Movies about people trapped in a building

Movies about people trapped in a building
List of the best films about locked in a building, selected by visitors to our site: ATM, Berlin Syndrome, Black Snake Moan, The Pink Cloud, Source Code, 12 Feet Deep, Irul, EXIT, No Exit, Against the Night.

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

Markimdb: 4.7
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:30

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.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, drama
CountryAustralia, Germany

A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:56

A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, is looking everywhere for love, but never quite finding it.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrefantastic, drama
CountryBrazil

Giovana and Yago are strangers who share a spark after meeting at a party. When a deadly cloud mysteriously takes over their city, they are forced to seek shelter with only each other for company. As months pass and the planet settles into an extended quarantine, their world shrinks, and they are forced to come to terms with an accelerated timeline for their relationship. With all their other interactions governed by screens, and with the strain of isolation setting in, Giovana and Yago struggle to reinvent themselves and reconcile the differences that threaten to tear them apart.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
CountryUSA, Canada, France, Germany
Duration01:33

    Decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, discovering he's involved in a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. He learns he's part of a top-secret experimental program that enables him to experience the final 8 minutes of another person's life. Colter re-lives the train incident over and over again, gathering more clues each time. But can he discover who is responsible for the attack before the next one happens?

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA

    Two sisters are trapped under the fiberglass cover of an Olympic sized public pool and must brave the cold and each other to survive the harrowing night.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrethriller, detective
    CountryIndia

    A dark rainy night, an empty house, a stranded couple and an unknown man. A sleek game of the cat and the mouse starts playing on, as the three of them find a dead body in the basement.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genreaction, comedy
    CountrySouth Korea

    When an unknown toxic gas strikes Seoul in an unprecedented act of terror, Yong-nam has just met Eui-ju from college by chance at his mother's birthday banquet. The city falls under sudden noxious gas attack and together, they must escape the panic-stricken city.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    Stranded at a rest stop in the mountains during a blizzard, a recovering addict discovers a kidnapped child hidden in a car belonging to one of the people inside the building which sets her on a terrifying struggle to identify who among them is the kidnapper.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA

    A group of friends sneak into an abandoned prison with the intention of making a ghost hunting video, until they start to go missing one by one.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrefantastic, comedy
    CountryFrance

    Humans have ceded most tasks to AI in 2045, even in nostalgic Alice's home. So when robots stage a coup, her androids protectively lock her doors.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrethriller, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early, the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, the would-be thieves must fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryIndia
    Duration02:18

    A man gets stuck in an empty high rise without food, water or electricity.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:21

    A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:25

    Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
    CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
    Duration02:02

    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.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:20

    Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    A Secret Service Agent is held captive in the trunk of a car and endures high-speed mental and physical torture as terrorists attempt to extract needed information for their sinister plot.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:24

    Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryAustralia, Singapore
    Duration01:33

    A freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building ... along with a 12-foot great white shark.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama, history
    CountryFrance, Belgium, Luxembourg, Romania, Canada, USA
    Duration02:02

    Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew members on board. While the few sailors who are still alive barely manage to survive, their families push for accurate information and a British officer struggles to obtain from the Russian government a permit to attempt a rescue before it is late. But general incompetence are against all their efforts.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

    Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her mercy.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:09

    Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the beautiful young "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:28

    On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife's heart.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, adventure, detective
    CountryUSA

    Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    While on a joyride with the headlights turned off, two men hit and kill another man carrying a satchel full of money. The two men decide to take the money and throw the body into a pond and bury the money in a coal hill. The next morning the police discover the body of a kidnapped 12-year blind girl, Melody, in a warehouse near the site of the hit-and-run. They determine that the kidnapper saw the girl's father bringing the ransom to him and also witnessed the hit-and-run and the men stealing the ransom.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountryRussia

    The house of culture “Mir” (from Russian: “Peace”) is being taken over by masked people. People who came to the premiere of the show have to face death. Now they are to pass a dreadful challenge, preserving their dignity and courage. This is a thriller about the struggle against the world evil, terrorism, and a win of the word over weapons. The dramatic and emotional story embraces everything — struggle, confrontation, betrayal, heroic deeds, and love!

    Markimdb: 4.2
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:30

    Six friends test their intelligence in a game that takes a dark turn.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:19

    Four friends break into an abandoned insane asylum in search of a death certificate which will grant one of them a large inheritance. However, finding it soon becomes the least of their worries in a place haunted by dark memories.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, detective
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:29

    Four mathematicians who do not know each other are invited by a mysterious host on the pretext of resolving a great enigma. The room in which they find themselves turns out to be a shrinking room that will crush them if they do not discover in time what connects them all and why someone might wish to murder them.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

      Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

      Kale is a 17-year-old placed under house arrest after punching his teacher. He is confined to his house, and decides to use his free time spying on his neighbors. Things start to get weird when guests enter the Turner's house and don't come back out. Kale and his friends, Ronnie and Ashley, start to grow more and more interested in what is actually happening within the house of Robert Turner.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrehorror, action, drama, cartoon
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:43

        Martial law is declared when a mysterious viral outbreak pushes Korea into a state of emergency. Those on an express train to Busan, a city that has successfully fended off the viral outbreak, must fight for their own survival…

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
        CountryFrance, Belgium, Luxembourg
        Duration02:03

        Kate and Matt discover that a part of their house can grant wishes. In the wake of several miscarriages, what they want most is a child.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:38

        A claustrophobic, Hitchcockian thriller. A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody admits she was ever on that plane.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Romania, Germany, France
        Duration01:26

        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.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:42

        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.

        Markimdb: 2.6
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA

        A paranormal investigation YouTube channel is getting ready to shut down if they don't have a video that goes viral in time. In this last ditch attempt, a long-time mystery is solved.

        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: 5.6
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA, Germany

        A three-person crew on a mission to Mars faces an impossible choice when an unplanned passenger jeopardizes the lives of everyone on board.




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