Agatha Christie Adaptations
Feature adaptations excluding Marple and Poirot
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- DirectorLeslie S. HiscottStarsAustin TrevorAdrianne AllenRichard CooperA 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.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsAnn HardingBasil RathboneBinnie HaleA lottery winner breaks up with her fiancé and marries a fortune hunter who proves to be dangerous.The stage play Love from a Stranger and the short story Philomel Cottage
- DirectorRené ClairStarsBarry FitzgeraldWalter HustonLouis HaywardSeven 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.
- DirectorJulius HagenLeslie S. HiscottStarsStewart RomeTrilby ClarkUrsula JeansA doctor proves his wife's first husband was killed by a neighbour posing as a tramp.First Christie film adaptation, based on "The Coming of Mr. Quinn"
- DirectorRichard WhorfStarsJohn HodiakSylvia SidneyAnn RichardsA 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.The stage play Love from a Stranger and the short story Philomel Cottage
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsTyrone PowerMarlene DietrichCharles LaughtonA veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.
- DirectorSidney GilliatStarsHayley MillsHywel BennettBritt EklandA 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.
- DirectorPeter CollinsonStarsOliver ReedElke SommerRichard AttenboroughTen 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?
- DirectorDesmond DavisAlan BirkinshawStarsDonald SutherlandFaye DunawayChristopher PlummerDr 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.
- DirectorAlan BirkinshawStarsDonald PleasenceBrenda VaccaroFrank StalloneTen 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?
- DirectorPatrick DewolfStarsAdrian DunbarFlorence HoathSophie AubryA 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 friend. Soon he becomes entangled in the strange lives of his prime suspects, the Graves, an aristocratic English family hiding many dark secrets. In his search for clues, Cross cleverly uncovers an illicit relationship, local Nazi-sympathizers, and ultimately, the true identity of his friend's killer.Based on "Towards Zero"
- DirectorGeorge PollockStarsMargaret RutherfordArthur KennedyMuriel PavlowWhen 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.
- StarsMaurice DenhamAngela EasterlingChristopher WrenA collection of ten hour-long dramas based on short stories by Agatha Christie.
- DirectorFred SauerStarsCarlo AldiniEve GrayEberhard LeithoffBased 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.
- DirectorJean KemmStarsRené AlexandreHarry ArbellDanielle Darrieux
- DirectorJohn Glyn-JonesStarsAlban BlakelockStafford ByrneDerek ElphinstoneLeonard Vole is accused of murdering an elderly rich woman and the only alibi to him depends on his wife Romaine Heilger. Master barrister Robert Mayherne is hired to handle Vole's case and prove he is innocent, but this becomes somewhat of difficult when Romaine comes to the stand of the courtroom as witness for the prosecution.
- DirectorKevin SheldonStarsDouglas HurnElizabeth MaudeArthur WontnerTen people are invited to a summer party on an island oft the Devon coast. They are an extremely varied group from a blustering major to a frigid spinster. The only thing they have in common is that they were each involved in a case of unexpected death. They soon find something very odd about their invitations, and then they start to die, one by one. But who is the murderer and where is he hiding.
- DirectorPaul BogartPhilip F. FalconeLeo FarrenkopfStarsNina FochBarry JonesRomney BrentAgatha Christie mystery in which one of ten suspects in an isolated island mansion is a killer. Who is It?
- DirectorGodfrey GraysonStarsGlynis JohnsJohn JustinJack HulbertWhen an intruder is killed in her house, the comfortable life of Clarissa Hailsham-Browne is turned upside-down.
- DirectorGeorge PollockStarsHugh O'BrianShirley EatonFabianTen 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?
- DirectorJohn DaviesTony WharmbyStarsFrancesca AnnisJohn GielgudBernard MilesWhile golfing on the Welsh coast, Bobby Jones apparently hits a stranger who falls off the the sea cliff. His enigmatic last words are "Why didn't they ask Evans?"
- DirectorTony WharmbyStarsJohn GielgudHarry AndrewsCheryl CampbellLady Eileen "Bundle" Brent is a pert, aggressive young aristocrat that insinuates herself into a series of murders, stolen state secrets, and a mysterious secret society.
- DirectorBasil ColemanStarsPenelope KeithRobert FlemyngThorley WaltersThe wife of a Foreign Office diplomat discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent.
- DirectorAlan GibsonStarsRalph RichardsonDeborah KerrBeau BridgesLeonard Vole is accused of murdering an elderly rich woman, and the only alibi to him depends on his wife Christine.
- DirectorRobert Michael LewisStarsAnthony AndrewsDeborah RaffinPamela BellwoodRosemary Barton, the beautiful wife of a top attorney, dies during their anniversary party at an exclusive restaurant. Later a suicide note is found along with traces of cyanide in her drink, but murder cannot be ruled out.
- DirectorClaude WhathamStarsBill BixbyLesley-Anne DownOlivia de HavillandAn 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.
- DirectorTony WharmbyStarsJames WarwickFrancesca AnnisGavan O'HerlihyAfter two old friends accidentally meet and resolve to become investigators for hire, they quickly become embroiled in a missing treaty and a Bolshevik conspiracy.
- StarsFrancesca AnnisJames WarwickReece DinsdaleAgatha Christie's husband-and-wife sleuthing team take on a series of short whodunit mysteries.
- DirectorJohn SeemanStarsHarry ReemsGinger LynnJamie GillisA young couple receives two tickets in the mail for a free stay at an island resort. After they get there they find out that someone is killing off the guests one by one.
- DirectorDesmond DavisStarsNicholas ClayEmma PiperShaun ScottA man has a vision of a scarred man strangling his wife. At an engagement party, he discovers with horror that the future victim and her murderer are the two betrothed. How he can stop the impending and deadly marriage?
- DirectorAlan GrintStarsRue McClanahanTony RandallEdward WoodwardAn American woman is getting involved in a diamond theft in South Africa.
- DirectorMichael SperrazzaJo ThrockmortonStarsEric BreienCatherine CurtinThomas FattorusoSix friends are trapped in an isolated cabin reachable only by a rugged ten-mile hike. Then they start to die one by one.
- DirectorCharles BeesonStarsColin BuchananJayne AshbourneHermione NorrisWhen Mark Easterbrook finds himself in the frame for the murder of a priest, there seems no way to prove his innocence other than solving the mystery himself.
- DirectorTristram PowellStarsKenneth CranhamRachel ShelleyLia WilliamsIn this TV movie, a classic mystery is updated and relocated to a glamorous world of London socialites and secret agents, introducing two unique and compelling investigators and taking us through to the highest corridors of power.
- DirectorPascal ThomasStarsCatherine FrotAndré DussollierGeneviève BujoldThe Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.
- DirectorPascal ThomasStarsFrançois MorelDanielle DarrieuxMelvil PoupaudA 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.
- DirectorPascal ThomasStarsCatherine FrotAndré DussollierClaude RichPrudence 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!
- StarsGeraldine McEwanJulia McKenzieStephen ChurchettAn elderly spinster living in the village of St. Mary Mead helps her friends and relatives solve mysterious murders.
- StarsDavid SuchetHugh FraserPhilip JacksonHercule Poirot, a famous Belgian detective, who has an impeccable knack for getting embroiled in a mystery, solves crimes along with Captain Hastings and Scotland Yard Chief Inspector James Japp.
- CreatorAgatha ChristieThierry DebrouxSylvie SimonStarsBlandine BellavoirSamuel LabartheElodie FrenckAgatha Christie's masterful storytelling gets a soupçon of French flair in these attractive, witty mysteries. These French adaptations are a fresh, stylish twist on classic Christie tales.
- StarsJessica RaineDavid WalliamsJames FleetAgatha Christie's crime-fighting duo, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, solve mysteries and search for enemy spies in 1950s Britain.
- 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?
- DirectorGilles Paquet-BrennerStarsMax IronsStefanie MartiniGlenn CloseIn 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.
- 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.