All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Tim Robbins, ranked

In the late 1940s, Andy Dufresne receives two consecutive life sentences for the murders of his wife and her lover. Despite maintaining his innocence, Andy finds himself incarcerated in Shawshank Prison, where he must adapt to the harsh and competitive environment of prison life. As a reserved banker in the outside world, Andy learns to navigate the brutality of his new surroundings. Over time, his quiet resilience garners the respect of both fellow inmates and prison staff alike.

A vast underground silo houses both men and women, who adhere to strict regulations aimed at shielding them from the toxic and desolate world above ground.

Three boys, Jimmy Markum, Sean Devine, and Dave Boyle play hockey in a Boston street in 1975, when Dave is kidnapped by two men and sexually abused for four days before managing to escape. 25 years later, the boys are grown and, while they still live in Boston, have drifted apart. Jimmy is an ex-con running a neighborhood convenience store.

Grand in scope yet intricately detailed, the film intertwines the narratives of twenty-two characters as they grapple with the search for comfort and purpose in modern-day Los Angeles.

Robert Bilott is a corporate defense lawyer from Cincinnati, Ohio working for law firm Taft Stettinius & Hollister. Farmer Wilbur Tennant, who knows Robert’s grandmother, asks Robert to investigate a number of unexplained animal deaths in Parkersburg, West Virginia. Tennant connects the deaths to the chemical manufacturing corporation DuPont, and gives Robert a large case of videotapes.

Rob Gordon is a music-loving man with a poor understanding of women. After being dumped by his long-term girlfriend, Laura, he tries to understand how he failed in his relationships by seeking out his old partners. Two shoplifting, skateboarding teenagers, Vince and Justin, are an annoyance to them until Rob listens to a recording that they made as The Kinky Wizards.

Matthew Poncelet has been in prison for six years, awaiting execution after being convicted and sentenced to death for killing a teenage couple. As the day of his execution comes closer, Poncelet asks Sister Helen Prejean, with whom he has corresponded, to help him with a final appeal.

Griffin Mill is a Hollywood studio executive dating story editor Bonnie Sherow. He hears story pitches from screenwriters and decides which have the potential to be made into films, green-lighting only 12 out of 50,000 submissions every year. His job is threatened when up-and-coming story executive Larry Levy begins working at the studio.

United States Naval Aviator LT Pete Maverick Mitchell and his Radar Intercept Officer LTJG Nick Goose Bradshaw are stationed aboard the USS Enterprise, from which they fly the F-14A Tomcat. Despite his dislike for Maverick’s recklessness, CAG Stinger sends him and Goose to attend TOPGUN, the Naval Fighter Weapons School at Naval Air Station Miramar.

The plot begins with an opening narration explaining that Earth was being observed by extraterrestrials with immense intelligence and no compassion. Divorced longshoreman Ray Ferrier works at a dock in Brooklyn, New York, and is estranged from his children: Ray collects his children, steals a van that had just been repaired, and drives to Mary Ann’s empty home in suburban New Jersey to take refuge.

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.

Around the year 2050, 85-year-old Marjorie is experiencing the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. To bring her comfort her daughter Tess and son-in-law Jon hire a service called Prime, designed to assist Alzheimer patients by creating holographic projections of deceased family members which are fed with the patients’ memories so that they can retell them back in case they forget them.