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10 Best Movies Like A Stranger in Town

If you loved A Stranger in Town, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

#1
The Most Dangerous Game

The Most Dangerous Game

1932★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Stranger in Town for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. Wh...

#2
The Godfather

The Godfather

1972★ 8.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Stranger in Town for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attemp...

#3
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1975★ 8.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Stranger in Town for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domine...

#4
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Stranger in Town for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...

#5
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Stranger in Town for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#6
Awakenings

Awakenings

1990★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Stranger in Town for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversia...