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10 Best Movies Like Detour

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

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#1
Detour

Detour

1945★ 7.2

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

The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend....

#2
Nightfall

Nightfall

1956★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detour for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit....

#3
Stranger on the Third Floor

Stranger on the Third Floor

1940★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detour for fans of Mystery. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death....

#4
Panic

Panic

2000★ 6.2

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

Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for hi...

#5
The Black Book

The Black Book

2023★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detour for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

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....

#6
Black Widow

Black Widow

1987★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detour for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Federal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But since Catherine is seemingly a ma...

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