | Carlos Diegues |
| The Orphan of Zhao (13th century) | Ji Junxiang | Sacrifice (2010) | Chen Kaige |
| Orphans (1983) | Lyle Kessler | Orphans (1987) | Alan J. Pakula |
| Orpheus Descending (1957) | Tennessee Williams | The Fugitive Kind (1960) | Sidney Lumet |
| Orpheus Descending (1957) | Tennessee Williams | Orpheus Descending (film) (1990) | Peter Hall |
| Oscar (1958) | Claude Magnier | Oskar (1962) | Gabriel Axel |
| Oscar (1958) | Claude Magnier | Oscar (1967) | Édouard Molinaro |
| Oscar (1958) | Claude Magnier | Oscar (1991) | John Landis |
| Os Homens São de Marte... E é pra Lá que Eu Vou! | Mônica Martelli | Os Homens São de Marte... E é pra Lá que Eu Vou! (2014) | Marcus Baldini |
| Other Men's Wives (1928) | Walter C. Hackett | Sweethearts and Wives (1930) | Clarence G. Badger |
| Other People's Money: The Ultimate Seduction (1989) | Jerry Sterner | Other People's Money (1991) | Norman Jewison |
| Other Times (1920) | Harold Brighouse | Children of Jazz (1923) | Jerome Storm |
| Our Betters (1917) | W. Somerset Maugham | Our Betters (1933) | George Cukor |
| Our Mrs. McChesney (1915) | Edna Ferber George V. Hobart | Our Mrs. McChesney (1918) | Ralph Ince |
| Our Town (1938) | Thornton Wilder | Our Town (1940) | Sam Wood |
| Our Town (1938) | Thornton Wilder | Our Town (1955) | Delbert Mann |
| Our Town (1938) | Thornton Wilder | Our Town (2003) | James Naughton |
| Our Wife (1933) | Lillian Day Lyon Mearson | Our Wife (1941) | John M. Stahl |
| Outcast (1914) | Hubert Henry Davies | The World and the Woman (1916) | Frank Lloyd |
| Outcast (1914) | Hubert Henry Davies | Outcast (1917 film) | Dell Henderson |
| Outcast (1914) | Hubert Henry Davies | Outcast (1922 film) | Chester Withey |
| Outcast (1914) | Hubert Henry Davies | Outcast (1928 film) | William A. Seiter |
| Outcast (1914) | Hubert Henry Davies | The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935) | Alfred E. Green |
| Out of the Frying Pan (1941) | Francis Swann | Young and Willing (1943) | Edward H. Griffith |
| Out to Win (1921) | Roland Pertwee Dion Clayton Calthrop | Out to Win (1923) | Denison Clift |
| Outward Bound (1923) | Sutton Vane | Outward Bound (1930) | Robert Milton |
| Outward Bound (1923) | Sutton Vane | Between Two Worlds (1944) | Edward A. Blatt |
| Over 21 (1944) | Ruth Gordon | Over 21 (1945) | Charles Vidor |
| Over She Goes | Stanley Lupino | Over She Goes (1937) | Graham Cutts |
| O voto | Salvatore Di Giacomo | The Vow (1950) | Mario Bonnard |
| The Owl and the Pussycat (1964) | Bill Manhoff | The Owl and the Pussycat (1970) | Herbert Ross |

### P

| Play | Playwright | Film | Film director |
| Paddy the Next Best Thing (1920) | Gayer Mackay Robert Ord | Paddy the Next Best Thing (1933) | Harry Lachman |
| Pagan Lady (1930) | William DuBois | The Pagan Lady (1931) | John Francis Dillon |
| Page Miss Glory (1934) | Philip Dunning Joseph Schrank | Page Miss Glory (1935) | Mervyn LeRoy |
| Paid in Full (1908) | Eugene Walter | Paid in Full (1919) | Emile Chautard |
| A Pair of Claws (1983) | Michael Gurr | Departure (1986) | Brian Kavanagh |
| A Pair of Silk Stockings (1914) | Cyril Harcourt | They Just Had to Get Married (1932) | Edward Ludwig |
| Pals First | Francis Perry Elliott | Pals First (1926) | Edwin Carewe |
| Paméla (1898) | Victorien Sardou | Pamela (1945) | Pierre de Hérain |
| Panama Hattie (1940) | Herbert Fields B. G. DeSylva Cole Porter | Panama Hattie (1942) | Norman Z. McLeod |
| Pandora's Box (1904) | Frank Wedekind | Pandora's Box (1929) | G. W. Pabst |
| Papa się żeni (1926) | Wincenty Rapacki | Daddy Gets Married (1936) | Michał Waszyński |
| The Paragon (1948) | Michael Pertwee Roland Pertwee | Silent Dust (1949) | Lance Comfort |
| Paris (1928) | Martin Brown Cole Porter | Paris (1929) | Clarence G. Badger |
| Paris Bound (1927) | Philip Barry | Paris Bound (1929) | Edward H. Griffith |
| Partners Again (1922) | Montague Glass Jules Eckert Goodman | Partners Again (1926) | Henry King |
| Passing Brompton Road | Jevan Brandon-Thomas | Her Reputation (1931) | Sidney Morgan |
| The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1908) | Jerome K. Jerome | The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1918) | Herbert Brenon |
| The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1908) | Jerome K. Jerome | The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1935) | Berthold Viertel |
| Pastor Hall (1939) | Ernst Toller | Pastor Hall (1940) | Roy Boulting |
| Patachon (1907) | Félix Duquesnel Maurice Hennequin | The Gay Deceiver (1926) | John M. Stahl |
| Patate (1957) | Marcel Achard | Patate (1964) | Robert Thomas |
| Pater noster | Jacobo Langsner | Bad Company (1986) | José Santiso |
| Patrie! (1869) | Victorien Sardou | Patrie (1917) | Albert Capellani |
| Patrie! (1869) | Victorien Sardou | Patrie (1946) | Louis Daquin |
| Patterns (1955) | Rod Serling | Patterns (1956) | Fielder Cook |
| The Patsy (1925) | Barry Conners | The Patsy (1928) | King Vidor |
| Payment Deferred (1931) | Jeffrey Dell | Payment Deferred (1932) | Lothar Mendes |
| Peer Gynt (1876} | Henrik Ibsen | Peer Gynt (1915) | Oscar Apfel Raoul Walsh |
| Peer Gynt (1876} | Henrik Ibsen | Peer Gynt (1919) | Richard Oswald Victor Barnowsky |
| Peer Gynt (1876} | Henrik Ibsen | Peer Gynt (1934) | Fritz Wendhausen |
| Peer Gynt (1876} | Henrik Ibsen | Peer Gynt (1941) | David Bradley |
| Peg o' My Heart (1912) | J. Hartley Manners | Peg o' My Heart (1933) | Robert Z. Leonard |
| Penny Arcade (1930) | Marie Baumer | Sinners' Holiday (1930) | John G. Adolfi |
| The Perfect Gentleman | Edward Childs Carpenter | The Perfect Gentleman (1935) | Tim Whelan |
| The Perfect Marriage (1944) | Samson Raphaelson | The Perfect Marriage (1947) | Lewis Allen |
| Perfect Pie (2000) | Judith Thompson | Perfect Pie (2002) | Barbara Willis Sweete |
| A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrduša Donja (1971) | Ivo Brešan | A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrduša Donja (1973) | Krsto Papić |
| Period of Adjustment (1960) | Tennessee Williams | Period of Adjustment (1962) | George Roy Hill |
| Perlenkomödie (1929) | Bruno Frank | Different Morals (1931) | Gerhard Lamprecht |
| Personal Appearance (1934) | Lawrence Riley | Go West, Young Man (1936) | Henry Hathaway |
| Peter and Vandy (2002) | Jay DiPietro | Peter and Vandy (2009) | Jay DiPietro |
| Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904) | J. M. Barrie | Peter Pan (1924) | Herbert Brenon |
| Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904) | J. M. Barrie | Peter Pan (1953) | Hamilton Luske Clyde Geronimi Wilfred Jackson |
| Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904) | J. M. Barrie | Peter Pan (1976) | Dwight Hemion |
| Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904) | J. M. Barrie | Peter Pan (1988) | David Cherkasskiy Richard Trueblood |
| Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904) | J. M. Barrie | Peter Pan (2003) | P. J. Hogan |
| The Petrified Forest (1935) | Robert E. Sherwood | The Petrified Forest (1936) | Archie Mayo |
| The Phantom Lady (1629) | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | The Phantom Lady (1945) | Luis Saslavsky |
| Phfft: Chronicle of a Happy Divorce | George Axelrod | Phffft (1954) | Mark Robson |
| Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1964) | Brian Friel | Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1977) | John Quested |
| The Philadelphia Story (1939) | Philip Barry | The Philadelphia Story (1940) | George Cukor |
| The Philadelphia Story (1939) | Philip Barry | High Society (1956) | Charles Walters |
| Phyro-Giants! | Michael Blieden | Melvin Goes to Dinner (2003) | Bob Odenkirk |
| The Physician (1897) | Henry Arthur Jones | The Physician (1928) | Georg Jacoby |
| The Piano Lesson (1987) | August Wilson | The Piano Lesson (1995) | Lloyd Richards |
| Picnic (1953) | William Inge | Picnic (1955) | Joshua Logan |
| Pictures from the Insects' Life (1921) | Brothers Čapek | Insects (2018) | Jan Švankmajer |
| Pierre ou Jack (1931) | Francis de Croisset | Head over Heels | Sonnie Hale |
| The Pillars of Society (1877) | Henrik Ibsen | Pillars of Society (1920) | Rex Wilson |
| Pillar to Post (1943) | Rose Simon Kohn | Pillow to Post (1945) | Vincent Sherman |
| The Pirate (1942) | S. N. Behrman | The Pirate (1948) | Vincente Minnelli |
| The Playboy of the Western World (1907) | John Millington Synge | The Playboy of the Western World (1962) | Brian Desmond Hurst |
| Play It Again, Sam (1969) | Woody Allen | Play It Again, Sam (1972) | Herbert Ross |
| Plaza Suite (1968) | Neil Simon | Plaza Suite (1971) | Arthur Hiller |
| Please Help Emily | H. M. Harwood | The Palm Beach Girl (1926) | Erle C. Kenton |
| Please Stand By (2008) | Michael Golamco | Please Stand By (2017) | Ben Lewin |
| The Pleasure of His Company (1958) | Samuel A. Taylor Cornelia Otis Skinner | The Pleasure of His Company (1961) | George Seaton |
| Plenty (1978) | David Hare | Plenty (1985) | Fred Schepisi |
| The Plough and the Stars (1926) | Seán O'Casey | The Plough and the Stars (1937) | John Ford |
| Plunder (1928) | Ben Travers | Plunder 1931) | Tom Walls |
| Point of Death | Michael Cooney | The I Inside (2003) | Roland Suso Richter |
| Poison Pen (1937) | Richard Llewellyn | Poison Pen (1939) | Paul L. Stein |
| Poliche (1906) | Henry Bataille | Poliche (1934) | Abel Gance |
| Polly of the Circus (1907) | Margaret Mayo | Polly of the Circus (1917) | Charles T. Horan Edwin L. Hollywood |
| Polly of the Circus (1907) | Margaret Mayo | Polly of the Circus (1932) | Alfred Santell |
| Polly With a Past | Guy Bolton George Middleton | Polly With a Past (1920) | Leander de Cordova |
| The Poltergeist (1946) | Frank Harvey | Things Happen at Night (1947) | Francis Searle |
| The Pony Cart | Roger Garis | Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960) | Cyril Frankel |
| The Poor Little Rich Girl (1912) | Eleanor Gates | The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917) | Maurice Tourneur |
| Poppy (1923) | Howard Dietz Dorothy Donnelly W. C. Fields | Sally of the Sawdust (1925) | D. W. Griffith |
| Poppy (1923) | Howard Dietz Dorothy Donnelly W. C. Fields | Poppy (1936) | A. Edward Sutherland |
| Porgy and Bess | DuBose Heyward Ira Gershwin | Porgy and Bess (1959) | Otto Preminger |
| The Porter from Maxim's (1923, French: Le chasseur de chez Maxim's) | Yves Mirande Gustave Quinson | The Porter from Maxim's (1927) | Roger Lion |
| The Porter from Maxim's (1923, French: Le chasseur de chez Maxim's) | Yves Mirande Gustave Quinson | The Porter from Maxim's (1933) | Karl Anton |
| The Porter from Maxim's (1923, French: Le chasseur de chez Maxim's) | Yves Mirande Gustave Quinson | The Porter from Maxim's (1939) | Maurice Cammage |
| The Porter from Maxim's (1923, French: Le chasseur de chez Maxim's) | Yves Mirande Gustave Quinson | The Porter from Maxim's (1953) | Henri Diamant-Berger |
| The Porter from Maxim's (1923, French: Le chasseur de chez Maxim's) | Yves Mirande Gustave Quinson | The Porter from Maxim's (1976) | Claude Vital |
| Portrait in Black | Ivan Goff Ben Roberts | Portrait in Black (1960) | Michael Gordon |
| Posh (2010) | Laura Wade | The Riot Club (2014) | Lone Scherfig |
| Possible Worlds (1990) | John Mighton | Possible Worlds (2000) | Robert Lepage |
| Potiche | Pierre Barillet Jean-Pierre Gredy | Potiche (2010) | François Ozon |
| The Potters (1923) | J. P. McElvoy | The Potters (1927) | Fred C. Newmeyer |
| Pour avoir Adrienne | Louis Verneuil | The Cheeky Devil (1932) | Carl Boese Heinz Hille |
| Pour avoir Adrienne | Louis Verneuil | The Love Habit (1931) | Harry Lachman |
| Pour avoir Adrienne | Louis Verneuil | You Will Be My Wife (1932) | Carl Boese Heinz Hille Serge de Poligny |
| Powder Keg (1994) | Dejan Dukovski | Cabaret Balkan (1998) | Goran Paskaljević |
| Potash and Perlmutter (1913) | Charles Klein Montague Glass | Potash and Perlmutter (1923) | Clarence G. Badger |
| Potash and Perlmutter (1913) | Charles Klein Montague Glass | In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter (1924) | Alfred E. Green |
| Precious (1929) | James Forbes | Bachelor's Affairs (1932) | Alfred L. Werker |
| Prelude to a Kiss (1988) | Craig Lucas | Prelude to a Kiss (1992) | Norman René |
| A Present from Margate (1933) | Ian Hay A.E.W. Mason | The Widow from Monte Carlo (1935) | Arthur Greville Collins |
| The Priest of Kirchfeld (1870) | Ludwig Anzengruber | The Priest from Kirchfeld (1914) | Jacob Fleck Luise Fleck |
| The Priest of Kirchfeld (1870) | Ludwig Anzengruber | The Priest from Kirchfeld (1926) | Jacob Fleck Luise Fleck |
| The Priest of Kirchfeld (1870) | Ludwig Anzengruber | The Priest from Kirchfeld (1937) | Jacob Fleck Luise Fleck |
| The Priest of Kirchfeld (1870) | Ludwig Anzengruber | The Priest from Kirchfeld (1955) | Hans Deppe |
| The Priest of Kirchfeld (1870) | Ludwig Anzengruber | Das Mädchen vom Pfarrhof (1955) | Alfred Lehner |
| The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1966) | Jay Presson Allen | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) | Ronald Neame |
| Primrose Path (1938) | Robert H. Buckner | Primrose Path (film) (1940) | Gregory La Cava |
| The Primrose Path (1907) | Bayard Veiller | Burnt Wings (1920) | Christy Cabanne |
| The Prince and the Beggar Maid (1908) | Walter Howard | The Prince and the Beggarmaid (1921) | A. V. Bramble |
| Prince Jean | Charles Méré | Prince Jean (1928) | René Hervil |
| Prince Jean | Charles Méré | Prince Jean (1934) | Jean de Marguenat |
| The Prince of Homburg (1810) | Heinrich von Kleist | The Prince of Homburg (1997) | Marco Bellocchio |
| Princess Zim-Zim (1911) | Edward Sheldon | A Coney Island Princess (1916) | Dell Henderson |
| A Prince There Was | George M. Cohan | A Prince There Was (1921) | Tom Forman |
| Prison Without Bars (1936) | Gina Kaus | Prison Without Bars (1938) | |
| The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1971) | Neil Simon | The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) | Melvin Frank |
| The Private Ear | Peter Shaffer | The Pad and How to Use It (1966) | Brian G. Hutton |
| Private Fears in Public Places (2004) | Alan Ayckbourn | Private Fears in Public Places (2006) | Alain Resnais |
| Private Lives (1930) | Noël Coward | Private Lives (1931) | Sidney Franklin |
| Private Lives (1930) | Noël Coward | The Terrible Lovers (1936) | Marc Allégret |
| Privates on Parade | Peter Nichols | Privates on Parade (1982) | Michael Blakemore |
| Profesionalac (1990) | | The Professional (2003) | Dušan Kovačević |
| Proof | David Auburn | Proof (2005) | John Madden |
| Prude's Fall | Rudolf Besier | The Prude's Fall (1925) | Graham Cutts |
| Psycho Beach Party (1987) | Charles Busch | Psycho Beach Party (2000) | Robert Lee King |
| The Public Eye (1962) | Peter Shaffer | Follow Me! (1972) | Carol Reed |
| Public Speaking | Chris Craddock | It's Not My Fault and I Don't Care Anyway (2017) | Chris Craddock |
| Purlie Victorious (1961) | Ossie Davis | Gone Are the Days! (1963) | Nicholas Webster |
| Pygmalion (1913) | George Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion (1938) | Anthony Asquith Leslie Howard |
| Pygmalion (1913) | George Bernard Shaw | My Fair Lady (1964) | George Cukor |
| Pygmalion (1913) | George Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion (1983) | Alan Cooke |

### Q

| Play | Playwright | Film | Film director |
| Quality Street (1901) | J. M. Barrie | Quality Street (1927) | Sidney Franklin |
| Quality Street (1901) | J. M. Barrie | Quality Street (1937) | George Stevens |
| Qualquer Gato Vira-Lata tem uma Vida Sexual Mais Saudável que a Nossa (1998) | Juca de Oliveira | Qualquer Gato Vira-Lata (2011) | Tomas Portella |
| Quarantine (1922) | F. Tennyson Jesse | Lovers in Quarantine (1925) | Frank Tuttle |
| The Quare Fellow (1954) | Brendan Behan | The Quare Fellow (1962) | Arthur Dreifuss |
| Quartet (1999) | Ronald Harwood | Quartet (2012) | Dustin Hoffman |
| The Queen's Husband | Robert E. Sherwood | The Royal Bed (1931) | Lowell Sherman |
| The Queen Was in the Parlour (1926) | Noël Coward | The Queen Was in the Parlour (1927) | Graham Cutts |
| The Queen Was in the Parlour (1926) | Noël Coward | Tonight Is Ours (1933) | Stuart Armstrong Walker |
| Queer Cargo | Noel Langley | Queer Cargo (1938) | Harold D. Schuster |
| The Queer Fish | William Matthew Scott | His Wife's Mother (1932) | Harry Hughes |
| Questi fantasmi (1946) | Eduardo De Filippo | Ghosts – Italian Style (1967) | Renato Castellani |
| Quiet Wedding (1938) | Esther McCracken | Quiet Wedding (1941) | Anthony Asquith |
| Quiet Wedding (1938) | Esther McCracken | Happy Is the Bride (1958) | Roy Boulting |
| Quills (1995) | Doug Wright | Quills (2000) | Philip Kaufman |
| Quinneys (1914) | Horace Annesley Vachell | Quinneys (1919) | Herbert Brenon Maurice Elvey |
| Quinneys (1914) | Horace Annesley Vachell | Quinneys (1927) | Maurice Elvey |