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Movies Like The Phone Call

If you liked The Phone Call (2013), a drama movie directed by Mat Kirkby, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Cake

    Cake (2014)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.

  2. 2The Young One

    The Young One (1960)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

  3. 3The Slender Thread

    The Slender Thread (1965)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. During a lonely night shift, a woman calls up and tells Alan that she needs to talk to someone. She informs him she's taken an overdose of pills; he…

  4. 4Fathers and Daughters

    Fathers and Daughters (2015)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.

  5. 5Things We Lost in the Fire

    Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.

  6. 6Requiem for a Dream

    Requiem for a Dream (2000)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

  7. 7Upstream Color

    Upstream Color (2013)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.

  8. 8Wakefield

    Wakefield (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    A man's nervous breakdown causes him to leave his wife and live in his attic for several months.

  9. 9The Way Back

    The Way Back (2020)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    A former basketball all-star, who has lost his wife and family foundation in a struggle with addiction, attempts to regain his soul and salvation by becoming the coach of a disparate ethnically mixed high school…

  10. 10Hereafter

    Hereafter (2010)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.

  11. 11Drugstore Cowboy

    Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne, and another couple, Rick and Nadine, who skillfully steal from drugstores and hospital medicine cabinets…

  12. 12Clean

    Clean (2004)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.

  13. 13The Salton Sea

    The Salton Sea (2002)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his…

  14. 14The Human Voice

    The Human Voice (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him.

  15. 15Play Misty for Me

    Play Misty for Me (1971)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    A brief fling between a late-night radio disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening turn when another woman enters the picture.

  16. 16Mr. Church

    Mr. Church (2016)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.

  17. 17The Thing with Feathers

    The Thing with Feathers (2025)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Following the death of his wife, a young father's hold on reality crumbles, and a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.

  18. 18Rabbit Hole

    Rabbit Hole (2010)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.

  19. 19Inside Llewyn Davis

    Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future.

  20. 20Helen

    Helen (2009)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solace through her…

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