| ELEPHANTMAN | 1980 film loosely based on the story of Joseph Merrick: The ___ ___ (8,3) |
| ELEPHANT | 1980 film starring John Hurt as Joseph Merrick, The _ Man (8) |
| EVELYN | 2002 film starring Pierce Brosnan and Sophie Vavasseur, loosely based on the story of Desmond Doyle's fight against the Irish courts |
| FAIRYTALEATRUESTORY | 1997 film based on the story of two young girls who apparently had the ability to take pictures of magical winged beings (9:1,4,5) |
| IFYOU | Film based on the story of conman Frank Abagnale Jnr, Catch Me ... Can (2,3) |
| JERSEYBOYS | 2006 Tony Award Best Musical winner based on the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons |
| LABELLEHELENE | Operetta by Offenbach based on the story of Helen of Troy (2,5,6) |
| BATTLESHIP | 2012 action-adventure film loosely based on the board game of the same name (10) |
| AMANFOR | Robert Bolt play (and later a six times Academy Award winning film) based on the story of Sir Thomas |
| BEAUTIFUL | Tom Hanks biopic based on the story of friendship between a beloved children's TV star and a cynical journalist, A _ Day in the Neighborhood (9) |
| TWOBYTWO | 1970 Broadway musical with music by Richard Rodgers, based on the story of Noah and the Flood (3,2,3) |
| BILLYBATHGATE | 1991 film, loosely based on the novel of the same name by E L Doctorow, starring Dustin Hoffman as gangster Dutch Schultz |
| MANOFLAMANCHA | Musical based on the story of Don Quixote (3,2,2,6) |
| SAIGON | Musical based on the story of Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Miss ___ |
| NARCOS | American TV series based on the story of Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar |
| ONDINE | Ballet based on the story of a naiad who falls in love with a mortal man (6) |
| BIRDS | The -; Alfred Hitchcock film, loosely based on a short story by Daphne du Maurier (5) |
| TARASBULBA | Film loosely based on a novel of the same name by Nikolai Gogol (5,5) |
| OVERTHEHEDGE | 2006 computer-animated film loosely based on a comic strip of the same name by Michael Fry and T Lewis |
| ROSE | Bette Midler song from a film loosely based on Janis Joplin, "The ..." (4) |
