Screenplay: Agatha Christie
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Agatha Christie. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Witness for the Prosecution
1957 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction Billy Wilder
Cast Tyrone Power · Marlene Dietrich · Charles Laughton · Elsa Lanchester
Plot Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power), a young and attractive man, is accused of the murder of Miss French, a rich old woman. Wilfred Roberts (Charles Laughton), a criminal lawyer from London,...
8.6
43K votes
8.6
43K votes
Agatha Christie's Poirot - The ABC Murders (TV)
1992 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Andrew Grieve
Cast David Suchet · Hugh Fraser · Philip Jackson · Donald Sumpter
Plot 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
Agatha Christie's Poirot - Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (TV)
2013 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Hettie Macdonald
Cast David Suchet · Helen Baxendale · Hugh Fraser · Anne Reid
Plot An ailing Poirot returns to Styles with Hastings nearly three decades after solving their first mystery there in order to prevent a serial killer from claiming more victims.
7.1
222 votes
7.1
222 votes
Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Labours of Hercules (TV)
2013 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Andy Wilson
Cast David Suchet · Patrick Ryecart · Rupert Evans · Lorna Nickson Brown
Plot In an attempt to snare the enigmatic art thief Marrascaud, Poirot and the Metropolitan Police set an irresistible trap: at the society debut of wealthy aristocrat Lucinda Le Mesurier, a...
7.0
158 votes
7.0
158 votes
Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Mysterious Affair at Styles (TV)
1990 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ross Devenish
Cast David Suchet · Hugh Fraser · Philip Jackson · Beatie Edney
Plot 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
Murder on the Orient Express
1974 · Movie · 127 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Sidney Lumet
Cast Albert Finney · Lauren Bacall · Ingrid Bergman · Sean Connery
Plot The Famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot boards the Orient Express, and one of the passengers requests his protection. The next day the passenger is found dead in his compartment, and...
7.0
14K votes
7.0
14K votes
Agatha Christie's Poirot - Peril at End House (TV)
1990 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Renny Rye
Cast David Suchet · Hugh Fraser · Philip Jackson · Polly Walker
Plot 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's Poirot - Three Act Tragedy (TV)
2010 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ashley Pearce
Cast David Suchet · Martin Shaw · Kimberley Nixon · Art Malik
Plot When a vicar chokes to death on a cocktail while attending a party held by actor Sir Charles Cartwright, Poirot initially dismisses the idea of murder but reconsiders when another...
7.0
153 votes
7.0
153 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
Plot TV Series (1989-2013). The cases of an eccentrically refined Belgian detective.
7.0
2K votes
7.0
2K votes
And Then There Were None (TV Miniseries)
2015 · Series · 180 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Craig Viveiros
Cast Maeve Dermody · Charles Dance · Toby Stephens · Burn Gorman
Plot TV Miniseries (2015). 3 Episodes. It's 1939 and Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast in...
6.9
3K votes
6.9
3K votes
Agatha Christie's Poirot - Mrs McGinty's Dead (TV)
2008 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ashley Pearce
Cast David Suchet · Joe Absolom · Simon Molloy · Richard Hope
Plot A pair of photographs are the only clues that Poirot has to solve the murder of a village charwoman, and to prove the innocence of the victim's lodger.
6.9
150 votes
6.9
150 votes
Agatha Christie's Poirot - Hallowe'en Party (TV)
2010 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Charles Palmer
Cast David Suchet · Amelia Bullmore · Zoe Wanamaker · Deborah Findlay
Plot During a village's Hallowe'en party, a young girl boasts of having witnessed a murder from years before. No one believes her tale until her body is found later on in...
6.9
164 votes
6.9
164 votes
Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Clocks (TV)
2009 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Charles Palmer
Cast David Suchet · Olivia Grant · Anna Skellern · Tom Burke
Plot Four clocks surround an unidentified corpse in a blind woman's house, and a young typist is summoned to the crime scene. However, Poirot is convinced that the complicated setup is...
6.9
147 votes
6.9
147 votes
Agatha Christie: Poirot - Hercule Poirot's Christmas (TV)
1994 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Edward Bennett
Cast David Suchet · Philip Jackson · Vernon Dobtcheff · Simon Roberts
Plot 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...
6.9
142 votes
6.9
142 votes
Agatha Christie's Poirot - Death in the Clouds (TV)
1992 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Stephen Whittaker
Cast David Suchet · Philip Jackson · Sarah Woodward · Shaun Scott
Plot While Poirot sleeps on an airplane flight from Paris to London, a notorious French moneylender is murdered with a poisoned dart.
6.9
128 votes
6.9
128 votes
Agatha Christie's Poirot - Elephants Can Remember (TV)
2013 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Strickland
Cast David Suchet · Adrian Lukis · Annabel Mullion · Zoe Wanamaker
Plot Ariadne Oliver becomes an amateur sleuth when her goddaughter tasks her to find out the truth behind her parents' mysterious deaths.
6.9
168 votes
6.9
168 votes
Agatha Christie's Poirot - Five Little Pigs (TV)
2003 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul Unwin
Cast David Suchet · Rachael Stirling · Aidan Gillen · Toby Stephens
Plot Lucy Crale enlists Poirot to investigate the 14-year-old murder in which her mother was hanged for poisoning her artist father.
6.9
210 votes
6.9
210 votes
Agatha Christie's Poirot - Cards on the Table (TV)
2005 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Sarah Harding
Cast David Suchet · James Alper · Philip Bowen · Honeysuckle Weeks
Plot The enigmatic, sinister Mr. Shaitana, one of London's richest men, invites 8 guests, 4 of them possible murderers and 4 'detectives' to his opulent apartment.
6.9
154 votes
6.9
154 votes
Agatha Christie: Poirot - Dumb Witness (TV)
1996 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Edward Bennett
Cast David Suchet · Hugh Fraser · Ann Morrish · Patrick Ryecart
Plot An elderly woman confides to Poirot that she fears one of her relatives is trying to kill her for her money. He persuades her to disinherit her heirs, but she...
6.9
128 votes
6.9
128 votes
Agatha Christie's Poirot - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (TV)
1992 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ross Devenish
Cast David Suchet · Philip Jackson · Joanna Phillips-Lane · Peter Blythe
Plot 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...
6.8
117 votes
6.8
117 votes