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Movies that feel likeTo Catch a Thief (1955)

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.

If you loved To Catch a Thief, the closest films we have are Suspicion (1941), Young and Innocent (1937) and Saboteur (1942). All three share To Catch a Thief'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 Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927).

🍅 95% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alfred Hitchcocktwistyromantictense
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Suspicion
1941 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 97%★ 7.2mystery · romance · thriller

Alfred Hitchcock directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

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

The same hand behind both of them: Alfred Hitchcock

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

Common ground: falsely accused

The difference: Easier on the romance than To Catch a Thief

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

Twisty and romantic in the same breath

Marnie is a beautiful but emotionally withdrawn thief, stealing from employers before disappearing under new identities.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

Tense mystery, and it commits to that

The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft

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

Twisty romance in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to drama than To Catch a Thief does

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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Decision to Leave
2022 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 94%★ 7.2thriller · mystery · romance

The same preoccupation in both: police

From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon arrives on the scene, he begins to suspect the dead man’s wife Seo-rae. But as he digs deeper into the investigation, he finds himself trapped in a web of deception and desire.

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Rebecca
1940 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 98%★ 8mystery · romance · thriller

One thread runs through both: age difference

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.

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

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into crime than To Catch a Thief does

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
1956 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 89%★ 7.4thriller · mystery · drama

Both lean on twists more than on mystery

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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Vertigo
1958 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 94%★ 8.2mystery · romance · thriller

Romance built on romance, twice over

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

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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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