Kenneth Branagh · 2017 · rail

Kenneth Branagh's 2017 adaptation of Agatha Christie. Summoned from Jerusalem, the detective Hercule Poirot boards the Orient Express at Istanbul, only for a passenger to be murdered as the train runs west through the Balkans, and for an avalanche to strand it on a snowbound viaduct, sealing detective and killer together.

1. 1
   Jerusalem

   Hercule Poirot solves a theft at the Wailing Wall before being summoned urgently back toward London.

2. 2
   Istanbul

   He boards the Orient Express at Istanbul, sharing the carriage with a dozen strangers and one marked man.

3. 3
   Sofia

   Westward through the Balkan night, where in the small hours the loathsome Ratchett is stabbed to death in his compartment.

4. 4
   The Snowbound Viaduct

   An avalanche halts the train on a mountain viaduct, and Poirot must find the killer among the trapped passengers before they are dug free.