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Dec 6, 2022 · Knives Out brought back the classic locked-room mystery movie with an update for a new era. Daniel Craig was the detective on the case in a film with an all-star cast as he tried to figure out who killed the family patriarch in a locked room with everyone a suspect.
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- Gregory Lawrence
- And Then There Were None (1945) Before I wholeheartedly recommend the 1945 film adaptation of seminal Agatha Christie novel And Then There Were None, I must unpack its problematic origins as a fair warning.
- The Last of Sheila. Did you know that Stephen Sondheim, the genius musical theatre composer/lyricist responsible for masterpieces like Sweeney Todd and Company, co-wrote the screenplay for a New Hollywood take on the closed-room murder mystery in 1973?
- Murder on the Orient Express (1974) Agatha Christie belongs on the Mount Rushmore of mystery, and her impeccable creation Hercule Poirot belongs on the Mount Rushmore of detectives.
- Garde à Vue. Most closed-room murder mysteries have a crew of reasonable suspects with a litany of motives and opportunities a detective must parse through, before deciding on the one suspect who truly did the deed.
Eight candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a final test with just one seemingly simple question. However, it doesn't take long for confusion to ensue and tensions to unravel.
Jan 22, 2016 · Room: Directed by Lenny Abrahamson. With Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Sean Bridgers, Wendy Crewson. A little boy is held captive in a room with his mother since his birth, so he has never known the world outside.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Lenny Abrahamson
- 2016-01-22
Room is a 2015 internationally co-produced survival psychological drama directed by Lenny Abrahamson and written by Emma Donoghue, based on her 2010 novel of the same name. It stars Brie Larson as a young woman who has been held captive for seven years and whose five-year-old son ( Jacob Tremblay ) was born in captivity.
Eight candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a final test with just one seemingly simple question. However, it doesn't take long for confusion to ensue and tensions to unravel.
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Jan 1, 2013 · Erika Toda joins a law firm headed by Serizawa-san, on the first case she meets Enomoto Kei of Tokyo total security who unlocks Serizawa who has accidentally been trapped in a vault. Form thereon the trio solve 10 cases related to the locked room.
