Best movies like Dead Air
The next caller could be the last.
A unique, carefully handpicked, selection of the best movies like Dead Air Starring Gregory Hines, Debrah Farentino, Harold Ayer, Laura Harrington, and more. If you liked Dead Air then you may also like: Vanishing Point, The Vast of Night, When a Stranger Calls, On the Air Live with Captain Midnight, Open House and many more popular movies featured on this list. You can further filter the list even more or get a random selection from the list of similar movies, to make your selection even easier.
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The Vast of Night
At the dawn of the space-race, two radio-obsessed teens discover a strange frequency over the airwaves in what becomes the most important night of their lives and in the history of their small town.
When a Stranger Calls
A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.
On the Air Live with Captain Midnight
A suburban teen stars a pirate radio station in the back of his van and becomes a cult hero.
Open House
Someone is killing off nubile real estate agents. A psychologist doing a therapy talk show begins getting calls from the perpetrator, and cooperates with the police to try and stop him. Unfortunately, his lover is a real estate agent, and when it becomes clear that the madman is getting information for his kills from her discarded home listings, they both become endangered.
Random Acts of Violence
A pair of comic book writers begin to notice scary similarities between the character they created and horrific real-life events.
The Caller
Troubled divorcee Mary Kee is tormented by a series of sinister phone calls from a mysterious woman. When the stranger reveals she's calling from the past, Mary tries to break off contact. But the caller doesn't like being ignored, and looks for revenge in a unique and terrifying way...
Radio Silence
Relationship Therapist, Dr. Jill Peterman, had the highest-rated call-in radio show when her world was pulled out from under her following the on-air suicide of a female caller named Alexis. Shaken to her core, Dr. Jill walked away from her show vowing she would never go back. That is until Stuart, the station's General Manager, pleads with her to reboot the show in an effort to bring followers back to the station. Still haunted by what happened, Jill agrees to help her friend out and believes this will be the perfect remedy to put her year-long anxiety to rest. As Jill starts to settle back into her show, mysterious call-ins start happening forcing her to believe there could be a copy-cat out there. What Jill begins to uncover is a web of secrets and lies stemming from the mysterious voice she has come to know as Alexis.
Memento
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.
Psycho IV: The Beginning
Norman Bates recalls his childhood with his abusive mother on a radio show about boys who commit matricide.
Talk Radio
A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.
Girls Nite Out
The students of DeWitt University are preparing themselves for a night of fun and frolics in the form of an all-night scavenger hunt. Little do they know that they are in fact the ones being hunted.
Urban Legend
A college campus is plagued by a vicious serial killer murdering students in ways that correspond to various urban legends.
The Severed Arm
Trapped in a cave, five men cut the arm off of another companion in order to ward off starvation. After they are saved, their victim seeks revenge on them one by one.
Hit and Run
A young woman tries to cover up a deadly hit and run accident, only to have the supposedly dead victim come back to terrorize her.
Play Misty for Me
A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture.
Psycho II
After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother's infamous old house, he soon finds himself tormented by 'her' demands and begins to question his own sanity.
Young Soul Rebels
Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.
Trick or Treat
Eddie Weinbauer, a metalhead teen who is bullied at school, looks to his heavy metal superstar idol, Sammi Curr, for guidance. When Curr is killed in a hotel fire, Eddie becomes the recipient of the only copy of Curr's unreleased album, which, when played backwards, brings Sammi back to life. As Halloween approaches, Eddie begins to realize that this isn't only rock 'n roll...it's life and death.
Outside Ozona
A widowed trucker (Robert Forster) fends off isolation in the company of a dog named Girl, two bickering sisters (Beth Ann Styne, Sherilyn Fenn) try to reconcile their differences and a down-and-out circus clown (Kevin Pollak) and his stripper girlfriend (Penelope Ann Miller) must fight the temptation of crime on the road. Their common companion is an angry disc jockey (Taj Mahal) at odds with a desperate boss (Meat Loaf). All these people will find their lives intertwined by the hand of fate. And before the night gives way to day, some will breathe their last breath... Outside Ozona.
Night Rhythms
Nick, a late night DJ, has sex with a listener that he's invited to the station. The session goes out over the air until something goes wrong. Nick wakes up to find a dead body and himself framed. Nick spends the rest of the movie having sex whilst trying to prove his innocence.
Bodily Harm
Homicide cop Rita Cates takes a murder case where the victim is a Las Vegas stripper. The investigation immediately takes a perverse turn when she discovers the prime suspect: a psychotic ex-cop with whom she once had a torrid affair. That initial affair drove Cates' husband to suicide, but it doesn't stop her from picking up where she left off. In the heat of passion, she jeopardizes the case, her career and her life.
Never Talk to Strangers
Sarah Taylor, a police psychologist, meets a mysterious and seductive young man, Tony Ramirez, and falls in love with him. As a cause of this relationship, she changes her personality when she begins to receive anonymous telephone calls.
Dark Signal
The spirit of a murdered girl returns with a message. Now a stranded woman must team up with the staff of a local station to solve the mystery of her death.
Laser Moon
A DJ helps police detectives hunt down a serial killer who kills women and makes taunting phone calls to the radio station.
Requiem for Murder
Anne Winslow hosts a popular classical music radio show. Detective Lou Heinz discovers Anne is connected to a series of murders in which the victim is killed via poisoned wine while a radio is tuned into her show. It seems that each victim had wronged Anne in some way and whoever is sending her roses may be the killer.
Alien Tornado
Aliens attack Earth with deadly electrical tornadoes, and it’s up to a farmer, his smart high-school daughter and a tornado blogger to thwart the horrific invasion.
Redneck Miller
Miller is an early morning disc jockey in the Southern United States. After his motorcycle is stolen and used in a drug deal, Miller finds himself mixed up with a variety of thugs and criminals.
A Cry for Help
A talk-radio host, who specializes in abusing and insulting his audience, gets a call from a disturbed teenage girl who says she is going to commit suicide. After first encouraging her, he has a change of heart and frantically tries to get his listeners to help find the girl before she makes good on her threat.
Happy Here and Now
When her sister suddenly vanishes, a young girl sets out to find her, desperately searching the internet for clues. Joining her is an ex-CIA agent, who uncovers fragments of online chats the missing girl had with a softcore pornographer.
A distraught disc jockey seeks out a mystery caller who may be the killer of his girlfriend.
A unique, carefully handpicked, selection of the best movies like Dead Air Starring Gregory Hines, Debrah Farentino, Harold Ayer, Laura Harrington, and more. If you liked Dead Air then you may also like: Vanishing Point, The Vast of Night, When a Stranger Calls, On the Air Live with Captain Midnight, Open House and many more popular movies featured on this list. You can further filter the list even more or get a random selection from the list of similar movies, to make your selection even easier.
Vanishing Point
When his wife goes into a troubled labor while he is on the road over 1200 miles away James Kowalski, an ex race car driver and a former Army Ranger, attempts to elude police while trying to get home. After numerous chases he turns into a Native American reservation and reflects on his life, and his wife. He heads off to break through a police roadblock.