All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Anthony Minghella, ranked

Precious Ramotswe, the founder of Botswana’s first detective agency run by a woman, investigates a series of cases. She uses her detective skills to help wives locate missing husbands, a school teacher find her kidnapped son, and a wealthy father locate his 16-year-old daughter who has run away.

While working at a fancy party as a pianist, Tom Ripley is approached by shipping magnate Herbert Greenleaf, who believes that Ripley attended Princeton with his son, Dickie, because Ripley is wearing a borrowed Princeton jacket. Eventually, Dickie tires of him and starts spending time with his patrician, socialite friend Freddie Miles, who treats Ripley with contempt. They argue on a small boat, and Dickie says he has had enough of Ripley and is going to marry Marge.

In the final days of the Italian Campaign of World War II, Hana, a French-Canadian nurse of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, gains permission from her unit to move into a bombed-out Italian monastery, to look after a dying, critically burned man who speaks English but can not remember his name. They are soon joined by Kip, a Sikh sapper in the British Army posted with his sergeant to clear mines and unexploded bombs in the local area, including one in the monastery where Hana and the English Patient are staying.

When North Carolina secedes from the Union on May 20, 1861, the young men of Cold Mountain enlist in the Confederate States Army. Their courtship is interrupted by the war, but they share their first kiss the day Inman leaves for the army. Three years later, Inman fights in the Battle of the Crater and survives; he then comforts a dying acquaintance from Cold Mountain, while fellow soldier Stobrod Thewes plays a tune on his fiddle.