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Movies that feel likeVertigo (1958)

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

If you loved Vertigo, the closest films we have are Marnie (1964), Rebecca (1940) and To Catch a Thief (1955). All three share Vertigo's twisty and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Young and Innocent (1937).

🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alfred Hitchcocktwistyromantictenseobsessivemelancholy
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Marnie
1964 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 78%★ 7.1thriller · mystery · romance

The same hand behind both of them: Alfred Hitchcock

The difference: Trades the obsession of Vertigo for an angle of its own

Marnie is a beautiful but emotionally withdrawn thief, stealing from employers before disappearing under new identities. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, discovers her secret, his fascination turns to obsession, and he blackmails her into marriage, convinced he can cure her. But as he probes deeper into Marnie’s fractured mind, long-buried fears and compulsions begin to surface.

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Rebecca
1940 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 98%★ 8mystery · romance · thriller

Both are Alfred Hitchcock's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Easier on the melancholy than Vertigo

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.

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To Catch a Thief
1955 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 95%★ 7.4mystery · romance · thriller

Twisty where it counts, romantic underneath

When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The Cat” Robie. To clear his name, he sets out to trap the copycat himself—entangling a wealthy widow and her beguiling daughter in a seductive game of pursuit, deception, and desire.

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Suspicion
1941 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 97%★ 7.2mystery · romance · thriller

Mystery with a pulse of tension, in both cases

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 motive—and that she could be his next victim.

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Young and Innocent
1937 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 100%★ 6.8thriller · romance · mystery

Twisty romance, and it commits to that

The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft

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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Saboteur
1942 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 81%★ 7.1thriller · mystery

Both lean on tension 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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Strangers on a Train
1951 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 98%★ 7.9crime · thriller · drama

Both are working the same pair: obsession, detective

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Vertigo does

A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.

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Basic Instinct
1992 · dir. Paul Verhoeven
🍅 56%★ 7.1thriller · mysteryParamount+

One thread runs through both: detective

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described in her latest story.

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Notorious
1946 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 96%★ 7.9drama · crime · mystery

Romantic mystery in both cases

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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Spellbound
1945 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 86%★ 7.5drama · crime · mystery

Romance built on twists, 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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8MM
1999 · dir. Joel Schumacher
🍅 23%★ 6.6thriller · crime · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: obsession

A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town PI.

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The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 88%★ 6.7thriller · mysteryPrime VideoMax

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

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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