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When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.

If you loved Spellbound, the closest films we have are Young and Innocent (1937), Suspicion (1941) and Notorious (1946). All three share Spellbound's romantic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Port of Shadows (1938).

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Young and Innocent
1937 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 100%★ 6.8thriller · romance · mystery

Alfred Hitchcock directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Trades the stillness of Spellbound for an angle of its own

When a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins forces with the daughter of a police constable to prove his innocence.

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Suspicion
1941 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 97%★ 7.2mystery · romance · thriller

Alfred Hitchcock working the same nerve twice

A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins to suspect that her husband’s affection may conceal a deadly motive—and that she could be his next victim.

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Notorious
1946 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 96%★ 7.9drama · romance · thriller

Contemplative where it counts, romantic underneath

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.

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To Catch a Thief
1955 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 95%★ 7.4mystery · romance · thriller

Twisty and tense in the same breath

When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The Cat” Robie. To clear his name, he sets out to trap the copycat himself—entangling a wealthy widow and her beguiling daughter in a seductive game of pursuit, deception, and desire.

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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1927 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 96%★ 7.3crime · thriller · mysteryMax

Crime built on grit, twice over

London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.

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Saboteur
1942 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 81%★ 7.1thriller · mystery

The same preoccupation in both: black and white

Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.

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Marnie
1964 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 78%★ 7.1thriller · mystery · romance

Gritty mystery, and it commits to that

Marnie is a beautiful but emotionally withdrawn thief, stealing from employers before disappearing under new identities. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, discovers her secret, his fascination turns to obsession, and he blackmails her into marriage, convinced he can cure her. But as he probes deeper into Marnie’s fractured mind, long-buried fears and compulsions begin to surface.

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The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 88%★ 6.7thriller · mysteryPrime VideoMax

One thread runs through both: black and white

While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.

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Shadow of a Doubt
1943 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 100%★ 7.8thriller · mystery · crime

Both lean on twists more than on thriller

In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.

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In a Lonely Place
1950 · dir. Nicholas Ray
🍅 96%★ 7.9thriller · drama · romance

Drama with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.

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Port of Shadows
1938 · dir. Marcel Carné
🍅 97%★ 7.7romance · drama · crime

Contemplative romance in both cases

Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news.

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Dial M for Murder
1954 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 90%★ 8.1thriller · crime · drama

Drama built on romance, twice over

When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.

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