All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Emma Thompson, ranked

Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical tells the story of an extraordinary girl, with a vivid imagination, who dares to take a stand to change her story with miraculous results.

In 2012, an alien criminal named Boris the Animal, a Boglodite, escapes from a maximum-security prison on the Moon to take revenge on Agent K, who shot off his left arm and captured him in 1969. Back at MiB Headquarters, J discovers K was responsible not only for capturing Boris, but for deploying the ArcNet, a shield that prevented the Boglodites from conquering Earth, leading to their extinction.

Fiona Maye is a judge in the Family Division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales. A case is brought before her involving a 17-year-old boy, Adam Henry, who is suffering from leukaemia. Adam’s doctors want to perform a blood transfusion, however, Adam and his parents are Jehovah’s Witnesses, and believe that having a blood transfusion is against biblical principles.

A young English middle-class individual becomes captivated by an upper-class family, developing romantic feelings for both the young woman and her brother. However, the formidable presence of their strict mother could present a significant obstacle to their budding affection.

Young political idealist, and grandson of civil rights leader, Henry Burton, is recruited to join the campaign of Jack Stanton, a charismatic Southern governor who is trying to win the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States. The campaign is then rocked by a fresh allegation when Jack’s old friend, Fat Willie McCollister approaches Henry to tell him that his 17-year-old daughter Loretta, who worked for the Stantons as a babysitter, is pregnant and that Jack is the father.

In Victorian England, widowed undertaker Cedric Brown is the father of seven unruly children—Simon, Tora, Eric, Lily, Sebastian, Chrissie, and Aggie. That same night during a storm, while the children cause havoc in the kitchen, Cedric opens the door to reveal a hideous woman, who introduces herself as Nanny McPhee.

In 1940, a working-class couple in World War II-era Berlin, Otto and Anna Quangel, decide to resist Adolf Hitler and the Nazis after receiving news of the death of their only son. The couple starts writing postcards to urge people to stand against Hitler and the Nazis and protest against them by furtively placing the cards in public places – a capital crime.

Author Bill Bryson, after living for ten years in the UK, moved to New Hampshire. Now in his 60s, he had been living there peacefully. He decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends, Stephen Katz. Despite appearances, Stephen claims to be fit enough for the challenge. Bill’s wife is unhappy with his choice, but relents.

Barney Thomson, a socially awkward and timid barber from Glasgow, Scotland, leads a life characterized by profound mediocrity. However, his mundane existence is suddenly catapulted into a whirlwind of chaos and dark humor as he finds himself thrust into the bizarre and grotesque realm of a serial killer.

In Gatlin, South Carolina, teenager Ethan Wate awakens from a recurring dream of a girl he does not know. The other students spread gossip about Lena’s reclusive uncle, Macon Ravenwood, and suggest that her family includes devil worshippers.

Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once she’s arrived, Nanny discovers that the children are fighting a war of their own against two spoiled city cousins who have just moved in. Relying on everything from a flying motorcycle and a statue that comes to life to a tree-climbing piglet and a baby elephant, Nanny uses her magic to teach her mischievous charges five new lessons.

In the 1990s, 16-year-old Johanna Morrigan lives on a council estate in Wolverhampton with her father, exhausted mother, two brothers and two infant twins. Johanna dreams of escaping her life to become a writer, and finds comfort in speaking with the portraits of her idols covering her bedroom wall. A poem she wrote is selected for a televised competition, but she is overcome with nerves and humiliates herself on national television.