Highest-Rated Movies about 'Trapped In A House'

The Phantom of the Opera (2004), Don't Breathe (2016), The Most Dangerous Game (1932), The Cat and the Canary (1927), Ready or Not (2019), The People Under the Stairs (1991), The Collector (2009), Mark of the Vampire (1935) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Trapped In A House movies.

#1. The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

Storyline: Begins when an opera ghost terrorizes the cast and crew of the French Opera House while tutoring a chorus girl. He finally drives the lead soprano crazy so she and her friend leave. The girl is able to sing lead one night but the soprano doesn't want her show stolen so she comes back. The ghost demands they keep giving his protégé lead roles. Meanwhile, His pupil falls in love with the Vicomte de Chagny, but the Phantom is in love with Christine, his student. The Phantom is outraged by their love and kidnaps Christine to be his eternal bride. Will Raoul, the Vicomte, be able to stop this dastardly plan?

Plot Keywords: opera, singer, mask, unrequited love, sword fight, graveyard, disfigurement ...

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#2. Don't Breathe (2016)

Storyline: Rocky, a young woman wanting to start a better life for her and her sister, agrees to take part in the robbery of a house owned by a wealthy blind man with her boyfriend Money and their friend Alex. But when the blind man turns out to be a more ruthless adversary than he seems, the group must find a way to escape his home before they become his latest victims.

Plot Keywords: blind man, robbery gone awry, trapped in a house, death of daughter, breaking and entering, murder, minimal cast ...

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#3. The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

Storyline: After their luxury cabin cruiser crashes on a reef, Bob Rainsford finds himself washed ashore on a remote island. He finds a fortress-like house, and the owner, Count Zaroff, seems to be quite welcoming. Apart from Zaroff's servant Ivan, the only other people present are Eve Trowbridge and her brother Martin, also survivors of their own shipwreck. Other survivors are missing, however, and Rainsford soon learns why. Zaroff releases them into his jungle island and then hunts them down in his grisly outdoor chess game. Then after Martin disappears Bob realizes that he and Eve are to be the next pawns in Zaroff's deadly game.—garykmcd

Plot Keywords: ship wreck, castaway, waterfall, crocodile, trap, shark attack, psychopath ...

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#4. The Cat and the Canary (1927)

Storyline: Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns out that Annabelle West, the only heir with his name left, inherits, if she is deemed sane. If she isn't, the money and some diamonds go to someone else, whose name is in a sealed envelope. Before he can reveal the identity of her successor to Annabelle, Mr. Crosby, the lawyer, disappears. The first in a series of mysterious events, some of which point to Annabelle in fact being unstable.—Ron Kerrigan

Plot Keywords: based on play, moth, motorcycle cop, safe, cat, housekeeper, heiress ...

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#5. Ready or Not (2019)

Storyline: All of us have made certain efforts so our in-laws will like us, but Grace is going to have to give it her all if she wants to fit in with her brand new husband's wealthy dynasty, who require her to follow a brutal tradition: for the bride to try to survive her wedding night while the rest of them hunt her down. The class struggle stuff hits the proverbial fan in this extremely black satire starring a brilliant Samara Weaving and including an uncommonly perverse Andie MacDowell.—Sitges Film Festival

Plot Keywords: most dangerous game, hide and seek, dysfunctional family, shot in the hand, shot with an arrow, shot in the chest, shot in the face ...

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#6. The People Under the Stairs (1991)

Storyline: The People Under the Stairs is the story of a young boy (Fool) from the ghetto and takes place on his 13th birthday. In an attempted burglary (along with two others) of the home of his family's evil landlords, he becomes trapped inside their large suburban house and discovers the secret of the "children" that the insane brother and sister have been "rearing" under the stairs.

Plot Keywords: kidnapping, child abuse, nameless character, murder of a child, shotgun, cannibal, child protagonist ...

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#7. The Collector (2009)

Storyline: When the Chase family moves to an isolated house in the middle of nowhere in Detroit, Arkin is hired to fix the windows and the doors. Later he meets his daughter and his wife that has a debt with dangerous sharks and needs money, but his week payment is not enough to pay her debts. Arkin plots to heist the safe of Michael Chase during the night to raise the necessary money. However, when he arrives in the house, he finds that a sadistic criminal has imprisoned the family and planted traps everywhere. Arkin seeks a way out of the deadly house to save his life.

Plot Keywords: trap, masked killer, slasher, burglar, home invasion, psychopath, death ...

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#8. Mark of the Vampire (1935)

Storyline: After Sir Karell Borotin is found dead in his study, drained of his blood, the local doctor determines that he was killed by a vampire. The coroner and police Inspector Neumann dismiss the suggestion but a year later, Sir Karell's daughter is attacked and bite marks are found on her throat. Neumann calls in the eminent Professor Zelin who thinks the story of vampires is true. The locals are convinced that Count Mora and his daughter Luna are the perpetrators of the crime, creatures of the night that can turn themselves into bats. There may be another solution however and the Professor sets a trap.—garykmcd

Plot Keywords: vampire, police inspector, hypnosis, coroner, cat, suit of armor, guardian ...

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#9. Cujo (1983)

Storyline: Donna Trenton is a frustrated suburban housewife whose life is in turmoil after her husband learns about her having an affair. Brett Camber is a young boy whose only companion is a Saint-Bernard named "Cujo", who in turn is bitten by a rabid bat. Whilst Vic, Donna's husband is away on business, and thinking over his marital troubles, Donna and her 5-year-old son Tad take her Pinto to Brett Cambers' dad's car shop... the car fails, and "Cujo" is very, very sick...

Plot Keywords: boy, based on novel, killer dog, hiding in a car, rabies, blood on shirt, bitten by a dog ...

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#10. Doghouse (2009)

Storyline: Vince is handling his divorce badly. He's depressed. Gone to pieces. But his mates aren't giving up on him. Struggling with their own women troubles, they drag him off for an ultimate lads drinking weekend in the country. Arriving in the village of Moodley where the women outnumber the men 3:1, the boys find themselves holidaying in a village overrun by psychotic, homicidal Zombirds with a thirst for male flesh.

Plot Keywords: ambiguous ending, army sergeant, road trip, toy gun, murder of a police officer, male rear nudity, lollipop ...

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#11. Livid (2011)

Storyline: "It's young Lucy's first day as a trainee in-house caregiver. She visits Mrs Jessel, an old woman who lies in cerebral coma, by herself, in her large desolate house. Learning by accident that Mrs Jessel, a former dance teacher of repute, supposedly possesses a treasure somewhere in the house, Lucy and friends William and Ben decide to search the house in the hope of finding it. At night, they get into the house, which reveals itself to be increasingly peculiar. Their hunt for Mrs Jessel's treasure leads them into a horrifying supernatural series of events that will change Lucy forever..."

Plot Keywords: coma, undead, vampire, mansion, ballerina, ballet, greed ...

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#13. The Christmas Wife (1988)

Storyline: Nathan Crane is a religious man trying to hold onto his farm and keep his family in line. A real estate developer is trying to buy most of the farm property in the area, including Mr. Crane's family farm, in the hope that the Tennesse Valley Authority will choose the town for the site of a new dam and recreational area. The night of a terrible storm, an unidentified, glowing object crashes on the Crane farm and with it comes a horrible curse for the Crane family and the members of the community.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: farm, meteorite, religious fanatic, meteor, child in peril, bully, violence against a child ...

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#14. The Owners (2020)

Storyline: The Owners follows a group of friends in the 1990s who 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 are left to fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined.

Plot Keywords: burglary, robbery gone awry, trapped in a house, abduction, kidnapping, home invasion, attempted robbery ...

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#15. Wolves at the Door (2016)

Storyline: Four friends gather at an elegant home during the Summer of Love, 1969. Unbeknownst to them, deadly visitors are waiting outside. What begins as a simple farewell party turns to a night of primal terror. The intruders stalk and torment the four, who struggle for their lives against what appears to be an attack by a Manson Family type group.—Warner Bros.

Plot Keywords: home invasion, sledgehammer, slasher flick, headphones, listening to music, tied up while barefoot, tied feet ...

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