Isolation movies and TV shows – page 5
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32K
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A futuristic prison movie. Protagonist and wife are nabbed at a future US emigration point with an illegal baby during population control. The resulting prison experience is the subject of the movie. The prison is a futuristic one run by a private ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, rough, cyber, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, dystopia, escape, desert, prisoner, maximum security prison, violence, overpopulation, isolation, pregnancy, strong sexual content, dream ...
Time:
future, near future, year 1992, year 2017, 80s
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
A series of four short dramas depicting life in lockdown. Each episode will be 15 minutes in duration and will reflect what families are going through after weeks of isolation. The series will be filmed observing the strict rules of lockdown with ...
Style:
anthology, thrilling, captivating, psychological, reflective ...
Plot:
isolation, quarantine, coronavirus, dysfunctional family, social isolation, social issues, family problems, isolated community, social problems, problem, domestic drama, loneliness ...
Time:
2020s
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145K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cannibalism, gory, survival, forest, massacre, danger, youth, manhunt, blood, chase, disfigurement, brutality ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
west virginia, virginia, usa, texas
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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
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After Andrew and Claire, a young couple attempting to restart their live, moves to an isolated school house in farm country, their neighbors and nature itself, trigger a surprising chain of events
Style:
atmospheric, tense, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
isolation, couples, farm, introspection, haunted by the past, couple relations, family problems, estrangement, starting over, crumbling marriage, countryside, loneliness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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4K
Genre: Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A suicide case is informed to the police from a mental hospital in a rocky district. Two policemen comes to hospital to investigate the case. In the same morning, Dr. Deniz comes to hospital as the new psychiatrist. Because of the heavy rain and ...
Style:
tense, rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
isolation, mental institution, investigation, riddles and clues, who done it, danger, doctors and patients, murder, protagonist as suspect, workplace, trapped, claustrophobia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
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943
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Italy
Duration: 138 min.
TV show
Story:
Acclaimed filmmakers from around the world channel their creativity during COVID-19 isolation with this diverse, genre-spanning collection of short films.
Style:
anthology, thought provoking, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
isolation, quarantine, relationships, locked in, intimate, social problems, society, social isolation, epidemic, family relations, pandemic, family problems ...
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47K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An Australian couple take a sailing trip in the Pacific to forget about a terrible accident. While on the open sea, in dead calm, they come across a ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
isolation, ocean, ship, psychopath, sailing, serial killer, sex, violence, yacht, woman in danger, female nudity, sea ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia, pacific ocean, new zealand, california
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103
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 17 min.
TV show
Story:
This is a comedy about how people of the Middle Ages cope with new quarantine realities, while a plague rages outside the walls of the castle. According to the plot, the inhabitants of the fictional town of Nischburg are locked in a quarantine ...
Style:
parody, light, entertaining, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, adult
Plot:
medieval, quarantine, isolation, fictional city, castle, illness, absurd humor, humour, joke, satire, social commentary, dark humor ...
Time:
14th century, middle ages
Place:
hamburg germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On a freezing January evening, school bus driver Lesley completes her route, but her final inspection abruptly ends when a bluebird comes into view. What happens next shakes her small Maine logging town, proving that even the slightest actions have ...
Style:
sincere, touching, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
isolation, winter, family problems, family in crisis, youth, single parent, dysfunctional family, drug abuse, teenage life, parents and children, working class, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maine, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story:
Flight 29 Down is a television series about a group of teenagers who are stranded on an island. It was produced by Discovery Kids. The show was created by Stan Rogow and D. J. MacHale. The executive producers are Rogow, MacHale, Shauna Shapiro ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, serious, realistic, entertaining
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens
Plot:
teenager, stranded on an island, isolation, island, youth, escapades, danger, siblings relations, teenage life, interracial relations, brother sister relationship, survivor ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
pacific ocean, hawaii, oceania
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388
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In the half-light of a an old stately home, Samuel Davila and his grandfather Paul, once a revered writer, create schemes to repel the latest in a long line of psychologists come to cure the grandson of his severe agoraphobia: some delicious ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, touching ...
Plot:
isolation, love and romance, family relations, power relations, family life, fall in love, mental illness, optimism, doctors and patients, siblings relations, hopes, confined ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Gaby cannot stay alone ; she's afraid of the dark ,of everything .When her boyfriend leaves her (he wants to have sex with her and she gets on his nerves,because she only needs a protector),she's completely on her own .She's afraid of ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, psychological ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
isolation, couple relations, couples, fall in love, countryside, love and romance, lone wolves, female protagonist, anxiety, loneliness, isolated house, social isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
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31K
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A disgraced FBI agent with a drinking problem joins nine other troubled law enforcement officers at an isolated detox clinic in the wilds of Wyoming. But the therapeutic sanctuary becomes a nightmarish hellhole when a major snowstorm cuts off the ...
Style:
slasher, detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, group therapy, revenge, killer, psychopath, depression, isolation, snowstorm, insanity, rehabilitation center, obsession, grief ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
wyoming, british columbia, usa, seattle
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young newlywed couple find themselves trapped in a network of underground caves. With her husband injured, the new bride is forced to find her way back to the surface in order to save his life. In the process, they discover a terrifying truth ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, isolation, confined, supernatural, cave, danger, escapades, deadly creature, darkness, fear, claustrophobia, newlyweds ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Antonio is a fallen angel, a rootless chauffeur in Rome, who relates only to the lonely heroes in the science fiction novels he grew up with. Only through a chance meeting with Maria, a woman struggling to hold onto her daughter and her business, ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, touching, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
isolation, bittersweet, unlikely criminals, family relations, gangster, custody, single parent, single mother, character study, longing, loneliness, unrequited love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rome italy, italy, venice, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Harkening back to the apartment movies of the 1970s, "Footnotes" is the story of neighbors and near total strangers, Will and Apurna. When they begin spending lock-down together in the wake of the 2020 pandemic, what starts as a platonic ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, psychological, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
longing, isolation, quarantine, intimate, character study, neighbor, relationships, social relations, romantic relationship, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love affair ...
Place:
new england
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Andre, recovering from a recent accident, agrees to help his friend Robert by taking over a house sitting job at a creepy home nestled in the hills above Los Angeles. As night comes, the house reveals its insidious nature as Andre begins hearing ...
Style:
suspense, creepy, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
isolation, haunted house, supernatural, house, found footage, evil spirit, paranormal, panic, paranormal activity, mysticism, single, loneliness ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past in Ingmar Bergman's only horror film, which takes place on a windy island. During "the hour of the wolf" - between midnight and dawn - he tells his wife about his most painful ...
Style:
gothic, creepy, atmospheric, surreal, black and white ...
Plot:
surrealism, macabre, insanity, nightmare, artist, island, isolation, insomnia, existentialism, obsession, mental illness, homosexual subtext ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe, europe, germany
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A burdened man feels the wrath of a vengeful God after he and his wife are visited by a mysterious stranger.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, bleak, art house, psychotronic ...
Plot:
isolation, mysterious stranger, grief, loss of child, loss of faith, house, church, wife, death, murder, psychopath, runaway ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
A jury is sequestered in a hotel while deliberating a court case with massive implications.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, serious, tense, intense ...
Plot:
jury, legal, murder trial, isolation, uncover truth, hotel, investigation, dishonesty, law enforcement, political conspiracy, courtroom drama, claustrophobia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A man wanders into the woods in search of his cat and witnesses a murder
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
isolation, murder, afterlife, danger, witness, murder witness, moral ambiguity, fear, slow burn, minimalism, haunting, paranoia ...
Time:
21st century
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268K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Style:
psychological, scary, tense, spooky, dark ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, macabre, ghost, nightmare, monster, fear, danger, trauma, book, single mother, nightmare comes true, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
australia, adelaide south australia, oceania, new zealand
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A who-is-it setting in the claustrophobic corridors of an abandoned and locked-off office building that has several guests invited to a party by their mysterious, unknown host. Only it is they who are the victims of their crimes. Suspense and ...
Style:
christmas horror, slasher, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Plot:
psychopath, isolation, masked killer, game, murder, captivity, danger, serial killer, holiday horror, party, elevator, new year ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
In the Nevada mountains between Las Vegas and Reno in the desolate nuclear testing grounds of Dreamland (Area 51), a young couple Megan and Dylan stop in a greasy spoon cafe where they learn about the Area 51 government base a few miles away. After ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, scary, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
supernatural, desert, isolation, losing-it hero, time travel, danger, miraculous event, conspiracy, alien, paranormal, travel, uncertainty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nevada, las vegas, usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An invitation for a reunion between seven friends on a remote island cottage turns deadly, when they begin dying one-by-one. As the remaining survivors cling to their lives and try to escape, they suspect the killer is one of them.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, rough, slasher ...
Plot:
isolation, island, psychopath, serial killer, gory, friendship, danger, stalking, fear, suspicion, paranoia, murder mystery ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
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
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Determined to restore her dying father's reputation, Ana travels to the remote town of Rosales. Decades ago, he settled there and opened his first free clinic for cancer research. He launched an illustrious medical career - and fell in love. ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, melancholic, creepy ...
Plot:
small town, haunted house, isolation, social relations, twists and turns, estate, doctor, museum, medical experiment, death of father, female protagonist, recovery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
puerto rico, latin america
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Stranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery.
Style:
psychological, brutal, captivating, rough, scenic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
survival, coming of age, island, violent, death, bullying, child, distopia, stranded, innocence lost, brutality, isolation ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
fictional island
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16K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, USA, India
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A widowed child psychologist lives in an isolated existence in rural New England. When caught in a deadly winter storm, she must find a way to rescue a young boy before he disappears forever.
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, psychological thriller, clever ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
single parent, stepmother, child in peril, boy, isolation, held captive, psychologist, child psychologist, little boy, obsession, missing child, murder ...
Time:
year 2016, 21st century
Place:
new england, usa
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