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10 Best Movies Like When Strangers Appear

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

#1
Broadcast Signal Intrusion

Broadcast Signal Intrusion

2021★ 5.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Strangers Appear for fans of Thriller & Mystery. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

In the late 90s, a video archivist unearths a series of sinister pirate broadcasts and becomes obsessed with uncovering the dark conspiracy behind them....

#2
Freeway

Freeway

1996★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Strangers Appear for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolvert...

#3
Hooked

Hooked

2017★ 5.1

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

Jack an 18-year old hustler and his boyfriend Tom are an item, close and very much in love. Otherwise, Jack is impulsive and explosive with few redeeming qualities. Ken, a married ...

#4
I'll Be Home For Christmas

I'll Be Home For Christmas

1997★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Strangers Appear for fans of TV Movie. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Christmas romance about long-separated high school sweethearts who find each other again after 20 years. She's never married and is a smalltown mayor; he's a widowed doctor and sin...

#5
Agatha

Agatha

1979★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Strangers Appear for fans of Thriller & Mystery. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

England, 1926. An American journalist looks for mystery writer Agatha Christie when she suddenly disappears without explanation, leaving no trace....

#6
White Lies

White Lies

2013★ 5.8

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

A medicine woman - a giver of life - is asked to hide a secret which may protect one life but which will destroy another....