The Money Pit (Tom Hanks) was pretty much a reworking of **Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House ** (Cary Grant)
**You’ve got Mail ** (Tom Hanks) was pretty much a reworking of Shop around the Corner (Jimmy Stewart)
High Society was a musical reworking of The Philadelphia Story
**My Fair Lady ** was a musical reworking of Pigmillian
Jawbreaker was a rework of Heathers. I see now on the Jawbreaker wiki page that it was ‘inspired’ by Heathers, but I remember see Jawbreakers and being able to tell right away it was basically the same movie. I do also recall not liking it very much. Almost 20 years since I’ve seen it so I couldn’t tell you if I genuinely didn’t like it or if it’s because i like(d) Heathers so much.
My recommendation: Heathers is great, but skip Jawbreaker and go right for Mean Girls.
10 Things I Hate About You is Taming of the Shrew
She’s the Man is Twelth Night
I missed perhaps the most famous one. West Side Story is the Musical reworking of** Romeo and Juliet** and much more recently Warm Bodies is the Zombie movie rework of Romeo and Juliet.
Books: **Sword of Shannara **was a deliberate rework of The Lord of the Rings.
The Magnificent Seven is a western version of Seven Samurai.
Godzilla was The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms.
Billy Jack Goes to Washington is a rather interesting take on Mr. Smith Goes to Washington…
Cracked just had a pretty good article “6 Directors Who Secretly Made The Same Movie Twice”.
It is sort of more efficient to plagiarize from yourself. Unless you’re John Fogerty.
The original Gojira was inspired in part by Beast, but it differs enough for me to hesitate to call it a reworking. There were Giant Monster Runs Amok in the City films long before either of these came out, going back to Winsor McKay’s The Giant Pet circa 1920.
On the other hand, the 1998 Roland Emmerich/Matthew Broderick Godzilla is pretty clearly derived from the Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, much more so that the 1954 original. I’m amazed no one called them on it. The similarities (which aren’t in any other Godzilla film):
The Beast leaves a trail of devastation behind it from the atomic site that released/created it
It made its way to New York City because of an instinct, akin to salmon and eels, of returning there to spawn
It is able to hide from the military hunting it (pretty unbelievably in the case of Godzilla) within the canyons of the city
It is trapped and killed at a NYC landmark.
One big difference is that in the Godzilla film, the creature actually succeeds in reproducing, giving us the young as an additional headache.
Zathura is just Jumanji in space
Alien was a retelling of “It, the Terror from Beyond Space”.
Creature gets on board spaceship, kills people systematically.
The “It” creature merely drinks body fluids rather than parasitizing its victims.
The creatures even get killed in the same basic manner - deprived of air, only Alien went a bit further by spacing the creature and then toasting it for good measure.
El Dorado and Rio Bravo - John Wayne with a drunk sheriff, a young sidekick, and an old “character” all against some bad guys.
I hate that I know that - my spousal unit loves John Wayne movies, so I get to see them over and over and over and over…
That’s not too far off from the Little Mermaid as well.
Kurosawa’s **Ran **is a reworking of King Lear.
The movie High Tension lifted about half the plot directly out of Dean Koontz’s novel Intensity. Except for the ridiculous ending.
It also just occurred to me that The Shallows is basically Cujo set in the water.
Airplane! is practically a shot for shot retelling of Zero Hour!
:p;):D:)
The original Star Trek movie (1979) was just a re-warmed expanded re-hash of the earlier “The Changeling” (Nomad) TV episode.
Isn’t “Evil Dead II” just a remake of Evil Dead?
Also known as “Where Nomad Has Gone Before”. 
The movie Clueless is Jane Austen’s Emma.