Knives Out is a whodunit in a big country house, with a family of suspects and a detective who seems to be enjoying himself. These films share that love of the puzzle: a closed circle of people, a body, and a reveal you can try to beat.
Updated 19 October 2026. Picked and written by hand; every film below has a trailer that plays here. Knives Out (2019) trailer page
Watch trailer: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)Benoit Blanc is back with a new circle of wealthy suspects gathered on a private island.
Different: It is sunnier, broader and more satirical, swapping the New England house for a Greek billionaire's retreat.
Watch trailer: Clue (1985)A country house, a dinner party of suspects and a body in the study make it the comic ancestor of the genre Knives Out plays with.
Different: It is a farce based on the board game and famously offers more than one ending.
Watch trailer: Gosford Park (2001)A shooting-party weekend at a grand house hides a murder among the family and the staff below stairs.
Different: It is a slow, Robert Altman ensemble piece about class, and the detective work sits in the background.
Watch trailer: Murder on the Orient Express (2017)A famous detective works through a closed circle of suspects who all had a reason to want one man dead.
Different: It is a straight period Agatha Christie adaptation on a snowbound train, played much more for drama than for laughs.
Watch trailer: Death on the Nile (2022)Poirot again, this time on a river steamer where a picture-perfect couple's honeymoon is cut short by murder.
Different: It is played as a straight drama in Egypt rather than a comedy about a modern family.
Watch trailer: A Haunting in Venice (2023)A retired Poirot is drawn into a seance in a decaying palazzo where one of the guests ends up dead.
Different: It leans into ghost-story atmosphere and jump scares, so it plays closer to a horror film.
Watch trailer: Ready or Not (2019)A new bride meets a very rich, very strange family in their mansion and the games turn deadly.
Different: It is a horror comedy with no mystery to solve: the question is survival, not who did it.