文學與電影雖都是藝術，但特性不同，隨著時代變化，兩種藝術媒體，都在不斷地尋求突破與創新，也都在檢視其中所呈現的人性、社會與文化等各個層面。讀者與觀眾藉由文學與影像的閱讀與欣賞，得到最大的心靈滿足，也因此文學電影對於觀眾的生命是有所啟發的。文學電影對於通識課程的人文領域可以提供相關的教學與研究資料，特別是在生命教育方面。本論文將從生命智慧、心靈成長、生命回顧和生死教育四個面向切入，分析共八部由文學所改編的中外電影，期待經由本文的研究，能夠達到以下三個目的：一，提升通識教育與身心靈全人教育的融合；二，提供「文學電影」在通識課程上的應用；三，對於「生命教育」的研究者提供相關的研究資料。

As we all know that literature and movies are arts; however, they are completely different in characteristics. With the change of the times, these two arts mass media are constantly searching for the ways to make a breakthrough and innovate something. In addition, they survey and view the presence of human nature, society and culture. A large readers and audience are filled with mental contentment by means of reading and appreciating the literature and movies.Therefore, the lives of the audience are inspired by the literary movies. Literary movies provide humanistic field with the related teaching and research material, particularly in the aspect of life education.Eight movies which are based on literature are cut from life wisdom, mental growth, the memories of life and the education of life and death. Through the research, we expect to attain the goals:1. To promote general education and combine the body, mental and spiritual humanization education.2. To supply literary movies with the application to the general education3. To provide the researcher to the life education with some related research material.