The Alphabet Murders

Dec 26, 1965

1h 30m

★ 5.7

It's really no mystery why this girl is MURDER... it's as simple as ABC if you look hard enough!

Overview

The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.

Genres

Comedy

Crime

Mystery

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

The Alphabet Murders Trailers

Cast

Hercule Poirot

Tony Randall

Amanda Beatrice Cross

Anita Ekberg

Captain Hastings

Robert Morley

Inspector Japp

Maurice Denham

Dr. Duncan Doncaster

Guy Rolfe

Lady Diane

Sheila Allen

Franklin

James Villiers

Don Fortune

Julian Glover

Betty Barnad

Grazina Frame

Mister X

Clive Morton

Sir Carmichael Clarke

Cyril Luckham

Wolf

Richard Wattis

13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives in a New England beach town. Whenever the landlady inquires after Rynn's father, she claims that he's not available. But when the landlady's son, Frank, won't leave Rynn alone, she teams up with a neighbor Mario to maintain the dark family secret that she's been keeping to herself.

7.3

The Big Clock

Mar 18, 1948

George Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor, has to postpone a vacation with his wife - again - when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence that he is the killer.

6.5

Confessions of a Shopaholic

Feb 5, 2009

In the glamorous world of New York City, Rebecca Bloomwood is a fun-loving girl who is really good at shopping – a little too good, perhaps. She dreams of working for her favorite fashion magazine, but can't quite get her foot in the door – until ironically, she snags a job as an advice columnist for a financial magazine published by the same company.

4.9

Camilla Läckberg: The Ice Princess

Nov 2, 2007

Erica returns to her hometown for her parents funeral and her childhood friend murdered

5.7

Varg Veum - Woman in the Fridge

Sep 17, 2008

An international oil drilling company hires private investigator Varg Veum to find their missing systems designer, Arne Samuelsen. Varg discovers the headless body of a woman jammed into the fridge in Arne's apartment - and is promptly knocked unconscious. When he wakes up the body is gone and the Police has arrived.

6.1

Varg Veum - Yours Until Death

Mar 12, 2008

Private eye Varg Veum is on a routine mission searching for his client Jonas Andresen's stolen car. The car is found having been used in a brutal robbery and not long after that the client himself turns up dead.

5.7

Africa Screams

May 4, 1949

When bookseller Buzz cons Diana into thinking that his friend Stanley knows all there is to know about Africa, they are abducted and ordered to lead Diana and her henchmen to an African tribe in search of a fortune in jewels.

4.9

Cadavres

Feb 20, 2009

Raymond is a jealous, misanthropic, couch potato. Angèle is a sexy TV star, childish and disillusioned. One Halloween, their mother, Solange, suddenly dies. Raymond calls his sister for the first time in 10 years. She agrees to meet him and begins to investigate their mother's death, all in keeping with her TV role of police commissioner. But nothing is simple with the Marchildons. Between a dithering Raymond, the ghost of Solange who continues to haunt her children, and Angèle who's going crazy interviewing suspects, one more bizarre than the next, and the bodies that are filling up the basement, it's hard to keep their love straight. But then, love was always a little twisted in the Marchildon household.

8.0

Maigret and the Old Lady

Dec 1, 1974

No overview available.

5.5

Never Die Alone

Mar 26, 2004

A drug kingpin's rise and tragic fall is witnessed vicariously by a reporter who uses the criminal's diary as the basis for his new book.

6.6

Terror by Night

Feb 1, 1946

Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.

6.0

The Deep

Jun 17, 1977

A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters.

5.2

Doctor Sleep

Aug 16, 2002

While treating a policewoman for smoking, hypnotherapist Michael Strother has a telepathic vision of a young girl floating beneath the surface of a stream. The escaped victim of a ritualistic serial killer, the girl has become mute, and Michael is called upon by Scotland Yard to unlock the secrets she holds in order to catch a man who believes he has discovered the key to immortality.

4.1

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Jan 20, 2008

Based on Michael Chabon's novel, the film chronicles the defining summer of a recent college graduate who crosses his gangster father and explores love, sexuality, and the enigmas surrounding his life and his city.

7.1

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

Feb 27, 1970

An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city and conducts his own investigation, despite he and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.

8.5

Maigret Hesitates

Feb 13, 1983

No overview available.

6.0

Wer stirbt schon gerne unter Palmen

Sep 11, 1974

The wealthy plantation owner Pinaud is brutally murdered in Ceylon. His attractive German wife Anne is suspected of the crime and arrested by Inspector Cerdan. He is ordered to take her to Colombo. But the plane on the way there gets caught in a heavy storm and crashes shortly afterwards. Anne Pinaud and Cerdan are the only survivors of the crew and save themselves on a desert island. There they come across Werner Becker, who has been shipwrecked with his yacht and is also stranded here. While Cerdan continues to believe Anne is guilty of the crime, Werner believes she is innocent. Soon the tension between the two men builds up and they become rivals for Anne's favor.

6.6

Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical

Mar 1, 2006

From an ominous Lecturer, a small 1930s middle American community learns of the Harper Affair, in which young Jimmy Harper finds his life of promise turn into a life of debauchery and murder thanks to the new drug menace marijuana. Along the way, he receives help from his girlfriend Mary and Jesus Himself, but always finds himself in the arms of the Reefer Man and the rest of the denizens of the Reefer Den.

4.6

Deal of the Century

Nov 4, 1983

Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; understanding the exact nature of how 'gifts' are used to grease the wheels of a sale, a religious conversion from one of the salesman and a romance that begins to grow between two competitors.

6.5

The Cocoanuts

May 23, 1929

During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.