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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
7.1/10on IMDb
Released
The obvious next stop is worth naming: Blanc's island invitation moves the social comedy from inherited wealth to the people orbiting a technology billionaire. Watch how everyone adjusts their confidence to the richest person in the room. The pleasures are ensemble friction and a puzzle that rewards attention to what people actually say, with a larger, sunnier canvas than the first film.
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025)
7.3/10on IMDb
Released
Blanc meets an earnest young priest after an apparently impossible crime at a small-town church. Josh O'Connor gives the investigation an emotional partner whose concerns extend beyond solving the mechanism. This 2025 return is the direct route for anyone who has already caught up with Glass Onion, with questions of guilt and faith lending the familiar suspect interviews a more sombre weight.
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Gosford Park (2001)
7.2/10on IMDb
Released
The country-house guests require constant service, while the people providing it hear things their employers barely notice saying. That divided field of knowledge makes Robert Altman's ensemble an especially rewarding companion to Knives Out's concern with privilege. The overlapping conversation asks for closer listening than a brisk detective romp. Come for the suspicious manners, stay for the workers whose lives complicate the puzzle.
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See How They Run (2022)
6.5/10on IMDb
Released
A murder interrupts plans to adapt a West End hit, leaving a weary inspector and an eagerly observant constable among theatrical egos. Saoirse Ronan's literal-minded enthusiasm gives the investigation its comic lift. The connection is a fondness for mystery conventions alongside a willingness to tease them. Its playful construction is more interested in backstage personalities than making you feel you have passed a difficult examination.
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The Last of Sheila (1973)
7.2/10on IMDb
Released
A producer's Mediterranean yacht gathering turns a secrets game into a much less comfortable exercise. Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins wrote a puzzle in which the wording of an invitation or an accusation deserves attention. It is the older choice for Glass Onion's blend of expensive leisure, professional dependence and people performing friendship. Some of its sexual politics are decidedly of its period; the nasty social intelligence remains sharp.
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Clue (1985)
7.3/10on IMDb
Released
Tim Curry tries to keep a mansion full of agitated suspects moving faster than their explanations can collapse. The appeal is comic acceleration: repeated accounts, sudden entrances and a cast treating every accusation as both danger and performance. It shares Knives Out's enjoyment of a room full of combustible personalities, but pushes towards farce. The familiar home-viewing version presents alternative endings, so treat it as a playful mystery rather than a single fair-play test.
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8 Women (2002)
7.0/10on IMDb
Released
François Ozon confines a household of spectacularly incompatible women around a murdered man, then lets songs expose feelings that polite conversation cannot contain. Every relationship changes the temperature of the questioning. Pick it for the glamorous ensemble and family grudges that make Knives Out entertaining, with the important difference that this is an openly artificial musical. Its colour and comedy do not make the household's cruelty harmless.
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Confess, Fletch (2022)
6.4/10on IMDb
Released
Jon Hamm's Fletch becomes a murder suspect while trying to locate stolen art, a position he handles with an infuriating lack of visible panic. His relaxed questioning draws eccentric people into revealing more than they meant to. A good choice for Blanc fans who enjoy an investigator's personality as much as the solution. The loose, conversational comedy is the point; expect fewer grand confrontations and more friction between incompatible temperaments.
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The Kid Detective (2020)
6.9/10on IMDb
Released
A former childhood sleuth finally receives an adult murder case, exposing how little his old local celebrity has prepared him for real harm. Adam Brody makes the detective's comic inadequacy surprisingly affecting. The small-town suspect network and accumulation of clues give Knives Out viewers a recognisable way in, but child-abuse themes and other distressing material take it far beyond cosy comedy. Choose it for a mystery with an emotional cost.
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Raat Akeli Hai (2020)
7.2/10on IMDb
Released
A wealthy man's wedding-night death gives Inspector Jatil Yadav a household whose accounts are shaped by money, status and fear. Nawazuddin Siddiqui's awkward authority keeps the questioning lively without making the people around him simple comic suspects. This Hindi-language mystery shares the interest in what a powerful family conceals and who is allowed to speak. The domestic history is harsher than Knives Out's jaunty tone, with sexual abuse part of the material.
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Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010)
6.6/10on IMDb
Released
Apparently impossible deaths threaten the preparations for an imperial coronation, bringing a distrusted investigator back into a dangerous court. Tsui Hark lets physical clues, political motives and extravagant action occupy the same case. Try it if you want the pleasure of competing suspects on a much more fantastical scale. This is a genuine culprit mystery, but wire-assisted combat and spectacular design take as much space as quiet deduction.
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The Thin Man (1934)
7.9/10on IMDb
Released
Nick and Nora Charles make investigation look like an extension of their ongoing, affectionate argument. William Powell and Myrna Loy can turn a pause or a martini order into a shared joke while a missing-person case becomes a murder inquiry. The oldest exception is here for anyone who likes Blanc's comic presence among a tangle of acquaintances. The sparkling partnership matters at least as much as keeping a perfect suspect chart.
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Death on the Nile (1978)
7.3/10on IMDb
Released
Peter Ustinov's Poirot has an entire luxury steamer of resentments to sort through after an heiress is killed. The pleasure is watching a large cast make entitlement, embarrassment and jealousy legible in short encounters. Choose this 1978 adaptation for an expansive older version of the enclosed suspect gathering, with a particularly enjoyable Angela Lansbury among the passengers. It takes a more leisurely route than Knives Out; this is not the later Kenneth Branagh film.
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The Sheep Detectives (2026)
7.4/10on IMDb
Released
A shepherd reads detective stories to his flock, giving the sheep an unexpected education when a real mystery reaches their own field. The 2026 film turns familiar whodunnit habits into a comic problem of perspective: what would an investigator notice without understanding ordinary human behaviour? It is the gentler, stranger detour here, with an expressive ensemble of animal detectives. The playful premise still has room for grief rather than treating a death as a disposable joke.
