All the books by Cormac Mccarthy adapted to cinema and television, ranked

In Texas, 1980, hitman Anton Chigurh strangles a deputy sheriff to escape custody and uses a captive bolt pistol to kill a driver and steal his car. Following an electronic tracking device hidden in the money, Chigurh goes to Moss’s motel room and kills a group of Mexicans who are waiting to ambush Moss with his shotgun.

Black and White converse about White’s attempted suicide. White feels as though everything ends up in death, and that his life is minuscule in the throes of time. From White’s point of view, no matter how great someone or something is, all that is created eventually fades away. This is the opposite of what Black believes.

A man and his young son struggle to survive after a global cataclysm has caused an extinction event. They scavenge for supplies and avoid roaming gangs as they travel on a road to the coast in the hope that it will be warmer. Years earlier, the man’s wife gives birth to their son shortly after the catastrophe and she gradually loses hope. Removing her coat and hat, she walks into the woods, never to be seen again.

A woman gives birth to her brother’s child, and immediately after the baby is born, the man falsely claims to have left the child in the woods to perish. Once the woman discovers the deception, she embarks on a journey to locate her child, unaware of the challenges and surprises awaiting her in the quest to rescue her offspring.

In 1949, young cowboy John Grady Cole’s maternal grandfather dies. After Alejandra’s father takes her away, Cole and Rawlins are arrested by Mexican police and taken to jail, where they again encounter Blevins, who has been accused of stealing a horse and of murder, and is killed by a corrupt police captain.

Set in mountainous Sevier County, Tennessee, in the 1950s, Child of God tells the story of Lester Ballard. Ballard is a dispossessed, violent man described as a child of God much like yourself perhaps. Successively deprived of parents and homes, and with few other ties, Ballard descends literally and figuratively to the level of a cave dweller, as he falls deeper into madness, crime and degradation.

A story set in the dark and violent American West in the mid-19th century, set against the backdrop of the Indian Wars and the Gold Rush. A man becomes involved with a violent and ruthless scalp hunter and joins a group of Indian-hunters, embarking on a bloody and brutal journey across the borderlands of the United States and Mexico.