Screenplay: Clive Exton

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Clive Exton. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Jeeves and Wooster (TV Series)

1990 · Series · 55 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Clive Exton · Robert Young · Simon Langton · Ferdinand Fairfax

Cast Stephen Fry · Hugh Laurie · Robert Daws · Richard Dixon

Synopsis TV Series (1990-1993). 4 Seasons. 23 Episodes. Based on the well-loved novels of P.G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse, this British series featuring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, chronicles the misadventures (romantic and otherwise) of the impeccably dressed Bertie Wooster and his...

7.4

109 votes

7.4

109 votes

Direction Andrew Grieve

Cast David Suchet · Hugh Fraser · Philip Jackson · Donald Sumpter

Synopsis Poirot receives taunting letters from a serial killer who appears to choose his victims and crime scenes alphabetically.

7.1

131 votes

7.1

131 votes

10 Rillington Place

1971 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Richard Attenborough · Judy Geeson · John Hurt · Pat Heywood

Synopsis London, 1949. John Christie is an unassuming, middle aged man who, along with his wife Ethel, manages the apartment building at 10 Rillington Place. His unassuming demeanor masks the fact of being a serial killer. His modus operandi is to...

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

Direction Ross Devenish

Cast David Suchet · Hugh Fraser · Philip Jackson · Beatie Edney

Synopsis 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.

7.0

143 votes

7.0

143 votes

Direction Renny Rye

Cast David Suchet · Hugh Fraser · Philip Jackson · Polly Walker

Synopsis While Poirot is staying at an exclusive Cornish resort, he meets a beautiful heiress whose life is in danger.

7.0

131 votes

7.0

131 votes

Agatha Christie: Poirot (TV Series)

1989 · Series · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Edward Bennett · Renny Rye · Andrew Grieve · Richard Spence

Cast David Suchet · Hugh Fraser · Philip Jackson · Pauline Moran

Synopsis TV Series (1989-2013). The cases of an eccentrically refined Belgian detective.

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Direction Edward Bennett

Cast David Suchet · Philip Jackson · Vernon Dobtcheff · Simon Roberts

Synopsis 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.

6.9

142 votes

6.9

142 votes

Direction Ross Devenish

Cast David Suchet · Philip Jackson · Joanna Phillips-Lane · Peter Blythe

Synopsis 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.

6.8

117 votes

6.8

117 votes

Direction Peter Barber-Fleming

Cast David Suchet · Hugh Fraser · Pauline Moran · Rolf Saxon

Synopsis 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.

6.8

107 votes

6.8

107 votes

Direction Andrew Grieve

Cast David Suchet · Philip Jackson · Oliver Ford Davies · Malcolm Terris

Synopsis Living quietly in the small village of King's Abbot, sleuth Hercule Poirot becomes involved in the murder of successful industrialist Roger Ackroyd. The number of potential killers is almost as great as the population of the village itself. As Poirot...

6.7

183 votes

6.7

183 votes

Isadora

1968 · Movie · 138 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Karel Reisz

Cast Vanessa Redgrave · James Fox · Jason Robards · Ivan Tchenko

Synopsis A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of...

6.6

576 votes

6.6

576 votes

Direction Edward Bennett

Cast David Suchet · Hugh Fraser · Philip Jackson · Pauline Moran

Synopsis 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.

6.6

141 votes

6.6

141 votes

Direction Andrew Grieve

Cast David Suchet · Hugh Fraser · Philip Jackson · Pauline Moran

Synopsis 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.

6.6

127 votes

6.6

127 votes

Direction Edward Bennett

Cast David Suchet · Hugh Fraser · Philip Jackson · Pauline Moran

Synopsis 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.

6.6

133 votes

6.6

133 votes

Direction Tom Clegg

Cast David Suchet · Hugh Fraser · Ron Berglas · Barbara Barnes

Synopsis 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.

6.5

166 votes

6.5

166 votes

Direction Edward Bennett

Cast David Suchet · Hugh Fraser · Philip Jackson · Pauline Moran

Synopsis Poirot probes the disappearance of a wealthy woman's cook, and soon uncovers an elaborate plot to hide an ever darker crime.

6.5

152 votes

6.5

152 votes

Direction Richard Spence

Cast David Suchet · Hugh Fraser · Philip Jackson · Pauline Moran

Synopsis 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.

6.4

128 votes

6.4

128 votes

Direction Brian Farnham

Cast David Suchet · Hugh Fraser · Philip Jackson · Pauline Moran

Synopsis 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.

6.4

101 votes

6.4

101 votes

Direction Edward Bennett

Cast David Suchet · Hugh Fraser · Philip Jackson · Pauline Moran

Synopsis 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.

6.4

154 votes

6.4

154 votes

Direction Renny Rye

Cast David Suchet · Hugh Fraser · Melissa Greenwood · Victoria Hasted

Synopsis Poirot's Mediterranean cruise is disrupted when an unlikeable passenger is found murdered in her stateroom.

6.4

134 votes

6.4

134 votes