Movies like Phone Booth

This high-octane thriller captures the relentless tension and suspense much like Phone Booth. A young police officer must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 mph. Fans of the real-time, high-stakes scenario in Phone Booth will likely be glued to their seats watching Speed.

Similar to Phone Booth's theme of being watched and manipulated by an omnipotent force, Eagle Eye involves two strangers who become pawns of a mysterious woman who has hacked into all of their personal information and uses technology to control their actions.

In a plot that's somewhat a reverse of Phone Booth, Cellular follows a man who receives a call on his cell phone from a woman who claims to have been kidnapped, and he's her only line of connection to the outside world. The concept of being bound by a phone call is central to both films.

This gripping action film involves a race against time, much like Phone Booth. Bruce Willis plays a worn-out cop who must escort a witness from police custody to a courthouse 16 blocks away, facing numerous obstacles along the way.

Johnny Depp stars in this real-time thriller, about an ordinary man who's forced into a deadly political assassination to save his kidnapped daughter. Much like Phone Booth, Nick of Time's tension is amplified by its real-time format and moral dilemmas.

Untraceable features a similar premise of technology being used for sinister means, where an FBI agent hunts down a tech-savvy serial killer who broadcasts his crimes on the internet live, drawing the public into his twisted game much like the antagonist in Phone Booth.