All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Michael Apted, ranked

After a long incarceration, aging ex-con Socrates Fortlow is trying hard to make a new life and to accept the regrets of his past. Meanwhile, he meets a young boy named Darryl, who witnessed a boy murdered by a friend of his. He also has to deal with his best friend’s deteriorating health and finding work.

When young Jay Moriarity discovers that the mythic Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, exists just miles from his Santa Cruz home, he enlists the help of local legend Frosty Hesson to train him to survive it.

When young Jay Moriarity discovers that the mythic Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, exists just miles from his Santa Cruz home, he enlists the help of local legend Frosty Hesson to train him to survive it.

Occupational therapist Dian Fossey is inspired by anthropologist Louis Leakey to devote her life to the study of primates. They travel to the Congo, where Leakey and his foundation equip her to make contact with the gorillas, and introduce her to a local animal tracker, Sembagar.

In Bilbao, Spain, James Bond meets a Swiss banker to retrieve money for Sir Robert King, a British oil tycoon and friend of M. Bond tells the banker that King was buying a report stolen from an MI6 agent who was killed for it, and wants to know who killed him. After the banker is killed by his assistant before he can reveal it, Bond escapes with the money but it is revealed to be booby-trapped.

In Bilbao, Spain, James Bond meets a Swiss banker to retrieve money for Sir Robert King, a British oil tycoon and friend of M. Bond tells the banker that King was buying a report stolen from an MI6 agent who was killed for it, and wants to know who killed him. After the banker is killed by his assistant before he can reveal it, Bond escapes with the money but it is revealed to be booby-trapped.

In March 1943, when the Second World War was at its height, the cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, have a problem: the Nazi U-boats have changed one of their code reference books used for Enigma machine ciphers, leading to a blackout in the flow of vital naval signals intelligence.

Three Narnian years after the events of Prince Caspian, Lucy and Edmund Pevensie are staying with their irritating, bookworm cousin Eustace Scrubb while their older siblings Peter and Susan are in America with their parents and the war still rages on. The lord, who becomes the new governor, gives Caspian a sword, one of seven originally given to the lords by Aslan.

Under the care of English physician Guy Luthan at New York’s Gramercy Hospital, a homeless individual meets a gruesome end. To Luthan’s astonishment, the patient and his medical record vanish without a trace. Despite being instructed by his superiors to let the matter go, Luthan refuses to abandon the case. His investigation leads him to a disturbing discovery: the exploitation of homeless individuals for scientific experimentation.

Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch, the man of her dreams. After the arrival of their first child, her picture perfect life is shattered when she discovers Mitch’s hidden possessive dark side, a controlling and abusive alter. Terrified for her child’s safety, Slim flees with her daughter.