Movies Like Don't Bother to Knock

Ranked by shared directors, cast, themes, genre, and era — not just generic recommendations.

Inferno

1953·1h 23m·★ 7.0·Roy Ward Baker

2 shared crewDir. Roy Ward BakerDP: Lucien Ballard

Night Without Sleep

1952·1h 17m·★ 6.0·Roy Ward Baker

2 shared crewDir. Roy Ward BakerDP: Lucien Ballard

Bullitt

1968·1h 53m·★ 7.4·Peter Yates

TMDB recommendsThemes: hotel, detective

Psycho

1960·1h 49m·★ 8.5·Alfred Hitchcock

Themes: voyeur, hotel, detective

Rosemary's Baby

1968·2h 18m·★ 8.0·Roman Polanski

TMDB recommendsStarring Elisha Cook Jr.Drama & Thriller

Perfect Blue

1998·1h 22m·★ 8.0·Satoshi Kon

Themes: madness, singer

The Big Sleep

1946·1h 54m·★ 7.9·Howard Hawks

TMDB recommendsStarring Elisha Cook Jr.

The Good German

2006·1h 48m·★ 6.0·Steven Soderbergh

TMDB recommendsDrama & Thriller

Se7en

1995·2h 7m·★ 8.6·David Fincher

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Apocalypse Now

1979·2h 27m·★ 8.4·Francis Ford Coppola

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Hotel Rwanda

2004·2h 2m·★ 8.1·Terry George

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Bad Education

2004·1h 45m·★ 7.4·Pedro Almodóvar

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It Happened in Broad Daylight

1958·1h 40m·★ 7.8·Ladislao Vajda

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Dirty Dancing

1987·1h 40m·★ 7.1·Emile Ardolino

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Lolita

1962·2h 34m·★ 7.5·Stanley Kubrick

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Dead Man

1995·2h 2m·★ 7.5·Jim Jarmusch

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Dangerous Liaisons

1988·1h 59m·★ 7.5·Stephen Frears

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Evil Under the Sun

1982·1h 57m·★ 7.1·Guy Hamilton

Fans also likedThriller & Drama

The Nanny

1965·1h 31m·★ 7.1·Seth Holt

Fans also likedDrama & Thriller

A Walk Among the Tombstones

2014·1h 54m·★ 6.5·Scott Frank

Fans also likedDrama & Thriller

How Good Is Don't Bother to Knock?

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