When a Stranger Calls (1979)

When a Stranger Calls - 1979 film directed by Fred Walton. This film is the 9016^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films. Article “When a Stranger Calls (1979)” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 22 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 10 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5.51 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Portuguese) language version.

Since the creation of article “When a Stranger Calls (1979)”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 337 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

When a Stranger Calls is on the 9016^th place in global ranking of films on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 7 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 222 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #7527 in March 2025
• Global: #66750 in May 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #134707 in February 2023
• Global: #67741 in November 2023

There are 14 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) When a Stranger Calls (1979 film)		46.6635
2	Portuguese (pt) When a Stranger Calls (1979)		22.0389
3	French (fr) Terreur sur la ligne (film, 1979)		20.3587
4	Turkish (tr) When a Stranger Calls (film, 1979)		12.0034
5	Spanish (es) When a Stranger Calls (película de 1979)		11.073
6	Russian (ru) Когда звонит незнакомец (фильм, 1979)		10.7149
7	Korean (ko) 웬 어 스트레인저 콜스		9.8244
8	Serbian (sr) Кад странац позове		7.7786
9	Japanese (ja) 夕暮れにベルが鳴る		7.7353
10	Polish (pl) Kiedy dzwoni nieznajomy (film 1979)		5.5015

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "When a Stranger Calls (1979)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) When a Stranger Calls (1979 film)		2 245 825
2	Russian (ru) Когда звонит незнакомец (фильм, 1979)		66 909
3	Italian (it) Quando chiama uno sconosciuto		50 282
4	French (fr) Terreur sur la ligne (film, 1979)		49 628
5	Spanish (es) When a Stranger Calls (película de 1979)		35 319
6	Japanese (ja) 夕暮れにベルが鳴る		21 055
7	Polish (pl) Kiedy dzwoni nieznajomy (film 1979)		14 938
8	Portuguese (pt) When a Stranger Calls (1979)		12 523
9	Serbian (sr) Кад странац позове		5 082
10	Czech (cs) When a Stranger Calls (film, 1979)		2 094

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "When a Stranger Calls (1979)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) When a Stranger Calls (1979 film)		11 780
2	Italian (it) Quando chiama uno sconosciuto		728
3	Russian (ru) Когда звонит незнакомец (фильм, 1979)		407
4	Japanese (ja) 夕暮れにベルが鳴る		268
5	French (fr) Terreur sur la ligne (film, 1979)		202
6	Spanish (es) When a Stranger Calls (película de 1979)		129
7	Portuguese (pt) When a Stranger Calls (1979)		81
8	Serbian (sr) Кад странац позове		42
9	Polish (pl) Kiedy dzwoni nieznajomy (film 1979)		29
10	Turkish (tr) When a Stranger Calls (film, 1979)		21

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "When a Stranger Calls (1979)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) When a Stranger Calls (1979 film)		199
2	Russian (ru) Когда звонит незнакомец (фильм, 1979)		27
3	French (fr) Terreur sur la ligne (film, 1979)		26
4	Italian (it) Quando chiama uno sconosciuto		19
5	Portuguese (pt) When a Stranger Calls (1979)		16
6	Polish (pl) Kiedy dzwoni nieznajomy (film 1979)		14
7	Spanish (es) When a Stranger Calls (película de 1979)		11
8	Japanese (ja) 夕暮れにベルが鳴る		6
9	Turkish (tr) When a Stranger Calls (film, 1979)		5
10	Czech (cs) When a Stranger Calls (film, 1979)		4

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "When a Stranger Calls (1979)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) When a Stranger Calls (1979 film)		1
2	Italian (it) Quando chiama uno sconosciuto		1
3	Czech (cs) When a Stranger Calls (film, 1979)		0
4	Spanish (es) When a Stranger Calls (película de 1979)		0
5	Basque (eu) When a Stranger Calls (1979ko filma)		0
6	French (fr) Terreur sur la ligne (film, 1979)		0
7	Japanese (ja) 夕暮れにベルが鳴る		0
8	Korean (ko) 웬 어 스트레인저 콜스		0
9	Dutch (nl) When a Stranger Calls (1979)		0
10	Polish (pl) Kiedy dzwoni nieznajomy (film 1979)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "When a Stranger Calls (1979)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) When a Stranger Calls (1979 film)		67
2	French (fr) Terreur sur la ligne (film, 1979)		38
3	Russian (ru) Когда звонит незнакомец (фильм, 1979)		24
4	Japanese (ja) 夕暮れにベルが鳴る		20
5	Italian (it) Quando chiama uno sconosciuto		19
6	Spanish (es) When a Stranger Calls (película de 1979)		15
7	Dutch (nl) When a Stranger Calls (1979)		10
8	Polish (pl) Kiedy dzwoni nieznajomy (film 1979)		10
9	Portuguese (pt) When a Stranger Calls (1979)		7
10	Serbian (sr) Кад странац позове		5

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech When a Stranger Calls (film, 1979)
en	English When a Stranger Calls (1979 film)
es	Spanish When a Stranger Calls (película de 1979)
eu	Basque When a Stranger Calls (1979ko filma)
fr	French Terreur sur la ligne (film, 1979)
it	Italian Quando chiama uno sconosciuto
ja	Japanese 夕暮れにベルが鳴る
ko	Korean 웬 어 스트레인저 콜스
nl	Dutch When a Stranger Calls (1979)
pl	Polish Kiedy dzwoni nieznajomy (film 1979)
pt	Portuguese When a Stranger Calls (1979)
ru	Russian Когда звонит незнакомец (фильм, 1979)
sr	Serbian Кад странац позове
tr	Turkish When a Stranger Calls (film, 1979)

Best Rank

Portuguese: #134707 02.2023

Global: #67741 11.2023

Best Rank

Portuguese: #7527 03.2025

Global: #66750 05.2019

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