Buried Alive

Gangsters dig a hole and bury a man alive to kill him. Some time later, a little girl sees the man's head pop out of the mud. She runs to find someone to help dig him out.

Hanzo is intentionally buried alive in the coffin of a young woman at a funeral service in the cemetary of a well-guarded monastery where only women are allowed. After dark he digs himself out of the grave so he can sneak into the monastery.

A doctor's daughter is kidnapped and buried alive and he has 5 hours to rescue her.

Beatrix Kiddo is shot with rock salt, injected with a sedative, then buried alive in a coffin in a graveyard in someone else's grave. (The man who did all this calls it a "Texas Funeral.") She uses her martial arts close-punching skills to break the coffin lid then she digs herself to the surface.

Almost all of this movie consists of a man buried alive in a coffin somewhere in the Iraqui desert, with only a lighter and a cell phone.

A man wakes up in a coffin, buried alive under the ground.

A man wakes up in a coffin, buried alive under the ground.

Leonardo DiCaprio is thought dead from a bear attack so he is buried in a shallow grave, but he revives and digs himself out.

Two mobsters are beaten then buried alive.

A killer buries a girl alive, offscreen.

A man thought to be dead comes back to life, then he is buried alive in a plowed field.

The title says it all. A man injected with poison is thought to be dead so he is buried alive. He claws his way out.

A man who is terrified of becoming cataleptic and being buried alive, becomes cataleptic and is buried alive.

A woman thought to be dead is buried alive in a cemetary, but she is rescued.

A cataleptic woman named Madeleine is put in a crypt by her brother who knows she's still alive. She wakes up, goes insane, and breaks free.

A Haitian man appears to die in a missionary clinic and is buried in a grave with a catholic funeral. His coffin is lowered we see his eyes open just before he is buried alive.

A woman who suffers from catalepsy is thought to have died from a plague so she is sealed up in a coffin. She comes out of her trance and screams.

Lisbeth Salander is shot, thought to be dead, and buried in a shallow grave. She revives and digs herself out.

A dozen nude women wearing only bridal veils all emerge from graves together at night.

A man kidnaps and buries alive a rich businessman's wife, demanding that he is paid a million dollars in ransom before she suffocates from lack of oxygen.

A teenage girl named Candy is kidnapped and buried alive in a field with a pipe for air. When her father refuses to pay the ransom, they dig her up, rape her, then bury her alive again.

Hugh Jackman and Michael Caine kidnap Christian Bale's right hand man, Fallon, nail him into a coffin and bury him alive, forcing Bale to give them the codeword that will unlock the secret to his magic trick before they tell him where he's buried.

The title says it all.

Ophelia takes poison that makes her appear dead and is buried in a coffin. Horatio digs her up, she wakes up, gets an antidote from a witch, cuts off her long hair, then returns to the palace disguised as a man.

In this and other filmed versions of Shakespeare's play, Juliet takes a potion that makes her appear to be dead to avoid marriage. The Friar who gave her the potion plans to rescue her in two days when she wakes, and take her to Romeo. She is given a funeral and her paralyzed but still living body is entombed in the family's underground burial vault. (She is not put in a coffin or buried underground, she is left on her back under a shroud on a raised surface.)

(Romeo learns of Juliet's death, breaks into the tomb, and finds what he thinks is Juliet's corpse. He then drinks poison and dies. When Juliet wakes, she sees Romeo's corpse and stabs herself to death with his dagger.)