A Glean movie guide
Modern Whodunits & Clever Mysteries
Everyone is a suspect.
Sharp-witted ensembles, intricate puzzles, and stylish social satires.
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The movie list
- 01
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Detective Benoit Blanc returns to peel back the layers of a tech billionaire's deadly Greek getaway.
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 comedy where six colorful strangers must solve a murder in a mansion full of secrets.
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 meta-mystery that pokes fun at whodunit tropes while delivering a genuine 1950s theater-world 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
A sprawling ensemble piece that uses a country house murder to expose the biting social divide of 1930s England.
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
The Last of Sheila
A complex, game-based mystery on a yacht 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.
- 06
Murder on the Orient Express
A star-studded, visually lush adaptation of the classic train-bound mystery that defined the genre.
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
- 07
Murder by Death
A hilarious send-up of famous literary detectives gathered at a spooky estate to solve a pre-planned murder.
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
Sleuth
A theatrical and intensely clever game of cat-and-mouse between a mystery writer and his wife's lover.
A man who loves games and theatre invites his wife's lover to meet, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
- 09
The Menu
A sharp satirical thriller where a group of elite diners finds themselves trapped in a chef's lethal masterpiece.
A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
- 10
Bad Times at the El Royale
Seven strangers with dark secrets collide in a stylized, non-linear mystery set at a rundown hotel.
Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.
- 11
Game Night
A high-energy comedy where a suburban mystery game spirals into a real-life conspiracy with constant twists.
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.
- 12
Death on the Nile
Hercule Poirot’s glamorous Egyptian vacation turns into a methodical 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.