Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.

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David Niven and Mia Farrow star in another Christie classic. While on a Nile steamer, Poirot investigates the death of an heiress who had stolen her best friend's fiancé.

A series of films about the adventures of Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, directed and starring Kenneth Branagh.

But, surprisingly, she left one fan favourite out of the running: Death on the Nile. Her 1937 classic ... the novel was also turned into a film starring Kenneth Branagh as Poirot.

(104 minutes) Kenneth Branagh directed the first of his Poirot movies as if it were an old ... and turns it up a notch and, at times, Death On The Nile feels almost like an Agatha Christie ...

Agatha Christie adaptations have become a yearly tradition on British television. This month, a version of the Queen of Crime ...

3. Death on the Nile - Emily Blunt guest stars when Poirot is asked to investigate the death of a honeymooning heiress who stole her best friend's fiancé - all whilst on board a Nile cruise ship ...

This is also why Christie's brand of escapist fiction makes for good adaptations, with figures like Hercule Poirot or Miss ... best-sellers like "Death on the Nile" and "The Murder of Roger ...

The movie’s success has spawned two sequels, Death on the Nile and A Haunting in Venice, both of which follow the detective format by retaining Branagh’s Poirot as the continuous variable but ...

Based on the Dame Agatha Christie novel, our favorite Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot (Sir Peter Ustinov), is on a cruise up the Nile. He is surrounded by an interesting assortment of characters ...