All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Stephen Fry, ranked

In 2027, the world is in turmoil, with the United States fractured as a result of a second civil war and a pandemic of the St. Mary’s Virus ravaging Europe. On November 4, a vigilante in a Guy Fawkes mask, V, rescues Evey Hammond, an employee of state-run British Television Network, from members of the Fingermen secret police.

In 2027, the world is in turmoil, with the United States fractured as a result of a second civil war and a pandemic of the St. Mary’s Virus ravaging Europe. On November 4, a vigilante in a Guy Fawkes mask, V, rescues Evey Hammond, an employee of state-run British Television Network, from members of the Fingermen secret police.

Ebenezer Blackadder, the Victorian proprietor of a moustache shop, is the nicest man in England. He is everything that Ebenezer Scrooge was by the end of the original story: generous and kind to everybody, and sensitive to the misery of others. As a result, people take advantage of his kindness – Mrs. Scratchit and an orphan take all his money, and a beadle takes his food.

In 1891, Irene Adler delivers a package to Dr. Hoffmanstahl, payment for a letter he was to deliver. Adler meets with Professor Moriarty to explain the events, but Moriarty, deeming her position compromised by her love for Holmes, seemingly poisons and kills her.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Srinivasa Ramanujan is a struggling and indigent citizen in the city of Madras in India working at menial jobs at the edge of poverty. It becomes equally clear to his employers, who are college-educated, that Ramanujan’s mathematical insights exceed the simple accounting tasks they are assigning to him and soon they encourage him to make his personal writings in mathematics available to the general public.

Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist impressed and infatuated by Dorian’s beauty; he believes that Dorian’s beauty is responsible for the new mood in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat’s hedonistic world view: that beauty and sensual fulfilment are the only things worth pursuing in life.

An American family relocates to Canterville Chase, an elegant countryside mansion haunted by Sir Simon De Canterville, the ghost who has roamed the halls for three centuries.

Alex Claremont-Diaz and Britain’s Prince Henry, both possessing stunning good looks, undeniable charisma, and international popularity, share a total disdain for each other. Their feud remains unnoticed until a disastrous altercation at a royal event becomes tabloid fodder, driving a potential wedge in U.S./British relations. In an attempt to control the damage, their families and handlers force the two rivals into a staged ‘truce.’

In 1990, Ruth, a neurotic businesswoman from New York, embarks on a journey to Poland with her charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor father, Edek, in an attempt to unravel her family’s history. Edek’s reluctance to confront his past and his idiosyncratic behavior spark numerous disagreements with his daughter.

In a land where the White Queen slumbers and refuses to awaken, the once-balanced scales of Dark and Light have tipped, and black shadows now loom over her kingdom. The only hope to restore equilibrium lies in the Mirrormask, and it is up to Helena, a foreigner in this unfamiliar land, to embark on a daunting journey to retrieve the lost artifact before the Dreamworld is consumed by eternal darkness.

In this clever depiction of affluent socialites and their extravagant escapades in 1930s England, a writer hustles to secure funds for his upcoming wedding.

In London, 1871, troubled by a strange recurring dream and mourning the loss of her father, 19-year-old Alice Kingsleigh attends a garden party at Lord Ascot’s estate. Alice suggests that it is all a dream while the others argue over whether Alice is the right Alice who must slay the Red Queen’s Jabberwocky on Frabjous Day and restore the White Queen (who is the Red Queen’s sister) to power, as foretold by Absolem the Blue Caterpillar and his Oraculum (a scroll-like calendar which tells Wonderland’s history and future).