10 English detective with a twisted plot

Screen version of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, mysterious disappearances and other intricate history of the UK.

TV series

1. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

• United Kingdom, 1984-1994 years.
• Detective.
• Duration: 4 seasons.
• IMDb: 8,7.

Now everyone knows Sherlock Holmes from novels by Arthur Conan Doyle adaptations with Benedict Cumberbatch and Robert Downey - junior. A Russian viewers adore Vasily Livanov. But in the eighties and nineties in the UK television screens released most canon series about the adventures of the great detective. It was his love the most in the homeland of the author, and Jeremy Brett is considered a real Sherlock.

Each episode of this series is based on one of the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Over the years, the authors were able to move the release on the screens of more than 40 stories.

2. Agatha Christie's Poirot

Agatha Christie's Poirot

• United Kingdom, 1989-2013 years.
• Detective.
• Duration: 13 seasons.
• IMDb: 8,6.

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Producer Brian Eastman had no doubt in choosing the main actor. And David Suchet really looks the most like a book Poirot and even depicts his Belgian accent.

3. Endeavor

Endeavour

• United Kingdom, 2012 - present.
• Detective.
• Duration: 6 seasons.
• IMDb: 8,6.

Since the late eighties on British screens out TV series "Inspector Morse" based on the books by Colin Dexter. And in 2012 it launched a prequel about the early years of the protagonist. And many felt the new project even more interesting classics.

The plot revolves Constable Endeavor Morse: he had difficulty communicating with colleagues, but his direct supervisor immediately notice newcomer talent and gives him dismantle the most complex crimes.

4. Broadchurch

Broadchurch

• United Kingdom, 2013-2017 years.
• Detective.
• Duration: 3 seasons.
• IMDb: 8,4.

In a small town Brodchorch find the body of 11-year-old boy. It seems that he fell off a cliff. But it soon becomes clear that this murder. The investigation is taken Ellie Miller, just coming out of the holiday. And to give her companions surly and unsociable Alec Hardy. The problem is that he took the place, which is calculated on Miller.

The project rests primarily on the excellent actors. If up to this point David Tennant many perceived solely as a fun and positive character from the television show "Doctor Who"Here he introduced a completely opposite way. Alec Hardy looks disillusioned cynic in life. And Ellie Miller by Olivia Coleman creates a sense of a typical representative of police of peaceful town: she does not know how to deal with the suspects, ie people with whom she was acquainted many years.

5. Agatha Christie's Marple

Agatha Christie's Marple

• United Kingdom, 2004-2013 years.
• Detective.
• Duration: 6 seasons.
• IMDb: 7,8.

And one more Film about a film adaptation of Agatha Christie's works. This time an elderly lady Jane Marple, who did not like the detectiveBut versed in the mysteries of the police is much better.

Unfortunately, after the third season of the show was replaced leading lady. Actress Geraldine McEwan by that time already 77 years old, and she decided to retire. The remaining series Miss Marple played Julia McKenzie.

6. father Brown

Father Brown

• United Kingdom, 2013 - present.
• Detective.
• Duration: 7 seasons.
• IMDb: 7,7.

The plot tells of Father Brown - a priest of the Catholic Church in the small village of the Cotswolds in the early 50-ies. He is interested in the disclosure of crimes, with trying to be guided not only logic, but also to understand the very image of the criminal mind, and to give him to repent.

The basis of the series based on the novel of Gilbert Chesterton, but the authors do not always accurately follow the originalAllowing on-screen heroes evolve somewhat differently.

Movies

1. Sleuth

Sleuth

• United Kingdom, 1972.
• Detective thriller.
• Duration: 138 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,0.

The popular author of detective stories Andrew Wyke invites me to visit his wife's young lover Milo Tindla. He makes a guest unexpected offer. Andrew is ready to release his wife and even give Milo a part of the state. And he should stage a robbery at home.

The film starred just two actors: the role went to Andrew Laurence Olivier and young Milo played by Michael Caine. It is interesting that many years later, in the remake of the same name again played all the same Kane. Only this time it appeared in the form of Andrew.

2. The lady vanishes

The Lady Vanishes

• United Kingdom, 1938.
• Detective thriller.
• Duration: 96 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,8.

During boarding the train at Iris flower pot falls. Elderly traveling companion Miss Froy helps a girl go to the car and they serve tea. However, the next morning Miss Froy disappears, everyone around say that it has never been, and false memories - only a consequence of the impact on the head.

This film took the famous master of suspense and thrillers Alfred Hitchcock. That is why there is a considerable emphasis on the mysterious atmosphere. But in general, this is a real vicious detective, which is set in train.

3. Death on the Nile

Death on the Nile

• United Kingdom, 1978.
• Detective.
• Duration: 140 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,3.

Heiress of a great fortune Linnet stole the bride from her friend. And she decided to take revenge on her, go on a cruise on the boat along with the bride and groom. But soon kill Linnet. And then the investigation taken great detective Hercule Poirot.

In this film, the role of the Belgian detective first played with British actor Peter Ustinov Russian roots. Subsequently, he returned to that image more five times.

4. Vanished Bunny Lake

Bunny Lake Is Missing

• United Kingdom, 1965.
• Detective.
• Duration: 107 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,3.

Lake Ann moved to London with her daughter Bunny and lives in an apartment with his brother Stephen. One heroine devotes little girl in kindergarten, and he returned her, discovers that Bunny was gone. Moreover, no one remembers that it existed at all. And kidnapping begins to doubt even the detective in reality.

This picture is often compared with the work of Hitchcock, and life director Otto Preminger it was not very popular. But over time, intense detective thriller has become a truly iconic.