1897, Victor Hugo et les principaux personnages des misérables by the Lumière brothers
1907, Le Chemineau (The Vagabond, 1905), a 5 minute short directed by Albert Capellani
1909, Les Miserables, in three parts titled The Price Of A Soul, The Ordeal and A New Life. directed by Edwin S. Porter[6]
1909, Also known as [Jean Valjean], [The Galley Slave], [Fantine; or, A Mother’s Love], [Cosette], directed by J. Stuart Blackton[7][8]
1910, Aa mujo, first Japanese adaptation
1913, again directed by Capellani with Henry Krauss as Valjean.[9] Publicity at the time described the movie as "the greatest motion picture ever made" and a $100 000 production.[10]
1913, The Bishop's Candlesticks, directed Herbert Brenon, adaptation of a popular one-act play by Norman McKinnel based on the first volume of the novel
1917, directed by Frank Lloyd
1922, Tense Moments with Great Authors, a British production featuring scenes from the novel and starring Lyn Harding as Valjean.[11]
1923, Aa Mujou, a Japanese adaptation directed by Kiyohiko Ushihara and Yoshinobu Ikeda; production cancelled after two of four parts
1925, directed by Henri Fescourt, starring Gabriel Gabrio, Jean Toulout, Sandra Milowanoff, and François Rozet
1929, The Bishop's Candlesticks, directed by George Abbott, adaptation of a popular one-act play by Norman McKinnel of the first volume of the novel, the first sound film adaptation, with Walter Huston as Jean Valjean
1929, Aa Mujo, a Japanese adaptation directed by Seika Shiba
1931, Jean Valjean, directed by Tomu Uchida
1934, four-and-a-half-hour French version directed by Raymond Bernard and starring Harry Baur, Charles Vanel, Florelle, Josseline Gaël, and Jean Servais
1935, directed by Richard Boleslawski and starring Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Florence Eldridge, Rochelle Hudson, and John Beal; the first adaptation nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture
1937, Gavrosh, a Soviet adaptation directed by Tatyana Lukashevich
1938, Kyojinden, a Japanese adaptation directed by Mansaku Itami
1943, Los Miserables, a Mexican adaptation directed by Renando A. Rovero
1944, El Boassa, an Egyptian adaptation directed by Kamal Selim
1948 (I Miserabili), directed by Riccardo Freda and starring Gino Cervi, Giovanni Hinrich, Valentina Cortese, Duccia Giraldi, and Aldo Nicodemi
1949, Les Nouveaux Misérables, directed by Henri Verneuil
1950, Re mizeraburu: Kami to Akuma (English title: Gods and Demons), directed by Daisuke Ito
1950, Ezhai Padum Padu and Beedala Patlu, directed by K. Ramnoth in Tamil and Telugu
1952, directed by Lewis Milestone, with Michael Rennie, Robert Newton, Sylvia Sidney, Debra Paget, and Cameron Mitchell
1952, I miserabili, re-release of the 1948 film
1955, Kundan, an Indian Hindi film directed by Sohrab Modi
1955, Aa mujo, a Japanese adaptation, director unknown
1956, Duppathage Duka, Sri Lankan Sinhala film
1957, Sirakaruwa, a Sri Lankan Sinhala adaptation directed by Sirisena Wimalaweera
1958, directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois, starring Jean Gabin
1958, Os Miseráveis, a Brazilian adaptation directed by Dionísio Azevedo
1961, Jean Valjean, Korean film by Seung-ha Jo
1961, Cosette, directed by Alain Boudet on Claude Santelli's program Le Théâtre de la jeunesse
1962, Gavroche, directed by Boudet on Le Théâtre de la jeunesse
1963, Jean Valjean, directed by Boudet on Le Théâtre de la jeunesse
1964, Aa mujo, Japanese film, director unknown
1967, Os Miseráveis, Brazilian film
1967, Sefiller, Turkish film
1972, Beedala Patlu, Indian Telugu film directed by B. Vittalacharya
1972, Gnana Oli ("The light of wisdom"), Indian Tamil loose adaptation, directed by P. Madhavan
1973, Los Miserables, Mexican TV adaptation directed by Antulio Jiménez Pons and starring Sergio Bustamante, Antonio Passy, Blanca Sánchez, Diana Bracho, and Luis Torner
1977, Neethipeedam, in Indian Malayalam, based on Les Misérables and Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man
1978, a British telefilm directed by Glenn Jordan and starring Richard Jordan, Anthony Perkins, Angela Pleasance, Caroline Langrishe, and Christopher Guard
1978, Al Boasa, Egyptian adaptation
1982, directed by Robert Hossein and starring Lino Ventura, Michel Bouquet, Évelyne Bouix, Christiane Jean, and Frank David
1987 directed by Mara Mattuschka
1988, Nihon Jean Valjean monogatari: Ai mujo ("Japanese Jean Valjean's story"), Japanese TV series
1989, Ngon Co Gio Dua, Vietnamese film directed by Hgô Ngoc Xun
1995, directed by Claude Lelouch; a loose, multi-layered adaptation set in the 20th century starring Jean-Paul Belmondo
1998, directed by Bille August and starring Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, Claire Danes, and Hans Matheson
1998 මනුතාපය Sinhala Translation (Manutaapaya) by ඊරියගොල්ල සූරීන් (Mr. Iiriyagolla)
2011, Les misérables: Tempête sous un crâne, filmed stage play by Jean Bellorini and Camille de la Guillonnière
2012, adaptation of the stage musical, directed by Tom Hooper and starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, and Eddie Redmayne