Confined movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant confined movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary and realistic films and TV shows about / with confined, danger, survival, isolation, trapped, one location, claustrophobia, murder, blood and death plots mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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confined movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as confined: The Platform (2019), Buried (2010), Nine Dead (2009), Hunger (2009), Elevator (2012), Pandorum (2009), Chained (2012), Cell 213 (2011), Boxing Helena (1993), Cell 211 (2009).

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 7.0
 268K
The Platform (2019)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two people per level. An unknown number of levels. A platform with food for all of them. Are you one of those who think too much when they are up? Or of those who have no guts when they are down? If you discover it too late, you will not live out of ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological thriller, futuristic ...
Plot: struggle for survival, survival, confined, food shortage, prison, cannibalism, social injustice, social differences, rivalry, social relations, danger, fear ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: iberian peninsula
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 7.0
 168K
Buried (2010)
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, surprise ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, trapped, buried alive, confined, isolation, claustrophobia, terrorist, captivity, twists and turns, panic, desperation, race against time ...
Time: year 2010, 20th century, 2010s, year 2006, 2000s ...
Place: iraq, middle east
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 5.4
 14K
Nine Dead (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Communication is the key to the survival for nine strangers who have been kidnapped by a masked gunman and told that one of them will die every ten minutes until they discover how they are all connected. Who of the nine lives and who dies?
Style: psychological, surprise ending, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: survival, kidnapping, confined, danger, gory, captivity, group of strangers, riddles and clues, game of death, murder, locked in a room, torture ...
Time: 21st century
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 5.2
 6K
Hunger (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Five strangers face the unthinkable when they wake up and find themselves trapped. With no idea how they got there they frantically try to figure out how to escape. The disoriented group quickly realise the truth about their situation when they ...
Style: scary, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: starvation, captive, isolation, survival, eating human flesh, captivity, hunger, confined, gory, claustrophobia, cannibalism, flesh eating ...
Time: 21st century
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 5.3
 7K
Elevator (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Nine people are stuck in an elevator. One of them has a ticking bomb that can't be defused. The other eight will do anything to survive. There is no escape and no promise of rescue. As the tension in the elevator mounts the unthinkable soon ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: trapped, captivity, isolation, trapped in an elevator, confined, danger, survival, terrorism, greed, mind game, escape room, confined space ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 6.7
 159K
Pandorum (2009)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they're actually not alone – and the reality of their situation is more ...
Style: futuristic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, survival, outer space, isolation, monster, post apocalypse, space, survival horror, spacecraft, memory loss, danger, end of the world ...
Time: future, year 2009
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 6.4
 21K
Chained (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A serial killer kidnaps a young boy after murdering his mother, then raises him to be his accomplice. After years in captivity, the boy must choose between escaping or following in his captor's bloody footprints.
Style: disturbing, psychological, scary, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, captivity, slave, misogynist, kidnapping, serial rapist, psychopath, abuse, childhood trauma, escape attempt, isolated house, slavery ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 4.9
 1K
Cell 213 (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Cocky young attorney Michael Gray finds himself framed for murder when an inmate he is defending violently kills himself during their interview at South River State Penitentiary. Now locked in the same nightmarish Cell 213 where his client died, he ...
Style: serious, rough, bleak, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: prison, confined, exorcism, supernatural, ghost, vengeance, loss, evil, good versus evil, peril, murder, hunting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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 4.7
 13K
Boxing Helena (1993)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once ditched him. Unable to come to terms with life without her, he tries to convince her that they need each other. She has other ideas, but an horrific accident leaves her at his mercy. The plot ...
Style: erotic, disturbing, psychological, sexual, surreal ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, crimes of passion, obsessive love, amputation, unfulfilled love, captivity, danger, estate, confined, power relations, unrequited love, sexual dysfunction ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: usa, georgia, atlanta georgia
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 7.6
 71K
Cell 211 (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.
Style: suspenseful, tense, psychological, intense, tricky ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, survival, prison life, confined, prison guard, prison riot, hidden identity, hostage, manipulation, pretense, protest, warden ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, europe
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 6.4
 31K
Unknown (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.
Style: surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: memory loss, twists and turns, kidnapping, confined, murder, hostage, trapped, loss of friend, suicide, survival, puzzle, trap ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century
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As Above, So Below (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
Style: suspense, scary, dark, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: found footage, supernatural, catacomb, underground, survival, archaeology, treasure hunt, claustrophobia, ancient mystery, confined, tunnel, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, iran
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 6.8
 293K
1408 (2007)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, ghost, hotel, fear, stephen king, isolation, survival, trapped, evil, insanity, writers ...
Time: year 2007, y2k, 15th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, los angeles, usa, manhattan new york city, new york state ...
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 6.3
 156K
Devil (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A group of people trapped in a elevator realizes that the devil is among them.
Style: scary, surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Plot: devil, supernatural, elevator, group of strangers, police investigation, supernatural horror, confined, trap, stranded, isolation, investigation, trapped in an elevator ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, year 2000, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa
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 6.8
 504K
The Maze Runner (2014)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Set in a post-apocalyptic world, young Thomas is deposited in a community of boys after his memory is erased, soon learning they're all trapped in a maze that will require him to join forces with fellow “runners” for a shot at escape.
Style: exciting, suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, family outing, boys' night
Plot: survival, memory loss, maze, apocalypse, teenager, distopia, trapped, fantasy world, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopia, youth ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future
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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
Style: erotic, controversial, disturbing, psychological, disgusting ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: torture, sex, fascism, atrocity, sexual perversion, brutality, libertine, rape, world war two, kidnapping, sexual abuse, bdsm ...
Time: 1940s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: italy, europe
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Persons Unknown (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Persons Unknown is an American mystery drama television series that revolves around strangers who are imprisoned inside a small ghost town. The thirteen-episode summer series premiered on June 7, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. on NBC. On June 30, NBC moved the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, mind bending, offbeat ...
Plot: trapped, group of strangers, mysterious place, captivity, abduction, riddles and clues, confined, experiment, isolation, manipulation, twists and turns, mind game ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco
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Flowers in the Attic (1987)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After the death of her husband, a mother takes her kids off to live with their grandparents in a huge, decrepit old mansion. However, the kids are kept hidden in a room just below the attic, visited only by their mother who becomes less and less ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, scary, disturbing, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: incest, children, confined, survival, siblings relations, family life, estate, old mansion, child abuse, life is a bitch, danger, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 1987, 80s, 20th century
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 7.5
 12K
The Collector (1965)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money, and buys himself a country ...
Style: tense, disturbing, serious, suspense, dark ...
Plot: kidnapping, psychopath, obsession, dangerous attraction, collector, confined, loneliness, woman in danger, danger, missing person, mentally unstable, serial killer ...
Time: year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place: london
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 4.9
 3K
Die (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Six people, each of them is on the road to self-destruction. They wake up in cells in a surreal facility, without knowing how they got there or why.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, cult horror, grindhouse ...
Plot: gambling, confined, captivity, deathtrap, life is a bitch, self discovery, danger, secret movement, haunted by the past, locked in a room, survival, mind game ...
Time: 21st century
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 7.6
 9K
For Life (2020)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: A prisoner becomes a lawyer, litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, inspirational
Plot: wrongful conviction, confined, lawyer, prison, prisoner, mind game, attorney, life sentence, legal, jail, jailed, confinement indoors ...
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 8.2
 1.4M
Shutter Island (2010)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: 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: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental disorder, psychiatrist, schizophrenia, mental institution ...
Time: 1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: boston, persia, iran, america
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 4.8
 10K
Black Rock (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Three childhood friends set aside their personal issues and reunite for a girls’ weekend on a remote island off the coast of Maine. One wrong move turns their weekend getaway into a deadly fight for survival.
Style: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, woman in danger, manhunt, self defense, strong violent content, friends, human prey, confined, chase, chases and races, danger, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, maine
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 8.3
 630K
Oldboy (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story: With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.
Style: bleak, twist ending, intense, psychological, neo noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: revenge, incest, vengeance, older man younger woman relationship, psychopath, hypnosis, mind game, psychological torture, kidnapping, plot twist, confined, torture ...
Time: year 2003, 80s, distant future, y2k, near future ...
Place: south korea, korea, persia, oceania, east asia ...
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 7.7
 582K
Ex Machina (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Caleb, a 26 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds ...
Style: psychological, futuristic, philosophical, twist ending, mind bending ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, androids, existentialism, technology, cyberpunk, isolation, cyborgs, manipulation, androids and robots, female robot, psychology ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2015, year 2014, year 2016 ...
Place: england
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 7.2
 5K
The Boat (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min.
TV show
Story: A global cataclysm, caused by a fatal accident in Geneva (Switzerland) during the implementation of the particle accelerator will lead to the crew and students of the school-ship Polar Star to live the greatest adventure of their lives. Isolated and ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, atmospheric, mind bending, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ship, danger, confined, parents and children, lost at sea, science gone wrong, escapades, family relations, experiment gone awry, vestiges of humanity, isolation, sailing ...
Time: 21st century
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 5.8
 38K
The Divide (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.
Style: suspense, tense, apocalyptic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: survival, isolation, survival horror, torment, nuclear holocaust, losing-it hero, disaster, social decay, group of strangers, apocalypse, confined, danger ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, north korea
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 3.3
 1K
Accident (2017)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Africa, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of teenagers suffer a terrible accident during a joy ride and get trapped at the bottom of a ravine.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, scary
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, survival, psychopath, danger, youth, wrong place wrong time, confined, wild ride, teenager, deadly, off the road
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 4.0
 3K
Grizzly Park (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A giant grizzly bear stalks 8 troubled young adults and a park ranger in a forest reserve called Grizzly Park after making the demise of an escaped serial killer.
Style: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Plot: grizzly bear, youth, confined, dangerous animal, danger, woods, survival, animal attack, isolation, wilderness, killer animal, serial killer ...
Place: california, usa
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 8.2
 373K
Downfall (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 156 min.
Story: In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still ...
Style: psychological, bleak, dramatic, disturbing, harsh ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, hitler, nazism, suicide, nazi, war, holocaust, fascism, third reich, national socialism, nazi germany, dictatorship ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 2004, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: germany, berlin germany, prague, europe, frankfurt germany ...
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