Mysterious stranger movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant mysterious stranger movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out tense, suspenseful, serious, psychological, suspense and disturbing films and TV shows about / with mysterious stranger, murder, death, blood, betrayal, supernatural, revenge, redemption, nude and bare chested male plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Horror genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as mysterious stranger: Theorem (1968), The Zone (2011), The Stranger (2020), Hardkor Disko (2014), Storm of the Century (1999), The Ninth Passenger (2018), Let Us Prey (2014), The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), Gutland (2017), Hearts in Atlantis (2001).
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger (Terence Stamp) arrives, makes love to every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he ...
Style:
surreal, erotic, eros, allegory, disturbing ...
Plot:
lgbtq, bourgeoisie, gay, gay interest, surrealism, seduction, sex, lgbt, mysterious stranger, visitor, parable, male nudity ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, milan italy
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347
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
A mysterious visitor spends the night at an apartment belonging to a young engaged couple and their friend. Over the course of the night and the following day he sleeps with all three roommates and then disappears, leading to conversations about ...
Style:
sexy, mumblecore, melancholic, tense, touching ...
Plot:
sex with a stranger, threesome, lesbian, female nudity, cuckolded husband, gay, lesbian relationship, lesbian interest, relationships, hot and sexy, jealousy, mysterious stranger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A web of secrets sends family man Adam Price on a desperate quest to uncover the truth about the people closest to him.
Style:
mind bending, detective, clever, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
riddles and clues, mysterious stranger, infidelity, hacker, secrets, drug use, memory loss, husband wife relationship, betrayal, investigation, family relations, twists and turns ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 21st century
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Poland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A sociopath begins a relationship with the daughter of a couple he intends to murder.
Style:
psychological, captivating, tense, realistic, psychological horror
Plot:
voyeur, sociopath, naked man, male nudity, mysterious stranger, plan, male pubic hair, hot guys, infidelity, family relations, danger, male full rear nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
TV show
Story:
A very powerful blizzard hits the fictional small town of Little Tall Island off the coast of Maine. All access off the island is blocked, and no one is able to leave the island until the storm is over. While trying to deal with the storm, tragedy ...
Style:
creepy, scary, suspenseful, intense, suspense ...
Plot:
supernatural, stephen king, blizzard, demon, small town, stranger, snow, secret, storm, suicide, mysterious stranger, murder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
maine, usa
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A group of salacious students party aboard a luxury yacht only to turn on each other as a 9th PASSENGER picks them off one by one.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, slasher, tension ...
Plot:
sea, yacht, isolation, murder, mysterious stranger, dark humor, serial killer, psychopath, danger, group of friends, death, rescue ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Rachel, a rookie cop, is about to begin her first night shift in a neglected police station in a Scottish, backwater town. The kind of place where the tide has gone out and stranded a motley bunch of the aimless, the forgotten, the ...
Style:
scary, satanic, demonic, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
police station, psychopath, police, mysterious stranger, stranger, police brutality, murder, serial killer, female police officer, chaos, danger, violence spree ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, scotland
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the ...
Style:
suspense, sexy, tense, philosophical, homoerotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, obsession, dysfunctional family, mysterious stranger, husband wife relationship, recovering alcoholic, surgeon, psychopath, blackmail, desperation, dead father, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
ancient greece, ireland, columbus ohio
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Early one summer morning a young man, with a secret stashed away in a duffel bag, emerges from the forest. In a nearby village he asks around for work, but the farmers, suspicious to the point of hostility, are not very forthcoming. Only when Lucy, ...
Style:
psychological horror, melancholic, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
farm hand, mysterious stranger, paranormal activity, hot and sexy, criminal, fugitive, village life, police officer, child abuse, dead man, danger, legend ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
Style:
touching, atmospheric, sincere, sentimental, enigmatic ...
Plot:
small town, childhood, stephen king, single mother, friendship, childhood friend, coming of age, mysterious stranger, childhood memory, father figure, psychic, psychic power ...
Time:
year 2001, 1950s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
virginia, connecticut, usa, new york, boston
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A stranger named Silas flees from a devastating storm and finds refuge with Tom and Gillian on their farm. While struggling with the Storm, Silas seems to be the only one who can help Tom and Gillian to find their son but there are other more ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
family in danger, disaster, escapades, farm, storm, mysterious stranger, catastrophe, post apocalypse, murder, violence, death, natural disaster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A small gold mining camp is terrorised by a ruthless land owner wanting to take their land. Clint Eastwood arrives riding a pale horse just as a young girl is praying to God to help the miners. He is revealed to be a preacher with mysterious and ...
Style:
spaghetti western, suspense, realistic, tense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
small town, teenage girl, mysterious stranger, greed, courage, murder, drifter, revenge, gunfight, wild west, u.s. marshal, man with no name ...
Time:
20th century, 1800s, year 1985, 80s, 1880s ...
Place:
california, sacramento california
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tournament to save the financially ravaged golf course of a long-ago sweetheart. Help arrives in the ...
Style:
inspirational, sentimental, period piece, romantic, light ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
golf, great depression, underdog, comeback, world war one, childhood, mysterious stranger, interracial friendship, friendship, love story, hopes, renewed love ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1920s, y2k, year 2000
Place:
savannah georgia, georgia, america, usa, southern usa
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Mike is a struggling artist who draws the 'Brenda Starr' strip for the papers. When Brenda comes to life in the strip and sees how unappreciated she is by Mike, she leaves the strip. To get her back, and keep his job, Mike draws himself ...
Style:
humorous, metafiction, melancholic, semi serious, independent film ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
spy, mysterious stranger, cartoonist, female reporter, female protagonist, fish out of water, 007, rescue, happy ending, justice, mad scientist, rivalry ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
brazil, puerto rico, new york, south america
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An evening of drunken prank calls becomes a nightmare for a pair of teenagers when a mysterious stranger turns their own game against them.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, scary, slasher, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
home invasion, prank, masked killer, telephone call, mysterious stranger, stalker, revenge, murder, escape room, halloween, eye, hacking ...
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Natalie Babbitt's award winning book for children comes to the screen in a lavish adaptation from Walt Disney Pictures. Winnie Foster (Alexis Bledel) is a girl in her early teens growing up in the small rural town of Winesap in 1914. ...
Style:
fairy tale, romantic, period piece, sweet, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot:
fountain of youth, first love, immortality, teenage boy, mysterious stranger, small town, teenage crush, coming of age, teenage girl, love, love story, kidnapping ...
Time:
1910s, 2000s, year 2002, edwardian era, 20th century ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Germany, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Successful architect Jeremy Angust is approached on his trip to the Tokyo International Airport by a chatty girl called Texel Textor. She is a strange young woman who seems to be looking for captive victims whom she forces to listen to her strange ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
mysterious stranger, mystery woman, mysterious girl, mysterious character, chance meeting, changing lives, male female relationship, mysterious man, lost love, architect, rain, suspicion ...
Place:
paris france, warsaw poland, montmartre paris
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In an effort to reconnect and mend their relationship, a troubled couple and their preteen daughter seek an idyllic getaway to a remote mansion in rural Louisiana. But when unexpected visitors arrive, their facade of family unity starts to unravel, ...
Style:
suspense, serious, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
vacation, mysterious stranger, husband wife relationship, family in danger, uninvited guest, neighbor, hitman, isolation, family relations, supernatural, house, locked room ...
Place:
louisiana
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is dying of insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, depressing, surreal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
insomnia, insanity, uncover truth, obsession, mysterious character, paranoia, losing-it hero, twists and turns, schizophrenia, life is a bitch, secrets, alienation ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, america, persia, los angeles
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Iran
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
On their way back from a wild party, Arine and Nobahar cause a car accident. A mysterious stranger by the name of Toofan offers to cover the costs. This won't be the last time they'll cross his path over the course of the night.
Style:
surreal, road movie, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mysterious stranger, farce, absurdism, car, surrealism, mysterious man, accident, culture clash, culture, friends, night, political satire ...
Place:
tehran iran, tehran, persia, iran
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686
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Orléans is a typical provincial Russian town on the banks of a salt lake called Yarovoye. The town is 'steeped in evil'. But it isn't some great evil. This evil is of a banal and everyday type: Lida the hairdresser has indiscriminate ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, thought provoking, satirical ...
Plot:
mysterious stranger, satire, redemption, conscience, guilt, small town life, family problems, province, class society, mysterious man, society, lifestyle change ...
Place:
salt lake city utah
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The first film in the STILL NIGHT MONSTER MOVIE SERIES, DRACULA: REBORN is a modern retelling of Bram Stoker’s classic DRACULA, set in modern day Los Angeles.
Style:
suspense, gothic, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
vampire, dracula, mysterious stranger, vampire hunter, supernatural, rescue, undead, blood, night, bloodlust, adaptation, urban ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Two parents enter a race against time when they receive a distressing late-night phone call from their daughter after she caused a tragic car accident.
Style:
psychological thriller, surprise ending, tension, f word
Plot:
woods, mysterious event, mysterious stranger, daughter, car, parents, unhappy ending, car accident, lost in the woods, desperation, responsibility, helplessness ...
Place:
britain
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An Irish fisherman discovers a woman in his fishing net believing her to be a mermaid.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sweet, fairy tale, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
father daughter relationship, mermaid, small town, sea, mysterious stranger, daughter, longing, fisherman, self discovery, character study, secrets, solitude ...
Time:
year 2009
Place:
ireland, europe, new jersey
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52K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Set in a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity, our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to exist. In trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, Sal Frieland stumbles onto a young woman who appears ...
Style:
tech noir, detective, apocalyptic, exciting, mystic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hacker, technology, murder investigation, dystopia, distopia, mind control, surveillance, police, female assassin, serial killer, secret identity, investigation ...
Time:
future, near future
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In Italy, the American writer Sam Dalmas witnesses an attempt of murder of the owner of an art gallery, a couple of days before his foreseen return to the United States of America. He decides to stay with his girlfriend Julia and help the police in ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, slasher, grindhouse, creepy ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder mystery, maniac, police detective, investigation, female psychopath, psychopath, voyeurism, attempted murder, amateur detective, murder, killer ...
Time:
70s, year 1970, 60s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
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114K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A drama with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.
Style:
touching, inspirational, feel good, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, kids, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot:
music, musician, orphan, prodigy, child prodigy, child protagonist, dancing, childhood, boy, youth, chance meeting, cellist ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 80s, year 1995, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, chicago, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Angie works hard to run her uncle’s events business while her cousin Candace takes the credit. When Angie takes a night off to have fun at the Christmasquerade Ball, the mask and gown allow her to let loose, and she quickly catches the eye of ...
Style:
romantic, emotional, light, sweet, fairy tale
Audience:
teens
Plot:
christmas, cinderella, masquerade, holiday, costume ball, christmas romance, love interest, female protagonist, male female relationship, marriage ceremony, christmas season, family business ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A burdened man feels the wrath of a vengeful God after he and his wife are visited by a mysterious stranger.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, bleak, art house, psychotronic ...
Plot:
isolation, mysterious stranger, grief, loss of child, loss of faith, house, church, wife, death, murder, psychopath, runaway ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Who is the mysterious stranger Cecilia met on the street? Why is he suspicious of everyone? She is happily married, has a lovely child and an interesting job: she has no motive to be troubled, but she decides to join him and to become his lover. She ...
Style:
tragic ending, melancholic, tense, suspenseful, art house ...
Plot:
mysterious stranger, years of lead, female protagonist, infidelity, adultery, marriage crisis, secret lover, betrayal, obsession, tragic romance, moral ambiguity, fate ...
Place:
naples italy, sicily
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