All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Hugo Weaving, ranked

In 2027, the world is in turmoil, with the United States fractured as a result of a second civil war and a pandemic of the St. Mary’s Virus ravaging Europe. On November 4, a vigilante in a Guy Fawkes mask, V, rescues Evey Hammond, an employee of state-run British Television Network, from members of the Fingermen secret police.

In 2027, the world is in turmoil, with the United States fractured as a result of a second civil war and a pandemic of the St. Mary’s Virus ravaging Europe. On November 4, a vigilante in a Guy Fawkes mask, V, rescues Evey Hammond, an employee of state-run British Television Network, from members of the Fingermen secret police.

In 1925 Lynchburg, Virginia, young Desmond Doss nearly kills his brother during roughhousing. That event and his Seventh-day Adventist upbringing reinforce Desmond’s belief in the commandment Thou shalt not kill.#Fifteen years later, Doss takes an injured man to the hospital and meets a nurse, Dorothy Schutte. They strike a romance, and Doss tells Dorothy of his interest in medical work. His father, Tom, a Great War veteran, is deeply upset by the decision.

Over five decades from the 1960s to the early 2000s, wealthy Englishman Patrick Melrose attempts to overcome his addictions and demons rooted in abuse by his cruel father and negligent mother. A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist’s harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.

In the Chatham Islands, 1849, American lawyer Adam Ewing witnesses the whipping of a Moriori slave, Autua. Autua saves Ewing’s life before his doctor, Henry Goose, can poison him and steal his gold under the guise of treating him for a parasitic worm. In San Francisco, Ewing and his wife denounce her father’s complicity in slavery and leave to join the abolition movement.

In 1926, in the fictitious Australian outback town of Dungatar, schoolgirl Myrtle Dunnage is blamed for the death of classmate Stewart Pettyman and exiled from the town by local police sergeant Horatio Farrat. Twenty-five years later in 1951, Myrtle, now an accomplished dressmaker going by the name Tilly, returns to Dungatar.

During World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who’s transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler’s ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an organization that intends to use a mysterious device of untold powers for world domination.

During World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who’s transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler’s ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an organization that intends to use a mysterious device of untold powers for world domination.

Soren, a young barn owl, lives in the Tyto Forest in Illinois with his family; his father, Noctus; his mother, Marella; his older brother, Kludd; his younger sister, Eglantine; and Mrs. P, the family’s nest maid, a kind blind snake. At St. Aegolius, the owlets are greeted by the Pure Ones’ queen Nyra, who says that they will be divided into either soldiers or pickers.

A middle-aged man, abandoned by his wife, sells his furniture to a young couple. However, the couple gets more than they bargained for in this adaptation of a Raymond Carver story.

Following a cataclysmic conflict known as the Sixty Minute War, the remnants of humanity regroup and form mobile cities, called Traction Cities. Hester Shaw, a masked twenty-something woman among the Salzhakens, attempts to assassinate Thaddeus Valentine, Head of the Guild of Historians, but Tom intervenes, pursuing Hester to a chute.

The Turning, a hauntingly gorgeous collaborative film directed by seventeen brilliant filmmakers, explores the remarkable events in ordinary lives that change them for the rest of time. The passing of time, regret, addiction, and obsession are constant themes that run through all of the stories.