The Little Murders of Agatha Christie (Seasons 1–3)

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie (Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie, 2009) is a French detective comedy series you can watch online on iFILM. Made for France 2, it takes Christie's plots and reworks them around a set of original Gallic investigators — no Poirot, no Marple in sight.

Each standalone episode adapts a Christie novel or short story into a distinctly French provincial setting around the mid-twentieth century. Commissioner Larosière (Antoine Duléry) — blunt, self-satisfied, reliably wrong until suddenly right — leads investigations alongside the excitable journalist Émile Lampion (Marius Colucci). The crimes are as tangled as anything in the originals; the comic timing is purely French.

For viewers who know Christie's work, spotting what the writers kept and what they reinvented is half the pleasure. Stream The Little Murders of Agatha Christie (2009) online on iFILM.