A Glean movie guide
Sharp Whodunnits & Clever Ensembles
Everyone is a suspect.
Witty mysteries with eccentric casts and intricate puzzles, just like Knives Out.
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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 and fast-paced ensemble mystery that brings the classic board game to life.
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 meta-mystery set in 1950s London that pokes fun at the very genre it belongs to.
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 devious scavenger hunt on a yacht serves as the 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.
- 05
Murder on the Orient Express
A lavish, star-studded adaptation of Agatha Christie’s most famous train-bound puzzle.
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
- 06
Murder by Death
A star-studded parody that gathers the world's greatest fictional detectives for a dinner party.
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.
- 07
Gosford Park
An intricate look at class dynamics and murder during a weekend retreat 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.
- 08
Game Night
A suburban evening takes a chaotic turn when a staged kidnapping mystery becomes dangerously real.
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.
- 09
The Nice Guys
A mismatched pair of investigators navigate 1970s Los Angeles in this witty and stylish crime comedy.
A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
- 10
Bodies Bodies Bodies
A sharp, Gen-Z satire where a party game in a remote mansion goes horribly wrong.
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.