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Movies that feel like Young and Innocent (1937)

If you loved Young and Innocent, the closest films we have are Suspicion (1941), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) and Notorious (1946). All three share Young and Innocent's tense and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 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.

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

The same hand behind both of them: Alfred Hitchcock

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

Both are Alfred Hitchcock's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Not nearly as romantic as Young and Innocent

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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Notorious
1946 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 96%7.9romance · mystery · thriller

Tense where it counts, romantic underneath

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%7.5thriller · mystery · romance

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

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

Both land tenderness and twists at once

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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Marnie
1964 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 78%7.1thriller · mystery · romance

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

The difference: 27 years apart, and the 1960s show

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

Common ground: black and white

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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Rebecca
1940 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 98%8.1mystery · romance · thriller

Romantic romance, and it commits to that

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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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1927 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 96%7.3crime · thriller · mystery

Mystery built on twists, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Young and Innocent does

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 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 95%7.4thriller · mystery · action

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

The difference: Leans harder into action than Young and Innocent does

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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Burning Betrayal
2023 · dir. Diego Freitas
4.2drama · mystery · romance

Tender romance in both cases

Babi discovers a betrayal by her long-term partner and decides to embark on a new adventure in life. On this journey, she meets judge Marco and they begin to live a story permeated by a lot of sexual tension.

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The 39 Steps
1935 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 96%7.6mystery · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: 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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