Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "eavesdropping-on-a-telephone-call"

1. The Babysitters (2007)

R | 88 min | Drama

After fooling around with one of her customers, a teenager turns her babysitting service into a call-girl service for married guys.

Director: David Ross | Stars: Lauren Birkell, Paul Borghese, Chira Cassel, Anthony Cirillo

Votes: 12,812 | Gross: $0.04M

2. The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)

R | 77 min | Horror

A female high school student's slumber party turns into a bloodbath, as a newly escaped psychotic serial killer wielding a power drill prowls her neighborhood.

Director: Amy Holden Jones | Stars: Michele Michaels, Robin Stille, Michael Villella, Debra De Liso

Votes: 17,993

3. Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019)

PG-13 | 109 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A loving mom becomes compelled to reconnect with her creative passions after years of sacrificing herself for her family. Her leap of faith takes her on an epic adventure that jump-starts her life and leads to her triumphant rediscovery.

Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Emma Nelson, Kristen Wiig

Votes: 25,179 | Gross: $9.20M

4. Youth in Revolt (2009)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

While his trailer trash parents teeter on the edge of divorce, Nick Twisp sets his sights on dream girl Sheeni Saunders, hoping that she'll be the one to take away his virginity.

Director: Miguel Arteta | Stars: Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Jean Smart, Zach Galifianakis

Votes: 76,219 | Gross: $15.28M

5. Sibyl (2019)

Not Rated | 101 min | Drama

A jaded psychotherapist returns to her first passion of becoming a writer. However, her life is complicated by a desperate film actress who wants her help, and who draws her into a world of questionable ethics.

Director: Justine Triet | Stars: Virginie Efira, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Gaspard Ulliel, Sandra Hüller

Votes: 5,262

6. Scoop (2006)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Hugh Jackman, Jim Dunk, Robert Bathurst

Votes: 87,745 | Gross: $10.53M

7. Dead Again (1991)

R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A woman who has lost her memory is taken in by a Los Angeles orphanage, and a private eye is enlisted to track down her identity, but he soon finds that he might have a past life connection to her that endangers their lives.

Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Andy Garcia, Lois Hall

Votes: 30,431 | Gross: $38.02M

8. Anna (I) (2009)

35 min | Short, Drama

In a small Danish fishing village, a young girl faces the challenges of puberty and first love.

Director: Rúnar Rúnarsson | Stars: Marie Boda, Daniel Stampe, Petrine Agger, Kristianna Nordoy

Votes: 265

9. Breathe (2014)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama

Charlie is an average French suburban teenager, but when she becomes fast friends with Sarah, the rebellious new girl at school, she discovers there's nothing average about how she feels.

Director: Mélanie Laurent | Stars: Joséphine Japy, Lou de Laâge, Isabelle Carré, Claire Keim

Votes: 7,864 | Gross: $0.04M

10. Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979)

R | 105 min | Drama

An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Anne Heywood, Donald Pleasence, Robert Vaughn, Earl Holliman

Votes: 462

11. Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)

Not Rated | 174 min | Drama

At the end of a long and hot summer day, members of one family gather in a large house. Everyone has something painful and offensive to say, and their silence is even worse.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell

Votes: 5,942

12. Starting Over (1979)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Romance

A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This affects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel.

Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen, Charles Durning

Votes: 3,265 | Gross: $41.64M

13. A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)

Not Rated | 95 min | Mystery, Thriller

The potentially unhinged daughter of a British politician is accused of killing her hedonistic neighbor after she witnesses the murder in a dream.

Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Stanley Baker, Jean Sorel, Silvia Monti

Votes: 5,819

14. The Desperate Hours (1955)

Approved | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Three escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott

Votes: 10,915

15. Boy Bastos (2022)

116 min | Comedy

Felix is a horny young man who meets an alluring woman that will live at his house and teach him Sex 101.

Director: Victor Villanueva | Stars: Wilbert Ross, Rose Van Ginkel, Jela Cuenca, Andrew Muhlach

Votes: 639

16. The Magnificent Cuckold (1964)

117 min | Comedy, Drama

Andrea Artusi begins to have doubts about the loyalty of his beautiful wife . When doubt becomes an obsession , his behavior becomes completely crazy , stalking her relentlessly.

Director: Antonio Pietrangeli | Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Ugo Tognazzi, Bernard Blier, Michèle Girardon

Votes: 772

17. Family Practice (2018)

89 min | Drama

Simon has a turbulent bond with his father. During his parents' vacation, Simon starts a risky flirtation with his dad's lover, becoming entrapped in the complicated family web.

Director: Jeshua Dreyfus | Stars: Dimitri Stapfer, Katja Kolm, Dani Levy, Sibylle Canonica

Votes: 234

18. Deception (2003 TV Movie)

R | 88 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Erin, a struggling actress, has little faith in men. She works for a detective agency, her job is to seduce married men and let their wives catch them in the act. But lately, Erin is been ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Roy | Stars: Dina Meyer, Steve Bacic, Gary Hudson, Anna Silk

Votes: 312

19. Terror Street (1953)

Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An American pilot AWOL from the states is framed for his wife's murder and has just 36 hours to prove his innocence.

Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Dan Duryea, Elsie Albiin, Gudrun Ure, Eric Pohlmann

Votes: 392

20. Satanik (1968)

Not Rated | 86 min | Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A withered old hag turns into a beautiful young woman after drinking a youth formula.

Director: Piero Vivarelli | Stars: Magda Konopka, Julio Peña, Umberto Raho, Luigi Montini

Votes: 431

21. Ram Shastra (1995)

Action, Drama

Ram Sinha doesn't know that he can re-write his destiny by joining the police force, and at the same time make an enemy with a criminal don named Dhonga the Great. Dhonga swears to avenge ... See full summary »

Director: Sanjay Gupta | Stars: Jackie Shroff, Manisha Koirala, Deepti Bhatnagar, Aditya Pancholi

Votes: 111

22. The Blonde from Peking (1967)

87 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

An amnesic young woman is found fainting on a bench. A tattoo identifies her as Erica Olsen, ex-companion of a Chinese scientist who holds atomic secrets.

Director: Nicolas Gessner | Stars: Claudio Brook, Mireille Darc, Françoise Brion, Jean-Jacques Delbo

Votes: 224

23. Twice Two (1933)

Passed | 20 min | Comedy, Short

Stan and Ollie are married to each other's sisters, and plan a dinner party to celebrate their mutual anniversaries.

Director: James Parrott | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Baldwin Cooke, Charlie Hall

Votes: 1,503

24. Kidnap Syndicate (1975)

R | 98 min | Crime, Thriller

Based on an actual event "The Kidnap Syndicate" is the story of two boys, one from a rich family and the other from a poor family, who are kidnapped and held for ransom.

Director: Fernando Di Leo | Stars: Luc Merenda, James Mason, Irina Maleeva, Marino Masé

Votes: 902

25. The Spies (1957)

Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Short of cash for his private clinic, a French psychiatrist accepts money from a NATO Intelligence agent to shelter a defecting Soviet-bloc scientist but enemy spies are closing-in.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Peter Ustinov, O.E. Hasse, Sam Jaffe

Votes: 1,101

26. The Red-Light Sting (1984 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Thriller

Government agent Frank Powell (Beau Bridges) is determined to bring down racketeering crime lord Oliver Sully (Harold Gould) but cannot find any evidence. Powell concocts a plan to have the... See full summary »

Director: Rod Holcomb | Stars: Farrah Fawcett, Beau Bridges, Harold Gould, Paul Burke

Votes: 89

27. Os garotos Virgens de Ipanema (1973)

92 min | Comedy

Dani is a boy who is reaching puberty and his father is worried because he is not interested in the opposite sex. All his attitudes make his father distrust his masculinity.

Director: Oswaldo de Oliveira | Stars: Carmem Angélica, Enoque Batista, Mário Benvenutti, Letácio Camargo

Votes: 28

28. The Whip Hand (1951)

Approved | 82 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Matt Corbin, a vacationing magazine writer, takes a fishing trip to Minnesota, and stumbles across a lake in which all the fish have mysteriously died. The locals are tight-lipped about it,... See full summary »

Director: William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Carla Balenda, Elliott Reid, Edgar Barrier, Raymond Burr

Votes: 717

29. Piège pour Cendrillon (1965)

118 min | Crime, Mystery

The young Michèle Isola, who is about to inherit a fortune from her godmother, scarcely survives a terrible fire. When she regains consciousness it becomes evident she suffers with amnesia.

Director: André Cayatte | Stars: Dany Carrel, Madeleine Robinson, Hubert Noël, Jean Gaven

Votes: 179

30. Tales of the Third Dimension (1984)

85 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

"Tales of the Third Dimension" was a 1984 hosted horror anthology 3-D movie; with the skeleton "Igor" as host. The movie has three scary tales.

Directors: Todd Durham, Worth Keeter, Thom McIntyre, Earl Owensby | Stars: Fran Taylor, Kevin Campbell, Robert Bloodworth, Kate Hunter

Votes: 198

31. Society Lawyer (1939)

Passed | 77 min | Drama, Music, Mystery

Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall when Siddall is arrested for the murder of an ex-girlfriend. With the help of nightclub singer Pat Abbott and ... See full summary »

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Virginia Bruce, Leo Carrillo, Eduardo Ciannelli

Votes: 284

32. Wife and Auto Trouble (1916)

14 min | Short, Comedy, Romance

A mild-mannered man's problems with his domineering wife and mother-in-law lead to complications with the law.

Director: Dell Henderson | Stars: William Collier Sr., Blanche Payson, Joseph Belmont, Alice Davenport

Votes: 202

33. Annabelle's Affairs (1931)

Approved | 76 min | Romance

After only 11 hours of marriage, Annabelle and her husband separate-not knowing what each other truly looks like. Annabelle is given stocks in a mining enterprise by her husband and told ... See full summary »

Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Jeanette MacDonald, Roland Young, Sam Hardy

Votes: 39

34. Danny's Secret (2019)

20 min | Short, Drama

On the verge of loosing his virginity with his girlfriend, Danny suddenly finds himself faced with a terrible doubt.

Director: Raphaël Biss | Stars: Isabelle Allen, Jonathan Blake, Nicola Harrison, Katherine Rodden

35. The Great Pie Mystery (1931)

22 min | Comedy, Short

A stolen garter. A kidnapped girl thrown off a bridge. A mother's kiss. A father's kiss - and plenty of pies in the face. Who threw those pies?

Director: Del Lord | Stars: Harry Gribbon, May Boley, Alma Bennett, Harry Myers

Votes: 21

36. Eavesdropper (2019)

20 min | Short, Drama

Selamet, who is working at the old central of a company which is on the eve of moving to a big center, tries to make his life similar to a stranger on the phone by discovering his closeness to that person.

Director: Ahmet Togaç | Stars: Turgay Aydin, Deniz Inanc, Hülya Gülsen Irmak, Ismail Akbaba

Votes: 118

37. Safeguarding Military Information (1942)

9 min | Documentary, Short

Documentary short depicting the dangers of inadvertent dispersal of secret military information, showing the unintended and disastrous results of careless conversation and improper maintenance of secret records.

Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Eddie Bracken, Tom Fadden, Ian Hunter, Walter Huston

Votes: 165

38. All in the Family (1971–1979)
Episode: Success Story (1971)

TV-PG | 26 min | Comedy, Drama

Archie's old buddy, Eddie Frazier, has amassed a fortune in the used car trade. However, Eddie's quest for money comes at a huge price: his estranged family wants nothing to do with him.

Director: John Rich | Stars: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers

Votes: 308

39. The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978)
Episode: Vincent Price, Joel Grey (1974)

TV-G | 60 min | Comedy, Family

Highlights include: Chrissy's new boyfriend (guest Joel Grey) isn't as wild and swinging as he's assumed to be in "Carol and Sis"; long-in-the-tooth moppet Rhoda Dimple (Carol) tangles with... See full summary »

Director: Dave Powers | Stars: Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner

Votes: 52

40. Friends (1994–2004)
Episode: The One with All the Resolutions (1999)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Romance

The gang make their New Years resolutions. Chandler struggles to not make jokes about everyone. Joey learns how to learn to play the guitar and Rachel decides not to gossip. Ross runs into trouble when he wears leather pants on a date.

Director: Joe Regalbuto | Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc

Votes: 6,066

41. Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996)
Episode: Confession (1996)

Not Rated | 25 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

Evans, a sly horror screenwriter suspected in a series of grisly murders of women whose heads were taken by the killer as trophies, is interrogated by Jack Lynch, a clever hardboiled homicide detective whom every cop idolizes.

Director: Peter Hewitt | Stars: Eddie Izzard, Ciarán Hinds, Alun Armstrong, John Benfield

Votes: 469

42. Thriller (1960–1962)
Episode: What Beckoning Ghost? (1961)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A woman sees her own coffin and questions her sanity. No one else sees it or hears a phantom organ in their spooky mansion. Housebound with a weak heart, tended by her sexy younger sister and ne'er-do-well husband, nothing is as it seems.

Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Boris Karloff, Judith Evelyn, Tom Helmore, Adele Mara

Votes: 171

43. Dark Shadows (1966–1971)
Episode: Episode #1.35 (1966)

TV-G | 22 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Sam tries to get out of painting Burke's portrait. Carolyn becomes jealous of Victoria.

Director: Lela Swift | Stars: Mitchell Ryan, Joel Crothers, Nancy Barrett, David Ford

Votes: 82

44. The Midnight Club (2022)
Episode: Anya (2022)

TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Anya's eyes open to a strange new reality. Ilonka blames herself for a crushing loss, then overhears a conversation that could change everything.

Director: Axelle Carolyn | Stars: Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Annarah Cymone

Votes: 1,280

45. Miss Scarlet & the Duke (2020– )
Episode: The Calling (2024)

TV-14 | 53 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Eliza and Nash are still struggling to work together when an explosive case takes them into a cutthroat industry where people will kill to keep their secrets.

Director: Rachael New | Stars: Kate Phillips, Predrag Grujic, Paul Bazely, Felix Scott

Votes: 152

46. Crisis in Six Scenes (2016)
Episode: Episode #1.4 (2016)

TV-PG | 24 min | Comedy

Romantic alliances fray and conflict in the suburban home reaches a boiling point.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Miley Cyrus, Elaine May, Rachel Brosnahan

Votes: 405

47. Better Call Saul (2015–2022)
Episode: Bad Choice Road (2020)

TV-14 | 59 min | Crime, Drama

In the wake of Jimmy's traumatic misadventure, Kim takes stock of what is important; Jimmy attempts to return to business as usual, but it's more difficult than anticipated; Gus and Mike set a plan in motion.

Director: Thomas Schnauz | Stars: Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Rhea Seehorn, Patrick Fabian

Votes: 26,739