All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Emily Watson, ranked

In 1985, a devoted father named Bill Furlong stumbles upon unsettling secrets concealed by the local convent, unraveling shocking truths about both the institution and his own life.

In February 1938, Death himself tells about how a young girl called Liesel Meminger had piqued his interest. She is taunted by her schoolmates who chant ‘dummkopf’ at her. When Hans, her foster father, realizes that Liesel cannot read, he begins to teach her, using the book that she took from the graveside along with a giant chalkboard.

Angela’s Ashes tells the story of Frank McCourt and his childhood after his family are forced to move from the United States back to Ireland because of financial difficulties and family problems caused by his father’s alcoholism. The film chronicles young McCourt’s life in Limerick, Ireland, during his childhood in the 1930s and 1940s, the difficulties that arose, and Frank’s way of earning enough money to return to the land of his dreams: America.

In 1980, forensic psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter is irritated by the performance of a flautist at a recital of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Graham has been working with Lecter on a psychological profile of a serial killer who removes edible body parts from his victims; Graham says he has realized the killer is a cannibal.

In 1912, a bay Thoroughbred is born in Devon, England. At auction, farmer Ted Narracott outbids his landlord Lyons for the colt, to the dismay of his wife Rose, because the family needs a working horse that can plough the field. Their son Albert, accompanied by his best friend Andrew, names the colt Joey, and teaches him to come when he imitates an owl’s call.

Four sisters and their mother, whom they call Marmee, live in a new neighborhood in Massachusetts in genteel poverty. Having lost all his money, their father is serving as a chaplain in the American Civil War, far from home. The mother and daughters face their first Christmas without him.

What starts out as a simple, reckless mid-life affair between a genetic scientist named Yvonne and a Westminster paper pusher takes an intriguing turn when she realizes he’s a spook – then suddenly gets very dark indeed. A provocative study of obsession, longing and just how far down a criminal path desire can take you.

Amidst the backdrop of World War I, Vera Brittain, a student at Oxford University, decides to pause her academic pursuits and dedicates herself to nursing duties. Meanwhile, her brother, her suitor, and an undisclosed admirer find themselves confronted with mortality on the battlefields.

In May 1996, several commercial expeditions at the base camp of Mount Everest prepare to climb to the summit. Rob Hall, who popularized commercial Everest missions, leads Adventure Consultants; Scott Fischer is the chief guide for its rival, Mountain Madness. A month earlier in New Zealand, Rob says goodbye to his pregnant wife, Jan, and promises that he will be home for the birth.

Margaret Humphreys, a social worker hailing from Nottingham, unraveled one of the most notable social injustices of modern times: the forced migration of numerous children from the UK to Australia. These children, some as young as four, were deceitfully informed that their parents had passed away and were subsequently dispatched to children’s homes on a far-off continent. Many of them were subjected to abhorrent mistreatment.

A chronicle of Marilyn Monroe’s family life, her relationship with her mother, Gladys Pearl Baker, and how she succeeded in hiding her most intimate secrets from the press and an invasive world.

A father makes the heart-wrenching decision to separate his son from his twin sister at birth, concealing from both the mother and himself the fact that she was born with Down syndrome. This narrative is based on the novel by Kim Edwards.