| 100% | PHANTOM | 7 | "__ of the Opera" play based on the French novel |
| 66% | THEPHANTOMOF | 12 | Musical based on a French novel, "___ the Opera" is the longest-running show on Broadway: 3 wds. |
| 62% | WHITE | 5 | & 3D The —, Mikhail Bulgakov novel on which stage play The Days of the Turbins was based |
| 60% | NATIVITY | 8 | Christmas play based on the birth of Jesus Christ |
| 59% | AMADEUS | 7 | Peter Shaffer play based on the lives of Mozart and Salieri |
| 57% | MARYSTUART | 10 | 1800 Friedrich Schiller verse play based on the life of Mary, Queen of Scots |
| 57% | ADO | 3 | "Much ___ About Nothing," 1901 opera based on the Shakespeare play |
| 56% | FORRESTGUMP | 11 | Tom Hanks' 1994 drama film based on a Winston Groom novel of the same name in which 20a plays his love interest: 2 wds. |
| 56% | MONEYBALL | 9 | Brad Pitt's 2011 sports drama film based on a Michael Lewis novel of the same name in which 20a plays his ex-wife |
| 56% | CAROL | 5 | Cate Blanchett film based on the novel "The Price of Salt" |
| 56% | LEISURE | 7 | "Ladies of ___," Barbara Stanwyck starrer based on the Broadway play "Ladies of the Evening" |
| 56% | AMERICANWOMAN | 13 | Novel by 52-Across based on the 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst (2 wds.) |
| 55% | SHREW | 5 | The Taming of the ___ (Shakespeare play that Kiss Me, Kate was based on) |
| 55% | SATYAGRAHA | 10 | 1979 opera by Philip Glass loosely based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi |
| 54% | SHINING | 7 | "The ___," 1980 horror film starring Jack Nicholson based on the novel of the same name |
| 54% | THEYRE | 6 | "___ Playing Our Song" (musical based on the story of Carole Bayer Sager and Marvin Hamlisch) |
| 54% | GROOM | 5 | Winston ___, author of the 1986 novel on which the movie "Forrest Gump" is based |
| 54% | GAMEOFTHRONES | 13 | Fantasy TV series based on the novels of George R. R. Martin: 3 wds. |
| 54% | WRATH | 5 | "The Grapes of ___," novel by American author John Steinbeck based on the struggles of migrant farmworkers |
| 53% | END | 3 | "The ___ of the Affair" (1999 film based on a Graham Greene novel) |
| 53% | END | 3 | "The ___ of the Affair" (Neil Jordan film based on a Graham Greene novel) |
| 53% | AFFAIR | 6 | "The End of the ___" (Julianne Moore film based on a Graham Greene novel) |
| 53% | END | 3 | "The ___ of the Affair" (Julianne Moore film based on a Graham Greene novel) |
| 53% | REMAINS | 7 | “The ___ of the Day” (Oscar-nominated film based on a Kazuo Ishiguro novel) |
| 53% | KISS | 4 | "___ of the Spider Woman" (Oscar-winning film based on a Manuel Puig novel) |
| 52% | GRAPES | 6 | "The ___ of Wrath," 1940 film starring Henry Fonda as a sharecropper, based on the eponymous John Steinbeck novel |
| 52% | THEFAULTINOUR | 13 | "___ Stars," romantic tragedy film starring Ansel Elgort based on the novel of the same name: 4 wds. |
| 52% | PSYCHO | 6 | 1960 American thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock based on a 1959 novel of the same name |
| 52% | RED | 3 | "The Thin ___ Line," 1998 movie based on James Jones' novel about the WWII battle of Guadalcanal |