A Glean movie guide
Modern Whodunnits & Puzzle-Box Mysteries
Can you solve the puzzle?
Sharp wit, eccentric detectives, and ensemble casts where everyone is a suspect.
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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
The Last of Sheila
A complex meta-mystery involving a deadly scavenger hunt that served as a key 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.
- 04
Gosford Park
A sharp-witted look at class dynamics and secrets during a rainy weekend at a grand 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.
- 05
See How They Run
A stylish and meta-textual comedy that pokes fun at mystery tropes 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.
- 06
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.
- 07
Murder by Death
A brilliant parody of the genre that gathers the world’s greatest fictional detectives for a chaotic dinner.
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
Bodies Bodies Bodies
A biting, modern satire that traps a group of wealthy friends in a mansion during a deadly party game.
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
Sleuth
A theatrical and mind-bending battle of wits set in a remote mansion filled with puzzles 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.
- 10
Death on the Nile
A glamorous vacation turns into a tense investigation as Hercule Poirot hunts a killer aboard a river steamer.
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.