
Movies that feel like Foreign Correspondent (1940)
If you loved Foreign Correspondent, the closest films we have are The Lady Vanishes (1938), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) and The 39 Steps (1935). All three share Foreign Correspondent's tense and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.
If Foreign Correspondent hit the spot, these will too

Alfred Hitchcock directing both, with the same fingerprints on each
The difference: None of the momentum Foreign Correspondent is built on

The same hand behind both of them: Alfred Hitchcock
The difference: Missing the momentum of Foreign Correspondent

Both are working the same pair: conspiracy, black and white

Both are built on the same subject: black and white

Tense and twisty in the same breath

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases
The difference: Leans harder into romance than Foreign Correspondent does

Both lean on twists more than on mystery
The difference: Sits closer to crime than Foreign Correspondent does

Both keep coming back to the same thing: conspiracy
The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Tense action in both cases

Thriller built on paranoia, twice over
The difference: 35 years apart, and the 1970s show

Twisty mystery, and it commits to that

Kinetic action, and it commits to that
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