Your favourite Hitchcock like films by other directors?

CHARADE comes to mind obviously, as even better than N by NW, and that's saying a whole lot. Both are in my top 100 all time films.

Another Hitchcock style film in my top 100 is NINE DEAD. It's sort of a SAW for mature people who aren't bubble boys. Big on credible characters in an incredible situation. 

Back in the day, there were BLINDFOLD, ARABESQUE, and MIRAGE. All are fun and very watchable. BLINDFOLD was the best of them I think. It was undeniably Rock Hudson's best film. Lots of great theatrics, a hot babe, a fun romp in the Everglades with a mule named Henry, very amusing. ARABESQUE sort of tried too hard, but was fun. MIRAGE was a bit Mickey Mouse, but fun, and Walter Mattheau kind of stole the show both with his performance and because his character was so well written, probably the best written in the film.



   

Not even Raising Cain? That goes beyond homage into pastiche.

Wait Until Dark (1967)

Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, or practically any other giallo. Hell, Dario Argento is sometimes called "The Italian Hitchcock"

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Definitely Charade.

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So, movies like DePalma's Dressed to Kill and Sisters replicate only the trappings of a Hitchcock movie (the elaborate scores; the "Hitchcock blonde" [yes, I know Miss Kidder isn't a blonde, but the point still holds]; the plotting mechanics borrowed from, in both of these cases, Psycho; the throwing of an innocent into a shocking world) and not the true essence of one.

Now, that's not a strike against these movies--in fact, I'm a huge fan of DePalma, especially Dressed to Kill. It is, however, a misconception that, in my opinion, needs pointing out. (Another example is Robert Zemeckis's hugely enjoyable What Lies Beneath, which did not deserve the critical panning it received. Like the DePalma works, it doesn't imitate AH at any more than the most superficial level, but--also like them--it's a great deal of fun [the twists are particularly clever].) 

It's also, by the way, why I don't find Charade all that Hitchcockian, though it's still a great deal of fun. (Oh, and Hitchcock would have never used the "dying clue" aspect in the plot, which I, with my fondness for puzzle plotting, quite like.) I didn't much like Arabesque, though, unfortunately. 

What would I put in their place as "Hitchcockian movies," then? (Because, unlike @gottaluvafriend , I do think there are a few movies that come off as truly Hitchcockian.)

David Fincher's brilliant Panic Room, which also cares more about its characters than its plot, is the first modern picture that comes to mind, definitely. (I've written more about it here.)

Also Kenneth Branagh's Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, one of the best popcorn movies to come out in recent years (and, of course, little-remembered only a few short years later).

As for classics...

Night Train to Munich, which I've highlighted elsewhere on this forum, has pointed differences from Hitch's The Lady Vanishes (I actually prefer Night Train), but Carol Reed's direction is undoubtedly inspired by the Master's. (It's available for free on YouTube, albeit not in a particularly good print.)

Seven Sinners (1936), a little-known favorite of mine, feels like one of Hitch's 30s British thrillers. (It's also currently available for free on YouTube.)

I'm sure I'll think of more, but that's a good list for now, right?

EDIT: I've thought of another, Polanski's Frantic. For me, the most wholly satisfying picture in Polanski's largely unsatisfying oeuvre. (I should point out I haven't seen Chinatown--what! I know, I know, will get on it some time soon.) It's an excellent picture that captures Hitchcock in both superficiality and deeper meaning--and, if Frenzy is any indication, is exactly the kind of movie that Hitchcock would have been making if he'd still been alive in '88. 

Dead Calm is certainly Hitchcockian. I didn't think of it at first because I thought it slightly overrated, but it's a still a fine movie, with grand central performances from Nicole Kidman and Billy Zane in particular. 

Oh, and how could I forget From Russia with Love, which borrows a whole sequence from North by Northwest? (Yes, that fact is a superficiality by my definition, but bear with me.) The emphasis is on suspense far more than surprise, in the Hitchcockian manner, and Bond, while a spy, is involved similarly to one of Hitch's innocents. The best of the Bonds, with Goldfinger as the steepest competition. 

I don't know whether to put Unknown ('11) on here because, while in some ways it is far more Hitchcockian than most modern thrillers (e.g., it has a potential end-twist that the director/writer decides to explode before the ending, heightening suspense rather than surprise, and features a very Hitchcockian ice blonde in January Jones's character), it is shot in a very modern, non-Hitchcockian way. A strange dichotomy, that. Either way, I think it's a great movie. Bruno Ganz, in particular, is a delight in it.

And here's another one! Double Jeopardy ('99) is, with Panic Room and Frantic, the most Hitchcockian modern film I've seen. Illogical? Absolutely. But it is purely Hitchcockian, unlike most modern thrillers, and sheer fun.