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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.

American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.

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The Lady Vanishes
1938 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 98%7.7mystery · thriller

Alfred Hitchcock directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: None of the momentum Foreign Correspondent is built on

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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The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 89%7.4thriller · mystery · drama

The same hand behind both of them: Alfred Hitchcock

The difference: Missing the momentum of Foreign Correspondent

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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The 39 Steps
1935 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 96%7.6mystery · thriller

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

Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps.

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

Both are built on the same subject: black and white

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 Man Who Knew Too Much
1934 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 88%6.7thriller · mystery

Tense and twisty in the same breath

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

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into romance than Foreign Correspondent does

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

Both lean on twists more than on mystery

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Foreign Correspondent 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 Commuter
2018 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 55%6.3action · thriller · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: conspiracy

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.

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

Tense action in both cases

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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Three Days of the Condor
1975 · dir. Sydney Pollack
🍅 88%7.4thriller · mystery

Thriller built on paranoia, twice over

The difference: 35 years apart, and the 1970s show

When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those responsible until he determines who he can really trust.

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Spellbound
1945 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 86%7.5thriller · mystery · romance

Twisty mystery, and it commits to that

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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Exterritorial
2025 · dir. Christian Zübert
5.8thriller · action

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

When her son vanishes inside a US consulate, ex-special forces soldier Sara does everything in her power to find him — and uncovers a dark conspiracy.

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