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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Saoirse Ronan, ranked
Having lived on the edge in London, Rona endeavors to reconcile with her tumultuous past. Seeking solace, she returns to the untamed beauty of Scotland’s Orkney Islands, her childhood home, in the hope of finding healing.
Briony Tallis, a 13-year-old English girl with a talent for writing, lives at her family’s country estate with her parents Jack and Emily Tallis. Her older sister Cecilia has recently graduated from the University of Cambridge with Robbie Turner, the Tallis family housekeeper’s son and Cecilia’s childhood friend. Briony’s immaturity, and her inability to grasp certain situations changes the course of the lives of Cecilia and Robbie when she accuses Robbie of a crime he did not commit.
In 1868, Jo March, a teacher in New York City, goes to Mr. Dashwood, an editor who agrees to publish a story she has written. In New York, Jo becomes hurt when Friedrich Bhaer, a professor infatuated with her, constructively criticizes her writing, causing her to end their friendship.
In 1951, Eilis Lacey is a young woman from Enniscorthy, County Wexford, a small town in southeast Ireland, where she lives with her mother and sister, Rose. Father Flood gets her enrolled in Brooklyn College bookkeeping classes, as Eilis wants to become an accountant.
During World War II, after the Soviet invasion of Poland, young Polish army officer Janusz Wieszczek is held as a POW and interrogated by the NKVD. Smith cautions Janusz that it is Khabarov’s way to discuss escape plans with newcomers, to maintain his morale, but nothing will come of it.
In 1973, 14-year-old high school freshman Susie Salmon dreams of becoming a photographer. As Susie walks home through a cornfield, she runs into her neighbor, George Harvey, who coaxes her into an underground kid’s hideout he has built. In town, Susie sees Jack, who does not respond to her when she calls.
An unspecified global catastrophe looms, an underground city known as Ember is constructed to shelter a large group of survivors. In addition, a small metal box intended for a future generation of Emberites is timed to open after 200 years. When the seventh Mayor dies suddenly, the succession is broken, and over time, the significance of the box is forgotten.
Daisy, a neurotic American teenager, is sent to the English countryside for the summer to stay with her Aunt and her cousins. A few days after her arrival, her aunt flies to Geneva to attend an emergency conference because she is an expert in terrorist extremist groups, and the group takes advantage of her absence to explore their local woodlands.
In 1561, nineteen-year-old Mary Stuart, Catholic Queen of Scotland, returns to her home country from France following the death of her husband, Francis II, to take up her throne, where she is received by her half brother, the Earl of Moray. Seeking to weaken her cousin’s threat to her sovereignty, Elizabeth arranges for Mary, whom English Catholics recognize as their rightful Queen, to be married to an Englishman.
In 1962, Edward Mayhew and Florence Ponting first meet after graduating from their respective universities. He is a historian and rock-and-roll lover; she a classical violinist with her own quartet. They fall in love quickly, meet each other’s families, and eventually decide to get married, despite their differences in background and social status.
The human race has been taken over by small parasitic aliens called Souls. With Melanie’s guidance, Wanderer escapes and makes her way to the desert, where she is found by Jeb, who takes her to a series of caves inside a mountain where the humans (including Jared and Jamie) are hiding.
Hen and Junior cultivate an isolated plot of land that has remained in Junior’s family for generations. However, their peaceful existence is disrupted when an unexpected visitor arrives at their doorstep with a surprising proposition.