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The Tailor of Panama
From the 1996 novel The Tailor of Panama by John Le Carre
Take a girl like you
From the 1960 novel Take a girl like you by Kingsley Amis
Take me home: the John Denver story
From the book Take me home by John Denver
The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3
From the 1973 novel The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 by John Godey
Taking lives
Michael Pye's 1999 novel is a thriller about an FBI profiler who has to track down a serial killer who takes on the identities of the people he kills. The film version has Angelina Jolie as the profiler, Ethan Hawke, Gena Rowlands, Olivier Martinez and Kiefer Sutherland. Read the Book ~ About the Film
Taking sides
From the play by Ronald Harwood, in his Plays two
The Talented Mr Ripley
From the novel The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. In a compilation edition of the 3 Ripley novels and in Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s
Talk radio
From the play Talk radio by Eric Bogosian and the 1987 book Talked to death: The life and death of Alan Berg by Stephen Singular
Talking to strange men
From the novel Talking to strange men by Ruth Rendell
The Tall men
From the 1954 novel The Tall men by Clay Fisher
The Tall stranger
From the novel The Tall stranger by Louis L'Amour
Tape
From a 1999 stage play Tape by Stephen Balber
Tara Road
Maeve Binchy may be one of the biggest selling authors in the world but her novels have only so far become small scale films and television adaptations. This 1998 novel about two women — one American, one Irish — who exchange homes for the summer has been filmed in Dublin and South Africa and features L'Oreal peddler Andie MacDowell, Olivia Williams, Stephen Rea, Ruby Wax and singer Maria Doyle Kennedy.
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Tarzan the Ape Man
Based on the 1914 novel Tarzan of the apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Taste for death
From the novel A Taste for death by P. D. James
Tea with Mussolini
From the book Zeffirelli: the autobiography by Franco Zeffirelli
Teklab
From the novel Teklab by William Shatner
Telefon
Based on the 1975 novel Telefon by Walter Wager
The Tempest
Modernised version of the Shakespeare play The Tempest
The Ten commandments
Based on the 1939 book The Ten commandments by Arthur Eustace Southon
Ten seconds to hell
From the novel The Phoenix by Lawrence Bachmann
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
From the novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
Terms of endearment
From the 1977 novel Terms of endearment by Larry McMurtry
Terminal
From the 1993 novel Terminal by Robin Cook
Terror in the shadows
From the novel Night of reunion by Michael Allegretto
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
From the novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Texasville
From the novel Texasville by Larry McMurtry
That Darn cat
From the 1963 novel Undercover cat by The Gordons
Then she found me
Elinor Lipman’s first novel, published back in 1990, is another book that has taken some time to get to the screen. Helen Hunt has been working on adapting the script (a role she took on herself) for the past eight years. In the film, she plays a schoolteacher whose birth mother (Bette Midler) pops into her life at the worst possible time. Matthew Broderick will play Hunt’s husband, while Colin Firth takes on the role of a man she meets through one of her students.
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There are no children here
From the book There are no children here by Alex Kotlowtiz
These foolish things (2006)
From the 1936 novel, There's a porpoise close behind us (long out of print) by Noel Langley
These thousand hills
From the 1956 novel These thousand hills by A. B. Guthrie
They made me a fugitive
Based on the 1941 novel A Convict has escaped by Jackson Budd
They won't believe me
From the 1947 novel They won't believe me by Gordon and Margaret MacDonnell
The Thin man
From the 1934 novel The Thin man by Dashiell Hammett
The Third man
From the novel The Third man by Graham Greene
The Third miracle
From the novel The Third miracle by Richard Vetere
30 Days Of Night
A small Alaskan town is plunged into darkness for one month a year and that’s the signal for a bunch of no good vampires to descend on the town for a bloody meal. The story is told in the 2005 graphic novel by Steve Niles and instead of Alaska, New Zealand was chosen as location for the film version directed by David Slade who made the very nasty and disturbing Hard candy. The cast is led by Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston and Ben Foster with a largely Kiwi supporting cast that includes Joel Tobeck, Manu Bennett, Craig Hall, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Kate Elliott, Elizabeth McRae, Pua Magasiva, Chic Littlewood, Ben Fransham and Jacob Tomuri. Much of the filming was done around Auckland.
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This boy's life
From the book This boy's life by Tobias Wolff
This gun for hire
From the novel A Gun for sale by Graham Greene
This is my life
From the novel This is my life by Meg Wolitzer
The Thousand plane raid
From a novel The Thousand plane raid by Ralph Barker
Three dollars
One of the best Australian novels in years has been this 1998 work by Elliot Perlman. It's all about a thirtyish man who suddenly finds himself a victim of a world of downsizing and redundancies. Read the Book ~ About the Film
3.10 to Yuma (1957 and 2007)
From the short story by Elmore Leonard
The Three lives of Thomasina
From the novel Thomasina by Paul Gallico
The Three musketeers
From the novel The Three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Through my eyes
Lindy Chamberlain's autobiography first came out in 1990. Australia's Channel 7 has made a miniseries from the book and a new and updated book is due out in 2005 (with the author under her new married name of Lindy Chamberlain Creighton). Read the Book ~ About the Film
Thunderball
From the Ian Fleming novel Thunderball
The Tide of life
From the 1974 novel The Tide of life by Catherine Cookson
Tideland
Mitch Cullin's 2000 novel is a strange and magical work about a young Texan girl who escapes her tough rural life by withdrawing into her vivid and disturbed imagination. She is accompanied in her adventures by four disembodied doll heads that she places on her fingertips. The strange and imaginative nature of the book appealed to Terry Gilliam who had this film in development for some time. The film is a British-Canadian co-production with 9 year old Jodelle Ferland as the leading character, Jeff Bridges, Janet McTeer and Jennifer Tilly.
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Time at the top
From the 1963 children's novel Time at the top by Edward Ormondroyd
Time gentlemen please
From the 1946 novel Nothing to lose by R. J. Minney
The Time machine
Based on the 1895 novel The Time machine by H.G. Wells
A Time to kill
From the novel A Time to kill by John Grisham
Timeline (2003)
From the 1999 novel Timeline by Michael Crichton
Tipping the velvet
Based on the 1998 novel Tipping the velvet by Sarah Waters
Titus
New adaptation of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
The Third man
From the 1950 novel The Third man by Graham Greene
Thomas and the magic railroad
Americanised version of the Thomas the Tank Engine books
To catch a thief
From the 1952 novel To catch a thief by David Dodge
To dance with the white dog
From the novel To dance with the white dog by Terry Kay
To die for
From the 1992 novel To die for by Joyce Maynard
To Gillian on her 37th birthday
From the 1985 play To Gillian on her 37th birthday by Michael Brady
To have and have not
From the novel To have and have not by Ernest Hemingway
To hell and back
From the 1949 autobiography To hell and back by Audie Murphy
To kill a mockingbird
From the novel To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee
Tobia al caffe
From the short story Tobia al caffe by Marco Lodoli
Tom and Viv
From the play Tom and Viv by Michael Hastings
Tom Brown's schooldays
From the novel Tom Brown's schooldays by Thomas Hughes
Tom Clancy's Net Force
Tie-in novel by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik. The latter writes it and the former lends his name to it
Tom Jones
From the novel Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Tomorrow never dies
Based on Ian Fleming's character and novelized Tomorrow never dies by Raymond Benson
The Tommyknockers
From the novel The Tommyknockers by Stephen King
Topaz
From the novel Topaz by Leon Uris
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Based on the 1967 book The Broken seal by Ladislas Farago and the book Tora! Tora! Tora! by Gordon W. Prange
Torch Song Trilogy
From the play Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein
Torso: the Evelyn Dick story
From the 1974 book Torso: the Evelyn Dick story by Marjorie Freeman Campbell
Total eclipse
From the play Total eclipse by Christopher Hampton
Total Recall
From the short story We can remember it for you wholesale by Philip K. Dick. In Dick's collections The Little black box and The Preserving machine
Touch
From the novel Touch by Elmore Leonard
A Touch of frost
Original scripts for TV. The character Frost originates in novels by R.D.Wingfield
Touching the void (2003)
From the 1988 book Touching the void by Joe Simpson
Tous les matins du monde
From the novel translated into English as All the world's mornings by Pascal Quignard
The Towering inferno
From the 1973 novel The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and the 1974 novel The Glass inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson
Toy Soldiers
From the novel Toy Soldiers by William P. Kennedy
The Train
From the 1961 book Le front de l'art by Rose Valland, never translated
Trainspotting
From the novel Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Trapped (2002)
From the 2000 novel 24 hours by Greg Iles
Traps
From the 1986 novel Dreamhouse by Kate Grenville
Travels with my aunt (1972)
From the 1969 novel Travels with my aunt by Graham Greene
Treasure Island
From the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Trial and retribution I, II, III
Tie-in novel by Lynda La Plante
A Trip to Bountiful
From the play A Trip to Bountiful by Horton Foote, first produced 1953
Tristram Shandy
Laurence Sterne's novel, originally published in parts between 1713-1768, has long been regarded as unfilmable. It's an extraordinary tale in which the title character isn't born until the fourth volume and the narrative is possibly the most digressive ever. Written as events move between time and place and the usual constraints of fiction don't apply.
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The Triumph of love
From the play The Triumph of love by Marivaux
The Trouble with Harry
From the 1949 novel The Trouble with Harry by Jack Trevor Story
Troy
freely adapted from Homer's Iliad. About the Film
The Truce
Based on the book If this is a man by Primo Levi
True crime
From the 1995 novel True crime by Andrew Klavan
True women
From the 1993 novel True women by Janice Woods Windle
The Truth about Charlie
Based upon the novel Charade by Peter Stone
Truth and lies (2002)
From the novel, translated 2003, The forces of the past, by Sandro Veronesi
Tsotsi (2005)
From the 1983 novel Tsotsi by Athol Fugard
Tuck Everlasting
From the novel Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Tuesdays with Morrie
From the book Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
The Turn of the screw
From the novella The Turn of the screw by Henry James
Twelfth Night
From the Shakespeare play Twelfth Night
Twelve angry men
From the play Twelve angry men by Reginald Rose
The Twelve tasks of Asterix
From the book The Twelve tasks of Asterix by Goscinny
Twice round the daffodils
From the 1956 play Ring for Catty by Patrick Cargill and Jack Beale
Twilight of honour (1963)
From the 1961 novel Twilight of honour by Al Dewlen
Twin sisters (2002)
From the novel, translated 2000, The twins, by Tessa de Loo
Two fat ladies
Tie-in book by Jennifer Paterson
Two for Texas
From the 1989 novel Two for Texas by James Lee Burke
Two men to war
Based on the 1980 book The amateur commandos by Raymond Foxall
Two much
From the 1975 novel Two much by Donald E. Westlake
Two weeks in another town
From the 1960 novel Two weeks in another town by Irwin Shaw