Agatha Christie

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1. Arena (1975– )
Episode: Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait (1990)

TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary

The first bio-film of the world's most read author and the creator of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. With dramatic reconstructions and contemporary archive, it unravels a life as ... See full summary »

Director: James Marsh | Stars: Joan Hickson, Hermione Eyre, M.J. Ronayne, Helena Hague

Votes: 22

Documentary

3. Vanishings! (2001–2005)
Episode: Agatha Christie (2004)

History

Crime novelist Agatha Christie goes missing in 1926.

Director: Nicolas Wright | Stars: Stan Bernard, Agatha Christie, Janet Morgan, Gwen Robyns

Documentary

4. Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures (2004 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

Late in 1926 acclaimed mystery writer Agatha Christie disappears after marital problems and creates a media frenzy.

Director: Richard Curson Smith | Stars: Olivia Williams, Anna Massey, Raymond Coulthard, Stephen Boxer

Votes: 249

Documentary

Documentary

6. The Agatha Christie Code (2005 TV Movie)

50 min | Documentary, Family

What makes Agatha Christie such a successful writer? On the 75th anniversary of the creation of her immortal character Miss Marple, this documentary introduces viewers to new fields of ... See full summary »

Director: Ben Warwick | Stars: Jenny Agutter, Jane Birkin, Colin Blakely, Agatha Christie

Votes: 80

Documentary

8. Truly Miss Marple: The Curious Case of Margaret Rutherford (2012 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 89 min | Documentary

Margaret Rutherford's true life story is in fact much more eccentric than the most famous fictional role she ever played: Miss Jane Marple - Agatha Christie's amateur sleuth. Rutherford's ... See full summary »

Directors: Rieke Brendel, Andrew Davies | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Damaris Hayman, Tony Benn, Gwen Robyns

Votes: 149

Documentary

9. Perspectives (2011– )
Episode: David Suchet: The Mystery of Agatha Christie (2013)

TV-PG | 57 min | Documentary

David Suchet, who has spent more of his life acting out the plots of Agatha Christie's work than anyone else in the world, takes a journey around Britain to get under the skin of the best-selling author of all time.

Director: Clare Lewins | Stars: David Suchet, Mathew Prichard, Rosalind Christie, Agatha Christie

Votes: 151

Documentary

11. Urban Myths (2017–2020)
Episode: Agatha Christie (2018)

24 min | Adventure, Biography, Comedy

Crime writers Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Dorothy L Sayers put their sleuthing skills to the ultimate test in 1926 when they are drafted in to help police in the hunt for Agatha Christie.

Director: Guillem Morales | Stars: Anna Maxwell Martin, Bill Paterson, Rosie Cavaliero, Mark Bonnar

Votes: 114

Documentary

12. Agatha Christie: The Queen of Crime (2018 TV Movie)

52 min | Documentary

A. Christie is the world's most translated writer. But who is the woman behind the sales records? A biographical search for clues, the unraveling of her personality whose existence and works were shaped by the history of the 20th century.

Directors: André Schäfer, Anna Steuber | Stars: Agatha Christie, John Curran, Julius Green, Sophie Hannah

Votes: 67

Documentary

13. The Agatha Christie Hour (1982)

519 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A collection of ten hour-long dramas based on short stories by Agatha Christie.

Stars: Maurice Denham, Angela Easterling, Christopher Wren, Cy Town

Votes: 405

Short stories

14. Murder She Said (1961)

Unrated | 87 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

When Miss Jane Marple reports witnessing a murder through the window of a passing train, the police dismiss her as a dotty spinster when no trace of the crime can be found.

Director: George Pollock | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, James Robertson Justice

Votes: 8,576

Marple: Margaret Rutherford

15. Murder at the Gallop (1963)

Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

When a wealthy old man appears to have been "frightened to death" by a cat, Miss Jane Marple suspects one of his four relatives, all heirs to his estate, of his murder.

Director: George Pollock | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Stringer Davis, Robert Morley, Flora Robson

Votes: 6,810

Marple: Margaret Rutherford

16. Murder Most Foul (1964)

Unrated | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

When Miss Jane Marple joins a theatrical company after a blackmailer is murdered, several members of the troupe are also dispatched by this mysterious killer.

Director: George Pollock | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Andrew Cruickshank

Votes: 6,316

Marple: Margaret Rutherford

17. Murder Ahoy (1964)

Unrated | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

After Miss Jane Marple is made a trustee of a merchant marine training vessel, a fellow trustee is poisoned, and ship's officers are later murdered after she comes on board.

Director: George Pollock | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, William Mervyn

Votes: 5,810

Marple: Margaret Rutherford

18. Miss Marple: The Body in the Library (1984)

52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Amateur detective Miss Jane Marple investigates the murder of a young woman whose body is found in the library at Gossington Hall, home of Colonel and Mrs. Arthur Bantry.

Stars: Joan Hickson, Gwen Watford, Moray Watson, Valentine Dyall

Votes: 2,677

Marple: Joan Hickson

19. Miss Marple: The Moving Finger (1985)

Not Rated | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The normally friendly village of Lymston is plagued by vile anonymous letters. When a mother of three takes her own life, following such a letter, Ms. Marple is not at all convinced things are as they seem.

Stars: Joan Hickson, Michael Culver, Deborah Appleby, Andrew Bicknell

Votes: 2,163

Marple: Joan Hickson

20. Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye (1985)

Not Rated | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman, Miss Marple seeks a murderer with a penchant for nursery rhymes.

Stars: Joan Hickson, Fabia Drake, Stacy Dorning, Martyn Stanbridge

Votes: 2,294

Marple: Joan Hickson

21. Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced (1985)

53 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An unusual announcement in the newspaper leads the curious villagers to Miss Blacklock's home, where they become witnesses to a murder.

Stars: Joan Hickson, Ursula Howells, Samantha Bond, Simon Shepherd

Votes: 2,589

Marple: Joan Hickson

22. Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (1986 TV Movie)

102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Marple.

Director: Julian Amyes | Stars: Joan Hickson, Paul Eddington, Cheryl Campbell, Robert Lang

Votes: 2,295

Marple: Joan Hickson

23. Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (1987 TV Movie)

102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a young bride moves into a country manor, long repressed childhood memories of witnessing a murder come to the surface.

Director: John Davies | Stars: Joan Hickson, Geraldine Alexander, John Moulder-Brown, Frederick Treves

Votes: 2,184

Marple: Joan Hickson

24. Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel (1987)

110 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

During a stay at one of London's most elegant and venerable hotels Miss Marple uncovers a sinister undercurrent of corruption and murder beneath Bertram's stuffy veneer.

Stars: Joan Hickson, Caroline Blakiston, Helena Michell, James Cossins

Votes: 2,139

Marple: Joan Hickson

25. Miss Marple: Nemesis (1987)

54 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Miss Marple receives a cryptic letter requesting her to right an unknown injustice, but receives no hint other than a ticket for guided tour of historic homes.

Stars: Joan Hickson, Peter Tilbury, John Horsley, Helen Cherry

Votes: 2,571

Marple: Joan Hickson

26. Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: 4:50 from Paddington (1987 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A friend of Miss Marple's sees a woman being strangled in a passing train. When police cannot find a body and doubt the story, Miss Marple enlists professional housekeeper, Lucy Eyelesbarrow, to go undercover.

Director: Martyn Friend | Stars: Joan Hickson, Juliette Mole, David Beames, Mona Bruce

Votes: 2,475

Marple: Joan Hickson

27. Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery (1989 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major is actually the work of a murderer planning yet another killing.

Director: Christopher Petit | Stars: Joan Hickson, Donald Pleasence, Adrian Lukis, Sophie Ward

Votes: 2,390

Marple: Joan Hickson

28. Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors (1991 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When Miss Marple is invited to the manor house of an old friend, it is not long before a puzzling murder puts her mind to work.

Director: Norman Stone | Stars: Joan Hickson, Jean Simmons, Joss Ackland, Faith Brook

Votes: 1,863

Marple: Joan Hickson

29. Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1992 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

At a reception for a fading film star making a screen comeback, a gushing, pushy fan is poisoned by a drink apparently meant for the actress.

Director: Norman Stone | Stars: Joan Hickson, Claire Bloom, Barry Newman, Norman Rodway

Votes: 2,031

Marple: Joan Hickson

30. The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

PG | 105 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

47 Metascore

Miss Jane Marple comes to solve the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson, Geraldine Chaplin

Votes: 9,442

Marple: Angela Lansbury

31. A Caribbean Mystery (1983)

Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

While Miss Marple is on vacation in a luxurious Caribbean resort, a fellow guest confides he has evidence that another resident of the hotel is an unscrupulous serial murderer but is poisoned before he can reveal his identity to her.

Director: Robert Michael Lewis | Stars: Helen Hayes, Barnard Hughes, Jameson Parker, Season Hubley

Votes: 824

Marple: Helen Hayes

32. Murder with Mirrors (1985 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

When Carrie Louise Serrocold suspects that someone is trying to poison her, she sends for the one person who might be able to help, her old friend Miss Jane Marple.

Director: Dick Lowry | Stars: Helen Hayes, Bette Davis, John Mills, Leo McKern

Votes: 1,608

Marple: Helen Hayes

33. Marple (2004–2013)

TV-14 | 2,090 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An elderly spinster living in the village of St. Mary Mead helps her friends and relatives solve mysterious murders.

Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Julia McKenzie, Stephen Churchett, Isabella Parriss

Votes: 10,711

Marple

34. Miss Marple

Crime, Mystery | Announced

A reinvention of the crime-solving character created by Agatha Christie.

Star: Lynne Young

TBC

35. Miss Marple (1984–1992)

Crime, Mystery

Miss Marple, an elderly woman and amateur detective whose sharp mind helps her solve a series of seemingly baffling cases.

Stars: Joan Hickson, Kevin Whately

Votes: 80

TBC

36. Alibi (1931)

75 min | Mystery

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a mysterious suicide at a country house.

Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Austin Trevor, Franklin Dyall, Elizabeth Allan, J.H. Roberts

Votes: 31

Poirot: Austin Trevor

37. Black Coffee (1931)

78 min | Mystery

A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.

Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Austin Trevor, Adrianne Allen, Richard Cooper, Elizabeth Allan

Votes: 27

Poirot: Austin Trevor

38. Lord Edgware Dies (1934)

80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?

Director: Henry Edwards | Stars: Austin Trevor, Jane Carr, Richard Cooper, John Turnbull

Votes: 125

Poirot: Austin Trevor

39. The Alphabet Murders (1965)

90 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

51 Metascore

Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.

Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Tony Randall, Robert Morley, Anita Ekberg, Maurice Denham

Votes: 1,893

Poirot: Tony Randall

40. Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

PG | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

63 Metascore

In December 1935, when his transcontinental luxury train is stranded by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before, with a multitude of suspects.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery

Votes: 69,183 | Gross: $0.07M

Poirot: Albert Finney

41. Death on the Nile (1978)

PG | 140 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

59 Metascore

As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?

Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Mia Farrow, Simon MacCorkindale, Jane Birkin

Votes: 39,870

Poirot: Peter Ustinov

42. Evil Under the Sun (1982)

PG | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

61 Metascore

Trying to find how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond brings Hercule Poirot to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. When a murder is committed, everyone has an alibi.

Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Peter Ustinov, James Mason, Maggie Smith, Colin Blakely

Votes: 20,216 | Gross: $6.11M

Poirot: Peter Ustinov

43. Thirteen at Dinner (1985 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

An American movie actress, best known for playing dumb blondes, is Scotland Yard's prime suspect when her husband, Lord Edgware, is murdered. The great detective, Hercule Poirot, digs deeper into the case.

Director: Lou Antonio | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Faye Dunaway, David Suchet, Jonathan Cecil

Votes: 2,679

Poirot: Peter Ustinov

44. Dead Man's Folly (1986 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.

Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Jean Stapleton, Constance Cummings, Tim Pigott-Smith

Votes: 2,264

Poirot: Peter Ustinov

45. Murder in Three Acts (1986 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The cause seems to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.

Director: Gary Nelson | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis, Emma Samms, Jonathan Cecil

Votes: 2,277

Poirot: Peter Ustinov

46. Appointment with Death (1988)

PG | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a former prison wardress who dominates the lives of her three adult stepchildren and her daughter is found dead at an archaeological dig near the Dead Sea, there are a great many suspects.

Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, John Gielgud

Votes: 6,059 | Gross: $0.96M

Poirot: Peter Ustinov

47. 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: 52,163

Poirot: David Suchet

48. Murder on the Orient Express (2001 TV Movie)

100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Hercule Poirot, now in modern times, investigates the famous crime on the famed train with a modern twist.

Director: Carl Schenkel | Stars: Alfred Molina, Meredith Baxter, Leslie Caron, Amira Casar

Votes: 1,178

Poirot: Alfred Molina

49. The ABC Murders (2018)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In 1933, retired detective Hercule Poirot is targeted by a taunting killer who sends letters signed "ABC", which Poirot must decode in order to discover the identity of the murderer.

Stars: John Malkovich, Eamon Farren, Michael Shaeffer, Rupert Grint

Votes: 11,700

Poirot: John Malkovich (Sarah Phelps)

50. Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

PG-13 | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

52 Metascore

When a murder occurs on the train on which he's travelling, celebrated detective Hercule Poirot is recruited to solve the case.

Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench

Votes: 296,863 | Gross: $102.83M

Poirot: Kenneth Branagh

51. Death on the Nile (2022)

PG-13 | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

52 Metascore

While on vacation on the Nile, Hercule Poirot must investigate the murder of a young heiress.

Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Tom Bateman, Annette Bening, Kenneth Branagh, Russell Brand

Votes: 188,860 | Gross: $45.63M

Poirot: Kenneth Branagh

52. Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1980 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 180 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

While golfing on the Welsh coast, Bobby Jones apparently hits a stranger who falls off the the sea cliff. His enigmatic last words are "Why didn't they ask Evans?"

Directors: John Davies, Tony Wharmby | Stars: Francesca Annis, John Gielgud, Bernard Miles, Eric Porter

Votes: 1,003

Stand Alone (James Warwick)

53. Seven Dials Mystery (1981 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 132 min | Adventure, Mystery, Romance

Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent is a pert, aggressive young aristocrat that insinuates herself into a series of murders, stolen state secrets, and a mysterious secret society.

Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: John Gielgud, Harry Andrews, Cheryl Campbell, James Warwick

Votes: 807

Stand Alone (James Warwick)

54. Partners in Crime (1983–1984)
Episode: The Secret Adversary (1983)

PG | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After two old friends accidentally meet and resolve to become investigators for hire, they quickly become embroiled in a missing treaty and a Bolshevik conspiracy.

Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: James Warwick, Francesca Annis, Gavan O'Herlihy, Alec McCowen

Votes: 511

Tommy & Tuppence (James Warwick)

55. Partners in Crime (1983–1984)

TV-PG | 631 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Agatha Christie's husband-and-wife sleuthing team take on a series of short whodunit mysteries.

Stars: Francesca Annis, James Warwick, Reece Dinsdale, Arthur Cox

Votes: 890

Tommy & Tuppence (James Warwick)

56. Endless Night (I) (1972)

Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A working-class young Englishman marries an affable American heiress, but their marital bliss is soon interrupted when they begin constructing a home on land alleged to be cursed.

Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland, Per Oscarsson

Votes: 2,414

Stand Alone

57. Murder Is Easy (1982 TV Movie)

90 min | Crime, Mystery

An American computer expert meets a distraught old lady on a train and she tells him that a homicidal maniac is stalking her quiet little village.

Director: Claude Whatham | Stars: Bill Bixby, Lesley-Anne Down, Olivia de Havilland, Helen Hayes

Votes: 952

Stand Alone

58. Sparkling Cyanide (1983 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Rosemary Barton, the beautiful wife of a top attorney, dies during their anniversary party at an exclusive restaurant. Later a suicide note is found along with traces of cyanide in her drink, but murder cannot be ruled out.

Director: Robert Michael Lewis | Stars: Anthony Andrews, Deborah Raffin, Pamela Bellwood, Nancy Marchand

Votes: 630

Stand Alone

59. The Man in the Brown Suit (1989 TV Movie)

100 min | Crime, Mystery

An American woman is getting involved in a diamond theft in South Africa.

Director: Alan Grint | Stars: Rue McClanahan, Tony Randall, Edward Woodward, Stephanie Zimbalist

Votes: 890

Stand Alone

60. Sparkling Cyanide (2003 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In this TV movie, a classic mystery is updated and relocated to a glamorous world of London socialites and secret agents, introducing two unique and compelling investigators and taking us through to the highest corridors of power.

Director: Tristram Powell | Stars: Kenneth Cranham, Rachel Shelley, Lia Williams, Justin Pierre

Votes: 596

Stand Alone

61. Crooked House (2017)

PG-13 | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

59 Metascore

In Agatha Christie's most twisted tale, a spy-turned-private-detective is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather's murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secrets.

Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner | Stars: Max Irons, Stefanie Martini, Glenn Close, Honor Kneafsey

Votes: 27,574

Stand alone

62. And Then There Were None (1945)

Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Seven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. They work together to determine who the killer is before it's too late.

Director: René Clair | Stars: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young

Votes: 16,659

Stand Alone (Ten Little Indians)

63. Ten Little Indians (1965)

Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Ten people are invited to a luxury mountaintop mansion, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

Director: George Pollock | Stars: Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian, Leo Genn

Votes: 5,301

Stand Alone

64. Ein Unbekannter rechnet ab (1974)

PG | 98 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

Director: Peter Collinson | Stars: Oliver Reed, Elke Sommer, Richard Attenborough, Stéphane Audran

Votes: 3,536

Stand Alone

65. Ten Little Indians (1987)

137 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A psychological thriller based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts after receiving invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England.

Director: Stanislav Govorukhin | Stars: Vladimir Zeldin, Tatyana Drubich, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Aleksey Zharkov

Votes: 3,118

Stand Alone

66. Ten Little Indians (1989)

PG | 100 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Ten people are invited to go on an African safari, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

Director: Alan Birkinshaw | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Brenda Vaccaro, Frank Stallone, Herbert Lom

Votes: 1,546

Stand Alone

67. And Then There Were None (2015)

TV-14 | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Ten strangers are invited to an island by a mysterious host, and start to get killed one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

Stars: Maeve Dermody, Charles Dance, Toby Stephens, Burn Gorman

Votes: 43,898

Stand Alone (Ten Little Indians) (Sarah Phelps)

68. Ordeal by Innocence (1984)

PG-13 | 90 min | Mystery, Thriller

Dr Calgary returns home from an expedition and goes looking for a hitchhiker whom he gave a lift to two years previously in order to return the man's address book. He discovers the man has been executed for his mother's murder.

Directors: Desmond Davis, Alan Birkinshaw | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Faye Dunaway, Christopher Plummer, Sarah Miles

Votes: 1,105

Stand Alone

69. Ordeal by Innocence (2018)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Christmas 1954. Wealthy philanthropist Rachel Argyll is murdered at her family estate Sunny Point. Her adopted son Jack Argyll is arrested for her murder. He vehemently protests his innocence.

Stars: Morven Christie, Anthony Boyle, Christian Cooke, Bill Nighy

Votes: 11,600

Stand Alone (Sarah Phelps)

70. The Pale Horse (1997 TV Movie)

120 min | Mystery

When Mark Easterbrook finds himself in the frame for the murder of a priest, there seems no way to prove his innocence other than solving the mystery himself.

Director: Charles Beeson | Stars: Colin Buchanan, Jayne Ashbourne, Hermione Norris, Leslie Phillips

Votes: 427

Stand Alone

71. The Pale Horse (2020)

TV-MA | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Is a trio of witches responsible for a series of sudden deaths or is there a rational explanation?

Stars: Kaya Scodelario, Georgina Campbell, Rufus Sewell, Sean Pertwee

Votes: 6,195

Stand Alone (Sarah Phelps)

72. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

Approved | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

76 Metascore

A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester

Votes: 137,990 | Gross: $8.18M

Stand Alone

73. Witness for the Prosecution (1982 TV Movie)

97 min | Drama

Leonard Vole is accused of murdering an elderly rich woman, and the only alibi to him depends on his wife Christine.

Director: Alan Gibson | Stars: Ralph Richardson, Deborah Kerr, Beau Bridges, Donald Pleasence

Votes: 1,122

Stand Alone

74. The Witness for the Prosecution (2016)

Not Rated | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The hunt is on to find the murderer of a wealthy glamorous heiress who is found dead in her London townhouse. Based on the short story by Agatha Christie.

Stars: Billy Howle, Kim Cattrall, Monica Dolan, Andrea Riseborough

Votes: 5,636

Stand Alone (Sarah Phelps)

76. The Spider's Web (1960)

88 min | Mystery

When an intruder is killed in her house, the comfortable life of Clarissa Hailsham-Browne is turned upside-down.

Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: Glynis Johns, John Justin, Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge

Votes: 273

77. Spider's Web (1982 TV Movie)

105 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

The wife of a Foreign Office diplomat discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent.

Director: Basil Coleman | Stars: Penelope Keith, Robert Flemyng, Thorley Walters, Elizabeth Spriggs

Votes: 243

78. Murder by the Book (II) (1987 TV Movie)

45 min | Drama, Mystery

Poirot has been murdered! Did Dame Agatha Christie do it?

Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: Peggy Ashcroft, Ian Holm, Richard Wilson, Michael Aldridge

Votes: 106

Agatha as a character

79. Agatha and the Truth of Murder (2018 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In 1926, with her personal life in tatters and her writing in crisis, a young Agatha Christie decides to solve a real-life murder.

Director: Terry Loane | Stars: Dean Andrews, Ruth Bradley, Bebe Cave, Amelia Dell

Votes: 5,549

Agatha as a character

80. Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar (2019 TV Movie)

95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

On an archaeological dig in Iraq, author Agatha Christie uncovers a series of murders.

Director: Sam Yates | Stars: Jonah Hauer-King, Lyndsey Marshal, Bronagh Waugh, Jack Deam

Votes: 2,625

Agatha as a character

81. Agatha and the Midnight Murders (2020 TV Movie)

91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

As bombs fall on London, writer Agatha Christie considers selling a manuscript that will kill off her most famous creation.

Director: Joe Stephenson | Stars: Helen Baxendale, Blake Harrison, Jacqueline Boatswain, Gina Bramhill

Votes: 2,603

Agatha as a character

82. Agatha Christie

Action, Adventure | Announced

Mystery writers Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle team up to find a missing oil tycoon.

Agatha as a character

83. They Came to Baghdad

Mystery | Pre-production

An expatriate living in Baghdad becomes embroiled in a conspiracy when a man dies in her hotel room.

TBC

84. Death Comes as the End

Crime, Drama, Mystery | Announced

Set in Ancient Egypt, a young woman suspects her priest father may be tied up in the death of a concubine.

TBC

85. The Agatha Christie Hour (1982)
Episode: Jane in Search of a Job (1982)

51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An unemployed girl is the spitting image of a Grand Duchess fearing to be assassinated by the anarchists. So, she accepts to impersonating her in a charity fête, risking her life for a very big sum of money.

Director: Christopher Hodson | Stars: Elizabeth Garvie, Andrew Bicknell, Amanda Redman, Stephanie Cole

Votes: 140

86. Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (2022)

TV-MA | 58 min | Mystery, Thriller

A dying man's enigmatic last words send vicar's son, Bobby Jones, and his socialite friend, Lady Frankie Derwent, on a crime-solving adventure.

Stars: Will Poulter, Lucy Boynton, Daniel Ings, Jonathan Jules

Votes: 7,931

87. By the Pricking of My Thumbs (2005)

105 min | Comedy, Mystery

The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.

Director: Pascal Thomas | Stars: Catherine Frot, André Dussollier, Geneviève Bujold, Laurent Terzieff

Votes: 1,269

French - Stand Alone

88. Petits meurtres en famille (2006)

TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The French adaption of Agatha Christie's mystery novel 'Hercule Poirot's Christmas'.

Stars: Robert Hossein, Elsa Zylberstein, Bruno Todeschini, Antoine Duléry

Votes: 292

French mini series

89. Towards Zero (2007)

104 min | Comedy, Mystery

A wealthy woman holds a party at her estate for family and friends. When a solicitor and the hostess herself are both murdered, only the trusty Inspector Bataille can put together the pieces.

Director: Pascal Thomas | Stars: François Morel, Danielle Darrieux, Melvil Poupaud, Laura Smet

Votes: 682

French

90. Les petits meurtres d'Agatha Christie (2009–2024)

TV-PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Agatha Christie's masterful storytelling gets a soupçon of French flair in these attractive, witty mysteries. These French adaptations are a fresh, stylish twist on classic Christie tales.

Stars: Blandine Bellavoir, Samuel Labarthe, Elodie Frenck, Dominique Thomas

Votes: 1,498

French Series

91. The Great Alibi (2008)

93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A psychoanalyst and consummate womanizer is brutally shot while his wife is standing over him with a revolver in her hand.

Director: Pascal Bonitzer | Stars: Miou-Miou, Lambert Wilson, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Pierre Arditi

Votes: 662

92. Associés contre le crime: L'oeuf d'Ambroise (2012)

104 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

The Beresfords are tasked with finding what happened to a Russian heiress who's mysteriously disappeared.

Director: Pascal Thomas | Stars: André Dussollier, Catherine Frot, Linh-Dan Pham, Nicolas Marié

Votes: 579

93. Crime Is Our Business (2008)

109 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Prudence Beresford is investigating another murder. Her aunt had witnessed it, but no body was found, and nobody trusted her word. Nobody, except Prudence, of course!

Director: Pascal Thomas | Stars: Catherine Frot, André Dussollier, Claude Rich, Chiara Mastroianni

Votes: 1,191

94. See How They Run (2022)

PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

60 Metascore

In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered.

Director: Tom George | Stars: Kieran Hodgson, Pearl Chanda, Gregory Cox, Harris Dickinson

Votes: 64,283

95. Agatha Christie's Hjerson (2021– )

44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

We get to follow the former criminal investigator Sven Hjerson who has been involved in solving some of Sweden's most difficult cases of all time.

Stars: Johan Rheborg, Hanna Alström, Maria Lundqvist, David Fukamachi Regnfors

Votes: 1,129

96. A Haunting in Venice (2023)

PG-13 | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

63 Metascore

In post-World War II Venice, Poirot, now retired and living in his own exile, reluctantly attends a seance. But when one of the guests is murdered, it is up to the former detective to once again uncover the killer.

Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Dornan, Tina Fey

Votes: 112,657

97. Marple (2004–2013)
Episode: Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (2009)

TV-PG | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The cryptic final words of a dying man lead Miss Marple and two young adventurers to a dysfunctional family harboring dark secrets.

Director: Nicholas Renton | Stars: Julia McKenzie, Sean Biggerstaff, David Buchanan, Siwan Morris

Votes: 1,621

98. Murder Is Easy (2023)

117 min | Mystery, Thriller

Follows Luke Fitzwilliam, as he finds himself on the trail of a serial killer after meeting Miss Pinkerton on a train to London. Now Fitzwilliam has to find the killer before any more blood will be shed.

Stars: David Jonsson, Mathew Baynton, Nimra Bucha, Morfydd Clark

Votes: 2,896

99. Suspicions (1995)

83 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Six friends are trapped in an isolated cabin reachable only by a rugged ten-mile hike. Then they start to die one by one.

Directors: Michael Sperrazza, Jo Throckmorton | Stars: Eric Breien, Catherine Curtin, Thomas Fattoruso, Allison McDonell

Votes: 60

100. Love from a Stranger (1958 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

A suave ladies man sweeps a working class girl, who has just won a lottery, off her feet.She doesn't yet realize that he is a serial murderer.

Stars: Emrys Jones, Clare Austin, Gladys Boot, David Crosse



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