Adaptations of Agatha Christie
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1. The Passing of Mr. Quin (1928)
100 min | Mystery
A doctor proves his wife's first husband was killed by a neighbour posing as a tramp.
Directors: Julius Hagen, Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Stewart Rome, Trilby Clark, Ursula Jeans, Clifford Heatherley
Votes: 20
Story based on: The Coming of Mr Quin (short story collection)
2. Adventures Inc. (1929)
76 min
Based on Agatha Christie's "The Secret Adversary," a young couple looking for adventure become involved in the mystery of a missing woman and an espionage ring.
Director: Fred Sauer | Stars: Carlo Aldini, Eve Gray, Eberhard Leithoff, Hilda Bayley
Votes: 32
Story based on: The Secret Adversary (novel)
3. 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
Story based on: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (novel)
The film was adapted from the 1928 play Alibi by Michael Morton which was in turn based on the 1926 Agatha Christie novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
4. 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
Story based on: Black Coffee (stage play)
5. Le coffret de laque (1932)
85 min | Crime, Mystery
Director: Jean Kemm | Stars: René Alexandre, Harry Arbell, Danielle Darrieux, Maxime Desjardins
Votes: 16
Story based on: Black Coffee (stage play)
6. 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
Story based on: Thirteen at Dinner (novel)
7. A Night of Terror (1937)
86 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A lottery winner breaks up with her fiancé and marries a fortune hunter who proves to be dangerous.
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Ann Harding, Basil Rathbone, Binnie Hale, Bruce Seton
Votes: 640
Story based on: Philomel Cottage (short story collection)
It is based on the 1936 play of the same name by Frank Vosper. In turn, the play was based on the 1924 short story Philomel Cottage, written by Agatha Christie.
8. 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: 16,651
Story based on: And Then There Were None (novel)
9. Love from a Stranger (1947)
Approved | 81 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A newly married woman begins to suspect that her husband is a killer. Even worse, she soon comes to believe that she will be his next victim.
Director: Richard Whorf | Stars: John Hodiak, Sylvia Sidney, Ann Richards, John Howard
Votes: 294
Story based on: Philomel Cottage (short story collection)
It is based on the 1936 play of the same name by Frank Vosper. In turn, the play was based on the 1924 short story Philomel Cottage, written by Agatha Christie.
Previously been turned into a 1937 British film Love from a Stranger starring Basil Rathbone.
10. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Approved | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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: 137,958 | Gross: $8.18M
Story based on: The Witness for the Prosecution (short story collection)
11. 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
Story based on: Spider's Web (stage play)
12. Chupi Chupi Ashey (1960)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama
A woman is murdered and a hand bill of a resort run by a young couple is found. Is the murderer headed for it? Who is next victim? All the boarders, including owners are under false name. Why? A policeman arrives, will he be able to stop?
Director: Premendra Mitra | Stars: Tapati Ghosh, Robin Majumdar, Tarun Kumar Chatterjee, Chhabi Biswas
Votes: 39
Story based on: Three Blind Mice (short story collection and radio play)
Adapted from Agatha Christie's radio play and short story Three Blind Mice and stage play The Mousetrap.
13. 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: 8,572
Story based on: 4.50 from Paddington (novel)
14. 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: 6,809
Story based on: After the Funeral (novel)
15. 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: 6,315
Story based on: Mrs McGinty's Dead (novel)
16. 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: 5,808
Story based on: -
An original film, not based on any book, although it borrows some elements of They Do It with Mirrors (novel).
17. 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: 5,300
Story based on: And Then There Were None (novel)
Although its background story is the same as the 1945 adaptation (And Then There Were None), with ten people invited to a remote location by a mysterious stranger, this one takes place on an isolated snowy mountain. This version is also the first adaptation of the novel to show the murders on screen.
18. Gumnaam (1965)
Not Rated | 151 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Eight people are stranded on an island. They reach a mansion where a butler is awaiting them. Then an unknown, vengeful person starts killing them, one by one.
Director: Raja Nawathe | Stars: Nanda Karnataki, Manoj Kumar, Pran Sikand, Helen
Votes: 1,717
Story based on: And Then There Were None (novel)
19. The Alphabet Murders (1965)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
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
Story based on: The A.B.C. Murders (novel)
20. Nadu Iravil (1970)
160 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A murder-mystery/thriller, in which the friend of a wealthy, elderly couple tries to bring about a reconciliation between them on the one hand, and their their estranged relatives on the other.
Director: Sundaram Balachander | Stars: Major Sundarrajan, Sowcar Janaki, Sundaram Balachander, Pandari Bai
Votes: 53
Story based on: And Then There Were None (novel)
21. 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
Story based on: Endless Night (novel)
22. Dhund (1973)
130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A traveler decides to assist a woman involved in a murder.
Director: B.R. Chopra | Stars: Navin Nischol, Zeenat Aman, Sanjay Khan, Danny Denzongpa
Votes: 640
Story based on: The Unexpected Guest (stage play)
23. Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
PG | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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: 69,180 | Gross: $0.07M
Story based on: Murder on the Orient Express (novel)
24. 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: 3,535
Story based on: And Then There Were None (novel)
This was the second of three versions of Christie's novel to be adapted to the screen by producer Harry Alan Towers. Two film adaptations were previously released (a 1945 version by René Clair and the 1965 adaptation Ten Little Indians by Oliver A. Unger).
25. Death on the Nile (1978)
PG | 140 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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: 39,862
Story based on: Death on the Nile (novel)
Adapted The stage play Murder on the Nile and the novel Death on the Nile. The film is a follow-up to the 1974 film Murder on the Orient Express.
26. The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
PG | 105 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
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
Story based on: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (novel)
27. Evil Under the Sun (1982)
PG | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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: 20,202 | Gross: $6.11M
Story based on: Evil Under the Sun (novel)
28. Tayna chyornykh drozdov (1983)
97 min | Crime, Mystery
Mr. Fortescue, owner of a big company, unexpectedly dies. The autopsy shows that he has been poisoned. Nobody actually loved him, and even his family members had their reasons to kill him. ... See full summary »
Director: Vadim Derbenyov | Stars: Ita Ever, Vladimir Sedov, Vsevolod Sanaev, Lyubov Polishchuk
Votes: 280
Story based on: A Pocket Full of Rye (novel)
29. 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
Story based on: Ordeal by Innocence (novel)
30. 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: 3,115
Story based on: And Then There Were None (novel)
31. 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: 6,056 | Gross: $0.96M
Story based on: Appointment with Death (novel)
Adapted The stage play Appointment with Death and the novel Appointment with Death
32. 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: 1,545
Story based on: And Then There Were None (novel)
33. Zagadka Endkhauza (1990)
102 min | Crime, Mystery
The young mistress of a large estate suddenly becomes the target of several assassination attempts. The famous Hercule Poirot begins an investigation, the result of which will stun even him.
Director: Vadim Derbenyov | Stars: Anatoliy Ravikovich, Ilona Ozola, Virginija Kelmelyte, Dmitri Krylov
Votes: 86
Story based on: Peril at End House (novel)
34. Myshelovka (1990)
86 min | Crime, Drama
A young couple Jiles and Molly Ralstons organize a boarding house 30 miles away from London. The opening of the institution falls on a day of heavy snowfall, so that the guests, arriving ... See full summary »
Director: Samson Samsonov | Stars: Elena Popova, Evgeniy Paramonov, Vladimir Soshalsky, Yelena Stepanenko
Votes: 71
Story based on: The Mousetrap (stage play)
35. Innocent Lies (1995)
TV-MA | 88 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A gripping story of sex, betrayal, and murder. In 1938, British detective Alan Cross (Adrian Dunbar) travels to a small French coastal town to investigate the mysterious death of a close ... See full summary »
Director: Patrick Dewolf | Stars: Adrian Dunbar, Florence Hoath, Sophie Aubry, Joanna Lumley
Votes: 1,105
Story based on: Towards Zero (novel)
Loose adaptation of Towards Zero after scripts issue.
36. Shubho Mahurat (2003)
150 min | Crime, Mystery
An actress mysteriously dies after the "Shubho Mahurat," a celebration of the first shot of the film. A journalist and her perceptive aunt investigate.
Director: Rituparno Ghosh | Stars: Sharmila Tagore, Nandita Das, Kalyani Mandal, Moumita Gupta
Votes: 605
Story based on: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (novel)
Loosely based on Miss Marple Novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side.
37. Mindhunters (2004)
R | 106 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A group of FBI trainees are taken to a remote island for simulation training. However, once there, they realize that they are being hunted by a serial killer, who might be someone amidst them.
Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Val Kilmer, LL Cool J, Christian Slater, Eion Bailey
Votes: 64,229 | Gross: $4.48M
Story based on: And Then There Were None (novel)
Very loose adaptation of The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None.
38. 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
Story based on: By the Pricking of My Thumbs (novel)
39. 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
Story based on: Towards Zero (novel)
40. 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
Story based on: 4.50 from Paddington (novel)
The adaptation replaces Miss Marple with Prudence Beresford.
41. 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
Story based on: The Hollow (novel)
42. Aduthathu (2011)
Thriller
10 people are tricked and kidnapped. They are in a deserted island while some members start to die mysteriously. Truth unravels as they progress through their countable days.
Director: Thakkali Srinivasan | Star: Sriman
Votes: 23
Story based on: And Then There Were None (novel)
Adapted The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None.
43. Grandmaster (2012)
Not Rated | 100 min | Action, Thriller
A veteran cop chases a cold blooded serial killer, who murders his victims in alphabetical order.
Director: B. Unnikrishnan | Stars: Mohanlal, Priyamani, Babu Antony, Arjun Nandakumar
Votes: 2,352 | Gross: $0.02M
Story based on: The A.B.C. Murders (novel)
44. Aatagara (2015)
Not Rated | 129 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Ten people are chosen to participate in a contest and assembled in a bungalow in a picturesque island. When the contestants begin to die painful deaths one by one, can the last five left standing find way to escape the house of terror?
Director: K.M. Chaitanya | Stars: Anant Nag, Chiranjeevi Sarja, Meghana Raj, Parul Yadav
Votes: 519
Story based on: And Then There Were None (novel)
Adapted The stage play And Then There Were None and the novel And Then There Were None.
45. Chorabali (2016)
108 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A whodunit thriller set in the backdrop of North Kolkata with its British Raj charm, based on Agatha Christie's Cards on the Table.
Director: Subhrajit Mitra | Stars: Barun Chanda, Tanushree Chakraborty, George Baker, Locket Chatterjee
Votes: 159
Story based on: Cards on the Table (novel)
46. Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
PG-13 | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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: 296,787 | Gross: $102.83M
Story based on: Murder on the Orient Express (novel)
47. Crooked House (2017)
PG-13 | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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: 27,561
Story based on: Crooked House (novel)
48. Death on the Nile (2022)
PG-13 | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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: 188,793 | Gross: $45.63M
Story based on: Death on the Nile (novel)
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