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Movies that feel likeThe Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)

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.

If you loved The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, the closest films we have are The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), Saboteur (1942) and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933). All three share The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog'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 Young and Innocent (1937).

🍅 96% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alfred Hitchcockgrittytensetwisty
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 88%★ 6.7thriller · mysteryPrime VideoMax

The same hand behind both of them: Alfred Hitchcock

The difference: Less gritty, more its own thing

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

Alfred Hitchcock working the same nerve twice

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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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
1933 · dir. Fritz Lang
🍅 86%★ 7.9crime · mystery · thrillerMax

The same mix in both: grit, then tension

After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must determine how Mabuse is communicating with the criminals, despite conflicting reports on the doctor's whereabouts, and capture him for good.

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

Thriller built on twists, twice over

The difference: Leans further into romance

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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Blackmail
1929 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 88%★ 6.9drama · thriller · crimePrime Video

Gritty crime, and it commits to that

The difference: Played as drama first

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.

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

Mystery with a pulse of tension, in both cases

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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Sabotage
1936 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 91%★ 7drama · thriller · crimeMax

Both lean on grit more than on crime

Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.

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Colors of Evil: Red
2024 · dir. Adrian Panek
🍅 80%★ 6.4crime · thriller · mysteryNetflix

Twisty thriller in both cases

The difference: 97 years apart, and the 2020s show

When a girl's body is found on a beach in Poland's Tricity, a prosecutor teams up with the victim's mother on an impassioned quest for the truth.

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Spellbound
1945 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 86%★ 7.5drama · crime · mystery

Mystery built on tension, twice over

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.

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

Twisty thriller, and it commits to that

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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Marshland
2014 · dir. Alberto Rodríguez
🍅 91%★ 7.2crime · mystery · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: serial killer

The Spanish Deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters – both detectives in the homicide division – to investigate the cases.

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The Girl in the Fog
2017 · dir. Donato Carrisi
🍅 75%★ 6.8mystery · thriller · crime

The same crime instincts

A gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where an enigmatic detective is investigating the sudden disappearance of fifteen-year-old girl.

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