All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Eddie Marsan, ranked

Since her birth in 1805, twenty-one years prior, Amy Dorrit has lived in the Marshalsea Prison for Debt, caring for her father, William, who now enjoys a position of privileged seniority as the Father of the Marshalsea. To help her family, Amy works as a seamstress for Mrs. Clennam, a cranky, cold and forbidding semi-invalid living in a crumbling home with servants, the sinister Jeremiah Flintwinch and his bumbling wife, Affery.

In an alternate historical setting, amidst the backdrop of the actual Napoleonic Wars, two men of extraordinary potential shape the course of events. Mr. Norrell, a talented but reclusive magician, and Jonathan Strange, a daring apprentice in the art of spellcasting, harness the power of magic to aid England in its struggle.

After finally catching serial killer Lord Blackwood, legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson can close yet another successful case. But when Blackwood mysteriously returns from the grave and resumes his killing spree, Holmes must take up the hunt once again and will have to unravel the clues that will lead him into a twisted web of murder, deceit, and black magic.

In Vienna, Austria-Hungary, 1889, a magician named Eisenheim is arrested by Chief Inspector Walter Uhl of the Vienna Police during a magic show involving necromancy. During one performance, he encounters the adult Sophie and learns that she is expected to marry the Crown Prince Leopold, who, it is rumored, is brutal towards women and in the past even murdered one.

In London in 1872, William Chester Minor, a retired United States Army surgeon, is found not guilty by reason of insanity for killing an innocent stranger, George Merrett, and is sent to Broadmoor. Some Oxford University Press oversight committee members are contemptuous, but Freddie Furnivall describes their current abject defeat, saying that the extraordinary Murray may be what they need.

Suffocated by debts, prison officer John Darwin pretended to drown in a canoe accident so his wife could make fraudulent claims on their insurance. Anne Darwin played the grieving widow whilst police investigated his disappearance. Yet all along John Darwin was living in an apartment in the house next door to his wife, regularly visiting her through an interconnecting passage. Devastated by the loss of their father, neither of their sons had an inkling their parents had betrayed them.

Bruce Robertson is a Detective Sergeant in Edinburgh, Scotland, who is a scheming, manipulative, misanthropic bully who spends his free time indulging in drugs, alcohol, abusive sexual relationships, and ‘the games’ — his euphemism for the vindictive plots he hatches to cause trouble for people he dislikes, including many of his colleagues.

Dr. Bennet Omalu pioneered the identification of chronic brain damage as a contributing factor in the deaths of certain National Football League players. The narrative traces Dr. Omalu’s David-vs.-Goliath odyssey, illuminating his role as a forensic neuropathologist who first uncovered football-related brain trauma in a professional player. His relentless battle was not only about revealing the truth behind this devastating condition but also about humanizing the toll taken on athletes in high-impact sports.

In November 1989, just days prior to the collapse of the Berlin Wall, MI6 agent James Gascoigne is shot and killed by KGB agent Yuri Bakhtin, who steals The List, a microfilm document concealed in Gascoigne’s wristwatch that contains the names of every intelligence agent (on both sides) active in Berlin. The plot jumps between the debrief room and flashbacks to Lorraine’s time in Berlin.

Set in the East End of London in the early 1960s Vivien Epstein is the daughter of a traditional suburban Manchester Jewish family comprising father David, mother Liza and a relative Roza whom the family is sheltering. The father arranges a marriage (without Vivien’s desire nor consent) with the father of a local Jewish boy. Vivien already has a beau, Jack, who leaves for London, desolate.

Two women meet their demise within hours of each other near St. Pancras station, each falling victim to distinct methods of murder. As Detective Inspector Thorne delves into the investigation, a link emerges with two previous murders that occurred months earlier, all sharing the same day. The realization strikes that a sinister partnership between two serial killers may be unfolding.

The amazing true story of teenage German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon, who overcomes enormous difficulties to produce a timeless masterpiece as she matures on the eve of World War II.