A Glean movie guide
Sharp Whodunits & Clever Crimes
Everyone is a suspect.
Stylish ensemble mysteries with sharp wit, eccentric suspects, and intricate puzzles.
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The movie list
- 01
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Benoit Blanc returns to peel back the layers of 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 quintessential ensemble whodunit that balances slapstick comedy with a genuine, fast-paced murder mystery.
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, meta-theatrical mystery that pokes fun at the genre's tropes while delivering a clever 1950s 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.
- 04
The Last of Sheila
A complex, puzzle-driven game on a luxury 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.
- 05
Gosford Park
An intricate 'upstairs-downstairs' mystery that uses a manor house murder to explore social class and secrets.
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
Murder on the Orient Express
A visually lavish, star-studded modern adaptation of Agatha Christie’s most famous locked-room puzzle.
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
- 07
Bodies Bodies Bodies
A sharp, satirical take on the whodunit structure for the social media generation set during a hurricane party.
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
Murder by Death
A hilarious parody that gathers caricatures of famous literary detectives for a dinner party full of traps.
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
Brick
Director Rian Johnson’s debut reimagines hardboiled noir dialogue and tropes within 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.
- 10
Deathtrap
A twist-filled meta-mystery involving a playwright, a student, and a script that might be worth killing for.
A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.