7. Crime and Punishment
One of the masterpieces of literature, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is also well suited to the cinematic form as several films have been loosely based on or inspired by it. Crime and Punishment deals with an ex-student named Raskolnikov who murders a pawnbroker so he can steal her money. Afterwards, he becomes tormented because of his crimes as well as a sense of paranoia over whether someone will discover what he has done. The majority of the novel deals with Raskolnikov's inner turmoil as intellectually, he has no qualms with what he has done but he is soon overcome by guilt regardless. The film adaptation should be suitably dark, almost noirish, as it delves deep into the psychology of Raskolnikov. Someone like Martin Scorsese or David Fincher would probably do a good job with it.