Count Dracula (BBC, 1977)
The screen version usually named as closest to the book.
Television had the time cinema never did, so give the novel its length and most of its scenes.
You have read the book and you want to see it, not a variation on it.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: more of the novel than other screen versions; the film historian David J. Skal called it the most careful adaptation of the novel to date.
Changes: some relationships — Mina is Lucy’s sister here — and the budget, which is 1970s BBC.
Whose story is it?
the hunters’, as in the novel.
How much time does it ask?
About two and a half hours. On DVD in the UK. The US DVD is out of print, but Amazon sellers still had copies when checked, and libraries hold it.
Louis Jourdan as the Count, Frank Finlay as Van Helsing. Not available to stream in the US when checked.
Where to find it
US DVD (BBC, 2007), new or used — Amazon
Other ways to get it: UK DVD (Region 2) — HMV · Find where it’s streaming — JustWatch
Borrow it free: Borrow the US DVD — WorldCat
Common questions
Which Dracula film is closest to the book?
The 1977 BBC Count Dracula, with Louis Jourdan, is the usual answer; the film historian David J. Skal called it the most careful adaptation of the novel to date. It is on DVD in the UK; the US DVD is out of print, though Amazon sellers still list it and libraries hold it.
More Draculas: Nosferatu (1922) · Dracula (1931) · Dracula (1958), or Horror of Dracula