Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express

2001 · 100 min · ★ 6.0 · Crime, Drama, Thriller, TV Movie

Agatha Christie's classic whodunit speeds into the twenty-first century. World-famous sleuth Hercule Poirot has just finished a case in Istanbul and is returning home to London onboard the luxurious Orient Express. But, the train comes to a sudden halt when a rock slide blocks the tracks ahead. And all the thrills of riding the famous train come to a halt when a man discovered dead in his compartment, stabbed nine times. The train is stranded. No one has gotten on or gotten off. That can only mean one thing: the killer is onboard, and it is up to Hercule Poirot to find him.

Directed by Carl Schenkel · Written by Stephen Harrigan

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Alfred Molina Hercule Poirot
Meredith Baxter Caroline Hubbard
Tasha de Vasconcelos Vera Rossakoff
Leslie Caron Miss Alvarado
Amira Casar Helena von Strauss
Nicolas Chagrin Pierre Michel
David Hunt Bob Arbuthnot
Adam James William MacQueen
Dylan Smith Tony Foscarelli
Peter Strauss Samuel Ratchett
Fritz Wepper Wolfgang Bouc
Kai Wiesinger Philip von Strauss

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