A Glean movie guide
Whodunnit? The Best Mystery Ensembles
Solve the mystery before they do.
Sharp wit, star-studded casts, and puzzles that keep you guessing until the final reveal.
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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 hilarious, fast-paced cult classic where every guest in a secluded mansion is a suspect.
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 reveals deadly secrets in this Knives Out inspiration.
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, comedic mystery set in 1950s London that playfully subverts every whodunnit trope.
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
The Nice Guys
Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe bring chaotic energy and sharp wit to a layered 1970s crime investigation.
A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
- 06
Gosford Park
An intricate look at class and secrets during a rainy weekend at a British estate where a murder occurs.
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
Bad Times at the El Royale
Seven strangers with dark pasts collide in a stylized, high-tension mystery at a rundown 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.
- 08
Game Night
A suburban game night spirals into a real-life mystery filled with clever twists and genuine laughs.
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.
- 09
Murder on the Orient Express
A lavish, star-studded adaptation of Agatha Christie’s most famous closed-circle mystery.
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
- 10
Murder by Death
A star-studded parody that pokes fun at every famous detective in a single, trap-filled 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.