All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Ritesh Batra, ranked

Louis Waters, a widower, and Addie Moore, a widow, have been neighbours for decades but hardly know each other. One night, Addie visits Louis to suggest that they spend the night together, non-sexually, to counter their loneliness. Although Louis is initially somewhat hesitant, he soon agrees and they start spending their evenings and nights at Addie’s house.

Tony Webster, a retired and divorced man, leads a quiet and lonely life. One day he discovers that Veronica’s mother, her college sweetheart, left him in her will a diary kept by her best friend, who dated Veronica after Tony. In order to recover the diary, now in the hands of an elderly and very mysterious Verónica, Tony will be forced to delve into his past, remember the failed moments of his former friendships and relationships, and recreate feelings that he thought were forgotten.