All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Rupert Friend, ranked

A young boy, Bruno lives in Berlin, in Nazi Germany during World War II. After spotting people working on what he thinks is a farm in the distance – actually a concentration camp – he is forbidden from playing in the back garden. Bruno and his sister Gretel’s tutor, Herr Liszt, push an agenda of antisemitism and Nazi propaganda.

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.

The year is 1953, and the Soviet Union is still in the grasp of the paranoia of Premier and General Secretary of the Communist Party Joseph Stalin. The concert has to be hurriedly repeated and recorded, but the pianist, Maria Yudina, hides a note to Stalin in the sleeve of the record, saying he has ruined the country.

A six-part psychological thriller set in the shadowy parliamentary offices of Westminster. At its heart are James and Sophie Whitehouse, a government minister and his doting wife whose lives are upended when the former is accused of rape. The pair are thrust into the spotlight, but Sophie is convinced of her husband’s innocence and determined to protect her family. Meanwhile, Kate Woodcroft, the barrister poised to prosecute the case, is equally certain of his guilt and hellbent on making him pay for his alleged crimes.

Jack Parsons is a brilliant and ambitious blue-collar worker of 1930s Los Angeles who started as a janitor at a chemical factory but had fantastical dreams that led him to birth the unknown discipline of American rocketry. Along the way, he fell into a mysterious world that included sex magic rituals at night, and he became a disciple of occultist Aleister Crowley.

Widowed single mother Stephanie Smothers runs a vlog featuring crafts and recipes for parents. Stephanie shares that as a teenager, she had sex with her half-brother Chris. After two days of Emily not returning calls, Stephanie learns from Emily’s boss, Dennis Nylon, that Emily is in Miami.

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

Jolene is a young woman who embarks on a journey of self-discovery, navigating through a series of relationships and experiences. From her early years in foster care to her troubled adolescence, Jolene encounters various people, each leaving a lasting impact on her life.

Set in 1900s Belle Époque Paris, Chéri tells the story of an affair between a wealthy, middle-aged retired courtesan, Léa, and Fred, nicknamed Cheri, the flamboyant spoiled, neglected 19-year-old only son of another even wealthier courtesan. A famous beauty, Léa has been successful at extracting large sums of money from her up-scale clients, never falling in love with any of them.

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.

The movie introduces a new hero in disgraced former LAPD detective Charlie Waldo, currently living the life of a minimalist in the woods. His quiet life comes to a startling halt when he is roped back into working as a private eye to investigate the murder of an eccentric TV star’s wife.

The film begins shortly before the coronation of Romulus Augustulus as Emperor in AD 475. Having travelled through much of the known world in search of Caesar’s sword, Ambrosinus has then become the tutor to the young Romulus. A Druid and part of a secret brotherhood protecting the sword, he at times gives the impression he is a magician, but his magic is usually revealed to be simple trickery.