Stephen King books, films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Author and actor · 60 books, 10 films and 1 TV show on Boxlist

Best known for It, The Shining and Misery.

Books by Stephen King

Books from the Boxlist catalogue, highest rated first (Open Library reader averages; books with fewer than 5 ratings come after the rest). Ratings are quality, not fit.

Stephen King on screen

11.22.63
2016 · TV
7.8/10 · TMDB
An English teacher travels back in time to prevent the Kennedy assassination, but discovers he is attached to the life he has made in a bygone era.
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Stuck in Love
2013 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.
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It Chapter Two
2019 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.
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Creepshow
1982 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Inspired by the E.C. comics of the 1950s, George A. Romero and Stephen King bring five tales of terror to the screen.
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Pet Sematary
1989 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Dr. Louis Creed's family moves into the country house of their dreams and discover a pet cemetery at the back of their property. The cursed burial ground deep in the woods brings the dead back to life -- with "minor" problems. At first...
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Creepshow 2
1987 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
EC Comics-inspired weirdness returns with three tales. In the first, a wooden statue of a Native American comes to life...to exact vengeance on the murderer of his elderly owners. In the second, four teens are stranded on a raft on a lake...
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Fever Pitch
2005 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Lindsay is stuck in the middle of her relationship with Ben and his passion for the Boston Red Sox.
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Sleepwalkers
1992 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Charles Brady and his mother, Mary, are the last of a dying breed whose needs are not of this world. They are Sleepwalkers - able to stay alive only by feeding on the life-force of the innocent, but destined to roam the earth, avoiding...
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Thinner
1996 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A fat lawyer finds himself growing "Thinner" when an old gypsy man places a hex on him. Now the lawyer must call upon his friends in organized crime to help him persuade the gypsy to lift the curse. Time is running out for the desperate...
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Maximum Overdrive
1986 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to...
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Diary of the Dead
2008 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
A group of young film students run into real-life zombies while filming a horror movie of their own.
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