| 100% | PERSUASION | 10 | 2022 Netflix movie based on 18-Across's last completed novel |
| 40% | WILLARD | 7 | 1971 hit movie based on the novel "Ratman's Notebooks" |
| 38% | ITENDS | 6 | With 13-Across, 2024 movie based on a Colleen Hoover novel |
| 37% | CANNERYROW | 10 | Nolte movie based on two Steinbeck novels |
| 37% | INVADER | 7 | "___ Zim: Enter the Florpus" (2019 Netflix movie based on a Nicktoons show) |
| 37% | EYRE | 4 | "Jane ___" (2011 movie based on a classic novel) |
| 37% | WARHORSE | 8 | 2011 movie based on a Michael Morpurgo novel |
| 37% | FORRESTGUMP | 11 | 1994 movie based on a Winston Groom novel |
| 37% | MISERY | 6 | 1990 movie based on a Stephen King novel |
| 37% | EYRE | 4 | "Jane ___" (2011 movie based on an 1847 novel) |
| 37% | EMMA | 4 | 2020 movie based on a Jane Austen novel |
| 37% | RODERICKTHORP | 13 | Author who wrote "Nothing Lasts Forever," the novel on which movie in 17a was based: 2 wds. |
| 36% | VENDETTA | 8 | "V for ___" (2005 dystopian action movie based on a graphic novel) |
| 36% | MOTHERNIGHT | 11 | Nick Nolte movie based on a Kurt Vonnegut novel |
| 36% | SEMATARY | 8 | Pet __, 2019 movie based on a Stephen King novel |
| 36% | BABE | 4 | 1995 movie based on the novel "The Sheep-Pig" |
| 36% | VFORVENDETTA | 12 | 2005 movie based on an Alan Moore graphic novel |
| 36% | HIGH | 4 | "___ Fidelity" (John Cusack movie based on a Nick Hornby novel) |
| 36% | SHOPGIRL | 8 | 2005 Steve Martin movie based on a novel he wrote |
| 36% | DUNE | 4 | 1984 sci-fi movie based on a Frank Herbert novel |
| 35% | HEARTSTOPPER | 12 | Netflix series based on an Alice Oseman graphic novel |
| 35% | OLIVER | 6 | 1968 musical based on an 18-/41-Across novel, winner of the Oscar for Best Picture |
| 35% | AANDE | 5 | Original network for the series based on the 18-Across novels by 40-Across (3 wds.) |
| 35% | RIDEWITHTHE | 11 | "___ Devil," Tobey Maguire's 1999 movie based on Daniel Woodrell's novel: 3 wds. |
| 35% | THECIDERHOUSE | 13 | "___ Rules," Tobey Maguire's 1999 movie based on John Irving's novel: 3 wds. |
| 35% | SUM | 3 | "The ___ of All Fears" (2002 movie based on a Tom Clancy novel) |
| 35% | ATLAS | 5 | "Cloud ___" (Tom Hanks/Halle Berry movie based on a David Mitchell novel) |
| 34% | IRMAVEP | 7 | 2022 HBO series based on a 1996 movie |
| 34% | OLD | 3 | "No Country for ___ Men" (Coen brothers movie based on a Cormac McCarthy novel) |
| 34% | MISERY | 6 | Psychological thriller based on a S. King's novel |