Biography
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. ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

A Haunting in Venice
2023
Novel
Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunte...

The Menu
2022
Original Concept
A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.

Death on the Nile
2022
Novel
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfec...

Promise of death
2021
Novel
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...

Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple
2020
as Self - Writer (archive footage)
British writer Agatha Christie (1890-1976) published her first novel in 1920, in which the eccentric Belgian private sleuth Hercule Poirot made his de...

A Murder Is Announced
2019
Novel
Japanese adaptation of Agatha Christie's A Murder is Announced.

Le Crime en héritage : Agatha Christie crève l'écran
2019
as Self - Writer (archive footage)

Agatha Christie, the Queen of Crime
2018
as Self - Writer (archive footage)
British author Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the world's most translated author: her heroes, private detective Hercule Poirot and amateur sleuth Miss...

Kuroido Goroshi
2018
Original Story
March 1952, the only doctor in the village Shiba had found a dead body of Sanako. The cause of death is overdose of sleeping pills. Sanako had been su...

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
2018
Novel
A police detective Shoukokuji Ryuuya from the first section of Metropolitan Police Department is tasked to investigate the murder case of a woman whic...

4.50 from Paddington
2018
Novel
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 cris...

Murder on the Orient Express
2017
Novel
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

Agatha Christie contre Hercule Poirot : Qui a tué Roger Ackroyd ?
2017
as Self (archive footage)

Crooked House
2017
Novel
A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncrat...

Chorabali
2016
Original Story
Sumon is compelled to grow up in the city's underworld as mafia lord Osman Ali's killer machine. After killing a pregnant woman carrying Osman Ali's i...

Murder on the Orient Express
2015
Original Story
The Japanese adaption of Agatha Christie's famous whodunit "Murder on the Orient Express".

The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet
2013
as Self - Writer (archive footage)
David Suchet, TV's Poirot, has spent more of his life acting out the plots and dramas created by Agatha Christie than anyone else in the world. Suchet...

Partners in Crime
2012
Story
Prudence and Bélisaire Beresford have decided to take things easy. But when a rich Russian heiress disappears, Prudence can't resist and Bélisaire is ...

Fatal Invitation
2011
Novel
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 ...

Crime Is Our Business
2008
Novel, Story
Loosely based on "4.50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie.

The Great Alibi
2008
Novel
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...

Towards Zero
2007
Novel
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, bo...

By the Pricking of My Thumbs
2005
Novel
The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.

Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
2004
as Self (archive footage)
A biopic of Agatha Christie including her 10 day disappearance.

Sparkling Cyanide
2003
Novel
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 secre...

Subho Mahurat
2003
Story
An actress mysteriously dies after the "Shubho Mahurat," a celebration of the first shot of the film. A journalist and her perceptive aunt investigate...

Identity
2003
Original Concept
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers th...

Murder on the Orient Express
2001
Novel
Agatha Christie's classic whodunit speeds into the twenty-first century. World-famous sleuth Hercule Poirot has just finished a case in Istanbul and i...

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
2000
Novel
Agatha Christie's master sleuth Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) is lured out of retirement when a series of vicious murders occur in the sleepy English ...

Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
1997
Novel
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 reput...

Innocent Lies
1995
Novel
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 me...

Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
1992
Novel
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 ...

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
1991
Novel
At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit 'Stonygates', th...

The Trouble With Agatha Christie
1991
as Self - Writer (archive footage)
An investigation into the mysterious world of the crime novelist Agatha Christie, with comments from poison experts, policeman and pathologists and me...

Mousetrap
1990
Novel
The criminal history is inscribed in the everyday life of prosperous, apparently quite prosperous people. Suddenly, the truth is revealed, hidden for ...

Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
1990
as Self (archive footage)
Profile celebrating the centenary of the famous author Agatha Christie’s birth. Looking at her life, her character and the key moments in her childhoo...

Peril at End House
1990
Novel
A classic mystery story based on the famous novel by Agatha Christie.

Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
1989
Novel
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...

Ten Little Indians
1989
Novel
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
Novel
An American woman gets involved in a diamond theft in South Africa.

Appointment with Death
1988
Novel
Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed ...

Ten Little Indians
1987
Novel
A disturbing psychological thriller based on the classic novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts...

Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
1987
Novel
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
Novel
Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slac...

Murder in Three Acts
1986
Novel
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 unt...
Agatha Christie’s The Last Seance
1986
Short Story
Simone is growing increasingly worried about her powers but is promised by her overbearing fiance that she can stop after one more dramatic seance.

Dead Man's Folly
1986
Novel
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
Novel
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 h...

Murder with Mirrors
1985
Novel
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 ...

Dangerous Women
1985
Novel
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...

Ordeal by Innocence
1984
Novel
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 ...

Sparkling Cyanide
1983
Novel
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 ...

A Caribbean Mystery
1983
Novel
Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Jane Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort...

The Secret Adversary
1983
Novel
After a chance meeting and an indiscreet conversation, childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley become involved in a convoluted intrigue ...

Spider's Web
1982
Novel
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 libra...

Witness for the Prosecution
1982
Novel
Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months following his heart attack. Returning to the prac...
The Soul's beauty
1982
Novel
Based on Agatha Christie's Novel "The Tenth Victim" Madiha is a middle-class employee. When her relative dies and inherits a large amount of money, sh...

Evil Under the Sun
1982
Novel
An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangli...

Murder Is Easy
1982
Novel
American computer whiz Luke Williams meets elderly Lavinia Fullerton on a London-bound train. She reveals she's discovered the identity of a serial ki...

Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
1981
Novel
When two mysterious deaths mar an otherwise pleasant weekend in the English countryside, unflappable flapper Lady Eileen Brent teams up with the dashi...

The Mirror Crack'd
1980
Novel
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

Towards Zero
1980
Novel
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
Novel
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 myst...

Death on the Nile
1978
Novel
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 s...

Murder on the Orient Express
1974
Novel
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
Novel
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 kille...

Black Coffee
1973
Novel
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 recogn...

Endless Night
1972
Novel
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 famo...
Mord im Pfarrhaus
1970
Novel
Dix petits nègres
1970
Novel

Les Dix Petits Nègres
1970
Novel

Nadu Iravil
1970
Novel
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...

Five Dolls for an August Moon
1970
Novel
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 rea...

Zehn kleine Negerlein
1969
Story

La Toile d'araignée
1969
Novel

Love from a Stranger
1967
Novel

Les Quatre Vérités
1966
Novel

The Alphabet Murders
1965
Novel
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
Novel
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, in unique...

Gumnaam
1965
Novel
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 ...

Murder Ahoy
1964
Novel
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 ...

Murder Most Foul
1964
Novel
A murderer is brought to court and only Miss Marple is unconvinced of his innocence. Once again she begins her own investigation.

Murder at the Gallop
1963
Novel
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. ...

Murder She Said
1961
Novel
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
Story, Original Story
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 ...

The Spider's Web
1960
Theatre Play, Story
Mystery film based on an Agatha Christie play. An ambassador's wife must hide the corpse of her stepdaughter's unlikeable stepfather from her husband,...

Chupi Chupi Aashey
1960
Story
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, i...

Ten Little Indians
1959
Novel
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 no...

Witness for the Prosecution
1957
Novel
An ailing barrister agrees to defend a man in a sensational murder trial where the unconvincing testimony of the defendant's wife becomes a subject of...

Ein Fremder kam ins Haus
1957
Novel
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...
Das Spinnennetz
1956
Novel
Spider's Web
1955
Screenplay
Ten Little Indians
1949
Novel
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 spin...

Witness for the Prosecution
1949
Story
Agatha Christie tale of a man on trial for murder: a trial featuring surprise after surprise. Not to be confused with the later Hollywood adaptation.

Love from a Stranger
1947
Novel
Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Law...

And Then There Were None
1945
Novel
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 ...

Love from a Stranger
1937
Novel
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 Basi...

Lord Edgware Dies
1934
Novel
A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, on...

Lackered Box
1932
Novel
The story gets under way at a weekend house party where a scientist is murdered and his secret papers stolen. Putting his "little grey cells" in actio...

Black Coffee
1931
Novel
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 famo...

Alibi
1931
Novel
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a mysterious suicide at a country house.

Adventures Inc.
1929
Novel
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 espio...

The Passing of Mr. Quinn
1928
Writer

Victims Hotel
N/A
Original Film Writer
a TV movie based on an Agatha Christie's novel