Cult films you didn’t know were based on books

Books, unsurprisingly, make excellent source material for films. There’s already a plot with a beginning, middle and end and fully-formed characters waiting to leap off the page and onto the screen.

In fact, some of the most-loved films out there are adaptations. The Godfather, To Kill a Mockingbird and Little Women (insert your preferred version here), to name a few. 

But those are the ones everyone knows about so here, instead, is a selection of films based on books that you might be surprised by.