The most important consideration in a text's difficulty is your level of interest in the material. Thus, if you enjoyed a particular movie, chances are good that you will have motivation to read its original source text.
Some movies are very close to their sources; others are only loosely based on the source. Most of the movies I am considering for class are rather closely related to their source material.
Accordingly, most of the texts below are of either No Problem or OK if Interested difficulty.
Dead Poets Society
A Christmas Story
A Raisin in the Sun
Amadeus
Apollo 13
Being There
Bladerunner
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Casablanca
Chinatown
Fight Club
Forrest Gump
Frankenstein
Hoop Dreams
Of Mice and Men
Psycho
Scrooge
Taxi Driver
The Glass Menagerie
The Green Mile
The Killers
The Maltese Falcon
The Princess Bride
The Shining
The Wizard of Oz
To Kill A Mockingbird
Trainspotting
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
A Streetcar Named Desire
All Quiet on the Western Front
Apocalypse Now / Heart of Darkness
Arsenic and Old Lace
Cool Hand Luke
Das Boot
Death in Venice
Donnie Basco
Double Indemnity
Fried Green Tomatoes
Glory
Gods and Monsters
Gone With the Wind
Goodfellas
In the Name of the Father
Raging Bull
Rashomon
Schindler's List
Stand By Me
The Big Sleep
The Graduate
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Escape
The Grifters
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The Right Stuff
The Shawshank Redemption
The Swimmer
The Thin Man
The Third Man
A Brief History of Time
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Remains of the Day
The Man With the Golden Arm
The World According to Garp
Sophie's Choice
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