The Murderer Lives at Number 21
Why this pick
A nimble French whodunit with an enclosed suspect pool, theatrical comic timing, and steadily accumulating secrets—the same pleasurable blend of murder-game tension and playful ensemble performance.
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Why this pick
A nimble French whodunit with an enclosed suspect pool, theatrical comic timing, and steadily accumulating secrets—the same pleasurable blend of murder-game tension and playful ensemble performance.
Why this pick
Its lavishly artificial mansion setting, eccentric suspects, and delight in detective-story conventions make it a similarly stylized, witty murder puzzle driven by ensemble friction.
Why this pick
Another country-house killing uses a large, sharply differentiated household to turn class, desire, and buried resentments into a richly acted, darkly funny mystery.
Why this pick
A glamorous group gathering becomes a cruelly entertaining game of clues and concealed histories, with the same appetite for performance, suspicion, and stylishly constructed revelation.
Why this pick
A modern, knowingly theatrical mansion mystery whose flamboyant family ensemble and shifting secrets echo the buoyant, clue-driven fun of Ozon’s film.
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01 / THE STORY
The film is set in the 1950s in a large country residence as a family and its servants are preparing for Christmas. When the master of the house is discovered dead in his bed with a dagger in his back, it is presumed that the murderer must be one of the eight women in the house. Over the course of the investigation, each woman has a tale to tell and secrets to hide.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Gaby

Augustine

Pierrette

Mamy

Catherine

Madame Chanel

Louise

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