All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Kristin Scott Thomas, ranked

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.

Alexandre Beck is a doctor who has slowly been putting his life back together after his wife Margot was murdered by a serial killer. Eight years on, Alex is doing well, until he finds himself implicated in a double homicide, which has plenty of evidence pointing to him as the killer – though he knows nothing of the crimes.

Set in present-day Paris, a journalist discovers her existence intricately interwoven with that of a young girl whose family endured the heartrending separation during the infamous Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup in 1942. Sixty years later, the truth remains unknown.

In the final days of the Italian Campaign of World War II, Hana, a French-Canadian nurse of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, gains permission from her unit to move into a bombed-out Italian monastery, to look after a dying, critically burned man who speaks English but can not remember his name. They are soon joined by Kip, a Sikh sapper in the British Army posted with his sergeant to clear mines and unexploded bombs in the local area, including one in the monastery where Hana and the English Patient are staying.

British couple Nigel and Fiona Dobson are on a Mediterranean cruise ship to Istanbul en route to India. They encounter a beautiful French woman, Mimi, and that night Nigel meets her while dancing alone in the ship’s bar. Later Nigel meets her much older and disabled American husband Oscar, who is acerbic and cynical, having been jaded and a failure as a writer.

Jim Phelps and his latest Impossible Missions Force team, who had just finished a mission in Kyiv, are dispatched to stop the theft of the CIA non-official cover list from the American embassy in Prague by rogue agent Alexander Golitsyn. As Hunt is the only surviving member, Kittridge suspects him of being the mole, and Hunt flees, using explosive chewing gum given to him by a fellow agent before the mission started to cover his escape.

The drama tells the story of John Lennon’s teenage years from 1955 to 1960. John was separated from his mother, Julia Lennon, when he was five. He was brought up by his aunt and uncle, Mimi and George Smith, as their own son. He learns the truth at George’s funeral, becomes curious and seeks out his mother. John becomes obsessed with rock ‘n’ roll music during a visit to Blackpool with Julia.

In 1940 France, as Hitler’s forces advance toward Paris, Lucile anxiously anticipates updates on her husband who is captive as a prisoner of war. She leads a constricted life under the control of her overbearing mother-in-law, but her world is disrupted when a charming and attractive German officer is assigned to live with them. Despite the societal norms, they become attracted to each other, but their relationship is endangered by the brutalities of the war.

Fisheries expert Alfred Jones receives an email from financial adviser Harriet Chetwode-Talbot, seeking advice on a project to bring salmon fishing to the Yemen—a project being bankrolled by a wealthy Yemeni sheikh and supported by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Alfred dismisses the project as ‘fundamentally unfeasible’ because Yemen cannot provide the necessary environment for salmon.

Taken in by a wealthy family after a failed expedition to the Amazon, biologist William Adamson wins the hand of his benefactor’s daughter and believes his dreamsof fame and fortune may finally come true. But a servant has secret knowledge about his new family, and his visions of grandeur tarnish in light of an erotic decadence and illicit passion beyond his darkest fears.

King Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon is troubled as she has not produced a living male heir to the throne, having only one surviving child, Mary. Fearing Anne will ruin their family by marrying such a prominent earl without the king’s consent, Mary alerts her father and uncle.

Teenager Grace MacLean and her best friend Judith go out early one winter’s morning to ride their horses, Pilgrim and Gulliver. As they ride up an icy slope, Gulliver slips and hits Pilgrim. Desperate for a way to heal both Grace and Pilgrim, Annie tracks down a horse whisperer, Tom Booker, in the remote Montana mountains.