Here we've displayed a list of the best Confinement films : The Great Escape(1963), The Gold Rush(1925), Room(2015), The Deer Hunter(1978), Cool Hand Luke(1967), Papillon(1973), Dark Days(2000), Key Largo(1948), The Best Offer(2013), Lifeboat(1944), The Bamboo Prison(1955), The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest(2009) ... ...
War, Drama
USA
1963
172 Minutes
Steve McQueen James Garner Richard Attenborough Charles Bronson James Donald Donald Pleasence James Coburn David McCallum Gordon Jackson John Leyton Angus Lennie
military officer soldier prisoner nazi cheeky engaging gutsy spirited suspenseful germany pow camp escape deception confinement dangerous assignment prison rebellion escape quest pursuit
Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.
Comedy, Adventure, Drama
USA
1925
82 Minutes
Charles Chaplin Mack Swain Tom Murray Georgia Hale Betty Morrissey Kay Deslys Joan Lowell Malcolm Waite Henry Bergman John Rand Heinie Conklin
tramp fugitive pretty woman prospector amusing witty playful yukon wilderness cabin expedition survival confinement gold rush unrequited love quest discovery adventure love 1890s
A prospector goes to the Klondike in search of gold and finds it and more.
Drama
Canada|Ireland|UK|USA
2015
118 Minutes
Brie Larson Jacob Tremblay Joan Allen Sean Bridgers Tom McCamus William H. Macy Megan Park Amanda Brugel
mother son young boy charming brooding creative emotional intense room united states real world imprisonment kidnapping confinement escape mother/son relationship love life curiosity discovery
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
War, Drama
USA
1978
183 Minutes
Robert De Niro Christopher Walken John Savage John Cazale Meryl Streep George Dzundza Chuck Aspegren Shirley Stoler
soldier friend girlfriend wife enemy blue-collar worker bleak disturbing powerful intense emotional brutal clairton, pa. battlefield vietnam pow camp wedding town horrors of war vietnam war
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
Drama
USA
1967
129 Minutes
Paul Newman George Kennedy J.D. Cannon Lou Antonio Robert Drivas Strother Martin Jo Van Fleet Wayne Rogers Anthony Zerbe Ralph Waite Harry Dean Stanton
prisoner warden guard police officer mother brash cool moving bleak amusing gritty florida prison farm hideout country road church cell prison rebellion escape
A laid back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.
Mystery & Thriller
France|USA
1973
150 Minutes
Steve McQueen Dustin Hoffman Victor Jory Don Gordon Anthony Zerbe Robert Deman Woodrow Parfrey Bill Mumy George Coulouris Ratna Assan William Smithers
convict forger prisoner doctor indian nun gritty brutal dark fiery tense emotional french guiana prison camp cell jungle colombia devil's island imprisonment escape
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Documentary
USA
2000
94 Minutes
homeless person convict prisoner dark dense uneasy prison new york city subway drug addiction rape confinement child abuse poverty crime fall sacrifice 2000s
A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.
Crime, Drama
USA
1948
101 Minutes
Humphrey Bogart Edward G. Robinson Lauren Bacall Lionel Barrymore Claire Trevor Thomas Gomez Jay Silverheels
war hero widow father-in-law mobster henchman alcoholic suspenseful engaging florida key largo, fla. hotel boat showdown confinement organized crime courage hurricane escape rescue 1940s
A man visits his war buddy's family hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other.
Drama, Romance
Italy
2013
124 Minutes
Jim Sturgess Geoffrey Rush Donald Sutherland Sylvia Hoeks Dermot Crowley Liya Kebede Philip Jackson Kiruna Stamell
auctioneer heiress art expert friend suspenseful thrilling emotional auction house villa collection women unintended consequences confinement obsession may-december romance mystery love 2010s
A lonely art expert working for a mysterious and reclusive heiress finds not only her art worth examining.
Drama
USA
1944
96 Minutes
Tallulah Bankhead William Bendix Walter Slezak Mary Anderson John Hodiak Henry Hull Heather Angel Hume Cronyn Canada Lee William Yetter Jr.
survivor nazi civilian military officer emotional tense atlantic ocean boat world war ii survival deception confinement rescue quest 1940s
Several survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the crew members of the U-boat that sank their ship.
War
USA
1955
80 Minutes
corporal sergeant priest traitor wife prisoner of war intricate suspenseful patriotic north korea prison camp korean war confinement espionage betrayal communism sacrifice pursuit escape 1950s
A police lt. is ordered to stop investigating deadly crime boss Mr. Brown, because he hasn't been able to get any hard evidence against him. He then goes after Brown's girlfriend who despises him, for information instead.
Mystery & Thriller
Sweden|Denmark|Germany
2009
146 Minutes
Michael Nyqvist Noomi Rapace Lena Endre Annika Hallin Jacob Ericksson Sofia Ledarp Anders Ahlbom Micke Spreitz Georgi Staykov
heroine journalist wrongly accused assassin photographer hacker brutal suspenseful thrilling dark gritty sweden stockholm trail hospital home psychiatry murder trial conspiracy rebellion
Lisbeth is recovering in a hospital and awaiting trial for three murders when she is released. Mikael must prove her innocence, but Lisbeth must be willing to share the details of her sordid experiences with the court.
Drama
Germany|USA
1999
127 Minutes
Winona Ryder Angelina Jolie Clea DuVall Brittany Murphy Elisabeth Moss Jared Leto Jeffrey Tambor Vanessa Redgrave Whoopi Goldberg Mary Kay Place Jillian Armenante
young woman psychologist friend rival parent troubled youth brooding dark raw engaging tense bleak mental institution tunnel home mental breakdown mental illness medicine psychosis suicide
Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the late 1960s.
Drama
Greece
2009
94 Minutes
Christos Stergioglou Michelle Valley Aggeliki Papoulia Mary Tsoni Hristos Passalis Anna Kalaitzidou Alexander Voulgaris
father son sister employee sibling mother creepy disturbing cheeky greece house confinement violence abusive relationship family deception escape growing up temptation 2000s
Three teenagers live isolated, without leaving their house, because their over-protective parents say they can only leave when their dogtooth falls out.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Canada
1997
90 Minutes
Maurice Dean Wint Nicole De Boer Nicky Guadagni David Hewlett Wayne Robson Andrew Miller Julian Richings
ex-cop architect genius thief physicist autistic person tense bleak eerie offbeat maze prison cell confinement puzzle mathematics survival conspiracy theories mind games escape
Six complete strangers with widely varying personalities are involuntarily placed in an endless maze containing deadly traps.
Romance
USA
1934
110 Minutes
Norma Shearer Fredric March Charles Laughton Maureen O'Sullivan Katharine Alexander Una O'Connor Ian Wolfe Marion Clayton Ralph Forbes Vernon Downing
elizabeth barrett robert browning father sister doctor love interest chilling melodramatic london mansion bedroom poetry confinement illness incest romance sexual repression forbidden love escape transformation
Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
Drama, History, War
USA
2001
121 Minutes
Ciaran McMenamin Robert Carlyle Kiefer Sutherland Mark Strong Yugo Saso Sakae Kimura James Cosmo Masayuki Yui John Gregg Shu Nakajima Greg Ellis
soldier captain lieutenant major brooding gritty burma jungle pow camp prisoners of war confinement uprising world war ii forgiveness underdog discovery escape 1940s
A true story about four Allied POWs who endure harsh treatment from their Japanese captors during World War II while being forced to build a railroad through the Burmese jungle. Ultimately ... See full summary »
War, Drama
Israel|France|Germany|UK
2009
93 Minutes
Yoav Donat Itay Tiran Oshri Cohen Michael Moshonov Zohar Strauss Dudu Tassa Reymonde Amsellem Ashraf Barhoum
soldier prisoner of war military officer tense gritty lebanon tank war armed conflict resistance confinement dangerous assignment quest 1980s
During the First Lebanon War in 1982, a lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town.
Animation, Kids & Family, Drama
USA|France
1996
86 Minutes
quasimodo gypsy soldier judge gargoyle dark engaging passionate amusing paris notre dame cathedral france underground carnival disfigurement showdown confinement friendship romance rescue
A deformed bell-ringer must assert his independence from a vicious government minister in order to help his friend, a gypsy dancer.
Drama
West Germany
1960
102 Minutes
Curt Jurgens Claire Bloom Hansjoerg Felmy Mario Adorf Hans Söhnker Albert Bessler Rudolf Forster Alan Gifford
prisoner austrian nazi invader lawyer gripping melodramatic suspenseful gritty prison car vienna street nazi germany city schemes struggle rebellion confinement social issues
In 1938 Austria shortly after the Nazi occupation, a prominent Viennese intellectual, Werner von Basil, is arrested for smuggling art treatures out of the country and imprisoned by the ... See full summary »
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
UK|Luxembourg
2002
105 Minutes
Sean Pertwee Kevin McKidd Emma Cleasby Liam Cunningham Darren Morfitt Chris Robson Leslie Simpson Thomas Lockyer
soldier werewolf zoologist brutal frightening gory cheeky scottish highlands farmhouse woods lycanthropy military confinement survival adventure escape pursuit 2000s
A routine military exercise turns into a nightmare in the Scotland wilderness.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy, Drama
USA
2002
102 Minutes
Robin Tunney Tim Blake Nelson Brad Hunt Liz Phair Jason Priestley Nora Dunn Lindsay Crouse Ricardo Gil Kenny Kwong Stephen Polk
love interest prisoner parole officer police officer stalker animator quirky engaging san francisco apartment confinement injustice investigation romance obsession music discovery love escape 2000s
After a martini-induced rampage, a fantasy-prone young woman is placed under house arrest.
Mystery & Thriller
Spain
2007
90 Minutes
Rodrigo Sopeña Alejo Sauras Elena Ballesteros Santi Millán Lluís Homar Federico Luppi Ariadna Cabrol
mathematician stranger scholar host tense gripping spain warehouse race against time mathematics riddle confinement survival quest discovery 2000s
4 mathematicians are invited to solve an enigma. Once there, they're locked in a mechanically shrinking room and given 1 minute to solve each puzzle via cellphone while also figuring out why they're there.
Horror, Gay & Lesbian
UK
1977
91 Minutes
Tina Herazo Ava Gardner Chris Sarandon Martin Balsam John Carradine Jose Ferrer Arthur Kennedy Burgess Meredith Sylvia Miles Deborah Raffin Eli Wallach
model priest ex-boyfriend demon creepy dark new york city apartment building evil spirits protection faith suicide confinement discovery transformation 1970s
A dangerous, violent gang kidnaps a woman and her daughter to extort some money from her rich husband. He and her down-on-his-luck ex-cop ex-husband decide to deal with the kidnappers themselves.
Sci-Fi, Horror
USA|UK
1992
115 Minutes
Sigourney Weaver Charles S. Dutton Charles Dance Paul McGann Brian Glover Ralph Brown Danny Webb Christopher John Fields Holt McCallany Lance Henriksen
survivor marine creature criminal prisoner alien frightening dark outer space spaceship prison confinement battle redemption survival murder violence discovery escape rescue
After her last encounter, Ellen Ripley crash-lands on Fiorina 161, a maximum security prison. When a series of strange and deadly events occur shortly after her arrival, Ripley realizes that she has brought along an unwelcome visitor.
Romance
UK|USA
1957
105 Minutes
Jennifer Jones John Gielgud Bill Travers Virginia McKenna Susan Stephen Vernon Gray Jean Anderson Maxine Audley Leslie Phillips Laurence Naismith Moultrie Kelsall
elizabeth barrett robert browning father sister doctor love interest creepy melodramatic london mansion bedroom poetry confinement illness incest romance sexual repression forbidden love escape transformation
Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
Romance, Adventure, Fantasy
France|Germany|Spain
2014
112 Minutes
Vincent Cassel Léa Seydoux André Dussollier Eduardo Noriega Myriam Charleins Audrey Lamy Sara Giraudeau Jonathan Demurger
beautiful woman beast prince princess merchant brother emotional france enchanted forest castle redemption fantasy world country house love freedom regret confinement relationships separation forbidden love
An unexpected romance blooms after the the youngest daughter of a merchant who has fallen on hard times offers herself to the mysterious beast to which her father has become indebted.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama
France|USA
2005
109 Minutes
Ethan Hawke Laurence Fishburne John Alberto Leguizamo Maria Bello Ja Rule Drea de Matteo Matt Craven Brian Dennehy Gabriel Byrne Aisha Hinds Dorian Harewood
police officers criminal drug addict counterfeiter thief dark suspenseful thrilling police station detroit siege blizzard corruption showdown confinement rivalry escape 2000s
A police sergeant must rally the cops and prisoners together to protect themselves on New Year's Eve, just as corrupt policeman surround the station with the intent of killing all to keep their deception in the ranks.
Drama
UK|USA
1988
108 Minutes
Natasha Richardson William Forsythe Ving Rhames Frances Fisher Jodi Long Olivia Barash Dana Delany Marek Johnson Kitty Swink
captive heiress radical father mother robber uneasy emotional san francisco apartment bank interview room patty hearst abduction extremism bank robbery confinement indoctrination transformation discovery
In the 1970s, Patricia Hearst is abducted by American revolutionaries, but eventually joins their cause instead.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
2007
85 Minutes
Luke Wilson Kate Beckinsale Frank Whaley Ethan Embry Scott Anderson David Doty Norm Compton Caryn Mower Meegan E. Godfrey Kym Stys Andrew Fiscella
husband wife hotel manager killer gas station attendant creepy suspenseful motel tunnel car mountain lair murder snuff films chase confinement race against time escape underdog 2000s
A married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and finds hidden video cameras in their room. They soon realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.