A number of works in various genres and media have been based on, or inspired by, Conrad's writings, including:
Cinema
- Victory (1919), directed by Maurice Tourneur
- Gaspar the Strong Man (1920), adapted by Conrad from "Gaspar Ruiz"
- Lord Jim (1925), directed by Victor Fleming
- Niebezpieczny raj (Dangerous Paradise, 1930), a Polish adaptation of Victory
- Dangerous Paradise (1930), an adaptation of Victory directed by William Wellman
- Sabotage (1936), adapted from Conrad's The Secret Agent, directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- Under Western Eyes (1936), directed by Marc Allégret
- Victory (1940), featuring Fredric March
- An Outcast of the Islands (1952), directed by Carol Reed and featuring Trevor Howard
- Laughing Anne (1953), based on Conrad's short story "Because of the Dollars" and his play Laughing Anne.
- Lord Jim (1965), directed by Richard Brooks and starring Peter O'Toole
- The Rover (1967), adaptation of the novel The Rover (1923), directed by Terence Young, featuring Anthony Quinn
- La ligne d'ombre (1973), a TV adaptation of The Shadow Line by Georges Franju
- Smuga cienia (The Shadow Line, 1976), a Polish-British adaptation of The Shadow Line, directed by Andrzej Wajda
- The Duellists (1977), an adaptation by Ridley Scott of "The Duel"
- Naufragio (1977), a Mexican adaptation of "To-morrow" directed by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
- Apocalypse Now (1979), by Francis Ford Coppola, adapted from Heart of Darkness
- Un reietto delle isole (1980), by Giorgio Moser, an Italian adaptation of An Outcast of the Islands, starring Maria Carta
- Victory (1995), adapted by director Mark Peploe from the novel
- The Secret Agent (1996), starring Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette and Gérard Depardieu
- Swept from the Sea (1997), an adaptation of "Amy Foster" directed by Beeban Kidron
- Gabrielle (2005) directed by Patrice Chéreau. Adaptation of the short story "The Return", starring Isabelle Huppert and Pascal Greggory.
- Hanyut (2011), a Malaysian adaptation of Almayer's Folly
- Almayer's Folly (2011), directed by Chantal Akerman
- Secret Sharer (2014), inspired by "The Secret Sharer", directed by Peter Fudakowski
- The Young One (2016), an adaptation of the short story "Youth", directed by Julien Samani
- An Outpost of Progress (2016), an adaptation of the short story "An Outpost of Progress", directed by Hugo Vieira da Silva[253]
Television
- Heart of Darkness (1958), a CBS 90-minute loose adaption on the anthology show Playhouse 90, starring Roddy McDowall, Boris Karloff, and Eartha Kitt
- The Secret Agent (1992 TV series) and The Secret Agent (2016 TV series), BBC TV series adapted from the novel The Secret Agent
- Heart of Darkness (1993) a TNT feature-length adaptation, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring John Malkovich and Tim Roth; also released on VHS and DVD
- Nostromo (1997), a BBC TV adaptation, co-produced with Italian and Spanish TV networks and WGBH Boston
Operas
- Heart of Darkness (2011), a chamber opera in one act by Tarik O'Regan, with an English-language libretto by artist Tom Phillips.
Orchestral works
- Suite from Heart of Darkness (2013) for orchestra and narrator by Tarik O'Regan, extrapolated from the 2011 opera of the same name.[254]
Video games
- Spec Ops: The Line (2012) by Yager Development, inspired by Heart of Darkness.
