All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Hector Elizondo, ranked

In New York City, four men wearing similar disguises and carrying concealed weapons board the same downtown 6 train, Pelham 1-2-3, at different stations. Using codenames Mr. Blue, Mr. Green, Mr. Grey, and Mr. Brown, they take 18 people, including the conductor and an undercover police officer, hostage in the first car.

Mary Beth, a museum tour guide, takes a group of school detention students on a secret museum tour, telling them, with wooden figures, the story of a Mexican town called San Angel from the Book of Life, holding every story in the world. They strike a wager: if María marries Manolo, Xibalba will no longer interfere in mortal affairs, but if she marries Joaquín, La Muerte and Xibalba will swap realms.

Aging town constable Bob Valdez is tricked into killing an innocent man by powerful rancher Frank Tanner, whose hired gun R.L. Davis shot up the hovel where the wrongly accused man and his Indian wife were trapped. Valdez believes it would be a fair gesture to raise $200 for the widow, $100 from Tanner and the rest from others in town.

An emotionally scarred waitress named Frankie attends her godson’s baptism in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Johnny has just been released from prison, and gets a job in the café beside waitress Frankie. Frankie is a bit of a loner, but Johnny is determined their romance will blossom.

The tough and seasoned private investigator, Hamilton Nash, is enlisted to probe a case involving stolen diamonds. This inquiry leads him to encounter a charming and peculiar young woman named Gabrielle. She holds the belief that she has fallen victim to the ancient curse afflicting the Dain family, a malevolent affliction that allegedly brings about premature death in those it ensnares.

Shy high school student Mia Thermopolis resides with her mother Helen in a refurbished firehouse in San Francisco. Unpopular among her peers, Mia suffers from a fear of public speaking while harboring a crush on Josh Bryant, and is often teased by his popular girlfriend Lana Thomas. Mia’s only friends are social outcast Lilly Moscovitz.

Five years after the first film, Mia Thermopolis has just graduated from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School and is returning to Genovia with her bodyguard, Joe. There, she will await her reign once her grandmother, Queen Clarisse, abdicates. During Mia’s 21st birthday party, she dances with all the eligible bachelors in hope of finding a husband.

Elliot unintentionally takes photos of diamond smugglers at work while traveling to the island of Eden to indulge his fantasy of being a slave. Detectives and smugglers pursue him to the island, where they attempt to reclaim the movie. Lisa, the island’s head mistress, must assess her feelings toward Elliot and her own objectives as he starts to fall in love with her.