I will start with Contact, a great novel written by Carl Sagan, and a film adaptation of the same name.
A sci-fi written by a real scientist means very close to possible drama. It was a fun watch and Jodie Foster did a good job.
PS: lets see for how long we can continue posting before mentioning HP or LOTR series 
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I was about to say Harry Potter. :D
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I am sure you know that first few (12 I think) Bond movies are adaptation.
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The Hunger Games
American Psycho
Fight Club :D
The Shawshank Redemption
The Prestige
True Grit
Forest Gump
12 Years a Slave
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
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Ben Hur? Was the movie released before book?
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Nope. The book came before the movie.
Source:
Ben-Hur (1925 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ben-Hur (1959 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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twilight!!
Baa’s haan na!! It did.
Books that turned into great movies.
Gone With The Wind
To Kill A Mockingbird
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The Great Gatsby .... awesome movie/wonderful book.
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The Help, one of the few times when the movie was a little more enjoyable than the book :)
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The Heart of Darkness - Book
turned into the movie "Apocalypse Now"
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The best book turned into a movie is unquestionably The Godfather. The book has weird things in it, like Sonny being well endowed repeatedly mentioned in awkward places. It also spends far too much time with the bridesmaid that Sonny knocks up, Vincent's mom, and how much she misses Sonny and his huge member (seriously). I don't know what the author was thinking but the movie wisely removes all that.
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^ It is one of the few examples of the movie being better than the book. Others: Straw Dogs, Die Hard, Fight Club, Shawshank Redemption.
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The godfather
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Heer Waris Shah 
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Guide, greatest movie ever in indian cinema, novel was by R.K Naryan.....
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^^ oh yara choro. Satiya naas kar diya characterization ka.
The best thing about RK Narayan is that his characters are multi dimensional and never black/white.
In the book - the original husband wasn’t a drunk; the love affair between the guide and the woman was more a dil ka masla rather then please resure me from my evil drunkard of a husband.
And my ultimate blood boiling issue with the movie, the stupid lion scene.
:screaming:
The movie was good independantly; and the book was awesome.
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lol, well its your opinion, but for me its the best movie of indian cinema.. 
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A walk to remember 