Trapped in a room movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant trapped in a room movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, psychological, serious, suspense, tense and psychological thriller films and TV shows about / with trapped in a room, survival, isolation, danger, death, trapped, claustrophobia, mind game, murder and trap plots mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Horror genres shot in USA, Canada, France and other countries.
trapped in a room movies
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TOP 10 movies tagged as trapped in a room: Saw (2004), Persons Unknown (2010), Infinity Chamber (2016), The Divide (2011), Bound to Vengeance (2015), The Mill (2023), Mark of the Devil (2020), Inside (2011), Escape Room (2017), The Killing Room (2009).

List of trapped in a room movies

 7.6
 505K
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, surprise ending, twist ending, psychological ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: torture, mind game, survival horror, serial killer, plot twist, gory, violent, trapped, fear, locked in a room, psychopath, macabre ...
Time: year 2004, year 2000, 80s, 2000s, 21st century
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Persons Unknown (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Italy
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: group of strangers, trapped, mysterious place, confined, captivity, twists and turns, riddles and clues, mind game, experiment, isolation, manipulation, dark past ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco
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Infinity Chamber (2016)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A man trapped in an automated prison must outsmart a computer in order to escape and try and find his way back to the outside world that may already be wiped out.
Style: captivating, suspense, touching, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: subconscious, escape, desert, escape attempt, time paradox, mind game, plot twist, man versus machine, father son relationship, prisoner, computer, political prisoner ...
Time: near future
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 5.7
 40K
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, satanic, tense, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: isolation, group of strangers, nuclear holocaust, torment, losing-it hero, survival, survival horror, social decay, violence, confined, apocalypse, nuclear explosion ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, north korea
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Bound to Vengeance (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young woman, Eve, fights back and manages to escape a malicious abductor. However, after discovering she may not be the only victim, Eve unravels a darker truth and decides to turn the tables on her captor.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, bloody, scary ...
Plot: revenge, female vigilante, serial rapist, female killer, kidnapping, vengeance, sex slave, captive, abduction, murder, human trafficking, vigilantism ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
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 5.4
 4K
The Mill (2023)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A businessman wakes up beside an ancient grist mill situated in the center of an open-air prison cell with no idea how he got there. Forced to work as a beast of burden to stay alive, he must find a way to escape before the birth of his child.
Style: suspenseful, bleak, captivating, scary, exciting ...
Plot: prison, escape, jail cell, management, corporate world, survival, trapped in a building, male protagonist, trapped in a room, trap, trapped, isolation ...
Time: near future
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Mark of the Devil (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An exorcist priest meets a family that has a daughter who is pursued by a demon.
Style: bleak, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, rough
Plot: satanism, priest, curse, dead teenager, possession, obsession, sister sister relationship, devil worship, exorcist, monster, old dark house, rivalry ...
Time: 2020s
Place: austria
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 7.7
 81
Inside (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Christina Perasso is a tough, resilient, 24-year old girl. She wakes up trapped in a room and has no idea where she is being held or who did this to her. She has been left access to her laptop. Through the use of an intermittent Wi-Fi signal, she ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, exciting, scary ...
Plot: kidnapping, captive, young adult, trapped, captivity, social media, kidnapped, trapped in a building, kidnapped woman, trapped in a room, riddles and clues, puzzle ...
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 4.3
 5K
Escape Room (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Four friends who partake in a popular Los Angeles escape room find themselves stuck with a demonically possessed killer. The friends have less than an hour to solve the puzzles needed to escape the room alive.
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, crying ...
Audience: teens
Plot: game of death, puzzle, death, demonic possession, locked in a room, escape, curse, trapped, characters killed one by one, clue, survival, escape room ...
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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, psychological thriller, tense, surreal, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: claustrophobia, mind game, race against time, memory loss, death, escape room, trapped, manhunt, missing person, trap, rivalry, undercover ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, texas, antarctica, new jersey
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 7.1
 260K
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, twist ending ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, trap, trapped, claustrophobia, isolation, group of strangers, mathematics, maze, survival horror, death, fear, game of death ...
Time: 90s, future, 20th century
Place: canada
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The Hidden Face (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Colombia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Spanish orchestra conductor deals with the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend.
Style: suspense, twist ending, psychological, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: twists and turns, disappearance, infidelity, missing person, couples, social isolation, jealousy, police detective, musician, missing woman, plot twist, surveillance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia, south america, spain
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Night of the Demons 2 (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Angela, the universe's most unpleasant party crasher, returns! Angela's sister, Mouse, is taken by her bullying Catholic school classmates to a party at Angela's favorite haunt, and before long, everybody's being turned into ...
Style: sexy, slasher, scary, demonic, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: halloween, demonic possession, demon, old dark house, monster, halloween party, holy water, lesbianism, sex, haunted, fear, psychopath ...
Time: 90s
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No Escape Room (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A father and daughter check out a small town escape room and discover there is something sinister about the place.
Style: disturbing, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological horror ...
Plot: escape room, quest, supernatural, ghost, fear, father daughter relationship, trapped, halloween, supernatural horror, survival, supernatural power, spirit ...
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Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, Hungary, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Six people unwittingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms, slowly uncovering what they have in common to survive as they discover all the games that they've played before.
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, tense, enigmatic ...
Plot: game of death, escape room, trapped, survival horror, quest, puzzle, trap, hostage, survival, most dangerous game, teamwork, game ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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The Quiet Earth (1985)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
Style: philosophical, sexy, cerebral, surreal, apocalyptic ...
Plot: post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, alone, apocalypse, male nudity, end of the world, vestiges of humanity, survival, dystopia, love triangle, disaster, parallel world ...
Time: future, year 1985
Place: new zealand
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 6.1
 34K
The Langoliers (1995)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: On a red eye flight from LA to Boston, 10 people wake up to a shock. All the passengers and crew have vanished. When they try to contact the ground they make no connections. They land the plane only to discover that things haven't changed. But ...
Style: psychological, exciting, mysterious, cult horror, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, stephen king, supernatural, apocalypse, airplane, time, survival, disappearance, obsessive quest, time warp, airport, alternate dimension ...
Time: future, 90s
Place: boston, maine, usa
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 6.2
 50K
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, 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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 6.3
 67K
Mindhunters (2004)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, UK, Finland, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst.
Style: surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, scary, twist ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, twists and turns, mind game, island, trap, violence, investigation, killing spree, profiler, psycho killer, fbi, law enforcement ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
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 8.3
 709K
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: 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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 4.7
 1K
Red Room (1999)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 68 min.
Story: How low would you go to win a million dollars? Just how desperate are you for the cash? Desperate enough to enter the Red Room? In this latest and most vicious game show to emerge from the Japanese underground, four contestants (a husband and wife ...
Style: disturbing, controversial, psychological, heavy, terrifying ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: violent, game of death, extreme, eye, torture, survival, sexual abuse, exploitation, violence, transgender, unsettling, sex scene ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
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 4.6
 24K
Captivity (2007)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The sought-after images of top model, Jennifer, adorn magazine covers and billboards worldwide. When alone at a charity event, she is abducted and incarcerated in a cell with another prisoner. When their captor subjects the two to torture, and ...
Style: scary, psychological, disturbing, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: kidnapping, torture, stalking, violence, serial killer, psychopath, brutality, hostage, captivity, voyeur, stereotypes, isolation ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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Haibane Renmei (2002)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: A dream of falling from the sky...and then birth. Rakka is born from a large cocoon into the Old Home, greeted by a group of females with small wings on their backs and shining halos above their heads. Soon Rakka’s own wings grow, a halo is placed ...
Style: touching, anime, emotional, serious, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: salvation, angel, countryside, tragedy, haunted by the past, teenage life, friendship, supernatural, strong female presence, friends, slice of life, parallel world ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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 5.3
 11K
House of 9 (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania, Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nine strangers wake up in a house with no recollection how they got there and no way out. The voice on the PA introduces them to a grisly game they must play. The prize is $5 million and their life.
Style: scary, tense, suspenseful, twist ending, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: isolation, mind game, survival, deathtrap, murder, group of strangers, captivity, characters killed one by one, trapped, sole survivor, psychological torture, game of death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london
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 8.3
 665K
Lost (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
Style: exciting, psychological, atmospheric, enigmatic, mind bending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, island, stranded, mysterious place, desert island, stranded on an island, lost, human nature, death, plane crash, destiny, air disaster ...
Time: y2k, 70s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: fictional island, hawaii, pacific ocean
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 7.1
 13K
The Method (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In Madrid seven candidates report for a job interview that uses "the Grönholm method" of selection, as protestors rise up in public protest in the street over the IMF-World Bank Summit attempting globalisation of workers' unions.
Style: tense, captivating, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: mind game, office, workplace intrigue, manipulation, workplace, workplace situations, job seeking, rivalry, career, uninhibited rivalry, rise to the top, contests and competitions ...
Time: year 2005
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Shadow Puppets (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Director Michael Winnick's chilling tale stars James Marsters as Jack, one of eight captives who awaken in an abandoned asylum not knowing who they are or why they are together. They discover that they've been used in an experiment to ...
Style: dark, scary, suspenseful, slasher, serious ...
Plot: isolation, memory loss, voyeurism, voyeur, trap, bare breasts, nude girl, supernatural ability, captivity, danger, supernatural, deadly creature ...
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American Hangman (2019)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An unidentified man posts a live feed on social media showing that he has kidnapped two strangers and intends to kill one before the day is out. His intention is to hold a capital 'trial' online. As the authorities recognize what's ...
Style: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: justice, vigilantism, social media, macabre, kidnapped, judge, murder, court, lynching, police investigation, abduction, legal action ...
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 4.7
 21K
The I-Land (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: Wiped clean of memories and thrown together, a group of strangers fight to survive harsh realities -- and the island that traps them.
Style: philosophical, suspense, enigmatic, captivating, psychedelic ...
Plot: fantasy world, virtual world, cyberpunk, survival, ocean, prison warden, virtual reality, island, escape room, prison, danger, memory loss ...
Place: texas, fictional island
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 3.7
 2K
Play or Die (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Welcome to Paranoia, the ultimate escape game. Rule #1: Nothing is real. Rule #2: One of you will die. Lucas and Chloe, two passionate gamers, decide to participate to Paranoia, a very exclusive escape game. After solving a first riddle, they make ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, captivating, rough, mysterious ...
Plot: trap, survival, game, killing, paranoid, brutality, violence, fear, partner, murder of mother, mother son relationship, macabre ...
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