All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Jonathan Pryce, ranked

The series follows the political rivalries and romantic entanglements of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign, chronicling the events that shaped the latter half of the 20th century.

In the year 1720, while sailing to Port Royal Jamaica aboard the HMS Dauntless, Governor Weatherby Swann, his daughter Elizabeth, Joshamee Gibbs, and Lieutenant James Norrington encounter a shipwreck and recover a boy, Will Turner. They duel, and Jack is captured and imprisoned. Barbossa takes her prisoner, believing her to be the daughter of William ‘Bootstrap Bill’ Turner, whose blood is needed to lift the curse.

After a botched and publicly embarrassing training mission, British MI5 agent River Cartwright is exiled to Slough House, an administrative purgatory for service rejects. Known as slow horses, Cartwright and his fellow employees must endure dull, paper pushing tasks and their miserable boss, Jackson Lamb, who expects them to quit out of boredom and frustration.

In a dystopian, polluted, over consumerist, hyper-bureaucratic alternative present day, Sam Lowry is a low-level government employee who frequently daydreams of himself as a winged warrior saving a damsel in distress. Sam discovers the mistake when he discovers the wrong bank account had been debited for the arrest and visits Buttle’s widow to give her the refund where he encounters the upstairs neighbour Jill Layton, and is astonished to discover that she resembles the woman from his dreams.

The film depicts two days in the lives of four real estate salesmen who are supplied with leads — the names and phone numbers of prospects — and use deceitful and dubious tactics to make sales. Blake unleashes a torrent of verbal abuse on the salesmen and announces that only the top two will be allowed access to the more promising Glengarry leads.

In April 2005, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, is called to Vatican City after the death of Pope John Paul II to elect a new pope. The two watch Benedict’s favorite TV show, Kommissar Rex, which further delays their discussion about Bergoglio’s resignation.

The movie traces the journey of British humanitarian Nicholas Winton, who played a pivotal role in rescuing hundreds of Central European children from the Nazis on the brink of World War II.

The wedding of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann is halted when Lord Cutler Beckett, chairman of the East India Trading Company, arrives with arrest warrants for them, and also for Commodore James Norrington, who allowed Captain Jack Sparrow to escape. Meanwhile, Jack is visited by Will’s father, Bootstrap Bill Turner, aboard the Black Pearl.

In a series of flashbacks, Maria Altmann recalls Anschluss, the arrival of Nazi forces in Vienna, the persecution of the Jewish community and the looting and pillaging by the Nazis against Jewish families. While Altmann and her husband are successful, she is forced to abandon her parents in Vienna.

In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a bloodhound reporter for the German magazine Stern, believes he has stumbled onto the greatest literary find of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Shrouded in secrecy, Heidemann and the men of Stern attempt to pull off the greatest scoop in publishing history, blinded by their greed to the fact that the diaries are, in fact, crude forgeries.

Joan Castleman is a highly intelligent and still-striking beauty – the perfect devoted wife. Forty years spent sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to fan the flames of her charismatic husband Joe and his skyrocketing literary career. Their fateful pact has built a marriage upon uneven compromises. And Joan’s reached her breaking point.

In 1843, four years after the success of Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens is suffering financial hardship from the failure of his last three books. Rejected by his publishers, he sets out to write a new book, and publish it himself, to restore his finances. Seeing inspiration around London, he begins writing A Christmas Carol.