Movies like Buried
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Buried (2010)
176K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, bad ending, disturbing, surprise ending, depressing, scary, dark, minimal cast ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, trapped, buried alive, isolation, confined, claustrophobia, terrorist, captivity, twists and turns, panic, threat, desperation, abduction, race against time, danger, suffocation, fear, deathtrap, kidnapping, terrorism, brutality, cell phone, hostage, confined space, darkness ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, year 2006, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
iraq, middle east
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Most similar movies to Buried
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, serious and suspense films with plots about claustrophobia, survival, confined, danger, trapped, one location and dialogue mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Drama genres. Some movies like Buried: Panic Room (2002), Cube Zero (2004), Brake (2012), 127 Hours (2010), The Hole (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
313K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul ...
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tense, neo noir, psychological ...
Audience:
kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
home invasion, trapped, isolation, cat and mouse, hostage, claustrophobia, surveillance, security system, twists and turns, child in peril, locked in a room, confinement indoors ...
Time:
2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
usa, manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
100%
44K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Cube Zero is the third film in the trilogy yet this time instead of a film about people trapped in a deadly cube trying to get out we see it from the eyes of someone who is controlling the cube and the torture of the victims inside. When the nerd ...
Style:
clever, surreal, surprise ending, psychological, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
trap, parallel world, survival, torture, mathematics, chess, elevator, video surveillance, time machine, isolation, escape room, rescue ...
Time:
future, 2000s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
12K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A Secret Service Agent is held captive in the trunk of a car and endures high-speed mental and physical torture as terrorists attempt to extract needed information for their sinister plot.
Style:
twist ending, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
terrorist, secret agent, secret place, agent as target, kidnapping, terrorism, captivity, isolation, kidnapped, race against time, danger, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
86%
422K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.
Style:
suspense, unusual plot structure, inspirational, intense, breathtaking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, isolation, trapped, mountain, wilderness, canyon, courage, alone, desert, trap, loneliness, life & death ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, year 2003 ...
Place:
utah, usa
Similarity:
77%
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50K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.
Style:
psychological, scary, twist ending, dark, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
claustrophobia, obsession, psychology, twists and turns, school, youth, underground bunker, male nudity, danger, bunker, survival, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
wales, england
Similarity:
100%
295K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
Style:
surprise ending, atmospheric, suspense, psychological thriller, creepy ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
plot twist, isolation, forest, twists and turns, psychology, village life, village, utopia, mysterious place, woods, autumn, small town ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 1890s, 19th century, 18th century ...
Place:
pennsylvania, philadelphia, new england
Similarity:
100%
13K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After getting a car ride from an unknown man, Lisa wakes up in a tube. On her arm is strapped a bracelet with a countdown. She quickly understands that every 8 minutes, fire burns an occupied section. She has no choice but to crawl into safe ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, scary, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot:
trapped, claustrophobia, trap, survival horror, loss of daughter, survival, maze, isolation, psychopath, violence, race against time, sadism ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
17K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A man awakens in a car wreck at the bottom of a steep cliff. He can't remember who he is or how he got there, but a report over the radio fills in some of the blanks, as it describes a violent bank robbery and names a perpetrator who happens to ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, minimal cast, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
preschool
Plot:
memory, amnesia, alone, hallucination, isolation, murder, man with no name, forest, danger, introspection, haunted by the past, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, canada
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
134K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, surprise ending, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, serial killer, danger, investigation, woman in danger, 911, youth, psycho, murder, kidnapped, chase, child abduction ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental institution, schizophrenia, psychiatrist, mental patient ...
Time:
1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 1940s, year 1945 ...
Place:
iran, persia, america, boston
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Two divers are left out at sea without a boat. There’s nothing but water for miles, unless they look at what’s underneath them...
Style:
scary, suspense, sexy, clever, psychological ...
Plot:
survival, shark, shark attack, stranded, diving, ocean, panic, isolation, lost at sea, shipwreck, animal attack, fish ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
caribbean, australia
Similarity:
100%
260K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Seven strangers are taken out of their daily lives and placed mysteriously in a deadly cube where they all agree they must find their way out.
Style:
psychological, surreal, suspenseful, mind bending, twist ending ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, trap, trapped, claustrophobia, isolation, group of strangers, mathematics, maze, survival horror, death, fear, game of death ...
Time:
90s, future, 20th century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered ...
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, twists and turns, supernatural, plot twist, memory loss, nervous breakdown, murder, mental patient, danger, riddles and clues, haunted by the past, insanity ...
Time:
year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
100%
424K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in ...
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, scary, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult, horror for children
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, supernatural, afterlife, plot twist, isolation, supernatural horror, nightmare, mansion, mysterious character, spiritualism, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2001, 1940s, year 1945, year 2000, 20th century ...
Place:
persia, america, europe, english channel, england
Similarity:
100%
505K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or ...
Style:
scary, suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
torture, mind game, survival horror, serial killer, plot twist, gory, violent, trapped, fear, locked in a room, psychopath, macabre ...
Time:
year 2004, year 2000, 80s, 2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Colombia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Spanish orchestra conductor deals with the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend.
Style:
suspense, twist ending, psychological, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, disappearance, infidelity, missing person, couples, social isolation, jealousy, police detective, musician, missing woman, plot twist, surveillance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colombia, south america, spain
Similarity:
50%
466K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
twists and turns, mind game, manipulation, psychology, puzzle, uncover truth, existentialism, surveillance, life & death, game, life turned upside down, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place:
san francisco, usa, bay area, california, seattle ...
Similarity:
57%
185K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A claustrophobic, Hitchcockian thriller. A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody admits she was ever on that plane.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
airplane, twists and turns, missing child, conspiracy, airplane accident, female protagonist, kidnapping, disappearance, strong female lead, flight attendant, family relations, little girl ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
berlin germany, persia, newfoundland, new york, germany
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In Madrid seven candidates report for a job interview that uses "the Grönholm method" of selection, as protestors rise up in public protest in the street over the IMF-World Bank Summit attempting globalisation of workers' unions.
Style:
tense, captivating, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
mind game, office, workplace intrigue, manipulation, workplace, workplace situations, job seeking, rivalry, career, uninhibited rivalry, rise to the top, contests and competitions ...
Time:
year 2005
Similarity:
100%
115K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
Style:
controversial, political, disturbing, serious, rough ...
Plot:
terrorism, 9/11, airplane, hijacking, terrorist, war on terror, survival, al qaeda, aviation, medieval, death, airplane accident ...
Time:
september 11 2001, year 2006, 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place:
new york, middle east, boston, usa, pennsylvania ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The sequel to the low budget first film ‘Cube.’ This time the prisoners find them selves in a more advanced cube environment that they must escape from before they are killed. A science fiction film where space and time have more than one path.
Style:
psychological, suspense, clever, scary, futuristic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
claustrophobia, survival, mathematics, locked in a room, group of strangers, maze, time travel, time warp, parallel universe, time loop, paranoia, virtual reality ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Das Experiment is a shocking psycho thriller about the potential for brutality that humans hide. Even more shocking is the fact that it’s based on an actual occurrence—a 1971 psychological experiment at Stanford University that was aborted ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, thought provoking, rough, tense ...
Plot:
prison, experiment, torture, abuse, social experiment, aggression, prison escape, disorder, degradation, warden, psychology, violence ...
Time:
year 2001, 70s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
germany, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Rex and Saskia are enjoying a biking holiday in France when, stopping at a gas station, Saskia disappears. Confounded, Rex searches everywhere, but to no avail. Three years later, he's still obsessed with finding her, pleading his case on ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological thriller, suspense, psychological, creepy ...
Plot:
serial killer, kidnapping, twists and turns, missing person, gas station, obsession, road trip, disappearance, murder, literary, police investigation, character study ...
Time:
20th century, near future, 80s, year 1988
Place:
france, europe, holland, netherlands, california
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
27K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On a late night visit to an ATM, three co-workers end up in a desperate fight for their lives when they become trapped by an unknown man.
Style:
slasher, christmas horror, scary, tense, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
trapped, evil wins, stalking, escape attempt, psychopath, trap, masked killer, confinement indoors, unknown killer, captivity, death, serial killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, canada
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young man must escape from a mysterious locked vault before he dies of dehydration.
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
survival, captivity, isolation, self discovery, secret place, trapped, supernatural power, losing-it hero, heroes, danger, mind game, surrealism ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Trapped inside his car by a mudslide, smooth talking Jackson Alder suddenly finds himself in a situation he can't talk his way out of. With no hope of rescue, he must defy the odds; battling Mother Nature for his survival.
Style:
suspense, realistic, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
trapped, survival, natural disaster, isolation, buried alive, wilderness survival, against the odds, confined, danger, tragic event, mortality, confusion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Four volunteers sign up for what initially appears to be a typical paid research study, only to discover that they've unwittingly become involved with a classified government program that was said to have been terminated nearly two decades ago.
Style:
psychological, psychological thriller, tense, surreal, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
claustrophobia, mind game, race against time, memory loss, death, escape room, trapped, manhunt, missing person, trap, rivalry, undercover ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, texas, antarctica, new jersey
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Four mathematicians who do not know each other are invited by a mysterious host on the pretext of resolving a great enigma. The room in which they find themselves turns out to be a shrinking room that will crush them if they do not discover in time ...
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
mathematics, isolation, locked in a room, riddles and clues, puzzle, logic, science, game of death, mind game, trapped, survival, genius ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Moments before his comeback performance, a concert pianist who suffers from stage fright discovers a note written on his music sheet.
Style:
tense, psychological, suspense, horror musical, cult classic ...
Plot:
sniper, music, murder, secrets, prodigy, musician's life, haunted by the past, musician, piano, danger, comeback, kidnapping ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Awakening from a deep sleep in the pitch black Sean Justice feels around him and realises that he is in a small wooden box and beside him lays his unconscious girlfriend. With only two hours of air time remaining a ransom demand is made of $500,000 ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense, detective ...
Plot:
survival, confined, twists and turns, danger, save the day, on the run, wrestling, chases and races, buried alive, race against time, mysterious character, trapped ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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