A Glean movie guide
Modern Whodunits & Clever Mysteries
Solve it before they do.
Sharp scripts, eccentric suspects, and twists you won't see coming.
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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 hilarious, fast-paced ensemble mystery that brings the classic board game to life with multiple 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 and meta-textual whodunit that pokes fun at the very genre it masterfully executes.
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-circle mystery.
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
- 05
The Last of Sheila
A complex scavenger hunt on a Mediterranean 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
An intricate look at class dynamics wrapped inside a traditional English country house murder mystery.
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
Sleuth
A brilliant and theatrical game of wits between two men that constantly subverts expectations.
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
Bodies Bodies Bodies
A sharp, satirical take on the genre where a party game among wealthy friends turns unexpectedly lethal.
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.
- 09
Brick
Rian Johnson’s directorial debut transposes hardboiled noir tropes to a modern-day 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.
- 10
Murder by Death
A star-studded parody that lovingly mocks 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.