Films

-1950's

The Passing of Mr. Quinn
UK, 1928; Silent, B/W, based on 'The Coming of Mr. Quin'
Director: Julius Hagen
Writer: Leslie S. Hiscott
Cast: Clifford Heatherley (Prof. Appleby), Trilby Clark (Eleanor Appleby), Stewart Rome (Dr. Alec Portal), Vivian Baron (Derek Cappel), Ursula Jeans (Vera)
Die Abenteuer G.m.b.H.
Germany, 1929; Silent, B/W, based on "The Secret Adversary"
Director: Fred Sauer
Writer: Jane Bess
Cast: Carlo Aldini, Eve Gray, Michael Rusmny
Alibi
UK, 1931; B/W, based on "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"
Director: Leslie S.Hiscott
Writer: H. Fowler Mear
Cast: Austin Trevor (Poirot), Elizabeth Allan, Clare Greet, Franklin Dyall
Black Coffee
UK, 1931; B/W, based on "Black Coffee"
Director: Leslie S.Hiscott
Writer: Brock Williams, H. Fowler Mear
Cast: Austin Trevor (Poirot), Adrianne Allen, Richard Cooper (Hastings), Melville Cooper (Japp), C.V.France
Le Coffret de laque
FR, 1932; B/W, based on "Black Coffee"
Director: Jean Kemm
Writer: Pierre Maudru, H. Fowler Mear, Brock Williams
Cast: Danielle Darrieux, René Alexandre, Harry Arbell, Maxime Desjardins, Gaston Dupray, Alice Field, Maurice Varny, Marcel Vibert
Lord Edgware Dies
UK, 1934; B/W, based on "Lord Edgware Dies"
Director: Henry Edwards
Writer: H. Fowler Mear
Cast: Austin Trevor (Poirot), Jane Carr, Richard Cooper, John Turnbull
Love from a Stranger
UK, 1937; B/W, based on 'Philomel Cottage'
Director: Rowland V. Lee
Writer: Frances Marion
Cast: Ann Harding (Carol Howard), Basil Rathbone (Gerald Lovell), Binnie Hale (Kate Meadows), Bruce Seton (Ronald Bruce), Jean Cadell (Aunt Lou), Bryan Powley (Doctro Gribble), Joan Hickson (Emmy), Donald Calthrop (Hobson), Eugene Leahy (Mr. Tuttle)
And Then There were None
US, 1945; B/W, based on "And Then There were None"
Director: Rene Clair
Writer: Rene Clair, Dudley Nichols
Cast: Walter Huston (Dr. Armstrong), Barry Fitzgerald (Judge Quincannon), Louis Hayward (Philip Lombard), Roland Young (Detective Blore), June Duprez (Vera Claythorne), C. Aubrey Smith (General Sir John Mandrake), Judith Anderson (Emily Brent), Mischa Auer (Prince Nikki Starloff), Richard Haydn (Rogers, the butler), Queenie Leonard (Mrs. Rogers)
Love from a Stranger
US, 1947; B/W, based on 'Philomel Cottage'
Director: Richrd Whorf
Writer: Philip MacDonald
Cast: John Hodiak (Manuel Cortez), Sylvia Sidney (Cecily Harrington), Ann Richards (Mavia), John Howard (Nigel Lawrence), Isobel Elsom (Auntie Loo-Loo), Ernest Cossart (Billings), Anita Sharp-Bolster (Ethel, the maid), Philip Tonge (Dr. Gribble), Frederick Worlock (Insp. Hobday)
Witness for the Prosecution
US, 1957; based on "Witness for the Prosecution"
Director: Billy Wilder
Writer: Billy Wilder, Harry Kurniz, Larry Marcus
Cast: Tyrone Power (Leonard Vole), Marlene Dietrich (Christine Vole), Charles Laughton (Sir Wilfrid Robarts), Elsa Lanchester (Miss Plimsoll), John Williams (Brogan-Moore), Henry Daniell (Mayhew), Ian Wolfe (Carter), Una O'Connor (Janet McKenzie), Torin Thatcher (Mr. Myers), Molly Roden (Miss McHugh)

1960's

The Spider's Web
UK, 1960; based on "Spiders Web"
Director: Godfrey Grayson
Writer: Albert G. Miller, Eldon Howard
Cast: Glynis Johns (Clarissa), Jack Hulbert (Sir Rowland), Basil Dignam (Hugo Birch), Ronald Howard (Jeremy Warrender), Cicley Courtneidge (Mildred Peake), Wendy Turner (Pippa)
Murder, She Said
UK, 1961; B/W, based on "4.50 from Paddington"
Director: George Pollock
Writer: David D. Osborn, David Pursall, Jack Seddon
Cast: Margaret Rutherford (Miss Marple), Arthur Kennedy (Dr. Quimper), Muriel Pavlow (Emma), James Robertson Justice (Ackenthorpe), Charles Tingwell (Craddock), Ronald Howard (Eastley), Thorley Walters (Cedric), Ronnie Raymond (Alexander), Stringer Davis (Mr. Stringer), Joan Hickson (Mrs. Kidder)
Murder at the Gallop
UK, 1963; based on "After the Funeral"
Director: George Pollock
Writer: James P. Cavanagh
Cast: Margaret Rutherford (Miss Marple), Robert Morley (Hector Enderby), Flora Robson (Miss Milchrest), Charles Tingwell (Inspector Craddock), Stringer Davis (Mr. Stringer), Duncan Lamont (Hillman), Katya Douglas (Rosamund Shane), James Villiers (Michael Shane), Robert Urquhart (George Crossfield), Gordon Harris (Sergeant Bacon)
Murder Most Foul
UK, 1964; based on "Mrs. McGinty's Dead"
Director: George Pollock
Writer: David Pursall, Jack Seddon
Cast: Margaret Rutherford (Miss Marple), Ron Moody (Clifford Cosgood), Charles Tingwell (Inspector Craddock), Megs Jenkins (Mrs. Thomas), James Bolam (Bill Hanson), Stringer Davis (Mr. Stringer), Francesca Annis
Murder Ahoy
UK, 1964; Original Story
Director: George Pollock
Writer: David Pursall, Jack Seddon
Cast: Margaret Rutherford (Miss Marple), Charles Tingwell (Insp. Craddock), Lionel Jeffries, Stringer Davis, William Mervyn, Francis Matthews, Terence Edmond, Tony Quinn, Joan Benham, Gerald Cross,
Gumnaam
India, 1965; based on "And Then There were None"
Director: Raja Nawathe
Writer: Dhruva Chatterjee, Charandas Shokh
Cast: Nanda, Manoj Kumar, Pran, Helen, Mehmood, Dhumal, Madan Puri, Tarun Bose, Manmohan, Naina, Laxmi Chhaya
Ten Little Indians
UK, 1965; based on "And Then There were None"
Director: George Pollock
Writer: Enrique Llouet, Dudley Nichols, Peter Welbeck, Peter Yeldham, Erich Krohnke
Cast: Hugh O'Brian (Hugh Lombard), Shirley Eaton (Ann Clyde), Fabian (Mike Raven), Leo Genn (Gen. Mandrake), Stanley Holloway (William Blore), Wilfrid Hyde-White (Judge Cannon), Daliah Lavi (Ilona Bergen), Dennis Price (Dr. Armstrong), Mario Adorf (Herr Grohmann), Marianne Hoppe (Frau Grohmann)
The Alphabet Murders
UK, 1965; based on "The ABC Murders"
Director: Frank Tashlin
Writer: David Pursall, Jack Seddon
Cast: Tony Randall (Poirot), Robert Morley (Hastings), Anita Ekberg (Amanda Beatrice Cross), Maurice Denham (Japp), Guy Rolfe (Duncan Doncaster), Sheila Allen (Lady Diane), James Villiers (Franklin), Julian Glover (Don Fortune), Grazina Frame (Betty Barnard), Austin Trevor (Judson)

1970's

Endless Night
UK, 1972; based on "Endless Night"
Director: Sidney Gilliat
Writer: Sidney Gilliat
Cast: Hayley Mills (Ellie), Hywel Bennett (Michael), Britt Ekland (Greta), Per Oscarsson (Santonix), George Sanders (Lippincott)
Dhund
India, 1973; based on "Unexpected Guest"
Director: B.R. Chopra
Writer: Akhtar-Ul-Iman, Akhtar Mirza, C.J. Pavri
Cast: Sanjay Khan, Zeenat Aman, Danny Denzongpa, Deven Verma, Madan Puri, Nana Palsikar, Ashoo, Jagdish Raj, Prem Sagar, Urmila Bhatt, Ramesh, Sunil Dhawan, Chand Kapoor, Lala Nazir, Uma Dhawan, Padma Khanna, Navin Nischol, Ashok Kumar
And Then There were None
IT/W.Germany/FR/ES/UK, 1974; based on "And Then There were None"
Director: Peter Collinson
Writer: Ench Krohnke, Enrique Lovet
Cast: Oliver Reed (Hugh Lombard), Richard Attenborough (Arthur Cannon), Elke Sommer (Vera Clyde), Herbert Lom (Edward Armstrong), Stéphane Audran (Ilona Morgan), Charles Aznavour (Michel Raven), Gert Frobe (Wilhelm Blore), Adolfo Celi (Andre Salve), Alberto De Mendoza (Otto Martino), Maria Rohm (Elsa Martino), Orson Welles ("voice")
Murder on the Orient Express
UK, 1974; based on "Murder on the Orient Express"
Director: Sidney Lumet
Writer: Paul Dehn
Cast: Albert Finney (Poirot), Martin Balsam (Bianchi), Ingrid Bergman (Greta), Lauren Bacall (Mrs. Hubbard), Jacqueline Bisset (Countess Andrenyi), Sean Connery (Colonel Arbuthnot), Jean-Pierre Cassel (Pierre), John Gielgud (Beddoes), Wendy Hiller (Princess Dragomiroff), Anthony Perkins (McQueen), Vanessa Redgrave (Mary Debenham), Rachel Roberts (Hildegarde), Richard Widmark (Ratchett), Michael York (Count Andrenyi)
Death on the Nile
UK, 1978; based on "Death on the Nile"
Director: John Guillermin
Writer: Anthony Shaffer
Cast: Peter Ustinov (Poirot), Mia Farrow (Jacqueline De Bellefort), Lois Chiles (Linnet Ridgeway), Simon MacCorkindale (Simon Doyle), Bette Davis (Mrs. Van Schuyler), Maggie Smith (Miss Bowers), Olivia Hussey (Rosalie Otterbourne), Jane Birkin (Louise Bourget), David Niven (Colonel Rice), Angela Lansbury (Salome Otterbourne), Jack Warden (Dr. Bessner), George Kennedy (Andrew Pennington)

1980's

The Mirror Crack'd
UK, 1980; based on "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side"
Director: Guy Hamilton
Writer: Jonathan Hales, Barry Sandler
Cast: Angela Lansbury (Miss Marple), Elizabeth Taylor (Marina Rudd), Geraldine Chaplin (Ella Zielinsky), Rock Hudson (Jason Rudd), Tony Curtis (Marty N. Fenn), Edward Fox (Inspector Craddock), Kim Novak (Lola Brewster), Marella Oppenheim (Margot Bence), Wendy Morgan (Cherry), Maureen Bennett (Heather Babcock), Pierce Brosnan (An actor)
Ten Little Indians
Philippines, 1981; based on "And Then There were None"
Director: Tony Pascua
Cast: William Martinez, Herbert Bautista, Hero Bautista
Evil under the Sun
UK, 1982; based on "Evil under the Sun"
Director: Guy Hamilton
Writer: Anthony Shaffer
Cast: Peter Ustinov (Poirot), Diana Rigg (Arlena Marshall), Roddy McDowall (Rex Brewster), Maggie Smith (Daphne Castle), Jane Birkin (Christine Redfern), Colin Blakely (Sir Horace Blatt), Nicholas Clay (Patrick Redfern), Sylvia Miles (Myra Gardener), James Mason (Odell Gardener), Dennis Quilley (Captain Marshall)
Tayna chyornykh drozdov
USSR, 1983; based on "A Pocket Full of Rye"
Director: Vadim Derbenyov
Writer: Valentina Kolodyazhnaya, Yelizaveta Smirnova
Cast: Ita Ever, Vladimir Sedov, Vsevolod Sanayev, Lyubov Polischuk, Yuri Belyayev, Yelena Sanayeva, Andrei Kharitonov, Natalya Danilova, Yelena Ivochkina, Elsa Radzinya
Ordeal by Innocence
UK, 1984; based on "Ordeal by Innocence"
Director: Desmond Davis
Writer: Alexander Stuart
Cast: Donald Sutherland (Dr. Arthur Calgary), Faye Dunaway (Rachel Argyle), Ian McShane (Philip Durant), Christopher Plummer (Leo Argyle), Sarah Miles (Mary Durant), Anita Carey (Martha Jessup), Annette Crosbie (Kirsten Lindstrom), George Innes (Archie Leach), Michael Maloney (Micky Argyle), Phoebe Nicholls (Tina Argyle)
Kiken-na Onna-tachi
JP, 1985; based on "The Hollow"
Director: Yoshitaro Nomura
Writer: Juichiro Takeuchi, Motomu Furuta
Cast: Koji Ishizaka, Shinobu Otake, Kimiko Ikegami, Mariko Fuji, Yuko Kazu, Eitaro Ozawa, Tanie Kitabayashi, Akira Terao, Kunihiko Mitamura
Desyat negrityat
USSR, 1987; based on "And Then There were None"
Director: Stanislav Govorukhin
Writer: Stanislav Govorukhin, Gennadi Engstrem
Cast: Vladimir Zeldin, Tatyana Drubich, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Alexei Zharkov, Anatoli Romashin, Lyudmila Maxakova, Mikhail Gluzsky, Alexei Zolotnitsky, Irina Tereschenko, Alexander Abdulov
Appointment with Death
US, 1988; based on "Appointment with Death"
Director: Michael Winner
Writer: Anthony Shaffer, Peter Buckman, Michael Winner
Cast: Peter Ustinov (Poirot), Piper Laurie (Emily Boynton), Nicholas Guest (Lennox Boynton), Carrie Fisher (Nadine Boynton), John Terlesky (Raymond Boynton), Valerie Richards (Carol Boynton), Amber Bezer (Ginevra Boynton), David Soul (Jefferson Cope), Jenny Seagrove (Dr. Sarah King), Lauren Bacall (Lady Westholme)
Ten Little Indians
US, 1989; based on "And Then There were None"
Director: Alan Birkinshaw
Writer: Jackson Hunsicker, Gerry O'Hara
Cast: Donald Pleasence (Judge Wargrave), Brenda Vaccaro (Marion Marshall), Frank Stallone (Captain Lombard), Herbert Lom (General Romensky), Sarah Maur Thorp (Vera Claythorne), Warren Berlinger (Mr. Blore), Yehuda Efroni (Dr. Werner), Neil McCarthy (Anthony Marston), Paul Smith (Mr. Rodgers), Moira Lister (Mrs. Rodgers)

1990's

Zagadka Endhauza
USSR, 1990; based on "Peril at End House"
Director & Writer: Vadim Derbenyov
Cast: Anatoli Ravikovich (Hercules Poirot), Ilona Ozola, Virginia Kelmelite, Dmitri Krylov (Hastings), Inara Slucka, Andrei Kharitono
Myshelovka
USSR, 1990; based on "Mousetrap"
Director: Samson Samsonov
Writer: Vladimir Basov
Cast: Elena Popova, Evgeniy Paramonov, Vladimir Soshalsky

2000's

Shubho Mahurat
India, 2003; based on "Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side"
Director & Writer: Rituparno Ghosh
Cast: Sharmila Tagore, Raakhee, Nandita Das, Sumanta Mukherjee, Kalyani Mandal
Mon petit doigt m'a dit...
FR, 2005; based on "By the Pricking of My Thumbs"
Director: Pascal Thomas
Writer: François Caviglioli
Cast: Catherine Frot (Prudence Beresford), André Dussollier, Geneviève Bujold, Laurent Terzieff, Valérie Kaprisky, Bernard Verley, Alexandra Stewart, Sarah Biasini, François Bettens, Françoise Seigner, Elisabeth Macocco, Isabelle Giani, Hervé Pierre, Alexandre Pesle, André Thorent
L'Heure zéro
FR, 2007; based on "Towards Zero"
Director: Pascal Thomas
Writer: François Caviglioli
Cast: François Morel, Danielle Darrieux, Melvil Poupaud, Laura Smet, Chiara Mastroianni, Alessandra Martines, Clçément Thomas, Xavier Thiam, Hervçé Pierre, Vania Plemiannikov, Jacques Sereys, Valçériane de Villeneuve, Paul Minthe, Carmen Durand, Dominique Reymond
Le Grand alibi
FR, 2008; based on "The Hollow"
Director: Pascal Bonitzer
Writer: Pascal Bonitzer, Jérôme Beaujour
Cast: Miou-Miou (Éliane Pages), Lambert Wilson (Le docteur Pierre Collier), Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (Esther Bachmann), Pierre Arditi (Le sénateur Henri Pages), Anne Consigny (Claire Collier), Mathieu Demy (Philippe Léger), Caterina Murino (Léa Mantovani), Maurice Bénichou (Lieutenant Grange), Céline Sallette (Marthe), Agathe Bonitzer (Chloé), Emmanuelle Riva (Geneviève Herbin), Dany Brillant (Michel), Alain Libolt (Le contrôleur), Hélène Devynck (La journaliste télé), Hélène Frappat (La journaliste de presse)
Le Crime est notre affaire
FR, 2008; based on "4.50 from Paddington"
Director & Writer: Pascal Thomas
Cast: Catherine Frot, André Dussollier, Claude Rich, Chiara Mastroianni, Melvil Poupaud, Alexandre Lafaurie, Christian Vadim, Hippolyte Girardot, Yves Afonso, Annie Cordy, Valériane de Villeneuve, Marie Lorna, Laura Benson, Florence Maury, Agathe Hazard

2010's

Grandmaster
India, 2012; based on "The ABC Murders"
Director & Writer: B. Unnikrishnan
Cast: Mohanlal, Priyamani, Babu Antony
Associés contre le crime
FR, 2012; based on 'The Case of the Missing Lady' & "Nemesis"
Director: Pascal Thomas
Writer: Clémence de Biéville, Nathalie Lafaurie
Cast: Catherine Frot, André Dussollier, Linh Dan Pham
Chorabali
India, 2016; based on "Cards on the Table"
Director: Subhrajit Mitra
Cast: Barun Chanda, Tanushree Chakraborty, George Baker
Crooked House
UK 2017; based on "Crooked House"
Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Writer: Julian Fellowes, Tim Rose Price, Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Cast: Max Irons, Glenn Close, Gillian Anderson, Christina Hendricks
Murder on the Orient Express
US 2017; based on "Murder on the Orient Express"
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Writer: Michael Green
Cast: Daisy Ridley, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kenneth Branagh, Olivia Colman, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench

2020's

Death on the Nile
US 2022; based on "Death on the Nile"
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Writer: Michael Green
Cast: Tom Bateman, Annette Bening, Kenneth Branagh, Russell Brand, Ali Fazal, Dawn French, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Rose Leslie, Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo, Jennifer Saunders, Letitia Wright