A Glean movie guide
Whodunit? Twisty Mysteries Like Knives Out
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- 01
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Benoit Blanc returns to peel back the layers of a tech mogul’s high-stakes private island getaway.
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
The ultimate ensemble mystery where every guest has a motive and the endings are as multiple as the suspects.
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 witty, meta-mystery that pokes fun at whodunit tropes while delivering a genuine theatrical 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
A complex scavenger hunt on a luxury yacht serves as the blueprint for the modern twisty mystery.
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
An intricate 'upstairs-downstairs' murder mystery that exposes the dark secrets of the British elite.
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
The Menu
A satirical thriller where a group of wealthy diners finds themselves trapped in a chef's lethal masterpiece.
A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
- 07
Game Night
A hilarious, fast-paced mystery where the line between a party game and a real kidnapping constantly shifts.
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
Sleuth
A brilliant battle of wits set in a puzzle-filled mansion where nothing is ever what it seems.
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
Bad Times at the El Royale
Seven strangers with dark secrets collide at a rundown hotel in this stylish, non-linear mystery.
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.
- 10
Bodies Bodies Bodies
A sharp, Gen-Z take on the 'locked-room' mystery that turns a party game into a paranoid nightmare.
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
Murder on the Orient Express
A lavish, modern adaptation of the quintessential train-bound mystery featuring a legendary final reveal.
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
- 12
Crooked House
A sprawling estate and a suspicious family anchor this Agatha Christie adaptation with a truly shocking resolution.
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.