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Film · 10 connectionsA married man calls the wrong number for phone-sex and winds up being stalked by a psychotic man.
Directed byAllan A. Goldstein
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Strong story similarity
1982 · 113 min · Drama · Romance
A perfect typical LA couple find their happily-ever-after life broken when the husband confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men.
Same director
1996 · 98 min · Action · Drama · Thriller
John Gray, a mild-mannered banker, gets hit by a car and loses most of his memory. When he gets out of the hospital, he has flashbacks which do not fit with his current life. After a strange telephone call and a murder attempt on his wife, Gray's wife is murdered which he is forced to go to L.A. in order to solve the crime and piece together his mysterious past.
Strong story similarity
1991 · 90 min · Drama
The movie, adapted from Robert Chesley's homoerotic play of the same title, revolves around two men who started out as phone sex buddies who grew on each other through time. The fragility of this kind of relationship is put to fore when Bert (Tom Wagner) got sick and couldn't return his calls. J.R. was left with nothing to hold on to but blank hope. No warning. No goodbye. Bert is gone.
Strong story similarity
1982 · 92 min · Drama · Horror · TV Movie · Thriller
A serial rapist gets acquitted of his crimes due to a police mishandling of the investigation. His victims decide to turn the tables on him and begin stalking him.
Strong story similarity
1989 · 101 min · Drama
Ann, a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to her, her husband John has begun an affair with her sister. When John’s best friend Graham arrives, his penchant for interviewing women about their sex lives forever changes John and Ann’s rocky marriage.
Similar atmosphere
1993 · 121 min · Drama · Horror
A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper, with a price far heavier than expected.
Strong story similarity
1987 · 119 min · Drama · Romance · Thriller
A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
Genre overlap
1981 · 95 min · Drama · Horror · Thriller
A record store clerk is an obsessed fan of an actress of stage and screen. However, when faced with rejection, the fan strikes out in increasingly violent ways.
Strong story similarity
1993 · 92 min · Horror · TV Movie · Thriller
A beautiful young computer technician starting off her career in Silicon Valley during the Eighties, is stalked and harassed by a nerdy, dangerous and mentally-unstable colleague with a twisted obsession.
Strong story similarity
1989 · 104 min · Comedy · Crime · Drama
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.
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