A Glean movie guide
Sharp Whodunits & Witty Mysteries
Solve it before they do.
Clever ensemble puzzles with eccentric suspects and sharp-tongued detectives.
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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 fast-paced, hilarious cult classic where every guest in a gothic mansion is a suspicious suspect.
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 mystery that pokes fun at the genre 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.
- 04
The Last of Sheila
An intricate, puzzle-box mystery on a yacht that served as a primary inspiration for Rian Johnson.
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
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.
- 06
Gosford Park
A sharp-witted look at class dynamics wrapped inside a traditional English country house murder.
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
Game Night
A chaotic and clever modern mystery where a suburban social gathering spirals into a real-life thriller.
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.
- 08
Murder by Death
A brilliant parody of detective tropes featuring an ensemble of legendary sleuths in one house.
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
Confess, Fletch
Jon Hamm shines as a dry-witted investigator caught in a web of art theft and homicide.
The roguishly charming and endlessly troublesome Fletch becomes the prime suspect in a murder case while searching for a stolen art collection. The only way to prove his innocence? Find out which of the long list of suspects is the culprit - from the eccentric art dealer and a missing playboy to a crazy neighbor and Fletch’s Italian girlfriend. Crime, in fact, has never been this disorganized.
- 10
Crooked House
A classic family-driven whodunit where every relative has a motive to kill the wealthy patriarch.
A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.