Movies Like Cottage to Let (1941)

Cottage to Let is a 1941 comedy, mystery, thriller film from Anthony Asquith with a MovieMagicScore of 6.6/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with All Through the Night and Five Graves to Cairo.

Comedy Mystery Thriller

All Through the Night

1942

Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

6.8

MagicScore

Five Graves to Cairo

1943

The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He assumes the identity of a recently deceased waiter and is helped by the hotel's owner, despite protest from the French chambermaid, who fears the imminent arrival of Rommel and the Germans.

6.9

MagicScore

Eye of the Needle

1981

Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.

6.6

MagicScore

The House on 92nd Street

1945

The US Government tries to track down embedded Nazi agents in the States.

6.5

MagicScore

Under the Rainbow

1981

In World War II era Los Angeles, the manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in charge for a weekend. The nephew changes the name to the Hotel Rainbow and overbooks with royalty, assassins, secret agents, Japanese tourists, and munchkins. Secret Service agent Bruce Thorpe and casting director Annie Clark find romance amidst the intrigue and confusion.

5.2

MagicScore

Bon Voyage

1944

After escaping a Nazi POW camp, a young Scottish RAF gunner recounts his perilous journey through occupied France with the help of the Resistance. During his debriefing in London, French intelligence officers press him for details—especially about one companion whose true loyalties may not be what they seemed.

5.6

MagicScore

Betrayed

1954

When the Dutch resistance brings in Carla Van Oven to spy on the Nazis, Col. Pieter Deventer initially suspects she could be a double agent. Van Oven eventually convinces Deventer of her character, and when she is sent into occupied territory, she joins up with a rebel leader known as "The Scarf". As the resistance endures severe losses and their missions fail, Deventer starts to wonder whose side Van Oven is fighting on.

5.6

MagicScore

The Butler

2018

The love between Mateusz Krol, a Kashubian boy, and Marita von Krauss, a Prussian aristocrat in whose family home he is taken in when his mother dies, grows and matures thorough the years, while Kashubia, the northern Polish region where they live, suffers the consequences of the tragedies that will ravage Europe from the beginning of the 20th century until the end of the World War II.

6.5

MagicScore

Whisky Galore!

1949

Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year.

6.8

MagicScore

#10

The Water Horse

2007

A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.

6.5

MagicScore

#11

To End All Wars

2001

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon, Lt. Jim Reardon and Maj. Ian Campbell are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. While Campbell wants to rebel and attempt an escape, Gordon tries to take a more stoic approach, an attitude that proves to be surprisingly resonant.

6.4

MagicScore

#12

Ministry of Fear

1944

Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know to whom to turn.

6.9

MagicScore

#13

The Whip Hand

1951

A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.

5.6

MagicScore

#14

The Cottage

2008

In a remote part of the countryside, a bungled kidnapping turns into a living nightmare for four central characters when they cross paths with a psychopathic farmer and all hell breaks loose.

5.9

MagicScore

#15

Cottage Country

2013

When Todd takes his girlfriend Cammie up to the family cottage for a reclusive proposal, the last thing he expected to be doing was dealing with was his slacker brother and his hippie girlfriend. But in this comedy of errors, Todd and Cammie, have to deal with his accidentally murdered brother in order to live happily ever after.

5.4

MagicScore

#16

Clue

1985

Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.

7.2

MagicScore

#17

Murder by Death

1976

Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.

7.2

MagicScore

#18

My Favorite Blonde

1942

Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.

6.4

MagicScore

#19

Journey into Fear

1943

An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.

6.1

MagicScore

#20

The Quiet Man

1952

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

7.3

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Cottage to Let?

The top films similar to Cottage to Let by MovieMagicScore are All Through the Night (6.8), Five Graves to Cairo (6.9), Eye of the Needle (6.6). Each shares comedy/mystery/thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Cottage to Let worth watching?

Cottage to Let holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.6/10 from 21 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Cottage to Let?

Cottage to Let (1941) is a comedy, mystery, thriller film directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Leslie Banks, Jeanne De Casalis, Carla Lehmann.

Where can I find more recommendations like Cottage to Let?

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About movies like Cottage to Let

This ranked list pairs Cottage to Let (1941), a comedy and mystery and thriller film from Anthony Asquith, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Leslie Banks take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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