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10 Best Movies Like The List of Adrian Messenger

If you loved The List of Adrian Messenger, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

#1
Scrooge

Scrooge

1951★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The List of Adrian Messenger for fans of Fantasy. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood ...

#2
The Shop Around the Corner

The Shop Around the Corner

1940★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The List of Adrian Messenger for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal....

#3
Like a Cat on a Highway

Like a Cat on a Highway

2017★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The List of Adrian Messenger for fans of Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The story of an encounter between a bourgeois man and a poor woman, because their teenage children fall in love....

#4
Farewell, My Lovely

Farewell, My Lovely

1975★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The List of Adrian Messenger for fans of Mystery & Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge dancer. While also investigating the murder of a client and the theft of a jade n...

#5
Green for Danger

Green for Danger

1946★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The List of Adrian Messenger for fans of Mystery & Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?...

#6
Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salt Sea

Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salt Sea

2003★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The List of Adrian Messenger for fans of Animation. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

In 1913, laconic sea captain Corto Maltese, adrift in the Pacific, gets rescued by his bandit friend Rasputin who's taking two rich shipwrecked teens to an island where his boss th...