Which 2006 film directed by Alfonso Cuarón is based on a P.D. James novel?

The 2006 film directed by Alfonso Cuarón and based on a P. D. James novel is Children of Men.

The film adapts James’s 1992 novel The Children of Men, but it substantially reshapes the source material. Cuarón’s version is set in 2027, after nearly two decades of human infertility have left civilization close to collapse. Clive Owen plays Theo Faron, a disillusioned civil servant who helps Kee, a refugee who is secretly pregnant.

The movie turns the novel’s speculative premise into a tense political thriller. Its Britain is dominated by detention camps, deportations, anti-immigrant propaganda, and government violence. That background gives the story contemporary political force while keeping the central mystery focused on why humanity can no longer reproduce.

Children of Men is especially famous for its extended single-take sequences, including a car attack and a chaotic battle in a refugee settlement. Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki helped create its immersive visual style. Although it was not a major box-office hit on release, the film later became widely regarded as one of the strongest dystopian films of the 21st century.