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Movies that feel likeLost Highway (1997)

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

If you loved Lost Highway, the closest films we have are Pi (1998), The Last Wave (1977) and Enemy (2014). All three share Lost Highway's twisty and paranoid feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Tenant (1976).

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

Common ground in both: insanity and paranoia

The difference: Trades the dream logic of Lost Highway for an angle of its own

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

The same two preoccupations: dreams, and nightmare

The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than Lost Highway does

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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Enemy
2014 · dir. Denis Villeneuve
🍅 74%★ 6.8thriller · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: nightmare

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

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

One thread runs through both: paranoia

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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The Tenant
1976 · dir. Roman Polanski
🍅 85%★ 7.5thriller · mystery · drama

Contemplative where it counts, tense underneath

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

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

Twisty and paranoid in the same breath

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

Thriller built on tension, twice over

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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The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 89%★ 7.4thriller · mystery · drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.

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

Twisty mystery, and it commits to that

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

Two things both keep coming back to: jealousy and police

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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Mulholland Drive
2001 · dir. David Lynch
🍅 83%★ 7.9thriller · drama · mystery

David Lynch directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

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Blow Out
1981 · dir. Brian De Palma
🍅 88%★ 7.4crime · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

Both lean on paranoia more than on thriller

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Lost Highway does

While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.

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