# The best Agatha Christie film and TV adaptations

Poirot, Miss Marple and the rest: from Witness for the Prosecution and Murder on the Orient Express to the David Suchet and Joan Hickson series, the adaptations ranked highest by CBR and Murder & Mayhem.

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- Sep 14, 2025 · S. Bonvin
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## Top 12

1. **Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — David Suchet plays Poirot for nearly 25 years, across every case.
2. **Murder on the Orient Express (1974)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sidney Lumet: Albert Finney and an all-star cast stuck in the snow.
3. **Miss Marple (1984)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Joan Hickson, the definitive Miss Marple for the BBC.
4. **And Then There Were None (2015)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — BBC miniseries: ten guests trapped on an island.
5. **Death on the Nile (1978)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Peter Ustinov as Poirot on a cruise boat in Egypt.
6. **Evil Under the Sun (1982)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Peter Ustinov investigates at an Adriatic hotel.
7. **The ABC Murders (2018)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — John Malkovich as an ageing Poirot against an alphabetical killer.
8. **Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (2022)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Hugh Laurie adapts a novel, with Will Poulter.
9. **Ordeal by Innocence (2018)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — BBC miniseries: an adopted son accused of his mother's murder.
10. **The Mirror Crack'd (1980)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Angela Lansbury as Miss Marple and Elizabeth Taylor as a film star.
11. **Murder, She Said (1961)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Margaret Rutherford, a Miss Marple full of humour.
12. **The Pale Horse (2020)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Rufus Sewell in a BBC miniseries about a deadly list of names.
13. **Witness for the Prosecution (1957)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Billy Wilder: Charles Laughton, Marlene Dietrich and a twisting trial.
14. **Crooked House (2017)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — A detective and a wealthy family where anyone could be the killer.

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