Movies Like When a Stranger Comes
If you liked When a Stranger Comes (1986), a mystery movie directed by David DeCoteau, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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My Favorite Brunette (1947)
★ 6.6/10Also mysteryRonnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay…
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The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie! (2010)
★ 6.4/10Also mysteryWhen the mystery-solving musician Foxxy Love notices she and her fellow housemates can curse without being bleeped—something they've never been able to do before—she realizes their show has been canceled. Determined to…
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Mystery Team (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also mysteryA group of former Encyclopedia Brown-style child-detectives struggle to solve an adult mystery.
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The Overnight (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also mysteryAlex, Emily, and their son, RJ, are new to Los Angeles. A chance meeting at the park introduces them to the mysterious Kurt, Charlotte, and Max. A family “playdate” becomes increasingly interesting as the night goes on.
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The Caller (2011)
★ 6.2/10Also mysteryTroubled divorcee Mary Kee is tormented by a series of sinister phone calls from a mysterious woman. When the stranger reveals she's calling from the past, Mary tries to break off contact. But the caller doesn't like…
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Suburbicon (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also mysteryIn the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect…
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Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
★ 6.1/10Also mysteryIn an isolated family mansion, a group of rich 20-somethings decides to play Bodies Bodies Bodies, a game where one of them is secretly a "killer" while the rest tries to "escape". Things take a turn for the worse when…
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Dressed to Kill (1980)
★ 6.9/10Also mysteryAfter witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing…
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
★ 6.6/10Also mysteryJuliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the…
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The Cheap Detective (1978)
★ 6.4/10Also mysteryA spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his partner's wife.
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The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
★ 6/10Also mysteryAfter spending decades living in the shadow of his more famous and successful sibling, Consulting Detective Sigerson Holmes is called upon to help solve a crucial case that leads him on a hilarious trail of false…
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Society (1990)
★ 6.7/10Also mysteryBill Whitney is worried that he is different to his sister and parents. They mix with other upper-class people while Bill is more down to earth. Even his girlfriend seems a bit odd. All is revealed when Bill returns…
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The Inhabitant (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also mysteryLike any other teenage girl, Tara is just surviving high school — yet her father and mother seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome ax murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her…
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The Vast of Night (2019)
★ 6.6/10Also mysteryAt the dawn of the space-race, two radio-obsessed teens discover a strange frequency over the airwaves in what becomes the most important night of their lives and in the history of their small town.
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Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire (2003)
★ 7.1/10Also mysteryThe Yowie Yahoo starts kidnapping musicians at a concert attended by Scooby and the gang in Vampire Rock, Australia.
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Goodnight Mommy (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also mysteryWhen twin brothers arrive home to find their mother’s demeanor altered and face covered in surgical bandages, they begin to suspect the woman beneath the gauze might not be their mother.
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Black Christmas (1974)
★ 6.9/10Also mysteryAs the residents of the Pi Kappa Sigma sorority house prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to harass them with a series of obscene phone calls.
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Curse of the Blair Witch (1999)
★ 6.2/10Also mysteryA mockumentary exploring the legend of the Blair Witch and the case of the three missing student filmmakers.
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Maniac (1963)
★ 6.2/10Also mysteryWhen a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988)
★ 7.3/10Also mysteryWhen a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.