| The Conjuring (2013) | 7.5 | |
| Room (2015) | 8.1 | |
| The Return of the Living Dead (1985) | 7.3 | |
| Mustang (2015) | 7.6 | |
| Split (2016) | 7.3 |
Locked in movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant locked in movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, captivating and psychological thriller films and TV shows about / with locked in, isolation, survival, locked in a room, female protagonist, escape, serial killer, murder, trapped and fear plots mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, Spain and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as locked in: Melody (2014), The Captive Nanny (2020), 200 Degrees (2017), Barbarian (2022), The Skin I Live In (2011), Shut In (2022), Madrid, 1987 (2011), Room (2015), Hunger (2009), Happiness (2021).
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List of locked in movies
273
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Melody, 28 years old, a confused child born under the name X, decides to rent out her body in order to get the money she needs to realize her dream: opening a hair-dressing salon. To do so, she accepts to carry the child of Emily, a rich English ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
surrogate mother, pregnancy, hairdresser, homeless, follow your dream, money, baby, social differences, social relations, hopes, locked in, women ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, belgium, europe
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Chloe (Karynn Moore) is a nanny who desperately wants to adopt but needs to get her life together first. She finds the perfect live-in nanny position with the Brown family - Emily (Austin Highsmith), Michael (Michael Aaron Milligan) and their son - ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
locked in, hostage, wanting a baby, husband wife relationship, family problems, marital problem, female protagonist, relationship problems, relationships, social problems, family relations, life is a bitch ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Ryan Hinds awakes inside a sealed industrial kiln. He is set challenges by a voice with no face, pushed to the limits of human endurance as the temperature within the kiln begins to rise.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, intense, captivating ...
Plot:
locked in, isolation, survival, claustrophobia, race against time, trap, murderer, homicidal maniac, death threat, psycho killer, stock broker, burned alive ...
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254K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway, but ...
Style:
psychological horror, scary, suspense, spooky, slasher ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
basement, secret passageway, locked in a room, fear, kidnapping, secret room, locked in, psychopath, rape, serial rapist, terror, serial killer ...
Time:
2020s, 80s
Place:
detroit, brooklyn new york city, usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, clever, sexy, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, twists and turns, kidnapping, rape, revenge, isolation, gender, abuse, skin, lgbtq, insanity, mad scientist ...
Time:
year 2011, year 2006, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
spain, ancient greece, europe
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12K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young single mother is held captive along with her two children by a violent ex and must plot their escape before it’s too late.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, thrilling ...
Plot:
locked in, home invasion, locked in a room, problem, jealous man, jealousy, female protagonist, struggle for survival, relationship problems, locked door, pedophile, virus ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two characters: old and young; teacher and pupil; man and woman. Four walls within which they conjure intellectualism, relive the profession (journalism), explore politics and discover each other.
Style:
sexy, sincere, erotic, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
locked in, attempted seduction, pleasure, relationships, journalism, introspection, elderly, aging, confined, society, isolation, journalist ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
spain, europe, madrid
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477K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the world. But what will happen when his Ma suddenly tells him that there are other things outside of Room?
Style:
sentimental, heartbreaking, emotional, sad, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, isolation, kidnapped, captive, room, mother son relationship, child born of rape, female protagonist, child protagonist, rape, boy, childhood ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
ireland, persia, canada
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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:
disturbing, scary, independent film, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
starvation, isolation, eating human flesh, captive, hunger, captivity, survival, gory, cannibalism, claustrophobia, flesh eating, confined ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
15K
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story:
A new type of deadly virus spread throughout the city, and the apartment where has different social classes of people is sealed off. With the fear of the virus, and the conflicts of the different classes, the residents have to spend and survive in ...
Style:
dorama, apocalyptic, tense, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
epidemic, apartment building, locked in, zombie, illness, survival, virus, social problems, struggle for survival, isolated place, society, fighting illness ...
Time:
near future
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221K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.
Style:
slasher, suspense, disturbing, psychological, scary ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
elderly couple, serial killer, adult filmmaking, televangelist, characters murdered one by one, farmhouse, husband wife relationship, van, old woman, farmer, jealousy, old age ...
Time:
2020s, 70s, 20th century, 1910s, year 1918 ...
Place:
texas, houston texas
Is relevant?
6K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
During a bloody night, a young man and his lover are struggling, not to get to the hospital, but to escape and survive.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
locked in, hospital, escape, muslim, couples, trapped, doctor, runaway, fugitives, night, manhunt, struggle for survival ...
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In a twisted social experiment, a group of 80 Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogotá, Colombia and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company's intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be ...
Style:
suspense, dark comedy, slasher, psychological thriller, bloody ...
Plot:
game of death, social experiment, killing spree, office, trapped in a building, last man standing, cruelty, human experiment, murder, mass murder, corporation, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colombia
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20K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A man imprisons the woman he's still obsessed with after years apart, then finds the tables turned on him.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, psychological thriller, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, basement, captivity, kidnapping, psychopath, fear, locked in a cage, captive, stalking, female psychopath, sadist, animal shelter ...
Place:
los angeles
Is relevant?
303
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Carla lives life locked inside her house with her kind but tyrannical father. When their isolation is interrupted by a mysterious stranger, Carla questions the reasons for her family's withdrawal from the outside world and discovers dark ...
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, thrilling, independent film
Plot:
abusive father, problem, secret, social isolation, father, tyrant, isolation, female protagonist, life is a bitch, family problems, locked in, found footage ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Mike and Kate, a young couple, get the once-in-a lifetime chance to win a cool five million dollars. The challenge: Live for 50 days in a blank space. Sticking it out for thirty days, and the five million are theirs. How difficult can it be?
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, social, disturbing ...
Plot:
seductive woman, isolated place, locked in, psychoanalysis, boredom, couples, secret, relationships, social isolation, family problems, relationship problems, male female relationship ...
Time:
2020s
Is relevant?
448
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Held hostage in an isolated house, three kidnapped women attempt to escape from their sadistic captors.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, psychological
Plot:
survival horror, locked in, fleeing, kidnapping, hostage, escape attempt, survival, sadism, struggle for survival, female protagonist, sadistic violence, women ...
Place:
ireland
Is relevant?
988
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
6 strangers are kidnapped and through governmental technology have proof they have all killed before and are told 5 will die this night, one may walk, and the six have 2 hours to decide who gets to live.
Style:
suspense, tension, intense, psychological thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
survival, deathtrap, isolation, survival horror, locked in, eye, kidnapping, race against time, moral dilemma, countdown, trapped in a building, struggle for survival ...
Time:
year 2017
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Two would-be thieves forge a surprising relationship with an unexpected housesitter when they accidentally trap themselves in a house they just broke into.
Style:
satirical, feel good, captivating, humorous, funny ...
Plot:
locked in, satire, heist gone wrong, crime gone awry, burglar, heist, criminal, misfit, attempted robbery, robbery, humour, stoner ...
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story:
Enomoto Kei is a security "otaku" working for a security firm, devoted to improving the securities system on a daily basis. He is not an easy person to familiarize oneself with, always collected and calm, unapproachable, a maniac in ...
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, crime drama ...
Plot:
locked door, locked in, lawyer, locked room mystery, investigation, puzzle, breaking and entering, uncover truth, crime solving, security guard, crime investigation, deduction ...
Place:
tokyo
Is relevant?
33K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Style:
surreal, creepy, scary, slasher horror, perverse ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
supernatural, chimpanzee, telepathy, psychic power, teenage girl, serial killer, killer, mysticism, insect, female psychopath, investigation, violent woman ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
europe, switzerland, zurich switzerland, alps, munich germany
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Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Five youngsters get themselves locked in a maze.
Style:
slasher, serious, scary, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, rivalry, confined, captivity, locked in, isolation, danger, contests and competitions, gory, escapades, computers and web, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
holland, europe
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An architect regains consciousness in a locked portaloo – known in German vernacular by the ‘Dixi’ brand name – on a building site where a detonation is being prepared. As he desperately tries to find ways of escaping this ‘prison’ ...
Style:
dark comedy, suspense, intense, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
locked in, confined space, claustrophobia, trapped, survival, battles, problem, threat, satire, escape attempt, secret, fight ...
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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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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Olja is a high school history teacher, married to a painter whose latest exhibition provoked violent reactions from Serbian nationalists. One night, a group of masked hooligans attacks her. They film the attack and upload the clip to YouTube. The ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
homosexuality, high school teacher, teenager, locked room, locked in, high school student, introspection, classmate classmate relationship, teachers and students, social problems, teacher, female teacher ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The lives of two young women collide in Victorian England when a trio of 'fingersmiths' (pick-pockets) concoct an elaborate scam to defraud a young heiress of her inheritance. The story alternates between the twisting back alleyways of ...
Style:
costume drama, serious, realistic, eros, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian love, lgbt, lesbian relationship, sapphic, gays and lesbians, deception, manipulation, mistaken identity, voice over narration, lesbian teen, thief ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, ancient times, 1860s, turn of the century
Place:
london, britain, england, europe
Is relevant?
633K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Caleb, a 26 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds ...
Style:
psychological, futuristic, twist ending, philosophical, mind bending ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
artificial intelligence, robot, androids, technology, existentialism, cyborgs, cyberpunk, isolation, manipulation, androids and robots, female robot, consciousness ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s, year 2015, year 2014 ...
Place:
england
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of high-school kids set out to play a Halloween prank at an abandoned house, but once they enter they become victims of a demonic witch who has set her wrath upon them.
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, disturbing, scary, dark ...
Plot:
abandoned house, fear, witch, halloween, haunted house, haunted, prank, occult, paranormal, survival, youth, danger ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A seemingly innocent man is abducted by a notorious L.A. serial killer, who forces his victims to switch roles with him so that he can enact his own capture, torture and murder.
Style:
suspense, brutal, rough, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
maniac, killer clown, held captive, homicidal maniac, psycho, execution, torture, missing person, violence, psychopath, serial killer, kidnapping ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A rookie cop's world is turned upside down when she comes face to face with Paymon - King Of Hell. Officer Jessica Loren has the last shift at a transitioning police station, assigned to wait for a crew picking up bio-hazard waste from the ...
Style:
psychological, demonic, tense, satanic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
police station, ghost, supernatural, female protagonist, twists and turns, serial killer, mind game, haunted, supernatural horror, workplace, gory, sacrifice ...
Place:
california
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