And Then There Were None (1945)

Director
René Clair

Main cast
Louis Hayward; June Duprez; Barry Fitzgerald; Judith Anderson; Walter Huston

Genres
Crime, Mystery

Description
Ten people are invited for a weekend on an island by a mysterious stranger, but it turns out he isn't present. At dinner a record is played which accuses each one of the guests of having committed a murder. Shortly thereafter the guests begin to die, one by one until there are only two people left.


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