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Movies that feel like The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)

If you loved The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, the closest films we have are The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) and Le Corbeau (1943). All three share The Testament of Dr. Mabuse's twisty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 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.

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.

πŸ… 86% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.9 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Fritz Langgrittytwistytense
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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

The same mix in both: grit, then twists

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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The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934 Β· dir. Alfred Hitchcock
πŸ… 88%β˜… 6.7thriller Β· mystery

Common ground: criminal

The difference: Without the same grit

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: doctor

The difference: Lighter on grit

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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And Then There Were None
1945 Β· dir. RenΓ© Clair
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.3crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Both are built on the same subject: doctor

The difference: Leans further into drama

Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host to appear, a recording levels serious accusations at each of the guests. Soon they start being murdered, one by one. As the survivors try to keep their wits, they reach a disturbing conclusion: one of them must be the killer.

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Colors of Evil: Red
2024 Β· dir. Adrian Panek
πŸ… 80%β˜… 6.4crime Β· thriller Β· mystery

Tense crime, and it commits to that

The difference: 91 years apart, and the 2020s show

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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The Naked City
1948 Β· dir. Jules Dassin
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.5crime Β· mystery Β· thriller

Mystery with a pulse of grit, in both cases

After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

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Saboteur
1942 Β· dir. Alfred Hitchcock
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7.1thriller Β· mystery

Both lean on twists more than on thriller

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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Gaslight
1944 Β· dir. George Cukor
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.8thriller Β· drama Β· mystery

Crime built on tension, twice over

A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

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1931 Β· dir. Fritz Lang
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8.3drama Β· thriller Β· crime

The same hand behind both of them: Fritz Lang

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.

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Fury
1936 Β· dir. Fritz Lang
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.8crime Β· drama Β· thriller

Fritz Lang working the same nerve twice

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.

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Drishyam
2015 Β· dir. Nishikant Kamat
πŸ… 75%β˜… 8.2mystery Β· thriller Β· drama

Gritty mystery in both cases

When his family stares down the barrel of criminal charges, a commoner channels his street smarts and knowledge of action films to tie the long arm of the law into an investigative Gordian knot.

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The Woman in the Window
1944 Β· dir. Fritz Lang
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.6crime Β· drama Β· thriller

Thriller built on tension, twice over

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

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