Movies like The Caller 1987
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The Caller (1987)
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A mysterious man (Malcolm McDowell) comes to meet a woman living in a house in the woods. Who are they and why are their lives meant to cross? What kind of fate is in store for them?
Style:
surprise ending, minimal cast, psychological thriller, psychological horror, cult classic, independent film, scary, psychological, mind bending, serious ...
Plot:
manipulation, village life, woods, occult, claustrophobia, stranger, psychological manipulation, terror, threatening telephone call, phone terror, thoughtful, isolation, mind game, village, mountain, destiny, profanity, rivalry, store, confined, dishonesty, mysterious character, violent content, apocalypse, prison ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s, 20th century, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, psychological and serious films with plots about murder, blood, violence, investigation, paranoia, bare chested male and twists and turns mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like The Caller: Enter Nowhere (2011), Intimate Enemy (2018), Murder 101 (1991), Identity (2003), Open Grave (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three strangers arrive one by one to a mysterious cabin in the middle of nowhere after enduring separate life-altering predicaments. Searching for a way out of the woods, frustrated, hungry and battling to stay warm they discover their mysterious ...
Style:
psychological, enigmatic, suspenseful, cerebral, disturbing ...
Plot:
group of strangers, time paradox, time travel, woods, cabin in the woods, danger, alternate reality, stranger, time, time loop, isolation, haunted house ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Andrej, a programmer, is developing his smart house project. To perfect his program, he moved with his wife Zuzana to a test house. He strives to introduce a bonus into the program - care for his wife. Suddenly someone else, someone mysterious takes ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, enigmatic, dark ...
Plot:
computer hacker, human versus computer, paranoia, police investigation, artificial intelligence, secret, scientist, husband wife relationship, co worker co worker relationship, scientific research, mentally unstable protagonist, manipulative behavior ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, czech republic, central europe, slovakia
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Charles Lattimore, an author of a book about a famous murder trial, arranges to meet with one of his students one night. When the student is found murdered and Lattimore has no alibi, he suspects he is being framed by the subject of his book.
Style:
realistic, psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
amateur detective, police investigation, uncover truth, dishonesty, police corruption, who done it, frame up, mind game, protagonist as suspect, law enforcement, false accusation, writers ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
83%
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, scary, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, twists and turns, murder mystery, whodunit, dissociative identity disorder, psychology, investigation, motel, murder, mental disorder, split personality, mental illness ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, florida, nevada
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary, Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A man awakes-- without memory -- in a pit full of bodies and must figure out if the people who rescued him are the killers, or if he is the murderer.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, psychological, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
woods, suspicion, losing-it hero, life turned upside down, murder mystery, corpse, zombie, infection, paranoia, virus, lost in the woods, cabin in the woods ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, canada
Similarity:
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, twist ending, futuristic, non-linear ...
Plot:
time travel, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, insanity, virus, post apocalypse, time loop, paranoia, end of the world, psychology, mental institution, dystopia ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1990, year 1996, 90s ...
Place:
philadelphia, maryland, pennsylvania, california, baltimore ...
Similarity:
69%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, UK, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychological, surprise ending, mind bending ...
Plot:
manipulation, haunted by the past, psychic power, twists and turns, brutality, psychic, plot twist, mind game, teenage girl, false memory, murder, memory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, spain, new jersey
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Four volunteers sign up for what initially appears to be a typical paid research study, only to discover that they've unwittingly become involved with a classified government program that was said to have been terminated nearly two decades ago.
Style:
psychological, psychological thriller, tense, surreal, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
claustrophobia, mind game, race against time, memory loss, death, escape room, trapped, manhunt, missing person, trap, rivalry, undercover ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, texas, antarctica, new jersey
Similarity:
60%
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225K
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Style:
neo noir, suspense, atmospheric, tech noir, mind bending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
memory, investigation, alternate reality, cyberpunk, distopia, amnesia, alien race, dream, virtual reality, mind control, memory loss, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, year 1998, distant future, 1940s, 90s ...
Place:
persia
Similarity:
59%
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:
56%
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 ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban legend, private detective, obsession, stalker, stalking, threatening telephone call, home invasion, psychopath, babysitter, serial killer, telephone call, murder ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Currently unknown.
Style:
scary, surprise ending, disturbing, gothic, slasher ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
twists and turns, stalking, stalker, home invasion, homicidal maniac, death, invisibility, psychological abuse, murder, husband hits wife, sociopath, domestic violence ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, future
Place:
san francisco, california, bay area
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two people per level. An unknown number of levels. A platform with food for all of them. Are you one of those who think too much when they are up? Or of those who have no guts when they are down? If you discover it too late, you will not live out of ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological thriller, mind bending ...
Plot:
survival, struggle for survival, confined, food shortage, cannibalism, social injustice, prison, social differences, isolation, rivalry, danger, survival horror ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Place:
iberian peninsula
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Terry Lambert is sleeping with Sylvia, the wife of his boss. One night, while in Terry's apartment, Sylvia witnesses a man assault a young woman, Denise, on the road below. Not wanting to reveal her affair with Terry, she keeps quiet. Terry ...
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, sexy, tense, psychosexual thriller ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
legal, obsession, femme fatale, rapist, false accusation, voyeurism, revenge, murder, secret relationship, investigation, infidelity, dangerous attraction ...
Time:
80s
Place:
maryland, baltimore, san francisco
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Final Approach deals with the mental condition of Amnesia when a stealth test pilot, Col. Jason Halsey (James Sikking), is involved in an air disaster. A psychiatrist Dr. Dio Gottlieb (Hector Elizondo) attempts to help Halsey to recover his memory, ...
Style:
psychotronic, independent film, mind bending, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
epileptic seizure, jet plane, heaven, airplane crash, medicine, car crash, amnesia, psychiatry, profanity, manipulation, rivalry, heroes ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Ray Liotta stars as a medical examiner who has been acquitted for his wife's murder but many still question his innocence. Obsessed with finding his wife's killer, a possible solution presents itself in an experimental serum designed by a ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, suspense, tense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, memory, police detective, vengeance, justice, police investigation, race against time, false accusation, conspiracy theory, danger, haunted by the past, serial killer ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital bed, confused and disoriented. He soon discovers from doctors that he has amnesia and is unable to remember the last two years of his life. Cable investigates what has happened to him and slowly pieces together his ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
memory loss, nightmare, time loop, paranoia, hospital, murder, uncover truth, mental disorder, dishonesty, puzzle, investigation, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, year 2002, year 2000
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Johana (Denise Richards), a woman with no past, is hiding from a UN Agent Bowie (Randy Couture) a head of secret space program. On her run she meets Martin (Bren Foster), and with help of Bowie’s ex-colleague Lance they both help Martin to find ...
Style:
psychotronic, suspense, contemplative, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
ufo, businessman, alien, scientist, investigation, father daughter relationship, memory loss, brother brother relationship, multiple deaths, erased memory, mistaken identity, countryside ...
Place:
central europe, prague
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.
Style:
suspense, brutal, sexy, rough, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
pandemic, infection, fear, post apocalypse, murder, interracial couple, dog, desperation, disease, paranoia, apocalypse, infected ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Similarity:
45%
118K
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The OSSA discovers a spacecraft thought to be at least 300 years old at the bottom of the ocean. Immediately following the discovery, they decide to send a team down to the depths of the ocean to study the space craft.They are the best of best, ...
Style:
scary, breathtaking, mind bending, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
ocean, underwater, alien, first contact, twists and turns, ufo, time travel, paranoia, psychology, survival, space and aliens, ghost ship ...
Time:
future, jurassic, 90s, 20th century, 80s
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel ...
Style:
mind bending, intellectual, twist ending, philosophical, neo noir ...
Plot:
virtual reality, alternate reality, cyberpunk, cyberspace, twists and turns, time travel, computer system, artificial intelligence, consciousness, parallel world, simulated reality, imaginary ...
Time:
future, 1930s, 90s, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, pasadena california
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Valerie's (Amanda Peterson) prosecutor mom is trying to put away Adam (Christopher Atkins), an alleged serial killer on trial for murdering six women. But he's so charming that the teenage Valerie just can't believe he really did it, ...
Style:
crying, tense, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
cheerleader, serial killer, masochist, fetishist, murder, serial murder, damsel in distress, sadist, sadism, psychopath, fetish, sexual predator ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Argentina
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The owner of a failing cinema and his mysterious boarder are caught up in the political intrigue of Argentina.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, homoerotic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
homoerotic friendship, homosexual subtext, closeted homosexual, mental illness, neighbor, dark humor, serial killer, loneliness, closeted gay, murder, twists and turns, lgbt ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1988
Place:
buenos aires argentina, argentina, latin america, california
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A newlywed couple finds their lake-country honeymoon descend into chaos after Paul finds Bea wandering and disoriented in the middle of the night.
Style:
psychological, scary, suspenseful, creepy, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
woods, honeymoon, body horror, cabin in the woods, transformation, alien abduction, bondage, sleepwalking, mysterious event, woman in danger, danger, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, canada
Similarity:
41%
124K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory ...
Style:
psychological, scary, suspenseful, psychological thriller, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
mental institution, serial killer, murder, mental illness, mind game, supernatural, insanity, investigation, psychiatrist, supernatural horror, rape, violence against women ...
Time:
year 2003, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
connecticut, new hampshire
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A series of murders at a Santa Barbara beach house has three couples terrified for their own safety and pitted against one another. The murderer had to have been one of them.
Style:
suspense, slasher, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
murder, survival, beach, who done it, danger, love affair, mind game, characters killed one by one, group of friends, serial killer, whodunit, suspicion ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
40%
53K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution amid uncertainty as to whether her greatest fear is real or delusional.
Style:
psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, medical horror, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, stalking, mental institution, maniac, psychiatric ward, mental patient, sexual assault, psychopath, stalker, murder, mental illness, mental disorder ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
portugal, pennsylvania, boston
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
As a deadly virus ravages the world, Dr. Martin Lowery embarks on a mission to reach test site ATU327A, a research hub deep in the Arboreal Forest. The arduous journey, guided by park scout Alma, is set back by a nighttime attack that leaves the two ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, scary, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
forest, survival horror, woods, mushroom, virus, wilderness, alchemy, folk horror, murder, plague, insanity, scout ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
French anthropologist Jean-Charles Pommier and his wife have come to LA so he can take up a position as lecturer. To his surprise he encounters a group of urban nomads. As he investigates things become more unsettling as he realizes the price paid ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, scary, psychological ...
Plot:
anthropologist, mentally unstable woman, ghost, doctor, obsession, murder, danger, ancient mystery, hospital, anthropology, home invasion, male pubic hair ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Dr. Daniel Challis and Ellie Grimbridge stumble onto a gruesome murder scheme when Ellie's novelty-salesman father, Harry, is killed while in possession of a strange mask made by the Silver Shamrock mask company. The company's owner, Conal ...
Style:
slasher, psychotronic, creepy, scary, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
halloween, curfew, stonehenge, factory, holiday horror, supernatural, robot, hospital, serial killer, female nudity, bad guys win, witch ...
Time:
80s, year 1982
Place:
northern california, california, los angeles, seattle, new york
Similarity:
37%
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