Movies like When a Stranger Calls 1979
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When a Stranger Calls (1979)
16K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.
Style:
creepy, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, psychological, slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban legend, private detective, obsession, stalker, stalking, threatening telephone call, home invasion, psychopath, babysitter, serial killer, telephone call, murder, escaped mental patient, vengeance, police investigation, babysitting, flash forward, mysterious telephone call, terror, mental institution, survival, mind game, haunted, slow burn, family in danger ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to When a Stranger Calls
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, scary and slasher films with plots about psychopath, serial killer, murder, deadly, danger, violence and blood mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like When a Stranger Calls: Black Christmas (1974), The Hitcher (1986), Someone's Watching Me! (1978), Urban Legend (1998), Valentine (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Far away from the site of a gruesome murder, a teenager named Jill Johnson arrives at a luxurious home for a baby-sitting job. With the children fast asleep, she settles in for what she expects to be an ordinary evening. Soon, the ringing of a phone ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, creepy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, maniac, high school, stalking, killer, babysitter, husband wife relationship, babysitting, murder, high school student, nightmare ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
usa, colorado
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.
Style:
christmas horror, slasher, sexy, suspense, creepy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
christmas, serial killer, holiday horror, telephone call, holiday, killer, violence, sorority, murder, mental illness, serial murder, maniac ...
Time:
70s, near future, year 1974, 20th century, 80s
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Julia is babysitting two young kids while a doctor and his wife are out. During the evening, a stranger knocks on the door asking Julia if she can call the auto club so he can get a tow. The phone line is dead though. This is all part of the act as ...
Style:
dark, spooky, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
babysitter, stalker, home invasion, psychopath, danger, urban legend, telephone call, stranger, mysterious telephone call, woman in jeopardy, female protagonist, trapped ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young man who escaped the clutches of a murderous hitch-hiker is subsequently stalked, framed for the hitcher's crimes, and has his life made into hell by the same man he escaped.
Style:
road movie, psychological, slasher, psychological thriller, neo noir ...
Audience:
date night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
psycho killer, hitchhiker, serial killer, psychopath, desert, stalker, violence, sociopath, stalking, kidnapping, highway, motel ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
texas, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A woman is being watched in her apartment by a stranger, who also calls and torments her. A cat-and-mouse game begins.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
stalking, woman in danger, danger, family in danger, mentally unstable, psychopath, who done it, dangerous attraction, serial killer, mind game, telephone call, home invasion ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
There's a campus killer on the loose who's making urban legends, like the one about eating pop rocks and soda at the same time will make your stomach explode and the one about a psycho with an axe stepping into the backseat of your car at ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, twist ending, teen, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
urban legend, serial killer, college, campus, strangulation, serial murder, murder, killer, female protagonist, blood, dark and stormy night, bad girl ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new hampshire
Similarity:
100%
31K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Five friends are stalked and murdered by a masked assailant while preparing for Valentine's Day.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, teen ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, valentine's day, revenge, murder, woman in danger, mystery killer, gory, masked killer, violence against women, danger, death of friend, school ...
Time:
year 2001, 80s
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Juliet, a beautiful doctor, has found the perfect New York apartment to start a new life after separating from her husband. It's got spacious rooms, a spectacular view, and a handy, handsome landlord. But there are secrets behind every wall and ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
obsession, woman in danger, landlord, stalker, danger, stalking, psychopath, husband murders wife, single woman, female protagonist, voyeurism, rape and revenge ...
Time:
year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
Style:
slasher, suspense, classic horror, cult classic, teen horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, maniac, camp, gory, summer camp, revenge, psycho killer, teenager, disturbed individual, summer, blood ...
Time:
1950s, 80s, year 2016, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The photographer Leon lives with his girlfriend and waitress Maya waiting for a chance to get in the photo business. When Maya contacts their friend Jurgis, he schedules a meeting for Leon with the successful owner of arts gallery Susan Hoff; she ...
Style:
bloody, splatter, suspense, slasher, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, photographer, gory, psychopath, violence, violent, train, twists and turns, butcher, blood, subway, torture ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
new york, america
Similarity:
100%
168K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.
Style:
slasher, suspense, dark, psychological thriller, scary ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
serial killer, trapped, home invasion, deaf, survival, brutality, deafness, violence, macabre, deaf mute, masked killer, writers ...
Time:
year 2016, y2k, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
america, california
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A reluctant bride to be is stalked by a serial killer who only kills brides and the people around them. While her friends get whacked one by one, a hard boiled renegade cop whose bride had been killed years before tries to hunt him down before it is ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, tense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, wedding, danger, chase, insanity, stalking, law enforcement, woman in danger, police detective, police investigation, killing spree ...
Time:
70s, year 1980
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
187K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill and her Aunt Kate. Unfortunately, ...
Style:
scary, slasher, suspense, creepy, teen horror ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, mystery killer, serial murder, high school, telephone call, woman in danger, killer, gory, closeted homosexual, high school student, revenge ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
156K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple ...
Style:
slasher, scary, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
home invasion, survival, serial killer, masked killer, murder, hostage, brutality, blood, masked man, violence, masked villain, killer ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A man inherits a mansion, which once was a mental home. He visits the place and begins to investigate some crimes that happened in old times, scaring the people living in the region.
Style:
christmas horror, psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, haunted by the past, who done it, holiday, murder, mental institution, gory, xmas, danger, rivalry, supernatural, ghost ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, year 1970, 1950s, year 1950
Place:
new england, usa, massachusetts
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Denmark
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A law student, who takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue, begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect of a series of murders.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspense, psychological, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, police detective, protagonist as suspect, murder, dead prostitute, morgue, frame up, danger, riddles and clues, murder suspect, friend ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
13K
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The film is set in the fictional Utah community of Santa Ynez, which is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the car kills off the town's Sheriff (John Marley), it ...
Style:
suspense, tense, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
killer car, cemetery, car, carsploitation, desert, police, vengeance, violence spree, danger, chase, on the run, psychopath ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
georgia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When she takes a job babysitting a young boy (Kai Caster) for a night at his family's remote farmhouse, sweet college co-ed Angie Albright (Sarah Thompson) becomes the target of a scar-covered creep making mysterious phone calls and prowling ...
Style:
satanic, scary, bloody, slasher, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
babysitter, stalking, murder, blood, telephone call, chase, psychopath, police officer killed, roommate, evil child, danger, mind game ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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181K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A murdering spree begins to happen again, this time its targeted toward the original Woodsboro survivors and those associated with the movie inside a movie, 'Stab 3'. Sydney must face the demons of her past to stop the killer.
Style:
slasher, parody, suspenseful, teen, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, mystery killer, killer, telephone call, nightmare, filmmaking, masked man, violence, serial murder, mind game, profanity ...
Time:
year 2000, 2000s, y2k, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
100%
35K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother's infamous old house, he soon finds himself tormented by "her" ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, scary, suspense, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, insanity, psychopath, psychiatrist, murder, psycho killer, psycho, revenge, homicidal maniac, male victim, swamp, waitress ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
11%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
When her husband John has a heart attack while out in a rowboat on the lake, Louise Haloran throws his body overboard and later tells the family that he has left on an urgent business trip. Her main concern is that she can only inherit a part of the ...
Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, black and white ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, heart attack, family problems, danger, parents and children, macabre, haunted by the past, supernatural, violence, wedding, guilt ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
100%
47K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An Australian couple take a sailing trip in the Pacific to forget about a terrible accident. While on the open sea, in dead calm, they come across a ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
isolation, ocean, ship, psychopath, sailing, serial killer, sex, violence, yacht, woman in danger, female nudity, sea ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia, pacific ocean, new zealand, california
Similarity:
100%
12K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Emma is a young and beautiful graduate student just starting a new life in New York City. Like most people her age, she is always connected - her phone and laptop are constant companions, documenting her most intimate moments. What she doesn't ...
Style:
thought provoking, suspenseful, cyber, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
stalker, social media, found footage, sex maniac, stalking, maniac, hacker, hunted, hacking, laptop, life, realism ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two obsessive-compulsives, a chef and an anorexic writer, are neighbors in an apartment building. The chef (301) tries to entice her neighbor to eat with fabulous meals. The writer (302) refuses to eat, and this refusal begins a turbulent ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, disturbing, neurotic, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
food, obsession, writers, cooking, eating disorder, cooking and food, investigation, divorce, cannibalism, molestation, neighbor, cannibal ...
Time:
90s
Place:
korea, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Cherry Falls is a quiet little town - until the night that a serial killer begins preying on its youth. After a third teen is found slain, the killer's modus operandi emerges: the victims were all virgins. Sheriff Marken is concerned for the ...
Style:
slasher, independent film, teen, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, revenge, murder, father daughter relationship, virgin, gang rape, high school, teenager, dead teenager, sheriff, small town, pregnant from rape ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s
Place:
usa, virginia, west virginia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Charles, and Kyle are three private investigators that specialize in missing persons cases. Mickey and her team get in way over there heads when they cross a serial killer who has three very nasty pets that have a taste for human flesh. The team ...
Style:
bleak, suspense, suspenseful, tense, rough
Plot:
serial killer, supernatural serial murderer, murder, killer animal, homicidal maniac, animal attack, predator, love hate relationship, psycho killer, back from the dead, survival, rescue ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
336K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In John Carpenter's horror classic, a psychotic murderer, institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, slasher horror, spooky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
halloween, serial killer, psychopath, murder, holiday horror, babysitter, death, masked killer, killer, small town, psychiatrist, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1978, year 1963, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
illinois, chicago, north america, midwest, california
Similarity:
19%
23K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is ...
Style:
psychological horror, disturbing, detective, grindhouse, psychological ...
Plot:
private detective, twins, amateur detective, reporter, mental illness, bakery, twin sister, witness, neighbor, hallucination, murder mystery, freakshow ...
Time:
year 1973, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, canada, quebec, tokyo
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A babysitter begins receiving threatening phone calls from a man who has just killed an entire family.
Style:
slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, urban legend, gory, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder, home invasion, danger, terrorism, youth, teenage life, prank, legends and myths ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
As the countdown to graduation begins, students at Osborne High are being stalked by a maniac intent on exposing their darkest secrets to the entire town, terrorizing victims while wearing a life-like mask of their own face. With a mysterious past ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, spooky, tense, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, killing spree, female protagonist, high school, psychopath, twists and turns, obsession, girl, blood, home invasion, husband and wife ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
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