Claustrophobia movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant claustrophobia movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, suspenseful, serious, psychological, scary and tense films and TV shows about / with claustrophobia, survival, danger, trapped, trap, death, one location, isolation, blood and confined plots mostly in Thriller, Horror and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as claustrophobia: Meander (2020), Panic Room (2002), Hunger (2009), Buried (2010), Cube (1997), Grave Encounters (2011), As Above, So Below (2014), The Killing Room (2009), The Descent (2005), Cube 2: Hypercube (2002).

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 5.4
 11K
Meander (2020)
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, suspenseful, scary, tense ...
Plot: trap, claustrophobia, survival, trapped, maze, loss of daughter, survival horror, isolation, characters in danger, sadist, brutality, race against time ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: france
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 6.8
 295K
Panic Room (2002)
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, tense, neo noir, suspense thriller, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: home invasion, trapped, hostage, claustrophobia, surveillance, cat and mouse, locked in a room, crime gone awry, disorder, confinement indoors, millionaire, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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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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 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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 7.1
 246K
Cube (1997)
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, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, trap, trapped, claustrophobia, isolation, mathematics, maze, escape, group of strangers, survival horror, death, game of death ...
Time: 90s, future, 20th century
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Grave Encounters (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A crew from a paranormal reality television show lock themselves in a haunted psychiatric hospital. They search for evidence of paranormal activity as they shoot what ends up becoming their final episode.
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, demonic, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, ghost, haunted house, supernatural, paranormal, mental institution, paranormal investigation, claustrophobia, abandoned hospital, paranormal investigator, maze, haunting ...
Time: 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: canada
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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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The Killing Room (2009)
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, tense, clever, psychological thriller, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: claustrophobia, mind game, isolation, race against time, memory loss, trapped, manhunt, psychopath, missing person, trap, death, rivalry ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, texas
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 7.2
 245K
The Descent (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures. As their friendships deteriorate, ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, cave, survival horror, creature, trapped, survival, expedition, claustrophobia, fear, gory, group of friends, woman in danger ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, appalachia
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Cube 2: Hypercube (2002)
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, scary, futuristic, clever ...
Audience: adult
Plot: claustrophobia, survival, locked in a room, maze, group of strangers, mathematics, time travel, virtual reality, survival horror, trap, parallel universe, captive ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
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 5.7
 110K
Poseidon (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for their lives.
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disaster, survival, natural disaster, ship, catastrophe, ocean, shipwreck, cruise ship, ocean liner, father daughter relationship, drowning, trapped ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: atlantic ocean
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 5.6
 6K
Pressure (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Four divers are stuck deep underwater in a vessel after a freak storm destroys their ship. Will they survive?
Style: suspense, rough, exciting, suspenseful, depressing ...
Plot: underwater, trapped, diver, survival, claustrophobia, self sacrifice, rescue, storm, scuba diving, friendship, diving, wilderness survival ...
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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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 7.6
 57K
Repulsion (1965)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In Roman Polanski's first English-language film, beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, black and white, cerebral, atmospheric ...
Plot: mental illness, rape, schizophrenia, surrealism, insanity, murder, hallucination, delusion, isolation, claustrophobia, repression, female protagonist ...
Time: 20th century, year 1965, 60s
Place: england, london, europe, britain, eastern europe ...
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 7.6
 463K
Saw (2004)
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, psychological, twist ending, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: torture, gory, macabre, serial killer, mind game, plot twist, survival horror, violent, psychopath, fear, trapped, locked in a room ...
Time: year 2004, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
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The Descent: Part 2 (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened - or why she's covered in her ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, scary, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cave, monster, survival, creature, sole survivor, deadly creature, supernatural, survival horror, gory, expedition, claustrophobia, missing person ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
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 7.7
 96K
The Experiment (2001)
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, thought provoking, disturbing, rough, suspense ...
Plot: experiment, prison, torture, aggression, psychology, social experiment, isolation, degradation, abuse, sociology, violence, survival ...
Time: year 2001, 70s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: germany, canada
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47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Five backpackers, diving in a ruined underwater city, quickly learn they are not alone in the submerged caves.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, bloody, psychotronic, teen horror ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: shark, sea, underwater, panic, animal attack, killer shark, shark attack, fear, research, great white shark, survival horror, chase ...
Time: 2010s
Place: mexico
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 6.2
 48K
The Hole (2001)
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, tense, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: claustrophobia, obsession, survival, psychology, school, bunker, underground bunker, twists and turns, danger, youth, trapped, male nudity ...
Time: year 2001
Place: wales, england
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 7.1
 284K
Phone Booth (2002)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, psychopath, sniper, trapped, mind game, murder, dishonesty, hopes, sin, characters in danger, plot twist, claustrophobia ...
Time: 20th century, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 6.8
 125K
Exam (2009)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The final candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a test so simple and confusing that tension begins to unravel.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, mind bending, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: mind game, survival, plot twist, twists and turns, psychology, surveillance, confinement indoors, psychologist, ambition, intrigue, rivalry, pandemic ...
Time: year 2009, future
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 7.8
 375K
Moon (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: With only three weeks left in his three year contract, Sam Bell is getting anxious to finally return to Earth. He is the only occupant of a Moon-based manufacturing facility along with his computer and assistant, GERTY. When he has an accident ...
Style: psychological, philosophical, suspense, futuristic, cerebral ...
Audience: adult
Plot: isolation, moon, outer space, loneliness, space travel, astronaut, solitude, cloning, space and aliens, robot, dystopic future, space ...
Time: future, year 2009, 2010s, near future, y2k ...
Place: hawaii, mexico
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Paranormal Activity (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After a young, middle class couple moves into a suburban 'starter' tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark, demonic ...
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, paranormal activity, fear, ghost, macabre, panic, videotaping, demon, found footage, demonic possession, evil force ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: america, san diego california, usa, los angeles, california
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 5.6
 43K
Cube Zero (2004)
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, scary, psychological, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: trap, parallel world, mathematics, torture, isolation, survival, escape room, rescue, claustrophobia, riddles and clues, danger, captivity ...
Time: future, 2000s
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Prince of Darkness (1987)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A research team finds a mysterious cylinder in a deserted church. If opened, it could mean the end of the world.
Style: suspense, scary, dark, stylized, slasher ...
Plot: supernatural, demon, satan, devil, zombie, antichrist, cosmic horror, monster, occult, church, end of the world, research ...
Time: 80s, year 2016, 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles
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 8.4
 1.1M
The Shining (1980)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Style: psychological, suspense, scary, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: isolation, hotel, insanity, psychopath, supernatural, stephen king, ghost, snow, winter, macabre, imaginary friend, evil ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, 1920s, 80s, 70s
Place: colorado, persia, denver colorado, usa, miami ...
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Day of the Dead (1985)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The final chapter of George A. Romero's "Dead Trilogy". In an underground government installation they are searching for a cure to overcome this strange transformation into zombies. Unfortunately, the zombies from above ground have ...
Style: bloody, disturbing, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, zombie apocalypse, living dead, virus, apocalypse, gory, mad scientist, violence, insanity, macabre, survival, monster ...
Time: 80s
Place: florida, pittsburgh, usa
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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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Claustrofobia (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Eva opens her eyes a young girl finds herself chained terrified for being abused. Her fears become reality in a way no one could ever imagine.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, scary ...
Plot: quest, captive woman, kidnapped woman, held captive, isolation, bondage, danger, woman in danger, schizophrenia, death, kidnapping, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, amsterdam
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 6.2
 2K
Cutterhead (2018)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Rie is a PR-coordinator visiting a tunnel boring machine to portray the well-oiled European cooperation in the Metro construction when an accident suddenly occurs. Unable to escape, she takes refuge in an airlock with Croatian miner Ivo and Bharan, ...
Style: suspense, serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: survival, isolation, tunnel, claustrophobia, peril, danger, urban setting, subway, survivor, captivity, panic, news report ...
Place: copenhagen
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