All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Rafe Spall, ranked

Pi Patel tells the story of his childhood in Pondicherry, India, and the origin of his nickname. One day, his father, a zoo owner decided to move to Canada, where the animals the family owns would also be sold. They board on a Japanese cargo ship with the animals, there is a storm, followed by a shipwrecking. Pi survives in a lifeboat with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a male Bengal tiger.

In 2005, eccentric hedge fund manager Michael Burry discovers that the United States housing market, based on high-risk subprime loans, is extremely unstable. Anticipating the market’s collapse in the second quarter of 2007, as interest rates would rise from adjustable-rate mortgages, he proposes to create a credit default swap market, allowing him to bet against market-based mortgage-backed securities, for profit.

Dexter and Emma spend the night together following their graduation from the University of Edinburgh, in 1988. They talk about how they will be once they are 40. While they do not become romantically involved completely, this is the beginning of their friendship. The movie follows them on the same day—15 July, St. Swithin’s day—over 18 years.

Young Max Skinner, whose parents have died in an accident, spends his childhood summer holidays learning to appreciate the finer things in life at his Uncle Henry’s vineyard estate in Provence in southeastern France. 25 years later, Max is a successful but arrogant workaholic trader in London with a cheeky-chappy persona.

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.

Five friends meet at a pub and discuss plans for a group holiday. Rob suggests hiking in Sweden, but gets rebuffed. Afterward, Luke and Rob leave to purchase alcohol, but interrupt a robbery in progress. Luke hides while the thieves harass Rob for his valuables. Luke continues to hide, torn with indecision over how to intervene before the thieves kill Rob for not giving them his ring.

Shortly after the events of Jurassic World in 2015, a small mercenary team arrives on the abandoned Isla Nublar island to collect DNA from the Indominus rex remains lying on the bottom of the park’s lagoon. Though they are now estranged, Claire recruits Owen Grady, Jurassic World’s former Velociraptor trainer, to help capture her.

In 1996 Brooklyn, Molly Wright witnesses her parents being neuralysed by agents of Men in Black while she helps an alien escape, avoiding neuralysation herself. Twenty-three years later, rejected from government agencies due to her delusions regarding alien life, Molly tracks down an alien landing and follows MiB agents to their headquarters in New York City.

In 1996 Brooklyn, Molly Wright witnesses her parents being neuralysed by agents of Men in Black while she helps an alien escape, avoiding neuralysation herself. Twenty-three years later, rejected from government agencies due to her delusions regarding alien life, Molly tracks down an alien landing and follows MiB agents to their headquarters in New York City.

In 1905 England, George and Amy are among the first to examine a mysterious capsule that lands on Horsell Common. However, they soon discover that the capsule is not an inanimate object but a vehicle for a living organism from outer space. As more people gather to study it, the organism’s movements result in the death of numerous individuals. It becomes apparent that Martians have arrived.