Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "awakened-by-a-telephone-call"

51. Strangler vs. Strangler (1984)

96 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

A mentally-disturbed flower seller starts killing young girls on the streets of Belgrade. While the frustrated police inspector is trying to stop him, an aspiring musician finds his life and work deeply intertwined with that of a killer.

Director: Slobodan Sijan | Stars: Tasko Nacic, Nikola Simic, Srdjan Saper, Sonja Savic

Votes: 4,362

52. Dead Awake (2016)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A young woman must save herself and her friends from an ancient evil that stalks its victims through the real-life phenomenon of sleep paralysis.

Director: Phillip Guzman | Stars: Jocelin Donahue, Jesse Bradford, Jesse Borrego, Lori Petty

Votes: 3,544 | Gross: $11.11M

53. Unearthed (2007)

R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

An unknown creature terrorizes an archeological dig in the middle of a desolate New Mexico town.

Director: Matthew Leutwyler | Stars: Emmanuelle Vaugier, Luke Goss, Beau Garrett, Deborah Offner

Votes: 3,878

54. Loot (1970)

PG | 101 min | Comedy, Crime

Based on the play by Joe Orton, this film follows the adventures of two pals who have pulled off a bank robbery and have to hide the loot. Fortunately one of them works in a funeral parlor ... See full summary »

Director: Silvio Narizzano | Stars: Lee Remick, Richard Attenborough, Hywel Bennett, Milo O'Shea

Votes: 627

55. Man on a Swing (1974)

PG | 110 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is in possession of information known only... See full summary »

Director: Frank Perry | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Joel Grey, Dorothy Tristan, Elizabeth Wilson

Votes: 770

56. School's Out (2018)

Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A substitute teacher is put in charge of a class of future geniuses after their teacher commits suicide.

Director: Sébastien Marnier | Stars: Laurent Lafitte, Emmanuelle Bercot, Luàna Bajrami, Victor Bonnel

Votes: 3,120

57. Agent 38-24-36 (1964)

110 min | Comedy

A Russian spy is supposed by the British Secret Service to steal some faked orders, but he is too stupid to succeed. His girlfriend tries to help him, but it seems he is too foolish to succeed.

Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Anthony Perkins, Grégoire Aslan, Jean-Marc Tennberg

Votes: 465

58. The Young Seducers (1971)

R | 79 min | Comedy

The budding sexual urges of young women cause themselves and others trouble.

Director: Erwin C. Dietrich | Stars: Ingrid Steeger, Melitta Tegeler, Evelyne Traeger, Rena Bergen

Votes: 305

59. Happy New Year (1973)

PG | 115 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Released from prison apparently under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewelry store in out-of-season ... See full summary »

Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Lino Ventura, Françoise Fabian, Charles Gérard, André Falcon

Votes: 1,994 | Gross: $0.16M

60. Trap for Cinderella (2013)

Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A young girl suffering from amnesia after surviving a house fire that takes her childhood friend's life, begins a tormented road to recovery.

Director: Iain Softley | Stars: Tuppence Middleton, Alexandra Roach, Kerry Fox, Frances de la Tour

Votes: 1,720

61. The Assassin (1961)

Not Rated | 83 min | Crime, Thriller

Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police at his apartment without justification. In the precinct, he slowly discovers what the investigation is about as we discover details about his life.

Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle, Cristina Gaioni, Salvo Randone

Votes: 1,523

62. Body of Night (2020)

73 min | Drama, Thriller

A woman explores the dark side of online dating when she meets a mysterious man who engages her in a series of increasingly dangerous tests of her ability.

Directors: Nicole D'Angelo, Gregory Hatanaka | Stars: Jason Toler, Ro'Shae Etienne, Lisa London, Megan Davis

Votes: 1,645

63. Red Rings of Fear (1978)

Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A detective investigating the murder of a teenage girl begins to focus his suspicions on the three girlfriends of the victim, who call themselves "The Inseparables."

Director: Alberto Negrin | Stars: Fabio Testi, Christine Kaufmann, Ivan Desny, Jack Taylor

Votes: 824

64. Intrigo: Death of an Author (2018)

R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

One solitary man at the rudder in a small open boat ploughs through a troubled sea off the Dutch coast.

Director: Daniel Alfredson | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Benno Fürmann, Tuva Novotny, Michael Byrne

Votes: 2,072

65. Rossz versek (2018)

97 min | Comedy, Drama

33-years old Tamás is heartbroken after his girlfriend Anna, who is on a scholarship in Paris, breaks up with him. While wallowing in self-pity, he takes a trip down memory lane to figure out if love only exists when it's practically gone.

Director: Gábor Reisz | Stars: Gábor Reisz, Katica Nagy, Zsolt Kovács, Katalin Takács

Votes: 2,842

66. Kamikaze (1986)

90 min | Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A crazy old and bored scientist invents a system which allows him to reach through the airwaves and transform live TV cameras into weapons to kill whoever is being filmed.

Director: Didier Grousset | Stars: Richard Bohringer, Michel Galabru, Dominique Lavanant, Romane Bohringer

Votes: 726

67. Pardon Mon Affaire (1976)

PG | 105 min | Comedy, Romance

As loyal as a dove, a family man is about to tell his first lie to his wife when he falls for an enchanting woman in a billowy red dress. With a bit of help, he just might get what he wishes for; however, is love always a bed of roses?

Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Jean Rochefort, Claude Brasseur, Guy Bedos, Victor Lanoux

Votes: 2,357

68. 3 A.M. 3D (2012)

96 min | Horror

Thailand's latest horror omnibus is made up of three chilling stories. Two sisters who own a wig shop.

Directors: Isara Nadee, Kirati Nakintanon, Patchanon Thammajira | Stars: Apinya Sakuljaroensuk, Focus Jirakul, Shahkrit Yamnarm, Ray MacDonald

Votes: 962

69. Ramji Rao Speaking (1989)

Not Rated | 150 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

Three unemployed men struggle to earn a living and decide to get involved in a kidnapping scheme to make quick money.

Directors: Lal, Siddique | Stars: Saikumar, Mukesh, Innocent Vareed Thekkethala, Rekha

Votes: 3,556

70. In the Sweet Pie and Pie (1941)

18 min | Comedy, Short

The stooges are convicts about to be executed for some murders they didn't commit. The day before the execution they are tricked into marrying three rich girls who need husbands to collect ... See full summary »

Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dorothy Appleby

Votes: 590

71. The Pact (2018)

R | 106 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

When Monica finds out her daughter is about to die she takes extreme measures to save her.

Director: David Victori | Stars: Belén Rueda, Darío Grandinetti, Mireia Oriol, Antonio Durán 'Morris'

Votes: 1,277 | Gross: $0.00M

72. Devil in the Brain (1972)

106 min | Mystery, Thriller

A child suspected of killing his father is imprisoned in a mental hospital. A doctor finds him mentally healthy and begins to suspect another explanation.

Director: Sergio Sollima | Stars: Stefania Sandrelli, Keir Dullea, Micheline Presle, Tino Buazzelli

Votes: 295

73. Revenge! (1971 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 75 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

A deranged mother avenges herself against the man she thinks seduced her daughter by imprisoning him in a cage in her basement.

Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: Shelley Winters, Stuart Whitman, Bradford Dillman, Carol Eve Rossen

Votes: 180

74. Evil Eye (1975)

R | 106 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

The police has to face some extremely brutal murders. How is the rich playboy Peter Crane (Jorge Rivero) involved in this? He suffers from horrible nightmares that make him believe that he is responsible for these murders.

Director: Mario Siciliano | Stars: Anthony Steffen, Richard Conte, Pilar Velázquez, Jorge Rivero

Votes: 400

75. Kat and the Band (2019)

TV-MA | 92 min | Comedy, Music

Seventeen year old, music obsessed school girl Kat Malone tricks her way into managing struggling band Dollar Days, pretending to be a band manager in her twenties.

Director: E.E. Hegarty | Stars: Katherine Kelly, Ella Hunt, Joanna David, James Doherty

Votes: 255

76. Frankenstein 90 (1984)

100 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.

Director: Alain Jessua | Stars: Jean Rochefort, Eddy Mitchell, Fiona Gélin, Herma Vos

Votes: 394

77. L'homme en colère (1979)

97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A man goes to Canada looking for his son. The corpse of his son is later discovered by the Canadian police.

Director: Claude Pinoteau | Stars: Lino Ventura, Angie Dickinson, Laurent Malet, Hollis McLaren

Votes: 356

78. Something to Hide (1972)

99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A man having marital problems with his shrewish wife picks up a young, pretty and pregnant hitchhiker. Before he knows it, he's in over his head and mixed up in violence and murder.

Director: Alastair Reid | Stars: Peter Finch, Shelley Winters, Colin Blakely, John Stride

Votes: 233

79. Dark Impulse (2011)

96 min | Thriller

Eva is a new strict judge. She is trying a case where a young striptease dancer has been murdered, the prime suspects are a prominent businessman and the dead girls' boyfriend, a gigolo.

Director: Mariano Barroso | Stars: Leonor Watling, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Nathalie Poza, Adriana Ugarte

Votes: 579

80. I mostri oggi (2009)

102 min | Comedy

Divided into 16 separate parts, the film analyses and parodies the vices, weaknesses and fears of contemporary Italy.

Director: Enrico Oldoini | Stars: Diego Abatantuono, Carlo Buccirosso, Sabrina Ferilli, Giorgio Panariello

Votes: 312

81. Spiral Deep (2020)

18 min | Short, Drama

A young man suffering from depression finds sanctuary in the city nightlife, spiraling deep into drugs, sex and danger during a worldwide pandemic.

Director: Israel Luna | Stars: Joseph Herrera, Adam Kronenberger, Tom Roma, Adrian Speller

82. Quadrille (1938)

95 min | Comedy, Romance

The battle of the sexes as drawing room social satire. Philippe, a middle-aged newspaper editor, has lived for six years with Paulette, a successful stage actress. He tells her friend ... See full summary »

Director: Sacha Guitry | Stars: Sacha Guitry, Gaby Morlay, Jacqueline Delubac, Georges Grey

Votes: 423

83. Ecco fatto (1998)

90 min | Comedy

Matteo is a twenty-year-old who is impulsive and hardly committed to his studies. He and Margherita fall in love. She is a young, strong Slavic woman who is older than him and who has ... See full summary »

Director: Gabriele Muccino | Stars: Giorgio Pasotti, Barbora Bobulova, Claudio Santamaria, Ginevra Colonna

Votes: 372

84. El espectro del terror (1973)

81 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A twisted sleazebag stalks and strangles gorgeous women in this Spanish terror classic.

Director: José María Elorrieta | Stars: Maria Perschy, Sancho Gracia, Betsabé Ruiz, Víctor Barrera

Votes: 101

85. Adam (I) (2013)

23 min | Short, Drama

The first Israeli film that deals with bullying among teenagers, ADAM centers around a high school student whose declaration of love to another boy leads to hostile reactions from his ... See full summary »

Director: Segev Gershon | Stars: Moti Lugassi, Shahar Roth, Michal Yannai

Votes: 43

86. Alles Verbrecher: Leiche im Keller (2015 TV Movie)

89 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Shock on the night of love: Instead of the tender hand of his neighbor Maren Wenning, the married suburban Casanova Rudi Sterzenbach suddenly feels the bloody hand of a murder victim on his... See full summary »

Director: Rolf Silber | Stars: Ulrike Krumbiegel, Daniel Rodic, Ernst Stötzner, Claudia Fritzsche

Votes: 23

87. Yellow Bird (2008)

18 min | Short

A man dreams of writing a rock opera. His muse is a yellow bird which appears to him in his dreams. One day, after seeing it while awake, a blonde girl skates into his dreamlike world.

Director: Rodolphe Pauly | Stars: Matthias Bensa, Vahina Giocante, Rodolphe Pauly, Vincent Rottiers

88. Roman Tomes: Muz v domácnosti (2016 Music Video)

4 min | Comedy, Music

Stay-at-home young man has a busy day cleaning and baking to make his domineering wife happy.

Director: Roman Tomes | Stars: Roman Tomes, Ivana Korolová

Votes: 19

89. A Child's Voice (1978)

30 min | Short, Drama, Horror

A popular radio personality writes and broadcasts ghost stories over the air. He receives a strange call warning him not to finish his latest story, which is about a child who dies assisting in a magician's show.

Director: Kieran Hickey | Stars: T.P. McKenna, R.D. Smith, Stephen Brennan, June Tobin

Votes: 62

90. BUNNi (2013)

15 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

An intimate portrait of the misadventures of one east village gal's very private dilemma.

Director: Sarah Hindsgaul | Stars: Woody Boley, Amelia Martin

Votes: 8

91. Príjemce platí v dolarech (1981 TV Movie)

73 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

A gripping story about the work of security and customs officers.

Director: Evzen Sokolovský | Stars: Jana Paulová, Jirí Plachý, Ilja Prachar, Svatopluk Skopal

92. Ó ti lektori (1953)

Short, Comedy

The young writer Parízek has been waiting for one of the editors in the publishing house for several times. He would like to know when his novel about the North Bohemian mines will be ... See full summary »

Director: Vladimír Svitácek | Stars: Jirí Sovák, Vlasta Chramostová, Bohus Záhorský, Vladimír Bejval

93. Midsomer Murders (1997– )
Episode: Blood Will Out (1999)

TV-14 | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The murder of a village blow-hard, who had few supporters among his neighbors, happens while a gathering of travelers is taking place.

Director: Moira Armstrong | Stars: John Nettles, Daniel Casey, Jane Wymark, Laura Howard

Votes: 1,116

94. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: Martha Mason, Movie Star (1957)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

A vain, querulous woman can't get a divorce from her husband. Luckily, he loves to garden. And he's just dug a nice big hole in the backyard.

Director: Justus Addiss | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Judith Evelyn, Robert Emhardt, Vinton Hayworth

Votes: 608

95. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: Weeping Willows (2005)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After a tough day at the work, Catherine invites Warrick and Nick to drink in a bar. She goes alone and meets Adam Novak, a stranger that fives his phone number in a matchbook. He offers to... See full summary »

Director: Kenneth Fink | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads

Votes: 748

96. Cannon (1971–1976)
Episode: Catch Me If You Can (1973)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A psychopath calls and hires Cannon to stop him from killing again, because he can't stop himself.

Director: William Hale | Stars: William Conrad, Anthony Zerbe, Dana Wynter, William Sargent

Votes: 106

97. Frasier (1993–2004)
Episode: Radio Wars (1999)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy

Frasier is repeatedly made the butt of phone pranks by KACL's new comedy team, "Carlos and the Chicken."

Director: Sheldon Epps | Stars: Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves, David Hyde Pierce, Peri Gilpin

Votes: 916

98. Friends (1994–2004)
Episode: The One with the Free Porn (1998)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Romance

Chandler and Joey discover that they're getting a free porn channel on their TV. Monica encourages Ross to tell Emily he loves her just before she leaves for London. Phoebe gets a shock when she visits her OB-GYN.

Director: Michael Lembeck | Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc

Votes: 5,099

99. Happy Days (1974–1984)
Episode: The Lemon (1974)

TV-G | 25 min | Comedy, Family, Music

Embarrassed to be seen driving the family car, Richie convinces his dad to let him and pal Potsie go in together on a used jalopy, naively trusting a slick used car dealer to give them a good deal.

Director: Jerry Paris | Stars: Ron Howard, Marion Ross, Anson Williams, Tom Bosley

Votes: 274

100. The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977–1979)
Episode: Will the Real Santa Claus...? (1977)

60 min | Crime, Family, Mystery

A burglar dressed as Santa. A drifter in a stable next door, gets accused for burgling. Nancy don't believe that this gentle man is guilty, so she starts looking for clues. A mysterious car around. Who and what is going on?

Director: Michael Pataki | Stars: Pamela Sue Martin, William Schallert, Dan O'Herlihy, Rick Springfield

Votes: 66