All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring John Hurt, ranked

The commercial space tug Nostromo is on a return trip back to Earth with a seven-member crew in stasis: Captain Dallas, Executive Officer Kane, Warrant Officer Ripley, Navigator Lambert, Science Officer Ash, and two engineers, Parker and Brett. They discover the signal comes from a derelict alien ship and enter it, losing communication with the Nostromo.

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.

Frederick Treves, a surgeon at the London Hospital, finds Joseph Merrick in a Victorian freak show in London’s East End, where he is kept by Mr. Bytes, a greedy, sadistic, psychopathic, despicable, violent and heartless ringmaster. Carr Gomm permits him to stay, and Merrick spends his time practising conversation with Treves and building a model of a cathedral he sees from his window.

Frederick Treves, a surgeon at the London Hospital, finds Joseph Merrick in a Victorian freak show in London’s East End, where he is kept by Mr. Bytes, a greedy, sadistic, psychopathic, despicable, violent and heartless ringmaster. Carr Gomm permits him to stay, and Merrick spends his time practising conversation with Treves and building a model of a cathedral he sees from his window.

Frederick Treves, a surgeon at the London Hospital, finds Joseph Merrick in a Victorian freak show in London’s East End, where he is kept by Mr. Bytes, a greedy, sadistic, psychopathic, despicable, violent and heartless ringmaster. Carr Gomm permits him to stay, and Merrick spends his time practising conversation with Treves and building a model of a cathedral he sees from his window.

On October 6, 1970, on holiday in Istanbul, Turkey, American college student Billy Hayes straps 2 kg of hashish blocks to his chest. After a while, a shadowy American – who is never named but is nicknamed Tex by Billy, for his thick Texan accent – arrives, takes Billy to a police station, and translates Billy’s English for one of the detectives.

In Lapine language mythology, the world was created by the god Frith. All animals were grass eaters, living harmoniously. The rabbits multiplied, and their appetite led to a food shortage. Frith ordered the rabbit prince, El-Ahrairah, to control his people, but was scoffed at. In retaliation, Frith gave special gifts to every animal, making some into predators to hunt the rabbits.

Unknowingly, Timothy Evans and his wife move into Christie’s cramped flat, unaware that they have become the latest pawns in his twisted plot to lure another victim to her demise and frame Evans, who is subsequently executed. Only when destiny reveals the horrors of the killing ground at 10 Rillington Place in London is Christie finally caught and tried, forcing England to reassess its stance on capital punishment. Based on the true and horrifying story of serial killer John Christie.

After an attempt to stop global warming via climate engineering catastrophically backfires, creating a new ice age in 2014, the remnants of humanity have taken to a circumnavigational train, the Snowpiercer, run by reclusive transportation magnate Wilford.

In 1973, Control, head of British intelligence (The Circus), sends agent Jim Prideaux to Budapest to meet a prospective defector, a Hungarian Army general who has the name of a mole at the top of British Intelligence. Alleline and Bland request budget approval from civil servant Oliver Lacon for Operation Witchcraft, including a safe house for their high-level Soviet source.

In a dystopian 1984, Winston Smith endures a squalid existence in the totalitarian superstate of Oceania under the constant surveillance of the Thought Police. Julia procures contraband food and clothing on the black market, and for a brief few months they secretly meet and enjoy an idyllic life of relative freedom and contentment together.