All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Chloe Pirrie, 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.

The film is set in 1912, and follows the events of a single evening on which the wealthy Birling family is holding a dinner party to celebrate the engagement of their daughter, Sheila, to Gerald Croft. The festivities are then interrupted by a visit from what is taken to be a policeman, Inspector Goole, who is investigating the recent suicide of a local young woman named Eva Smith.

Two brothers believe they have been chosen by God to murder an innocent woman and her infant daughter. A devout detective’s faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder that seems to be connected to an esteemed Utah family’s spiral into LDS fundamentalism and their distrust in the government.

After their friend’s passing, two women in their late twenties set out on a road trip to scatter his ashes. Seph and Alex alternate driving duties, while Dan, enclosed in Tupperware, accompanies them in the glove compartment, gradually diminishing in volume as the journey unfolds.