The 10 Best Agatha Christie Movies Ranked

Agatha Christie is widely regarded as one of the best crime novelists of all time, and for good reason. Throughout her career, Christie wrote over 60 novels as well as dozens of short stories and plays that have been adapted into movies, TV shows, and TV specials in the last few decades.

The most recent Agatha Christie novel adaptation was 2022’s Death on the Nile, the star-studded sequel to 2017’s equally ensemble-led Murder on the Orient Express. Starring Kenneth Branagh as the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot, the films have brought the works of the famed novelist to more mainstream audiences. However, they have been criticized for not being faithful to the original works. A third installment, A Haunting in Venice, is set to be released in 2023.

Many of Christie’s works have gotten more than a few adaptations, but some stand out among the rest, especially due to their faithfulness to the original material. Here are the 10 best movies based on Agatha Christie’s novels.

10. Crooked House (2017)

The most faithful adaptation of Christie’s work made in this century is 2017’s Crooked House. The movie follows private investigator Charles Hayward, played by Max Irons, who is approached by his ex, Sophia, to help her investigate the death of her grandfather. Sophia believes that he was murdered by a member of their large and eccentric family, and so Hayward travels down to the majestic family estate to investigate. The movie is a classic whodunit mystery, but what made it stand out was its wittiness and faithfulness to Christie’s original novel.

9. Evil Under the Sun (1982)

Hercule Poirot is, without a doubt, Agatha Christie’s most iconic character and has starred in most novels in her body of work. Peter Ustinov plays Poirot in Evil Under the Sun, directed by Guy Hamilton. In this story, Poirot finds himself on an island resort investigating a fake diamond ring belonging to a billionaire, and the death of a famous actress. As he goes about his investigations, he begins to find out that multiple people seem to know more than they’re letting on.