Known for Writing
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright. She is best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, The Mousetrap, and six romances under the name Mary Westmacott. In 1971 she was made a Dame for her contribution to literature. Most of her books and short stories have been adapted for television, radio, video games and comics, and more than thirty feature films have been based on her work.
Born
September 14, 1890
Died
January 12, 1976 (age 85)
Birthplace
Torquay, Devon, England, UK
Filmography
112 films, 66 shows


A Haunting in Venice
2023 · 1h 44m
country: United Kingdom
Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.


Death on the Nile
2022 · 2h 7m
country: United States
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.


Promise of Death
2021 · 2h 10m
country: Japan
Detective Suguro is enjoying a stay at a luxurious hotel in Wakayama. Also staying at the hotel is an unusual family led by rich widow Mrs. Hondo. She acts like a tyrant around her children, who are afraid of her and are at her beck and call. Unfortunately, a tragedy strikes the Hondo Family while on a hike to a local shrine. Mrs. Hondo, who was supposed to be taking a rest on the way, is found dead. Kawahara Daisaku, the chief of the local police station, asks Suguro to help with the investigation of Mrs. Hondo’s death.


A Murder Is Announced
2019 · 2h 5m
country: Japan
Japanese adaptation of Agatha Christie's A Murder is Announced.


The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
2018 · 2h 47m
country: Japan
A police detective Shoukokuji Ryuuya from the first section of Metropolitan Police Department is tasked to investigate the murder case of a woman which takes place at a grand party held by a big-time actress but faces the hurdle of finding the true culprit among the large pool of suspects.


4.50 from Paddington
2018 · 2h 10m
country: Japan
Toko Amano worked as a detective, but to take care of her sick husband she quit her job. After her husband passed away, Toko Amano now works as a crisis management expert. 3 days ago, Toko Amano's former mother-in-law rode on an express train with beds. She witnessed a man strangling a woman and told the train conductor, but he thought she imagined it. The police later searched for the woman's body, but could not find her. Toko Amano boards the same express train that her former mother-in-law rode. She looks for the dead body.


Murder on the Orient Express
2017 · 1h 54m
country: United States
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.


Crooked House
2017 · 1h 55m
country: United Kingdom
A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.


Chorabali
2016 · 2h 17m
country: India
A whodunit thriller set in the backdrop of North Kolkata with its British Raj charm, based on Agatha Christie's Cards on the Table.


Nin9
2015 · 1h 31m
country: Egypt
Nine people with mutual history meet in one place, which eventually reveals a lot of dark secrets that were hidden for too long. A ruthless battle ensues between them, but who will finally have the upper hand?


Fatal Invitation
2011 · 1h 25m
country: Unknown
An ordinary summer day change to darkness when a young woman's body is found dead in her garden. 6 people are invited to a beautiful house that holds a mystery of the dead woman. All 6 people has a history with the dead woman, some of them share a dirty past with her. What could they have done? Are any of them responsible for her death?


Crime Is Our Business
2008 · 1h 49m
country: France
Loosely based on "4.50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie.


The Great Alibi
2008 · 1h 33m
country: France
Like every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a peaceful village near Paris. But this time around, things go awry: Pierre Collier, a psychoanalyst and consummate womanizer, is brutally murdered. Claire, his wife, dazed and confused by his corpse, with a smoking gun still in her hand, seems to be the ideal culprit...


Towards Zero
2007 · 1h 43m
country: France
Inviting the ex-wife to a family reunion when the none-too-secure new wife will be there hardly seems to be a recipe for success, and true to form, bodies have begun to stack up by the end of this cinematic update of a classic Agatha Christie tale. Luckily for the extended clan gathered at a sumptuous waterfront estate in Northern France, Inspector Martin Bataille is on hand to find out not only "who done it" but why.


By the Pricking of My Thumbs
2005 · 1h 45m
country: France
The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.


Sparkling Cyanide
2003 · 2h
country: United Kingdom
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie In 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.


Shubho Muharat
2003 · 2h 34m
country: India
An actress mysteriously dies after the "Shubho Mahurat," a celebration of the first shot of the film. A journalist and her perceptive aunt investigate.


Murder on the Orient Express
2001 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Agatha Christie's classic whodunit speeds into the twenty-first century. World-famous sleuth Hercule Poirot has just finished a case in Istanbul and is returning home to London onboard the luxurious Orient Express. But, the train comes to a sudden halt when a rock slide blocks the tracks ahead. And all the thrills of riding the famous train come to a halt when a man discovered dead in his compartment, stabbed nine times. The train is stranded. No one has gotten on or gotten off. That can only mean one thing: the killer is onboard, and it is up to Hercule Poirot to find him.


Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
1997 · 2h
country: United Kingdom
Writer Mark Easterbrook has a vested interest in solving the murder of a priest. That's because Mark himself is under suspicion. But to save his reputation and put the real killer behind bars, he'll have to go through a mysterious list of names that's suddenly turned up and may hold the key to the murderer's identity.


Innocent Lies
1995 · 1h 28m
country: France
In September 1938 a British detective comes to a small French coastal town in order to investigate the death of a colleague. Prime suspects are the members of English aristocratic family with plenty of skeletons in the closet. This is a loose adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel Towards Zero.


Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
1992 · 1h 46m
country: United Kingdom
A town busybody is poisoned at a busy reception in the home of famous film star Marina Gregg. The poisoned drink seemed intended for Marina, but Miss Marple is not so sure. She sets out to discover the true identity of the killer before he or she can strike again.


Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
1991 · 1h 40m
country: United Kingdom
At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit 'Stonygates', the country house of Ruth's sister.


Mousetrap
1990 · 1h 26m
country: Soviet Union
The criminal history is inscribed in the everyday life of prosperous, apparently quite prosperous people. Suddenly, the truth is revealed, hidden for the time being under the guise of respectability. The past is returning, creating mysterious murders ...


Peril at End House
1990 · 1h 42m
country: Soviet Union
A classic mystery story based on the famous novel by Agatha Christie.


Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
1989 · 1h 44m
country: United Kingdom
While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major is actually the work of a murderer planning yet another killing.


Ten Little Indians
1989 · 1h 40m
country: United Kingdom
Ten 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?


The Man in the Brown Suit
1989 · 1h 35m
country: United States
An American woman gets involved in a diamond theft in South Africa.


Appointment with Death
1988 · 1h 42m
country: Israel
Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from her dominating influence. She takes herself, the children, and her daughter-in-law on holiday to Europe and the Holy Land. At a dig, Emily is found dead and Hercule Poirot investigates.


Ten Little Indians
1987 · 2h 17m
country: Soviet Union
Ten strangers are forced to come face-to-face with their dark pasts after receiving an anonymous invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England.


Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
1987 · 1h 50m
country: United Kingdom
Travelling on the 4.50 from Paddington, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train - but where is the body?


Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage
1986 · 1h 42m
country: Australia
Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Marple.


Murder in Three Acts
1986 · 1h 34m
country: Mexico
In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.


Dead Man's Folly
1986 · 1h 30m
country: United States
During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.


Thirteen at Dinner
1985 · 1h 35m
country: United Kingdom
Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound at the base of his neck. It will take the precise Poirot to sort out the lies from the alibis - and find the criminal before another victim dies.


Murder with Mirrors
1985 · 1h 34m
country: United States
When Miss Jane Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there's time to lather a warm scone with marmalade and place a tea cozy, murder most foul is bound to occur.


Dangerous Women
1985 · 2h 2m
country: Japan
Shuhei, a mystery writer, is invited to a dinner party at a country house. The guests include Tanase and his wife Noriko. Next day, Tanase is shot and Noriko with a gun stands near him. Tanase calls one of the guest's name and dies.


Ordeal by Innocence
1984 · 1h 30m
country: United Kingdom
Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to return an address book lost some time ago by Jack Argyle, only to find out that Jack has been executed for the murder of his mother. Calgary can prove that Jack was innocent. In spite of opposition from a hostile family, he is determined to solve the crime.


Secret of the Blackbirds
1983 · 1h 32m
country: Soviet Union
Mr. Fortescue, owner of a big company, unexpectedly dies. The autopsy shows that he has been poisoned. Nobody actually loved him, and even his family members had their reasons to kill him. But who really did it? And who is responsable for killing his young servant and his wife within the next couple of days? Of course the only person who can answer this question is Ms. Marple. And of course, the murderer is the person you least expected it to be.


Sparkling Cyanide
1983 · 1h 40m
country: Unknown
The beautiful but unfaithful wife of a successful lawyer meets her untimely end at their anniversary dinner. After a suicide note is found soon after her death, it seems more likely that she was murdered, as all the dinner guests had good reason to want her dead.


A Caribbean Mystery
1983 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Jane Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort they're staying at is a Bluebeard-type wife murderer. Unfortunately, the Major succumbs to an apparently accidental overdose of alcohol and blood pressure medication before revealing the killer's identity. When it's discovered that the medicine belonged to another guest and the revealing photograph the Major was carrying is missing, Miss Marple realizes that the serial killer has struck again and more murders will follow.


The Secret Adversary
1983 · 2h 1m
country: United Kingdom
After a chance meeting and an indiscreet conversation, childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley become involved in a convoluted intrigue led by a mysterious man known simply as Mr. Brown.


Spider's Web
1982 · 1h 35m
country: United Kingdom
Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?' she muses. Clarissa has her chance to find out when she discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent.


Witness for the Prosecution
1982 · 1h 37m
country: United Kingdom
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.


Evil Under the Sun
1982 · 1h 57m
country: United Kingdom
An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star.


Murder Is Easy
1982 · 1h 35m
country: United States
American computer whiz Luke Williams meets elderly Lavinia Fullerton on a London-bound train. She reveals she's discovered the identity of a serial killer in her village and is going to report it to Scotland Yard. When she is murdered after disembarking the train, Williams vows to pursue the case himself.


Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
1981 · 2h 13m
country: United Kingdom
When two mysterious deaths mar an otherwise pleasant weekend in the English countryside, unflappable flapper Lady Eileen Brent teams up with the dashing Jimmy Thesinger to solve the dastardly deeds. Their sleuthing leads them into a world of espionage and international intrigue as they discover a secret society known as "The Seven Dials" and the attempted theft of top-secret government documents.


Towards Zero
1980 · 1h 50m
country: Italy
Verso l'ora zero is an Italian television film from 1980. It is based on the Agatha Christie novel Towards Zero.


Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
1980 · 3h
country: United Kingdom
This intriguing story is set in the 1930s at a country house, where two amateur sleuths, Bobby Jones and Lady Frankie Derwent, try to unravel the mystery behind a tale of murder, suspense and false identities. And the only clues the two have to go on are the puzzling last words of a dying man. Featuring characters created by Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans is a classic crime thriller sure to please murder-mystery fans.


The Mirror Crack'd
1980 · 1h 45m
country: United Kingdom
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.


Death on the Nile
1978 · 2h 20m
country: United Kingdom
As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board and every elegant passenger becomes a prime suspect.


Murder on the Orient Express
1974 · 2h 8m
country: United Kingdom
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.


And Then There Were None
1974 · 1h 38m
country: Austria
Ten 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?


Black Coffee
1973 · 1h 10m
country: Germany
The inventor Sir Claude Amery wants to give the thief of the formula for his latest invention the chance to return it in the dark without being recognized. He gathers everyone in the house in the library and has the lights switched off for a short time. When the light comes back on, Amery is dead. A case for the Belgian master detective Hercule Poirot.


Endless Night
1972 · 1h 39m
country: United Kingdom
Shiftless dreamer Michael Rogers fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl who just came of age. They hire a famous architect to build their dream home amidst a series of suspicious incidents. The spouse has dark intentions toward his naive, inexperienced bride. Secrets from his past and sinister ties to their house guest Greta lead to a terrible turn of unexpected events.
Mord im Pfarrhaus
Mord im Pfarrhaus
1970 · 1h 30m
country: Germany


Les Dix Petits Nègres
1970
country: France


Nadu Iravil
1970 · 2h 28m
country: India
A murder-mystery, in which the friend of a wealthy, elderly couple tries to bring about a reconciliation between them on the one hand, and their their estranged relatives on the other.


Five Dolls for an August Moon
1970 · 1h 22m
country: Italy
A wealthy playboy gathers a group of bourgeois friends at his isolated beach house for a weekend of relaxation. When bodies start pilling up, they realize they’re trapped with a killer in their midst, sending them in a frenzy to figure out who amongst them is killing the others before they are killed next.


La Toile d'araignée
1969
country: France


Love from a Stranger
1967 · 1h 27m
country: Germany


Les Quatre Vérités
1966
country: Unknown
Olivier Andrieu married Nicole, the daughter of Lucie and Alfred Trévière, owners of Trévière Laboratories. Olivier works there as a biochemist. He suspects his wife of infidelity and wants to inject her with a truth serum of his own invention. Nicole agrees, provided the family participates in the experiment. After the injection, (almost) all of them feel an irresistible urge to reveal their true nature in front of as many witnesses as possible.


The Alphabet Murders
1965 · 1h 30m
country: United Kingdom
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.


Ten Little Indians
1965 · 1h 32m
country: United Kingdom
Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion. When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one.


Gumnaam
1965 · 2h 31m
country: India
Eight people are trapped on an island when their plane abandons them. They find a large mansion whose butler is expecting them. Then one by one, they begin to die...


Murder Ahoy
1964 · 1h 33m
country: United Kingdom
During an annual board of trustees meeting, one of the trustees dies. Miss Marple thinks he’s been poisoned after finding a chemical on him. She sets off to investigate at the ship where he had just come from. The fourth and final film from the Miss Marple series starring Margaret Rutherford as the quirky amateur detective.


Murder Most Foul
1964 · 1h 30m
country: United Kingdom
A murderer is brought to court and only Miss Marple is unconvinced of his guilt. Once again she begins her own investigation.


Murder at the Gallop
1963 · 1h 21m
country: United Kingdom
Miss Marple and Mr. Stringer are witnesses to the death by heart attack of elderly, rich Mr. Enderby. Yet they have their doubts about what happened. The police don't believe them, thus leading Miss Marple to yet again investigate by herself.


Murder She Said
1961 · 1h 27m
country: United Kingdom
Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.


I Am Justice
1961 · 1h 30m
country: Egypt
The events of the film take place in a dramatic setting on New Year's Eve, where a group of the elite of society celebrate in the palace of a wealthy man (Munir Ezzat), and there the course of events changes, as the life of each of the invitees is at stake, after an unknown person reveals the truth about each of them through a recording that is broadcast after they enter the palace, and decides to achieve justice with his own hands, so he takes revenge on each of them, and reveals their sins to each other.


Chupi Chupi Aashey
1960 · 1h 57m
country: India
A woman is murdered and a hand bill of a resort run by a young couple is found. Is the murderer headed for it? Who is next victim? All the boarders, including owners are under false name. Why? A policeman arrives, will he be able to stop?


Ten Little Indians
1959 · 52m
country: United States
Ten strangers are invited to a mansion on a remote island, where they are killed one by one by a mysterious assailant. Based on the Agatha Christie novel, also known by the title And Then There Were None.


Witness for the Prosecution
1957 · 1h 56m
country: United States
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.


Ein Fremder kam ins Haus
1957
country: Germany
A lot has happened in Cecily Harrington's life. The young woman has not only won 10,000 pounds in the lottery, but has also unceremoniously dumped her fiancé Nigel after falling head over heels in love with Bruce Lovell. But after their wedding, when they retire to a remote country house, the likeable globetrotter changes visibly. Eventually, she even begins to suspect that her husband may have a terrible secret: Is he the wife-killer who is being searched for around the globe and who poisons his wives and buries them in the cellar?
Das Spinnennetz
Das Spinnennetz
1956
country: Germany
Ten Little Indians
Ten Little Indians
1949 · 1h 30m
country: United Kingdom
Ten 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.


Love from a Stranger
1947 · 1h 21m
country: Unknown
Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent her flat and she falls in love with him, and they are married. For their honeymoon, they go to an isolated English college where she, unlike the audience, doesn't realize she has married a fortune-hunting Bluebeard with a few murdered wives in his past. The question is will she be able to repent in leisure her decision to marry in haste.


And Then There Were None
1945 · 1h 38m
country: United States
Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host to appear, a recording levels serious accusations at each of the guests. Soon they start being murdered, one by one. As the survivors try to keep their wits, they reach a disturbing conclusion: one of them must be the killer.


Love from a Stranger
1937 · 1h 26m
country: United Kingdom
Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winning a lottery. Swept off her feet by charming Basil Rathbone, Harding finds herself married before she is fully able to grasp the situation. Slowly but surely, Rathbone's loving veneer crumbles; when he casually asks Harding to sign a document turning her entire fortune over to him, she deduces that her days are numbered.


Lord Edgware Dies
1934 · 1h 22m
country: United Kingdom
A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?


The Lackered Box
1932 · 1h 25m
country: United Kingdom
Fearing the theft of an important secret formula, the scientist Claude Amory asks for help from Monsieur Préval, director of the Sûreté. But when Amory is mysteriously poisoned inside his own home, the detective realizes the case is more serious than he had imagined and decides to investigate each of the suspects.


Black Coffee
1931 · 1h 18m
country: France
Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings. A 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.


Alibi
1931 · 1h 15m
country: United Kingdom
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a mysterious suicide at a country house.


Adventures Inc.
1929 · 1h 2m
country: Germany
Based 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.