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Movies that feel likeThe Commuter (2018)

A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.

If you loved The Commuter, the closest films we have are Unknown (2011), Non-Stop (2014) and Foreign Correspondent (1940). All three share The Commuter's kinetic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Lady Vanishes (1938).

🍅 55% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jaume Collet-Serrakinetictensetwistyparanoid
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Unknown
2011 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 56%★ 6.8action · mystery · thriller

Jaume Collet-Serra working the same nerve twice

The difference: Trades the paranoia of The Commuter for an angle of its own

A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.

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Non-Stop
2014 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 62%★ 6.9action · thriller · mysteryStarz

Both are Jaume Collet-Serra's work, and they rhyme

Bill Marks is a Federal Air Marshall for whom every day is the same until this one. On this plane ride, he starts receiving text messages from someone claiming to be on the flight and threatening to kill passengers. In a race against the clock, he must identify and stop the killer to save everyone on board.

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Foreign Correspondent
1940 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 95%★ 7.4thriller · mystery · actionMax

The same preoccupation in both: conspiracy

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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 · thrillerMax

One thread runs through both: train

The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft

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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Red Eye
2005 · dir. Wes Craven
🍅 80%★ 6.4thriller · mysteryParamount+

Both land tension and twists at once

An overnight flight to Miami quickly becomes a battle for survival when Lisa realizes her seatmate plans to use her as part of a chilling assassination plot against the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. If she refuses to cooperate, her own father will be killed. As the miles tick by, she's in a race against time to find a way to warn the potential victims before it's too late.

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What Happened to Monday
2017 · dir. Tommy Wirkola
🍅 62%★ 6.8science fiction · thriller · mysteryNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: conspiracy

The difference: Leans harder into science fiction than The Commuter does

In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.

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Inferno
2016 · dir. Ron Howard
🍅 23%★ 6.2mystery · thriller · actionNetflix

The same mix in both: momentum, then paranoia

After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.

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Exterritorial
2025 · dir. Christian Zübert
★ 5.8thriller · actionNetflix

Action built on momentum, twice over

When her son vanishes inside a US consulate, ex-special forces soldier Sara does everything in her power to find him — and uncovers a dark conspiracy.

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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
2014 · dir. Kenneth Branagh
🍅 55%★ 6.2action · drama · thrillerParamount+Starz

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Commuter does

Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.

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White House Down
2013 · dir. Roland Emmerich
🍅 52%★ 6.3action · drama · thrillerNetflixStarz

Mystery with a pulse of paranoia, in both cases

Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, with the nation's government falling into chaos and time running out, it's up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and the country.

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Three Days of the Condor
1975 · dir. Sydney Pollack
🍅 88%★ 7.4thriller · mystery

Both lean on twists more than on thriller

When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those responsible until he determines who he can really trust.

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Disturbia
2007 · dir. D.J. Caruso
🍅 69%★ 6.8thriller · drama · mysteryParamount+

Tense mystery in both cases

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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