All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Gillian Anderson, ranked

The X-Files follows the careers and personal lives of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson). She is partnered with Mulder initially so that she can debunk Mulder’s nonconforming theories, often supplying logical, scientific explanations for the cases’ apparently unexplainable phenomena.

The longstanding estate battle of Jarndyce v Jarndyce hangs over the heads of many conflicting heirs, confused by multiple wills. Honoria, Lady Dedlock, the wife of the imperious baronet Sir Leicester, is also a possible beneficiary of the estate. Esther and the young doctor Allan Woodcourt are attracted to each other, but Esther feels unworthy and Allan accepts a commission as a navy physician.

After the events of Wonder, Julian has left Beecher Prep for good. He is visited by his grandmother from Paris, who tells him stories of her childhood as a young Jewish girl in Nazi-occupied France during World War II, while being hidden from the Nazis by a distant classmate and his parents.

Amid the heightening Russian conflict with Napoleon, five aristocratic families confront the looming prospect of their lives being irrevocably altered.

Only days before his scheduled release from prison, Shadow Moon is told his wife has been killed in a car accident, and he is released early to attend the funeral. In a grand plan to combat this deadly threat, Mr. Wednesday attempts to unite the Old Gods to defend their existence and rebuild the influence they have lost, leaving Shadow struggling to accept this new world and his place in it.

In 1970, Nicholas Garrigan graduates from medical school at the University of Edinburgh. Garrigan becomes attracted to Sarah, who enjoys the attention but refuses to engage in an extramarital affair. Meanwhile, General Idi Amin overthrows incumbent president Milton Obote in a coup d’état. During the incident, Garrigan takes a gun and shoots a mortally wounded cow because no one else has the presence of mind to put it out of its misery. Amin is impressed by his quick action and initiative.

A young boy called Pip stumbles upon a hunted criminal who threatens him and demands food. A few years later, Pip finds that he has a benefactor. Imagining that Miss Havisham, a rich lady whose adopted daughter Estella he loves, is the benefactor, Pip believes in a grand plan at the end of which he will be married to Estella.

Living with her family in a small hut on a Nepalese mountain, thirteen-year-old Lakshmi is tragically trafficked to a brothel in India. Despite her harrowing situation, she refuses to give up and instead hatches a plan to escape. The movie provides an eye-opening perspective on the issue of modern-day slavery that extends far beyond Lakshmi’s story.

As the daughter of a seasoned robber, Ronja grapples with the complexities of her father’s occupation when she forms a bond with Birk, the offspring of a rival faction. Struggling to reconcile this newfound friendship with her familial ties, Ronja eventually learns that despite differences, love and empathy can bridge even the widest divides.

Lord Mountbatten arrives at Viceroy’s House in Delhi in 1947 with his strong-willed wife Edwina and daughter Pamela. As the final Viceroy of India, he is in charge of overseeing the dissolution of the British Raj and the establishment of an independent Indian nation. Mountbatten attempts to mediate a disagreement between the two major Indian political leaders, who wants India to remain intact as one nation after independence.

Lord Mountbatten arrives at Viceroy’s House in Delhi in 1947 with his strong-willed wife Edwina and daughter Pamela. As the final Viceroy of India, he is in charge of overseeing the dissolution of the British Raj and the establishment of an independent Indian nation. Mountbatten attempts to mediate a disagreement between the two major Indian political leaders, who wants India to remain intact as one nation after independence.

A detective who has seen it all is brought in to look into the killing of a West Point cadet. He asks one of their own, a young man who would become known as Edgar Allan Poe, to help solve the case after being frustrated by the cadets’ code of silence.