| 100% | ITSPAT | 6 | 1994 movie based on an "S.N.L." character |
| 69% | ITSPAT | 6 | 1994 film based on an "S.N.L." skit |
| 68% | WAYNESWORLD | 11 | 1992 movie based on an "S.N.L." sketch ... or, diverged: Modus vivendi |
| 58% | ITSPAT | 6 | 1994 flop based on a Julia Sweeney “S.N.L.” character |
| 58% | ITSPAT | 6 | 1994 film based on an androgynous "SNL" character (2 wds.) |
| 55% | BABAWAWA | 8 | Gilda Radner “S.N.L.” character based on an iconic journalist |
| 52% | YENTL | 5 | Movie based on an Isaac Bashevis Singer story |
| 52% | FORRESTGUMP | 11 | 1994 movie based on a Winston Groom novel |
| 51% | DEGREES | 7 | Six ___ of Kevin Bacon (game based on an actor's movies) |
| 51% | WAYNESWORLD | 11 | 1992 movie based on an "SNL" sketch |
| 50% | AEON | 4 | "___ Flux" (2005 movie based on an MTV series) |
| 50% | EYRE | 4 | "Jane ___" (2011 movie based on an 1847 novel) |
| 50% | KATO | 4 | Bruce Lee role based on an old radio character |
| 50% | ATLAS | 5 | "___ Shrugged" (2011 movie based on an Ayn Rand book) |
| 50% | CATS | 4 | 2019 movie based on an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical |
| 50% | VFORVENDETTA | 12 | 2005 movie based on an Alan Moore graphic novel |
| 49% | RUMBLEFISH | 10 | Matt Dillon film based on an S. E. Hinton novel |
| 46% | OCTOBERSKY | 10 | Movie based on the memoir "Rocket Boys" (and an anagram of "Rocket Boys") |
| 46% | CLUELESS | 8 | 1990s ABC/UPN comedy/drama based on an Alicia Silverstone movie |
| 44% | RICH | 4 | "Richie ___," 1994 Macaulay Culkin movie based on the Harvey Comics character of the same name |
| 44% | BIOPIC | 6 | Movie based on someone's life, informally |
| 44% | KANE | 4 | Movie character based on Hearst |
| 43% | BATMANFOREVER | 13 | Comic book adaptation of the 1995 movie based on a DC Comics character: 2 wds. |
| 43% | FORREST | 7 | "___ Gump," Tom Hanks movie based on a novel by Winston Groom which released in 1994 |
| 43% | DUCK | 4 | "Howard the ___," 1986 Lea Thompson movie based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name |
| 42% | BABE | 4 | Movie based on the children's book "The Sheep-Pig" |
| 42% | DUKE | 4 | "Doonesbury" character based on Hunter S. Thompson |
| 42% | MILE | 4 | "8 ___," movie based on Eminem's life |
| 42% | ARGO | 4 | 2012 movie based on the CIA's "Canadian Caper" |
| 42% | GIA | 3 | Angelina Jolie movie based on a supermodel's life |