If You Liked The Stranger, Watch These Next
Finished The Stranger (2022) and want more of the same? These 18 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Stranger, most of them are thriller, crime, drama.
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18 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.The Seven-Ups(1973)
6.4ThrillerCrimeMysteryAlso thriller and crime
A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money.
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3.Perfect Sisters(2014)
5.8ThrillerDramaCrimeAlso thriller and drama
Tired of their mother's alcoholism and a string of her abusive boyfriends, two sisters plot to kill her.
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4.Marlowe(1969)
6.1CrimeMysteryDramaAlso crime and drama
Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother. Though the job seems simple enough, it leads Marlowe into the underbelly of the city, turning up leads who are murdered with ice picks, exotic dancers, blackmailed television stars, and self-preserving…
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6.The Limits of Control(2009)
6.0CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlike all at once, he embarks on a journey that not only takes him across Spain, but also through his own consciousness.
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7.Strangers on a Train(1951)
7.7CrimeThrillerDramaAlso crime and thriller
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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8.Murder in Three Acts(1986)
6.0CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.
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9.City by the Sea(2002)
5.8CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Vincent LaMarca is a dedicated and well-respected New York City police detective who has gone to great lengths to distance himself from his past, but then makes the terrible discovery that his own son has fallen into a life of crime.
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10.The Deadly Affair(1967)
6.3ThrillerMysteryDramaAlso thriller and drama
Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector,…
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11.Limbo(2023)
6.0CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Travis, a jaded detective, arrives in the remote outback town of Limbo to investigate the cold case murder of local Indigenous girl Charlotte Hayes 20 years ago. As truths about the murder begin to unfold, the detective gains a new insight into the unsolved case.
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12.The Scarlet Claw(1944)
7.0MysteryCrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
When a woman is found dead with her throat torn out, the local villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec, suspects a human murderer.
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13.The Parts You Lose(2019)
6.7DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama and crime
An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.
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14.Evil Under the Sun(1982)
6.9ThrillerCrimeMysteryAlso thriller and crime
An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star.
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15.The Pelican Brief(1993)
6.6ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso thriller and crime
A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.
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16.Before and After(1996)
5.9CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Two parents deal with the effects when their son is accused of murdering his girlfriend.
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17.The Mechanic(1972)
6.7ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he's so depressed and lonely that he takes on one of his victim's sons, Steve McKenna, as his apprentice. Arthur puts him…
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18.The Conversation(1974)
7.5CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
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