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Movies that feel like The Call (2020)

If you loved The Call, the closest films we have are The End of Oak Street (2026), Sound of My Voice (2011) and Marjorie Prime (2017). All three share The Call's twisty and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Hulu and MUBI and others, checked against today's data.

Connected by phone in the same home but 20 years apart, a caller puts a woman’s past — and life — on the line to change her own fate.

🍅 46% Rotten Tomatoes7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Lee Chung-hyuntensetwistycerebral
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The End of Oak Street
2026 · dir. David Robert Mitchell
🍅 86%6.6science fiction · mystery · thriller

Tense where it counts, twisty underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.

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Sound of My Voice
2011 · dir. Zal Batmanglij
🍅 76%6.6science fiction · drama · mystery

Cerebral thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Call does

A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.

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Marjorie Prime
2017 · dir. Michael Almereyda
🍅 89%6.3drama · mystery · science fiction

Mystery built on twists, twice over

The difference: None of the tension The Call is built on

A service which creates holographic projections of late family members allows an elderly woman to spend time with a younger version of her deceased husband.

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The Hidden Face
2011 · dir. Andrés Baiz
7.3thriller · mystery

Tense science fiction in both cases

A Spanish orchestra conductor deals with the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend.

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Kahaani
2012 · dir. Sujoy Ghosh
🍅 100%8.1mystery · thriller

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

Pregnant and alone in the city of Kolkata, a woman begins a relentless search for her missing husband, only to find that nothing is what it seems.

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Marshland
2014 · dir. Alberto Rodríguez
🍅 91%7.2crime · mystery · thriller

One thread runs through both: serial killer

The difference: Leans harder into crime than The Call does

The Spanish Deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters – both detectives in the homicide division – to investigate the cases.

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Identity
2003 · dir. James Mangold
🍅 63%7.3mystery · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: psychopath

Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.

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Cube
1998 · dir. Vincenzo Natali
🍅 61%7.1thriller · science fiction · mystery

Mystery with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to escape, if they don't wind up dead first.

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Paradise
2023 · dir. Boris Kunz
🍅 100%6.3science fiction · thriller

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

A man sees the dark side of the time-manipulating biotech company he works for when a crushing debt forces his wife to give up 40 years of her own life.

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Rojo
2018 · dir. Benjamín Naishtat
🍅 96%6.3drama · mystery · thriller

Twisty thriller in both cases

A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of Claudio, a successful lawyer, gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant.

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Limitless
2011 · dir. Neil Burger
🍅 68%7.4thriller · mystery · science fiction

Cut from the same mystery cloth

The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life.

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Color Out of Space
2020 · dir. Richard Stanley
🍅 86%6.1horror · science fiction · mystery

Both know what they want from science fiction

The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches—including them.

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