| 100% | MULAN | 5 | 1998 Disney animated movie based on a Chinese folk story depicted in the eponymous 6th-century ballad |
| 40% | MULAN | 5 | Disney movie based on a Chinese folk tale |
| 34% | PATCH | 5 | ___ Adams, character based on a real-life doctor who was played by Robin Williams in the eponymous 1998 film |
| 33% | MULAN | 5 | 1998 film based on a Chinese folk tale |
| 31% | SULLY | 5 | 2016 Tom Hanks movie based on the true story of a pilot |
| 31% | MULAN | 5 | 1998 animated film based on a Chinese legend whose title character is voiced by Ming-Na Wen |
| 30% | HAT | 3 | "The Cat in the ___" (2003 Mike Myers movie based on a Dr. Seuss story) |
| 30% | IRONGIANT | 9 | 1999 animated tearjerker based on a Ted Hughes story, with The |
| 30% | IGOR | 4 | 2008 animated movie loosely based on the Frankenstein story |
| 29% | NOMADLAND | 9 | Best Picture winner based on a book with the subtitle Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century |
| 29% | BEFORE | 6 | "The Nightmare ___ Christmas," 1993 animated movie based on a poem by Tim Burton |
| 28% | CUJO | 4 | 1983 horror movie based on a Stephen King book and featuring a rabid dog that was set largely in one location, the Trenton family home |
| 28% | RINTINTIN | 9 | "Finding ___," movie based on the true story of the rescue dog that went on to appear in over 25 Hollywood movies: 3 wds. |
| 28% | TRUE | 4 | "Based on a ___ story" (like the movies at 44a, 50a, 52a, and 5d) |
| 27% | BARBIE | 6 | "___ in the 12 Dancing Princesses," animated dance movie loosely based on a Grimm fairytale |
| 27% | FINDMEGUILTY | 12 | Comedy drama crime film starring Peter Dinklage which is based on a true story of the longest Mafia trial in American history: 3 wds. |
| 27% | ANTZ | 4 | Animated movie released in 1998 shortly before the similar "A Bug's Life" |
| 27% | FANTAN | 6 | Chinese gambling game based on guessing the number of items in a pot |
| 27% | TRAMP | 5 | Mutt in the title of a Disney animated movie |
| 27% | MULAN | 5 | Disney film based on a Chinese legend |
| 27% | AWAYFROMHER | 11 | *2007 movie based on a New Yorker short story by Alice Munro |
| 27% | THESWIMMER | 10 | *1968 movie based on a New Yorker short story by John Cheever |
| 27% | TRON | 4 | Video game based on a 1982 Disney movie |
| 27% | NEWSIES | 7 | Tony-nominated musical based on a 1992 Disney movie |
| 26% | MEETMEINSTLOUIS | 15 | *1944 movie based on a series of New Yorker short stories by Sally Benson |
| 26% | RAYA | 4 | Girl in the title of a 2021 Disney animated movie |
| 26% | EPIC | 4 | 2013 animated movie based on the book "The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs" |
| 26% | FORREST | 7 | "___ Gump," Tom Hanks movie based on a novel by Winston Groom which released in 1994 |
| 26% | NEEDFOR | 7 | "___ Speed," Dominic Cooper movie based on a video game of the same name: 2 wds. |
| 26% | RELUCTANTDRAGON | 15 | 1941 Disney film based on a Kenneth Grahame story, with "The" |