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10 Best Movies Like The Sentinel

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

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#1
The Town That Dreaded Sundown

The Town That Dreaded Sundown

1976★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Sentinel for fans of Horror & Mystery. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

When two young lovers are savagely beaten and tortured on a back country road in Texarkana, local police are baffled and must find "the Phantom Killer" before he can kill again....

#2
Coma

Coma

1978★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Sentinel for fans of Mystery. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

When relatively healthy patients begin having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas, a concerned doctor defies her male superiors when she suspects a secr...

#3
Mo' Better Blues

Mo' Better Blues

1990★ 6.5

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

Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid o...

#4
The Passengers of the Night

The Passengers of the Night

2022★ 6.9

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

On election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an end and s...

#5
Magic

Magic

1978★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Sentinel for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart....

#6
Whirlpool

Whirlpool

1950★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Sentinel for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real...