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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Mark Rylance
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition.
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition.
In 1957 New York City, Rudolf Abel is arrested and charged with spying for the Soviet Union. Abel is convicted, but Donovan convinces the judge to spare Abel the death penalty because Abel had been serving his country honorably, and he might prove useful for a future prisoner exchange.
In 2045, people seek to escape from reality through the virtual reality entertainment universe called the OASIS, created by James Halliday and Ogden Morrow of Gregarious Games. Wade Watts’s avatar Parzival, an avid Gunter, participates in the first challenge, an unbeatable race, alongside his best friend Aech, and Art3mis, a female avatar who Parzival has a crush on.
Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship qualifying in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk hero in the process.
Jakob is a young man who enters a school, run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta, which trains servants. The teachers emphasize to the students that they are unimportant people. Jakob finds the school to be an oppressive environment, and does not enjoy the lessons in subservience that he receives. He proceeds to challenge the Benjamentas and attempts to shift their perspectives.
Maren and Lee, two mysterious outsiders, embark on a 1,000-mile odyssey through Ronald Reagan’s America. But when they discover they cannot outrun their terrifying pasts, the pair takes a final stand to determine whether their love can survive their otherness.
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.
Sophie, a 10-year-old girl living in a London orphanage, is often awake at the witching hour. One night, she sees an elderly giant outside her window, who captures her and takes her to his home in Giant Country. In his workshop of dreams, the giant fashions a nightmare to convince the sleeping Sophie to stay with him in safety.
A serial killer is targeting police officers in South East London. Sergeant Porter Nash is transferred to the South East London branch of the police to head the investigation, even though Nash is an outsider and widely ridiculed by his fellow officers for being openly gay.
At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate who manages an outpost on the frontiers of an unnamed Empire, suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.