| 100% | HUNT | 4 | "The ___ for Red October" (1990 film based on a Tom Clancy novel) |
| 87% | HUNT | 4 | "The ___ for Red October" 1990 American submarine spy-thriller film which is based on Tom Clancy's novel of the same name, starring Sean Connery |
| 70% | SUM | 3 | "The ___ of All Fears" (spy film based on a Tom Clancy novel) |
| 67% | CLEAR | 5 | "___ and Present Danger" (Harrison Ford film based on a Tom Clancy novel) |
| 66% | SUM | 3 | "The ___ of All Fears" (2002 spy film based on a Tom Clancy novel) |
| 66% | FEARS | 5 | "The Sum of All ___" (Ben Affleck film based on a Tom Clancy novel) |
| 59% | SUM | 3 | "The ___ of All Fears" (2002 movie based on a Tom Clancy novel) |
| 50% | MILE | 4 | "The Green ___" (Tom Hanks film based on a Stephen King serial novel) |
| 50% | REDOCTOBER | 10 | Fictional submarine captained by Sean Connery as Marko Ramius in a film based on a Tom Clancy novel (2 wds.) |
| 50% | 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. |
| 49% | MAY | 3 | "What Dreams ___ Come," fantasy drama film based on a novel of the same name starring Robin Williams |
| 48% | BLACK | 5 | "The ___ Stallion," 1979 adventure film based on a 1941 children's novel of the same name |
| 47% | LOVEYOU | 7 | "P.S. I ___," film based on a novel which shares its title with a 1962 song by The Beatles: 2 wds. |
| 47% | MALTESE | 7 | "The ___ Falcon" (Bogart film based on a Hammett novel) |
| 46% | VEIL | 4 | "The Painted ___" (2006 film based on a W. Somerset Maugham novel) |
| 46% | BFG | 3 | 2016 film based on a Roald Dahl novel, with "The" |
| 46% | HUNT | 4 | "The ___ for Red October" (1990 action film) |
| 46% | SAGE | 4 | "Riders of the Purple ___" (Tom Mix film based on a Zane Grey novel) |
| 46% | LOLITA | 6 | Kubrick film based on a Nabokov novel |
| 46% | THEFIRM | 7 | American legal thriller film based on a John Grisham novel by the same name: 2 wds. |
| 45% | FAR | 3 | "___ from the Madding Crowd" (2015 film based on a Thomas Hardy novel) |
| 45% | HOLES | 5 | 2003 Shia LaBeouf film based on a Louis Sachar young adult novel |
| 45% | SOLARIS | 7 | 2002 Soderbergh film based on a 1961 sci-fi novel |
| 45% | TSOTSI | 6 | Oscar-winning foreign language film based on a Fugard novel |
| 45% | DUNE | 4 | 2021 film based on a Frank Herbert sci-fi novel |
| 45% | EYRE | 4 | "Jane ___" (2011 film based on a Brontë novel) |
| 45% | SIN | 3 | "___ City" (2005 film based on a graphic novel) |
| 45% | CLIENT | 6 | Schumacher film based on a Grisham book, The __ |
| 45% | THERIGHTSTUFF | 13 | Oscar-winning space-age film based on a Tom Wolfe book (3 wds.) |
| 45% | OTTO | 4 | "A Man Called __": Tom Hanks film based on a Fredrik Backman novel |