A Glean movie guide
The Ultimate Whodunnit Guide
Solve the puzzle before they do.
Sharp-witted ensemble mysteries with clever twists and eccentric characters.
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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 hilarious ensemble classic where every guest has a motive and a secret weapon.
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 glamorous scavenger hunt on a yacht turns into a deadly game of uncovering dark secrets.
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 witty, meta-theatrical 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.
- 05
Murder on the Orient Express
A lavish adaptation of the quintessential closed-room mystery on a luxury train.
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 against 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
Sleuth
A brilliant battle of wits filled with elaborate traps and shocking narrative reversals.
A man who loves games and theatre invites his wife's lover to meet, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
- 08
Murder by Death
A star-studded parody that lovingly skewers the tropes of world-famous literary detectives.
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
Brick
Rian Johnson’s directorial debut reimagines hardboiled noir within a modern high school.
A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.
- 10
Confess, Fletch
A dryly funny mystery featuring an unconventional investigator navigating a web of eccentric suspects.
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.
- 11
Bodies Bodies Bodies
A modern take on the whodunnit that focuses on social dynamics and paranoia among friends.
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.
- 12
Deathtrap
A twisty game of deception where a struggling playwright plots a deadly script-stealing scheme.
A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.