Movies like The Unknown (1927)
The best movies like The Unknown (1927) are He Who Gets Slapped (1924), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and The Temptress (1926). If The Unknown hooked you with its thriller and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedFaust (1926)7.9/10 from 428 votes
- NewestThe Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)Released 1939
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
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 slapped repeatedly and becomes infatuated with a showgirl colleague whose father intends to marry her off to the baron.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Temptress (1926)
A seductive woman forsakes her husband and lover to pursue a young engineer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
7th Heaven (1927)
In 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been answered when he chances upon a street waif and they fall in love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFaust (1926)
Murnau’s epic adaptation of Goethe’s tragedy stands with Fritz Lang’s Metropolis among the supreme achievements of German silent cinema. Gösta Ekman plays the alchemist who, his faith shaken in a time of plague, is offered the gift of healing and eternal youth… in exchange for his soul.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisSuspense (1913)
Abandoned by her maidservant in an isolated country house, a mother must protect herself and her baby from an invading tramp while her husband races home in a stolen car to save them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Avenging Conscience (1914)
Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man's thoughts turn dark as he dwells on ways to deal with his uncle. Increasingly convinced that murder is merely a natural part of life, he kills his uncle and hides the body. However, the man's conscience awakens; paranoia sets in and nightmarish visions begin to haunt him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The Penalty (1920)
Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were needlessly amputated after an accident, becomes a vicious criminal, and eventually mob leader of the San Francisco underworld.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Man Who Laughs (1928)
When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Wind (1928)
When Letty Mason relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever-present wind and sand. Arriving at her new home at the ranch of her cousin, Beverly, she receives a surprisingly cold welcome from his wife, Cora. Soon tensions in the family and unwanted attention from a trio of suitors leave Letty increasingly disturbed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWay Down East (1920)
A naïve country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Son of the Sheik (1926)
Ahmed, son of Diana and Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan, falls in love with Yasmin, a dancing girl who fronts her father's gang of mountebanks. She and Ahmed meet secretly until one night when her father and the gang capture the son of the sheik, torture him, and hold him for ransom.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)
A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs learn to help each other with their problems, but both fall in love with the same young woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Kiss (1929)
An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Throw of Dice (1929)
Two neighboring kings addicted to gambling, Ranjit and his cousin Sohat, vie for the same beautiful young woman, Sunita, daughter of the hermit Kanwa.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
The Sheik (1921)
Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert. The free-spirited Diana recoils from his passionate embraces and yearns to be released. Later, allowed to go into the desert, she escapes and makes her way across the sands...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Scarlet Letter (1927)
In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England, he returns to discover that Hester has given birth to their child and is the focus of local censure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
The Last Performance (1929)
A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & romance
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Regeneration (1915)
At 10 years old, Owen becomes a ragged orphan when his mother dies. Abusive next-door neighbors the Conways take him in, and by 17, Owen has learned that might is right. At 25, he's a career gangster: loitering, gambling and drinking in dens of iniquity. Marie Deering arrives in Owen's area, eager to empower the impoverished, gang-affiliated youth through education. Owen slowly but surely leaves his old life behind, choosing the narrow path- all the while falling in love with Marie. Skinny, who's taken over Owen's role in the gang, reappears to him, spelling trouble.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Page of Madness (1926)
An elderly man visits his mentally ill wife in a psychiatric hospital. Years earlier, she had tried to drown their child and then take her own life. Crushed by guilt and powerless to change what has happened, he remains at the clinic as a janitor. Soon, their daughter arrives to inform him of her upcoming wedding, and with her arrival come painful memories and tormenting visions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris (1915)
Paris is prey to an invisible terror against which the police can do nothing: a sinister organization that sows chaos and death. The intrepid journalist Philippe Guérande and his partner embark on a long crusade to put an end to the crimes of the Great Vampire and Irma Vep, his dangerous accomplice. (A ten episode movie serial.)
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Phantom Carriage (1921)
An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFreaks (1932)
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Hands of Orlac (1924)
A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Unknown?
The closest matches to The Unknown are He Who Gets Slapped (1924), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and The Temptress (1926). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Unknown?
People who watched The Unknown most often go on to He Who Gets Slapped (1924), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and The Temptress (1926).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Unknown?
Faust (1926), rated 7.9/10 by 428 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Unknown?
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Unknown?
Yes: He Who Gets Slapped (1924), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and The Temptress (1926).
How are movies similar to The Unknown chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Unknown, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.