All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Mare Winningham, ranked

In Cherokee City, Georgia, the mutilated corpse of a young boy, Frank Peterson, is found covered in saliva and human bite marks. A hooded figure with a grotesquely deformed face lingers outside the Maitlands’ house, and Glory finds her younger daughter suffering from apparent nightmares of a man in her room telling her bad things.

Mildred Pierce depicts an overprotective, self-sacrificing mother during the Great Depression who finds herself separated from her husband, opening a restaurant of her own and falling in love with a man, all the while trying to earn her spoiled, narcissistic elder daughter’s love and respect.

London-based journalist Martin Sixsmith has lost his job as a government adviser. She suggests that he write a story about her mother, who was forced to give up her toddler son Anthony nearly fifty years ago. She kept her lost son a secret from her family for nearly fifty years.

Robert Bilott is a corporate defense lawyer from Cincinnati, Ohio working for law firm Taft Stettinius & Hollister. Farmer Wilbur Tennant, who knows Robert’s grandmother, asks Robert to investigate a number of unexplained animal deaths in Parkersburg, West Virginia. Tennant connects the deaths to the chemical manufacturing corporation DuPont, and gives Robert a large case of videotapes.

Expecting a child out of wedlock, a well-educated young woman finds herself coerced by her father into an arranged marriage with a solitary farmer in this wartime drama set during World War II.

The story of two Mennonite sisters who have left their strict religious upbringing behind. While one sibling struggles in love and life, the other is a world-famous concert pianist obsessed with ending her life.

Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd is a former member of the Confederate Infantry who now makes a living traveling town to town reading newspapers for the populace for ten cents per person. This is further compounded at the next stop, when Kidd is confronted by three ex-Confederate soldiers turned criminals who express an interest in purchasing the girl from Kidd.

Set in Russia in the early 1900s, an aging actress named Irina Arkadina pays summer visits to her brother Pjotr Nikolayevich Sorin and her son Konstantin at a country estate. On one occasion, she brings her lover Boris Trigorin, a successful novelist. Nina, a free and innocent girl on a neighboring estate, who is in a relationship with Konstantin, falls in love with Boris.