Movies like The Calling 2014

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The Calling (2014)
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The Calling (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Detective Hazel Micallef hasn't had much to worry about in the sleepy town of Port Dundas until a string of gruesome murders in the surrounding countryside brings her face to face with a serial killer driven by a higher calling.
Style: suspenseful, tense, bleak, serious, mystical, psychological thriller, powerful, realistic, ambiguous ending
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, riddles and clues, murder, society, danger, law enforcement, winter, investigation, snow, gay, murderer, religion, murder investigation, puzzle, catholic, serial murder, hidden treasure, psychopath, killing spree, profanity, strong female presence, small town, religions or cults, violent content ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: canada, montreal, british columbia, montreal quebec canada
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Most similar movies to The Calling

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and rough films with plots about deadly, murder, serial killer, law enforcement, police investigation, psychopath and danger mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Calling: Hide (2011), SK1 (2014), Monster (2014), The Rosary Murders (1987), Gone but Not Forgotten (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hide (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A Boston detective investigates the mummified remains of six women, based on a novel by Lisa Gardner.
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, enigmatic
Plot: uncover truth, police investigation, riddles and clues, serial killer, danger, law enforcement, serial murder, strong female presence, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, usa
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100%
 6.6
 3K
SK1 (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The hunt, capture and trial of Guy Georges, one of France's most notorious serial killer.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, non-linear
Plot: police investigation, murder, law enforcement, serial killer, murder suspect, obsession, uncover truth, riddles and clues, murder trial, danger, true crime, courtroom ...
Time: year 2014, 90s, 20th century, year 2001, year 1995 ...
Place: france, paris france
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100%
 6.4
 2K
Monster (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Bok-Soon (Kim Go-eun-I) runs a street stall while taking care of her younger sister. Bok-Soon may not be the brightest girl but what she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in uncontrollable rage. She’s infamously known as the “psycho ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, vengeance, police investigation, psychopath, rivalry, murder, asian prostitute, gangster, assassination, criminal heroes, law enforcement, contests and competitions ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Rosary Murders (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A killer of Detroit clergy confesses to a priest (Donald Sutherland), who turns sleuth because he cannot tell the police.
Style: disturbing, serious, atmospheric, bleak, neo noir ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, moral dilemma, church, haunted by the past, clergy, society, uncover truth, legal, investigation, who done it ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Gone but Not Forgotten (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forgotten. Now a man stands accused: a private eye has gone missing: a detective knows more than she lets on: & a tough female attorney has ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, serious
Plot: serial killer, danger, private detective, investigation, amateur detective, psychopath, rivalry, murder, police investigation, protagonist as suspect, law enforcement, police detective ...
Place: usa, new york, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
An Amish Murder (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In "An Amish Murder", the peaceful Amish farming community of Painter’s Mill, Ohio, is shattered when a series of brutal murders leaves the town with a sense of frailty and loss of innocence. Among the most affected by the tragedy was ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, mind bending, serious, realistic
Plot: amish, murder, police investigation, religions or cults, society, law enforcement, winter, snow, nypd, religion, terrorism, innocence lost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.3
 7K
The Zodiac (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims more victims. Based on a true story.
Style: rough, psychological, bleak, serious, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, psychopath, murder, police detective, obsession, killing spree, mind game, gory, family conflict, law enforcement, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 2005
Place: san francisco, california, bay area, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
When the Bough Breaks (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A police detective investigates the apparent serial killing of several children which is linked to an institutionalized, autistic child.
Style: scary, rough, serious, psychological, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, missing person, murder, investigation, mentally unstable, witnessing a crime, female police officer, police investigation, woman in danger, police detective, mind game ...
Time: 90s
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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1st to Die (2003)
Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: A homicide inspector -- Lindsay Boxer -- who teams with three other professional women to catch an ingenious serial killer targeting newlyweds on their wedding nights.
Style: rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious, dark ...
Plot: serial killer, mind game, murder, who done it, partners against crime, master criminal, partner, wedding, psychopath, terminal illness, reluctant partners, fall in love ...
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.3
 2K
After Alice (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A washed-up detective discovers his own psychic ability when assigned to investigate a serial murder case. The killer has a deranged obsession with the novel "Alice in Wonderland." As the psychopath's bloody reign of terror continues, ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, detective, surprise ending ...
Plot: serial killer, psychic, psychopath, riddles and clues, supernatural ability, police investigation, mind game, murder, rivalry, danger, law enforcement, killer ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 4.3
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Women (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A small town detective while investigating the disappearance of a local woman comes across an unassuming Sociology professor who is hiding a secret life.
Style: suspenseful, tense, disturbing, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, abduction, police procedural, psychopath, murder investigation, murder, violence, chase, murderer, police detective, suspicion ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Chasing Ghosts (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A serial killer targeting the city's mobsters taunts police with clues and photos left behind at the crime scenes. A veteran cop takes on a rookie partner hoping to crack one last case before retiring. As the web of deception and lies unravels, ...
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, manhunt, police investigation, psychopath, one last job, danger, law enforcement, rivalry, murder, riddles and clues, supernatural ability, clue ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Pavement (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Africa, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Samuel Browne is a tracker in Alaska. When his sister meets a grisly death in San Francisco, he goes there to hunt her killer. As more murders occur, police investigator Buckley Clarke reluctantly joins forces with Sam. The brass are convinced this ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, murder, vengeance, animal life, amateur detective, obsessive quest, police investigation, danger, psychopath, law enforcement, haunted by the past ...
Place: south africa, usa, san francisco, alaska, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Rosewood Lane (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Radio talk show therapist Sonny Blake (Rose McGowan) moves back to her childhood home on seemingly idyllic Rosewood Lane after her alcoholic father dies. But upon arrival in the old neighborhood, Sonny discovers her neighbors are terrified of the ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, suspense, tense ...
Plot: psychopath, woman in danger, missing person, stalking, murderer, psycho killer, getting home, investigation, neighbor, murder suspect, mysticism, suspicion of murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oceania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
No One Can Hear You (2001)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Families are dying and reporter Trish (Kelly McGillis) finds herself reporting on a serial killing spree. After her daughter Lisa's (Kate Elliott) best friends are killed, she fears that her family may be on the killers list. Sheriff Webster ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, mind game, investigation, danger, law enforcement, murder, family life, teenage life, journalism, home invasion, media ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Thorne: Scaredycat (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: D.I. Tom Thorne's latest case puts him on the hunt for not one, but two serial killers, who seem to be working together, yet killing separately.
Style: rough, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, police investigation, fighting crime, police detective, murderous pair, law enforcement, murder mystery, strangulation, psychopath, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 3.0
 132
Toe Tags (2003)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story: The high rent district of Valley Creek apartments, seems to be a magnet for beautiful people....those who can afford to live there. But the rent has just gone up and it is costing residents their lives.
Style: rough, suspenseful, scary, bleak, suspense ...
Plot: murder, investigation, amateur detective, law enforcement, serial killer, apartment building, dead woman, killer, police investigation, female nudity, bare breasts, sex ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Moreno and the Silence (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a girl is murdered soon after leaving a closed religious community, Moreno faces a difficult investigation as the community closes ranks and refuses to cooperate. When another girl is abducted and her bloody fingernails mailed to the police, ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: murder, police investigation, partner, kidnapping, private detective, society, law enforcement, religions or cults, nypd, police procedural, fictional country, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Barber (2002)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In the small town of Revelstoke, Alaska, local barber Dexter is surprised to learn that the body of Lucy Waters has been discovered. Having killed this woman, days ago, he hoped her body wouldn't be found until spring. Through the eyes of a ...
Style: psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, mind game, psychopath, small town, investigation, danger, isolation, murder, social relations, darkness, small town sheriff, xmas ...
Place: usa, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
B.T.K. Killer (2005)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Veteran Boogey Man and Zodiac Killer director Ulli Lommel continues his long tradition of delivering tense thrills with this relentless look at the life of the elusive, Kansas-based serial killer known to authorities only as "B.T.K." ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, scary, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murderer, psychopath, investigation, life is a bitch, chase, police investigation, police detective, law enforcement, danger, serial murder, violence ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.2
 2K
Memory (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Dr. Taylor Biggs is haunted by a past that's not his own. A hallucinatory drug gives him the power to see visions of vicious crimes, visions made all that more disturbing when he discovers that the murderous memories may belong to the father he ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, uncover truth, investigation, gory, who done it, police detective, mind game, mysterious character, experiment gone awry, murder, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2006
Place: brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 4.0
 855
Rough Draft (1998)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A struggling freelance writer, while investigating the transvestite night life, stumbles across a serial killer in action. The two then strike up a bizarre partnership to document the killer's motives and handiwork as a possessed detective ...
Style: independent film, tense, scary, serious, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, killer, nypd, serial murder, sociopath, stalking, transvestism, murder, harassment, chases and races, danger ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Inspired by the true story of one of the most gruesome killers in American history. Now, years after inspiring "Psycho's" Norman Bates, "The Silence Of The Lambs'" Buffalo Bill and "The Texas Chainsaw ...
Style: disturbing, slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, law enforcement, police investigation, violence spree, psychopath, stalking, mind game, danger, killer, true crime, criminal ...
Time: 50s
Place: usa, wisconsin, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Skeletons in the Closet (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A father suspects his son to be a murderer...or is he just paranoid and trying to cover up his own past which involves his wife being killed in a fire?
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic
Plot: serial killer, murder, mind game, uncover truth, mysterious character, investigation, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, law enforcement, psychopath, who done it, protagonist as suspect ...
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Frozen Ground (2013)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, factual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, winter, police investigation, kidnapping, murder investigation, investigation, manhunt, sexual predator, drug overdose, rape and murder, rape ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1983
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Reasonable Doubt (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When up-and-coming District Attorney Mitch Brockden commits a fatal hit-and-run, he feels compelled to throw the case against the accused criminal who was found with the body and blamed for the crime. Following the trial, Mitch's worst fears ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, serious, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, legal, life turned upside down, district attorney, false accusation, hotshot lawyer, twists and turns, murder, law, winter, extreme, exodus ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.3
 353
Lucky Day (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Nora Barkin is an aspiring actress who supports herself by working for a courier service. No sooner has Nora's friend and coworker Bill Reagan jubilantly announced that he possesses a lottery ticket worth 13 million dollars than Bill is killed ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, mind bending
Plot: fish out of water, amateur detective, investigation, riddles and clues, couple relations, who done it, best friend, murder, danger, law enforcement, lottery, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 1.8
 469
Son of Sam (2008)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: This chilling tale recounts the late 70's in New York City, when a serial killer on the loose dubbed "Son of Sam" creates havoc. When arrested, "Son of Sam" tells police he was influenced by a satanic cult. New York would ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, investigation, danger, law enforcement, police investigation, mind game, rivalry, curses spells and rituals, murderer, tough guy ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The River King (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Abel Grey is sent to investigate the death of a boy from an exclusive local school, who is found floating in the river. Fearing scandal, the school insists it was suicide. But after discovering from the boy's girlfriend, Carlin, that he was ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: investigation, private school, uncover truth, murder, snow, bullying, school, winter, teenager, dishonesty, danger, boarding school ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.2
 21K
Nightwatch (1997)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
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, suspense, atmospheric, psychological, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, murder, protagonist as suspect, police detective, danger, riddles and clues, dead prostitute, slow burn, student, scared, witnessing a crime ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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