Cave movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant cave movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, suspenseful, serious, scary, tense and disturbing films and TV shows about / with cave, survival, danger, creature, monster, escapades, supernatural, trapped, underground and death plots mostly in Thriller, Horror and Adventure genres shot in USA, UK, Australia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as cave: In Darkness We Fall (2014), Cave (2016), The Cave (2005), Sanctum (2011), The Descent (2005), The Cavern (2005), The Descent: Part 2 (2009), Time Trap (2017), As Above, So Below (2014), Intermedio (2005).

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In Darkness We Fall (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Group of Spanish friends on the tropical island holiday of a lifetime. Discovering a secret cave adds adventure. They enthusiastically go underground with their camera, but soon become hopelessly lost. Nail-biting tension in the tradition of recent ...
Style: scary, psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cave, survival, danger, found footage, isolation, friends, cannibalism, survival horror, dehydration, disaster, trapped, mental disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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 4.2
 2K
Cave (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of former military elites set out to explore an uncharted abyss, not knowing their worst nightmare is waiting for them deep beneath the ground.
Style: psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, unusual plot structure
Plot: cave, love triangle, psychopath, murder, diving, abyss, youth, love and romance, danger, love, couples, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
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 5.1
 41K
The Cave (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After a group of biologists discovers a huge network of unexplored caves in Romania and, believing it to be an undisturbed eco-system that has produced a new species, they hire the best American team of underwater cave explorers in the world. While ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, intense, scary, underground horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: cave, survival, diver, deadly creature, danger, creature, supernatural, monster, underwater, parasite, diving, transformation ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place: romania, europe
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 5.9
 57K
Sanctum (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. When a tropical storm forces them ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: survival, cave, expedition, disaster, underwater, forces of nature, underground, danger, death, deathtrap, struggle for survival, water ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: papua new guinea
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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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 2.8
 2K
The Cavern (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 8 explorers trapped in a Russian cave system are hunted by an unknown presence.
Style: suspense, scary, slasher, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: cave, survival, research, serial killer, adventurer, rescue, danger, confined, escapades, chaos, isolation, wilderness ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s
Place: russia, asia
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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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 6.2
 43K
Time Trap (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A group of students become trapped inside a mysterious cave where they discover time passes differently underground than on the surface.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, mindfuck, clever ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time dilation, cave, time loop, time portal, climbing, friendship, twists and turns, time traveler, college professor, missing person, youth ...
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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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 2.7
 1K
Intermedio (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Under the border leading into Mexico, within a labyrinth of caves, a deadly presence haunts all who enter. For four friends on an expedition, the caverns become an underground graveyard as the tortured ghosts prey upon them, one by one.
Style: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: cave, ghost, hostage, supernatural, deadly creature, friendship, danger, survival, gory, violence, teenager, tunnel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, usa, california, texas, mexico
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Black Water: Abyss (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An adventure-loving couple convince their friends to explore a remote, uncharted cave system in the forests of Northern Australia. With a tropical storm approaching, they abseil into the mouth of the cave, but when the caves start to flood, tensions ...
Style: rough, suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense ...
Plot: survival, animal attack, crocodile, cave, survival horror, adventurer, dangerous animal, hunting, underwater, stranded, wilderness, beast ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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The Prey: Legend of Karnoctus (2022)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan become trapped in a cave and are hunted down by a deadly creature the locals call Karnoctus.
Style: disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: cave, monster, soldier, creature, medieval, struggle for survival, trapped, american soldier, survival, trap, creature feature, animal attack ...
Place: afghanistan
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 3.4
 1K
Caved In (2006)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An extreme adventure tour group headed by deep caving expert John Palmer descends into a 2000 Ft abandoned salt mine , that was mysteriously closed down years ago after an unexplained disaster trapped all of the miners . They prepare for rock slides ...
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, serious, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cave, treasure hunt, escapades, good versus evil, legends and myths, destiny, danger, adventurer, survival, rivalry, dangerous animal, forces of nature ...
Time: prehistory
Place: greece, switzerland, europe
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The X Species (2018)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Deep in the woods, an archaeological expedition is on the verge of a historic discovery, when they find themselves with no defense against an unrelenting predator. Taking refuge in the catacombs of a cave hidden in the hills, tensions escalate as ...
Style: contemplative, unusual plot structure, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: bigfoot, cave, found footage, monster, sasquatch, camping, creature, scientist, hiking, death, research, legend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new mexico
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 7.8
 67K
Thirteen Lives (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story: Based on the true nail-biting mission that captivated the world. Twelve boys and the coach of a Thai soccer team explore the Tham Luang cave when an unexpected rainstorm traps them in a chamber inside the mountain. Entombed behind a maze of flooded ...
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, twisted ...
Plot: cave, soccer, rescue mission, trapped, trap, survival, saving a life, drowned, struggle for survival, football player, life risking, deathtrap ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s
Place: thailand
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 4.5
 3K
Dead Mine (2012)
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The legend of Yamashita's Gold lures a treasure hunter and his group deep into the Indonesian jungle. Once they are trapped in an abandoned World War II Japanese bunker, they face the terrifying reality that the only way out is to go further in.
Style: suspenseful, scary, enigmatic, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: treasure hunter, survival, trapped, cave, mine, treasure, danger, survival horror, treasure hunt, secret laboratory, experiment gone awry, ghost ...
Time: post world war two, 21st century
Place: indonesia, asia, japan
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 8.7
 438K
Dark (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 1455 min.
TV show
Story: A missing child causes four families to help each other for answers. What they could not imagine is that this mystery would be connected to innumerable other secrets of the small town.
Style: mind bending, atmospheric, suspense, mysterious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, investigation, time loop, time machine, mysterious past, cave, time portal, missing child, repeated event, changing the future, deja vu, small town ...
Time: year 1986, year 2019, year 1953, 50s, 80s ...
Place: germany, chernobyl
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Living Dark: The Story of Ted the Caver (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Two brothers, reunited for their father's funeral, stumble upon the entrance to a nearby cave. Here, they are slowly forced to confront the true, nightmarish cause of their father's death. Based on the popular Ted the Caver internet legend.
Style: dark, scary, unusual plot structure, bleak, contemplative ...
Plot: cave, survival horror, brother brother relationship, loss of father, brother, funeral, darkness, urban legend, nightmare, uncle nephew relationship, mysticism, travel ...
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 6.4
 69K
City of Ember (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Now, two teenagers, ...
Style: exciting, dark fantasy, apocalyptic, visually stunning, visual ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, girls' night, teens, family outing ...
Plot: steampunk, post apocalypse, save the day, danger, survival, puzzle, underground, underground city, ancient mystery, girl, uncover truth, dystopia ...
Time: future, year 2008, 20th century, distant future
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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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Curse of the Mayans (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Danielle Noble (played by Carla Ortiz) and her team of expert cave divers led by an ambitious american archaeologist (Steve Wilcox), undertake an expedition in search of the lost Mayan Library, without imagining they will instead find the hidden ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, bleak, scary, tense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: monster, archaeologist, diving, alien, characters killed one by one, expedition, alien technology, violence, ancient civilization, underworld, chase, fear ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
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The Strangeness (1985)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of explorers surveying an abandoned goldmine are trapped in a cave in, and find themselves at the mercy of a slimy, mysterious creature.
Style: lovecraft, slasher
Plot: cave, creature, monster, creature feature, trapped, exploitation, mine, trap, miner, survival horror, killer, mutant ...
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 5.8
 1K
The Cave (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Thailand, Ireland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When a youth football team of 12 boys, aged 11-16, and their 25-year-old coach is trapped deep inside a cave in Northern Thailand, thousands of volunteers and soldiers from around the world unite in a race against time to find them.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, exciting, serious
Plot: cave, diving, scuba diving, underground, rescue mission, rescue, child in peril, journalist, american abroad, boy in peril, daring rescue, rescue from drowning ...
Place: thailand
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Eden Log (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A man wakes up deep inside a cave. Suffering amnesia, he has no recollection of how he came to be here or of what happened to the man whose body he finds beside him. Tailed by a mysterious creature, he must continue through this strange and ...
Style: psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cave, survival, isolation, memory loss, heroic mission, captivity, rivalry, deadly creature, supernatural, danger, life is a bitch, race against time ...
Time: future
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: On a quest to find out what happened to his missing brother, a scientist, his nephew and their mountain guide discover a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth.
Style: exciting, teen, breathtaking, psychotronic, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, girls' night, family outing
Plot: dinosaur, obsessive quest, fantasy world, imaginary, lost world, adventurer, mysterious place, twists and turns, expedition, cave, danger, rescue ...
Time: year 2008, prehistoric times, prehistory, 19th century, 2000s ...
Place: iceland, italy, europe
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Horror Planet (1981)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one.
Style: space horror, grindhouse, scary, psychotronic, retro ...
Plot: alien, pregnancy, rape, impregnation, murder, cave, evil alien, characters killed one by one, space monster, trapped in space, planet, creature ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
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Gehenna: Where Death Lives (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A group visits Saipan to search for locations for their company's newest resort. As they find what they think is the perfect spot, they discover a hidden bunker on the property which they decide to explore. However, they soon find out that ...
Style: bleak, dark, suspenseful, scary, bad ending ...
Plot: urban legend, suicide, death, fear, panic, myth, corpse, creature, nightmare, fight, resort, supernatural ...
Place: pacific ocean, japan
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What Waits Below (1984)
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The US military is running a test for a special type of radio transmitter, to be used to communicate with submarines, in a deep system of underground caves in Central America. When the signal from one of the transmitters suddenly disappears, a team ...
Style: psychotronic, underground horror, independent film, weird
Plot: cave, underground, albino, exploitation, isolation, monster, secret, animal horror
Place: alabama
Is relevant ?
 6.7
 31K
Spring (2014)
Genre: Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A young man in a personal tailspin flees the US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.
Style: atmospheric, sexy, melancholic, surreal, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: immortality, supernatural, dangerous attraction, relationships, love, transformation, small town, monster, magic realism, survival, runaway, life & death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, california, rome italy, naples italy
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The 33 of San Jose (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Chile
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A team of Chilean miners are trapped underground for months and hold out for a miraculous rescue.
Style: exciting, realistic, touching, serious, suspense
Plot: mine, mining, cave, working conditions, underground, rescue, miner, friendship between men, working class, gold mine, water, dynamite ...
Time: year 2010
Place: chile
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