Mysterious telephone call movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant mysterious telephone call movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out slasher, scary, psychological, suspenseful, serious and psychotronic films and TV shows about / with mysterious telephone call, telephone call, blood, violence, murder, suspense, serial killer, corpse, death and chase plots mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Italy and other countries.
mysterious telephone call
TOP 10 movies tagged as mysterious telephone call: Scream (2022), Black Christmas (1974), Images (1972), Black Christmas (2006), Don't Talk to Strange Men (1962), Madhouse (1974), When a Stranger Calls (2006), When a Stranger Calls (1979), When a Stranger Calls Back (1993), Shadow (1982).
Best films
List of mysterious telephone call movies
125K
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, bleak, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
masked killer, serial killer, whodunit, sister sister relationship, psychopath, homicidal maniac, killing spree, sadistic psychopath, threatening telephone call, murder mystery, characters killed one by one, gory violence ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
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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:
slasher, scary, atmospheric, psychological, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
christmas, serial killer, murder, sorority, serial murder, psychopath, holiday, winter, violence, suspense, prank telephone call, mental illness ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Schizophrenic housewife, engulfed by terrorizing apparitions, kills off each, unknowing if these demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality.
Style:
surreal, psychological, mind bending, slasher, anamorphic ...
Plot:
schizophrenia, mental breakdown, mental illness, surrealism, adultery, hallucination, countryside, husband wife relationship, loneliness, delusion, country house, unicorn ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
ireland
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Genre: Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An escaped maniac returns to his childhood home on Christmas Eve, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one. A remake of the 1974 horror movie, Black Christmas.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
christmas, serial killer, psychopath, dysfunctional family, murder, suspense, hospital, murderer, violence, house, incest, brutality ...
Time:
70s, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
An innocent girl is "groomed" over the telephone, and nearly becomes the victim of an attacker.
Style:
noir
Plot:
cautionary tale, mysterious telephone call, girl in peril, hunting, lie, murder, security, hunter, secret, rescue, bicycle, seduction ...
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A horror movie star returns to his famous role after years in a mental institution. But the character seems to be committing murders independent of his will.
Style:
psychotronic, psychological, surreal, mind bending, scary ...
Plot:
murder, movie star, serial killer, false accusation of murder, costume party, foster parent, red herring, new year's eve party, whodunit, nervous breakdown, actor, insanity ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
scotland yard, england
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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:
scary, suspenseful, tense, slasher, intense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, suspense, high school, home invasion, stalking, murder, babysitting, husband wife relationship, teenager, survival, psychopath, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, colorado
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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:
scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
obsession, stalker, serial killer, suspense, stalking, psychopath, urban legend, murder, private detective, vengeance, home invasion, police investigation ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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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, psychological, realistic, serious, scary ...
Plot:
stalker, home invasion, babysitting, nanny, psychopath, ventriloquist, phone terror, obsession, cell phone, murderer, woman with a gun, teen social issues ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada
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25K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.
Style:
slasher, scary, psychological, disturbing, bloody ...
Plot:
serial killer, lesbian, writers, investigation, obsession, macabre, murderer, animal attack, dog attack, misogynist, dark and stormy night, shoplifter ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
rome italy, europe, italy, new york state, new york ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The paths of a desperate man and an imprisoned young woman cross unexpectedly in the den of a mysterious killer.
Style:
slasher, captivating, psychological, enigmatic
Plot:
serial killer, teenage girl, abduction, locked room, drugged, captivity, captive, mansion, corpse, employer employee relationship, delivery, suspense ...
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35K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Connected by phone in the same home but 20 years apart, a serial killer puts another woman’s past — and life — on the line to change her own fate.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, slasher, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
time travel, suspense, psychopath, serial killer, borderline personality disorder, police officer, couples, time, death, chase, husband wife relationship, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A timid butcher and his drama queen twin sister quit the hostile confines of post- Brexit Britain and adventure to Australia in search of their birth mother, but the seemingly tolerant townsfolk are hiding a dark, meaty secret.
Style:
captivating, humorous, bleak, perverse, psychotronic ...
Plot:
cockroach, fish out of water, secret, family secret, survival, trapped, dysfunctional family, rescue, adoption, rivalry, twins, murder ...
Place:
australia
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20K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar.
Style:
captivating, exciting, bleak, perverse, psychological ...
Plot:
mind game, body horror, suspense, supernatural horror, love interest, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, cockroach, bartender, supernatural power, supernatural, insect, cosmic horror ...
Place:
louisiana, new orleans
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Pierre Hoffman joins St Joseph’s College to stand in for a young French teacher who threw himself from the window of his classroom. But he soon starts noticing strange behaviour from his Year 10 class.
Style:
ambiguous ending, avant garde, enigmatic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
high school, substitute teacher, teenager, school trip, suspense, ambiguity, student, ecology, teen suicide, lgbt, violence, surrealism ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Poland
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys. The police comissioner ends up tracing the clues to his own home, where he has an adolescent son he has not been able to communicate with.
Style:
neo noir
Plot:
christmas, police investigation, winter, false accusation of murder, child murder, police, mysterious telephone call, investigation, teenager, serial killer, teenage boy, nun ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A housewife is frequently left alone by her husband in their apartment, as his business requires him to travel. The woman who lives upstairs is also minus her husband, but Sevilla begins to catch occasional lies and half-truths from her upstairs ...
Style:
psychological thriller
Plot:
bored housewife, masturbation, female psychopath, terror, mental disorder, neighbor, voyeur, female nudity, cat, race car, murder, dog ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young newlywed couple from America returns to Geneva to visit Marcel's home town. Once there he is informed of his former lover's suicide and in turn is subjected to threats that accuse him of being responsible for her death and further, ...
Style:
sexy, psycho sexual, neo noir
Plot:
female nudity, female orgasm, dancing, sex, erotica, fear, joy, desire, sexual attraction, female victim, blonde, attraction ...
Place:
geneva switzerland
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A college-age brother and sister get more than they bargained for on their road trip home from spring break. When the bickering siblings witness a creepy truck driver tossing body bags into a sewer near an abandoned church, they investigate. Bad ...
Style:
scary, slasher, disturbing, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
monster, supernatural, macabre, demon, death, serial killer, scarecrow, torture, suspense, characters murdered one by one, chase, road trip ...
Time:
2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
florida
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Successful Julien sees his family off on holiday and at once becomes drawn into a risky relationship with Angela, whom he spies outside the cafe opposite his office. When he later finds she is to become his son's new nanny he rightly starts to ...
Style:
neo noir, french noir
Plot:
erotica, artist, female nudity, sex, coma, stalking, moving, female sociopath, nanny, unpunished antagonist, stalker, older man younger woman relationship ...
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
After several coeds are murdered at a college, a professor (Fabio Testi) who is involved with a student becomes a suspect, along with several other male and female teachers.
Style:
slasher, controversial, surreal, queer horror, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, voyeurism, murder, obsession, sexual obsession, psycho killer, sexual perversion, murder of a nude woman, voyeur, infidelity, peeping tom, extramarital affair ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
italy, london
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Based on the real-life Richard Speck murders, amoral, nearly psychotic killer Warren Stacey (Gene Davis) is a serial killer who has murdered a number of women; he stabs them while they are naked to minimize leaving any physical evidence. Police ...
Style:
slasher, campy, suspenseful, sexy, neo noir ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
murder, serial killer, male nudity, revenge, vigilantism, vigilante, sex maniac, red light district, teenager, criminal, psychopath, murderer ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
los angeles, san francisco
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A detective suffering from a personal loss receives a call from his recently deceased niece. Being able to communicate across time, the two work together to try and stop the crime before it occurs.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, scary, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
suspense, time travel, phone terror, evidence, family in danger, murder, murder mystery, mysticism, murderer, tragic past, saving a life, survival ...
Place:
california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever text message or phone call they will receive during the evening - and all hell breaks loose.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, thought provoking, clever, captivating ...
Plot:
psychology, secrets, friendship, twists and turns, game, dinner party, infidelity, existentialism, family problems, gay, betrayal, relationships ...
Time:
70s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
rome italy, new jersey, italy
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231K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Style:
psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
monster, supernatural, ghost, macabre, nightmare, fear, single mother, suspense, insanity, dysfunctional family, mental illness, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, adelaide south australia
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72K
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:
suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, disturbing, frightening ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, investigation, suspense, urban legend, macabre, cult, journalist, curse, woman in danger, vengeance, violent ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In Italy, the American writer Sam Dalmas witnesses an attempt of murder of the owner of an art gallery, a couple of days before his foreseen return to the United States of America. He decides to stay with his girlfriend Julia and help the police in ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, tense, slasher, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, maniac, murder, suspense, voyeurism, psychopath, mind game, murder mystery, woman in danger, female killer, attempted murder ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A tourist witnesses a murder and finds herself caught up in a series of bloody killings.
Style:
slasher, gothic, twisted, erotic, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, suspense, investigation, murder, night, mysticism, marijuana, tourist, mind game, psychopath, hospital, criminal heroes ...
Time:
60s
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
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86K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style.
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, neo noir, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
supernatural, serial killer, demon, murder, psychic, police detective, good versus evil, twists and turns, psychopath, death row, demonic possession, murder investigation ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, new york, philadelphia
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Genre: Horror
Country: Thailand
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Mak and Nak are a young couple who have just moved into their first home as a married couple. But the house they own has a history much older than them and spirits who won't rest until they get what they want. And this time, love won't ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, rough, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, afterlife, family in danger, uncover truth, supernatural, family problems, haunted house, rivalry, curses spells and rituals, wedding, suspense, missing child ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
thailand, asia, bangkok thailand
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