100+ Movies about Isolation and Seclusion - Cannot Get Out?
This list includes movies where a key factor in the storyline is isolation and seclusion. A thematic category is given. The latest movies appear at the top. Enjoy and please provide additions and comments!
Categories include:
o Seclusion in the wilderness
o Confined to an area
o Isolated in space
o Confined indoors
o Arctic isolation
o Island isolation
o Confined to a small space
o Post-apocalyptic
etc.
Categories include:
o Seclusion in the wilderness
o Confined to an area
o Isolated in space
o Confined indoors
o Arctic isolation
o Island isolation
o Confined to a small space
o Post-apocalyptic
etc.
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- DirectorGeorge ClooneyStarsGeorge ClooneyFelicity JonesDavid OyelowoThis post-apocalyptic tale follows Augustine, a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to stop Sully and her fellow astronauts from returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.Category: Seclusion in the wilderness
- DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsClaire FoyJoshua LeonardJay PharoahA young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear - but is it real or a product of her delusion?Category: Confined in an institution.
- DirectorDrew GoddardStarsJeff BridgesCynthia ErivoDakota Johnson1969. Four strangers check in at the El Royale Hotel. The hotel is deserted, staffed by a single desk clerk. Some of the new guests' reasons for being there are less than innocent and some are not who they appear to be.Category: Confined to a hotel.
- DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsJennifer LawrenceJavier BardemEd HarrisA couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.Category: Confined indoors.
- DirectorDavid F. SandbergStarsAnthony LaPagliaSamara LeeMiranda OttoTwelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll-maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, where they become the target of the doll-maker's possessed creation, Annabelle.Category: Isolated in a remote home
- DirectorMorten TyldumStarsJennifer LawrenceChris PrattMichael SheenA malfunction in a sleeping pod on a spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet wakes one passenger 90 years early.Category: Confined on a spaceship.
- DirectorAndré ØvredalStarsBrian CoxEmile HirschOphelia LovibondFather and son coroners investigate the death of a beautiful Jane Doe.Category: Confined indoors.
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsMatt DamonJessica ChastainKristen WiigAn astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive and can survive until a potential rescue.Category: Confined alone on another planet.
- DirectorPatricia RozemaStarsElliot PageEvan Rachel WoodMax MinghellaAfter a massive power outage, two sisters learn to survive on their own in their isolated woodland home.Categories:
o Seclusion in the wilderness
o Confined indoors
This movie also appears on The 90+ Apocalyptic Films That Didn't Quite Make the Top 200 List (Categorized!) - DirectorWes BallStarsDylan O'BrienKaya ScodelarioThomas Brodie-SangsterAfter having escaped the Maze, the Gladers now face a new set of challenges on the open roads of a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles.Category: Confined to a small outdoor area.
This movie also appears on The 200+ Best Apocalyptic Films Rated 6+ (Categorized!). - DirectorsMatt DufferRoss DufferStarsAlexander SkarsgårdAndrea RiseboroughEmily Alyn LindA family takes refuge in a bomb shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.Category: Confined in a shelter
This movie also appears on The 200+ Best Apocalyptic Films Rated 6+ (Categorized!). - DirectorPhillip NoyceStarsBrenton ThwaitesJeff BridgesMeryl StreepIn a seemingly perfect community without war, pain, suffering, differences or choices, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man, the true pain and pleasure of the real world.Category: Confined to a enclosed town.
This movie also appears on The 200+ Best Apocalyptic Films Rated 6+ (Categorized!). - DirectorWes BallStarsDylan O'BrienKaya ScodelarioWill PoulterThomas is deposited in a community of boys after his memory is erased, soon learning they're all trapped in a maze that will require him to join forces with fellow "runners" for a shot at escape.Category: Confined to a small outdoor area.
This movie also appears on The 200+ Best Apocalyptic Films Rated 6+ (Categorized!). - DirectorJean-Marc ValléeStarsReese WitherspoonLaura DernGaby HoffmannA chronicle of one woman's 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy.Category: Seclusion in the wilderness.
- DirectorJoseph KosinskiStarsTom CruiseMorgan FreemanAndrea RiseboroughJack Harper, a drone repairman stationed on Earth that has been ravaged by war with extraterrestrials, questions his identity after rescuing the woman who keeps appearing in his dreams.Category: Confined to an area.
This movie also appears on The 200+ Best Apocalyptic Films Rated 6+ (Categorized!). - DirectorJeff RenfroeStarsKevin ZegersLaurence FishburneBill PaxtonForced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.Categories: Post-apocalyptic, Confined underground
This movie also appears on The 90+ Apocalyptic Films That Didn't Quite Make the Top 200 List (Categorized!) - DirectorAlfonso CuarónStarsSandra BullockGeorge ClooneyEd HarrisDr Ryan Stone, an engineer on her first space mission, and Matt Kowalski, an astronaut on his final expedition, have to survive in space after they are hit by debris while spacewalking.Category: Isolated in space.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsJosh BrolinElizabeth OlsenSamuel L. JacksonObsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason.Category: Confined indoors.
- DirectorGonzalo López-GallegoStarsSharlto CopleyThomas KretschmannJosie HoA man wakes up with no memory in a pit full of dead bodies in the wilderness and must determine if the murderer is one of the strangers who rescued him, or if he himself is the killer.Category: Confined underground
- DirectorJ.C. ChandorStarRobert RedfordAfter a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face.Category: Stranded in the ocean.
- DirectorSebastián CorderoStarsSharlto CopleyMichael NyqvistChristian CamargoAn international crew of astronauts undertakes a privately funded mission to search for life on Jupiter's fourth largest moon.Category: Isolated in space.
- DirectorDrew GoddardStarsKristen ConnollyChris HemsworthAnna HutchisonA group of kids go to a remote cabin in the woods where their fate is unknowingly controlled by technicians as part of a world-wide conspiracy where all horror movie clichés are revealed to be part of an elaborate sacrifice ritual.Category: Confined to an area
- DirectorXavier GensStarsLauren GermanMichael BiehnMilo VentimigliaSurvivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.Category: Confined indoors.
- DirectorMatthijs van Heijningen Jr.StarsMary Elizabeth WinsteadJoel EdgertonUlrich ThomsenA group of scientists researching an alien spaceship found in the Antarctic come face to face with the ship's, not quite dead, occupant.Category: Arctic isolation.
This movie also appears on The 200+ Best Apocalyptic Films Rated 6+ (Categorized!). - DirectorCarl TibbettsStarsThandiwe NewtonCillian MurphyJamie BellKate and Martin escape from personal tragedy to an Island Retreat. Cut off from the outside world, their attempts to recover are shattered when a Man is washed ashore, with news of airborne killer disease that is sweeping through Europe.Category: Island isolation.
