All the books by Roald Dahl adapted to cinema and television, ranked

During a vacation with his grandmother Helga in Norway, 8-year-old American boy, Luke Eveshim, is warned about witches, female demons with a boundless hatred for children and who use various methods of destroying or transforming them. Helga tells Luke how to tell a witch from an ordinary woman.

When a deadly snake crawls onto the stomach of an Englishman in India, his colleague and a doctor hurry to rescue him.

It’s Ted the Bellhop’s first night on the job…and the hotel’s very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems that this evening’s room service is serving up one unbelievable happening after another.

James Henry Trotter is a young orphan whose parents were devoured by a rhinoceros, forcing him to live with his sadistic and domineering aunts Spiker and Sponge. The peach pit is made into a cottage in Central Park, where James lives happily with the bugs, who form his new family and also find success and fame in the city.

Sophie is a young orphaned girl living in the orphanage of the cantankerous and abusive Mrs. Clonkers. One night, Sophie wakes up and goes to look through the window but sees a cloaked giant blowing something through a trumpet into a bedroom window down the street; whereupon the giant notices her and snatches her to the realm of Giant Country.

In 1955, William Smith, a widower, lives with his nine-year-old son, Danny, in a vardo behind the filling station and garage where he works in the English countryside. Only their gas station happens to sit on a piece of land that a local developer wants to buy, and when he won’t take no for an answer, and sets government inspectors and social works onto Danny and his father.

Charlie Bucket and his family live in poverty near the Wonka Factory. After overhearing that the final ticket was found in Russia, Charlie finds a ten-dollar note and purchases a Wonka Bar at a news shop.

In 1962, Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl retreat to the English countryside to bring up their young family. The seemingly unlikely pair – the glamorous American star and the British author of eccentric children’s books – find their relationship put to the test by a tragic loss.

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

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.

Ernie, a school bully, is gifted a rifle on his 15th birthday. Initially used for hunting birds, Ernie and his friend turn their cruelty towards Peter Watson, the school’s brightest student.

With D-Day less than 72 hours off, top US intelligence officer Jefferson Pike, is captured by the enemy. Pike, one of handful of officers who know where the allies will strike, is a professional who the Nazis know will never succumb to torture. They hatch a diabolical plan to deceive him into thinking that the war is over and he’s recuperating from memory loss in a US hospital in Germany.