Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie is the world's best-known mystery writer and all-time best selling author of any genre other than William Shakespeare. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 45 foreign languages. Christie published over eighty novels and stageplays, mainly whodunnits and locked-room mysteries, many of these featuring one of her series characters, Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple. She claimed that she detested Poirot, and she eventually killed him off in 'The Curtain', originally intended by her to be published posthumously, but she lived longer than she thought she would! Miss Marple, on the other hand, she liked, as the character was based on her grandmother. She also wrote romances under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1926 she caused a stir after disappearing for ten days; her car was found abandoned in a chalk pit, and she later claimed amnesia as a result of her mother's recent death and the discovery of her husband's affair. She died of natural causes at the age of 85 on 12 January, 1976.
"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." - Agatha Christie
Crooked House (2017)
6.3/10
Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Starring: Gillian Anderson, Glenn Close, Julian Sands, Terence Stamp, Christina Hendricks,...
Young Sophia returns after the war to find her grandfather poisoned and a family filled with suspects. Luckily her fiance, Charles, is the son of the... Read more
Murder on the Orient Express (Blu-Ray) (2017)
6.5/10
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Johnny Depp, Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Pfeiffer, Penel...
A lavish trip through Europe quickly unfolds into a race against time to solve a murder aboard a train. When an avalanche stops the Orient Express dea... Read more
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
6.5/10
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Johnny Depp, Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Pfeiffer, Penel...
A lavish trip through Europe quickly unfolds into a race against time to solve a murder aboard a train. When an avalanche stops the Orient Express dea... Read more
And Then There Were None (2015)
8/10
Starring: Sam Neill, Toby Stephens, Burn Gorman, Aidan Turner, Maeve Dermody, Douglas Boot...
It's 1939 and Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Indian Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast in southern Englan... Read more
Poirot: The Third Girl (2008)
8.6/10
Director: Dan Reed
Starring: David Suchet, Zoe Wanamaker, Jemima Rooper
Celebrated Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) is joined by crime novelist Ariadne Oliver (Zoe Wanamaker) as he attempts to prove the inno... Read more
Poirot: Mrs McGinty's Dead (2008)
8.6/10
Director: Ashley Pearce
Starring: Amanda Root, David Suchet, Richard Hope, Ruth Gemmell, Sian Phillips, Zoe Wanama...
Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) takes on his toughest challenge yet as he races to prove a convicted killer is innocent. Mrs McGinty was killed by a bru... Read more
Poirot: Appointment with Death (2008)
8.6/10
Director: Ashley Pearce
Starring: Cheryl Campbell, David Suchet, Tim Curry, Christina Cole, Tom Riley
Holidaying in Syria, Poirot (David Suchet) is drawn to the case of murdered Lady Boynton (Cheryl Campbell). Boynton was the wife of eccentric archaeol... Read more
Poirot: Cat Among the Pigeons (2008)
8.6/10
Director: James Kent
Starring: David Suchet, Adam de Ville, Raji James, Harriet Walter, Don Gallagher
Agatha Christie's much loved detective Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) tackles an intriguing and dangerous murder case involving international espionage... Read more
The Agatha Christie Collection: The Mirror Crack'd / Death on the Nile / Murder on the Orient Express / Evil Under the Sun / Endless Night (2008)
Director: Guy Hamilton, John Guillermin, Sidney Gilliat, Sidney Lumet
Starring: Albert Finney, Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, David Niven, Elizabeth Taylor, Hayl...
A box set containing 5 theatrical movies and bonus documentary. 'The Mirror Crack'd': A colony of Hollywood ex-patriots arrive in England only to find... Read more
Agatha Christie Mysteries: The Pale Horse (2006)
Director: Charles Beeson
Starring: Jean Marsh, Leslie Phillips, Colin Buchanan, Jayne Ashbourne, Hermione Norris
In Agatha Christie's deepest venture into the occult, writer Mark Easterbrook is accused of murdering a priest. As he sets out to prove his innocence,... Read more