All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Simon Callow

In the winter of 1823, Antonio Salieri is committed to a psychiatric hospital after surviving a suicide attempt, during which he loudly confesses to murdering Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Salieri, a devout Catholic, cannot fathom why God would endow such a great gift to Mozart instead of him, and concludes that God is using Mozart’s talent to mock Salieri’s mediocrity.

When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr. Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy’s life forever, but once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?

In 1919, a public auction is held to clear an abandoned opera theatre’s vaults in Paris. Viscount Raoul de Chagny bids against the elderly Madame Giry for a papier-mâché music box shaped like a barrel organ with the figure of a cymbal-playing monkey attached to it. The auctioneer presents a shattered chandelier, relating it to ‘the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera’. As it is hoisted up to the roof, the story moves back to 1870.

In 1843, four years after the success of Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens is suffering financial hardship from the failure of his last three books. Rejected by his publishers, he sets out to write a new book, and publish it himself, to restore his finances. Seeing inspiration around London, he begins writing A Christmas Carol.

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.

Lord Mountbatten arrives at Viceroy’s House in Delhi in 1947 with his strong-willed wife Edwina and daughter Pamela. As the final Viceroy of India, he is in charge of overseeing the dissolution of the British Raj and the establishment of an independent Indian nation. Mountbatten attempts to mediate a disagreement between the two major Indian political leaders, who wants India to remain intact as one nation after independence.

Lord Mountbatten arrives at Viceroy’s House in Delhi in 1947 with his strong-willed wife Edwina and daughter Pamela. As the final Viceroy of India, he is in charge of overseeing the dissolution of the British Raj and the establishment of an independent Indian nation. Mountbatten attempts to mediate a disagreement between the two major Indian political leaders, who wants India to remain intact as one nation after independence.

After completing rehab, a troubled actress hesitantly agrees to reside with her movie-star mother, who will oversee her during the filming of her next movie. As they are compelled to spend time together, they begin to mend their strained relationship.

Brilliant but emotionally reserved Caro Drake comes to Oxford just to pursue her PhD, but through a tumultuous friendship with a charming young guy, Caro starts to let mystery, vulnerability, and love into her heart.

In the Himalayas, after a failed rescue mission results in a raccoon falling to its death, Ace Ventura succumbs to severe depression and joins a Tibetan monastery. After arriving in Nibia and meeting with consul Vincent Cadby, Ace begins his investigation, but must overcome his fear of bats in order to succeed.

In a small Georgian community, Miss Amelia, a solitary bootlegger, reigns supreme. However, her disposition and benevolence shift upon the arrival of two men, Marvin Macy (her former spouse) and Cousin Lymon (a small, humpbacked individual asserting to be Miss Amelia’s relative).

For modern teenagers Jamie and Lucy, though, adventure arrives in the form of a mysterious old man, Mr Blunden. He offers them a job, as caretakers to a ruined old house that’s said to be haunted. Once they move in, Lucy and Jamie explore the grounds and meet two more kids – Sara and her younger brother, Georgie. But there’s something unusual about them. They’re ghosts. Or not quite.