All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Mark Waters, ranked

Sixteen-year-old homeschooled Cady Heron and her zoologist parents, Betsy and Chip Heron, return to the United States after a twelve-year research trip in Africa, settling in Evanston, Illinois. Cady becomes attracted to Regina’s ex-boyfriend, Aaron Samuels, and purposely fails math, a subject she is gifted at, in order to have an excuse to talk to him.

Elizabeth Masterson, a young emergency medicine physician in San Francisco whose work is her whole life, is in a serious car accident while on her way to a blind date. Three months later, David Abbott, a landscape architect recovering from the sudden death of his wife, moves into the apartment that had been Elizabeth’s, after’discovering’ it in what seems to be a fateful happenstance.

In 1928, Arthur Spiderwick writes a Field guide about the many faeries he has encountered. After finishing the Book, he hides it away for fear of Mulgarath, a shapeshifting ogre who plans to use the Book’s secrets for evil. Eighty years later, recently divorced Helen Grace inherits and moves into the abandoned Spiderwick estate with her children, daughter Mallory and twin sons Jared and Simon.

Anna Coleman is an aspiring teenage musician who lives with her widowed therapist mother, Tess, and younger brother, Harry. At school, Anna’s English teacher, Mr. Bates, treats her unfairly, and she is feuding with Stacey, her former best friend-turned-nemesis.

In an opening flashback, Thomas Popper, Jr., is a child whose father traveled around the world during his childhood in the 1970s. After returning home from work one day, Popper learns that his father has died during an adventure to Antarctica and, as per his will, has left him with a souvenir from his adventures in Antarctica.

Connor Mead is a Celebrity photographer who pursues bachelorhood and numerous women at once while living a fast-paced lifestyle. The ghosts of Connor’s abandoned lovers visit him on the day of his brother’s wedding and lead him on an odyssey through all of his failed relationships in an effort to understand what made him such a jerk and whether there is any chance of Connor ever finding genuine love.

Rose Hathaway, a seventeen-year-old Dhampir guardian-in-training, and her best friend, Moroi princess Lissa Dragomir, are living discreetly, having escaped from the St. Vladimir’s Academy boarding school one year prior. Mysterious messages threatening Lissa start to appear, written on the wall in blood and an exploding memorial to her family in the school church.

Padgett Sawyer is an Instagram influencer in her final year of high school who lives with her divorced mother, a local nurse, although she pretends to live in a wealthy condo in order to hide her actual living conditions from her followers and sponsors. One day, Padgett discovers that her boyfriend, fellow influencer and aspiring hip hop artist, ditched her for a backup dancer, and finds herself being totally humiliated when a live stream of her outburst results in her loss of followers and sponsorship deals.