A Glean movie guide
Clever Crimes & Colorful Casts
Everyone is a suspect.
Witty, stylish mysteries featuring brilliant detectives and eccentric suspects.
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The movie list
- 01
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Benoit Blanc returns for a high-stakes, sun-drenched mystery on a private Greek island.
World-famous detective Benoit Blanc heads to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery surrounding a tech billionaire and his eclectic crew of friends.
- 02
Clue
The quintessential ensemble whodunit, packed with rapid-fire wit and multiple chaotic endings.
Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.
- 03
See How They Run
A stylish, meta-textual romp through 1950s London theater that pokes fun at the genre itself.
In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard and eager rookie Constable Stalker take on the case, the two find themselves thrown into a puzzling whodunit within the glamorously sordid theater underground, investigating the mysterious homicide at their own peril.
- 04
Murder on the Orient Express
A lavish, star-studded adaptation of Agatha Christie’s most famous closed-room puzzle.
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
- 05
The Last of Sheila
A twisty, puzzle-filled game on a yacht that served as a primary inspiration for Knives Out.
A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game—but the game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.
- 06
Gosford Park
A sharp-witted look at class dynamics and murder during a weekend getaway at an English estate.
In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.
- 07
Murder by Death
A hilarious parody featuring five legendary detectives invited to solve a baffling dinner-party crime.
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
- 08
Game Night
A modern, high-energy comedy where a suburban mystery party spirals into a real-life conspiracy.
Max and Annie's weekly game night gets kicked up a notch when Max's brother Brooks arranges a murder mystery party -- complete with fake thugs and federal agents. So when Brooks gets kidnapped, it's all supposed to be part of the game. As the competitors set out to solve the case, they start to learn that neither the game nor Brooks are what they seem to be. The friends soon find themselves in over their heads as each twist leads to another unexpected turn over the course of one chaotic night.
- 09
The Nice Guys
A banter-heavy neo-noir featuring an unlikely duo investigating a complex 1970s conspiracy.
A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
- 10
Sleuth
A brilliant, theatrical battle of wits between two men trapped in a house full of games and traps.
A man who loves games and theatre invites his wife's lover to meet, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
- 11
Brick
Rian Johnson’s directorial debut reimagines hard-boiled detective tropes in a modern high school setting.
A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.
- 12
Death on the Nile
Hercule Poirot’s glamorous Egyptian vacation becomes a tense search for a killer among the elite.
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.