A Glean movie guide
The Art of the Whodunit
Trust no one. Suspect everyone.
Clever mysteries with ensemble casts, sharp satire, and shocking twists.
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The movie list
- 01
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Benoit Blanc returns to peel back the layers of a tech billionaire’s high-stakes murder mystery game.
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 turns a classic board game into a masterclass of witty deception.
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-mystery that pokes fun at whodunit tropes while delivering a genuine 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
An intricate puzzle-filled game of secrets among Hollywood elites that inspired 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
A sharp exploration of class dynamics set within a sprawling estate where everyone has a motive for 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.
- 06
Murder on the Orient Express
A lavish, star-studded adaptation of Agatha Christie’s most famous locked-room mystery on a snowbound train.
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
- 07
Murder by Death
A brilliant parody of literary detectives that gathers the world’s greatest sleuths for a dinner party from hell.
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
Sleuth
A theatrical and twist-heavy battle of wits between two men trapped in a house full of games and deceptions.
A man who loves games and theatre invites his wife's lover to meet, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
- 09
Confess, Fletch
A breezy and dialogue-driven mystery featuring a charismatic investigator who must clear his name of murder.
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
Bodies Bodies Bodies
A razor-sharp satire where a group of wealthy friends turns on each other during a party game gone 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.
- 11
The Nice Guys
A riotous 1970s noir-comedy driven by the electric chemistry of an unlikely pair of private investigators.
A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
- 12
Bad Times at the El Royale
A stylish, non-linear thriller where seven strangers with dark secrets collide at a rundown border hotel.
Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.