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1	Death on the Nile (1978) more movies like this directed by John Guillermin featuring Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, David Niven, Lois Chiles, Bette Davis, Angela Lansbury, Mia Farrow Peter Ustinov began his long association with the Hercule Poirot character of murder mystery novelist Agatha Christie with this lavish but financially disappointing follow-up to the popular Murder on the Orient Express (1974). During a luxurious pleasure cruise down the Nile aboard a lavish vessel populated with wealthy passengers, widely despised ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.14!
2	Witness for the Prosecution (1957) more movies like this directed by Billy Wilder featuring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Una O'Connor Having just recovered from a heart attack, fabled British barrister Sir Wilfred Robards (Charles Laughton) has been ordered by his doctor to give up everything he holds dear-brandy, cigars and especially courtroom cases. Robards' already shaky resolve to follow doctor's orders flies out the window when he takes up the defense of Leonard Vole ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $10.95!
3	Gosford Park (2001) more movies like this directed by Robert Altman featuring Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jeremy Northam, Bob Balaban, Alan Bates, Richard E. Grant, Helen Mirren, Eileen Atkins, Emily Watson Maverick American filmmaker Robert Altman takes a witty and absorbing look at the foibles of the British class system in this intelligent murder mystery set in the early '30s. Sir William McCordle (Michael Gambon) and his wife Lady Sylvia (Kristin Scott Thomas) are a pair of wealthy British socialites who have invited a variety of friends, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.99!
4	The Name of the Rose (1986) more movies like this directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud featuring Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Christian Slater, Elya Baskin, Michel Lonsdale, Feodor Chaliapin, Jr., Ron Perlman, William Hickey Adapted from Umberto Eco's best-selling novel, director Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Name of the Rose is a 14th century murder-mystery thriller starring Sean Connery as a Sherlock Holmes-esque Franciscan monk called William of Baskerville. When a murder occurs at a secluded Benedictine Abbey, William is called in to investigate. As he and his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.24!
5	And Then There Were None (1945) more movies like this directed by René Clair featuring Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young, June Duprez Based on the classic novel by mystery author Agatha Christie that was later adapted as the Broadway hit Ten Little Indians , And Then There Were None begins with ten characters, each with a skeleton in his or her closet, on a remote island off the English coast. They soon realize that they have been brought there by an insane judge, who has tried ... see all copies from $3.24! new only from $3.24!
6	Murder on the Orient Express (1974) more movies like this directed by Sidney Lumet featuring Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Martin Balsam, Vanessa Redgrave Like many of Agatha Christie's mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express is predicated on an actual event, in this case the Lindbergh kidnapping. In the movie, everyone on board the Orient Express seems to have concluded that hateful financier Ratchett (Richard Widmark) was behind the abduction and murder of the infant daughter of a famed aviatrix. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95!
7	Evil Under the Sun (1982) more movies like this directed by Guy Hamilton featuring Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Colin Blakely, Nicholas Clay, James Mason Peter Ustinov makes his second appearance as Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in this adaptation of the popular Agatha Christie mystery. When noted stage star Arlena Marshall (Diana Rigg) is found murdered while visiting a posh island resort, Poirot is called upon to find the culprit, but given Marshall's shrewish personality and propensity for ... see all copies from $3.86! new only from $3.86!
8	Deathtrap (1982) more movies like this directed by Sidney Lumet featuring Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon, Irene Worth, Henry Jones Sidney Lumet provides another of his film adaptations of Broadway successes -- in this case Ira Levin's 1978 clever Broadway murder mystery that starred John Wood in a triumphant turn as down-on-his-luck playwright Sidney Bruhl. Wood's brittle airiness is replaced in the film version by Michael Caine's smoldering bitterness. Sidney Bruhl is a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.44!
9	Murder by Death (1976) more movies like this directed by Robert Moore featuring Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith As penned by Neil Simon, this satire of movie mysteries is set in motion when several prominent detectives are invited to the mansion of the reclusive Lionel Twain (Truman Capote). In Ten Little Indians fashion, the gathered sleuths are locked into the forbidding mansion, and subject to various death-dealing devices. While struggling for their ... see all copies from $3.95! new only from $15.80!
10	Drowning Mona (2000) more movies like this directed by Nick Gomez featuring Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, Will Ferrell Rage, jealousy, murder, and Eastern European automotive engineering combine in this offbeat black comedy. Verplanck, NY, is a small town north of Manhattan that has the dubious distinction of being the Yugo capital of America; the ill-fated import compact was first test-marketed in Verplanck, and nearly everyone in town drives one. So no one finds ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.32!
11 view cover	Strong Poison (1987) more movies like this directed by Christopher Hodson Based on a novel by author and BBC darling Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison chronicles the adventures of Lord Peter Whimsey (Edward Petherbridge) and Harriet Vane (Harriet Walter), a novelist and detective who does an excellent job of getting under Whimsey's skin. The blurred line between their personal and work relationship rivals that of The X ... see all copies from $7.13!
12 view cover	Clue (1985) more movies like this directed by Jonathan Lynn featuring Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Martin Mull, Christopher Lloyd, Lesley Ann Warren, Michael McKean In this spoof of McCarthy-era paranoia and 1950s wholesomeness, the characters and plot are drawn from the popular Parker Brothers board game of the same name. On a dark and stormy night in 1954, six individuals with ties to Washington are assembled for a dinner party at the swanky mansion of one Mr. Boddy (Lee Ving). Boddy's butler, Wadsworth ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99!
13 view cover	Ten Little Indians (1989) more movies like this directed by Alan Birkinshaw featuring Donald Pleasence, Frank Stallone, Sarah Maur-Thorp, Herbert Lom, Brenda Vaccaro Ten Little Indians, the classic mystery by Agatha Christie, is again adapted, with enjoyable results. The setting of the now familiar mystery is moved to Africa, where the ten guests of a mysterious host are killed one by one as they travel on safari. None of the guests, played with great fun by a cast including Donald Pleasence, Brenda Vaccaro, ... see all copies from $9.33!
14 view cover	Rising Sun (1993) more movies like this directed by Philip Kaufman featuring Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Kevin Anderson When Michael Crichton wrote his best-selling thriller Rising Sun, he wrote the character of hero John Connor with Sean Connery in mind. For Philip Kaufman's film version of the novel, Sean Connery, needless to say, fits seamlessly into the role of a legendary police detective who is an expert in Japanese culture. The story takes place in the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99!
15 view cover	Murder at 1600 (1997) more movies like this directed by Dwight H. Little featuring Wesley Snipes, Diane Lane, Daniel Benzali, Dennis Miller, Alan Alda A police detective finds that looking into a murder is anything but routine when one of the suspects is the President of the United States. When the nude and bloodied corpse of an attractive woman is found in a bathroom at the White House, Harlan Regis (Wesley Snipes), a top detective with the Washington D.C. police force, is assigned to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50!
16 view cover	Murder by Decree (1979) more movies like this directed by Bob Clark featuring Christopher Plummer, James Mason, Donald Sutherland, Geneviève Bujold, David Hemmings The murders by the infamous British criminal, Jack the Ripper, catch the attention of Sherlock Holmes (Christopher Plummer), but he does not receive the expected call from Scotland Yard because he is being purposefully excluded from the investigation. Instead, Robert Lees (Donald Sutherland), a psychic who volunteered information to the police ... see all copies from $7.14! new only from $7.14!
17 view cover	Jennifer Eight (1992) more movies like this directed by Bruce Robinson featuring Andy Garcia, Uma Thurman, Lance Henriksen, Kathy Baker, Graham Beckel, Kevin Conway Stressed out LA detective John Berlin gets too near the edge following the destruction of his marriage and decides to leave the violence an un-ending hub-bub of the big city and take a job in the supposedly quiet northern tow of Eureka. Unfortunately, he isn't there long before he finds himself obsessed with pursuing a serial killer with a thing ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.12!
18 view cover	Identity (2003) more movies like this directed by James Mangold featuring John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, John Hawkes, Alfred Molina, Clea Duvall Ten strangers are brought together during a weather emergency, only to discover a far greater danger awaits them in this suspense-drama. A sudden rainstorm in a remote desert town strands a disparate variety of people at a rundown motel. A convict sentenced to death, Malcolm Rivers (Pruitt Taylor Vince), is stuck in transit with his lawyer (Alfred ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.39!
19 view cover	The Mirror Crack'd (1980) more movies like this directed by Guy Hamilton featuring Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Edward Fox, Rock Hudson, Geraldine Chaplin Angela Lansbury takes over the legacy of Margaret Rutherford as Agatha Christie's dogged sleuth Miss Marple in The Mirror Crack'd. The story takes place on a film set in a small British town in the 1950s. Elizabeth Taylor plays a washed-up actress trying to make a comeback but is plagued by a mysterious incident from her past. Unfortunately for ... see all copies from $3.78! new only from $5.89!
20 view cover	Lady of Burlesque (1943) more movies like this directed by William Wellman featuring Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O'Shea, J. Edward Bromberg, Iris Adrian, Gloria Dickson, Marion Martin Barbara Stanwyck shines in her second portrayal of a showgirl in less than two years (the first was in Howard Hawks' Ball of Fire in 1941). In Lady of Burlesque -- which, at times, has a Hawksian edge to the dialogue -- she portrays Dixie Daisy, a striptease artist at a Broadway theater in New York at the end of the 1930s. In the course of fending ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $3.00!
21 view cover	Inspector Morse: Second Time Around (1991) more movies like this Part of the long-running British mystery series based on the stories by Colin Dexter, Inspector Morse: Second Time Around was first aired in the U.K. in 1991. Inspector Morse (John Thaw) and Sergeant Lewis (Kevin Whately) investigate the death of a former deputy police commissioner. This reunites Morse with his old adversary, Chief Inspector ... see all copies from $12.83! new only from $15.25!
22 view cover	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) more movies like this directed by Alfred L. Werker featuring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Ida Lupino, Alan Marshal, E.E. Clive, Terry Kilburn Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce make their second screen appearances as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Ostensibly based on the stage play by William Gillette, the film owes nothing to the play beyond the characters of Holmes, Watson, Billy the page boy and Professor Moriarty. Played with relish (and a bit of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
23 view cover	Appointment with Death (1988) more movies like this directed by Michael Winner featuring Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, John Gielgud, Piper Laurie In this mystery, Peter Ustinov reprises the role of Hercule Poirot, the fussy and flower-tending detective from Belgium created by Agatha Christie. In 1937, Mrs. Emily Boynton (Piper Laurie) is on an archeological dig in Palestine; she inherited the wealth of her recently deceased husband and feels little inclination to share it with her relatives ... see all copies from $17.95!
24 view cover	The Kennel Murder Case (1933) more movies like this directed by Michael Curtiz featuring William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette, Ralph Morgan, Helen Vinson Often (and accurately) described as a model of the whodunit genre, The Kennel Murder Case stars William Powell, making his fourth screen appearance as S. S. Van Dine's dilettante detective Philo Vance. This time the story involves intrigue at the Long Island kennel club. The murder victim is Robert H. Barrat, who works overtime making himself a ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $5.16!
25 view cover	Ten Little Indians (1965) more movies like this directed by George Pollock featuring Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian, Leo Genn, Stanley Holloway The third of many film and TV adaptations of the popular Agatha Christie novel And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians is the title of the American edition, the hit play, and most of the movies), this 1965 version moves the action from a remote island to an isolated ski resort and otherwise rearranges the plot. The basic premise, however, ... see all copies from $13.19! new only from $14.99!

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