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A thing for ELEVATORS? Here's Elevator-films!

by OJT • Created 11 years ago • Modified 2 years ago
Films in which an elevator, lift or more than one plays an important role in the plot, or something like elevators in sci-fi movies.
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  • Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, and Colin Farrell in Total Recall (2012)

    1. Total Recall

    20121h 58mPG-1343Metascore
    6.2 (272K)
    A factory worker, Douglas Quaid, begins to suspect that he is a spy after visiting Rekall - a company that provides its clients with implanted fake memories of a life they would like to have led - goes wrong and he finds himself on the run.
    DirectorLen WisemanStarsColin FarrellBokeem WoodbineBryan Cranston
  • Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal in What's Up, Doc? (1972)

    2. What's Up, Doc?

    19721h 34mG73Metascore
    7.7 (29K)
    The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
    DirectorPeter BogdanovichStarsBarbra StreisandRyan O'NealMadeline Kahn
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    3. Elevator

    20081h 25mNot Rated
    6.1 (315)
    A boy and a girl, both teenagers, want to get away from the world and be alone for a while, so they hide in an abandoned factory on the outskirts. But there they fall in a trap of their own intention, and get stuck in the cargo elevator. There is no one around to hear them, and nobody knows their whereabouts. Tension arises after each failed attempt to escape, while they also have to deal with the fact that their entire universe is now reduced to a metal box smaller than a room.
    DirectorGeorge DorobantuStarsCristi PetrescuIulia Verdes
  • Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

    4. Elevator to the Gallows

    19581h 31mNot Rated94Metascore
    7.9 (30K)
    A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
    DirectorLouis MalleStarsJeanne MoreauMaurice RonetGeorges Poujouly
  • Tak Fujimoto, John Erick Dowdle, Sam Mercer, Brian Nelson, M. Night Shyamalan, Martin Whist, Elliot Greenberg, and Fernando Velázquez in Devil (2010)

    5. Devil

    20101h 20mPG-1344Metascore
    6.3 (163K)
    A group of people are trapped in an elevator and the Devil is mysteriously amongst them.
    DirectorJohn Erick DowdleStarsChris MessinaCaroline DhavernasBokeem Woodbine
  • REC (2007)

    6. REC

    20071h 18mR71Metascore
    7.4 (208K)
    A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.
    DirectorsJaume BalagueróPaco PlazaStarsManuela VelascoFerran TerrazaJorge-Yamam Serrano
  • Lacey Chabert and Ryan Merriman in Elevator Girl (2010)

    7. Elevator Girl

    20101h 28mTV-PGTV Movie
    6.3 (2.1K)
    Modern Cinderella-romance where a young successful lawyer panics when he finds that he has fallen for a working-class girl.
    DirectorBradford MayStarsLacey ChabertRyan MerrimanHedy Burress
  • Elevator Movie (2004)

    8. Elevator Movie

    20041h 35mNot Rated
    5.4 (211)
    Surreal dark comedy in which a man and a woman get stuck in an elevator and are forced to live there for several months.
    DirectorZeb HaradonStarsZeb HaradonRobin BallardAlissa Hooper
  • Martin Sheen, Martin Landau, Gretchen Becker, Gabriel Bologna, Richard Lewis, Richard Moll, Athena Ashburn, and Bokeem Woodbine in The Elevator (1996)

    9. The Elevator

    19961h 30mR
    4.4 (251)
    Things are going great for film producer Roy Tilden-his latest film is a hit and he will soon receive an award. But his perfect day changes when he takes an elevator ride with a passionate writer.
    DirectorsArthur BormanNigel DickRafal ZielinskiStarsMartin LandauGabriel BolognaGretchen Becker
  • Isabelle Brok in The Lift (1983)

    10. The Lift

    19831h 35mR
    6.1 (8.2K)
    A lift technician finds himself drawn into a web of mystery and peril as he investigates the perplexing deadly accidents occurring in the elevators of a new office building.
    DirectorDick MaasStarsHuub StapelWilleke van AmmelrooyJosine van Dalsum
  • Lift to Hell (2013)

    11. Lift to Hell

    20131h 25m
    4.6 (94)
    A killing spree takes place in a northern China's hospital, an old elevator goes to the 18th floor - underground.
    DirectorJingwu NingStarsHongxiang CaiChrissie ChauBlue Cheng-Lung Lan
  • Ben Affleck, Andy Garcia, Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven, Ryan Reynolds, Alicia Keys, and Chris Pine in Smokin' Aces (2006)

    12. Smokin' Aces

    20061h 48mR45Metascore
    6.6 (155K)
    When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.
    DirectorJoe CarnahanStarsJeremy PivenRyan ReynoldsRay Liotta
  • The Kiss (1988)

    13. The Kiss

    19881h 41mR
    5.4 (2.1K)
    After the death of her mother, a teenage girl is faced with bizarre supernatural occurrences when her mother's estranged sister arrives and begins to infiltrate her and her father's lives.
    DirectorPen DenshamStarsJoanna PaculaMeredith SalengerMimi Kuzyk
  • Fred Astaire, William Holden, Paul Newman, Richard Chamberlain, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, O.J. Simpson, Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner, Susan Blakely, and Jennifer Jones in The Towering Inferno (1974)

    14. The Towering Inferno

    19742h 45mPG69Metascore
    7.0 (51K)
    At the opening party of a colossal San Francisco skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out due to careless building practices by the contractor, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
    DirectorJohn GuillerminStarsPaul NewmanSteve McQueenWilliam Holden
  • Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, and Ed Helms in The Hangover (2009)

    15. The Hangover

    20091h 40mR73Metascore
    7.7 (889K)
    Three buddies wake up from a bachelor party in Las Vegas with no memory of the previous night and the bachelor missing. They must make their way around the city in order to find their friend in time for his wedding.
    DirectorTodd PhillipsStarsZach GalifianakisBradley CooperJustin Bartha
  • Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct (1992)

    16. Basic Instinct

    19922h 7mR43Metascore
    7.1 (232K)
    A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.
    DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsMichael DouglasSharon StoneGeorge Dzundza
  • The Rapist (1994)

    17. The Rapist

    19941h 31m
    5.2 (135)
    A serial rapist is loose in the Hong Kong suburb of Tuen Mun. Based on the true story of Lam Kwok-wai, who raped and murdered women in the early 90s.
    DirectorChuen-Yee ChaStarsDickson Ga-Sing LeeKwok-Pong ChanFarini Cheung
  • Dressed to Kill (1980)

    18. Dressed to Kill

    19801h 44mR74Metascore
    7.1 (53K)
    A mysterious blonde woman kills one of the patients of a psychiatrist and then goes after the high-class hooker who witnessed the murder.
    DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsMichael CaineAngie DickinsonNancy Allen
  • Time After Time (1979)

    19. Time After Time

    19791h 52mPG69Metascore
    7.0 (22K)
    H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the 20th Century when the serial murderer uses the future writer's time machine to escape his time period.
    DirectorNicholas MeyerStarsMalcolm McDowellMary SteenburgenDavid Warner
  • Elevator (2012)

    20. Elevator

    20121h 24mNot Rated
    5.3 (7.5K)
    Racism collides with corporate greed when nine strangers - one of whom has a bomb - become trapped in a Wall Street elevator.
    DirectorStig SvendsenStarsChristopher BackusAníta BriemJohn Getz
  • Nick Frost, Jodie Whittaker, Franz Drameh, Leeon Jones, and John Boyega in Attack the Block (2011)

    21. Attack the Block

    20111h 28mR75Metascore
    6.7 (114K)
    A teen gang in South London defend their block from an alien invasion.
    DirectorJoe CornishStarsJohn BoyegaJodie WhittakerAlex Esmail
  • Deborah Shelton in Body Double (1984)

    22. Body Double

    19841h 54mR69Metascore
    6.8 (42K)
    A young actor's obsession with spying on a beautiful woman who lives nearby leads to a baffling series of events with drastic consequences.
    DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsCraig WassonMelanie GriffithGregg Henry
  • Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Ron Carey, Harvey Korman, and Howard Morris in High Anxiety (1977)

    23. High Anxiety

    19771h 34mPG55Metascore
    6.6 (25K)
    A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.
    DirectorMel BrooksStarsMel BrooksMadeline KahnCloris Leachman
  • Demons 2 (1986)

    24. Demons 2

    19861h 32mR
    5.9 (13K)
    A group of tenants and visitors are trapped in a 10-story high-rise apartment building infested with demons who proceed to hunt the dwindling humans down.
    DirectorLamberto BavaStarsDavid Edwin KnightNancy BrilliCoralina Cataldi-Tassoni
  • Kevin Spacey, Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro, and Kevin Pollak in The Usual Suspects (1995)

    25. The Usual Suspects

    19951h 46mR76Metascore
    8.5 (1.2M)
    The sole survivor of a pier shoot-out tells the story of how a notorious criminal influenced the events that began with five criminals meeting in a seemingly random police lineup.
    DirectorBryan SingerStarsKevin SpaceyGabriel ByrneChazz Palminteri

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