Source Material: George Romero's screenplay for 1978's influential zombie movie Dawn of the Dead, the second installment in a franchise that began a decade prior with Night of the Living Dead.

Source Material: The American novelist Evan Hunter's novel King's Ransom, though directors Akira Kurosawa and Spike Lee largely use the book as a starting point for their explorations of social problems.

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Source Material: Charles Portis's 1968 novel, in which a young girl searches for a man with "true grit" to pursue her father's killer.

Source Material: Paul Gallico's 1969 novel. A group of passengers on an ocean liner struggles to reach safety after the ship is capsized by a massive wave.

Source Material: Ronald Bass's original screenplay for the 1997 romantic comedy.

Source Material: The 1950 Georges Arnaud novel, in which four men are hired to transport nitroglycerin to the site of an oil well fire.

Source Material: William Shakespeare's renowned tragedy. Both films adhere closely to the Bard's text.

Source Material: H. G. Wells' 1895 novella The Time Machine, a contemplation of humanity's future in a world of accelerating technological innovation and economic inequality.

Source Material: Hungarian-born playwright Miklós László's Parfumerie, a tale of two coworkers who fall in love via the written word, despite not being able to stand each other in real life.