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Movies that feel likeThe Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)

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.

If you loved The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, the closest films we have are The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) and Colors of Evil: Red (2024). All three share The Testament of Dr. Mabuse's twisty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Naked City (1948).

🍅 86% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Fritz Langgrittytwistytense
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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1927 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 96%★ 7.3crime · thriller · mysteryMax

The same mix in both: grit, then twists

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

Common ground: criminal

The difference: Goes its own way on the grit

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

Tense crime, and it commits to that

The difference: 91 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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Le Corbeau
1943 · dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
🍅 97%★ 7.8mystery · drama · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: doctor

The difference: Lighter on grit

Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions are mailed to village leaders. The mysterious writer, who signs each letter as "Le Corbeau" (The Raven) soon targets the whole town, exposing everyone's dark secrets.

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And Then There Were None
1945 · dir. René Clair
🍅 100%★ 7.3crime · drama · mysteryPrime Video

Both are built on the same subject: doctor

The difference: Leans further into drama

Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host to appear, a recording levels serious accusations at each of the guests. Soon they start being murdered, one by one. As the survivors try to keep their wits, they reach a disturbing conclusion: one of them must be the killer.

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

Mystery with a pulse of twists, in both cases

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

Both lean on grit more than on thriller

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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Drishyam
2015 · dir. Nishikant Kamat
🍅 64%★ 8.2mystery · thriller · drama

Tense crime in both cases

When his family stares down the barrel of criminal charges, a commoner channels his street smarts and knowledge of action films to tie the long arm of the law into an investigative Gordian knot.

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Gaslight
1944 · dir. George Cukor
🍅 94%★ 7.8thriller · drama · mystery

Mystery built on grit, twice over

A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

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The Naked City
1948 · dir. Jules Dassin
🍅 85%★ 7.5crime · mystery · thrillerMax

Twisty thriller, and it commits to that

After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

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

From the 2010s, and it lands the same way

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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Bacurau
2019 · dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
🍅 93%★ 7.3mystery · western · thrillerRent or buy

Mystery of the same temperament

Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.

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