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Movies Like The Secret Call

If you liked The Secret Call (1931), a drama and romance movie directed by Stuart Walker, 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. 1The Parallax View

    The Parallax View (1974)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.

  2. 2Bobby

    Bobby (2006)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

  3. 3The Front Runner

    The Front Runner (2018)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Gary Hart, former Senator of Colorado, becomes the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1987. Hart's intelligence, charisma and idealism makes him popular with young voters, leaving him with a…

  4. 4Blind

    Blind (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance

    A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.

  5. 5Grand Hotel

    Grand Hotel (1932)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and romance

    Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

  6. 6Ziegfeld Girl

    Ziegfeld Girl (1941)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing…

  7. 7Damage

    Damage (1992)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.

  8. 8Sleuth

    Sleuth (2007)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Locked in a high-tech English manor, bound in a deadly duel of wits, Andrew Wyke and Milo Tindle come together as English gentlemen to discuss the matter of Wyke's wife: the woman both are sleeping with.

  9. 9Indecent Proposal

    Indecent Proposal (1993)

    ★ 6.4/10Also romance and drama

    John Gage offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night with the man's wife.

  10. 10Possessed

    Possessed (1931)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and romance

    Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer, can make her dreams come true, but, there is only one problem; he…

  11. 11The Cat's Meow

    The Cat's Meow (2002)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.

  12. 12Chloe

    Chloe (2010)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Catherine and David Stewart are a well-to-do couple living in a posh area of Toronto, but all is not well in paradise. Catherine suspects that David is cheating on her, so she hires an escort named Chloe to meet David…

  13. 13The Laundromat

    The Laundromat (2019)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    When a widow gets swindled out of insurance money, her search for answers leads to two cunning lawyers in Panama who hide cash for the superrich.

  14. 14Lolita

    Lolita (1997)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and romance

    Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed…

  15. 15The Age of Innocence

    The Age of Innocence (1993)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and romance

    In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.

  16. 16The Man from Elysian Fields

    The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and romance

    A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service, where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.

  17. 17Purple Hearts

    Purple Hearts (2022)

    ★ 8/10Also romance and drama

    An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.

  18. 18The Place Beyond the Pines

    The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.

  19. 19Absolute Power

    Absolute Power (1997)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of the United States is involved—occurs in front of his eyes. He is forced to run, while holding evidence that could convict the…

  20. 20Manhattan Night

    Manhattan Night (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a…

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