A Glean movie guide
Sharp Whodunnits & Witty Mysteries
Everyone is a suspect.
Clever ensemble puzzles with social satire and sharp dialogue.
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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 chaotic and hilarious cult classic where six colorful suspects navigate a mansion full of secrets.
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 scavenger hunt on a Mediterranean yacht that served as a 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.
- 04
See How They Run
A meta-textual and witty 1950s mystery that pokes fun at the very genre it brilliantly executes.
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
Murder on the Orient Express
A star-studded ensemble brings Agatha Christie’s most famous closed-room mystery to life with modern flair.
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
- 06
Gosford Park
A sharp exploration of class dynamics set within a sprawling English estate during a weekend shooting party.
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
Murder by Death
A delightful parody featuring an ensemble of legendary detectives trapped in a booby-trapped mansion.
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
Crooked House
A wealthy patriarch’s death leaves a dysfunctional family under the microscope in this classic Christie adaptation.
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.
- 09
A Haunting in Venice
Hercule Poirot faces a supernatural-tinged mystery in a decaying, atmospheric Venetian palazzo.
Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
- 10
Brick
Rian Johnson’s directorial debut transposes hardboiled noir tropes to a stylized 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.
- 11
Deathtrap
A sharp-witted battle of deception and double-crosses centered on a playwright’s desperate scheme.
A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.
- 12
7 Women and a Murder
A stylish Italian whodunnit where seven women are trapped in a snowy mansion with a killer in their midst.
When the family patriarch is murdered, seven women find themselves trapped together in his mansion to solve the mystery.