Last Updated on 8 May 2025

Some movies have a plot that revolves around a mysterious stranger arriving in town. Or sometimes 2 or 3 strangers. Usually an isolated town. Could be good or could be bad, but the major plot is affected by this stranger. This list is also on IMDb.

• Angel Eyes (2001)
• Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
• Black Christmas (1974)
• The Boys Club (1996)
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
• Dressed to Kill (1980)
• The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
• Eye of the Needle (1981)
• The Frozen (2012)
• Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
• Let Us Prey (2014)
• Needful Things (1993)
• Pale Rider (1985)
• The Place (2017)
• The Quick and the Dead (1987)
• Red Eye (2005)
• Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
• Shane (1953)
• Shattered (2007)
• Storm of the Century (1999)
• The Stranger (2014)
• Strangers on a Train (1951)
• The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)
• The Traveler (2010)
• Visitor Q (2001)