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Movies that feel like Saboteur (1942)

If you loved Saboteur, the closest films we have are The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), Young and Innocent (1937) and The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927). All three share Saboteur's tense and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 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.

Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.

🍅 81% Rotten Tomatoes7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alfred Hitchcocktensetwisty

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

Alfred Hitchcock directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

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

Both are Alfred Hitchcock's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Leans harder into romance than Saboteur 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

Tense where it counts, twisty underneath

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Saboteur 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 39 Steps
1935 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 96%7.6mystery · thriller

Both are working the same pair: falsely accused, 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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Foreign Correspondent
1940 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 95%7.4thriller · mystery · action

Common ground: black and white

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

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

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

Both are built on the same subject: falsely accused

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

Mystery built on twists, twice over

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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Le Corbeau
1943 · dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
🍅 97%7.8mystery · drama · thriller

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

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.

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

Both working the same thriller territory

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

Both know what they want from mystery

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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