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1. Poirot (1989–2013)
TV-14 | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Hercule Poirot, a famous Belgian detective, who has an impeccable knack for getting embroiled in a mystery, solves crimes along with Captain Hastings and Scotland Yard Chief Inspector James Japp.
Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 52,043
2. Red Sonja (1985)
PG-13 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The fearless warrior Red Sonja sets out to avenge her family's murder and rid her kingdom from the tyrannical rule of evil Queen Gedren.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brigitte Nielsen, Sandahl Bergman, Paul L. Smith
Votes: 44,868 | Gross: $6.95M
3. Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
TV-PG | 55 min | Comedy
Bertram Wooster, a well-intentioned, wealthy layabout, has a habit of getting himself into trouble and it's up to his brilliant valet, Jeeves, to get him out.
Stars: Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Richard Dixon, Robert Daws
Votes: 13,144
4. 10 Rillington Place (1971)
GP | 111 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
What happened to the women at 10 Rillington Place? The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt, Pat Heywood
Votes: 9,774
5. Rosemary & Thyme (2003–2006)
TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Set amongst the stunning gardens of Europe, Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme, two professional gardeners, find themselves drawn into solving mysterious crimes.
Stars: Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Ryan Philpott, Daisy Dunlop
Votes: 5,322
6. The Awakening (1980)
R | 101 min | Horror
An archeologist discovers his daughter is possessed by the spirit of an Egyptian queen. To save mankind he must destroy her.
Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Jill Townsend, Stephanie Zimbalist
Votes: 2,862 | Gross: $8.42M
7.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The ABC Murders
(1992)
Not Rated | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Poirot receives taunting letters from a serial killer who appears to choose his victims and crime scenes alphabetically.
Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Donald Sumpter
Votes: 2,772
8. Isadora (1968)
M/PG | 131 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A biography of the 1920s dancer Isadora Duncan, who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitude and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.
Director: Karel Reisz | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, James Fox, Jason Robards, John Fraser
Votes: 2,608
9.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
(1994)
TV-14 | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The tyrannical patriarch of a dysfunctional but wealthy family summons his adult children for a Christmas reunion, but prior to the holiday his throat is slashed apparently by one of them.
Director: Edward Bennett | Stars: David Suchet, Philip Jackson, Vernon Dobtcheff, Simon Roberts
Votes: 2,576
10.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
(2000)
TV-14 | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Poirot comes out of retirement when his industrialist friend is brutally murdered a short while after a local widow who was suspected of killing her husband commits suicide.
Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: David Suchet, Philip Jackson, Oliver Ford Davies, Malcolm Terris
Votes: 2,452
11.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
(1989)
TV-14 | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Poirot probes the disappearance of a wealthy woman's cook, and soon uncovers an elaborate plot to hide an ever darker crime.
Director: Edward Bennett | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 2,444
12.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
(1990)
TV-14 | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Hastings renews his friendship with Poirot and involves him in the mysterious poisoning of the mistress of a manor house married to a man twenty years her junior.
Director: Ross Devenish | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Beatie Edney
Votes: 2,311
13.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Murder in Mesopotamia
(2001)
TV-14 | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While Poirot is on holiday in Iraq, the wife of the head scientist at an archaeological dig confides to him that she is the target of threatening letters.
Director: Tom Clegg | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Ron Berglas, Barbara Barnes
Votes: 2,293
14.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Peril at End House
(1990)
TV-14 | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While Poirot is staying at an exclusive Cornish resort, he meets a beautiful heiress whose life is in danger.
Director: Renny Rye | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Polly Walker
Votes: 2,290
15.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Murder in the Mews
(1989)
TV-14 | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a woman is found shot in her flat after Bonfire Night, Poirot is enlisted to decipher whether the victim died by her own hand, or by someone else's.
Director: Edward Bennett | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 2,075
16.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Triangle at Rhodes
(1989)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An enchanting beauty is fatally poisoned while Poirot holidays on the Greek island of Rhodes.
Director: Renny Rye | Stars: David Suchet, Frances Low, Jon Cartwright, Annie Lambert
Votes: 1,984
17.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly
(1989)
TV-14 | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Poirot tries to prevent the kidnapping of a country squire's son. While his plan fails, all is not what it seems.
Director: Renny Rye | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 1,936
18.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Third Floor Flat
(1989)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Poirot investigates a murder that hits close to home after the new occupant of a flat two floors below his is found shot.
Director: Edward Bennett | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 1,933
19.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
(1992)
TV-14 | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After Poirot pays a routine visit to his dentist, the doctor apparently shoots himself to death a short time later. Chief Inspector Japp appropriately recruits the detective as both witness and consultant.
Director: Ross Devenish | Stars: David Suchet, Philip Jackson, Joanna Phillips-Lane, Peter Blythe
Votes: 1,849
20.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Four and Twenty Blackbirds
(1989)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a reclusive painter is found dead, Poirot finds the vital clue in the dead man's last meal.
Director: Renny Rye | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 1,832
21.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Problem at Sea
(1989)
TV-14 | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Poirot's Mediterranean cruise is disrupted when an unlikeable passenger is found murdered in her stateroom.
Director: Renny Rye | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Melissa Greenwood, Victoria Hasted
Votes: 1,778
22.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Dream
(1989)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A famous pie manufacturer tells Poirot that he has dreamt of his own suicide, then dies under the same circumstances he dreamt about the very next day.
Director: Edward Bennett | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 1,754
23.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The King of Clubs
(1989)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A deck with a missing card provides Poirot with the clue he needs to solve the murder of the tyrannical head of a movie studio.
Director: Renny Rye | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Niamh Cusack
Votes: 1,673
24.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Incredible Theft
(1989)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A wealthy industrialist's plan to snare a Nazi sympathizer goes awry when the secret plans for a new fighter plane inexplicably disappear.
Director: Edward Bennett | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 1,663
25.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Veiled Lady
(1990)
TV-14 | 49 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Poirot becomes a criminal himself when he agrees to help a beautiful woman recover a letter written in her youth that is being used to blackmail her.
Director: Edward Bennett | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 1,658
26.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Cornish Mystery
(1990)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Alice Pengelley visits Poirot in London, telling him she thinks she is being poisoned by her husband. When Poirot arrives in Cornwall the next day to investigate Mrs. Pengelley's charges, he is too late, and finds her dead.
Director: Edward Bennett | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 1,608
27.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Double Sin
(1990)
TV-14 | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young woman is delivering a set of antique Napoleon miniatures to an American collector when they are stolen from her suitcase. Captain Hastings, under Poirot's guidance, sets out to find the thief.
Director: Richard Spence | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 1,567
28.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
How Does Your Garden Grow?
(1991)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
At a flower show, an older woman in a wheelchair approaches Poirot, gives him an empty seed packet, and asks him to visit her the next day. When Poirot arrives the next day, the woman is dead, murdered with poison.
Director: Brian Farnham | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 1,518
29.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
(1990)
TV-14 | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When U.S. Navy plans for a new submarine are stolen and the thief tracked to London, the FBI sends an agent to work with Inspector Japp to recover them.
Director: Richard Spence | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 1,513
30.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
(1993)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Shortly after opening an ancient Egyptian tomb, members of an English-American museum expedition start dropping off like flies. Can it truly be the Pharaoh's curse? Poirot travels to Egypt to unravel the mystery.
Director: Peter Barber-Fleming | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Pauline Moran, Rolf Saxon
Votes: 1,504
31.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Kidnapped Prime Minister
(1990)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When the prime minister is kidnapped right before an important international arms summit, Poirot has just 32--and a quarter--hours to find the prime minister.
Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 1,487
32.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Mystery of the Spanish Chest
(1991)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Poirot is asked to protect a woman from her violent husband, but events take a turn when the husband soon becomes the victim of a gruesome murder.
Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, John McEnery
Votes: 1,442
33.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Double Clue
(1991)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Poirot helps Chief Inspector Japp try to find a jewel thief, but is sidetracked when a bewitching Russian countess arrives on the scene.
Director: Andrew Piddington | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 1,440
34. Survivors (1975–1977)
50 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A community of survivors struggle to stay alive in the wake of a global pandemic known as the Death that wiped out 99.98% of humanity.
Stars: Lucy Fleming, Ian McCulloch, Denis Lill, Stephen Dudley
Votes: 1,434
35.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Adventure of the Western Star
(1990)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After receiving threatening letters, an aristocrat is robbed of her famed diamond in front of Poirot's eyes.
Director: Richard Spence | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 1,434
36.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
(1991)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Poirot is entrusted with transferring $1 million in Liberty Bonds to America on the Queen Mary, but the bonds are cleverly stolen anyway.
Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Pauline Moran, David Quilter
Votes: 1,428
37.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Theft of the Royal Ruby
(1991)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Poirot reluctantly agrees to help an Egyptian prince recover a valuable royal ruby that was brazenly stolen from him during the Christmas holidays.
Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: David Suchet, Frederick Treves, Stephanie Cole, David Howey
Votes: 1,416
38.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Plymouth Express
(1991)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A mining entrepreneur hires Poirot to solve the brutal murder of his daughter and the theft of her jewels aboard the express train to Plymouth.
Director: Andrew Piddington | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 1,415
39.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge
(1991)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Poirot is taken ill during a weekend shooting party, which ends when the unpopular host is found murdered in his study.
Director: Renny Rye | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Diana Kent
Votes: 1,390
40.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman
(1993)
TV-14 | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Poirot investigates the murder of an Italian count who was also the employer of Miss Lemon's new boyfriend. He soon learns that the victim was being targeted by a blackmailer.
Director: Brian Farnham | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 1,321
41. Doomwatch (1972)
PG | 92 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Ian Bannen, Judy Geeson, John Paul, Simon Oates
Votes: 1,180
42. Night Must Fall (1964)
101 min | Crime, Thriller
A psychotic killer gets in the good graces of his aging invalid employer, and worms his way into the affection of her beautiful daughter, with unpleasant results for all.
Director: Karel Reisz | Stars: Albert Finney, Susan Hampshire, Mona Washbourne, Sheila Hancock
Votes: 935
43. The House in Nightmare Park (1973)
95 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
In 1907, an actor is invited to perform in an isolated country house, and becomes involved in mysterious and dangerous events.
Director: Peter Sykes | Stars: Frankie Howerd, Ray Milland, Hugh Burden, Kenneth Griffith
Votes: 771
44. Entertaining Mr Sloane (1970)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Sloane, a manipulative lodger, joins Kath's household. Kemp recognizes Sloane as a murderer. Sloane kills Kemp. The story takes an unexpected turn regarding Sloane's fate, deviating from conventional justice.
Director: Douglas Hickox | Stars: Beryl Reid, Harry Andrews, Peter McEnery, Alan Webb
Votes: 743
45. Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987–2000)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
From cold, rock-strewn moors to comfortable suburban estates, award-winning writer Ruth Rendell explores the dark fissures between friends and family members that motivate murder.
Stars: George Baker, Christopher Ravenscroft, Louie Ramsay, Ken Kitson
Votes: 693
46. The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells (2001)
265 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
H.G. Wells foresaw the future in such visionary novels as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds. On a night in London in 1946, newspaper reporter Ellen McGillivray arrives at the home ... See full summary »
Stars: Tom Ward, Barry Stanton, Raymond Coulthard, Mark Lewis Jones
Votes: 626
47. Stigma (1977 TV Short)
30 min | Short, Drama, Horror
A young couple move into a remote country house in the middle of a stone circle. They employ workmen who disturb an ancient menhir, unleashing a supernatural force.
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: Kate Binchy, Peter Bowles, Maxine Gordon, Jon Laurimore
Votes: 591
48.
Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
Episode:
In Court After the Boat Race (or, Jeeves' Arrival)
(1990)
TV-PG | 51 min | Comedy
Bertram Wilberforce "Bertie" Wooster returns home with a hangover when a valet named Jeeves rings the doorbell. He fixes Bertie his special hangover cure, and when it proves effective ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Young | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Mary Wimbush, Michael Siberry
Votes: 455
49. Play for Today (1970–1984)
75 min | Comedy, Drama
A British television anthology drama series that aired on BBC1 between 1970 and 1984.
Stars: Alison Steadman, Nigel Hawthorne, Tony Caunter, David Daker
Votes: 392
50. The Human Voice (1966 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 50 min | Drama
A monologue of a woman talking on the phone with her longterm lover who is about to marry another girl.
Director: Ted Kotcheff | Star: Ingrid Bergman
Votes: 359