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Movies that feel like Le Corbeau (1943)

If you loved Le Corbeau, the closest films we have are Saboteur (1942), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933). All three share Le Corbeau's twisty and tense 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.

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.

πŸ… 97% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.8 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Henri-Georges Clouzottwistycontemplativetense
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If Le Corbeau hit the spot, these will too

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Saboteur
1942 Β· dir. Alfred Hitchcock
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7.1thriller Β· mystery

One thread runs through both: black and white

The difference: None of the stillness Le Corbeau is built on

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 Β· dir. Alfred Hitchcock
πŸ… 88%β˜… 6.7thriller Β· mystery

Common ground: black and white

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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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
1933 Β· dir. Fritz Lang
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.9crime Β· mystery Β· thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: doctor

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Le Corbeau does

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.

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Diabolique
1955 Β· dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
πŸ… 95%β˜… 8.1thriller Β· mystery

Henri-Georges Clouzot working the same nerve twice

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.

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Rojo
2018 Β· dir. BenjamΓ­n Naishtat
πŸ… 96%β˜… 6.3drama Β· mystery Β· thriller

Both land twists and stillness at once

The difference: 75 years apart, and the 2010s show

A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of Claudio, a successful lawyer, gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant.

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Stray Dog
1949 Β· dir. Akira Kurosawa
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.8crime Β· drama Β· thriller

Tense mystery, and it commits to that

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.

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And Then There Were None
1945 Β· dir. RenΓ© Clair
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.3crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Both are built on the same subject: doctor

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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Joint Security Area
2000 Β· dir. Park Chan-wook
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.7drama Β· thriller Β· mystery

Twisty drama in both cases

Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead investigator, a Swiss-Korean woman, receives differing accounts from the two sides.

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Gaslight
1944 Β· dir. George Cukor
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.8thriller Β· drama Β· mystery

Thriller built on stillness, twice over

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

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Kahaani
2012 Β· dir. Sujoy Ghosh
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8.1mystery Β· thriller

Mystery with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Pregnant and alone in the city of Kolkata, a woman begins a relentless search for her missing husband, only to find that nothing is what it seems.

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Murder on the Orient Express
1974 Β· dir. Sidney Lumet
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.2drama Β· thriller Β· mystery

Both lean on twists more than on drama

In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

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The Name of the Rose
1986 Β· dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud
πŸ… 74%β˜… 7.7drama Β· thriller Β· mystery

The same preoccupation in both: poison

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.

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