This is a list of films based on non-fiction articles published in periodicals such as magazines or newspapers. See also List of films based on short fiction.
- Adaptation. - "The Orchid Thief", The New Yorker - Susan Orlean
- Almost Famous - "The Allman Brothers Story", Rolling Stone cover story by Cameron Crowe
- American Gangster - "The Return of Superfly", New York, 2000 - Mark Jacobson
- Biker Boyz - Michael Gougis
- Blue Crush - "Life's Swell", Women Outside - Susan Orlean
- City by the Sea - "Mark of a Murderer", Esquire, 1997 - Michael McAlary
- Coyote Ugly - "The Muse of the Coyote Ugly Saloon", GQ, 1997 - Elizabeth Gilbert
- Dog Day Afternoon - "The Boys in the Bank", Life, 1972 - P.F. Kluge
- The Fast and the Furious - "Racer X", Vibe - Ken Li
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, - adapted from a two-part article of the same title which appeared in Rolling Stone - Hunter S. Thompson
- The Insider - "The Man Who Knew Too Much", Vanity Fair, 1996 - Marie Brenner
- The Killing Fields - "The Death and Life of Dith Pran", Sydney Schanberg
- Live Free or Die Hard - "A Farewell to Arms", Wired, 1997 - John Carlin
- Perfect -- Series of articles in Rolling Stone - Aaron Latham
- Proof of Life - "Adventures in the Ransom Trade" Vanity Fair - William Prochnau
- Pushing Tin - The New York Times Magazine - Darcy Frey
- Radio - Gary Smith
- Saturday Night Fever - "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night", New York - Nik Cohn
- Shattered Glass - Vanity Fair, 1998 - Buzz Bissinger
- Urban Cowboy - "The Ballad of the Urban Cowboy: America's Search for True Grit", Esquire, 1978 - Aaron Latham
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, films, based, magazine and/or articles:
“Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.”
—Janet Frame (b. 1924)
“I made a list of things I have
to remember and a list
of things I want to forget,
but I see they are the same list.”
—Linda Pastan (b. 1932)
“Television does not dominate or insist, as movies do. It is not sensational, but taken for granted. Insistence would destroy it, for its message is so dire that it relies on being the background drone that counters silence. For most of us, it is something turned on and off as we would the light. It is a service, not a luxury or a thing of choice.”
—David Thomson, U.S. film historian. America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, ch. 8, William Morrow (1977)
“A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.”
—Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906)
“The intent of matrimony, is not for man and wife to be always taken up with each other, but jointly to discharge the duties of civil society, to govern their family with prudence, and educate their children with discretion.”
—Anonymous, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. Weekly Visitor or Ladies Miscellany (June 1807)
“There are several natural phenomena which I shall have to have explained to me before I can keep on going as a resident member of the human race. One is the metamorphosis which hats and suits undergo exactly one week after their purchase, whereby they are changed from smart, intensely becoming articles of apparel into something children use when they want to “dress up like daddy.””
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)