
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.
If The Man Who Knew Too Much hit the spot, these will too

Alfred Hitchcock directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

Both are Alfred Hitchcock's work, and they rhyme
The difference: Played as romance first

Both land tension and twists at once
The difference: Leans further into crime

The same preoccupation in both: black and white

Both are built on the same subject: black and white

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: murder

Common ground: criminal

Twisty mystery in both cases

One thread runs through both: murder

Thriller built on tension, twice over

Twisty mystery, and it commits to that
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