Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "sir-arthur-conan-doyle-character"

1. Detective Conan (1996– )

TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Action, Comedy

The cases of a detective whose physical age was chemically reversed to that of a prepubescent boy but must hide his true mental development.

Stars: Minami Takayama, Wakana Yamazaki, Hoang Khuyet, Akira Kamiya

Votes: 15,274

2. Shanghai Knights (2003)

PG-13 | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

When a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds.

Director: David Dobkin | Stars: Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Fann Wong, Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Votes: 112,554 | Gross: $60.48M

3. Houdini (2014)

TV-14 | 76 min | Biography, Drama

Follow the man behind the magic as he finds fame, engages in espionage, battles spiritualists and encounters the greatest names of the era, from U.S. presidents to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Grigori Rasputin.

Stars: Adrien Brody, Kristen Connolly, Evan Jones, Tim Pigott-Smith

Votes: 12,345

4. FairyTale: A True Story (1997)

PG | 99 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies.

Director: Charles Sturridge | Stars: Paul McGann, Florence Hoath, Elizabeth Earl, Harvey Keitel

Votes: 6,348 | Gross: $14.04M

5. Agatha and the Truth of Murder (2018 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In 1926, with her personal life in tatters and her writing in crisis, a young Agatha Christie decides to solve a real-life murder.

Director: Terry Loane | Stars: Dean Andrews, Ruth Bradley, Bebe Cave, Amelia Dell

Votes: 5,547

6. Arthur & George (2015)

45 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle recaptures his zest for life by pursuing and challenging a notorious miscarriage of justice.

Stars: Martin Clunes, Arsher Ali, Charles Edwards, Art Malik

Votes: 1,418

7. Detective Conan: The Sniper from Another Dimension (2014)

110 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

After participating in the opening ceremony, Conan, Professor Agasa, Ran, Haibara, and the Detective Boys are enjoying the view from the observation deck of the 635-metre tall Bell Tree ... See full synopsis »

Director: Kôbun Shizuno | Stars: Minami Takayama, Kappei Yamaguchi, Wakana Yamazaki, Rikiya Koyama

Votes: 1,646

8. Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes (2000–2001)

Crime, Drama, Mystery

Certain events which had an impact on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, while he was still a medical student under the supervision of Dr. Bell, his teacher and mentor, on whom the character of Sherlock Holmes is partly drawn from.

Stars: Ian Richardson, Charles Edwards, Simon Chandler, Mossie Smith

Votes: 774

9. Photographing Fairies (1997)

R | 106 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Photographer Charles Castle is dazed with grief after the death of his girlfriend. He goes off to war and works in the trenches as photographer. After the war, still grieving, Charles receives some photographs that claim to be of fairies.

Director: Nick Willing | Stars: Toby Stephens, Emily Woof, Ben Kingsley, Frances Barber

Votes: 2,851

10. The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle (2005 TV Movie)

90 min | Biography, Drama

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is the author of the famous Sherlock Holmes books. The film shows us how Doyle came up with the idea of the 'super detective' and how he uses the techniques of his ... See full summary »

Director: Cilla Ware | Stars: Douglas Henshall, Tim McInnerny, Brian Cox, Sinéad Cusack

Votes: 287

11. Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (2017 Video)

3 min | Short, Mystery

Get your deerstalker cap on - the play's afoot. From the award-winning mastermind of mayhem, Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor), comes a fast-paced comedy about everyone's favorite detective ... See full summary »

Director: Chrisjohn Hancock | Star: Harrison Treble

12. The Shackles of Sherlock (2007 TV Movie)

47 min | Documentary

David Burke, a former Dr. Watson, takes a look at Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle and how his most famous character took over his life.

Director: Paul Griffin | Stars: David Burke, Duncan Duff, Jon Lellenberg, Owen Dudley Edwards

Votes: 10

13. In Search of... (1977–1982)
Episode: Sherlock Holmes (1978)

Not Rated | Documentary

An examination of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, and how the author emulated his fictional detective in many respects.

Stars: Leonard Nimoy, Jane Carr, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ian Fleming

Votes: 25

14. Drunk History: UK (2015–2017)
Episode: Battle of Waterloo/Arthur Conan Doyle (2016)

22 min | Comedy, History

Elis James and John Robins discuss the Battle of Waterloo, and Tom Parry tells us about Arthur Conan Doyle becoming a real-life Sherlock.

Director: Tom McKay | Stars: Jimmy Carr, Elis James, Tom Parry, John Robins

Votes: 12

15. Charité (2017– )
Episode: Götterdämmerung (2017)

TV-MA | 48 min | Drama, History, Sci-Fi

Professor Koch continues to test tuberculin as the results are called into question, Behring gets the opportunity to test out his cure for diphtheria, and Ida grapples with her future.

Director: Sönke Wortmann | Stars: Alicia von Rittberg, Maximilian Meyer-Bretschneider, Justus von Dohnányi, Matthias Koeberlin

Votes: 136

16. Drunk History (2013–2019)
Episode: Drunk Mystery (2018)

TV-MA | 21 min | Comedy, History

Drunk History investigates Agatha Christie's disappearance, the anonymous letter writer who terrorized Circleville and the mastermind behind America's only unsolved airplane hijacking, with Kirsten Dunst, Vanessa Bayer and Taran Killam.

Director: Derek Waters | Stars: Derek Waters, Alison Rich, Kyle Mooney, Georgia Hardstark

Votes: 118