| I Origins (2014) | 7.3 | |
| Die Hard (1988) | 8.2 | |
| Cube (1997) | 7.1 | |
| The Lift (1983) | 6.1 | |
| Devil (2010) | 6.3 |
Elevator movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant elevator movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, suspense, serious, tense, scary and psychological films and TV shows about / with elevator, danger, murder, isolation, death, blood, chase, fear, survival and profanity plots mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as elevator: Devil (2010), Elevator (2012), The Lift (1983), 100 Girls (2000), Event 15 (2013), Evil Dead Rise (2023), The End? (2017), Elevator (2008), Tower of Terror (1997), Out of Order (1984).
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List of elevator movies
165K
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, psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, satanic ...
Plot:
devil, group of strangers, elevator, confined, supernatural, supernatural horror, police investigation, trap, mysterious character, trapped in an elevator, danger, stranded ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa
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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:
suspenseful, tense, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
trapped, isolation, captivity, trapped in an elevator, confined, danger, confined space, escape room, survival, terrorism, greed, mind game ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A lift begins displaying some erratic behavior, like trapping some party goers and nearly suffocating them, and decapitating a security guard. Felix, the technician from the lift company, can't find anything wrong with the circuitry. When he ...
Style:
cult classic, slasher, scary, suspense, experimental ...
Plot:
elevator, artificial intelligence, skyscraper, journalism, monster, suffocation, reporter, macabre, teenager, evil computer, gory, captivity ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
netherlands, europe, holland, amsterdam
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24K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
This sexy, teen-comedy is about a freshman, Matthew, at college who meets his dream girl in a dorm elevator during a blackout. He never sees her face, but instantly falls in love. In the morning, the power is restored, but the "dream girl" ...
Style:
teen sex comedy, sex comedy, romantic, teen, talky ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
youth, college, fall in love, battle of the sexes, elevator, teenager, man disguised as a woman, college life, high school, love and romance, attempted rape, lust ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Three soldiers get trapped in an elevator when terrorists set off a dirty bomb. But when White escapes, her world turns upside down as she realizes nothing is what it seems.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
elevator, isolation, soldier, military, trapped in an elevator, veteran, terrorist attack, danger, losing-it hero, confined, shaolin, trapped ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
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Genre: Horror
Country: Ireland, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two sisters find an ancient book that gives birth to bloodthirsty demons that run amok in a Los Angeles apartment building and thrusts them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.
Style:
suspenseful, mystical, psychological, slasher, lovecraft ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
sister sister relationship, demon, supernatural horror, evil, sibling relationship, demonic possession, chainsaw, elevator, evil smile, blood, apartment building, female protagonist ...
Time:
2020s, labor day
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Claudio Verona is a young and cynical businessman. One day he gets locked in his Roman office elevator before an important meeting with a client. Soon this annoying obstacle will turn into a nightmare. For outside that metal cage, a deadly virus has ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, bleak ...
Plot:
zombie, virus, zombie apocalypse, trapped in an elevator, elevator, epidemic, infection, trapped, zombie survival, zombie attack, trapped in a building, infected ...
Place:
rome italy
Is relevant?
315
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A boy and a girl, both teenagers, want to get away from the world and be alone for a while, so they hide in an abandoned factory on the outskirts. But there they fall in a trap of their own intention, and get stuck in the cargo elevator. There is no ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, offbeat ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
elevator, trapped, love, teenager, couples, isolation, panic, trap, artist, coming of age, friendship, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
romania
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A disgraced reporter investigates an abandoned luxury hotel where five people mysteriously disappeared sixty years earlier.
Style:
scary, serious, spooky, atmospheric, suspenseful
Audience:
kids, horror for children
Plot:
ghost, elevator, supernatural, black magic, halloween, family problems, haunted, journalism, danger, supernatural ability, rivalry, media ...
Time:
90s, year 1939, 1930s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It's Friday evening. The lift repairman leaves the building and wants to finish his work on Monday. But he doesn't know there are four men in the building. They use the lift but stay in it about 100 meters from the floor. They have little ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
elevator, psychotic, trapped, jealousy, fear, money, abyss, gravity, sexual tension, falling down, malfunction, luck ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, Czech Republic, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A personal shopper in Paris refuses to leave the city until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes more complicated when a mysterious person contacts her via text message.
Style:
suspense, psychological, post-horror, psychotronic, captivating ...
Plot:
dead brother, spiritualism, ghost, medium, poltergeist, hotel room, clothes shopping, supernatural, spirit, haunted, abstract art, haute couture ...
Time:
2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
paris france, london, france
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Follows socially awkward teenager Ryan, who discovers that the night his sister disappeared she had played ‘The Elevator Game’ — a ritual conducted in an elevator in which players attempt to travel to another dimension using a set of rules ...
Style:
bleak, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, scary ...
Plot:
elevator, ritual, supernatural, alternate dimension, monster, supernatural horror, urban legend, supernatural being, curses spells and rituals, superhuman powers, another dimension, supernatural power ...
Time:
2020s
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709K
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:
twist ending, psychological, bleak, neo noir, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, vengeance, incest, violence, psychopath, captivity, older man younger woman relationship, hypnosis, mind game, plot twist, psychological torture, torture ...
Time:
year 2003, 80s, distant future, near future, y2k ...
Place:
south korea, korea, stockholm sweden, oceania, east asia ...
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1.0M
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
NYPD cop, John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking ...
Style:
intense, christmas special, clever, action packed, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, date night, teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
hostage, one man army, gunfight, heist, tough guy, christmas, police, terrorism, terrorist, skyscraper, robbery, police officer ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 2016, year 1988
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.
Style:
grindhouse, suspense, psychological, scary, tense ...
Plot:
elevator, home invasion, isolation, woman in jeopardy, trapped in an elevator, hagsploitation, violence, juvenile delinquency, serial killer, kidnapping, murder, woman in danger ...
Time:
60s
Place:
los angeles, tokyo, australia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories ...
Style:
crying, independent film, depressing, surprise ending, gay cinema ...
Plot:
gay club, gay romance, gay son, gay relationship, gay couple, homosexuality, gay interest, childhood home, death of mother, traumatized man, man dances with a man, childhood memory ...
Place:
london
Is relevant?
144K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan, Spain, UK, Iceland
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they've ever faced: A terrifying threat emerging from the ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, entertaining, exciting ...
Plot:
car, elevator, carsploitation, sniper, revenge, fast car, punched in the face, shootout, home invasion, good versus evil, driving lesson, terrorist ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s
Place:
portugal, naples italy, italy, brazil, london ...
Is relevant?
33K
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan, Japan
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries.
Style:
philosophical, emotional, touching, art house, cerebral ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, wedding, first love, coma, love, children, elevator, regret, dysfunctional family, lovers reunited, couples, destiny ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo, taipei ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: France, Romania
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In 1958, in the French Alp, the young servant Anna Jurin arrives in Saint Ange Orphanage to work with Helena while the orphans moved to new families. Anna, who is secretly pregnant, meets the last orphan , Judith, left behind because of her mental ...
Style:
surprise ending, scary, suspenseful, bleak, psychological ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, female nudity, pregnancy, losing-it hero, haunted by the past, housekeeper, elevator, kitten, mirror, insanity, orphan ...
Time:
year 1958, 1950s, year 1946, post world war two, year 2004 ...
Place:
alps, france, europe
Is relevant?
484K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign ...
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, cult classic, horror comedy ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, monster, nerd, transformation, accountant, imagination, giant monster, chase, friendship, librarian, haunting ...
Time:
80s, year 2016, 20th century, year 1989, year 1984 ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, nova scotia, usa, new york state ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 59 min.
Story:
En route to a party, two strangers get stuck in an elevator on New Year's Eve — and find themselves connecting in unexpected ways.
Style:
semi serious, satirical, entertaining, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
elevator, chance meeting, party, couples, new year's eve, confined space, relationships, problem, male female relationship, love story, new year, satire ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Beautiful young model Jennifer Lansbury and her goofy friend Marilyn Ricci move into a swanky high-rise apartment after the previous tenant gets brutally murdered. Pretty soon Jennifer is being stalked by the mysterious killer. Probable suspects ...
Style:
slasher, erotic, rough, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
elevator, voyeurism, female nudity, sexual perversion, serial killer, lesbianism, stalker, diner, deeply disturbed person, sadistic psychopath, architect, psychopath ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
italy, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After a young woman is attacked in the elevator she meets her neighbours (two brothers) for the first time. One of the brothers has a secret, the other has a crush on her. Her analyst tries to help her over the attack, but when she is invited to a ...
Style:
independent film, neo noir, suspense, scary, psychological ...
Plot:
elevator, female psychopath, strong sexual content, architect, attempted rape, psychoanalysis, twins, woman in danger, losing-it hero, mind game, mysterious character, doll ...
Time:
20th century, year 1991, 90s
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385K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, UK, Spain
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, futuristic, spiritual, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
destiny, dystopia, reincarnation, life & death, multiple storylines, life philosophy, clone, homosexual, distopia, post apocalypse, karma, tribe ...
Time:
future, year 1936, distant future, year 1975, near future ...
Place:
seoul, san francisco, belgium, persia, berlin germany ...
Is relevant?
37K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A woman moves into an apartment in Manhattan and learns that the previous tenant's life ended mysteriously after they fell from the balcony.
Style:
erotic, sexy, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, serial killer, voyeurism, murder, hidden camera, video surveillance, surveillance, sex, dangerous attraction, sex scene, apartment building, secret ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, san francisco
Is relevant?
343K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Wrongfully accused of murdering his wife, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find her killer and clear his name. Pursuing him is a team of U.S. marshals led by Deputy Samuel Gerard, a determined detective who will not rest until ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, neo noir, detective, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, boys' night
Plot:
on the run, conspiracy, betrayal, escape, framed for murder, fugitives, death row, manhunt, doctor, murder, uncover truth, corruption ...
Time:
20th century, year 1993, 90s
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois, washington d.c.
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Kimberly has a violent premonition of a highway pileup she blocks the freeway, keeping a few others meant to die, safe...Or are they? The survivors mysteriously start dying and it's up to Kimberly to stop it before she's next.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, bloody, splatter, tense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural horror, violence, destiny, a vision, survival, danger, cheating death, death, blood, creativity, precognition, gory ...
Time:
2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A TV newswoman (Lauren Tewes) catches a pervert (John DiSanti) watching her sister (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who cannot see, hear or speak.
Style:
bloody, psychological thriller, creepy, sadistic, retro ...
Plot:
stalking, sex maniac, elevator, attempted rape, pervert, voyeur, reporter, decapitation, blindness, murder, deaf, serial murder ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
florida, miami
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, ...
Style:
suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, action packed, intense ...
Audience:
chick flick, manly, boys' night
Plot:
gunfight, terrorism, revenge, race against time, lone hero, heist, police, buddy cop, car chase, terrorist, police officer, bank robber ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem ...
Is relevant?
875K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
Style:
neo noir, futuristic, tech noir, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, dystopia, existentialism, dystopian future, distopia, androids, cyborgs, fugitive, police detective, fugitives, flying car ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2019, 20th century, near future ...
Place:
los angeles, california, bolivia, usa
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