Movies about house arrest

Movies about house arrest
List of the best films about house arrest according to the audience: Attack of the Killer Donuts, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Cherish, Cucuy: The Boogeyman, Anon, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, Invader ZIM: Enter the Florpus, Dark Summer, Mustang, House Arrest.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Genre
Country
Markimdb: 3.8
Genrehorror, comedy
CountryUSA

A chemical accident turns ordinary donuts into blood thirsty killers. Now it's up to Johnny, Michelle and Howard to save their sleepy town from...Killer Donuts.

Markimdb: 7
Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration02:27

Just when his time under house arrest is about to end, Scott Lang once again puts his freedom at risk to help Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym dive into the quantum realm and try to accomplish, against time and any chance of success, a very dangerous rescue mission.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:02

After a martini-induced rampage, a fantasy-prone young woman is placed under house arrest.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA

When children start disappearing, a rebellious teen under house arrest starts to suspect that a legendary evil, a boogeyman known as the Cucuy, might be responsible.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrefantastic, thriller, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA, Germany
Duration01:16

Set in a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity, our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to exist. In trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, Sal Frieland stumbles onto a young woman who appears to have subverted the system and disappeared. She has no identity, no history and no record. Sal realizes it may not be the end of crime but the beginning. Known only as 'The Girl', Sal must find her before he becomes the next victim.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, cartoon
CountryQatar, France, Lebanon, Canada, USA, Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom

Exiled artist and poet Mustafa embarks on a journey home with his housekeeper and her daughter; together the trio must evade the authorities who fear that the truth in Mustafa's words will incite rebellion.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure, cartoon
CountryUSA, South Korea
Duration01:34

ZIM discovers his almighty leaders never had any intention of coming to Earth and he loses confidence in himself for the first time in his life, which is the big break his human nemesis, Dib has been waiting for.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:21

Follows the tale of a 17-year-old on house arrest for the summer. When his mother is away on business, a horrifying incident occurs, followed by an even more terrifying presence in the house.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama
CountryTurkey, France, Germany, Qatar
Duration01:58

In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryIndia

A world-weary man’s self-imposed home confinement becomes a comedy of errors with the simultaneous arrivals of a peculiar package and a curious journalist.

Markimdb: 7
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryIndia

Accused of murdering her husband, IAS officer Chanchala, is taken to a haunted house called Bhaaghamathie Bungalow, where police and CBI officials interrogate her to dig up dirt on a politician she had worked under. As she's left alone in the haunted house, spirits take control of her and IAS Chanchala transforms into an unrecognisable person. How this impacts her and everyone around her forms the crux of the story.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

After Marnie Watson kills her abusive husband in self-defense, she is condemned to house arrest... only to discover that the house is possessed by the enraged and violent spirit of her dead husband.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrecomedy, adventure, family, cartoon
CountrySpain, Canada
Duration00:58

Ozzy, a friendly, peaceful beagle has his idyllic life turned upside down when the Martins leave on a long and distant trip. There's only one problem: no dogs allowed! Unable to bring their beloved Ozzy along for the ride, they settle on the next best thing, a top-of-the-line canine spa called Blue Creek.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, crime
CountryAustralia
Duration01:43

In 1983, a naive man is detained by Australian Federal Police with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach. After being apprehended, ‘The Mule’ makes a desperate choice... to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence – literally.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrehorror, comedy, detective
CountryNew Zealand
Duration01:47

When Kylie Bucknell is sentenced to home detention, she's forced to come to terms with her unsociable behaviour, her blabbering mother and a hostile spirit who seems less than happy about the new living arrangement.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, comedy, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

A luxury condo manager leads a staff of workers to seek payback on the Wall Street swindler who defrauded them. With only days until the billionaire gets away with the perfect crime, the unlikely crew of amateur thieves enlists the help of petty crook Slide to steal the $20 million they’re sure is hidden in the penthouse.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama, crime
CountryCanada, USA
Duration01:51

After a young woman suffers a brutal rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genrefantastic, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:17

Demonic gang-leader Alex goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of "droogs". But he's a boy who also likes Beethoven's Ninth and a bit of "the old in-out, in-out". He later finds himself at the mercy of the state and its brainwashing experiment designed to take violence off the streets.

Markimdb: 9
Genrefantastic, fantastic, action, action, thriller, drama, drama, adventure, crime
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration02:32

    Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:52

    Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.

    Genredrama
    Duration03:09

    A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cellblock's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:48

    High-schooler Grover Beindorf and his younger sister Stacy decide that their parents, Janet and Ned, are acting childishly when they decide to divorce after 18 years of marriage, so they lock them up in the basement until they'll sort out their problems.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    Dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950s, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrefantastic, action, adventure, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:30

      Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity. This polarizes opinion amongst the Avengers, causing two factions to side with Iron Man or Captain America, which causes an epic battle between former allies.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genredrama
      CountryFrance
      Duration02:02

      An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with an alcoholic husband while running her own business.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:12

      Rebellious, quick-witted Erica Vandross is a 17-year-old firecracker living with her single mom, Laurie, and her mom's new boyfriend, Bob, in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley. When Bob's mentally unbalanced son, Luke, arrives from rehab to live with the family, Erica finds her domestic and personal life overwhelmed. With Luke and her sidekicks Kala and Claudine in tow, Erica acts out by exposing a high school teacher's dark secret.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
      CountryUSA, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, Canada, New Zealand
      Duration02:24

      Saban's Power Rangers follows five ordinary teens who must become something extraordinary when they learn that their small town of Angel Grove — and the world — is on the verge of being obliterated by an alien threat. Chosen by destiny, our heroes quickly discover they are the only ones who can save the planet. But to do so, they will have to overcome their real-life issues and before it’s too late, band together as the Power Rangers.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:05

        This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will learn harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryWest Germany

        Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrethriller, crime, detective
        CountryCanada
        Duration01:56

        Summer is usually a time for fun and games, but some teens get much more danger than they bargained for after beginning to suspect their neighbor is a serial murderer.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:55

        Fortune hunter Holly Golightly finds herself captivated by aspiring writer Paul Varjak, who's moved into her building on a wealthy woman's dime. As romance blooms between Paul and Holly, Doc Golightly shows up on the scene, revealing Holly's past.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:55

        Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.

        Markimdb: 7.9
        Genrehorror, melodrama, drama
        CountrySweden
        Duration01:55

        Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor Eli, who only appears at night in the snow-covered playground outside their building.

        Markimdb: 7.9
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:32

        Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she's engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can't let that happen and frames the fiancé, Bruce Baldwin, for one thing after another, to keep him temporarily held in prison, while trying to steer Hildy into returning to her old job as his employee.

        Markimdb: 8
        Genredrama, military
        CountryFrance, West Germany, Italy
        Duration01:44

        Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:04

        Viktor Navorski is a man without a country; his plane took off just as a coup d'etat exploded in his homeland, leaving it in shambles, and now he's stranded at Kennedy Airport, where he's holding a passport that nobody recognizes. While quarantined in the transit lounge until authorities can figure out what to do with him, Viktor simply goes on living – and courts romance with a beautiful flight attendant.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Germany
        Duration02:24

        A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genremelodrama, drama, detective, military
        CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
        Duration02:00

        As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA, China
        Duration02:18

          A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:22

          A man recently released from a mental institute inherits a mansion after his parents die. After a series of disturbing events, he comes to believe it is haunted.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
          CountryPoland

          Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to control the situation. A young poet who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong Jewish young girl who wants him to run off with her, to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, while still harboring the hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men who quickly revert to petty enmities.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genredrama
          CountryFrance
          Duration02:08

          Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

          Markimdb: 7.9
          Genredrama, musical, crime
          CountryDenmark, Finland, Norway, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Iceland, Germany, United Kingdom, Argentina, USA, Sweden, France
          Duration02:15

          Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, escaping life's troubles - even if just for a moment - by dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUSA, Germany
          Duration01:48

          The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. Everyone in town is too self consumed to worry about anything else than themselves. And everybody is on some form of drug just to get through their days.




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