
Movies that feel like The Stranger (1946)
If you loved The Stranger, the closest films we have are Touch of Evil (1958), The Big Clock (1948) and The Lady from Shanghai (1947). All three share The Stranger's tense and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 5 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Criterion Channel and MUBI and others, checked against today's data.
If The Stranger hit the spot, these will too

The same hand behind both of them: Orson Welles
The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Stranger does

Both are working the same pair: clock, film noir

Orson Welles directing both, with the same fingerprints on each
The difference: Leans harder into mystery than The Stranger does

Both keep coming back to the same thing: black and white

The same preoccupation in both: film noir

Tense and gritty in the same breath

Atmospheric thriller in both cases

Tense crime, and it commits to that

Both are built on the same subject: professor

Thriller built on grit, twice over

Crime with a pulse of atmosphere, in both cases

One thread runs through both: black and white
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