Murder mystery movies have enjoyed a renaissance in recent years, with wonderfully nuanced characters – usually with ostentatious wealth and personality disorders – driving crooked, dramatic plotlines.
Notably, there was 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express. The film follows a detective solving a murder on board a transcontinental luxury train, and has an all-star cast including Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Penelope Cruz, Daisy Ridley, Judi Dench and Willem Dafoe. Then there was 2019’s Knives Out, the mystery starring Daniel Craig, Jamie Lee Curtis and Ana de Armas, in which a detective investigates the death of a crime novelist. This year, Death on the Nile was released, with Gal Gadot caught up in catching a murderer on board a glamorous river steamer.
