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27 films tagged whodunnit
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2025 · Mystery
A private eye in Bakersfield looks into the death of a woman who called her scared the day before, and the trail leads to a church with a very hands-on reverend. Loose and jokey, and it keeps stopping to flirt.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Mystery
A congressman's daughter is found murdered in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1900, and the killing suits everyone who wants the district shut down. A young detective and a local man work the case, in a comedy with a real whodunnit inside it.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2025 · Mystery
Bodies have been turning up headless in a lake by a village in 19th-century Vietnam, and the villagers blame a spirit in the water. When a young woman goes missing, her aunt sends for a detective who does not believe in spirits.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
2025 · Mystery
Four residents of a retirement village meet weekly to pick over cold cases, and then a man behind the plan to redevelop the village is murdered. Comfortable and chatty, more sleuthing than danger.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2022 · Horror
A group of rich twenty-somethings ride out a hurricane at a family mansion and start a party game where one of them is secretly the killer. Mostly one house, in the dark, with a lot of bickering.
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2026 · Mystery
A shepherd in an English village is found dead outside his trailer, and his flock, who have had murder mysteries read to them for years, set out to work out who did it. A village whodunnit, told largely by the sheep.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2022 · Mystery
A Belgian detective on holiday joins a wedding party cruising the Nile, where nearly everyone aboard has a reason to resent the bride. Once the boat leaves, the suspects are all in the same few rooms.
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2003 · Mystery
In 1986 a rural Korean province gets its first serial killings, and two local detectives who work by instinct and beatings are joined by a careful man from Seoul. It is often funny, and the case runs for years.
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Little-known
2009 · Mystery
When her son is arrested for a girl's murder and nobody will look any further, his mother starts working the town herself. It moves slowly, and the funny bits arrive at strange moments.
AI estimate, not yet described
2003 · Mystery
Three men who grew up on the same Boston street are pulled back together when one man's daughter is found dead and another is the detective on the case. Heavy and slow, and mostly about the three of them.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2022 · Mystery
In 1950s London someone is killed backstage at a long-running West End murder mystery, and a tired inspector is paired with an eager young constable. Light, quick, and full of jokes about whodunnits.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2022 · Action
In his second year out at night, Batman follows a killer who leaves riddles addressed to him at every scene, and the trail runs into the city's oldest families. Long, rainy, and closer to a detective film than a superhero one.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2011 · Mystery
A disgraced journalist is hired by a rich old man to find out what happened to his niece forty years ago, and a young hacker ends up working the case with him. Long, cold, and some scenes are hard going.
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2007 · Mystery
A cartoonist at a San Francisco paper gets pulled into the Zodiac killings and keeps working the case for years after everyone else has stopped. Long, talky, and full of names, dates and paperwork.
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2019 · Mystery
A wealthy crime novelist is found dead the morning after his birthday party, and a private detective with an odd accent turns up uninvited to work through a house full of relatives who all needed money. Everyone is lying about something small.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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1985 · Mystery
Six strangers are invited to a mansion by a host who is blackmailing all of them, and then the lights go out. Doors, corridors and an increasingly frantic butler.
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2022 · Mystery
A tech billionaire flies his oldest friends out to a private Greek island for a murder mystery weekend he has written himself. The detective from the previous case arrives without an invitation.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Mystery
A young priest arrives at a small parish where a death in a locked room looks impossible, and the same private detective is called in. The third of these mysteries, and the most sombre in tone.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2010 · Horror
Five strangers are stuck in a lift in a Philadelphia office block, and every time the lights go out one of them is hurt. Ninety minutes, mostly in the lift.
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1995 · Thriller
Five criminals meet in a police line-up and agree to work together, and the only man left standing after the job tells the story to a customs agent. Almost all of it is that interview.
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2017 · Mystery
A famous Belgian detective boards a train across Europe, and by morning a passenger is dead and the train is stuck in a snowdrift. Everyone on board is a suspect and nobody can leave.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2001 · Mystery
A shooting party gathers at an English country house in 1932 and someone is killed, with the servants downstairs knowing rather more than the guests. Dozens of characters, all talking at once.
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2003 · Mystery
Ten strangers are stranded at a desert motel in a rainstorm and are killed off one at a time. One location, and it is built like a puzzle.
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1996 · Horror
A killer in a mask starts working through a California high school, and the victims all know the rules of horror films. Funny and frightening in the same scene.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2023 · Mystery
A retired Poirot living quietly in post-war Venice is talked into sitting in on a seance at a crumbling palazzo, and the night ends with a body. Mostly one dark house, with the storm outside doing a lot of work.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2022 · Mystery
A retired detective is called to West Point in 1830 to investigate a cadet's death, and takes on a strange young cadet named Poe as his assistant. Snowbound and slow.
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2011 · Mystery
A retired intelligence officer is brought back quietly to find the Soviet agent at the top of British intelligence in the early seventies. Very slow and very hard to follow.
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