What evil lurks beyond the well-trimmed hedges of Midsomer… The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. Inspired by the novels of Caroline Graham, modern master of the English village mystery, the series stars John Nettles (Bergerac) as the unflappable Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby with Jason ...

Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Starring: Midsomer Murders

Combining uncompromising historical accuracy with compelling mysteries, this acclaimed PBS series continues with three feature-length episodes. Michael Kitchen (Out of Africa) stars as DCS Christopher Foyle, investigating wartime crimes in an English coastal town. With the end of World War II slowly but inevitably approaching, Foyle and his fellow citizens learn the price of victory and ...

Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Starring: Michael Kitchen, Anthony Howell, Honeysuckle Weeks

Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton star in this brilliantly made courtroom drama (The Film Daily) that left audiences reeling from its surprise twists and shocking climax. Directed by Billy Wilder, scripted by Wilder and Harry Kurnitz and based on Agatha Christie's hit London play, this splendid, six-time Oscar-nominated* classic crackles with emotional electricity (The New ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, John Williams
Directed By: Billy Wilder

Hercule poiroti is a dapper detective for whom murder solving is a precise intellectual excercise. Poirot agrees to interview all aboard the famous orient express calais coach hoping to find the killer of an american millionaire before the local police arrive. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/17/2006 Starring: Sean Connery Ingrid Bergman Run time: 128 minutes Rating: Pg ...

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset
Directed By: Sidney Lumet

Manufacturer: WGBH Boston
Starring: Inspector Lynley
Directed By: Inspector Lynley

Return to post-war England for mystery and a cup of tea with Agatha Christie’s most popular creation. The consummate prim and proper crime-fighting spinster, Miss Jane Marple sets down her knitting needles to unwind the most ingenious crimes. As she travels from city to countryside and even the Bahamas, murders, missing bodies and haunted dreams have a habit of falling across Miss Marple’s ...

Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Starring: Joan Hickson, Michael Culver, Elizabeth Counsell, Deborah Appleby, Lucy Gleeson
Directed By: Christopher Petit, David Tucker, John Davies, Julian Amyes, Martyn Friend

Foyle's War - Set 1 Foyle's War is the rare mystery series that does more than plop a good detective into the middle of a decorative and bygone era. Created by writer Anthony Horowitz, Foyle's War makes profoundly resonant use of British society in 1940, a terrifying time in which the threat of an Axis assault on England disrupted ordinary life in often horrible ways, ...

Manufacturer: Acorn Media Group in
Starring: Foyle's War - Set 1, Foyle's War - Set 2, Foyle's War - Set 3, Foyle's War - Set 4, Foyle's War - Set 5

The beloved dowager detective Miss Marple (Joan Hickson) unravels three of Agatha Christie's most popular brainteasers: A Murder Is Announced, A Pocketful of Rye and the series premiere, The Body in the Library.

Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Starring: Joan Hickson, Ursula Howells, Renée Asherson, Samantha Bond, Simon Shepherd
Directed By: David Giles, Guy Slater, John A. Davis, Silvio Narizzano

An original masterpiece theatre mystery series set on the southern english coast against the backdrop of world war ii. Christopher foyle is a detective who is prevented from enlisting by superiors afraid of losing his talents on the home front. Studio: Acorn Media Release Date: 03/11/2003 Starring: Michale Kitchen Run time: 400 minutes

Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Starring: Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Anthony Howell, Julian Ovenden

This set will contain the following four Poirot movies (A&E September 2004 premieres): Death on the Nile, Sad Cypress, The Hollow, Five Little Pigs

Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Starring: David Suchet, Rachael Stirling, Aidan Gillen, Toby Stephens, Marc Warren
Directed By: Andy Wilson, Dave Moore, Paul Unwin, Simon Langton