Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar

"Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar" — watch online this 2019 British crime film directed by Sam Yates. Lyndsey Marshal plays Agatha Christie, the woman who wrote the rulebook on detective fiction, now dropped into an actual murder case on an archaeological dig in Iraq. Jonah Hauer-King and Rory Fleck-Byrne co-star.

The expedition is hunting for artefacts tied to the Babylonian goddess Ishtar, but what it finds instead is a string of deaths with no easy explanation. The film draws on a documented chapter of Christie's biography: she spent years in the Middle East alongside her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan. A brisk, well-dressed period mystery built on a neat premise — what happens when the woman who invented orderly murders faces one that isn't. Stream "Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar" (2019) on iFILM.