It is common nowadays for playwrights to go back and forth between stage and screen assignments, but Tom Stoppard, whose death at 88 was announced on Saturday, was an early adopter of the practice, with TV credits going back to the early 1960s.

Some entries in his impressively lengthy collection of screenplays were originals, but he was especially in demand both as a script doctor (usually uncredited) and as a go-to scribe for literary adaptations. In that latter capacity, he was able to tackle novels by writers as wildly different as John le Carré, Leo Tolstoy, E.L. Doctorow, Vladimir Nabokov, J.G. Ballard and Ford Madox Ford.

Below you will find a selection of films with Stoppard screenplays that are available on major American streaming platforms. (Those curious about his work on Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “Despair,” a Nabokov adaptation, will have to poke around YouTube.)

1975

‘The Romantic Englishwoman’

Stoppard was enthralled with the world of letters, and in this Joseph Losey film Michael Caine plays one of the many writers to pop up in the Stoppard oeuvre. Caine’s character is married to a woman played by the mighty Glenda Jackson, with the sexily enigmatic Helmut Berger in the middle — a lineup that, like the film, could not be more mid-1970s. The source material is a novel by Thomas Wiseman, who co-wrote the screenplay, but the Stoppardian touches feel obvious as life constantly bleeds into fiction, and vice versa, to the point where it becomes difficult to tell what’s inspiring what.

Stream it on Tubi.

A trifecta of intelligent intelligence

1979

Stoppard had a lifelong fascination with espionage, and amateurs of that genre should check out his work in three movies based on novels by best-selling masters. First is his Graham Greene adaptation “The Human Factor,” a coldly detached drama about the uncovering of a mole inside the British secret service. The wreckage caused in this movie is less cloak-and-dagger than psychological torment.

Rent or buy it on most major platforms.

We are having trouble retrieving the article content.

Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.

Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.

Thank you for your patience while we verify access.

Already a subscriber? Log in.

Want all of The Times? Subscribe.