All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Michael Culkin, ranked

Set in early-1830s Jamaica, this BBC adaptation of Andrea Levy’s novel depicts the story of sugar cane plantation slave July as she adapts to her new role as a house slave for the demanding Caroline Mortimer and the arrival of the progressive overseer Robert Goodwin. Their fates become entwined during the 1831 Christmas Rebellion and the subsequent years of societal change.

Roy Courtnay is an aging British con artist who, along with his business partner Vincent, uses false identities to manipulate people into giving him access to their finances. His target is Betty McLeish, a former history professor at Oxford University who lost her husband a year ago and has savings in excess of £2 million.

The Candyman can be summoned by a person who says his name five times to a mirror, causing him to appear and kill the summoner by using a hook attached to the bloody stump of his right arm. Helen, now writing a thesis on how the residents of Cabrini-Green use the Candyman legend to cope with hardship, visits the scene of Ruthie Jean’s murder there, and meets Ruthie Jean’s neighbor Anne-Marie McCoy and her infant son Anthony.

Brilliant but emotionally reserved Caro Drake comes to Oxford just to pursue her PhD, but through a tumultuous friendship with a charming young guy, Caro starts to let mystery, vulnerability, and love into her heart.