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
Poirot: Series 6 - Volume 2 (1995)
8.6/10
Starring: David Suchet
As well as garnering critical and commercial acclaim in the UK, 'Poirot' has gone on to become the most watched detective character on television as w... Read more
Poirot: Series 7 & 8 (2000)
8.6/10
Starring: David Suchet
A series of four separate movie-length stories, in which Agatha Christie's Poirot (David Suchet) must exercise his wit against the intelligence of the... Read more
Poirot: Taken at the Flood (2005)
8.6/10
Director: Andy Wilson
Starring: Celia Imrie, David Suchet, Tim Pigott-Smith, Patrick Baladi, Elliot Cowan
In this addition to the popular series based on the novels by Agatha Christie, the sudden death of wealthy Gordon Cloade puts his greedy family in qui... Read more
Poirot: The Hollow (2003)
8.6/10
Director: Simon Langton
Starring: David Suchet, Edward Fox, Lysette Anthony, Jonathan Cake, Claire Price
Poirot's (David Suchet) fascination for observing human behaviour leads him to accept an invitation to The Hollow, the beautiful country retreat of th... 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
The Agatha Christie Code (2005)
7.1/10
Starring: David Suchet, Narrated by, Joanna Lumley
After Shakespeare, Agatha Christie is the world's best selling author with over 2 billion books sold. In a game of sleuth and deduction this documenta... 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
The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
6.2/10
Director: Guy Hamilton
Starring: Rock Hudson, Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Curtis,...
Angela Lansbury makes an excellent Miss Marple and Edward Fox is top-notch as her Scotland Yard inspector nephew. Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Rock Hu... Read more
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
8.4/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone Power, Charles Laughton
Agatha Christie's play about a sensational London murder trial features great performances from Charles Laughton as the ageing lawyer, and from Tyrone... Read more
Witness for the Prosecution ( Blu-ray ) (1957)
8.4/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone Power
Agatha Christie's play about a sensational London murder trial features great performances from Charles Laughton as the ageing lawyer, and from Tyrone... Read more