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Witness for the Prosecution

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 ...

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Clue

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 ...

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Gosford Park

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, ...

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The Name of the Rose

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 ...

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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 ...

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Death on the Nile

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 ...

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And Then There Were None

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 ...

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Murder on the Orient Express

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. ...

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Drowning Mona

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 ...

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Evil Under the Sun

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Once Upon a Crime (1992) more movies like this

directed by Eugene Levy
featuring John Candy, Cybill Shepherd, James Belushi, Giancarlo Giannini, Sean Young, Richard Lewis

The murder of a millionaire has unexpectedly humorous results in this farcical comedy. When Phoebe (Sean Young) and Julian (Richard Lewis), two Americans on a tour of Europe, discover a lost dachshund, they learn that a $5,000 reward has been posted for the dog's return. Phoebe and Julian head to Monte Carlo to return the pet and claim the money, ...

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Jade (1995) more movies like this

directed by William Friedkin
featuring David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Biehn, Richard Crenna

An investigator seeking the truth behind the death of a noted art dealer uncovers a web of sexual deception in this erotic thriller. David Caruso plays David Corelli, a San Francisco District Attorney who faces a potential conflict of interest when he learns that the prime suspect in the murder is psychologist Katrina Gavin (Linda Fiorentino), an ...

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Cover Her Face (1985) more movies like this

Roy Marsden returns as ace detective Commander Adam Dalgliesh in this made-for-TV mystery based on the novel by P.D. James. It comes as no great surprise when a notorious drug dealer is found murdered, but more than a few eyebrows are raised when his body is discovered in an exclusive London book club. Dalgliesh is brought in to investigate, and ...

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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 ...

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Lord Peter Wimsey: Clouds of Witness (1972) more movies like this

directed by Hugh David
featuring Anthony Ainley, David Langton, Ian Carmichael

Lord Peter Wimsey, the best-bred detective in the United Kingdom, is back ferreting out crime among the privileged classes in this television adaptation of the novel by Dorothy L. Sayers. Lord Wimsey (Ian Carmichael) returns from a tour of Europe to learn that Capt. Dennis Cathcart (Anthony Ainley), who was engaged to marry Peter's sister Lady ...

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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 ...

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The Gift (2000) more movies like this

directed by Sam Raimi
featuring Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Keanu Reeves, Katie Holmes, Greg Kinnear, Hilary Swank

Supernatural horror meets character drama in this Sam Raimi-directed thriller. Set in Georgia, the film concerns a widowed mother named Annie (Cate Blanchett) who is blessed with the ability to have psychic visions. When Annie is asked to use her powers to investigate the murder of a rich society girl (Katie Holmes) who was engaged to a local high ...

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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, ...

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Sunset (1988) more movies like this

directed by Blake Edwards
featuring Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell, Mariel Hemingway, Kathleen Quinlan, Dermot Mulroney

Director Blake Edwards departed from his customary sex farces to direct an unusual satirical Western comedy-thriller. In 1927, legendary lawman Wyatt Earp (James Garner) comes to Hollywood to serve as an advisor to a film studio making a movie about Earp's life. He meets silent screen cowboy star Tom Mix (Bruce Willis). The two stumble upon a ...

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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 ...

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The House of Fear (1945) more movies like this

directed by Roy William Neill
featuring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Aubrey Mather, Dennis Hoey, Paul Cavanagh

This excellent Sherlock Holmes adventure is based on Conan Doyle's The Five Orange Pips. Most of the action takes place in a remote Scottish mansion, home of "The Good Companions," a group of elderly eccentrics. After taking out insurance policies on one another, the club members begin dropping like flies, each death preceded by a mailed envelope ...

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