| Speed (1994) | 7.3 | |
| Blade of the Ripper (1971) | 6.9 | |
| Phone Booth (2002) | 7.1 | |
| The Hunter (1980) | 6.2 | |
| Cold Call (2019) | 6.3 |
Threatening telephone call movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant threatening telephone call movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, disturbing and scary films and TV shows about / with threatening telephone call, telephone call, cell phone, murder, investigation, phone terror, danger, fear, revenge and telephone plots mostly in Thriller, Horror and Mystery genres shot in USA, Japan, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as threatening telephone call: When a Stranger Calls (1979), Scream (2022), When a Stranger Calls (2006), Hit and Run (2009), Unknown Caller (2014), Unhinged (2020), Deadly Encounter (2004), A Time to Kill (1996), The Anchor (2022), Cold Call (2019).
Best films
New films
| Just Mercy (2019) | 7.6 | |
| Bad Match (2017) | 5.6 | |
| Marianne (2019) | 7.3 | |
| Unhinged (2020) | 6.0 | |
| Targeted (2022) | 5.4 |
List of threatening telephone call movies
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
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183K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.
Style:
slasher, suspense, slasher horror, scary, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
masked killer, serial killer, characters killed one by one, homicidal maniac, whodunit, mystery killer, threatening telephone call, killing spree, characters murdered one by one, sister sister relationship, murder mystery, gory violence ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
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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
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Mary Murdock, a college student, thinks she's hit and killed a cat with her car driving home drunk from a party. She is horrified beyond words when she gets home and discovers a man's nearly dead body impaled on the bumper of her Jeep. ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
psychopath, hit and run, murder, dark and stormy night, uncover truth, investigation, danger, who done it, chase, stalking, vengeance, serial killer ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A psychopath uses a family's high tech security system with a ticking time bomb to terrorize them for 90 minutes demanding an answer to his question; 'WHO AM I?'
Style:
suspenseful, tense, disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot:
terrorist, psycho killer, phone terror, bomb, security system, terrorizing, threatening telephone call, race against time, mentally unstable, terrorism, anonymous telephone call, psychopath ...
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86K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A case of road rage turns into full-blown terror when an unstable driver follows a woman and her son.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
psychopath, road rage, pursuit, driving, threat, mentally unstable, maniac, murder, highway, woman in danger, evil man, stalking ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
new orleans
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Restaurant hostess and mom Joanne Sanders has to work late one night. After she leaves the restaurant she accidentally cuts a car off on the highway. This driver takes it personally and he begins to stalk and harass Joanne.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
woman in danger, stalking, danger, chases and races, stalker, violence, police detective, ex husband ex wife relationship, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, threatening telephone call, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, tense, sexy, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
racism, courtroom drama, court, justice, trial, courtroom, small town, lawyer, rape, revenge, murder, legal ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, usa, southern usa, america, canada
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A mysterious informant calls a broadcast news anchor to request that the anchor report on the informant’s inevitable death.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, threatening telephone call, fear, hallucination, investigation, murderer, anonymous telephone call, problem, radio announcer, race against time, hypnosis, investigative journalism ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 210 min.
TV show
Story:
A single mother gets caught up in a cold call scam that turns her world upside down.
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, detective
Plot:
scam, fraud, single mother, threatening telephone call, single parent, trap, mother and daughter, anonymous telephone call, caper, trapped, changing lives, family relations ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three short tales of supernatural horror. In “The Telephone,” a woman is plagued by threatening phone calls. In "The Wurdalak,” a family is preyed upon by vampiric monsters. In “The Drop of Water,” a deceased medium wreaks havoc on ...
Style:
gothic, disturbing, atmospheric, anthology, creepy ...
Plot:
vampire, macabre, vengeance, murder, afterlife, ghost, supernatural horror, visceral, family in danger, nobility, death, revenge ...
Time:
20th century, year 1963, 1800s, 60s, 19th century ...
Place:
london, russia, serbia, tokyo
Is relevant?
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
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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
Is relevant?
5K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Soon after Ji-won gets a new cell phone, her friend's young daughter, Yeong-ju, puts it to her ear and immediately begins screaming in terror. When other strange things start happening in connection with the phone, Ji-Won does some ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, suspenseful, scary, disturbing ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, supernatural, telephone call, journalism, phone terror, evil spirit, haunted by the past, investigation, obsession, teenage life, vengeance ...
Place:
south korea, korea
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Troubled divorcee Mary Kee is tormented by a series of sinister phone calls from a mysterious woman. When the stranger reveals she's calling from the past, Mary tries to break off contact. But the caller doesn't like being ignored, and ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, serious, erotic ...
Plot:
supernatural, making love, vengeance, haunted by the past, sex scene, time travel, threatening telephone call, female stalker, phone terror, nudity, murder, female nudity ...
Time:
year 2000, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Carlos, a bank executive, begins his morning routine by taking his kids to school. As he starts the car he receives an anonymous phone call informing him that there's a bomb under his seat. A stranger's voice tells him that he only has a ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, social ...
Plot:
money, retribution, danger, bomb, police, blackmail, escapades, threatening telephone call, teenager, car bomb, family problems, problem ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
spain
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Teenage girl is plagued by harassing phone calls. Her fear mounts when she's babysitting at a neighbor's home one evening and the caller rings her at that number.
Style:
slasher, creepy, bloody, scary, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
threatening telephone call, psychopath, mental disorder, cell phone, 666, ghost, occult, stalking, high school, rock, slow burn, best friend ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Helen keeps on receiving phone calls from a child, who claims being her nephew Michael - but Michael died 15 years ago! In these calls he scolds on acquaintances, who then die in suspicious accidents. Soon Helen has to fear to be the next victim.
Style:
spooky, psychotronic, crime thriller, disgusting, suspense
Plot:
threatening telephone call, serial killer, telephone call, darkness, cell phone, haunting, dead body, mysterious telephone call, killer bee, phone terror, beekeeper, ex husband ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A deeply disturbed photographer and Vietnam veteran, named Kirk Smith, terrorizes Los Angeles by going around strangling lingerie-clad young women in their homes while taunting Lindsay Gale, a young psychologist, by calling her on a radio call-in ...
Style:
slasher, crying, grindhouse, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, strangler, psychopath, woman strangled to death, female nudity, maniac, victim, obsession, exploitation, misogynist, stalking, murder ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s
Place:
los angeles, asia, vietnam, california
Is relevant?
85K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, gothic, sexy, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
ghost, investigation, telephone call, fear, macabre, cursed object, supernatural, violent, urban legend, female protagonist, woman in danger, danger ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century, 1950s, 50s
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Is relevant?
300K
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, psychological, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hostage, psychopath, sniper, dishonesty, mind game, trapped, cell phone, hopes, plot twist, secret relationship, lone hero, sin ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
400K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspense, creepy, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, life is a bitch, supernatural horror, death, twists and turns, urban legend, female protagonist, danger, investigation, curse, paranormal phenomena ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
seattle, astoria oregon, washington state, fictional island
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their future death, listed on the message log. The plot ...
Style:
atmospheric, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
telephone call, macabre, death, urban legend, supernatural, child abuse, hospital, spirit, good versus evil, vengeance, haunted by the past, supernatural ability ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, future, 80s, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In Japan, the daycare teacher Kyoko Okudera is convinced by her colleague and friend Madoka to visit her boyfriend Naoto Sakurai in the restaurant where he works instead of studying as planned. When the owner Mr. Wang answers his daughter's ...
Style:
psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cell phone, ghost, afterlife, investigation, vengeance, journalism, supernatural, danger, teenage life, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, telephone call ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, taiwan, asia
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
On his way to work, a bank manager receives an anonymous call claiming there's a bomb under his car seat, and if anyone exits the car, it will explode unless he can pay a ransom.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
car bomb, mysterious telephone call, family relations, bank manager, threatening telephone call, problem, anonymous telephone call, telephone call, bomb, family problems, threat, bomb threat ...
Place:
busan
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408
Genre: Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Axel is an employee of a call center who is used to complaints from his clients and an unbearable boss. Axel has a natural talent for dealing with people and their problems. But one day everything changes, when he receives a call from Figueroa Mont, ...
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tension, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
call center, threat, male protagonist, fear, telephone call, threatening telephone call, race against time, workplace situations, threat to kill, problem, anonymous telephone call, escalation ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of friends fall victim to tragic events after one of them dials *69 in response to a crank call. Tina, who's finally putting the missing pieces of her life back together after a car accident robbed her of her memory a year prior, ...
Style:
suspense, enigmatic, captivating, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
uncover truth, memory lapse, threatening telephone call, repressed memory, private investigation, crime solving, investigation, memory loss, nightmare, secret, dark secret, death ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
On Christmas Eve, a TV broadcasting station receives a phone call. The caller warns "I have set up a bomb at Ebisu in Tokyo." A contract worker for the TV broadcasting station and a housewife are accused by the Ebisu police as being the ...
Style:
tension, suspense, captivating, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
christmas, investigation, christmas eve, ultimatum, tokyo tower, deadline, terrorism, bomb threat, anonymous telephone call, bomb, telephone call, threatening telephone call ...
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A mother fear that her daughter has been abducted when a phone call is interrupted by something suspicious
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
abduction, kidnapping, suspicion, kidnapped, missing person, mother daughter relationship, kidnapped daughter, woman in danger, mother, daughter, kidnapped girl, child in peril ...
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Genre: Animation, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
The Far Eastern Special Administrative Region, also known as the 24th Ward, is a man-made island. Shuta, Ran, and Koki were born and raised on the island. Their family backgrounds, preferences, and personalities are completely different, but they ...
Style:
anime, suspense, enigmatic, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
friendship, friends, private investigation, childhood friend, loss, secret, uncover truth, threatening telephone call, investigation, moral dilemma, urban, conspiracy ...
Time:
near future
Place:
tokyo
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