2025 · mystery · thriller · drama
Lifeline
Directed by Feras Alfuqaha1h 20m2025
A late-night suicide hotline operator receives a disturbing call from someone claiming to be him, knowing personal details only he would know. The caller threatens to end his life within the hour, forcing the operator into a tense, emotional race against time. As the clock ticks down, he must confront his deepest fears and uncover the truth before it’s too late to save “himself.”
Our read: Lifeline (2025) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive mystery · thriller · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured mystery / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- twisty
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