The 90-minute thriller that is sweeping on Netflix: a mix of 'Knives Out' and 'Game Night'

The movie that has burst into the top viewed list this week is the perfect mix between Game Night and Knives Out. It's called The Uncle's Inheritance, a Polish film that incorporates an intriguing mystery, a collection of characters with double intentions, and also challenges the viewer to try to guess who will be the main heir.

In just one week and with almost no promotion, The Uncle's Inheritance has made its way into the most watched titles on the platform, with 10.5 million total views. All above the French movie In the Depths of the Seine, which remains in second place of the ranking.

The starting point of this movie, which is only 94 minutes long, is situated in a mansion filled with complex enigmas. When his rich uncle dies, a distant family will begin to fight to get hold of a part of the fortune.

Beyond the plot

Everything is narrated from the perspective of a man named Dawid (Maciej Stuhr), who heads to his uncle's house with whom he has not spoken in a long time after learning of his death. He goes to the mansion with his wife Zosia (Gabriela Muskala) and their two children.

Dawid's uncle was the inventor Wladyslaw Fortuna (Jan Peszek), who besides hosting the first TV show in Poland, is also believed to have invented the PESEL number, which is how people are identified in the country. He has passed away without descendants, so it will be a real mess to distribute his properties and fortune.

That's why Dawid goes to his house, to read his uncle's will along with the rest of the family. Although he soon discovers that his cousins Karol (Mateusz Król) and Natalia (Joanna Trzepiecinska) have also been invited to the will reading. They didn't know each other and had had no contact in the last thirty years, so this will be the perfect excuse to celebrate the family gathering they had never had. Although none of them are interested in anything other than finding out if they will be the heirs.

When Wladyslaw enters the scene, he reveals that, in fact, he decided to fake his death to get the family together, proving that greed was the only thing capable of bringing them together. He reveals that his intention is to donate all his money to charity and that his nieces and nephews will receive shares of his inventions and patents.

However, in order to obtain these designs, they must first play the game he proposes. The next day, everyone gathers and is even more surprised to discover that Wladyslaw is dead, and his corpse is on the kitchen floor with a knife stuck in his chest.

*This article has been translated automatically using artificial intelligence