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Movies that feel like Rebecca (1940)

If you loved Rebecca, the closest films we have are Strangers on a Train (1951), Vertigo (1958) and Young and Innocent (1937). All three share Rebecca's tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 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.

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.

🍅 98% Rotten Tomatoes8.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alfred Hitchcocktwistyromantictendertenseobsessiveatmospheric
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Strangers on a Train
1951 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 98%7.9crime · thriller · drama

Alfred Hitchcock working the same nerve twice

The difference: None of the twists Rebecca is built on

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

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Vertigo
1958 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 94%8.2mystery · romance · thriller

Both are Alfred Hitchcock's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Missing the atmosphere of Rebecca

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

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

The same preoccupation in both: black and white

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

Common ground: film noir

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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To Catch a Thief
1955 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 95%7.4mystery · romance · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: age difference

When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The Cat” Robie. To clear his name, he sets out to trap the copycat himself—entangling a wealthy widow and her beguiling daughter in a seductive game of pursuit, deception, and desire.

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Laura
1944 · dir. Otto Preminger
🍅 100%7.9drama · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: obsession

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Rebecca does

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

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

Both land twists and romance at once

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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Notorious
1946 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 96%7.9romance · mystery · thriller

The same mix in both: tenderness, then tension

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.

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Shadow of a Doubt
1943 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 100%7.8thriller · mystery · crime

One thread runs through both: film noir

In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.

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

Both are built on the same subject: black and white

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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In a Lonely Place
1950 · dir. Nicholas Ray
🍅 96%7.9thriller · drama · romance

Atmospheric mystery, and it commits to that

A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.

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Marnie
1964 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 78%7.1thriller · mystery · romance

Twisty romance in both cases

The difference: 24 years apart, and the 1960s show

Marnie is a beautiful but emotionally withdrawn thief, stealing from employers before disappearing under new identities. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, discovers her secret, his fascination turns to obsession, and he blackmails her into marriage, convinced he can cure her. But as he probes deeper into Marnie’s fractured mind, long-buried fears and compulsions begin to surface.

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