Telephone movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant telephone movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out slasher, serious, cult classic, suspenseful, psychological and surprise ending films and TV shows about / with telephone, telephone call, murder, violence, danger, death, investigation, serial killer, blood and deadly plots mostly in Thriller, Horror and Mystery genres shot in USA, Canada, Italy and other countries.
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telephone movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as telephone: Call Me (1988), Black Christmas (1974), Ring (1998), Cable Girls (2017), Scream (1996), The Ring (2002), When a Stranger Calls (1979), Cellular (2004), Memento (2000), Lisa (1990).

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 5.3
 982
Call Me (1988)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A journalist receives an obscene phonecall that she mistakes for her boyfriend. She then agrees to meet with the caller at a bar, but instead of meeting the boyfriend, she witnesses a murder.
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: female masturbation, transvestite, murder, erotica, reporter, phone terror, pretty girl, terror, drug dealing, anonymous telephone call, phone sex, corrupt cop ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york
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Black Christmas (1974)
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, scary, bloody, grindhouse ...
Plot: christmas, serial killer, holiday horror, murder, telephone call, sorority, psychopath, holiday, serial murder, violence, maniac, psycho killer ...
Time: 70s, year 1974, near future, 20th century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
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 7.2
 77K
Ring (1998)
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, atmospheric, disturbing, splatter, creepy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: ghost, supernatural, investigation, macabre, curse, supernatural horror, urban legend, journalist, woman in danger, telephone call, danger, haunting ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century, 1950s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
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 7.5
 16K
Cable Girls (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: In 1920s Madrid, four women at the National Telephone Company ring in revolution as they deal with romance, envy and the modern workplace.
Style: stylized, atmospheric, romantic, captivating, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: female protagonist, female friendship, job, women, workplace, workplace romance, love and romance, class differences, lesbian, spanish civil war, woman, strong female lead ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: spain
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 7.4
 386K
Scream (1996)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A killer known as Ghostface begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the 'rules' of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, scary, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, date night
Plot: serial killer, high school, teenager, psychopath, small town, maniac, masked killer, murder, woman in danger, teenage life, twists and turns, violent ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: california, usa
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 7.1
 373K
The Ring (2002)
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, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, race against time, investigation, life is a bitch, death, supernatural horror, twists and turns, curse, macabre, journalist, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: seattle, astoria oregon, fictional island
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When a Stranger Calls (1979)
Genre: 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, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: urban legend, psychopath, obsession, stalking, stalker, home invasion, serial killer, babysitter, private detective, murder, threatening telephone call, police investigation ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: usa
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 6.5
 105K
Cellular (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. She claims to have been kidnapped – and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, sexy, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: kidnapping, hostage, psychopath, race against time, cell phone, secrets, home invasion, police corruption, lone hero, runaway, kidnapped, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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 8.4
 1.3M
Memento (2000)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife in this gritty, complex thriller that packs more knots than a hangman's noose. To carry out his plan, Shelby ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: memory loss, amnesia, vengeance, plot twist, memory, murder, twists and turns, revenge, paranoia, whodunit, psychology, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2000, future, year 2001, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, california, iran, america, usa
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 5.9
 2K
Lisa (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Because her overprotective mother (Cheryl Ladd) won't allow her to date, 14-year-old Lisa (Staci Keanan) creates a rich fantasy life. She calls random men and seduces them anonymously. But now she may have picked the wrong man. Richard (D.W. ...
Style: neo noir, erotic, slasher, independent film, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, obsession, murder, prank, psychopath, mother daughter relationship, woman in jeopardy, teen angst, infatuation, stalker, teenage girl, single mother ...
Time: 80s
Place: venice beach california
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Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The vengeful Doctor rises again, seeking the Scrolls of Life in an attempt to resurrect his deceased wife.
Style: black comedy, gothic horror, classic horror, psychotronic, horror comedy ...
Plot: mad scientist, murder, organ, sarcophagus, disfigurement, serial killer, mad doctor, fountain of youth, suspended animation, desert, map, doctor ...
Time: year 1972, 1920s
Place: egypt, africa, middle east, scotland yard
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 4.6
 557
Dial: Help (1988)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A psychic finds herself tapping into the "energy" of a deceased phone operator. She also finds that her friends soon begin dying mysteriously. An investigator determines to track down the cause.
Style: slasher, detective, erotic
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, evil computer, machine, model, fish, whodunit, female nudity, bare breasts, woman, elevator, fashion photographer, cafe ...
Place: rome italy
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 7.0
 14K
Black Sabbath (1963)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 92 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, atmospheric, disturbing, anthology, suspenseful ...
Plot: vampire, vengeance, murder, macabre, afterlife, ghost, lesbian subtext, family in danger, visceral, supernatural horror, death, revenge ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 1800s, 60s, 19th century
Place: russia
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Murder by Phone (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A disgruntled phone company employee develops a device whereby those answering a phone can be murdered, and it's up to Nat Bridger to stop the killer.
Style: slasher, retro, action thriller, independent film, weird ...
Plot: canuxploitation, murder, revenge, machine, technology, exploitation, redheaded woman, sexual euphemism, man kills a woman, elevator, assassination attempt, friendship between men ...
Time: year 1982
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Denise Calls Up (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A group of friends in New York, working away at their PCs and laptops, keep in touch exclusively by phone and fax. They are all too busy to meet face to face. Gale plays matchmaker, by phone, to Jerry and Barbara who, in turn, hit it off beautifully ...
Style: ironic, satirical, humorous, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, eccentricity, loneliness, looking for love, love and romance, pregnancy, self discovery, dark humor, phone sex, masturbation, silly humor, computers and web ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york
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When a Stranger Calls (2006)
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: suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, slasher, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, high school, babysitter, psychopath, stalking, murder, babysitting, husband wife relationship, maniac, danger, survival, high school student ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: usa, colorado
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 7.5
 289K
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan and become the head of the local chapter.
Style: informative, political, dark comedy, social, inspirational ...
Plot: racism, white supremacy, ku klux klan, african american, undercover cop, racial slur, racist cop, black, biopic, black lives matter, black cop, black american ...
Time: 70s, 2010s, 20th century, year 2017, year 1972
Place: usa, africa, colorado
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Don't Answer the Phone! (1980)
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, grindhouse, disturbing, psychological, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, obsession, stalking, murder, photographer, mind game, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, woman in danger, riddles and clues, female nudity ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: los angeles, vietnam, asia, california
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 6.5
 117K
Scream VI (2023)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.
Style: slasher, slasher horror, dark, meta, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, characters killed one by one, mystery killer, characters murdered one by one, killer, murder, fbi agent, sister sister relationship, asthmatic, shrine, father daughter relationship, revenge ...
Time: 2020s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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 7.8
 442K
Ghostbusters (1984)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, light, cult classic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, monster, nerd, transformation, paranormal investigation, giant monster, chase, imagination, accountant, friendship, librarian ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, year 2016, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, nova scotia, usa
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 8.4
 1.5M
Joker (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Australia
Duration: 122 min.
Story: During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
Style: thought provoking, suspense, atmospheric, bleak, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: mental illness, mental disorder, villain, psycho, psychopath, loneliness, psychological trauma, character change, insanity, social problems, comedian, social decay ...
Time: 2010s, 80s, year 2019, year 1981, 20th century
Place: new york, new jersey, los angeles, persia
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 7.1
 133K
Carnage (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Poland, Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After 11-year-old Zachary Cowan strikes his classmate across the face with a stick after an argument, the victim's parents invite Zachary's parents to their Brooklyn apartment to deal with the incident in a civilized manner.
Style: talky, dark comedy, ironic, black comedy, minimal cast ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: marriage, psychology, dialogue, dark humor, family drama, bully, satire, parenthood, family relations, family problems, husband wife relationship, lawyer ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city, africa
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Charlotte's Web (1973)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.
Style: colorful, light, sweet, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: friendship, pig, rescue, farm, children, friends who live together, compassion, animal human communication, misunderstanding, love, rat, broom ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 1930s
Place: new england, usa, maine
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 7.7
 305K
Halloween (1978)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In John Carpenter's horror classic, a psychotic murderer, institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens
Plot: halloween, serial killer, psychopath, murder, masked killer, holiday horror, small town, psychiatrist, babysitter, violence, violent, babysitting ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place: illinois, chicago, midwest
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 8.0
 541K
Zootopia (2016)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Determined to prove herself, Officer Judy Hopps, the first bunny on Zootopia's police force, jumps at the chance to crack her first case - even if it means partnering with scam-artist fox Nick Wilde to solve the mystery.
Style: feel good, 3d animation, funny, allegory, witty ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, chick flick
Plot: anthropomorphic animal, anthropomorphism, police, furry, happy ending, female protagonist, stereotypes, rabbit, friendship, prejudice, conspiracy, racial relations ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, 21st century
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Perfect Strangers (2016)
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, game, secrets, dinner party, friendship, infidelity, existentialism, family problems, dialogue, gay, relationships, betrayal ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place: rome italy, italy
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 5.8
 6K
Blood Rage (1987)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In 1974, Terry commits a murder and pins it on his twin brother, Todd. Ten years later, Todd escapes from a mental institution on the same day as Terry’s murderous instincts resurface.
Style: slasher, christmas horror, cult classic, spooky, perverse ...
Plot: serial killer, thanksgiving, machete, evil twin, teenager, exploitation, murder, swimming pool, killer, twins, siblings, holiday horror ...
Time: 80s
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The Conversation (1974)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Surveillance expert Harry Caul is hired by a mysterious client's brusque aide to tail a young couple. Tracking the pair through San Francisco's Union Square, Caul and his associate Stan manage to record a cryptic conversation between them. ...
Style: psychological thriller, neo noir, psychological, disturbing, political thriller ...
Plot: paranoia, surveillance, conspiracy, spy, obsession, character study, investigation, wiretap, alienation, murder, espionage, dream ...
Time: 20th century, year 1974, 70s
Place: bay area, san francisco, usa
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 6.7
 100K
Candyman (1992)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
Style: scary, slasher, gothic, bloody, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids, adult
Plot: urban legend, serial killer, supernatural, ghost, gory, macabre, belief, urban decay, investigation, blood, revenge, mirror ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
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 7.0
 217K
Basic Instinct (1992)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A police detective is in charge of the investigation of a brutal murder, in which a beautiful and seductive woman could be involved.
Style: sexy, erotic, neo noir, sexual, detective ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: femme fatale, obsession, sex, manipulation, serial killer, nudity, seduction, murder, sexual tension, dangerous attraction, hot and sexy, strong sexual content ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: san francisco, bay area, persia, california, oakland california ...
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