Calling for help movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant calling for help movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, suspense, scary, serious, surprise ending and psychological films and TV shows about / with calling for help, blood, murder, knife, death, cigarette smoking, bare chested male, violence, danger and police officer plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, France, Canada and other countries.
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calling for help movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as calling for help: The Menu (2022), Gerald's Game (2017), Dream Home (2010), Snuff (1975), King Jack (2015), Ispiritista: Itay, May Moomoo (2005), Hard Candy (2005), Buried (2010), The Radiant One (2016), Masters of the Universe (1987).

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 7.2
 383K
The Menu (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A couple travels to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
Style: suspense, atmospheric, dark comedy, humorous, art house ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: food, restaurant, revenge, obsession, food critic, chef, perfectionist, mass murder, social satire, grudge, murder, cooking ...
Time: 2020s
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 6.5
 126K
Gerald's Game (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When her husband's sex game goes wrong, Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choice.
Style: psychological, suspense, psychological horror, disturbing, scary ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: stephen king, survival, childhood trauma, hallucination, mind game, perseverance, sex game, split personality, childhood memory, symbolism, child abuse, eclipse ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place: america, alabama, new orleans
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 6.6
 6K
Dream Home (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A woman will go to whatever lengths necessary to obtain her dream home with a view of the sea. This includes driving down the property value and decreasing the occupancy rate by killing her potential neighbors ...
Style: slasher, bleak, suspenseful, stylized, scary ...
Plot: female psychopath, murder, obsession, psychopath, real estate, blind ambition, violence spree, gory, chinese woman, murder of a pregnant woman, plan gone awry, serial killer ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: hong kong, asia, china, xian
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 2.8
 2K
Snuff (1975)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada, Argentina
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The followers of a charismatic cult leader set out to murder a pregnant actress.
Style: grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: psychopath, biker, murder, lust, sexual promiscuity, filmmaking, sadism, graphic violence, rape, voyeur, promiscuity, cult leader ...
Time: 70s
Place: argentina, latin america
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 6.9
 3K
King Jack (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Growing up in a rural town filled with violent delinquents, Jack has learned to do what it takes to survive, despite having an oblivious mother and no father. After his aunt falls ill and a younger cousin comes to stay with him, the hardened ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, bullying, teenage boy, friendship, small town, teenage life, brutality, violence, party, mental illness, cruelty, drinking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york state
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Ispiritista: Itay, May Moomoo (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Philippines
Story: A sudden widower, Victor finds himself solely responsible for raising his son, Tom Tom. To make money, he claims to be a medium who can speak with the dead and, for a price, soothe restless spirits. Tom Tom, however, discovers that he actually has ...
Style: horror comedy
Plot: poltergeist, zombie, father son relationship, sandwich, ghost, liar, van, elevator, school, priest, haunted house, hide and seek ...
Place: the philippines
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 7.0
 168K
Hard Candy (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A mature 14-year old girl meets a charming 32-year old photographer on the Internet. Suspecting that he is a pedophile, she goes to his home in an attempt to expose him.
Style: disturbing, psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: vengeance, torture, manipulation, age difference, pedophilia, sexual abuse, revenge, kidnapping, psychopath, pedophile, child abuse, justice ...
Time: year 2005, y2k, year 2016, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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 7.0
 168K
Buried (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, bad ending, surprise ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, trapped, buried alive, confined, isolation, claustrophobia, terrorist, captivity, twists and turns, panic, desperation, race against time ...
Time: year 2010, 20th century, 2010s, year 2006, 2000s ...
Place: iraq, middle east
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The Radiant One (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A troubled man turns himself in, believing he's harmed others but is at war with himself over the facts surrounding his quest for clarity and a brush with supernatural phenomena.
Style: suspense, bleak, enigmatic, detective, surprise ending ...
Plot: supernatural, family feud, family relations, repressed memory, spirituality, tragic event, husband wife relationship, memory loss, imagination, murder, craziness, a vision ...
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Masters of the Universe (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The world of Eternia in the aftermath of Skeletor's war on Castle Grayskull, which he has won after seizing Grayskull and the surrounding city using a cosmic key developed by the locksmith Gwildor. The Sorceress is now Skeletor's prisoner ...
Style: serious, crying, surprise ending, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, boys' night
Plot: superhero, good versus evil, sword fight, villain, violence, skeleton, sword and sorcery, magical sword, shapeshifter, female warrior, beast, time travel ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: new jersey
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 5.0
 3K
Neon Maniacs (1986)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A group of teenagers in San Francisco discover a nest of homicidal monsters living in a tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, but when they try to tell authorities, no one believes them.
Style: suspenseful, scary, slasher, independent film, rough ...
Plot: mutant, danger, monster, survival, deadly creature, youth, teenage life, stalking, rivalry, murder, zombie, police ...
Time: 80s
Place: san francisco, usa
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The Judge and the Assassin (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and ...
Style: anthology, tense, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, courtroom drama, mental institution, war veteran, confession of crime, serial child killer, rural setting, male rape victim, murder confession, anti semitism, lawyer ...
Time: 19th century, year 1976, 1890s
Place: france, europe, paris france
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The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A serial killer uses a scythe to slash his murder victims--or maybe it's *her* murder victims?
Style: slasher, gothic, slasher horror, freeze frame, crying ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, drifter, killing spree, love triangle, psychotic, terror, woman with a gun, female psychopath, violence, female sexist, rape ...
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 6.1
 4K
The Baby (1973)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A social worker who recently lost her husband investigates the strange Wadsworth family. The Wadsworths might not seem too unusual to hear about them at first - consisting of the mother, two grown daughters and the diaper-clad, bottle-sucking baby. ...
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, terrifying, controversial, cult classic ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: brother sister sex, social worker, psychopath, dysfunctional family, birthday party, mental retardation, abusive mother, exploitation, female psychopath, supernatural, killer, mother ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles
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 5.6
 59K
Ma (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her ...
Style: suspense, slasher, disturbing, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: underage drinking, basement, revenge, mental health, psychopath, teenager, torture, twists and turns, teenage girl, female psychopath, teen drinking, social network ...
Time: 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa
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We Summon the Darkness (2019)
Genre: Horror, Music, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The film is set in the Midwest against a backdrop involving a killing spree thought to be orchestrated by a satanic cult. Three best friends embark on a road trip to a heavy-metal show, where they bond with three aspiring musicians and head off to ...
Style: suspense, scary, slasher, horror comedy, bleak ...
Plot: devil worship, road trip, satanism, religion, satanic cult, serial killer, good versus evil, group of friends, murder, girl fight, conspiracy, survival ...
Time: year 1988, 2010s
Place: indiana
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Highway to Hell (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Charlie and Rachel run away from home to get married in Las Vegas. But they get attacked by a zombie who takes Rachel with him to hell, where she will become one of Satan's brides
Style: scary, semi serious, black comedy, suspense, road movie ...
Plot: zombie, supernatural, rescue, on the road, undead, chase, fiance fiancee relationship, woman in danger, legends and myths, imaginary, danger, good versus evil ...
Time: year 1991
Place: las vegas, usa
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The Case Is Closed, Forget It (1971)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Because of a violation of traffic regulations an architect is put in prison. There he witnesses the grim reality of life behind bars: corrupt staff, corrupt inmates, an inhuman judicial system and the power of the Mafia.
Style: poliziottesco, crying, neo noir
Plot: prison, corruption, police officer, police, lgbt, bureaucracy, organized crime, architecture, gulag, economist, nazi, gay interest ...
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A Girl in Australia (1971)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's ,who has to find a wife in the modern, woman's liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70's.
Style: surprise ending, epic, crying
Plot: summer, hotel room, italian history, prostitute, bare chested male, sex for money, immigrant, barber, psychiatric hospital, psychiatric patient, car wash, lifestyle change ...
Time: 70s
Place: rome italy, italy, australia
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Perched on a Tree (1971)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Henry Roubier, a French promoter, and Enrico Mazzini, an Italian, have signed an agreement guaranteeing them a stranglehold on European highways. While driving on the roads of the south, Roubier takes two young hitchhikers, but an unfortunate swerve ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, ambiguous ending, crying ...
Plot: tree, rescue, canyon, love triangle, woman in danger, danger, rivalry, television reporter, bribery, bare chested male, cycling, trapped in a car ...
Time: 70s
Place: france, riviera
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 6.4
 50K
Unsane (2018)
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, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, mental institution, stalking, psychopath, mental illness, maniac, mental patient, murder, stalker, psychiatric ward, sexual assault, fear ...
Time: 2010s
Place: boston, portugal, pennsylvania
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Neighbour No. 13 (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Jûzô Murasaki is a boy miscast in his classroom, being frequently abused, tortured, beaten and humiliated by the bully Tôru Akai and his gang of juvenile punks. After years of repression, rejection and fear without facing Akai, he develops a ...
Style: surreal, psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, split personality, bullying, revenge, mental illness, psychopath, vengeance, youth, life is a bitch, rivalry, teenage life, destiny ...
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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 3.2
 884
The Graveyard (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Six friends go to the Placid Pines Cemetery to play hide and seek in the tombs. When a "harmless" prank ends in the accidental death of one of the group, the prankster goes to prison. Five years later the friends meet up in the cemetery ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, surprise ending, slasher, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: prank, vengeance, teenage life, gory, serial killer, blood, violence spree, confined, rivalry, youth, psychopath, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
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 7.0
 323K
RED (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent, Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.
Style: exciting, entertaining, action comedy, witty, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, manly
Plot: spy, cia, hitman, secret service, chase, assassin, mission, gunfight, on the run, ex cia agent, female spy, kidnapping ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans, iran, kansas city, new york ...
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 7.7
 157K
Ray (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern ...
Style: inspirational, touching, sincere, emotional, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: jazz, addiction, musician, musician's life, music, african american, blindness, biopic, pianist, disability, blind character, heroin ...
Time: year 2004, 1930s, 20th century, 60s, 50s ...
Place: georgia, new york, indianapolis indiana, california, usa ...
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The Skin I Live In (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, sexy, clever ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, kidnapping, twists and turns, rape, skin, revenge, isolation, insanity, sexual perversion, gender bending, abuse, plastic surgery ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, year 2006, year 2012, 21st century
Place: spain, ancient greece, europe
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 5.3
 11K
House of 9 (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania, Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nine strangers wake up in a house with no recollection how they got there and no way out. The voice on the PA introduces them to a grisly game they must play. The prize is $5 million and their life.
Style: scary, suspenseful, twist ending, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: isolation, survival, deathtrap, captivity, mind game, murder, sole survivor, group of strangers, psychological torture, characters killed one by one, hidden camera, trapped ...
Time: 21st century
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 5.5
 96K
Dreamcatcher (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Four boyhood pals perform a heroic act and are changed by the powers they gain in return. Years later, on a hunting trip in the Maine woods, they're overtaken by a vicious blizzard that harbors an ominous presence. Challenged to stop an alien ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, dark, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night, teen drama
Plot: alien invasion, stephen king, alien, supernatural, virus, first contact, supernatural ability, alien encounter, mind control, danger, transformation, cabin in the woods ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place: colorado, usa, boston, massachusetts, maine
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 6.9
 84K
All Is Lost (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: During a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, a veteran mariner awakes to find his vessel taking on water after a collision with a stray shipping container. With his radio and navigation equipment disabled, he sails unknowingly into a violent storm and ...
Style: harsh, reflective, touching, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing
Plot: survival, boat, loneliness, storm, ocean, survivor, isolation, ship, human spirit, sailing, sailor, desperation ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
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The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Sequel to the 2009 mezzo-mezzo supernatural horror purporting to be based on a true story in which a cancer-afflicted teen starts seeing things in the new Victorian house he and his family moved into.
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, scary, demonic ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, murderer, dead man, curses spells and rituals, new house, family in danger, danger, parents and children, haunted, doll ...
Time: 90s, year 2000, year 1993, 21st century
Place: georgia, usa, atlanta georgia
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