A Glean movie guide
Sharp Whodunits & Stylish Sleuths
Solve the puzzle.
Clever mysteries with ensemble casts, witty dialogue, 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 sun-drenched, high-stakes mystery 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 frantic and hilarious ensemble comedy 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
The Last of Sheila
An intricate, puzzle-filled scavenger hunt on a yacht that served as a major 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
See How They Run
A stylish and meta-textual mystery that pokes fun at whodunit tropes in 1950s London.
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.
- 05
Gosford Park
A masterful blend of social satire and murder mystery set during a weekend party 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.
- 06
Murder on the Orient Express
A lavish, star-studded adaptation of Agatha Christie’s most famous locked-room puzzle.
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
- 07
The Nice Guys
A riotous 1970s noir-comedy fueled by sharp banter and an unexpectedly deep conspiracy.
A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
- 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
Bodies Bodies Bodies
A razor-sharp Gen Z satire that turns a remote house party into a deadly game of suspicion.
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.
- 10
Sleuth
A brilliant, two-man battle of wits filled with theatrical deceptions and mind-bending plot twists.
A man who loves games and theatre invites his wife's lover to meet, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.