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Movies that feel like The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)

If you loved The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, the closest films we have are The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), Blackmail (1929) and Saboteur (1942). All three share The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog's tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

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.

๐Ÿ… 96% Rotten Tomatoesโ˜… 7.3 IMDb โ†—TMDB โ†—dir. Alfred Hitchcockgrittytensetwisty
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934 ยท dir. Alfred Hitchcock
๐Ÿ… 88%โ˜… 6.7thriller ยท mystery

The same hand behind both of them: Alfred Hitchcock

The difference: Not nearly as gritty

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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Blackmail
1929 ยท dir. Alfred Hitchcock
๐Ÿ… 88%โ˜… 6.9drama ยท thriller ยท crime

Both are Alfred Hitchcock's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Without the same twists

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.

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Saboteur
1942 ยท dir. Alfred Hitchcock
๐Ÿ… 81%โ˜… 7.1thriller ยท mystery

Both land tension and twists at once

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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Sabotage
1937 ยท dir. Alfred Hitchcock
๐Ÿ… 91%โ˜… 7drama ยท thriller ยท crime

Both rooted in London

The difference: Leans further into drama

Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.

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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
1933 ยท dir. Fritz Lang
๐Ÿ… 86%โ˜… 7.9crime ยท mystery ยท thriller

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must determine how Mabuse is communicating with the criminals, despite conflicting reports on the doctor's whereabouts, and capture him for good.

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Shadow of a Doubt
1943 ยท dir. Alfred Hitchcock
๐Ÿ… 100%โ˜… 7.8thriller ยท mystery ยท crime

Gritty thriller, and it commits to that

In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlieโ€™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 secretโ€”and that danger has quietly entered her home.

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Young and Innocent
1937 ยท dir. Alfred Hitchcock
๐Ÿ… 100%โ˜… 6.8thriller ยท romance ยท mystery

Mystery built on tension, twice over

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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Marshland
2014 ยท dir. Alberto Rodrรญguez
๐Ÿ… 91%โ˜… 7.2crime ยท mystery ยท thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: serial killer

The difference: 87 years apart, and the 2010s show

The Spanish Deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters โ€“ both detectives in the homicide division โ€“ to investigate the cases.

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Foreign Correspondent
1940 ยท dir. Alfred Hitchcock
๐Ÿ… 95%โ˜… 7.4thriller ยท mystery ยท action

Twisty thriller in both cases

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 politicianโ€™s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.

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Colors of Evil: Red
2024 ยท dir. Adrian Panek
๐Ÿ… 80%โ˜… 6.4crime ยท thriller ยท mystery

Both lean on grit more than on crime

When a girl's body is found on a beach in Poland's Tricity, a prosecutor teams up with the victim's mother on an impassioned quest for the truth.

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Suspicion
1941 ยท dir. Alfred Hitchcock
๐Ÿ… 97%โ˜… 7.2mystery ยท romance ยท thriller

Tense mystery, and it commits to that

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 husbandโ€™s affection may conceal a deadly motiveโ€”and that she could be his next victim.

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The Lady Vanishes
1938 ยท dir. Alfred Hitchcock
๐Ÿ… 98%โ˜… 7.7mystery ยท thriller

Twisty thriller, and it commits to that

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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