Dürrenmatt's Stories in Film
- It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958), with a TV version made in 1997
- The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi (1961)
- The Visit (1964, Der Besuch der alten Dame)
- Once a Greek (1966, Grieche sucht Griechin)
- Der Meteor (1968)
- Play Strindberg (1969), based on Strindberg's The Dance of Death
- Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe (Silence! The Court Is in Session)(1971), based on 'Die Panne' (Traps)
- La più bella serata della mia vita (1972, by Ettore Scola, based on 'La Panne')
- Авария (The Breakdown, based on 'Die Panne') (1974, in Russian)
- End of the Game (1976), based on The Judge and His Hangman, and in which Dürrenmatt himself appears in two scenes
- Deadly Games (1982, Trapp)
- Cumartesi Cumartesi (1984, Salam, stories in film)
- Физики (The Physicists) (1988, in Russian)
- Визит дамы (The Visit of the Lady) (1989, in Russian)
- Szürkület (Twilight) (1990, by György Fehér) based on the Es geschah am hellichten Tag movie script
- Hyènes (1992), adaptation of The Visit by the Senegalese moviemaker Djibril Diop Mambéty
- Justiz (1993)
- The Pledge (2001), based on the novel Das Versprechen, which is in turn based on the Es geschah am hellichten Tag movie script
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