All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Joss Ackland, ranked

The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously, and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills.

In the woods, eight corpses have been discovered, bearing marks of brutal murder, rape, and mutilation. The deceased individuals are predominantly young and solitary, having fallen victim to conversing with an unknown person, which ultimately cost them their lives. Viktor Burakov, a proficient forensic specialist but an inexperienced investigator, is appointed by his Colonel to lead the inquiry. Based on the true story of the most savage and elusive serial killer on record.

Derived from the real-life experiences of C.S. Lewis, a globally acclaimed writer and professor, this narrative unfolds as he navigates a life devoid of profound passion until he encounters and ultimately falls in love with Joy Gresham, a spirited and assertive divorcée from New York.

The music of Bill and Ted’s band, Wyld Stallyns, has created a utopian future society. In 2691, former gym teacher turned terrorist Chuck De Nomolos attacks the Bill & Ted University and steals a time-traveling phone booth, intending to alter the history of what he considers to be a foolish and frivolous society by sending evil robot replicas of Bill and Ted back to the late 20th century to prevent the originals from winning the San Dimas Battle of the Bands.

George Smiley, at the request of his old wartime colleague Ailsa Brimley, investigates the murder of Stella Rode. Upon investigating, Smiley learns of many secrets that were kept by the victim, and one being that Terence Fielding, a house master at Carne, was being blackmailed by her due to past homosexual activities.

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.

A woman’s curiosity is piqued by one of her psychiatrist husband’s patients—a man convicted of the murder and disfigurement of his ex-wife.

Salvatore Giuliano, an infamous bandit, together with his ragtag band of guerrillas, attempted to liberate early 1950s Sicily from Italian rule and make it an American state. Don Croce, in turn, sets out to kill the upstart by convincing his cousin and closest adviser Gaspare Aspanu Pisciotta to assassinate him.

A search for a missing person transforms into a perilous game of cat and mouse as Detective Jack becomes a captive, held hostage by a ruthless gang of thieves amid their intricate bank robbery scheme.