Games to Movies
by idefaye | created - 07 May 2013 | updated - 23 Mar 2018 | PublicThis is a list of film adaptations of video games. It tries to include also upcoming rumored or to be confirmed movies.
This list will NOT include the following:
- Movies about video games subject in general
- movies made before the creation of the video game it's based on
- movies that only contains 'easter eggs', 'memes' or video games 'clichés'
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1. Super Mario Bros. (1993)
PG | 104 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Two Brooklyn plumbers, Mario and Luigi, must travel to another dimension to rescue a princess from the evil dictator King Koopa and stop him from taking over the world.
Directors: Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton | Stars: Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Samantha Mathis
Votes: 62,973 | Gross: $20.92M
2. Double Dragon (1994)
PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two brothers have half of a powerful ancient Chinese talisman. An evil gang leader has the other half, and determines to get the brothers' half and have a complete medallion so he can gain absolute power.
Director: James Yukich | Stars: Robert Patrick, Mark Dacascos, Scott Wolf, Kristina Wagner
Votes: 13,811 | Gross: $2.34M
3. Street Fighter (1994)
PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
In the midst of a civil war in South East Asia, a general intensifies the climate of violence by kidnapping 63 UN delegates. To free the hostages, a colonel leads a group of fighters, who will have to use all their skills to be successful.
Director: Steven E. de Souza | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia, Ming-Na Wen, Damian Chapa
Votes: 75,294 | Gross: $33.42M
4. Mortal Kombat (1995)
PG-13 | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Three unknowing martial artists are summoned to a mysterious island to compete in a tournament whose outcome will decide the fate of the world.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Robin Shou, Linden Ashby, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Votes: 124,616 | Gross: $70.45M
5. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)
PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A group of martial-arts warriors has only six days to save the Earth from an extra-dimensional invasion.
Director: John R. Leonetti | Stars: Robin Shou, Talisa Soto, James Remar, Sandra Hess
Votes: 58,126 | Gross: $35.93M
6. Wing Commander (1999)
PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Blair, a fighter pilot, joins an interstellar war to fight the evil Kilrathi who are trying to destroy the universe.
Director: Chris Roberts | Stars: Freddie Prinze Jr., Matthew Lillard, Saffron Burrows, Tchéky Karyo
Votes: 17,414 | Gross: $11.58M
7. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
PG-13 | 106 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A scientist makes a last stand on Earth with the help of a ragtag team of soldiers against an invasion of alien phantoms.
Directors: Hironobu Sakaguchi, Motonori Sakakibara | Stars: Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Ming-Na Wen, Ving Rhames
Votes: 84,071 | Gross: $32.13M
8. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Video game adventurer Lara Croft comes to life in a movie where she races against time and villains to recover powerful ancient artifacts.
Director: Simon West | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight, Iain Glen, Noah Taylor
Votes: 218,946 | Gross: $131.14M
9. Resident Evil (2002)
R | 100 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Ryan McCluskey, Oscar Pearce
Votes: 288,410 | Gross: $40.12M
10. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003)
PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Adventurer Lara Croft goes on a quest to save the mythical Pandora's Box, before an evil scientist finds it, and recruits a former Marine turned mercenary to assist her.
Director: Jan de Bont | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Chris Barrie, Ciarán Hinds
Votes: 144,858 | Gross: $65.66M
11. Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
R | 94 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Alice wakes up in the Raccoon City hospital after the area has been overrun by zombies, and must now make it out of the city before a nuclear bomb is dropped.
Director: Alexander Witt | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Eric Mabius, Oded Fehr
Votes: 209,947 | Gross: $51.20M
12. Doom (2005)
R | 105 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Space Marines are sent to investigate strange events at a research facility on Mars but find themselves at the mercy of genetically enhanced killing machines.
Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak | Stars: Karl Urban, Rosamund Pike, Dwayne Johnson, Deobia Oparei
Votes: 118,709 | Gross: $28.21M
13. BloodRayne (2005)
R | 95 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
In the eighteenth century, a vampire escapes from the freak show, in which she once participated, and teams up with a group of vampire slayers to kill the man who raped her mother.
Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Kristanna Loken, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Rodriguez, Michael Madsen
Votes: 37,195 | Gross: $2.41M
14. Alone in the Dark (2005)
R | 96 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A detective of the paranormal slowly unravels mysterious events with deadly results.
Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Christian Slater, Tara Reid, Stephen Dorff, Frank C. Turner
Votes: 47,005 | Gross: $5.18M
15. Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005)
PG-13 | 101 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
An ex-mercenary is forced out of isolation when three mysterious men kidnap and brainwash the city's children afflicted with the Geostigma disease.
Directors: Tetsuya Nomura, Takeshi Nozue | Stars: Takahiro Sakurai, Ayumi Ito, Shôtarô Morikubo, Maaya Sakamoto
Votes: 58,205
16. Silent Hill (2006)
R | 125 min | Horror, Mystery
A woman, Rose, goes in search for her adopted daughter within the confines of a strange, desolate town called Silent Hill.
Director: Christophe Gans | Stars: Radha Mitchell, Laurie Holden, Sean Bean, Deborah Kara Unger
Votes: 244,002 | Gross: $46.98M
17. Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
R | 94 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Survivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against the evil Umbrella Corp.
Director: Russell Mulcahy | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Oded Fehr, Iain Glen
Votes: 205,487 | Gross: $50.65M
18. Postal (2007)
R | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
In the ironically named city of Paradise, a loser teams up with his cult-leading uncle to steal a peculiar bounty of riches from their local amusement park. The recently arrived Taliban have a similar focus, but a far more sinister intent.
Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Zack Ward, David Foley, Verne Troyer, Chris Coppola
Votes: 24,105 | Gross: $18.01M
19. Hitman (I) (2007)
R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A gun-for-hire known only as Agent 47 hired by a group known only as 'The Organization' is ensnared in a political conspiracy, which finds him pursued by both Interpol and the Russian military as he treks across Russia and Eastern Europe.
Director: Xavier Gens | Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper
Votes: 177,741 | Gross: $39.69M
20. BloodRayne II: Deliverance (2007 Video)
R | 99 min | Action, Fantasy, Western
Rayne, the half-human/half-vampire warrior, ventures to America's 1880's Wild West to stop the vampired Billy the Kid and his posse of vampire cowboys.
Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Natassia Malthe, Zack Ward, Michael Paré, Chris Coppola
Votes: 11,578
21. Far Cry (2008)
R | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An ex-special forces soldier turned boatman is hired by a journalist to investigate a top-secret military base on a nearby island.
Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Til Schweiger, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Natalia Avelon, Udo Kier
Votes: 14,928
22. Max Payne (2008)
PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Coming together to solve a series of murders in New York City are a police detective and an assassin, who will be hunted by the police, the mob, and a ruthless corporation.
Director: John Moore | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Ludacris
Votes: 130,174 | Gross: $40.69M
23. Dead Space: Downfall (2008 Video)
Not Rated | 74 min | Animation, Horror, Sci-Fi
A team of miners at an outpost in deep space unearth an ancient alien artefact. After the relic is brought aboard their spaceship, the USG Ishimura, for scientific study, an alien species begins to infect the members of the ship.
Directors: Chuck Patton, Curt Geda, Vinton Heuck | Stars: Nika Futterman, Keith Szarabajka, Jim Cummings, Kevin Michael Richardson
Votes: 11,452
24. Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
R | 96 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
While still out to destroy the evil Umbrella Corporation, Alice joins a group of survivors living in a prison surrounded by the infected who also want to relocate to the mysterious but supposedly unharmed safe haven known only as Arcadia.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Wentworth Miller, Kim Coates
Votes: 179,191 | Gross: $60.13M
25. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A young fugitive prince and princess must stop a villain who unknowingly threatens to destroy the world with a special dagger that enables the magic sand inside to reverse time.
Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina
Votes: 303,904 | Gross: $90.76M
26. BloodRayne: The Third Reich (2011 Video)
R | 79 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Rayne joins a resistence group to fight against the Nazis during World War II.
Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Natassia Malthe, Brendan Fletcher, Michael Paré, Willam Belli
Votes: 6,850
27. Tekken (2010)
R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Jin Kazama witnesses the death of his mother Jun by Tekken in the slums known as Anvil. After finding a Tekken ID he decides to seek out vengeance for his mother's death.
Director: Dwight H. Little | Stars: Jon Foo, Kelly Overton, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Ian Anthony Dale
Votes: 28,554
28. Dead Space: Aftermath (2011 Video)
Not Rated | 85 min | Animation, Horror, Sci-Fi
Four survivors aboard the spaceship USG O'Bannon, the first responder ship sent to rescue the members of the USG Ishimura, try to recall the horrific events that wiped out their crew.
Director: Mike Disa | Stars: Christopher Judge, Ricardo Chavira, Gwendoline Yeo, Curt Cornelius
Votes: 4,603
29. Halo Legends (2010 Video)
PG-13 | 120 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The universe of the Halo video game series is expanded in seven short animated films from Japan's greatest anime directors and studios.
Directors: Frank O'Connor, Shinji Aramaki, Hideki Futamura, Toshiyuki Kanno, Tomoki Kyôda, Kôichi Mashimo, Yasushi Muraki, Daisuke Nishio, Mamoru Oshii, Kôji Sawai, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Keiichi Sugiyama, Takahiro Tanaka | Stars: Jessie James Grelle, Brittney Karbowski, Luci Christian, David Matranga
Votes: 5,964
30. Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
R | 95 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Alice fights alongside a resistance movement to regain her freedom from an Umbrella Corporation testing facility.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Michelle Rodriguez, Aryana Engineer
Votes: 150,117 | Gross: $42.35M
31. Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn (2012)
Not Rated | 15 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
UNSC Cadet Thomas Lasky must conquer his inner fears and join forces with super-soldier John-117 to take down a massive faction of the Covenant.
Stars: Thom Green, Anna Popplewell, Enisha Brewster, Ayelet Zurer
Votes: 25,886
32. Silent Hill: Revelation (2012)
R | 95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When her adoptive father disappears, Sharon Da Silva is drawn into a strange and terrifying alternate reality that holds answers to the horrific nightmares that have plagued her since childhood.
Director: M.J. Bassett | Stars: Adelaide Clemens, Kit Harington, Sean Bean, Carrie-Anne Moss
Votes: 66,702 | Gross: $17.53M
33. Need for Speed (2014)
PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Fresh from prison, a street racer who was framed by a wealthy business associate joins a cross-country race with revenge in mind. His ex-partner, learning of the plan, places a massive bounty on his head as the race begins.
Director: Scott Waugh | Stars: Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Imogen Poots, Kid Cudi
Votes: 178,498 | Gross: $43.58M
34. Heavenly Sword (2014)
Not Rated | 85 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A power-hungry ruler known as King Bohan seeks to obtain the long-protected "Heavenly Sword" in order to use its devastating power for evil. Why doesn't anyone ever use immensely powerful swords for good anymore?
Director: Gun Ho Jang | Stars: Anna Torv, Alfred Molina, Thomas Jane, Ashleigh Ball
Votes: 2,189
35. Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)
R | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.
Director: Aleksander Bach | Stars: Rupert Friend, Hannah Ware, Zachary Quinto, Ciarán Hinds
Votes: 95,664 | Gross: $22.47M
36. Ratchet & Clank (2016)
PG | 94 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
When the galaxy comes under the threat of a nefarious space captain, a mechanic and his newfound robot ally join an elite squad of combatants to save the universe.
Directors: Kevin Munroe, Jericca Cleland | Stars: James Arnold Taylor, David Kaye, Jim Ward, Sylvester Stallone
Votes: 11,794 | Gross: $8.55M
37. The Angry Birds Movie (2016)
PG | 97 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
When an island populated by happy, flightless birds is visited by mysterious green pigs, it's up to three unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to.
Directors: Clay Kaytis, Fergal Reilly | Stars: Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph
Votes: 103,827 | Gross: $107.51M
38. Warcraft (2016)
PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
As an Orc horde invades the planet Azeroth using a magic portal, a few human heroes and dissenting Orcs must attempt to stop the true evil behind this war.
Director: Duncan Jones | Stars: Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper
Votes: 278,785 | Gross: $47.37M
39. Assassin's Creed (2016)
PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Callum Lynch explores the memories of his ancestor Aguilar de Nerha and gains the skills of a Master Assassin, before taking on the secret Templar society.
Director: Justin Kurzel | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson
Votes: 208,858 | Gross: $54.65M
40. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
R | 107 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Alice returns to where the nightmare began: The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Iain Glen, Ali Larter, Shawn Roberts
Votes: 100,957 | Gross: $26.83M
41. Rampage (2018)
PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When three different animals become infected with a dangerous pathogen, a primatologist and a geneticist team up to stop them from destroying Chicago.
Director: Brad Peyton | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Votes: 184,892 | Gross: $101.03M
42. Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
PG | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
After discovering a small, blue, fast hedgehog, a small-town police officer must help him defeat an evil genius who wants to do experiments on him.
Director: Jeff Fowler | Stars: Ben Schwartz, James Marsden, Jim Carrey, Tika Sumpter
Votes: 159,258 | Gross: $148.97M
43. The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019)
PG | 97 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The flightless birds and scheming green pigs take their feud to the next level.
Directors: Thurop Van Orman, John Rice | Stars: Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Leslie Jones, Bill Hader
Votes: 35,210 | Gross: $41.66M
44. Minecraft (2025)
Action, Adventure, Family | Post-production
The malevolent Ender Dragon sets out on a path of destruction, prompting a young girl and her group of unlikely adventurers to set out to save the Overworld.
Director: Jared Hess | Stars: Jack Black, Jason Momoa, Kate McKinnon, Jennifer Coolidge
45. Sly Cooper
Animation, Action, Adventure | Announced
Orphaned raccoon, Sly Cooper, discovers that he comes from a long line of highly-skilled, international thieves. Based on the 'Sly Cooper' video games.
Director: Kevin Munroe | Stars: Ian James Corlett, Matt Olsen, Chris Murphy
46. Uncharted (2022)
PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure
Street-smart Nathan Drake is recruited by seasoned treasure hunter Victor "Sully" Sullivan to recover a fortune amassed by Ferdinand Magellan, and lost 500 years ago by the House of Moncada.
Director: Ruben Fleischer | Stars: Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, Antonio Banderas, Sophia Ali
Votes: 259,267 | Gross: $148.65M
47. The Slender Man (2017)
45 min | Horror
A journalist investigates the strange disappearances of children and finds out just how dangerous the truth can be.
Director: Eric Tremaine | Stars: Bobby McGruther, Jeffrey J. Scott, Gerhard Patterson, Mark A. Yajcaji
Votes: 26
48. Splinter Cell
Action, Adventure, Crime | Announced
Follows the missions of a special operative spy.
Director: Doug Liman | Star: Tom Hardy
50. Myst
Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery | Announced
A young lady stumbles upon a ancient civilization with the ability to travel to countless worlds using special books. Her presence casts the society into upheaval, causing a dramatic chain of events.
51. Half-Life
Action, Adventure, Drama | Announced
An American scientific research facility opens a portal to a hostile alien world, who begin to invade the earth.
52. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Sci-Fi | Announced
An anti-terrorist agent is tasked with maintaining world peace in a futuristic world where demand for a cure to a deadly virus is rationed by the government. Based on the video game "Deus Ex".
53. Just Cause
Action, Adventure | Announced
The story of a deadly CIA black ops assassin code-named the Scorpio, who specializes in regime changes, battles pirates, mercenaries and rogue agents.
54. Mortal Kombat (2021)
R | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
MMA fighter Cole Young seeks out Earth's greatest champions in order to stand against the enemies of Outworld in a high stakes battle for the universe.
Director: Simon McQuoid | Stars: Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Joe Taslim
Votes: 190,007 | Gross: $42.20M
55. The Last of Us (2023– )
TV-MA | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After a global pandemic destroys civilization, a hardened survivor takes charge of a 14-year-old girl who may be humanity's last hope.
Stars: Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Anna Torv, Gabriel Luna
Votes: 522,769
56. Shadow of the Colossus
Adventure, Fantasy | Announced
A man named Wander attempts to bring a maiden who was sacrificed back to life by defeating a series of colossal stone creatures, so that a magical being named Dormin will revive her.
57. Temple Run
Action | Announced
Feature film based on the video game, "Temple Run", centering on an explorer trying to steal an idol.
58. Mass Effect
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Announced
Commander Shepard, a military hero, embarks upon an epic, galaxy-wide journey with his team, to track down and bring infamous Saren Arterius to justice, facing insurmountable odds and lethal enemies along the way.
59. Tomb Raider (2018)
PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she discovers the island where her father, Lord Richard Croft disappeared.
Director: Roar Uthaug | Stars: Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu
Votes: 227,080 | Gross: $58.25M
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