Movies like Rear Window (1954)

Name: Rear Window
Released: 1954

10 films to watch after Rear Window, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

1

Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

Fit 71%

Shares Drama and Mystery with Rear Window.

An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.
2

Dolores Claiborne (1995)

Fit 63%

Shares Drama and Mystery with Rear Window.

Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.
3

Ten Little Indians (1965)

Fit 63%

Shares Mystery and Thriller with Rear Window.

Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion. When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one.
4

Remember (2015)

Fit 62%

Shares Drama, Thriller and Mystery with Rear Window.

With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.
5

The Bedroom Window (1987)

Fit 62%

Shares Drama and Thriller with Rear Window.

Baltimore, Maryland. Sylvia sees a girl being attacked from her lover Terry's bedroom window. The assailant flees and his victim is saved. But that same night another girl is found murdered.
6

The Gift (2015)

Fit 59%

Shares Thriller, Mystery and Drama with Rear Window.

Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin.
7

Phone Booth (2003)

Fit 55%

Shares Thriller with Rear Window.

A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.
8

Farewell, My Lovely (1975)

Fit 55%

Shares Mystery, Thriller and Drama with Rear Window.

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 necklace, Marlowe becomes entangled with seductress Helen Grayle and discovers a web of dark secrets that are better left hidden.
9

Out of Time (2003)

Fit 54%

Shares Thriller and Drama with Rear Window.

Matt Lee Whitlock, respected chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida, must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. Matt Lee has to stay a few steps ahead of his own police force and everyone he's trusted in order to find out the truth.
10

Ittefaq (2017)

Fit 48%

Shares Thriller with Rear Window.

Police officer Dev investigates a double murder case that has only two witnesses - an acclaimed writer Vikram and a young homemaker Maya, who also happen to be the prime suspects in the case. He finds himself being torn between their own version's of what happened on the fateful night, and takes it upon himself to figure out the real story and capture the real murderer.