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Movies Like Exterior Night

If you liked Exterior Night (1993), a mystery movie directed by Mark Rappaport, 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.

  1. 1Sleep, My Love

    Sleep, My Love (1948)

    ★ 6.3/10Also mystery

    A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.

  2. 2Mr. Arkadin

    Mr. Arkadin (1955)

    ★ 6.8/10Also mystery

    Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy…

  3. 3The Red House

    The Red House (1947)

    ★ 6.3/10Also mystery

    An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.

  4. 4The Limits of Control

    The Limits of Control (2009)

    ★ 6/10Also mystery

    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…

  5. 5Brand Upon the Brain!

    Brand Upon the Brain! (2007)

    ★ 6.6/10Also mystery

    After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.

  6. 6Cleaner

    Cleaner (2007)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery

    Single father and former cop Tom Cutler has an unusual occupation: he cleans up death scenes. But when he's called in to sterilize a wealthy suburban residence after a brutal shooting, Cutler is shocked to learn he may…

  7. 7The Caveman's Valentine

    The Caveman's Valentine (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10Also mystery

    Romulus, a misunderstood musician turned recluse hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave, finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree. The authorities, including his police officer daughter, claim…

  8. 8The Black Book

    The Black Book (2023)

    ★ 6.7/10Also mystery

    After his son is wrongly accused of kidnapping, a deacon who has just lost his wife takes matters into his own hands and fights a crooked police gang to clear him.

  9. 9Overdrive

    Overdrive (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery

    Master car thieves square off against French gangsters in the South of France with money, women and lives all on the line.

  10. 10Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

    Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)

    ★ 6.3/10Also mystery

    Nancy Drew, a smart high schooler with a penchant for keen observation and deduction, stumbles upon the haunting of a local home. A bit of an outsider struggling to fit into her new surroundings, Nancy and her pals set…

  11. 11Eyes of Laura Mars

    Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)

    ★ 5.8/10Also mystery

    A famous fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a serial killer.

  12. 12The Naked City

    The Naked City (1948)

    ★ 7.2/10Also mystery

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

  13. 13Suburbicon

    Suburbicon (2017)

    ★ 5.9/10Also mystery

    In 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…

  14. 14Winter's Tale

    Winter's Tale (2014)

    ★ 6.3/10Also mystery

    A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.

  15. 15Wicker Park

    Wicker Park (2004)

    ★ 6.8/10Also mystery

    Matthew, a young advertising executive in Chicago, puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his life who left him without a word two years earlier, walking out of a…

  16. 16Absolution

    Absolution (2024)

    ★ 5.9/10Also mystery

    An aging ex-boxer gangster working as muscle for a Boston crime boss receives an upsetting diagnosis. Despite a faltering memory, he attempts to rectify the sins of his past and reconnect with his estranged children…

  17. 17The Blue Gardenia

    The Blue Gardenia (1953)

    ★ 6.5/10Also mystery

    Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while…

  18. 18Goodnight Mommy

    Goodnight Mommy (2022)

    ★ 6.3/10Also mystery

    When 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.

  19. 19The Inhabitant

    The Inhabitant (2022)

    ★ 5.9/10Also mystery

    Like 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…

  20. 20Vertigo

    Vertigo (1958)

    ★ 8.1/10Also mystery

    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.

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