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Movies that feel likeEnemy (2014)

A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.

If you loved Enemy, the closest films we have are Lost Highway (1997), Disturbia (2007) and Red Eye (2005). All three share Enemy's tense and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Last Wave (1977).

🍅 74% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Denis Villeneuvetensetwistydreamlikeparanoid
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If Enemy hit the spot, these will too

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Lost Highway
1997 · dir. David Lynch
🍅 70%★ 7.6drama · thriller · mystery

Both are working the same pair: nightmare, paranoia

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Enemy does

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

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Disturbia
2007 · dir. D.J. Caruso
🍅 69%★ 6.8thriller · drama · mysteryParamount+

One thread runs through both: paranoia

The difference: Easier on the dream logic than Enemy

Kale has a life most teenagers would envy. He spends his days endlessly playing video games, surfing the net, eating junk food and watching cable. He has complete free reign of the house, and a beautiful young hottie named Ashley has just moved in next door. There’s only one problem—he’s not allowed to leave the house. Kale’s under court-ordered house arrest for three months, and if he takes one step beyond a 100-foot perimeter of the house, his next confinement will be in a real prison.

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Red Eye
2005 · dir. Wes Craven
🍅 80%★ 6.4thriller · mysteryParamount+

Both land tension and twists at once

An overnight flight to Miami quickly becomes a battle for survival when Lisa realizes her seatmate plans to use her as part of a chilling assassination plot against the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. If she refuses to cooperate, her own father will be killed. As the miles tick by, she's in a race against time to find a way to warn the potential victims before it's too late.

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Pi
1998 · dir. Darren Aronofsky
🍅 88%★ 7.3mystery · drama · thrillerPrime Video

Common ground: delusion

A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.

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The Last Wave
1977 · dir. Peter Weir
🍅 78%★ 6.9drama · mystery · fantasyMax

Both keep coming back to the same thing: surrealism

The difference: 37 years apart, and the 1970s show

A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal people in a ritualised taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing truths about himself and premonitions.

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The Accountant²
2025 · dir. Gavin O'Connor
🍅 75%★ 6.6mystery · crime · thrillerPrime VideoHulu

Thriller built on paranoia, twice over

When an old acquaintance is murdered, Wolff is compelled to solve the case. Realizing more extreme measures are necessary, Wolff recruits his estranged and highly lethal brother, Brax, to help. In partnership with Marybeth Medina, they uncover a deadly conspiracy, becoming targets of a ruthless network of killers who will stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried.

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Angels & Demons
2009 · dir. Ron Howard
🍅 36%★ 6.7thriller · mysteryNetflixStarz

Both are built on the same subject: symbolism

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati – a secret, underground organization – after four cardinals are kidnapped on the night of the papal conclave.

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The Commuter
2018 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 55%★ 6.3action · thriller · mysteryHulu

Mystery with a pulse of tension, in both cases

A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.

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Secret Window
2004 · dir. David Koepp
🍅 46%★ 6.5mystery · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: nightmare

Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.

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The Game
1997 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 77%★ 7.7drama · thriller · mystery

Twisty thriller, and it commits to that

In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.

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Three Days of the Condor
1975 · dir. Sydney Pollack
🍅 88%★ 7.4thriller · mystery

Both lean on paranoia more than on mystery

When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those responsible until he determines who he can really trust.

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The Lady Vanishes
1938 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 98%★ 7.7mystery · thrillerMax

Tense thriller in both cases

On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and, as the pair sleuth, romantic sparks fly.

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