A Glean movie guide
Clever Mysteries Like Knives Out
Everyone is a suspect.
Ensemble casts, sharp wit, and puzzles that keep you guessing until the final reveal.
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The movie list
- 01
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Benoit Blanc returns for a high-stakes puzzle on a tech billionaire’s 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
A lightning-fast, hilarious ensemble mystery that turns a board game into a cult classic whodunnit.
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-theatrical mystery that pokes fun at the genre while delivering a genuine puzzle.
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
Gosford Park
An intricate look at class and secrets during a rainy weekend at a British country 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.
- 05
Murder on the Orient Express
A lavish, star-studded adaptation of Agatha Christie’s most famous locked-room mystery.
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
- 06
The Last of Sheila
A complex scavenger hunt on a luxury yacht that served as a major inspiration for the Knives Out series.
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.
- 07
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.
- 08
Murder by Death
A playful parody featuring an all-star cast as caricatures of history’s most famous detectives.
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.
- 09
The Nice Guys
A sharp-tongued, 1970s-set mystery fueled by the chaotic chemistry of its lead investigators.
A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
- 10
Ready or Not
A darkly comedic survival thriller that satirizes the eccentricities of the ultra-wealthy.
A young bride's wedding night turns into her worst nightmare when her ridiculously rich in-laws force her to play a gruesome game of hide-and-seek.