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Movies that feel like The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

If you loved The Man Who Knew Too Much, the closest films we have are Saboteur (1942), Young and Innocent (1937) and The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927). All three share The Man Who Knew Too Much's tense and twisty 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.

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.

πŸ… 88% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Alfred Hitchcocktensetwisty
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Saboteur
1942 Β· dir. Alfred Hitchcock
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7.1thriller Β· mystery

Alfred Hitchcock directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

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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Young and Innocent
1937 Β· dir. Alfred Hitchcock
πŸ… 100%β˜… 6.8thriller Β· romance Β· mystery

Both are Alfred Hitchcock's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Played as romance first

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 Β· dir. Alfred Hitchcock
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.3crime Β· thriller Β· mystery

Both land tension and twists at once

The difference: Leans further into crime

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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Foreign Correspondent
1940 Β· dir. Alfred Hitchcock
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.4thriller Β· mystery Β· action

The same preoccupation in both: 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 Β· dir. Alfred Hitchcock
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.7mystery Β· thriller

Both are built on the same subject: black and white

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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Suspicion
1941 Β· dir. Alfred Hitchcock
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.2mystery Β· romance Β· thriller

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

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 motiveβ€”and that she could be his next victim.

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The 39 Steps
1935 Β· dir. Alfred Hitchcock
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.6mystery Β· thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: murder

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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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
1933 Β· dir. Fritz Lang
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.9crime Β· mystery Β· thriller

Common ground: criminal

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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Le Corbeau
1943 Β· dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.8mystery Β· drama Β· thriller

Twisty mystery in both cases

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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Shadow of a Doubt
1943 Β· dir. Alfred Hitchcock
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.8thriller Β· mystery Β· crime

One thread runs through both: murder

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 secretβ€”and that danger has quietly entered her home.

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Spellbound
1945 Β· dir. Alfred Hitchcock
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.5thriller Β· mystery Β· romance

Thriller built on tension, twice over

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 Β· dir. Alfred Hitchcock
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.9romance Β· mystery Β· thriller

Twisty mystery, and it commits to that

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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