All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Anna Massey, ranked

A young English girl in Monte Carlo falls in love with a rude, handsome stranger who proposes to her and rescues her from the drudgery of being a hired companion. But when he takes her to his country estate, Manderly, all her confidence disappears, especially in the face of Maxim’s dour and mysterious housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, and as odd rumors reach her, the second Mrs. de Winter decides to find out everything she can about her predecessor, Rebecca.

Bristol in 1787. Josiah Cole, a small dockside trader, is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. But he needs capital and a well-connected wife. Marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually convenient solution. Trading her social contacts for Josiah’s protection, Frances finds her life and fortune dependent on the respectable trade of sugar, rum, and slaves.

Set in the early 1970s, the plot centres on a serial killer terrorizing London by raping and then strangling women with a necktie. Bob Rusk, a Covent Garden wholesale produce merchant, is the murderer. However, circumstantial evidence, partially engineered by Rusk, will implicate Rusk’s friend Richard Blaney, who becomes a fugitive attempting to prove his innocence.

A young woman in labour makes her way to a parish workhouse and dies after giving birth to a boy, who is systematically named Oliver Twist by the workhouse authorities. As the years go by, Oliver and the rest of the child inmates suffer from the callous indifference of the officials in charge: beadle Mr. Bumble and matron Mrs. Corney.

In this adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s play about fake identities, two gentlemen in 1890s London use the same pseudonym, Ernest, for their secret courtship activities. Chaos ensues when both men find themselves face-to-face and have to explain who they really are.

Living under the heavy burden of poverty, 10 year old Fanny Price is sent to live with her more affluent uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram of Mansfield Park. Growing up, she is treated as an inferior relation by all but her best friend and cousin Edmund. Quiet, staid, and virtuous Fanny witnesses the stirrings of passion when worldly siblings Henry and Mary Crawford move in next door.

Taken in by a wealthy family after a failed expedition to the Amazon, biologist William Adamson wins the hand of his benefactor’s daughter and believes his dreamsof fame and fortune may finally come true. But a servant has secret knowledge about his new family, and his visions of grandeur tarnish in light of an erotic decadence and illicit passion beyond his darkest fears.

Maud Bailey and Roland Michell are two dedicated literary scholars with nothing in common – except their obsession with the two Victorian poets they have devoted their lives to studying. But all that changes when a newly discovered cache of love letters reveals the two poets were entangled in a forbidden affair. Now, as Maud and Roland embark on a wildly romantic journey in search of the truth, the mystery of the past will engulf them, as the passions of the present possess them.

Following the death of her father, Margaret Prior, a wealthy socialite, struggles to find meaning in her life. Seeking experiences beyond her sheltered existence of privilege, Prior becomes a “lady visitor” to a women’s prison nearby, hoping to find purpose through volunteering. However, Prior becomes strangely intrigued by one inmate, Selina Dawes, a disgraced medium.

A doubtful professor ventures to a secluded British estate with the intent to disprove claims of psychic phenomena. However, his mission takes an unexpected turn as he becomes haunted by a ghost from his own past.

In 1993, Martin, a US student at the University of Oxford, wants Arthur Seldom as his thesis supervisor. He idolises Seldom and has learned all about him. He takes accommodation in Oxford at the house of Mrs. Eagleton, an old friend of Seldom. Also in the house is her daughter, Beth, who is her full-time caregiver and a musician by occupation.

Polish defector Leiser is offered a chance of UK citizenship by MI6, but only if he agrees to undertake a highly dangerous espionage mission behind the iron curtain in East Germany. Leiser’s role is to replace an MI6 agent who has already been murdered, and to gather photographic intelligence on a covert East German rocket system.