Film
Madame Bovary has had the following film and television adaptations:
- Unholy Love (1932), directed by Albert Ray
- Madame Bovary (1934), directed by Jean Renoir and starring Max Dearly and Valentine Tessier
- Madame Bovary (1937), directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Pola Negri, Aribert Wäscher and Ferdinand Marian
- Madame Bovary (1949), directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan and Gene Lockhart
- Madame Bovary (1964), a BBC TV series written by Giles Cooper
- Madame Bovary (1969), directed by Hans Schott-Schobinger and starring Edwige Fenech
- Madame Bovary (1975), a BBC TV series that used the same script as that of 1964
- Save and Protect (1989), directed by Alexandr Sokurov
- Madame Bovary (1991), directed by Claude Chabrol, and starring Isabelle Huppert in 1991
- Maya Memsaab (1993), a Hindi-language film, directed by Ketan Mehta and starring Deepa Sahi
- Madame Bovary (2014), directed by Sophie Barthes and starring Mia Wasikowska, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Paul Giamatti, and Ezra Miller
- Emma Bovary (2021), a France Télévisions TV film starring Camille Métayer and Thierry Godard
David Lean's film Ryan's Daughter (1970) was a loose adaptation of the story, relocating it to Ireland during the time of the Easter Rebellion. The script had begun life as a straight adaptation of Madame Bovary, but Lean convinced writer Robert Bolt to re-work it into another setting.
Other adaptations
- Emmanuel Bondeville's opera Madame Bovary was produced in 1951.
- Posy Simmonds' 1999 graphic novel Gemma Bovery (and Anne Fontaine's film adaptation) reworked the story into a satirical tale of English expatriates in France.
- A 2000 TV series adaptation by Heidi Thomas was made for the BBC, starring Frances O'Connor, Hugh Bonneville and Hugh Dancy.
- Abraham's Valley in 1993, directed by Manoel de Oliveira, is a close adaptation set in Portugal, in which the novel is mentioned and discussed several times.
- The novel was loosely adapted in the Christian video series VeggieTales under the name Madame Blueberry.[21]
