All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Sarah Polley, ranked

The series chronicles the life of Founding Father John Adams, starting with the Boston Massacre of 1770 through his years as an ambassador in Europe, then his terms as vice president and president of the United States, up to his death on July 4, 1826.

Ann is a hard-working 23-year-old mother with two small daughters, an unemployed husband, a mother who sees her life as a failure, and a jailed father whom she has not seen for ten years. She decides to change her hair, record birthday messages for the girls for every year until they’re 18, and tries to set up her husband with another woman.

Grant and Fiona are a retired married couple living in rural Brant County, Ontario. Fiona begins to lose her memory, and it becomes apparent she has Alzheimer’s disease. Throughout the film, Grant’s reflections on his marriage are woven with his reflections on his own infidelities, and influence his eventual decisions regarding Fiona’s happiness.

In an unnamed war-torn European city in the Age of Reason, amid explosions and gunfire from a large Ottoman army outside the city gates, a fanciful touring stage production of Baron Munchausen’s life and adventures is taking place. In a theatre box, the mayor reinforces the city’s commitment to reason by ordering the execution of a soldier who had just accomplished a near-superhuman feat of bravery.

Eight Mennonite women gather one evening in a hay loft for a private meeting. Each of these women, along with more than a hundred other females in their colony, has endured nightly druggings and rapes at the hands of their colony’s men, whom they believe to be demonic beings sent to punish them for their crimes.

In order to create an editorial connection with a terrible contemporary double murder, newspaper photographer Jean looks into the dramatic and gruesome axe murder of two ladies in 1873. She finds a stash of documents that seem to have an eyewitness account of the killings.

The blood-soaked tale of a Norse warrior’s battle against the great and murderous troll, Grendel. Heads will roll. Out of allegiance to the King Hrothgar, the much respected Lord of the Danes, Beowulf leads a troop of warriors across the sea to rid a village of the marauding monster.