Litatrary Film Festival

SL. Movie name Director Litareture Country Year

No.

1 Surja Dighal Sheikh Niamat Ali The screenplay was based Bangladesh 30 Decemb
Bari (The and Masihuddin on Abu Ishaque’s 1955 er, 1979
Ominous House) Shaker novel of the same title
2 Titash Ekti Nadir Ritwik Kumar The movie was based on Bangladesh July 27,
Naam (A River Ghatak a novel by the same 1973.
Called Titas) name, written by Adwaita
Mallabarman.
3 Pather Panchali Satyajit Ray It is based on India August
(Song of The  Bibhutibhushan 26, 1955.
Little Road) Bandyopadhyay's 1929
Bengali novel of the same
name 
4 Bhuvan Shome Mrinal Sen Sen based his film on a India 12 May, 19
Bengali story by Balai 69.
Chand Mukhopadhyay.
5 Midnight's Deepa Mehta The film is an Canada 9 Septembe
Children  adaptation of Salman United r 2012
Rushdie's 1981 novel of Kingdom
the same name. 
6 Golapi Ekhon Amjad Hossain The film was based on Bangladesh September
Traine (The the novel of Amjad 5, 1978
Endless Trail) Hossain Droupodi Ekhon
Traine
7 The Day Shall Akhtar J. Kardar The screenplay is based Pakistan 8 May 1959
Dawn (Jago Hua on Bengali author Manik
Savera) Bandopadhyay's novel
Padma Nadir Majhi.
8 Charulata (The Satyajit Ray The Broken Nest by  India 17 April 19
Lonely Wife) Rabindranath Tagore. 64

9 Ajantrik (The Ritwik Kumar Bengali short story of the India 23 May
Unmechanical) Ghatak same name written 1958
by Subodh Ghosh.
10 Naukar Ki Mani Kaul Vinod Kumar Shukla's India 30
Kameez (The novel of the same name. September
Servant's Shirt) 1999 
11 Siddhartha  Conrad Rooks  the novel of the same United States July 18,
name by Hermann Hesse 1973

12 Ivan's Childhood Andrei Tarkovsky  It is based on Vladimir Soviet Union 6 April 196
Bogomolov's 1957 short 2
story Ivan 
13 The Color Purple Steven Spielberg 1982 novel of the same United States December 
name 18, 1985
 By Alice Walker.
14 A Beautiful Mind Ron Howard 1998 book of the same United States December 
name by Sylvia Nasar. 13, 2001
15 Rashomon  Akira Kurosawa Short story named "In a August 25, 
Grove" Japan 1950
by Ryūnosuke
Akutagawa
.
16 Sin City Quentin Tarantino It is based on United States April 1, 20
Miller's graphic novel of 05 
the same name.
17 Paths of Glory  Stanley Kubrick based on the novel of the United States December 
same name by Humphrey 25, 1957
Cobb.
18 Two Women  Vittorio De Sica The novel of the same Italy 22 Decemb
name written by Alberto France er 1960
Moravia.
19 12 Years a Slave  Steve McQueen 1853 slave United August 30, 
narrative memoir Twelve States. 2013
Years a United
Slave by Solomon kingdom.
Northup,
20 Fantastic Mr. Wes Anderson The movie is based United States October 14, 
Fox  on Roald Dahl’s 1970 2009
children’s novel of the
same name.
21 Werckmeister Béla Tarr The Melancholy of Hungary 1 February 
Harmonies Resistance 2001
by Hungarian novelist 
László Krasznahorkai
22 The Motorcycle Walter Salles The film is Based on The Argentina 15 January 
Diaries  Motorcycle Diaries Brazil 2004
by Che Guevara USA (Sundance)
Chile
Peru
UK
Germany
France
23 Burning Lee Chang-dong The film is based on the South Korea May 16, 20
short story “Barn 18 (Cannes
Burning” by Haruki )
Murakami.
24 King Lear Jean - Luc Godard “King Lear” is USA 15 Septemb
a tragedy written er 1987
by William Shakespeare
25    William Russia June 24, 19
Hamlet (Russian) Grigori Kozintsev Shakespeare's play of the 64
same title – “Hamlet”,
based on a translation
by Boris Pasternak.

26 Red Sorghum Zhang Yimou Red Sorghum Clan by China 1988

Nobel laureate Mo Yan.
27 The River  Jean Renoir A fairly faithful France 10
dramatization of an September
earlier literary work of 1951
the same name The
River, authored by Rumer
Godden
28 Faust Alexander it is a free interpretation Russia 8 Septembe
Sokurov of the Faust legend and r 2011
its respective literary
adaptations by
both Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe
29 Unicorn Eduardo Nunes Based on Hilda Hilst’s Brazil 2017
short story.
30 The Virgin  Ingmar Bergman The story was adapted by Sweden 8 February 
Spring screenwriter Ulla 1960
Isaksson from a 13th-
century Swedish ballad,
31 Les Misérables  Tom Hooper Based on the 1862
French novel of the same USA & UK 5 Decembe
name by Victor Hugo r 2012
32 Nazarín  Luis Buñuel adapted from the Span/ 4 June 1959
eponymous novel Maxico
of Benito Pérez Galdós
33 The Namesake  Mira Nair based on the novel The USA 2 Septembe
Namesake by Jhumpa India r 2006
Lahiri Japan