Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "reference-to-agatha-christie"

1. Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)

R | 108 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

A lonely scholar, on a trip to Istanbul, discovers a Djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.

Director: George Miller | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Idris Elba, Erdil Yasaroglu, Sarah Houbolt

Votes: 61,299

2. Gunpowder Milkshake (2021)

R | 114 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Three generations of women fight back against those who could take everything from them.

Director: Navot Papushado | Stars: Karen Gillan, Lena Headey, Carla Gugino, Michelle Yeoh

Votes: 51,239

3. Mr. Church (2016)

PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama

"Mr. Church" tells the story of a unique friendship that develops when a little girl and her dying mother retain the services of a talented cook - Henry Joseph Church. What begins as a six month arrangement instead spans into fifteen years and creates a family bond that lasts forever.

Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Britt Robertson, Natascha McElhone, Xavier Samuel

Votes: 31,303 | Gross: $0.69M

4. Belfast (2021)

PG-13 | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A young boy and his working-class Belfast family experience the tumultuous late 1960s.

Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Jude Hill, Lewis McAskie, Caitríona Balfe, Jamie Dornan

Votes: 92,531

5. Serendipity (2001)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Romance

A couple search for each other years after the night they first met, fell in love, and separated, convinced that one day they'd end up together.

Director: Peter Chelsom | Stars: John Cusack, Kate Beckinsale, Jeremy Piven, Bridget Moynahan

Votes: 121,431 | Gross: $50.29M

6. Like Stars on Earth (2007)

PG | 162 min | Drama, Family

An eight-year-old boy is thought to be a lazy trouble-maker, until the new art teacher has the patience and compassion to discover the real problem behind his struggles in school.

Directors: Aamir Khan, Amole Gupte | Stars: Darsheel Safary, Aamir Khan, Tisca Chopra, Vipin Sharma

Votes: 206,830 | Gross: $1.22M

7. Invitation to a Murder (2023)

PG-13 | 92 min | Mystery, Thriller

1934. Miranda Green and five other strangers, are invited to the remote island mansion of billionaire Lewis Findley. As the weekend progresses the clues about why they have been invited begin to unfold along with a sinister mystery.

Director: Stephen Shimek | Stars: Mischa Barton, Chris Browning, Bianca A. Santos, Giles Matthey

Votes: 4,769

8. The Aftermath (2019)

R | 108 min | Drama, Romance, War

Post World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German who previously owned the house.

Director: James Kent | Stars: Keira Knightley, Ned Wills, Pandora Colin, Jason Clarke

Votes: 23,834 | Gross: $1.62M

9. The Two Faces of January (2014)

PG-13 | 96 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

A thriller centered on a con artist, his wife, and a stranger who flee Athens after one of them is caught up in the death of a private detective.

Director: Hossein Amini | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, Oscar Isaac, Daisy Bevan

Votes: 33,684 | Gross: $0.51M

10. April Fool's Day (1986)

R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery

Nine college students staying at a friend's remote island mansion begin to fall victim to an unseen murderer over the April Fool's Day weekend, but nothing is as it seems.

Director: Fred Walton | Stars: Deborah Foreman, Griffin O'Neal, Clayton Rohner, Jay Baker

Votes: 18,400 | Gross: $12.95M

11. Tenebrae (1982)

R | 101 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

An American novelist visiting Rome to promote his latest book is stalked and harassed by an obsessed fan who is committing a string of murders that appear to be tributes to his work.

Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Anthony Franciosa, Giuliano Gemma, John Saxon, Daria Nicolodi

Votes: 27,454

12. Let Them All Talk (2020)

R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama

A famous author goes on a cruise trip with her friends and nephew in an effort to find fun and happiness while she comes to terms with her troubled past.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Meryl Streep, Gemma Chan, Dianne Wiest, Christopher Fitzgerald

Votes: 12,979

13. The Lost Weekend (1945)

Passed | 101 min | Drama, Film-Noir

The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva

Votes: 40,214 | Gross: $9.46M

14. The Russia House (1990)

R | 123 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A British publisher is sent a manuscript detailing Soviet Union nuclear missile capabilities. British Intelligence intercept it and recruit him to investigate the author's editor, a beautiful Russian woman he claims never to have met.

Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox

Votes: 17,553 | Gross: $23.00M

15. My Salinger Year (2020)

R | 101 min | Drama

A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.

Director: Philippe Falardeau | Stars: Margaret Qualley, Sigourney Weaver, Douglas Booth, Seána Kerslake

Votes: 6,827

16. Flirting (1991)

R | 99 min | Drama, Romance

Two freethinking teenagers - a boy and a girl - confront with authoritarian teachers in their boarding schools. The other students treat this differently.

Director: John Duigan | Stars: Noah Taylor, Thandiwe Newton, Nicole Kidman, Bartholomew Rose

Votes: 6,415 | Gross: $2.42M

17. Tempest (1982)

PG | 140 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

John Cassavetes gives a compelling performance as a man confronting a mid-life crisis with extraordinary results for everyone around him.

Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon, Vittorio Gassman

Votes: 2,706 | Gross: $5.01M

18. The Evil Eye (1963)

Not Rated | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance

A mystery novel-loving American tourist witnesses a murder in Rome, and soon finds herself and her suitor caught up in a series of killings.

Director: Mario Bava | Stars: John Saxon, Letícia Román, Valentina Cortese, Titti Tomaino

Votes: 5,369

19. Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)

Approved | 102 min | Drama, Romance

Three American women working in Rome, Italy share a spacious apartment and the desire to find love and marriage. Each one experiences a few bumps in her journey to romance.

Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan

Votes: 3,767

20. House of 9 (2005)

R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Nine strangers, with no apparent connection between them are abducted: drugged, kidnapped and sealed in a house together.

Director: Steven R. Monroe | Stars: Kelly Brook, Dennis Hopper, Hippolyte Girardot, Ashley Walters

Votes: 10,770

21. Good Guys Wear Black (1978)

PG | 95 min | Action

An ex-US Army commando must find the reason why his comrades from his unit are being systematically murdered before he is next.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: Chuck Norris, Anne Archer, James Franciscus, Lloyd Haynes

Votes: 3,751 | Gross: $18.33M

22. Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978)

PG | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

One by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. Each chef murdered in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.

Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Morley, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Votes: 2,607

23. Jigsaw (1962)

Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A woman is found murdered in a house along the coast from Brighton. Local detectives Fellows and Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove but also further afield.

Director: Val Guest | Stars: Jack Warner, Ronald Lewis, Yolande Donlan, Michael Goodliffe

Votes: 1,579

24. 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

25. Victory at Entebbe (1976 TV Movie)

Unrated | 119 min | Action, Drama, History

In 1976, terrorists hijack an Air France airplane, and divert it to Uganda, where they demand to exchange their hostages for fellow terrorists held in Israeli jails.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Helmut Berger, Linda Blair, Kirk Douglas, Richard Dreyfuss

Votes: 1,274

26. Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Game of Cat and Mouse (2019 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Crime, Mystery

A taunting clue left for Aurora at a meeting begins a cat-and-mouse game between her and a mysterious criminal who commits increasingly serious crimes that leave the town rattled.

Director: Mark Jean | Stars: Candace Cameron Bure, Niall Matter, Marilu Henner, Lexa Doig

Votes: 1,144

27. Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: An Inheritance to Die For (2019 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 85 min | Crime, Mystery

Aurora's a librarian, sleuth and bridesmaid at Lizzie's wedding, where Lizzie's rich aunt dies from poisoning. The will is a bad surprise for the son. Aurora and Real Murders Club investigate.

Director: Michael Robison | Stars: Candace Cameron Bure, Niall Matter, Marilu Henner, Lexa Doig

Votes: 1,174

28. 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

29. Last Scene Alive: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2018 TV Movie)

TV-G | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

3 days after a film crew comes to town, the lead actress is murdered. The movie script was inspired by Aurora with a librarian/sleuth. Will Real Murders Club solve the crime before the police?

Director: Martin Wood | Stars: Candace Cameron Bure, Yannick Bisson, Marilu Henner, Robin Dunne

Votes: 1,431

30. Time Now (2021)

90 min | Drama, Thriller

A young mother returns to her estranged hometown of Detroit after the sudden death of her twin brother and immerses herself in his friend group, soon discovering that his death is not what it seems.

Director: Spencer King | Stars: Eleanor Lambert, Claudia Black, Xxavier Polk, Paige Kendrick

Votes: 302

31. Dramarama (2020)

91 min | Comedy, Drama

In 1994, a closeted teen struggles to part ways with his 4 high school drama friends at their final slumber party before they leave for college.

Director: Jonathan Wysocki | Stars: Anna Grace Barlow, Danielle Kay, Megan Suri, Nick Pugliese

Votes: 579

32. The Stranger (1991)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama

A well-off family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long-lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels.

Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Utpal Dutt, Dipankar Dey, Mamata Shankar, Bikram Bhattacharya

Votes: 4,390

33. Alan Carr's Adventures with Agatha Christie (2022– )

60 min | Documentary

Life-long Agatha Christie fanboy Alan Carr embarks on a personal Great British adventure inspired by his literary heroine. In this fun, celebratory and fact-packed travelogue Alan will head off in search of the places that inspired her.

Stars: Alan Carr, Laura Thompson, Richard Coles, Susie Blake

Votes: 75

34. One Winter Proposal (2019 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Romance

Old flames are reignited and current flames burn brighter when the foursome from One Winter Weekend returns to the ski resort where it all began.

Director: Gary Yates | Stars: Taylor Cole, Jack Turner, Rukiya Bernard, Dewshane Williams

Votes: 1,481

35. Your Past Is Showing (1957)

Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy

A very British comedy about a blackmailer and his victims.

Director: Mario Zampi | Stars: Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton

Votes: 2,046

36. David Suchet on the Orient Express (2010 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary

In this travelogue, actor David Suchet journeys across Europe abroad the world famous Orient Express Train, as he prepares to play Poirot in an adaptation of Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express."

Director: Chris Malone | Stars: Josephine Baker, David Suchet

Votes: 203

37. Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen (2022)

60 min | Documentary

A life as dramatic as her work. Lucy Worsley discovers the origins of Agatha Christie's macabre magic - and with some compelling characters, uncovers carefully concealed secrets.

Stars: Lucy Worsley, Elena Pischikova, Edgar Jones, James Prichard

Votes: 190

38. Inshite miru: 7-kakan no desu gêmu (2010)

107 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Ten people who agree to take the same lucrative "job" find themselves locked in an underground complex and forced to play a murder game for seven days.

Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Kin'ya Kitaôji, Nagisa Katahira, Shinji Takeda, Masanori Ishii

Votes: 1,388

39. All or Nothing (2017)

107 min | Comedy, Romance

The lives of three best friends - Linda, Vanda and Edo - get all tangled by four attractive men.

Director: Marta Ferencova | Stars: Tatiana Pauhofová, Klára Issová, Michal Zebrowski, Lubo Kostelný

Votes: 507

40. Agatha & Poirot: Partners in Crime (2021 TV Special)

90 min | Documentary

Marking 100 years since the first appearance of Hercule Poirot, Richard E Grant explores the life of Agatha Christie, and the events that inspired the novels.

Director: Toby Roebuck | Stars: Richard E. Grant, Amanda Abbington, Mark Aldridge, Kenneth Branagh

Votes: 39

41. L'école est finie (2018)

87 min | Comedy

Agathe Langlois, Parisian, has everything to be happy and she has just been established as an English teacher. But when she learns that she is transferred hundreds of kilometers from her home, in the countryside, it is the cold shower

Director: Anne Depétrini | Stars: Bérengère Krief, Grégory Fitoussi, Marilou Berry, Anne Depétrini

Votes: 434

42. Il lupo e l'agnello (1980)

95 min | Comedy, Crime

Leon de Paris used to be a modest dog-barber in Paris. In search of more satisfaction. Thanks to the economic helps of Fanny (his terrible mother in law), he succeeds to set up in Roma a ... See full summary »

Director: Francesco Massaro | Stars: Michel Serrault, Tomas Milian, Ombretta Colli, Laura Adani

Votes: 150

43. Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Suspense (2020 TV Special)

TV-PG | 67 min | Documentary

To mark the centenary of the publication of Agatha Christie's debut novel, a celebration of ten of her most beloved stories.

Director: Sean Davison | Stars: Nigel Havers, Amanda Abbington, Basi Akpabio, Mark Aldridge

Votes: 238

44. The Magic of David Copperfield XIII: Mystery on the Orient Express (1991 TV Special)

49 min | Documentary, Comedy, Family

This is the 13th CBS Copperfield TV special, introduced by the host Jane Seymour, and the third and last one in which David Copperfield enters the scene on his Harley Davidson. The location... See full summary »

Directors: David Copperfield, Michael Dimich | Stars: David Copperfield, Jane Seymour

Votes: 66

45. His Name Was Arthur Leigh Allen (2008 Video)

42 min | Documentary, Short, Crime

Retrospective documentary on Arthur Leigh Allen, a prime suspect in the Zodiac investigation.

Director: David Prior | Stars: Ralph A. Spinelli, Donald Cheney, Santo Paul Panzarella, Norman Boudreau

Votes: 101

46. The Big Fat Quiz of Everything (2017 TV Special)

97 min | Comedy, Game-Show, Music

Jonathan Ross and David Walliams, Aisling Bea and Katherine Ryan, and Noel Fielding and Richard Ayoade face off in this humorous special annual celebrity edition of The Big Fat Quiz of Everything hosted by Jimmy Carr.

Stars: Jimmy Carr, Richard Ayoade, Aisling Bea, Noel Fielding

Votes: 384

47. Wallingford: The Story of an Ancient Town (2009 Video)

55 min

This documentary covers the long and illustrious history of the Oxfordshire Town of Wallingford from its beginning as a prehistoric ford across the Thames to its pivotal role in English ... See full summary »

Director: Nick Brazil | Stars: Gloria Deacon, Chris Harris, Liz Holliss

48. Miluji Te (1978 TV Movie)

38 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

Tomorrow is Alice's sixteenth birthday and her classmate Ales, in the words of his grandmother, "preluded on the wall". The fence opposite the family home suddenly has a sign on it that ... See full summary »

Director: Ivo Novák | Stars: Josef Kemr, Stella Zázvorková, Libuse Svormová, Petr Kostka

Votes: 9

49. Murder on the Orient Express: Interview with producer Richard Goodwin (2017 Video)

18 min | Short, History, Mystery

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Star: Richard Goodwin

50. Sleuth: A Sleuthian Journey with Anthony Shaffer (2002 Video)

10 min | Short, History, Mystery

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Director: David Gregory | Stars: Anthony Shaffer, Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier