| THEROSE | Bette Midler film loosely based on Janis Joplin's life |
| ROSE | Bette Midler song from a film loosely based on Janis Joplin, "The ..." (4) |
| SIDE | With 66-Across, setting of "Ball and Chain" on Janis Joplin's album "In Concert" |
| COOLRUNNINGS | 1993 film loosely based on the Jamaican bobsled team |
| ROXANNE | 1987 film loosely based on 'Cyrano de Bergerac' |
| TROY | 2004 period war film, loosely based on Homer's Iliad, ---- (4) |
| CLUELESS | 1995 comedy film loosely based on Jane Austen's Emma |
| ROMEOMUSTDIE | *2000 Jet Li film loosely based on Shakespeare |
| AGENT | Secret -; Alfred Hitchcock film loosely based on stories by W. Somerset Maugham (5) |
| FROMPRADATONADA | 2011 Angel Gracia film loosely based on "Sense and Sensibility" |
| ANTZ | 1998 animated film loosely based on "Brave New World" |
| THEWATERHORSE | 2007 film loosely based on the Loch Ness Monster (3,5,5) |
| OBROTHERWHEREARTTHOU | 2000 Coen Brothers film loosely based on Homer's Odyssey |
| CHICKENRUN | Aardman Animations film loosely based on 'The Great Escape' (7,3) |
| ELEPHANTMAN | 1980 film loosely based on the story of Joseph Merrick: The ___ ___ (8,3) |
| THEREWILLBEBLOOD | 2007 film loosely based on the novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair |
| ICEAGE | Computer-animated film loosely based on a glacial episode during the Pleistocene period (3,3) |
| IDENTITY | 2003 psychological thriller film loosely based on Agatha Christie's novel And Then There Were None (8) |
| BIRDS | The -; Alfred Hitchcock film, loosely based on a short story by Daphne du Maurier (5) |
| BILLYBATHGATE | 1991 film, loosely based on the novel of the same name by E L Doctorow, starring Dustin Hoffman as gangster Dutch Schultz |
