All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring David Threlfall, ranked

During the Napoleonic Wars, Captain Jack Aubrey of HMS Surprise is ordered to fight the French privateer Acheron. Following the privateer south, Surprise rounds Cape Horn and heads to the Galapagos Islands, where Aubrey is convinced that Acheron will prey on Britain’s whaling fleet.

During the peak of the 1960s, Barbara Parker was crowned Miss Blackpool, but she feels that there must be more to life than just being a beauty queen in a coastal town. She longs to become someone significant and the dazzling lights of London are drawing her in. Determined to discover her true identity, Barbara sets off on a journey to the capital city.

George Smiley, at the request of his old wartime colleague Ailsa Brimley, investigates the murder of Stella Rode. Upon investigating, Smiley learns of many secrets that were kept by the victim, and one being that Terence Fielding, a house master at Carne, was being blackmailed by her due to past homosexual activities.

In their island abode, two children form an unlikely bond with a reclusive and peculiar elderly man residing on the distant shore. Little do they know that the old man holds a haunting secret about the island and its enigmatic visitors, the narwhales. As the shadows of World War I cast a dark cloud over the village, the children find themselves entangled in a web of mysteries and challenges that will test their courage and resilience.

Bartholomew Barley Scott-Blair, the head of a British publishing firm, arrives in Moscow on business. At a writers’ retreat near Peredelkino, he speaks of an end to tensions with the West, heard by the mysterious Dante, who demands for Barley to promise to do the right thing if the opportunity arises.

Dodger follows the exploits of the infamous pickpocket, The Artful Dodger, and Fagin’s gang as they find ingenious ways to survive the grim and exploitative conditions of early Victorian London in the 1830s.

The story of the 10-year siege of Troy by the Greeks is told after the young prince of Troy, Paris, has an affair with Helen of Sparta, the wife of the Greek king Menelaus. A rich story of love, intrigue, betrayal and belonging told from the perspective of the Trojan royal family at the heart of the siege of Troy.