Drive is way better than the book it's based on, the books decent, but they really took the story and made it work on screen phenomenally well.
The Prestige is another one. It's an impossible adaptation, the book is essentially just journal extracts, so the fact the film was able to make that compelling in and upon itself is really cool itself, but the fact that the film's twists are explicitly given away within the first three pages of the book and that information is necessary throughout the rest of the novel, that's really good.
And like it's been said already, Fight Club, The Shining and A Clockwork Orange.
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