25 books that jumped from paper to the screen and you can’t miss

On April 23, Sant Jordi is celebrated, one of the most beloved festivities for book lovers. On this day when roses and books fill the streets, from MarketingDirecto.com We wanted to perform Tribute to those stories that have made the jump from paper to the screen. Because if there is something we like as much as a good novel, it is to see how this story comes to life in audiovisual format.

We know that cinema and series have been adapting to great literary works for decades and lately we are living a real boom of those adaptations. From fantastic sagas to Thrillers or love stories, streaming platforms are very betting on converting bestsellers In audiovisual successes. To celebrate this Sant Jordi day in the best way, we bring you 25 recommendations of literary works that have had their adaptation to the audiovisual.

25 literary works that have passed to streaming platforms

• “Enrique V» – William Shakespeare: One of the great Shakesperian adaptations, focused on the figure of the young English king and his war conflicts.

• «The Count of Montecristo» – Alejandro Dumas: Intrigue, revenge and adventures in one of the most exciting stories of the nineteenth century.

• «Emma» – Jane Austen: Fresh and visually charming adaptation of the novel that satirizes the love life of English high society.

• «The miserable ones» – Victor Hugo: A history of redemption and social justice with historical background.

• «Agatha Christie: killing is easy» – Agatha Christie: A new television version of the classic police enigma of the Queen of Crime.

• “Suspicious» – Michael Robotham: Psychological thriller that starts with the finding of the body of a young woman and an unexpected suspect: her therapist.

• «The full sun» – Patricia Highsmith: The first adaptation of Mr. Ripley’s talenta game of identities and dark desires.

More films to enjoy this Sant Jordi

• «Narcogallegos» – Víctor Méndez Sanguos: Documentary that reveals the framework of drug trafficking in Galicia through a journalistic look.
• «Perpetual chain» – Stephen King: Based on the story Rita Hayworth and Shawshank’s redemptionone of King’s most celebrated adaptations.
• “The exorcist” – William Peter Blatty: Classic horror film that continues to impact decades later.
• «Christine» – Stephen King: a possessed car, a history of adolescent obsession and daily terror.
• «Dune» – Frank Herbert: The science fiction epic par excellence, reinvented in a great blockbuster.
• «Ready Player One» – Ernest Cline: dystopia, pop culture and virtual reality directed by Steven Spielberg.
• «The fifth day» – Frank Schätzing: Ecological thriller where the sea becomes threat after centuries of human abuse.
• «Normal People« – Sally Rooney: Series on young love, intimacy and the difficulty of communicating, turned into literary and television phenomenon.
• «A love» – Sara Mesa: A sober and intense adaptation about emotional ties and isolation.
• «The next room» – Sigrid Nunez: Reflection on the loss, the company and the act of writing.
• «Call Me by Your Name» – André Aciman: a summer love story in northern Italy that has become a contemporary classic of LGBTQ+cinema.
• «In cold blood» – Truman Capote: Founding classic of literary journalism, taken to the cinema with mastery.
• «Shere Hite and female orgasm» – SHERE HITE: Documentary about the pioneer that revolutionized knowledge about female pleasure.
• «The teacher who promised the sea» – Francesc Escribano: Tribute to a teacher killed by Franco and education as an engine of change.
• «A wonderful mind» – Sylvia Nasar: Biopic on John Nash, mathematical genius that fought against schizophrenia.
• «The Holy Innocents« Miguel Delibes: raw and realistic portrait of rural Spain and its social injustices.
• «Tell me who I am» – Julia Navarro (original Movistar Plus+series): family, political and sentimental saga set in the twentieth century.
• «Territory Comanche» – Arturo Pérez-Reverte: Chronicle of War in Sarajevo, written from the experience of a reporter.