It’s hard to find any movie fan who doesn’t love a good mystery.

This specific story structure has gone on to influence many future writers and filmmakers.

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.

Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc standing in front of a wall full of knives in Knives-Out

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The film follows an unusual but effective story structure that still embodies an intriguing detective story.

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Anthony Hopkins sitting alone at a desk in front of a golden structure in Fracture

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Dana Andrews looking at a portrait of Gene Tierney in ‘Laura’.

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Kevin Bacon’s Sean standing with Laurence Fishburne’s Whitey in Mystic River

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The tragic murder of a 19-year-old girl reunites three childhood friends still living in Boston–the victim’s gangster father, a detective, and the disturbed man they both suspect of killing her.

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Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) sits across from Vivian (Lauren Bacall)  in a fancy restaurant in The Big Sleep.

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Jeff, played by Jimmy Stewart, aiming his camera in Rear Window

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Michael Caine whispering to Laurence Olivier in Sleuth (1972).

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A man who loves games and theater invites his wife’s lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.

Virgil Tibbs and Chief Bill Gillespie looking down in ‘In the Heat of the Night’

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A black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town and, after being cleared, is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.

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Catherine Lacey, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Naunton Wayne, and May Whitty in The Lady Vanishes

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Marta looking at Benoit Blanc monologuing in ‘Knives Out’

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