All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Anya Taylor-joy, ranked

The Queen’s Gambit follows the life of an orphan chess prodigy, Elizabeth Harmon, during her quest to become the world’s greatest chess player while struggling with emotional problems and drug and alcohol dependency. The story begins in the mid-1950s and proceeds into the 1960s.

In 17th-century Netherlands, young Petronella #Nella# Oortman moves into an Amsterdam home that her new husband, Johannes, shares with his sister, Marin, and their two servants. She receives a cold reception from Marin and an indifferent one from Johannes, who provides her with a mysterious doll’s house to occupy her time.

In Regency-era England, wealthy Emma Woodhouse searches for a new companion after her governess, Miss Taylor, marries and becomes Mrs. Weston. Harriet’s parents are unknown but her education has been provided for. Emma believes that Mr. Elton, the local vicar, is in love with Harriet and encourages Harriet to transfer her hopes to him, despite Mr. Knightley’s warning that she should not involve herself in the situation.

In 1893 Marie Curie was frequently rejected for funding due to her gender but entered a partnership with Pierre Curie. After Marie discovered polonium and radium, the two fell in love and got married, having two children. Soon, Marie announces the discovery of radioactivity, revolutionizing physics and chemistry.

Matthew, Kearney and Rez are three Dublin lads who leave school without much idea of what they want to do – not like their super-smart classmate Jen who has some ambitious life plans figured out and on whom sweet, sensitive Matthew has a massive crush. But then the boys witness something horrible that shakes them up and reveals a sinister side to Kearney.

Danielle Dani Moonstar, a young Cheyenne Native American, escapes the destruction of her reservation during a tornado. Sam brought down a whole mine on his father and coworkers, Roberto burned his girlfriend to death, Rahne escaped her religiously strict village after being branded as a witch, and Illyana was haunted by her past of child slavery and abuse, which manifests itself as otherworldly beings called the Smiling Men.