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10 Best Movies Like The Unknown

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

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#1
The Unholy Three

The Unholy Three

1925★ 6.7

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

Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series of robberies....

#2
The Jazz Singer

The Jazz Singer

1927★ 6.1

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

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to u...

#3
London After Midnight

London After Midnight

1927★ 6.5

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

The abandoned Balfour House, the owner of which was found dead five years earlier, comes back to life with the arrival of two suspicious sinister-looking tenants. This film was lo...

#4
He Who Gets Slapped

He Who Gets Slapped

1924★ 7.6

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

After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being sla...

#5
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

1928★ 6.9

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

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in ce...

#6
Our Modern Maidens

Our Modern Maidens

1929★ 5.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Unknown for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Young, vivacious Billie uses her charms on influential businessman Glenn Abbott in hopes of getting her secret fiancé Gil a diplomatic appointment. Meanwhile, Gil's affections mean...