By the Pricking of My Thumbs

"By the Pricking of My Thumbs" (2005) — watch this French detective comedy online on iFILM. Director Pascal Thomas adapted Agatha Christie's Tommy & Tuppence novel, with Catherine Frot and André Dussollier as the sleuthing couple.

The Beresfords visit a nursing home and meet an eccentric old woman who mutters about unspeakable crimes before vanishing entirely. Tuppence refuses to let it go and follows the thread into the French countryside, where the silence of the locals is its own kind of answer.

Thomas gives Christie's characters a dryly comic French sensibility — light on its feet until the story turns genuinely dark. Watch "By the Pricking of My Thumbs" (2005) online on iFILM.