Movies like The Caller 2008

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The Caller (2008)
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The Caller (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Jimmy Stevens, a senior VP at an international energy firm, blows the whistle on his company's deadly and corrupt practices in Latin America. Knowing he will be assassinated for his betrayal, he places an anonymous call securing the services of private detective Frank Turlotte to trail him from a distance.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, detective, neo noir
Plot: whistleblower, private detective, murder, uncover truth, investigation, survival, danger, amateur detective, dishonesty, journalism, workplace, deadline, workplace situations, tough heroes, business, businessman, frenchman, industrialist, flashback, assassination, criminal syndicate, pistol, mysterious character, deadly, telephone ...
Time: 1940s, year 2008, 21st century, contemporary
Place: france, new york, usa, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and tense films with plots about murder, investigation, deadly, danger, dishonesty, uncover truth and amateur detective mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Drama genres. Some movies like The Caller: Border Run (2012), Gone but Not Forgotten (2005), Assumed Killer (2013), Before I Say Goodbye (2003), Megachurch Murder (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Border Run (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A female American reporter searches for her missing brother against the backdrop of violence and human smuggling across the US/Mexican border.
Style: disturbing, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot: missing person, border, woman in danger, illegal immigration, uncover truth, investigation, danger, dishonesty, journalism, u.s. mexico border, siblings, woman with a gun ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, arizona, mexico
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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 ⇓
93%
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Jessica Fletcher discovers a shocking old family secret that leads her on a journey to the deep South to bring to light the mysterious details surrounding the death of a slave owned by one of her long dead ancestors in the mid-1800s.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, enigmatic
Plot: amateur detective, private detective, uncover truth, riddles and clues, false accusation, danger, frame up, elderly, murder, dishonesty, intelligence agency, strong female presence ...
Time: 19th century, 21st century
Place: usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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Assumed Killer (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Bernard Salzmann's thriller Assumed Killer tells the tale of a reporter investigating a serial killer. After she suffers an accident and becomes an amnesiac, she begins to suspect her husband may be the person responsible for the brutal slayings
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense
Plot: serial killer, memory loss, investigation, murder, life is a bitch, uncover truth, amateur detective, danger, deep south, journalism, media, car crash ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Before I Say Goodbye (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Nelly McDermott, the granddaughter of a prominent politician, loses her husband, architect Adam Cauliff, in a fiery boat explosion. When she's informed that he was murdered, Nell is compelled to find the killer by searching for the truth, with ...
Style: captivating, tense, serious, realistic
Plot: investigation, uncover truth, danger, dishonesty, private detective, woman in danger, life is a bitch, architect, politician, murder, grandfather granddaughter relationship, police detective ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Megachurch Murder (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After popular and charismatic megachurch leader Hamilton Spears commits suicide, his teenage daughter Hannah's life goes off the rails. The only thing keeping her together is her new boyfriend, Oliver. When she finds evidence pointing to a ...
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: murder, investigation, uncover truth, amateur detective, clergy, youth, dishonesty, society, danger, teenager, soul, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
A Crime of Passion (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young heiress has her life turned upside down after her business partner's wife is killed and foul play is suspected.
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, enigmatic, realistic
Plot: investigation, amateur detective, woman in danger, who done it, couples, murder, dishonesty, danger, estate, murder investigation, adultery, inheritance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Nobel's Last Will (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: While covering the annual Nobel Banquet for tabloid Kvällspressen, crime reporter Annika Bengtzon witnesses a spectacular murder right in front of her. Two people are shot, one of them the controversial Laureate in Medicine, Aaron Wiesel. Annika is ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot: journalism, murder, journalist, investigation, nobel prize, uncover truth, danger, media, dishonesty, nordic, writers, investigative journalism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Garage Sale Mystery: All That Glitters (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
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Story: Jennifer Shannon (Lori Loughlin) has a gift for finding rare treasures hidden in garage sales that she can resell at her consignment store, Rags to Riches, and for get her involved in the criminal investigations that happen at the very second-hand ...
Style: psychological, serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: investigation, murder, uncover truth, amateur detective, who done it, danger, suspicion, strong female presence, riddles and clues, police investigation, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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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 ⇓
75%
We'll Meet Again (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Socialite Molly Lasch is released from prison after serving a six-year sentence for the murder of her husband, Dr. Gary Lasch. Now, with the help of Fran, an investigative reporter, Molly sets out to prove her innocence. Together they uncover a ...
Style: serious, tense, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: murder, uncover truth, righting the wronged, false accusation, woman in danger, partner, law enforcement, danger, amateur detective, life is a bitch, dishonesty, riddles and clues ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Shadow in the North (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When an elderly client loses a fortune on an investment, fearless Sally Lockhart will stop at nothing to rectify the situation — even if it means risking everything important to her in the process. As Sally sorts out the threads of the mystery — ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: victorian england, murder, detective agency, amateur sleuth, uncover truth, investigation, partners against crime, dishonesty, private detective, danger, friends, amateur detective ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1870s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Deadline (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Deadline is the story of the murder of an African American youth in rural Alabama that has gone uninvestigated, unsolved, and unpunished for almost twenty years. That changes when Nashville Times reporter Matt Harper (Steve Talley) meets an ...
Style: realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: investigation, uncover truth, murder, interracial relations, idealism, dishonesty, parents and children, society, redemption, life is a bitch, family relations, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, alabama, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Ricochet (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Two homicide detectives find their careers - and lives - on the line when they get caught up in a case of murder and betrayal in high-society Savannah.
Style: atmospheric, detective, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: murder, investigation, police detective, dishonesty, law enforcement, betrayal, partner, high society, danger, couples, twists and turns, deep south ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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The Riddle (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A journalist investigates a series of murders that follows the discovery of an unpublished novel by Charles Dickens in the cellar of an old Thames-side-pub.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, realistic, tense, serious ...
Plot: murder, amateur sleuth, policewoman, serial murder, riddles and clues, journalism, amateur detective, law enforcement, supernatural ability, serial killer, police inspector, pub ...
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Able Danger (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Tom Flynn, the idealist owner of a left-leaning radical café/bookstore and the quixotic publisher of a hard hitting 911 conspiracy expose, finds himself entangled with a mysterious Eastern European beauty, Kasia, who is on the run from strong hand ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, serious, realistic, black and white ...
Plot: uncover truth, investigation, fighting the system, government agency, danger, politics, race against time, dishonesty, undercover, rebellion, society, life is a bitch ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Quo Vadis, Baby? (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A private detective investigates her sister's suicide 16 years earlier.
Style: serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, neo noir ...
Plot: private detective, investigation, haunted by the past, uncover truth, murder, sister, suicide, private investigator, family relations, urban, strong female presence, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rome italy, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
American Crime (2004)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young smalltown reporter, Jessie St. Claire, begins investigating a killer stalking his victims making video tapes. This might just be the career opportunity, which she has hoped for. When she herself becomes a target and suddenly disappears, the ...
Style: serious, scary, realistic, tense, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, stalking, mind game, investigation, uncover truth, who done it, danger, protagonist as suspect, journalism, law enforcement ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Dark Desire (2012)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young man desperate to be connected to the people close to him resorts to devious measures to achieve that desire
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: obsession, family in danger, investigation, murder, uncover truth, dishonesty, love affair, couples, sociopath, relationship problems, criminal, pursuit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Carambole (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 102 min.
Story: This film is based upon the book with the same name, by Håkan Nesser, one of Swedens most appreciated "crime-authors".
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: hit and run, murder, life turned upside down, investigation, uncover truth, law enforcement, private detective, blackmail, doctor, european, serial killer, nypd ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
I Know What I Saw (2007)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Mourning the loss of her father, who committed suicide, Mackenzie starts having hallucinations of killing people. They seem so real that she's convinced she's been committing these crimes; however, she can find no evidence to support this. ...
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: murder, investigation, danger, losing-it hero, serial killer, uncover truth, rivalry, dishonesty, twists and turns, suspicion, youth, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Ice Blues (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This new installment in the popular and critically-acclaimed Donald Strachey Mystery series finds America’s favorite gay private investigator, Donald Strachey (Chad Allen), taking on the most complicated case of his career. After his long-time ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, private investigator, law firm, danger, investigation, uncover truth, law enforcement, private detective, partner, senator, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Fatal Acquittal (2014)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A woman accused of murdering her husband is found innocent, only to be terrorized by the real killer once she is set free.
Style: serious, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense ...
Plot: murder, dishonesty, legal, uncover truth, danger, who done it, acquittal, legal action, suspect, guilty, husband, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Living in Fear (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man returning to his childhood home for the reading of a will is met with hostility. Do the townsfolk know more about him than his new wife?
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious
Plot: woman in danger, who done it, homecoming, murder, haunted by the past, dishonesty, danger, twists and turns, small town, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The Swedish tabloid Kvällspressen has set their crime reporter, Annika Bengtzon, to monitor a complex murder case. The victim is a colleague and the only witness is a 15-year-old boy. Bengtzons inquiries may be an unexpected turn when the tracks ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, disturbing
Plot: journalism, murder, danger, dishonesty, investigation, nordic, family relations, husband wife relationship, writers, investigative journalism, swedish, mysticism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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66%
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The Falls (2003)
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In a smoke-filled dive in Buffalo, NY, David Marx tells us his tale of obsession, betrayal, and murder - leading him to an uncertain fate "underneath Niagara Falls." David tells us how his beautiful redheaded ex-girlfriend, Jennifer ...
Style: neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: missing person, femme fatale, amateur detective, murder, investigation, uncover truth, ransom demand, danger, rivalry, betrayal, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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65%
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The Wannabe (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on true events, The Wannabe, a story about Thomas, a man obsessed with Mafia culture during the 1990s in New York City. When Thomas’s failed attempts to fix the trial of infamous mobster John Gotti gets him rejected by the people he ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, atmospheric, suspense
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: mafia, uncover truth, wannabe, murder, sex scene, society, crime family, investigation, prison, politics, organized crime, gangster ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Perry Mason is invited to the marriage of the daughter of an old friend of his. But after the ceremony the uncle of the bride is dead. Certainly this is a case for Perry Mason.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, detective
Plot: intelligence agency, lawyer, advocate, courtroom, who done it, dedicated lawyer, courtroom drama, murder, amateur detective, hotshot lawyer, private detective, legal ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Varg Veum - Yours 'till Death (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Private eye Varg Veum is on a routine mission searching for his client Jonas Andresen's stolen car. The car is found having been used in a brutal robbery and not long after that the client himself turns up dead.
Style: suspenseful, tense, realistic, detective, neo noir ...
Plot: private investigator, robbery, murder, private detective, dishonesty, investigation, uncover truth, woman in danger, new love, law enforcement, danger, who done it ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
A Private Affair (2002)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Divorced private detective Francois Maneri is assigned by his agency to investigate the disappearance of Rachel, a young student who has been missing for six months. After interviewing Rachel's family, friends and classmates, Francois is ...
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense ...
Plot: missing person, obsession, murder, private investigator, female nudity, male pubic hair, murder investigation, missing girl, nudity, sexual content, bare breasts, femme fatale ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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