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Movies that feel like Suspicion (1941)

If you loved Suspicion, the closest films we have are Notorious (1946), Young and Innocent (1937) and To Catch a Thief (1955). All three share Suspicion's twisty and romantic 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.

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.

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alfred Hitchcocktwistyromantictendertense

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

Both are Alfred Hitchcock's work, and they rhyme

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

Alfred Hitchcock working the same nerve twice

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

The same mix in both: twists, then romance

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

Tender where it counts, tense underneath

The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

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

Both lean on twists more than on mystery

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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Saboteur
1942 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 81%7.1thriller · mystery

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: None of the romance Suspicion 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 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 88%6.7thriller · mystery

Twisty romance in both cases

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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Rebecca
1940 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 98%8.1mystery · romance · thriller

Mystery with a pulse of romance, in both cases

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.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: telegram

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Suspicion does

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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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1927 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 96%7.3crime · thriller · mystery

Thriller built on tension, twice over

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

Romance with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

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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Decision to Leave
2022 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 94%7.3thriller · mystery · romance

Common ground: the investigation

From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon arrives on the scene, he begins to suspect the dead man’s wife Seo-rae. But as he digs deeper into the investigation, he finds himself trapped in a web of deception and desire.

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