# The best Patricia Highsmith adaptations

From Hitchcock to Wim Wenders, from Alain Delon to Matt Damon as Tom Ripley, all the way to Carol: the films based on Patricia Highsmith's novels according to Movieplayer and FilmTV.

- 34 votes · 11 items
- Feb 12, 2021 · napolicurioso
- https://even.best/en/l/4359/the-best-patricia-highsmith-adaptations

## Top 11

1. **Strangers on a Train (1951)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Alfred Hitchcock. The pact between two strangers who meet on a train.
2. **The American Friend (1977)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Wim Wenders. Dennis Hopper as Ripley in Hamburg.
3. **Purple Noon (1960)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — René Clément. Alain Delon as Tom Ripley.
4. **The Cry of the Owl (1987)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Claude Chabrol. A man who watches a woman through her window.
5. **Deep Water (1981)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Michel Deville. Isabelle Huppert and Jean-Louis Trintignant.
6. **Edith's Diary (1983)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Hans W. Geißendörfer. A wife who rewrites her own life in her diary.
7. **Ripley's Game (2002)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Liliana Cavani. John Malkovich as an older Ripley in the Veneto.
8. **The Two Faces of January (2014)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Hossein Amini. Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst on the run in Greece.
9. **The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Anthony Minghella. Matt Damon, Jude Law and 1950s Italy.
10. **L'alibi di cristallo (1977)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Claude Miller. Gérard Depardieu and an obsessive love.
11. **Carol (2015)** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — Todd Haynes. Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, from the novel published as Claire Morgan.

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