History Film / HerculePoirotKennethBranagh

These productions reflect modern filmmaking sensibilities, from lavish production values all the way to AdaptationalDiversity, and all boast an AllStarCast. The films are produced by Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios (though the series started under 20th Century Fox before the acquisition by Creator/{{Disney}}).

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[[caption-width-right:250:''"My name is Hercule Poirot, and I am probably the greatest detective in the world."'']]

* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the novels, Poirot was already a renowned detective and retired Belgian police chief when UsefulNotes/WorldWarI broke out, at which point he came to England as a refugee. This series' version of ''Death on the Nile'' depicts him as a soldier during the war, and he aspired to be a farmer after the war was over. The tragic death of his lover Katherine is seemingly what drove him to become a detective.

* VilerNewVillain: The murder culprits thus far get steadily more heinous with each new film. The ''Film/{{Murder on the Orient Express|2017}}'' culprits are vengeance-motivated [[AntiVillain anti-villains]] whom never actually attempt to kill anyone aside from their intended target (who was much worse than them even when they're at their lowest), and Poirot is ultimately convinced that they deserve to be let go. The culprits in ''Film/{{Death on the Nile|2022}}'' are a lot more greedy and selfish in their motivations, and willing to murder people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time, though they [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes deeply love each-other]]. Then ''Film/AHauntingInVenice'' features a culprit who murders people on flimsier suspicions that they ''might'' be onto the truth of their crime: that they committed [[OffingTheOffspring filicide]] (albeit accidentally) because they'd been poisoning their own child just to prevent them escaping their smothering control.

* VilerNewVillain: The murder culprits thus far get steadily more heinous with each new film. The ''Film/{{Murder on the Orient Express|2017}}'' culprits are portrayed as sympathetic [[AntiVillain anti-villains]] whom never actually kill anyone aside from their intended target (who was much worse than them even when they're at their lowest), and Poirot is ultimately convinced to let them go. The culprits in ''Film/{{Death on the Nile|2022}}'' are more greedy and selfish in their motivations, and willing to murder people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time, but they [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes deeply love each-other]]. Then ''Film/AHauntingInVenice'' features a culprit who murders people on flimsier suspicions that they ''might'' be onto the truth, and who committed filicide (albeit accidentally) because they'd been poisoning their own child just to prevent them escaping.

* AgeLift: Poirot, while still an older man, seems to be younger than his literary counterpart. The literary Poroit, while perpetually an old man, debuted in 1920 as such, while the Poirot in the films served in World War I as a young man and in the present may be prematurely grey haired.

These productions reflect modern filmmaking sensibilities, from lavish production values all the way to AdaptationalDiversity, and all boast an AllStarCast. The films are produced by Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios (though the series started under 20th Century Fox before the acquisition by Disney).

These productions reflect modern filmmaking sensibilities, from lavish production values all the way to AdaptationalDiversity, and all boast an AllStarCast. The films are produced by Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios (though the series started under Twentieth Century Fox before the acquisition by Disney).

* AdaptationDyeJob: Inverted. In the books, poirot is said to dye his hair and mustaches, a fact that somewhat embarrasses him. In these films, Branagh has him sport a dignified gray.

These productions reflect modern filmmaking sensibilities, from lavish production values all the way to AdaptationalDiversity, and all boast an AllStarCast. The films are produced by Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios (though the series started under 20th Century Fox before the acquisition by Disney).

* AdaptationalDiversity: A number of characters got a RaceLift from white to other ethnicities due to Kenneth Branagh's habit of [[invoked]]ColorblindCasting. In some cases the racial background plays a role, such as with the now-black Otterbournes in ''Death on the Nile'', who were subjected to racism before, with the film also featuring two characters undergoing AdaptationalSexuality.