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Movies that feel like Peeping Tom (1960)

If you loved Peeping Tom, the closest films we have are Wait Until Dark (1967), Possession (1981) and Trap (2024). All three share Peeping Tom's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 5 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.

πŸ… 96% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Michael Powelldreadunsettlingtensegrittyobsessivewistful
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Wait Until Dark
1967 Β· dir. Terence Young
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.7thriller Β· crime Β· horror

Both land dread and unease at once

The difference: Not nearly as obsessive as Peeping Tom

After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.

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Possession
1981 Β· dir. Andrzej Ε»uΕ‚awski
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.2horror

Common ground: obsession

The difference: 21 years apart, and the 1980s show

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

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Trap
2024 Β· dir. M. Night Shyamalan
πŸ… 57%β˜… 5.8crime Β· horror Β· thriller

One thread runs through both: serial killer

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realize they're at the center of a dark and sinister event.

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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962 Β· dir. Robert Aldrich
πŸ… 91%β˜… 8drama Β· horror Β· thriller

Both lean on tension more than on horror

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Peeping Tom does

A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

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Thriller: A Cruel Picture
1973 Β· dir. Bo Arne Vibenius
πŸ… 56%β˜… 6.4action Β· thriller Β· crime

Thriller built on grit, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to action than Peeping Tom does

Madeleine, rendered mute after being sexually assaulted as a youth, accepts a lift from a wealthy and sadistic pimp who soon enslaves her into his prostitution racket. Despite her limited means, Madeleine embarks on a bloody road to revenge against her captors.

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The Omen
1976 Β· dir. Richard Donner
πŸ… 76%β˜… 7.5horror Β· thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: photography

Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.

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The Endless
2017 Β· dir. Aaron Moorhead
πŸ… 91%β˜… 6.5science fiction Β· horror Β· thriller

Both are built on the same subject: childhood trauma

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.

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The Haunting
1963 Β· dir. Robert Wise
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.4horror

Dread-soaked crime in both cases

Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced to confront the nature of its horror…

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Dracula
1958 Β· dir. Terence Fisher
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.2horror

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancΓ©e. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.

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Strangers on a Train
1951 Β· dir. Alfred Hitchcock
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.9crime Β· thriller Β· drama

The same preoccupation in both: obsession

A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murdersβ€”each killing the other’s most-hated person.

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Black Christmas
1974 Β· dir. Bob Clark
πŸ… 73%β˜… 7.1horror Β· mystery Β· crime

Both keep coming back to the same thing: serial killer

As the residents of the Pi Kappa Sigma sorority house prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to harass them with a series of obscene phone calls.

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Onibaba
1964 · dir. Kaneto Shindō
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.8horror

Thriller with a pulse of dread, in both cases

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

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