A Glean movie guide
Whodunits & Witty Mysteries
Everyone is a suspect.
Clever ensemble puzzles and sharp-tongued detectives for fans of Benoit Blanc.
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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 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 riotous ensemble comedy where six guests must solve a murder in 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
See How They Run
A stylish, meta-textual mystery that pokes fun at whodunit tropes 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.
- 04
The Last of Sheila
A complex, puzzle-driven mystery on a 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.
- 05
Murder on the Orient Express
A lavish, star-studded adaptation of the classic Agatha Christie tale featuring Hercule Poirot.
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
- 06
Gosford Park
An intricate look at class dynamics and hidden motives during a rainy weekend 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.
- 07
Murder by Death
A satirical send-up of famous literary detectives gathered for a dinner party that turns deadly.
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 brilliant battle of wits between a mystery writer and his wife’s lover, packed with elaborate 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
Crooked House
A private eye navigates the toxic dynamics of a wealthy, dysfunctional family following a suspicious death.
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.
- 10
Brick
Rian Johnson’s directorial debut reimagines hardboiled detective tropes within the walls of 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.
- 11
Bodies Bodies Bodies
A sharp, modern take on the genre where a party game among wealthy friends 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.