A Glean movie guide
Modern Whodunits & Clever Crimes
Everyone is a suspect.
Sharp mysteries featuring eccentric detectives and star-studded suspect lists.
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The movie list
- 01
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Benoit Blanc returns for a satirical, sun-drenched puzzle 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
A fast-paced, hilarious cult classic that perfectly captures the isolated mansion mystery vibe.
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 and meta-textual romp through 1950s London that pokes fun at the genre's own tropes.
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
The Last of Sheila
A complex, puzzle-driven scavenger hunt that served as a primary 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.
- 05
Murder on the Orient Express
A lavish, modern adaptation of Agatha Christie’s most famous closed-circle mystery.
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
- 06
Gosford Park
An intricate look at class dynamics and family secrets during a deadly weekend 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
Game Night
A high-energy modern 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.
- 08
Murder by Death
A star-studded parody that lovingly skewers the most famous detectives in literary history.
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
Sleuth
A brilliant intellectual duel filled with elaborate games, mechanical toys, and shocking reversals.
A man who loves games and theatre invites his wife's lover to meet, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
- 10
Confess, Fletch
A breezy and witty crime caper featuring a charmingly unconventional lead investigator.
The roguishly charming and endlessly troublesome Fletch becomes the prime suspect in a murder case while searching for a stolen art collection. The only way to prove his innocence? Find out which of the long list of suspects is the culprit - from the eccentric art dealer and a missing playboy to a crazy neighbor and Fletch’s Italian girlfriend. Crime, in fact, has never been this disorganized.
- 11
Bodies Bodies Bodies
A sharp, satirical take on the whodunit for the social media age, set during a party gone wrong.
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.
- 12
Brick
Rian Johnson’s directorial debut transposes hardboiled noir dialogue to 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.