Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "phone-call-from-beyond-the-grave"

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: 375,100 | 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: 67,156

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: 43,623

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: 77,512

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: 43,235 | 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: 12,971 | 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: 34,015 | 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: 51,469 | 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: 19,316

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: 2,438

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: 3,988

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: 12,290

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: 5,208

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