{"title":"Best Whodunit Movies","theme":"whodunit","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/whodunit","source":"FrameThrower","license":{"name":"CC BY 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","scope":"Covers these measurements only — the ratios, counts and rankings computed by FrameThrower. The film frames they are derived from are not licensed and no rights to them are granted.","attribution":"FrameThrower — https://framethrower.ai"},"method":"Per-frame tags (shot size, lighting key, time of day, camera angle, colour, visible objects) aggregated across the films carrying this theme, expressed as a ratio against the same measurement over the whole catalogue. Films ranked by how closely they match the theme's over-indexed elements, weighted by how distinctive each element is; one film per series.","sample":{"films":55,"listedFilms":38,"frames":3865,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"telephone","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":3.05,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00393,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00129,"observedInFrames":87},{"element":"fedora","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.95,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.0065,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0022,"observedInFrames":144},{"element":"trench coat","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.7,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00442,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00164,"observedInFrames":98},{"element":"blood","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.44,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00776,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00318,"observedInFrames":172},{"element":"tie","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.98,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.0074,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00374,"observedInFrames":164},{"element":"necktie","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.97,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00541,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00275,"observedInFrames":120},{"element":"suit jacket","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.9,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.01146,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00604,"observedInFrames":254},{"element":"skin","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.75,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00528,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00301,"observedInFrames":117}],"cinematography":{"note":"Weakly differentiating: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy. Use `signature` to tell genres apart.","values":[{"axis":"shot_size","value":"closeup","shareOfThemeFrames":0.2753,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.2073,"ratio":1.33},{"axis":"v4_lighting_key","value":"low_key","shareOfThemeFrames":0.5113,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.3929,"ratio":1.3},{"axis":"v4_lighting_key","value":"natural","shareOfThemeFrames":0.3381,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.436,"ratio":0.78},{"axis":"time_of_day","value":"day","shareOfThemeFrames":0.3333,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.4253,"ratio":0.78},{"axis":"time_of_day","value":"night","shareOfThemeFrames":0.5339,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.4219,"ratio":1.27}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.45,"ratio":0.99},{"hue":"red","share":0.193,"ratio":1.28},{"hue":"blue","share":0.169,"ratio":0.97},{"hue":"yellow","share":0.072,"ratio":0.94}],"meanSaturation":0.255,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.417,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"The Maltese Falcon","year":1941,"director":"John Huston","cinematographer":"Arthur Edeson","exemplarScore":1.563,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-maltese-falcon-1941"},{"rank":2,"title":"The Man Who Knew Too Much","year":1956,"director":"Alfred Hitchcock","cinematographer":"Robert Burks","exemplarScore":1.388,"framesIndexed":66,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-man-who-knew-too-much-1956"},{"rank":3,"title":"Shutter Island","year":2010,"director":"Martin Scorsese","cinematographer":"Robert Richardson","exemplarScore":1.175,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/shutter-island-2010"},{"rank":4,"title":"Chinatown","year":1974,"director":"Roman Polanski","cinematographer":"John A. Alonzo","exemplarScore":1.174,"framesIndexed":70,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/chinatown-1974"},{"rank":5,"title":"Who Framed Roger Rabbit","year":1988,"director":"Robert Zemeckis","cinematographer":"Dean Cundey","exemplarScore":1.135,"framesIndexed":70,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/who-framed-roger-rabbit-1988"},{"rank":6,"title":"L.A. Confidential","year":1997,"director":"Curtis Hanson","cinematographer":"Dante Spinotti","exemplarScore":1.1,"framesIndexed":66,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/l-a-confidential-1997"},{"rank":7,"title":"Dressed to Kill","year":1980,"director":"Brian De Palma","cinematographer":"Ralf D. Bode","exemplarScore":1.049,"framesIndexed":204,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/dressed-to-kill-1980"},{"rank":8,"title":"Hail, Caesar!","year":2016,"director":"Joel Coen","cinematographer":"Roger Deakins","exemplarScore":1.014,"framesIndexed":60,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/hail-caesar-2016"},{"rank":9,"title":"Tenebre","year":1982,"director":"Dario Argento","cinematographer":"Luciano Tovoli","exemplarScore":1.013,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/tenebre-1982"},{"rank":10,"title":"MaXXXine","year":2024,"director":"Ti West","cinematographer":"Eliot Rockett","exemplarScore":0.807,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/maxxxine-2024"}],"outlier":{"title":"Glass Onion","year":2022,"exemplarScore":0.054,"note":"Carries the least of what the rest of the list is made of."}}