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1. Alien (1979)
R | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 949,187 | Gross: $78.90M
2. The Shining (1980)
R | 146 min | Drama, Horror
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
Votes: 1,105,075 | Gross: $44.02M
3. Event Horizon (1997)
R | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A rescue crew is tasked with investigating the mysterious reappearance of a spaceship that had been lost for seven years.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson
Votes: 196,953 | Gross: $26.67M
4. The Descent (2005)
R | 99 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators.
Director: Neil Marshall | Stars: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder
Votes: 246,633 | Gross: $26.02M
5. Das Boot (1981)
R | 149 min | Drama, War
A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch
Votes: 264,102 | Gross: $11.49M
6. Underwater (2020)
PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A crew of oceanic researchers working for a deep sea drilling company try to get to safety after a mysterious earthquake devastates their deepwater research and drilling facility located at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
Director: William Eubank | Stars: Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, Mamoudou Athie, T.J. Miller
Votes: 97,002 | Gross: $17.29M
7. Buried (2010)
R | 95 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
Director: Rodrigo Cortés | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, José Luis García-Pérez, Robert Paterson, Stephen Tobolowsky
Votes: 168,401 | Gross: $1.03M
8. The Cave (2005)
PG-13 | 97 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Blood-thirsty creatures await a pack of divers who become trapped in an underwater cave network.
Director: Bruce Hunt | Stars: Piper Perabo, Morris Chestnut, Cole Hauser, Eddie Cibrian
Votes: 41,402 | Gross: $15.01M
9. The Trial (1962)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Arnoldo Foà, Jess Hahn, Billy Kearns
Votes: 23,986
10. Meander (2020)
90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A woman finds herself locked in a series of strange tunnels full of deadly traps.
Director: Mathieu Turi | Stars: Gaia Weiss, Peter Franzén, Romane Libert, Frédéric Franchitti
Votes: 11,373
11. Elevator (V) (2012)
Not Rated | 84 min | Horror, Thriller
Racism collides with corporate greed when nine strangers - one of whom has a bomb - become trapped in a Wall Street elevator.
Director: Stig Svendsen | Stars: Christopher Backus, Aníta Briem, John Getz, Shirley Knight
Votes: 7,164
12. Rabid Dogs (1974)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean escape.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Lea Lander, George Eastman, Riccardo Cucciolla, Don Backy
Votes: 5,260
13. Torpedo (2019)
102 min | Action, Adventure, History
Resistance fighters led by commander Stan must transport a stolen German submarine carrying uranium to America during WWII while evading German forces determined to sink the U-boat.
Director: Sven Huybrechts | Stars: Koen De Bouw, Thure Riefenstein, Ella-June Henrard, Joren Seldeslachts
Votes: 2,934
14. The Blockhouse (1973)
R | 93 min | Drama, War
During D-day several people become trapped while hiding in a bunker, when heavy shelling collapses it. They have plenty of food and water so they decide to wait for rescuers. And so they wait year, after year, after year.
Director: Clive Rees | Stars: Peter Sellers, Charles Aznavour, Jeremy Kemp, Per Oscarsson
Votes: 651
15. Abwärts (1984)
PG | 90 min | Thriller
Two former lovers, an embezzler, and a messenger boy become trapped on a Friday in a stalled office elevator.
Director: Carl Schenkel | Stars: Götz George, Wolfgang Kieling, Renée Soutendijk, Hannes Jaenicke
Votes: 1,485
16. Living Dark: The Story of Ted the Caver (2013)
PG-13 | 112 min | Horror, Mystery
Two brothers stumble across a hidden cave. They explore it but things turn sinister when they realise there's something down there, something that may have been responsible for their father's death.
Director: David L. Hunt | Stars: Chris Cleveland, Matthew Alan, Mark Hayter, Circus-Szalewski
Votes: 992
17. Freezer (2014)
R | 83 min | Action, Thriller
After waking up in a refrigerated meat locker, a man engages in a battle of wits with his captors, a group of Russian gangsters.
Director: Mikael Salomon | Stars: Dylan McDermott, Yulia Snigir, Peter Facinelli, Andrey Ivchenko
Votes: 3,540
18. Rabid Dogs (2015)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After a bank job goes badly wrong, three desperate criminals take a young woman and a father and child hostage - it's the beginning of a frantic and violent road trip that not all of them will survive.
Director: Éric Hannezo | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Gouix, François Arnaud
Votes: 1,933
19. The Cavern (1964)
102 min | Adventure, Drama, War
Adventure drama during WW2 in Italy where a mixed group of people get trapped inside a cave after a bomb raid. But can they co-operate? And will they survive?
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: John Saxon, Rosanna Schiaffino, Larry Hagman, Peter Marshall
Votes: 318
20. A Light in Dark Places (2003 TV Movie)
182 min | Adventure, Drama
Director: Kaspar Heidelbach | Stars: Heino Ferch, Jan Josef Liefers, Heike Makatsch, Nadja Uhl
Votes: 346
21. Lift (II) (2006)
88 min | Thriller
A psychological thriller. One quite ordinary summer morning five different and unacquainted people leave their apartments at different floors and enter the lift. The doors close behind the ... See full summary »
Director: Vsevolod Plotkin | Stars: Igor Vernik, Olga Rodionova, Daniil Spivakovskiy, Natalya Rychagova
Votes: 314
22. Forever Never Anywhere (2007)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
Never at the sea.
Director: Antonin Svoboda | Stars: Christoph Grissemann, Dirk Stermann, Heinz Strunk, Philip Bialkowski
Votes: 1,150
23. Underwater (II) (2018)
5 min | Short, Horror, Thriller
Director: Evgeniy Puzyrevskiy | Star: Kseniya Radchenko
Votes: 38
24. Isabel (2013)
90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The thriller takes place in present city of Ostrava during one day and one night. It is a story about starting journalist Isabel, who in pursuit of smashing reportage follows a mystery man.... See full summary »
Directors: Lukás Melník, Marcel Skrkon | Stars: Tereza Dockalova, Renáta Klemensová, Sylvie Krupanská, Norbert Lichý
Votes: 31
25. Babylon 2084 (2009)
30 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi
In the year 2084 the world has sunken into the sea. The rest of mankind lives in two towers which underlie a self-destructing constraint to grow higher and higher.
Director: Christian Schleisiek | Stars: Luc Feit, Norbert Hülm, Olaf Krätke
Votes: 48
26. Caverns of the Mojave: An Expedition with Real Cavers (2006 Video)
Not Rated | 15 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Danny Roew | Stars: Alan Rice, John Woods, Amy Black, Craig Huddleston
Votes: 35
27. Long Black Lashes (2011)
22 min | Short, Drama, Horror
With the spotlight fading on her modeling career, Margaret Hamilton's journey into madness begins with a simple wish on a single, fallen eyelash. Believing it to have come true, Margaret ... See full summary »
Director: Brandon Lasner | Stars: Bree Barton, Caley Bisson, Nidia Cota, Alex Kudo
28.
Artifact (2013)
Episode:
CruxEnigma
(2017)
Action, Adventure, Drama
In a Stroy by Allan Linder, a fallen Astronaut searches the unknown for a way home. What he finds will change the future of humanity forever.
Votes: 22
29.
Artifact (2013)
Episode:
Dissimulation
(2015)
Action, Adventure, Drama
A Captain searching for an Artifact on a desolate planet, exposes the truths of his mission.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel
Votes: 27