Highest-Rated Movies about 'Claustrophobic'

Dunkirk (2017), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), Snowpiercer (2013), Silent Running (1972), Life (2017), Cohen and Tate (1988), The Hole (2001), Inferno (2016) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Claustrophobic movies.

#2. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

Storyline: Four seemingly-unrelated men board subway train Pelham 1:23 at successive stations. Mr. Blue, Mr. Green, Mr. Grey and Mr. Brown are heavily armed and overpower the motorman and novice conductor to take control of the train. Between stations they separate the front car from the remainder of the train, setting passengers in the back cars and the motorman free. The four demand $1 million ransom within exactly one hour for the remaining eighteen hostages, including the conductor. If their demands are not met in time or their directions are not followed precisely, they will begin to shoot hostages dead, one every minute the money is late. Wisecracking Lt. Zach Garber of the transit police ends up being the primary communicator between the hijackers and the authorities, which includes transit operations, his own police force, the NYPD, and the unpopular and currently flu ridden mayor who will make the ultimate decision of whether to pay the ransom. Unknown to Garber, what may be working on ...

Plot Keywords: surprise ending, wheelchair, tour guide, suicide, sniper, sneeze, shot in the back ...

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#3. Snowpiercer (2013)

Storyline: Set in 2031, the entire world is frozen except for those aboard the Snowpiercer. For seventeen years, the world's survivors are on a train hurtling around the globe creating their own economy and class system. Led by Curtis (Chris Evans), a group of lower-class citizens living in squalor at the back of the train are determined to get to the front of the train and spread the wealth around. Each section of the train holds new surprises for the group who have to battle their way through. A revolution is underway.

Plot Keywords: train, revolt, ice, social commentary, rebellion, post apocalypse, dystopia ...

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#4. Silent Running (1972)

Storyline: In a future Earth barren of all flora and fauna, the planet's ecosystems exist only in large pods attached to spacecraft. When word comes in that the pods are to be jettisoned into space and destroyed, most of the crew of the Valley Forge rejoice at the prospect of going home. Not so for botanist Freeman Lowell, who loves the forest and its creatures. He kills his colleagues taking the ship deep into space. Alone on the craft with his only companions being three small robots, Lowell revels in joys of nature. When colleagues appear to "rescue" him, he realizes he has only one option available to him.

Plot Keywords: reference to god, explosion, exploding ship, exploding body, tragic ending, burned alive, nuclear bomb ...

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#5. Life (2017)

Storyline: Six astronauts aboard the space station study a sample collected from Mars that could provide evidence for extraterrestrial life on the Red Planet. The crew determines that the sample contains a large, single-celled organism - the first example of life beyond Earth. But..things aren't always what they seem. As the crew begins to conduct research, and their methods end up having unintended consequences, the life form proves more intelligent than anyone ever expected.

Plot Keywords: astronaut, female astronaut, zero gravity, outer space, space station, no survivors, alien creature ...

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#6. Cohen and Tate (1988)

Storyline: A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other's throats while being driven to their employers, possibly to be killed. Cohen, an older professional becomes increasingly irritated with his partner Tate, a brutish killer, when their prisoner uses unnatural guile and resourcefulness to play them off against each other.—Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>

Plot Keywords: black gloves, brass knuckles, eavesdropping, laughing, claustrophobic, mob hit, professional hit ...

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#7. The Hole (2001)

Storyline: One misty morning, Liz Dunn stumbles down the road to her school and screams for help. A police psychologist gets her to reveal her story: A month earlier: three rebellious teenagers - Mike, Frankie and Geoff are trying to ditch the school field trip to Wales. The school nerd Martin helps them out by allowing them to stay in an old war bunker for the three days on the condition that his friend Liz joins them. The teens go down, party and have great fun but Martin doesn't return to let them out and they hope and pray that someone will find them...

Plot Keywords: pubic hair, cannabis, teenage crush, teenage sex, underground bunker, female nudity, male full frontal nudity ...

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#8. Inferno (2016)

Storyline: Famous symbologist on a trail of clues tied to the great Dante himself. When Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Sienna Brooks, a doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories. Together, they race across Europe and against the clock to stop a madman from unleashing a global virus that would wipe out half of the world's population.

Plot Keywords: amnesia, church, museum, concert, danger, college professor, wet t shirt ...

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#10. The Divide (2011)

Storyline: Nuclear explosions force the residents of a New York apartment block to run from the building. However, the explosions force them into a basement. Eight residents are holed up in the building's bomb shelter. They must acclimatise to each other in difficult, cramped conditions.

Plot Keywords: apocalypse, rape, gay kiss, new york city, post apocalypse, rough sex, doggystyle sex ...

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#11. Underwater (2020)

Storyline: An unknown, massive earthquake happens in a drilling station in the bottom of the Marianna Trench. A scientific crew must find their way across the ocean floor into another station under the threats of deep pressure, dark water, dangerous deep-sea creatures, and a constant lack of oxygen.—joel

Plot Keywords: lovecraftian, sea monster, survival, characters murdered one by one, heroine, female protagonist, toy ...

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#12. Flowers in the Attic (1987)

Storyline: Dreams of an inheritance turn into a nightmare for four innocent children. Locked in the deserted north wing of the family mansion. Beaten by a vicious grandmother. Tormented by a menacing caretaker. Starved and left alone to wither - and perhaps die - like FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC. Their only hope lies in escape. But a horrible truth awaits them in the main house - a truth that will push the children toward a dizzying and violent solution. FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC - living proof that even the prettiest flowers can grow deadly in the attic's darkness.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: incest, captive, sadist, bathtub, partial female nudity, girl, little girl ...

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#13. 47 Meters Down (2017)

Storyline: Two sisters are exploring the deep blue sea until something goes wrong. As they submerge 47m they encounter a creature that only wants flesh and blood. As they fight their way back to the top, they shortly run out of oxygen. With only an hour left they're not only racing against time they are racing against life and death.

Plot Keywords: shark, vacation, rescue, mexico, hallucination, ocean, scuba diving ...

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#14. The Numbers Station (2013)

Storyline: When the moral values of a longtime wetwork black ops agent is tested during his last operation, he receives an unfavorable psych evaluation. Now he is given a break and a seemingly uncomplicated assignment of simply protecting the security of a young female code announcer, code resources and remote station they are assigned to. After an ambush and one phone call later, it becomes a complicated fight for their survival.

Plot Keywords: torture, shotgun, woods, forest, england, pistol, silencer ...

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#15. The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

Storyline: In the near future, there is an energy crisis on Earth. The Cloverfield Station with a multinational crew will test the Shepard particle accelerator expecting to generate energy for all countries solving the energy problem. However, the experiment goes wrong, damages the station and opens a portal to another dimension with a parallel Earth. They also find a woman entwined with wires behind a bulkhead of the station and they learn she worked in an identical Cloverfield Station in another dimension. Now the scientists need to find a way to return to their own dimension.

Plot Keywords: parallel world, alternate world, trapped in space, alternate reality, alternate dimension, space station, mysterious woman ...

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