Best Agatha Christie Adaptations
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- StarsMaeve DermodyCharles DanceToby StephensTen strangers are invited to an island by a mysterious host, and start to get killed one by one. Could one of them be the killer?
- DirectorJane JensenHidden object adventure game featuring famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot who's on a Nile River cruise. A heiress is murdered on the ship and it turns out that almost every passenger had a motive. From a classic mystery novel.
- DirectorKenneth BranaghStarsKenneth BranaghPenélope CruzWillem DafoeWhen a murder occurs on the train on which he's travelling, celebrated detective Hercule Poirot is recruited to solve the case.
- DirectorDan ReedStarsDavid SuchetDavid YellandJemima RooperAfter a seemingly neurotic young heiress tells Ariadne Oliver and Poirot that she thinks she may have killed someone, her ex-nanny is found with her wrists slashed.
- DirectorCharlie PalmerStarsDavid SuchetAmelia BullmoreZoë WanamakerDuring 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 the evening, drowned in the apple-bobbing bucket.
- DirectorAshley PearceStarsDavid SuchetMartin ShawKimberley NixonWhen 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 guest dies in the same manner.
- DirectorHettie MacdonaldStarsDavid SuchetJames D'ArcyAlice EvePoirot investigates the brutal murder of an American heiress and the theft of a fabulous ruby on the Blue Train between Calais and Nice.It makes me angry that it doesn't follow the book closely.
- DirectorSarah HardingStarsDavid SuchetJames AlperPhilip BowenThe 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.
- DirectorTom CleggStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserRon BerglasWhile 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.
- DirectorAndrew GrieveStarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonPoirot receives taunting letters from a serial killer who appears to choose his victims and crime scenes alphabetically.A clever, smooth adaptation of a decent novel.
- DirectorStephen WhittakerStarsDavid SuchetPhilip JacksonSarah WoodwardWhile Poirot sleeps on an airplane flight from Paris to London, a notorious French moneylender is murdered with a poisoned dart.Clever, clever, clever reveal of the murderer!
- StarsKaya ScodelarioGeorgina CampbellRufus SewellIs a trio of witches responsible for a series of sudden deaths or is there a rational explanation?
- DirectorAndrew GrieveStarsDavid SuchetPhilip JacksonOliver Ford DaviesPoirot comes out of retirement when his industrialist friend is brutally murdered a short while after a local widow who was suspected of killing her husband commits suicide.The absolute worst of all adaptations ever made, on the big or the small screen. Avoid at all costs!