All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Ronald Pickup, ranked

On 22 August 1962, an assassination attempt is made on French President Charles de Gaulle by the militant underground organisation OAS in anger over the French government granting independence to Algeria. The remaining OAS leaders, now hiding in Austria, decide to make another attempt and hire a professional British assassin, who chooses the code name Jackal.

Several British retirees decide to move to Jaipur, India, to stay in the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, advertised as an exotic retirement home. Madge joins the Viceroy Club, surprised to find Norman there, and helps him get into a relationship with a woman named Carol.

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.

When Sir Walter Raleigh, renowned for his chivalrous act of placing his cloak over a puddle for Queen Elizabeth I, reunites with his friend and distant relative Bess Throckmorton, unexpected chaos ensues as he haunts their lives as a ghost. Now, the question remains: What twists and turns lie ahead in their extraordinary encounter?

George Smiley, at the request of his old wartime colleague Ailsa Brimley, investigates the murder of Stella Rode. Upon investigating, Smiley learns of many secrets that were kept by the victim, and one being that Terence Fielding, a house master at Carne, was being blackmailed by her due to past homosexual activities.