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16 films tagged whodunnit
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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.
AI estimate, not yet described
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.
AI estimate, not yet described
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.
AI estimate, not yet described
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.
AI estimate, not yet described
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.
AI estimate, not yet described
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.
AI estimate, not yet described
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.
AI estimate, not yet described
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.
AI estimate, not yet described
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.
AI estimate, not yet described
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.
AI estimate, not yet described
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.
AI estimate, not yet described
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.
AI estimate, not yet described
2017 · Mystery
A wildlife tracker finds a young woman dead in the snow on a Wyoming reservation, and a new FBI agent arrives from Las Vegas with no idea what she is walking into. Cold, quiet and slow, until it is not.
AI estimate, not yet described
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.
AI estimate, not yet described