Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With David Suchet

51. A World Apart (1988)

PG | 113 min | Drama

1963. Thirteen year old Molly Roth, the eldest of three offspring of Gus and Diana Roth, lives a carefree life as part of the affluent white minority in South Africa. Race is a non-issue ... See full summary »

Director: Chris Menges | Stars: Barbara Hershey, David Suchet, Jodhi May, Jeroen Krabbé

Votes: 1,802 | Gross: $2.33M

52. The Missionary (1982)

R | 90 min | Comedy

In the early 20th Century, devout Reverend Charles Fortesque returns to England from his missionary work in Africa and, despite plans to marry his childhood sweetheart, receives a most unusual assignment: minister to the local prostitutes.

Director: Richard Loncraine | Stars: Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Trevor Howard, Denholm Elliott

Votes: 2,590 | Gross: $7.24M

53. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Romance

Disfigured man Quasimodo (Sir Anthony Hopkins) is feared and tormented by the townspeople of Notre Dame, but he has a sensitive nature of which few are aware.

Directors: Michael Tuchner, Alan Hume | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Derek Jacobi, David Suchet, Gerry Sundquist

Votes: 1,437

54. The One Show (2006– )

30 min | Documentary, News, Talk-Show

A live magazine programme featuring topical stories and big name studio guests.

Stars: Alex Jones, Matt Baker, Christine Lampard, Adrian Chiles

Votes: 621

55. A Bear Named Winnie (2004 TV Movie)

PG | 90 min | Drama, War

The extraordinary veritable story of the black bear who would become the inspiration for the stories of A.A. Milne, and the heroic man who saved her life.

Director: John Kent Harrison | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Gil Bellows, David Suchet, Stephen Fry

Votes: 1,202

56. Thirteen at Dinner (1985 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

An American movie actress, best known for playing dumb blondes, is Scotland Yard's prime suspect when her husband, Lord Edgware, is murdered. The great detective, Hercule Poirot, digs deeper into the case.

Director: Lou Antonio | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Faye Dunaway, David Suchet, Jonathan Cecil

Votes: 2,679

57. Solomon (1997)

PG-13 | 180 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

David, now an old man, is still king of Israel. Among his sons, the ambitious Adonijah and the clever Solomon.

Stars: Ben Cross, Richard Dillane, Anouk Aimée, Vivica A. Fox

Votes: 1,489

58. Master of the Game (1984)

413 min | Drama

Elderly Kate Blackwell looks back at her family's life beginning with her Scottish father Jamie McGregor's journey to South Africa to make his fortune in diamonds. The family history is ... See full summary »

Stars: Dyan Cannon, Harry Hamlin, Ian Charleson, Cliff De Young

Votes: 531

59. Live from Baghdad (2002 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 108 min | Drama, War

CNN producer Robert Wiener, his colleague and their crew venture to the Iraqi capital to cover the Gulf War.

Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Michael Keaton, Helena Bonham Carter, Joshua Leonard, Lili Taylor

Votes: 4,816

60. RKO 281 (1999 TV Movie)

R | 86 min | Biography, Drama

Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane (1941), despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.

Director: Benjamin Ross | Stars: Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich

Votes: 6,505

61. Victoria & Albert (2001)

200 min | Biography, Drama, History

The marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, a longtime royal love story.

Stars: Victoria Hamilton, Jonathan Firth, James Callis, Diana Rigg

Votes: 1,040

62. Jackanory (1965–1996)

15 min | Family, Fantasy

A celebrity reads a story, enhancing it in ways that will entice the most restless of children.

Stars: Bernard Cribbins, Kenneth Williams, Martin Jarvis, John Grant

Votes: 423

63. Blott on the Landscape (1985)

300 min | Comedy

Bawdy adaption of Tom Sharpe's comic tale. A landowning MP attempts to have a motorway built through the grounds of his wife's ancestral home.

Stars: David Suchet, Geraldine James, George Cole, Julia McKenzie

Votes: 360

64. Good Morning Britain (2014– )

TV-14 | 180 min | News, Talk-Show

The weekday news on ITV that the whole nation wakes up to.

Stars: Andi Peters, Susanna Reid, Lorraine Kelly, Laura Tobin

Votes: 766

65. The South Bank Show (1978– )

53 min | Documentary

ITV's long-running arts series presented by Melvyn Bragg.

Stars: Melvyn Bragg, Ian McKellen, David Hockney, Victoria Wood

Votes: 216

66. Cause célèbre (1987 TV Movie)

109 min | Crime, Drama

When a woman's husband is murdered by her lover, both are tried for murder. The prosecution claims that she is the mastermind behind the crime, but she has an ace up her sleeve.

Director: John Gorrie | Stars: Helen Mirren, Harry Andrews, David Suchet, David Morrissey

Votes: 215

67. Gulag (1985 TV Movie)

130 min | Drama

Mickey Almon is a sports star turned reporter covering the athletics in Moscow. Framed by the KGB and forced to confess that he was spying for America, he is sentenced to detention in a ... See full summary »

Director: Roger Young | Stars: David Keith, Malcolm McDowell, David Suchet, Warren Clarke

Votes: 790

68. To Kill A Priest (1988)

R | 117 min | Drama, History, Thriller

A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Ed Harris, Joss Ackland, Tim Roth

Votes: 1,685

69. Wogan (1982–1992)

35 min | Talk-Show

Terry Wogan hosts his own long-running chat show, where he interviews a variety of guests, from public life to celebrities. Also featured are regular musical guests performing their latest songs.

Stars: Terry Wogan, Sue Lawley, Joanna Lumley, Gloria Hunniford

Votes: 313

70. Omnibus (1967–2003)

Not Rated | 43 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

Arts documentary series with concerts and experimental dramatizations.

Stars: Humphrey Burton, Kirsty Wark, David Collings, Michael Hordern

Votes: 293

71. Timewatch (1982– )

50 min | Documentary, History

BBC investigative documentary series noted for its new perspectives on historical events.

Stars: Michael Praed, Peter France, Christopher Andrew, John Tusa

Votes: 156

72. Red Monarch (1983 TV Movie)

101 min | Comedy, Drama

About Stalin's inner circle who he starts seeing as untrustworthy.

Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Colin Blakely, David Suchet, Carroll Baker, Ian Hogg

Votes: 330

73. GMTV (1993–2010)

205 min | News, Talk-Show

Morning news, interviews and entertainment features.

Stars: Andrew Castle, Kate Garraway, Ben Shephard, Lorraine Kelly

Votes: 302

74. Trenchcoat (1983)

PG | 91 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller

An aspiring mystery writer becomes accidently embroiled in an international plot during a two-week stay in Malta.

Director: Michael Tuchner | Stars: Margot Kidder, Robert Hays, David Suchet, Gila von Weitershausen

Votes: 553 | Gross: $4.30M

75. The Last Innocent Man (1987 TV Movie)

Unrated | 109 min | Thriller

Harry is tired of getting murderers off in court and quits. He has a relation with Jenny. She wants him to defend her separated husband. He allegedly murdered a cop posing as hooker.

Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Ed Harris, Roxanne Hart, David Suchet, Bruce McGill

Votes: 389

76. Breakfast (2000– )

180 min | News, Talk-Show

The BBC's flagship morning news programme covering current affairs, business and sports, plus guest interviews and weather reports.

Stars: Charlie Stayt, Carol Kirkwood, Bill Turnbull, Sian Williams

Votes: 418

77. The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage (2015)

170 min | Comedy

In 1890's England, two friends use the pseudonym, Earnest, for their on-the-down-low activities, add in love and a strange coincidence and things get very funny.

Director: Adrian Noble | Stars: David Suchet, Emily Barber, Michael Benz, Philip Cumbus

Votes: 132

78. Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story (2018)

95 min | Comedy

This unique Hollywood story is the life-and-times chronicle of one of our greatest directors, Oskar Knight.

Director: Scott Fivelson | Stars: Lenny von Dohlen, Margaret O'Brien, Joaquim de Almeida, Julianna Guill

Votes: 28

79. When the Whales Came (1989)

PG | 100 min | Drama

A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and ... See full summary »

Director: Clive Rees | Stars: Paul Scofield, David Threlfall, Helen Mirren, Helen Pearce

Votes: 458

80. The Phoenix and the Carpet (1997)

28 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Four young children hope for anything to happen and, when they become owners of the Phoenix, their adventure begins.

Stars: Miriam Margolyes, Ivan Berry, Lesley Dunlop, Ben Simpson

Votes: 146

81. Freud (1984)

60 min | Biography, Drama, History

The life and times of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.

Stars: David Suchet, Helen Bourne, David Swift, Alison Key

Votes: 110

82. David Suchet on the Orient Express (2010 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary

In this travelogue, actor David Suchet journeys across Europe abroad the world famous Orient Express Train, as he prepares to play Poirot in an adaptation of Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express."

Director: Chris Malone | Stars: Josephine Baker, David Suchet

Votes: 203

83. Being Poirot (2013)

48 min | Documentary

After 25 years of playing Hercule Poirot, British actor David Suchet explores the enduring appeal of his most legendary character.

Director: Chris Malone | Stars: David Suchet, Sean O'Connor, Michele Buck, Geoffrey Wansell

Votes: 400

84. All My Sons (2011)

Drama

Arthur Miller's scathing portrait of American society is revived here by director Howard Davies with an intricate, naturalistic set and detailed performances.

Director: Robert Delamere | Stars: David Suchet, Zoë Wanamaker, Stephen Campbell Moore, Jemima Rooper

Votes: 42

85. Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express (2006 Video Game)

T | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

As Miss Marceau, the assistant manager of the Orient Express, solve puzzles, interview passengers, search compartments and gather forensic evidence to help temporarily indisposed Hercule Poirot solve a paradoxical murder on the train.

Directors: Mike Adams, Scott Nixon | Stars: David Suchet, Vanessa Marshall, Carolyn Seymour, Leigh-Allyn Baker

Votes: 380

86. Dinner with Edward

Comedy, Drama | Pre-production

Dinner with Edward is the story of an unusual friendship between two very different people. It's a tale of two friends sharing views on life over gloriously cooked meals that ends up changing the course of each other's lives.

Star: David Suchet

87. Diverted (2009 TV Movie)

86 min | Drama, Thriller

On September 11th, 2001, 38 planes headed to New York City were diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, Canada. A town of 9,000 took in 7,000 passengers for 4 days until American airspace reopened.

Director: Alex Chapple | Stars: Shawn Ashmore, David Suchet, Joanne Whalley, Colin Buchanan

Votes: 406

88. Theatre Night (1985–1990)

180 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Adaptations of classic and contemporary stage plays.

Stars: Kenneth Cranham, Robert Lang, Natalie Ogle, Dinsdale Landen

Votes: 58

89. The Play on One (1988–1991)

Drama

Various plays from each of the home nations.

Stars: Kenneth Cranham, Tom Watson, Susan Wooldridge, Phyllis Logan

Votes: 58

90. Richard & Judy (2001–2009)

60 min | Talk-Show

Magazine programme featuring news items, expert advice and celebrity interviews.

Stars: Richard Madeley, Judy Finnigan, Raj Persaud, Mike McClean

Votes: 437

91. Maxwell (2007 TV Movie)

90 min | Biography, Drama

The final two months of the life of media tycoon Robert Maxwell.

Director: Colin Barr | Stars: David Suchet, Patricia Hodge, Ben Caplan, Duncan Bell

Votes: 287

92. Playing Shakespeare (1982)

Documentary

John Barton holds a master class in how to play Shakespeare, using members of the RSC doing scenes, sonnets, and commentary as prime examples.

Stars: John Barton, David Suchet, Lisa Harrow, Alan Howard

Votes: 224

93. Act of God (II) (2009)

80 min | Thriller

An unhinged man metes out his own form of justice when a surgeon chooses another girl over his girlfriend for a lifesaving heart transplant.

Directors: Sean Faughnan, Ezna Sands, Petros Silvestros | Stars: David Suchet, Max Brown, Jenny Agutter, Adrian Dunbar

Votes: 123

94. Seesaw (1999– )

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama

After their daughter's kidnapping, the Prices are forced to sell everything, but their new life as a working class family proves difficult.

Stars: David Suchet, Geraldine James, Amanda Ooms, Neil Stuke

Votes: 148

95. Cruel Train (1995 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 100 min | Crime, Drama

A sordid story of sexual passion, sexual crimes, and murder, set among the staff of an English railway line in 1940-41.

Director: Malcolm McKay | Stars: David Suchet, Saskia Reeves, Adrian Dunbar, Alec McCowen

Votes: 133

96. The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship (1991 TV Movie)

60 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

A meek young Russian peasant finds himself on the adventure of a lifetime when he is mysteriously bestowed with a flying ship that sets sail for the Tsar's royal court.

Director: Francis Vose | Stars: Robin Bailey, Maurice Denham, Jimmy Hibbert, Martin Jarvis

Votes: 404

97. Sunday (1997)

Unrated | 91 min | Drama, Romance

This film concerns two mysterious characters who meet on a Sunday in Queens. Madeleine the most unsettling creature of that name since "Vertigo" is a middle-aged, moderately successful ... See full summary »

Director: Jonathan Nossiter | Stars: David Suchet, Lisa Harrow, Jared Harris, Larry Pine

Votes: 706 | Gross: $6.10M

98. The Secret Agent (1992)

TV-PG | 150 min | Drama, Thriller

A triple agent attempts to blow up the Greenwich Observatory in 1894, a time of unrest and anarchist violence throughout Europe.

Stars: Cheryl Campbell, Peter Capaldi, Janet Suzman, Richard Stirling

Votes: 120

99. Aspel & Company (1984–1993)

60 min | Talk-Show

Middle-of-the-road celebrity chat show hosted by smooth presenter Michael Aspel.

Stars: Michael Aspel, Mel Smith, Nigel Havers, Oliver Reed

Votes: 161

100. Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets (2004 TV Movie)

100 min | Documentary, Drama, Sci-Fi

This two-part science fiction docu-drama examines the possibilities of a dangerous, manned space mission to explore the inner and outer planets of the Solar system.

Director: Joe Ahearne | Stars: David Suchet, Martin McDougall, Joanne McQuinn, Rad Lazar

Votes: 1,018