# Top 18 Whodunit Movies of All Time

> Country houses, stranded trains and one Korean field where nobody is ever caught. Some solve the case; a couple refuse to.

*By YPB Team · Published August 14, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/top-18-whodunit-movies-of-all-time*

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1. **Murder on the Orient Express**
   Sidney Lumet's 1974 all-star adaptation of Christie's train mystery, with Albert Finney as Poirot.
2. **Knives Out**
   Rian Johnson's 2019 country-house mystery that revived the genre for a modern audience.
3. **Clue**
   The 1985 board-game comedy with three different endings shipped to different cinemas.
4. **Gosford Park**
   Robert Altman's 2001 upstairs-downstairs murder mystery, written by Julian Fellowes.
5. **The Thin Man**
   The 1934 comedy that made Nick and Nora Charles the model for the witty detective couple.
6. **Chinatown**
   Roman Polanski's 1974 noir about water, land and a private eye in over his head.
7. **Death on the Nile**
   The 1978 Christie adaptation with Peter Ustinov's first outing as Poirot.
8. **Sleuth**
   The 1972 two-hander between Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine, both Oscar-nominated.
9. **Witness for the Prosecution**
   Billy Wilder's 1957 courtroom adaptation of Christie's play, with a closing twist.
10. **The Maltese Falcon**
   John Huston's 1941 debut, the film that defined the detective picture.
11. **Zodiac**
   David Fincher's 2007 procedural about the case that was never solved.
12. **Memories of Murder**
   Bong Joon-ho's 2003 film about Korean detectives chasing a serial killer they never catch.
13. **The Last of Sheila**
   The 1973 puzzle film written by Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins.
14. **Glass Onion**
   Rian Johnson's 2022 sequel, moving Benoit Blanc to a tech billionaire's Greek island.
15. **Rear Window**
   Hitchcock's 1954 thriller in which a housebound photographer works out a murder across the courtyard.
16. **Kiss Kiss Bang Bang**
   Shane Black's 2005 comic noir with Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer.
17. **Evil Under the Sun**
   The 1982 Ustinov Poirot set at an Adriatic resort hotel.
18. **See How They Run**
   The 2022 comedy set backstage at the West End run of The Mousetrap.

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