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Movies that feel like Lost Highway (1997)

If you loved Lost Highway, the closest films we have are Pi (1998), The Tenant (1976) and Enemy (2014). All three share Lost Highway's tense and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

🍅 70% Rotten Tomatoes7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. David Lynchcontemplativetensetwistydreamlikeparanoid
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Pi
1998 · dir. Darren Aronofsky
🍅 88%7.3mystery · drama · thriller

Common ground in both: insanity and paranoia

The difference: None of the dream logic Lost Highway is built on

A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.

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The Tenant
1976 · dir. Roman Polanski
🍅 85%7.5thriller · mystery · drama

Common ground: paranoia

The difference: 21 years apart, and the 1970s show

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

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Enemy
2014 · dir. Denis Villeneuve
🍅 73%6.9thriller · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: nightmare

A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.

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Disturbia
2007 · dir. D.J. Caruso
🍅 69%6.8thriller · drama · mystery

The same mix in both: stillness, then tension

Kale has a life most teenagers would envy. He spends his days endlessly playing video games, surfing the net, eating junk food and watching cable. He has complete free reign of the house, and a beautiful young hottie named Ashley has just moved in next door. There’s only one problem—he’s not allowed to leave the house. Kale’s under court-ordered house arrest for three months, and if he takes one step beyond a 100-foot perimeter of the house, his next confinement will be in a real prison.

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Secret Window
2004 · dir. David Koepp
🍅 46%6.5mystery · thriller

Two things both keep coming back to: jealousy and police

Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.

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The Last Wave
1977 · dir. Peter Weir
🍅 78%6.9drama · mystery · horror

The same preoccupation in both: dreams

The difference: Leans harder into horror than Lost Highway does

A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal people in a ritualised taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing truths about himself and premonitions.

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The Game
1997 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 77%7.7drama · thriller · mystery

Twisty and paranoid in the same breath

In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.

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Twelve Monkeys
1995 · dir. Terry Gilliam
🍅 88%8science fiction · thriller · mystery

One thread runs through both: prison cell

The difference: Sits closer to science fiction than Lost Highway does

In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly and the son of a famous virus expert who may hold the key to the Army of the 12 Monkeys; thought to be responsible for unleashing the killer disease.

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Mulholland Drive
2001 · dir. David Lynch
🍅 83%7.9thriller · drama · mystery

David Lynch directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

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

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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They Look Like People
2016 · dir. Perry Blackshear
🍅 92%5.8drama · horror · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: insanity

Suspecting that people are transforming into malevolent shape-shifters, Wyatt flees to New York City to seek out his estranged childhood friend Christian.

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Burning
2018 · dir. Lee Chang-dong
🍅 95%7.4mystery · drama · thriller

Common ground: jealousy

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Deliveryman Jong-su is out on a job when he runs into Hae-mi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he'd mind looking after her cat while she's away on a trip to Africa. On her return, she introduces to Jong-su an enigmatic young man named Ben, who she met during her trip. One day Ben tells Jong-su about his most unusual hobby.

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