From Hell (2001)

Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's Jack the Ripper epic is one of the most ambitious books the medium has produced, serialized over years before it finished in 1996 and an Eisner winner along the way. The Hughes brothers could never fit all of it into two hours, so they made a gaslit Victorian thriller instead. Johnny Depp plays Abberline as an opium-using inspector who falls for one of the Ripper's targets, and the film never matched the book's acclaim. Taken as a handsome, grim period mystery it holds up, and it is an easy route into one of the great graphic novels for anyone who has not yet read it.