
Movies that feel like Blackmail (1929)
If you loved Blackmail, the closest films we have are Sabotage (1937), Rope (1948) and The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927). All three share Blackmail's tense and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.
If Blackmail hit the spot, these will too

The same hand behind both of them: Alfred Hitchcock

Both are Alfred Hitchcock's work, and they rhyme

Both rooted in London
The difference: Missing the stillness of Blackmail

The same preoccupation in both: blackmail
The difference: 25 years apart, and the 1950s show

Common ground: black and white
The difference: None of the tension Blackmail is built on

Both land stillness and tension at once

Gritty drama in both cases

One thread runs through both: blackmail

Both keep coming back to the same thing: black and white
The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Thriller built on stillness, twice over

Both lean on tension more than on crime

Gritty drama, and it commits to that
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