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A Haunting in Venice
Release: 2023-09-13
TMDB rating: 6.6
Based on the book by Agatha Christie
Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween sΓ©ance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
TMDB ID: 945729
Death on the Nile
Release: 2022-02-09
TMDB rating: 6.4
Based on the book by Agatha Christie
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.
TMDB ID: 505026
Murder on the Orient Express
Release: 2017-11-03
TMDB rating: 6.7
Based on the book by Agatha Christie
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
TMDB ID: 392044
Crooked House
Release: 2017-09-06
TMDB rating: 6.4
Based on the book by Agatha Christie
A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.
TMDB ID: 419835
Innocent Lies
Innocent Lies
Release: 1995-06-30
TMDB rating: 4.6
Based on the book by Agatha Christie
In September 1938 a British detective comes to a small French coastal town in order to investigate the death of a colleague. Prime suspects are the members of English aristocratic family with plenty of skeletons in the closet. This is a loose adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel Towards Zero.
TMDB ID: 71134
Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Release: 1992-12-27
TMDB rating: 7.4
Based on the book by Agatha Christie
A town busybody is poisoned at a busy reception in the home of famous film star Marina Gregg. The poisoned drink seemed intended for Marina, but Miss Marple is not so sure. She sets out to discover the true identity of the killer before he or she can strike again.
TMDB ID: 417161
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
Release: 1991-12-29
TMDB rating: 6.9
Based on the book by Agatha Christie
At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit 'Stonygates', the country house of Ruth's sister.
TMDB ID: 416417
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
Release: 1989-12-25
TMDB rating: 6.7
Based on the book by Agatha Christie
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.
TMDB ID: 578561
The Man in the Brown Suit
The Man in the Brown Suit
Release: 1989-01-04
TMDB rating: 5.8
Based on the book by Agatha Christie
An American woman gets involved in a diamond theft in South Africa.
TMDB ID: 42036
Appointment with Death
Release: 1988-04-15
TMDB rating: 6.1
Based on the book by Agatha Christie
Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from her dominating influence. She takes herself, the children, and her daughter-in-law on holiday to Europe and the Holy Land. At a dig, Emily is found dead and Hercule Poirot investigates.
TMDB ID: 4281
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
Release: 1987-12-25
TMDB rating: 7.5
Based on the book by Agatha Christie
Travelling on the 4.50 from Paddington, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train - but where is the body?
TMDB ID: 499292
Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage
Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage
Release: 1986-12-25
TMDB rating: 6.7
Based on the book by Agatha Christie
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.
TMDB ID: 293879
Murder in Three Acts
Murder in Three Acts
Release: 1986-09-30
TMDB rating: 6.0
Based on the book by Agatha Christie
In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.
TMDB ID: 6107
Dead Man's Folly
Release: 1986-01-08
TMDB rating: 6.4
Based on the book by Agatha Christie
During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.
TMDB ID: 6105
Thirteen at Dinner
Release: 1985-09-19
TMDB rating: 5.9
Based on the book by Agatha Christie
Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound at the base of his neck. It will take the precise Poirot to sort out the lies from the alibis - and find the criminal before another victim dies.
TMDB ID: 6103
A Caribbean Mystery
A Caribbean Mystery
Release: 1983-10-22
TMDB rating: 6.2
Based on the book by Agatha Christie
Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Jane Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort they're staying at is a Bluebeard-type wife murderer. Unfortunately, the Major succumbs to an apparently accidental overdose of alcohol and blood pressure medication before revealing the killer's identity. When it's discovered that the medicine belonged to another guest and the revealing photograph the Major was carrying is missing, Miss Marple realizes that the serial killer has struck again and more murders will follow.
TMDB ID: 6030
Murder Is Easy
Release: 1982-01-02
TMDB rating: 6.6
Based on the book by Agatha Christie
American computer whiz Luke Williams meets elderly Lavinia Fullerton on a London-bound train. She reveals she's discovered the identity of a serial killer in her village and is going to report it to Scotland Yard. When she is murdered after disembarking the train, Williams vows to pursue the case himself.
TMDB ID: 21125
Ten Little Indians
Ten Little Indians
Release: 1959-01-18
TMDB rating: 6.8
Based on the book by Agatha Christie
Ten strangers are invited to a mansion on a remote island, where they are killed one by one by a mysterious assailant. Based on the Agatha Christie novel, also known by the title And Then There Were None.
TMDB ID: 837934
Witness for the Prosecution
Release: 1957-12-17
TMDB rating: 8.2
Based on the book by Agatha Christie
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.
TMDB ID: 37257
Love from a Stranger
Love from a Stranger
Release: 1947-11-15
TMDB rating: 5.7
Based on the book by Agatha Christie
Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent her flat and she falls in love with him, and they are married. For their honeymoon, they go to an isolated English college where she, unlike the audience, doesn't realize she has married a fortune-hunting Bluebeard with a few murdered wives in his past. The question is will she be able to repent in leisure her decision to marry in haste.
TMDB ID: 72548
Black Coffee
Black Coffee
Release: 1931-08-24
TMDB rating: 8.0
Based on the book by Agatha Christie
Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings. 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.
TMDB ID: 6060