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A murder at a 1930s English country house, seen upstairs and downstairs. Robert Altman's sharp class satire is a clear influence on Knives Out.
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50 movies and shows like Knives Out: witty whodunits, Agatha Christie classics, locked-room puzzles, comic mysteries and twisty modern thrillers.
Knives Out revived the fun whodunit, with a big suspicious family, a brilliant detective and a puzzle that plays fair. These 50 picks share that pleasure, from Rian Johnson's own sequels and Agatha Christie classics to comic mysteries, twisty thrillers, Indian whodunits and binge-worthy mystery series. Every note is spoiler-safe.
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Guests at a mansion dinner party become suspects in a murder. The farce version of the whodunit, and gloriously quotable.
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A mystery writer invites his wife's lover to his manor for a game. Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine play a battle of wits full of reversals.
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Poirot takes a Nile cruise where tensions end in murder. Peter Ustinov leads a lush, star-studded Christie adaptation.
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A film producer invites friends on a yacht for a murder-mystery game. Written by Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins, it is a puzzle-lover's treat and a Rian Johnson favourite.
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A struggling playwright is sent a brilliant script by his student. Michael Caine stars in a devious, playful thriller.
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Famous fictional detectives are invited to dinner and a murder. A silly, affectionate parody of the genre.
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A new bride joins her rich in-laws for a deadly game of hide and seek. Funny, gory and sharply satirical about wealth.
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A young couple attends an exclusive dinner on a private island. A darkly funny satire of the ultra-rich with a mounting sense of dread.
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A murder hits a 1950s London production of The Mousetrap. Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan lead a playful, meta whodunit.
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Poirot investigates a murder at an island hotel. Peter Ustinov again, with sun, style and a clever solution.
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An ageing barrister defends a man accused of murder. Billy Wilder's adaptation is witty and famous for its twists.
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Ten strangers are lured to an island and accused of past crimes. The first film version of Christie's most famous novel.
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A retired detective and his witty wife investigate a disappearance. Their banter set the template for comic sleuthing.
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A widow is pursued by men seeking her late husband's stolen fortune. Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant make it stylish and funny.
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Two young men host a dinner party with a terrible secret in the room. Hitchcock stages it as a series of long, continuous takes.
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Eight women are snowed in with a murdered man and a house full of secrets. François Ozon's colourful French whodunit is also a musical.
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A couple's game night turns into a real crime. Tightly plotted and consistently funny.
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Rich friends play a party game during a hurricane, and then someone dies. A sharp Gen Z satire of a whodunit.
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A thief posing as an actor is drawn into a real murder mystery. Shane Black's witty, self-aware noir.
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A hired enforcer and a hapless private eye investigate a disappearance in 1970s Los Angeles. Shane Black's funniest mystery.
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Strangers with secrets arrive at a run-down hotel on the state line. Stylish, twisty and full of surprises.
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Bounty hunters and strangers shelter from a blizzard in a remote lodge. Tarantino's Western is essentially a violent whodunit.
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Strangers stranded at a motel in a storm start dying one by one. A twisty thriller built on a Christie-style premise.
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A businessman and his lawyer reconstruct the night of a crime. This Spanish thriller keeps turning until the end.
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A writer is accused after her husband's death in the French Alps. A gripping courtroom mystery where the truth stays elusive.
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A pianist who says he is blind stumbles into a crime. Sriram Raghavan's darkly funny Hindi thriller never stops twisting.
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A businesswoman and a veteran lawyer piece together a night of crime. Amitabh Bachchan and Taapsee Pannu lead a tense Hindi thriller.
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Bengal's famous sleuth takes his first big case in wartime Calcutta. Dibakar Banerjee's stylish period mystery.
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Kenneth Branagh plays Poirot on the snowbound train. A lavish modern version with a star cast.
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A retired Poirot attends a séance in a crumbling Venetian palazzo. The spookiest of Branagh's Christie films.
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Sherlock's teenage sister sets out to find her missing mother. Millie Bobby Brown makes it lively and fun for all ages.
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Holmes and Watson face a sinister plot in Victorian London. Robert Downey Jr. brings swagger to a playful, action-heavy Sherlock.
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A New York couple on holiday become suspects in a billionaire's murder. Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston keep it breezy.
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A family funeral spirals into chaos and secrets. A British farce full of escalating disasters.
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A former child detective takes on his first grown-up case. Funny at first, then surprisingly poignant.
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Rian Johnson's debut transplants hardboiled noir into a California high school. Where his love of mysteries started.
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Miss Marple investigates a poisoning at a village film star's party. A starry Christie adaptation.
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A father searches for his missing daughter through her laptop. Told entirely on screens, with clever clues.
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A photographer stuck in his apartment suspects a neighbour of murder. Hitchcock's perfect armchair mystery.
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A concierge is accused of murder over a wealthy widow's will. Wes Anderson's caper shares Knives Out's inheritance chaos.
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A masked killer targets teenagers who know horror rules. A slasher that plays like a whodunit, full of suspects.
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A detective and a young Edgar Allan Poe investigate killings at West Point. A moody, wintry period mystery.
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A woman who can always tell when someone is lying stumbles into a new murder each episode. Rian Johnson's series is a joy.
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Three true-crime fans start a podcast about a death in their building. Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez are delightful.
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A modern-day Sherlock Holmes solves cases in London. Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman made it a global hit.
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A private eye investigates a murder in a world where cartoons live beside people. An inventive noir mystery.
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Benoit Blanc joins a tech billionaire's island getaway. Rian Johnson's sequel is bigger, sillier and just as cleverly constructed.
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Blanc investigates a seemingly impossible crime in a small-town church community. The third mystery leans darker and more gothic.
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Hercule Poirot investigates a murder on a snowbound train full of suspects. The all-star 1974 version is the gold standard of Christie adaptations.
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Picks are ranked by how closely they match Knives Out: a fair-play mystery, ensemble suspects, wit and a satisfying reveal. Classic detective films sit alongside comic mysteries, twisty thrillers and three mystery series. Rankings are Cinearium editorial choices.
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