Book to Screen

Adaptation Trailers

Discover movies based on books and watch their latest trailers.

Movies based on books by William Faulkner
Showing 7 movies based on books by William Faulkner.
↻ Shuffle βœ• All Authors

Discover More Authors

Explore writers with a similar screen-adaptation era.

The Sound and the Fury
Release: 2015-10-23
TMDB rating: 5.0
Based on the book by William Faulkner
A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century.
TMDB ID: 287636
As I Lay Dying
Release: 2013-10-09
TMDB rating: 5.2
Based on the book by William Faulkner
Strife and disaster befall a poor Mississippi family during a two-day trip by horse and wagon to bury their deceased matriarch.
TMDB ID: 152745
The Reivers
Release: 1969-12-20
TMDB rating: 6.4
Based on the book by William Faulkner
In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.
TMDB ID: 5928
Sanctuary
Sanctuary
Release: 1961-04-18
TMDB rating: 5.4
Based on the book by William Faulkner
In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake's infant child. Temple, the daughter of the governor, pleads with her father to exonerate Nancy of the charges, explaining that Nancy acted in haste to prevent her from resuming her affair with a roguish Cajun called Candy Man. Details of Temple's sordid past are uncovered as she begs mercy for her faithful servant.
TMDB ID: 210808
The Long, Hot Summer
Release: 1958-05-17
TMDB rating: 7.0
Based on the book by William Faulkner
Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
TMDB ID: 40085
The Tarnished Angels
Release: 1957-11-21
TMDB rating: 6.8
Based on the book by William Faulkner
In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist. When newspaper reporter Burke Devlin arrives to do a story on the Shumanns’ act, he quickly falls in love with the beautiful--and neglected--LaVerne.
TMDB ID: 38432
Intruder in the Dust
Release: 1949-11-22
TMDB rating: 7.3
Based on the book by William Faulkner
Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he's innocent and asks the town's most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.
TMDB ID: 80572