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1. The Ring (2002)
PG-13 | 115 min | Horror, Mystery
A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone one week to the day after they view it.
Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox, David Dorfman
Votes: 375,141 | Gross: $129.13M
2. The Night House (2020)
R | 107 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A widow begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.
Director: David Bruckner | Stars: Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Evan Jonigkeit
Votes: 67,177
3. The Call (2020)
TV-MA | 112 min | Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Two people live in different times. Seo-Yeon lives in the present and Young-Sook lives in the past. One phone call connects the two, and their lives are changed irrevocably.
Director: Chung-Hyun Lee | Stars: Park Shin-hye, Jeon Jong-seo, Kim Sung-ryung, Lee El
Votes: 43,633
4. Ringu (1998)
Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, Mystery
A reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.
Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Yûko Takeuchi, Hitomi Satô
Votes: 77,518
5. Rings (2017)
PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young woman finds herself on the receiving end of a terrifying curse that threatens to take her life in 7 days.
Director: F. Javier Gutiérrez | Stars: Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki, Vincent D'Onofrio
Votes: 43,238 | Gross: $27.79M
6. Don't Let Go (2019)
R | 103 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Detective Jack Radcliff and his recently murdered niece race against time to solve the crime before it happens.
Director: Jacob Estes | Stars: David Oyelowo, Storm Reid, Mykelti Williamson, Alfred Molina
Votes: 13,034 | Gross: $4.69M
7. One Missed Call (2008)
PG-13 | 87 min | Horror, Mystery
Several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves - messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.
Director: Eric Valette | Stars: Edward Burns, Shannyn Sossamon, Ana Claudia Talancón, Ray Wise
Votes: 34,016 | Gross: $26.88M
8. The Grudge 2 (2006)
PG-13 | 102 min | Horror, Thriller
Three interwoven stories about a terrible curse. A young woman encounters a malevolent supernatural force while searching for her missing sister in Tokyo; a mean high school prank goes horribly wrong; a woman with a deadly secret moves into a Chicago apartment building.
Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Amber Tamblyn, Edison Chen, Arielle Kebbel, Sarah Michelle Gellar
Votes: 51,471 | Gross: $39.14M
9. Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
R | 104 min | Horror
A dysfunctional family moves into a new house, which proves to be satanic, resulting in the demonic possession of their teenage son.
Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: James Olson, Burt Young, Rutanya Alda, Jack Magner
Votes: 12,862 | Gross: $12.53M
10. One Missed Call (2003)
R | 112 min | Horror, Mystery
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, foretelling their deaths.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Kô Shibasaki, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Kazue Fukiishi, Anna Nagata
Votes: 19,319
11. When Michael Calls (1972 TV Movie)
73 min | Horror, Thriller
A woman begins to receive ominous phone calls from her nephew, who died 15 years earlier. With each phone call, a family member dies. Will she be the next in line?
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Ben Gazzara, Elizabeth Ashley, Michael Douglas, Al Waxman
Votes: 1,003
12. Phone (2002)
R | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Investigative reporter Ji-won begins to receive a series of menacing calls. To escape the terrifying and relentless clanging of the telephone, she changes her number and moves out. But the threatening campaign of terror continues unabated.
Director: Byeong-ki Ahn | Stars: Ha Ji-Won, Kim Yu-mi, Woo-jae Choi, Ji-yeon Choi
Votes: 5,294
13. The Ring Virus (1999)
Not Rated | 108 min | Horror
After the mysterious death of her niece and other three teenagers on the same hour and with the symptoms of heart attack, the journalist Sun-ju decides to investigate their last moments. ... See full summary »
Director: Dong-bin Kim | Stars: Shin Eun-kyung, Seung-Hyun Lee, Jung Jin-young, Kim Chang-wan
Votes: 2,439
14. Sadako vs. Kayako (2016)
Not Rated | 98 min | Horror
The vengeful spirits of the Ring and Grudge series face off.
Director: Kôji Shiraishi | Stars: Mizuki Yamamoto, Tina Tamashiro, Aimi Satsukawa, Misato Tanaka
Votes: 3,989
15. One Missed Call 2 (2005)
R | 105 min | Horror, Mystery
A Japanese restaurant cook/owner dies after answering his daughter's cellphone. Other people are getting strange, same ringtone calls as well and dying painfully. It happened in Taiwan as well. Can the police stop it if it's a ghost?
Director: Renpei Tsukamoto | Stars: Rie Mimura, Hisashi Yoshizawa, Chisun, Asaka Seto
Votes: 3,630
16. One Missed Call 3: Final (2006)
Not Rated | 109 min | Horror, Mystery
The timid, young Asuka is bullied by her classmates. When they embark on a class field trip to Korea, Asuka plans revenge by sending them a cursed phone message they can either pass on or die.
Director: Manabu Asô | Stars: Maki Horikita, Meisa Kuroki, Jang Keun-suk, Erika Asakura
Votes: 2,221
17. 4444444444 (1998 Video)
3 min | Short, Horror
A young man receives a haunting phone call from a mysterious ghostly boy.
Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Kazushi Andô, Daiki Sawada
Votes: 626
18. You Die (2018)
94 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
An app appears on a girl’s phone. What looked like a game is actually a connection to the world of the dead, which allows you to see them through the phone’s camera.
Directors: Alessandro Antonaci, T3, Daniel Lascar, Stefano Mandalà | Stars: Carola Cudemo, Simone Valentino, Erica Landolfi, Simone Moretto
Votes: 432
19. Enigma para Demônios (1975)
98 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
After the death of her father in Argentina, Elza returns to Brazil to see her remaining family. When visiting her mother's grave, she steals a flower off an unknown grave and put it in her ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Hugo Christensen | Stars: Monique Lafond, Mário Brasini, Lícia Magna, Rodolfo Arena
Votes: 68
20. Chakushin ari (2005)
45 min | Horror, Mystery
A remake of the 2004 hit horror movie of the same name, Chakushin Ari (One Missed Call) in which the "message of death" is spread throughout the city via cellphones. Yumi the ex-student of ... See full summary »
Stars: Rei Kikukawa, Kanji Tsuda, Akiko Kinouchi, Haruna Yabuki
Votes: 102
21. Phone Home (2020)
16 min | Short, Horror, Mystery
While grieving the unexpected loss of his girlfriend, a man receives a chilling call. It's her.
Director: Aria Jackson | Stars: Travis Lincoln Cox, Gabriella Toth, Amber Bailey
22. Dead Calling (2006)
Thriller
A long-buried dark town secret is slowly unveiled when a young couple inherits a home from a deceased relative and discovers they can communicate with the dead on their second-floor telephone.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Ellie Cornell, Alana Curry, Charles Cyphers, Guerrin Gardner
Votes: 40
23. Bat Out of Hell (1966)
50 min | Thriller
Murdered by his wife and her lover, the dead husband's voice haunts his killers through sinister phone calls.
Stars: Sylvia Syms, John Thaw, Dudley Foster, June Ellis
Votes: 36
24. The Phone in the Attic (2014)
97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young woman begins receiving phone calls from her dead mother.
Director: Jim Long | Stars: Victoria Fox, Fernando R. Zicari, Michelle Berger, Carl Bailey
Votes: 5
25. Midnight Snack (2011 Video)
5 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
Dylan receives a menacing phone call from a dead girl, only to find out that she's in need of a 'midnight snack.'
Director: Amy Linsamouth | Stars: Emily Varzelle, Bryan Sato
26. The Voice in the Phone
Fantasy, Horror, Mystery | Announced
A computer programmer who receives strange phone calls from a fetish prostitute he may have murdered struggles to find out if he's being haunted by a prankster - or a ghost.
Director: Angel Connell
27. Ghost Phone (2013 Video)
Short, Horror
When a man's wife dies, his friend suggests an unusual way to make peace with her unquiet ghost.
Director: Danny Chadwick | Stars: Ashley Erin Campbell, Danny Chadwick, Michael A. Klein, Antonio Lexerot
28.
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (1997–2024)
Episode:
The Plane/The Gun/The Portrait/The Pass/The Caller
(1998)
TV-PG | 46 min | Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy
A plane flies itself and saves a man. A gun refuses to fire on the innocent. An artist has the power to end suffering. Two boys at a hospital visit the morgue. A radio psychiatrist gets calls from his deceased son.
Directors: Al Schwartz, Duwayne Dunham, Skip Schoolnik | Stars: Jonathan Frakes, Brian Van Holt, Chuck McCann, Ruth de Sosa
Votes: 94
29.
Circle of Fear (1972–1973)
Episode:
Bad Connection
(1972)
60 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young widow is trying to move on after her husband is shot down in Vietnam and presumed dead. She begins to receive mysterious phone calls from a man who sounds like her late husband.
Director: Walter Doniger | Stars: Sebastian Cabot, Karen Black, Michael Tolan, Kaz Garas
Votes: 110
30.
The Hunger (1997–2000)
Episode:
But at My Back I Always Hear
(1997)
TV-MA | 27 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A university professor rejects an advance made by one of his students and discovers that her twisted obsession with him does not end with her death.
Director: Patricia Rozema | Stars: Terence Stamp, Michael Gross, Karen Elkin, Cary Lawrence
Votes: 100
31.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Night Call
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Telephone calls begin to haunt a disabled elderly woman.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Gladys Cooper, Nora Marlowe, Martine Bartlett, Rod Serling
Votes: 2,527
32.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Christmas Carol
(1997)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While visiting family for Christmas, Scully receives a mysterious phone call that leads to a woman's apparent suicide and a young girl who may be her sister Melissa's daughter.
Director: Peter Markle | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Sheila Larken, Melinda McGraw
Votes: 3,650
33.
Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed (2002–2004)
Episode:
Campus Scream
Reality-TV
Stories include: The Campus Scream, Head Like a Sieve, The Theater Tickets, The Mini Elphants of Thailand, and Last Call.
Director: Andy Robinson | Stars: Norine Dresser, Natasha Henstridge, Peter Lownds
34.
Mostly True Stories (2002–2004)
Episode:
The Campus Scream
(2002)
45 min
Urban Legends - Is it truth? Is it Fiction? As seen on TLC. Hosted by Natasha Henstridge Each generation seems to spawn its own classic and compelling tales, or "Urban Legends." These ... See full summary »
35.
The Walking Dead (2010–2022)
Episode:
Hounded
(2012)
TV-MA | 43 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Rick receives a mysterious phone call. Andrea grows closer to The Governor. Merle tries to hunt down Michonne.
Director: Daniel Attias | Stars: Andrew Lincoln, Sarah Wayne Callies, Laurie Holden, Norman Reedus
Votes: 12,292
36.
BlackBoxTV (2010–2015)
Episode:
Silverwood: Unknown Caller
(2012)
TV-MA | 10 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Alex's mother abandoned her and her father. No note. No goodbye. Only a voicemail.
Director: Tony E. Valenzuela | Stars: Bree Essrig, Spencer Garrett, Justin Giddings, Jermaine McNeal
37.
American Horror Story (2011– )
Episode:
Nor'easter
(2012)
TV-MA | 41 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of patients plan an escape from the asylum during a violent storm.
Director: Michael Uppendahl | Stars: Zachary Quinto, Joseph Fiennes, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters
Votes: 5,210
38.
Spine Chillers (2013– )
Episode:
Sorry, I Couldn't Make It...
(2013)
15 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Frustrated by his girlfriend leaving him (again), Chad phones to one of his ex-girlfriends for a date. As ex-girlfriend doesn't show up he starts to worry.
Director: Josh Becker | Stars: Christopher J. Dinnan, Carol Ilku, Paul Harris