Movies like Phone Booth

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Phone Booth (2002)
 7.1
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Phone Booth (2002)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, psychological, psychological thriller, surprise ending, rough, twist ending, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, psychopath, sniper, trapped, mind game, murder, dishonesty, hopes, sin, characters in danger, claustrophobia, plot twist, urban, obsession, police investigation, swat team, wiretap, hidden truth, survival, trap, bad guy wins, psychological manipulation, kidnapped, terrorist, serial killer ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, year 2002, 21st century, contemporary
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Keyword: gangsters, change

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Most similar movies to Phone Booth

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, psychological and serious films with plots about murder, mind game, twists and turns, blood, police, rivalry and psychopath mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Phone Booth: Exam (2009), Panic Room (2002), Cellular (2004), P2 (2007), The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Exam (2009)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The final candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a test so simple and confusing that tension begins to unravel.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, mind bending, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: mind game, survival, plot twist, twists and turns, psychology, surveillance, confinement indoors, psychologist, ambition, intrigue, rivalry, pandemic ...
Time: year 2009, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 6.8
 295K
Panic Room (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul ...
Style: suspense, tense, neo noir, suspense thriller, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: home invasion, trapped, hostage, claustrophobia, surveillance, cat and mouse, locked in a room, crime gone awry, disorder, confinement indoors, millionaire, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 6.5
 105K
Cellular (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. She claims to have been kidnapped – and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, sexy, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: kidnapping, hostage, psychopath, race against time, cell phone, secrets, home invasion, police corruption, lone hero, runaway, kidnapped, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 5.9
 36K
P2 (2007)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Angela, a corporate climber, gets stuck working late on Christmas Eve and finds herself the target of an unhinged security guard. With no help in sight, the woman must overcome physical and psychological challenges to survive.
Style: psychological, slasher, scary, suspense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: obsession, survival, psychopath, kidnapping, woman in danger, escape attempt, maniac, danger, stalker, hostage, stalking, torment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.
Style: tense, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: train, hostage, caper, heist, hijacking, terrorism, kidnapping, chase, passenger, brutality, police investigation, fbi ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Perfect Host (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A criminal on the run cons his way into the wrong dinner party where the host is anything but ordinary.
Style: psychological, twist ending, disturbing, surprise ending, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: twists and turns, dinner party, hidden identity, storytelling, kidnapped, survival, hostage, dinner, mental health, villain, robbery, police corruption ...
Time: y2k, year 2000
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.2
 218K
Fracture (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of ...
Style: suspense, psychological, intellectual, twist ending, psychological thriller ...
Plot: twists and turns, courtroom drama, lawyer, murder, adultery, manipulation, investigation, murder mystery, mind game, obsession, perfect crime, police investigation ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, 1900s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, persia, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Pacific Heights (1990)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.
Style: neo noir, psychological, scary, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: psychopath, harassment, sociopath, yuppie, neighbor, home invasion, lawyer, deception, anger, tenant, landlord, identity theft ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: san francisco, california, bay area, usa, beverly hills ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.3
 64K
Mindhunters (2004)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, UK, Finland, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst.
Style: surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, scary, twist ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, mind game, island, twists and turns, trap, investigation, profiler, psycho killer, murder, survival, bloody violence, killing spree ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.5
 431K
Collateral (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.
Style: neo noir, clever, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, date night, boys' night
Plot: hitman, hostage, taxi driver, taxi, killer, twists and turns, killings, sociopath, assassin, merciless, murderer, nihilism ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, persia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 247K
Disturbia (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Kale is a 17-year-old placed under house arrest after punching his teacher. He is confined to his house, and decides to use his free time spying on his neighbors. Things start to get weird when guests enter the Turner's house and don't ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, intense, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, neighbor, murder, voyeurism, house arrest, paranoia, homicidal maniac, investigation, psychopath, death, arrest, teenager ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.6
 45K
The Hitcher (2007)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: While driving through the New Mexico Desert during a rainy night, the college students Jim Halsey and his girlfriend Grace Andrews give a ride to the hitchhiker John Ryder. While in their car, the stranger proves to be a psychopath threatening the ...
Style: slasher, scary, road movie, suspense, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, road trip, hitchhiker, murder, gory, desert, survival, on the run, sociopath, car crash, torture ...
Time: year 2007, 70s
Place: new mexico, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 6K
Best Seller (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right, they travel around the country to gather statements and ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, tense, realistic ...
Plot: murder, hitman, serial killer, writers, vengeance, assassin, anti hero, police detective, psychopath, writer's life, danger, killer ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1987, 70s
Place: texas, california, new york, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 33K
Shattered (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
Style: surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, psychological, tense ...
Plot: kidnapping, infidelity, twists and turns, cheating wife, husband wife relationship, blackmail, police investigation, mind game, manipulation, moral dilemma, secrets, daughter ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Perfect Stranger (2007)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.
Style: surprise ending, sexy, suspenseful, psychological, mind bending ...
Plot: investigation, twists and turns, fatal attraction, female protagonist, mind game, uncover truth, writers, obsessive love, seduction, hacking, obsession, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 66K
Basic (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A DEA agent investigates the disappearance of a legendary Army ranger drill sergeant and several of his cadets during a training exercise gone severely awry.
Style: twist ending, surprise ending, twisted, suspense, confusing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: twists and turns, military, army investigation, life philosophy, corruption, secrets, murder mystery, investigation, conspiracy, missing person, plot twist, police investigation ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: atlantic city, panama
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 23K
Fermat's Room (2007)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Four mathematicians who do not know each other are invited by a mysterious host on the pretext of resolving a great enigma. The room in which they find themselves turns out to be a shrinking room that will crush them if they do not discover in time ...
Style: surprise ending, scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: mathematics, riddles and clues, locked in a room, mind game, isolation, game of death, science, trapped, puzzle, mathematician, room, survival ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Invisible Guest (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: "The Invisible Guest” turns on a young businessman who wakes up in a hotel room locked from the inside with the dead body of his lover next to him. He hires a prestigious lawyer, and over one night they work together to clarify what happened ...
Style: surprise ending, suspense, psychological, twist ending, mind blowing ...
Plot: uncover truth, lawyer, infidelity, lie, interrogation, murder suspect, evidence, death, blackmail, moral dilemma, strong female character, suspect ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016
Place: iberian peninsula, barcelona, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.5
 209K
Secret Window (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his ...
Style: psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, dark ...
Plot: psychology, insanity, twists and turns, split personality, stephen king, losing-it hero, isolation, paranoia, macabre, murder, mental illness, plot twist ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Tie That Binds (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: John Netherwood and his wife Leann are fugitives who are both wanted for murder. They have a young daughter named Janie and they want her back.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, bad ending, intense, serious ...
Plot: adoption, fugitives, children, family relations, wanted, haunted by the past, parents and children, custody, criminal heroes, rivalry, obsession, little girl ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 61K
Breakdown (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When his SUV breaks down on a remote Southwestern road, Jeff Taylor lets his wife, Amy, hitch a ride with a trucker to get help. When she doesn't return, Jeff fixes his SUV and tracks down the trucker -- who tells the police he's never ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, road movie, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, highway, chase, road trip, murder, conspiracy, desert, car breakdown, danger, couples, ransom, uncover truth ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, arizona, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
16%
 5.9
 78K
88 Minutes (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI, receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Plot: serial killer, fbi, murder, death, twists and turns, death threat, paranoia, frame up, danger, disorder, law enforcement, manipulation ...
Time: year 2007, year 1997, 90s, 21st century
Place: seattle, washington state, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 31K
Unknown (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.
Style: surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: memory loss, twists and turns, kidnapping, confined, murder, hostage, trapped, loss of friend, suicide, survival, puzzle, trap ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 7.3
 215K
Cape Fear (1991)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, neo noir, tense, suspense ...
Plot: rape, fear, lawyer, family in danger, psychology, violence, serial killer, dangerous attraction, revenge, prison, rapist, psychopath ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1991
Place: north carolina, georgia, florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 8.3
 1.1M
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and ...
Style: dark comedy, suspense, non-linear, stylized, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: heist, crime gone awry, robbery, gangster, gang, undercover cop, psychopath, dark hero, perfect crime, organized crime, violent, caper ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1992
Place: los angeles, usa, california, bolivia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.4
 212K
The Number 23 (2007)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Walter Sparrow is an animal control officer that becomes obsessed with a mysterious book that seems to be based on his own life. As soon as he opens the book, he notices strange parallels between what he reads and what he's experienced. But now ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: insanity, twists and turns, obsession, murder, losing-it hero, a vision, escape from reality, plot twist, investigation, psychology, uncover truth, riddles and clues ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s
Place: los angeles, virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an ...
Style: neo noir, surprise ending, twist ending, clever, confusing ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: twists and turns, plot twist, heist, master criminal, organized crime, criminal, manipulation, gangster, great ending, interrogation, murder mystery, whodunit ...
Time: 20th century, year 1995, 80s, 90s, year 1981
Place: new york, los angeles, hungary, turkey, north america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, serious, tense, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: hitman, psychopath, shooting, desert, serial killer, peril, greed, brutality, human nature, sheriff, death, murder ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place: texas, el paso texas, mexico, austin texas, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
Style: twist ending, suspense, psychological, surprise ending, clever ...
Audience: manly, adult
Plot: vengeance, prison, vigilantism, justice, investigation, master criminal, twists and turns, lawyer, fighting the system, rape and revenge, murder, revenge ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.3
 154K
The Negotiator (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there's evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, intense, talky ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, police, corruption, police corruption, false accusation, conspiracy, negotiation, frame up, swat, uncover truth, twists and turns, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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