All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Richard Ayoade, ranked

Joe Gardner, a middle school music teacher from New York City, dreams of a career in jazz, even though his mother Libba objects to it, fearing for his financial security. Unwilling to die before his big break, he tries to escape but ends up in the Great Before, where soul counselors—all named Jerry—prepare unborn souls for life.

The film portrays an array of stories, with the primary focus on Henry Sugar, gifted with the ability to see through objects and foresee the future, all thanks to a pilfered book.

Unpopular Oliver Tate is a 15-year-old who is infatuated with classmate Jordana. He reacts by putting Oliver in a headlock and punching him at school whilst they are surrounded by other pupils. New-age guru Graham, an ex-boyfriend of his mother, Jill, has moved in next door, and his flirtations rouse Oliver’s suspicions.

The film centers on several reformed yet misunderstood villains known as Mr. Wolf, Mr. Piranha, Mr. Snake, Mr. Shark, and Ms. Tarantula. The five tire of a life of crime and decide to live their lives as forces of good. Based on the children’s book series of the same name by Aaron Blabey.

The film centers on several reformed yet misunderstood villains known as Mr. Wolf, Mr. Piranha, Mr. Snake, Mr. Shark, and Ms. Tarantula. The five tire of a life of crime and decide to live their lives as forces of good. Based on the children’s book series of the same name by Aaron Blabey.

In a hill-top town of Cheesebridge, Norvenia during the Victorian era, rumors abound that subterranean trolls have kidnapped a baby. Pest exterminator Archibald Snatcher strikes a deal with the city’s leader Lord Portley-Rind to exterminate every Boxtroll in exchange for membership in the city’s cheese-loving council called the White Hats, despite the fact that he is severely allergic to cheese.

In an English village, a journalist and a mechanic listen as a rat catcher describes his ingenious strategy to outsmart his quarry.

Downtrodden Simon James has worked at his office for seven years, but he is ignored by his boss, named The Colonel, and colleagues. James asks Simon to take an aptitude test in his place and seduces their boss’s surly, rebellious daughter, Melanie, whom Simon was reluctantly hired to tutor.

In 2 million B.C, an asteroid collides with the prehistoric Earth, causing the extinction of planet’s dinosaurs, but sparing a tribe of cavemen living near the impact site. Finding a roughly spherical chunk of the asteroid that is too hot to touch, the cavemen begin to kick it around and invent the game of football.