A Glean movie guide
Masterful Whodunnits
Trust no one.
From classic manor mysteries to modern puzzle-boxes, these films will keep you guessing.
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The movie list
- 01
Knives Out
A sharp, modern tribute to the genre featuring a brilliant detective and a house full of eccentric suspects.
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death.
- 02
Clue
A hilarious and fast-paced romp through a mansion where every guest has a motive and a secret.
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
Murder on the Orient Express
A visually stunning adaptation of Agatha Christie’s most famous puzzle set on a snowbound luxury train.
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
- 04
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Benoit Blanc returns for a high-stakes, tech-infused 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.
- 05
Gosford Park
An intricate look at class dynamics and hidden secrets during a deadly weekend at an English 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.
- 06
The Last of Sheila
A complex and highly influential puzzle-style mystery centered on a deadly scavenger hunt.
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
Bodies Bodies Bodies
A sharp, satirical take on the genre where a party game among friends turns into a real-life nightmare.
In an isolated family mansion, a group of rich 20-somethings decides to play Bodies Bodies Bodies, a game where one of them is secretly a "killer" while the rest tries to "escape". Things take a turn for the worse when real bodies start turning up, setting off a paranoid and dangerous chain of events.
- 08
See How They Run
A witty meta-mystery that pokes fun at whodunnit tropes while delivering a genuine 1950s-style investigation.
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.
- 09
Murder by Death
A star-studded parody that gathers the world's greatest fictional detectives to solve a baffling 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.
- 10
Sleuth
A tense and twisty psychological battle of wits between two men in a remote, game-filled mansion.
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
Identity
A dark, high-stakes elimination mystery where strangers stranded at a motel are picked off one by one.
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
- 12
Brick
A clever neo-noir that transplants hardboiled detective tropes into the unexpected setting of a modern high school.
A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.