Movies based on works by Roald Dahl
by wozaxx | created - 25 Feb 2019 | updated - 4 months ago | PublicComplete list of adaptations of works by Roald Dahl
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1. 'Way Out (1961)
25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
"'Way Out" was a drama in the macabre genre was broadcast each week hosted by Roald Dahl.
Stars: Roald Dahl, Paul Tremaine, Richard Morse, George Turner
Votes: 191
2. 36 Hours (1964)
Approved | 115 min | Thriller, War
Germans kidnap an American Major and try to convince him that World War II is over so they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Taylor, Werner Peters
Votes: 4,762
3. You Only Live Twice (1967)
PG | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond and the Japanese Secret Service must find and stop the true culprit of a series of space hijackings, before war is provoked between Russia and the United States.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, Tetsurô Tanba
Votes: 117,611 | Gross: $43.08M
4. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
G | 144 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Benny Hill
Votes: 50,740 | Gross: $7.50M
5. The Night Digger (1971)
R | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
The dreary existence of middle-aged spinster Maura Prince takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of young handyman Billy Jarvis, but there is more to Billy than meets the eye.
Director: Alastair Reid | Stars: Patricia Neal, Pamela Brown, Nicholas Clay, Jean Anderson
Votes: 1,163
6. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
G | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.
Director: Mel Stuart | Stars: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear
Votes: 227,552 | Gross: $4.00M
7. Tales of the Unexpected (1979–1988)
TV-14 | 25 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Short dramas each with a twist of some kind; across the first four seasons most of these are from short stories by Roald Dahl.
Stars: Roald Dahl, Andrew Ray, Forbes Collins, Richard Johnson
Votes: 2,502
8. Danny the Champion of the World (1989 TV Movie)
99 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Somewhere in England in autumn 1955, widowed veteran William Smith and his son, Danny, live an idyllic life together. But their property happens to sit on a piece of land that a local ... See full summary »
Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Robbie Coltrane, Samuel Irons, Cyril Cusack
Votes: 1,480
9. The BFG (1989)
91 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
A young orphan girl, Sophie, gets taken away to a faraway land populated by Giants and Dreams.
Director: Brian Cosgrove | Stars: David Jason, Amanda Root, Angela Thorne, Ballard Berkeley
Votes: 7,508
10. The Witches (1990)
PG | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A young boy stumbles onto a witch convention and must stop them, even after he has been turned into a mouse.
Director: Nicolas Roeg | Stars: Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher, Rowan Atkinson
Votes: 54,691 | Gross: $10.36M
11. Four Rooms (1995)
R | 98 min | Comedy
Four interlocking tales that take place in a fading hotel on New Year's Eve.
Directors: Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Chuck Jones | Stars: Tim Roth, Antonio Banderas, Sammi Davis, Amanda De Cadenet
Votes: 111,141 | Gross: $4.30M
12. James and the Giant Peach (1996)
PG | 79 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
An orphan who lives with his two cruel aunts befriends anthropomorphic bugs who live inside a giant peach, and they embark on a journey to New York City.
Director: Henry Selick | Stars: Paul Terry, Joanna Lumley, Pete Postlethwaite, Simon Callow
Votes: 74,037 | Gross: $28.93M
13. Matilda (1996)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers uses both to get even with her callous family and free her kindly schoolteacher from the tyrannical grip of a sadistic headmistress.
Director: Danny DeVito | Stars: Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Mara Wilson, Embeth Davidtz
Votes: 174,790 | Gross: $33.08M
14. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
PG | 115 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Charlie, a young boy from an impoverished family, and four other kids win a tour of an amazing chocolate factory run by an imaginative chocolatier, Willy Wonka, and his staff of Oompa-Loompas.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter
Votes: 529,614 | Gross: $206.46M
15. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
PG | 87 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman
Votes: 270,650 | Gross: $21.00M
16. Roald Dahl's Esio Trot (2015 TV Movie)
88 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
A retired bachelor has a thing for his neighbor who only shows affection to her pet tortoise.
Director: Dearbhla Walsh | Stars: James Corden, Salo Gardner, Dustin Hoffman, Richard Cordery
Votes: 5,522
17. The BFG (2016)
PG | 117 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton, Jemaine Clement
Votes: 93,308 | Gross: $55.48M
18.
Revolting Rhymes (2016)
Episode:
Revolting Rhymes Part One
(2016)
TV-PG | 29 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Two half-hour animated films based on the much-loved rhymes written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Directors: Jan Lachauer, Jakob Schuh, Bin-Han To | Stars: Tamsin Greig, Dominic West, Rob Brydon, Bertie Carvel
Votes: 1,900
19.
Revolting Rhymes (2016)
Episode:
Revolting Rhymes Part Two
(2016)
29 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Two half-hour animated films based on the much-loved rhymes written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Directors: Jan Lachauer, Jakob Schuh, Bin-Han To | Stars: Dylan Issberner, Rose Leslie, Amelie Forester-Evans, Gemma Chan
Votes: 1,172
20. Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (2017 Video)
Not Rated | 79 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The classic Roald Dahl tale gets a modern twist when Tom and Jerry enter the amazing world of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory.
Director: Spike Brandt | Stars: JP Karliak, Jess Harnell, Lincoln Melcher, Mick Wingert
Votes: 1,483
21. The Witches (2020)
PG | 106 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A young boy and his grandmother have a run-in with a coven of witches and their leader.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Chris Rock
Votes: 46,619 | Gross: $0.20M
22. Matilda: The Musical (II) (2022)
PG | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
An adaptation of the Tony and Olivier award-winning musical. Matilda tells the story of an extraordinary girl who, armed with a sharp mind and a vivid imagination, dares to take a stand to change her story with miraculous results.
Director: Matthew Warchus | Stars: Alisha Weir, Emma Thompson, Lashana Lynch, Stephen Graham
Votes: 28,332
23. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)
PG | 40 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy
Chronicles a variety of stories, but the main one follows Henry Sugar, who is able to see through objects and predict the future with the help of a book he stole.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dev Patel, Ben Kingsley
Votes: 70,063
24. The Swan (II) (2023)
PG | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A small brilliant boy is tormented by two large idiotic bullies.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Rupert Friend, Ralph Fiennes, Asa Jennings, Eliel Ford
Votes: 19,389
25. The Rat Catcher (2023)
PG | 17 min | Short, Comedy
In an English village, a reporter and a mechanic listen to a rat catcher explain his clever plan to outwit his prey.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Richard Ayoade, Ralph Fiennes, Rupert Friend, Eliel Ford
Votes: 19,243
26. Poison (II) (2023)
PG | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
When a poisonous snake slithers onto an Englishman's stomach in India, his associate and a doctor race to save him.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Dev Patel, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley
Votes: 21,300
27. Wonka (2023)
PG | 116 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
With dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers.
Director: Paul King | Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Gustave Die, Murray McArthur, Paul G. Raymond
Votes: 141,518
28. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Animation, Adventure, Comedy | Pre-production
Animated series based on Roald Dahl's classic tale of a boy trying to win a magical ticket to visit his favorite candy factory.
29. The Twits (2025)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy | Filming
A pair of wicked pranksters plan an elaborate heist along with their crew of highly-trained animals.
Directors: Phil Johnston, Todd Demong, Katie Shanahan
30. Untitled Taika Waititi/Netflix Roald Dahl Project
Animation | Announced
Animated series based on the world and characters of Roald Dahl's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.'
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