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The Slender Thread(1965)

1h 38min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 19 votes)

Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alone, a woman calls up the number and tells Alan that she needs to talk to someone. She informs Alan she took a load of pills, and he secretly tries to get help. During this time, he learns more about the woman, her family life, and why she wants to die. Can Alan get the cavalry to save her in time before it's too late?

Directed by Sydney Pollack - With Sidney Poitier, Anne Bancroft, Telly Savalas, Steven Hill, Ed Asner, Dabney Coleman, ...
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Ann Rule Presents: The Stranger Beside Me(2003)

PG-13
| 1h 29min | Thriller, Drama, Crime, TV Movie
3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

While working at a Seattle clinic for women in the 1970s, Ann Rule becomes friends with Ted Bundy. Based on a book by Ann Rule.

Directed by Paul Shapiro
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On Hold(2020)

20min | Documentary

On the basis of anonymous telephone calls made to a helpline for teenagers, On Hold makes us hear a dissonant speech. Recounted here by older people, these testimonies are the occasion to question the construction of masculinity and its generational heritage. Between humour and dread, the film unveils what remains unsaid in a sick society.