Buried Alive
Movies in which someone is buried alive in a grave or a coffin as if they were dead, often to kill them.
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- DirectorKatsuhito IshiiStarsMaya BannoTakahiro SatôTadanobu AsanoA spell of time of a rural family's slightly surreal life.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.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsShintarô KatsuKeiko AikawaKazuko InanoDuring the currency devaluation by the Edo treasury, officer Hanzo deals with a temple priestess who sells her pupils as prostitutes, and a notorious thief who plans to rob the mint.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.
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsWilliam PrinceJim BackusChristine WhiteA doctor's daughter is kidnapped and buried alive, and he is given just five hours to find and rescue her.A doctor's daughter is kidnapped and buried alive and he has 5 hours to rescue her.
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsUma ThurmanDavid CarradineMichael MadsenThe Bride continues her quest of vengeance against her former boss and lover Bill, the reclusive bouncer Budd, and the treacherous, one-eyed Elle.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.
- DirectorRodrigo CortésStarsRyan ReynoldsJosé Luis García-PérezRobert PatersonPaul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.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.
- DirectorGeorge SluizerStarsBernard-Pierre DonnadieuGene BervoetsJohanna ter SteegeRex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor.A man wakes up in a coffin, buried alive under the ground.
- DirectorGeorge SluizerStarsJeff BridgesKiefer SutherlandNancy TravisThe boyfriend of an abducted woman never gives up the search as the abductor looks on.A man wakes up in a coffin, buried alive under the ground.
- DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsLeonardo DiCaprioTom HardyWill PoulterA frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.Leonardo DiCaprio is thought dead from a bear attack so he is buried in a shallow grave, but he revives and digs himself out.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroSharon StoneJoe PesciIn Las Vegas, two best friends - a casino executive and a mafia enforcer - compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.Two mobsters are beaten then buried alive.
- DirectorDon SiegelClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodAndrew RobinsonHarry GuardinoWhen a man calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces San Francisco, tough-as-nails Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down the crazed psychopath.A killer buries a girl alive, offscreen.
- DirectorJoel CoenEthan CoenStarsJohn GetzFrances McDormandDan HedayaThe owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies, and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.A man thought to be dead comes back to life, then he is buried alive in a plowed field.
- DirectorFrank DarabontStarsTim MathesonJennifer Jason LeighWilliam AthertonA husband finds out that his wife and her lover are trying to kill him.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.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsRay MillandHazel CourtRichard NeyAn artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.A man who is terrified of becoming cataleptic and being buried alive, becomes cataleptic and is buried alive.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsChristopher GeorgeCatriona MacCollCarlo De MejoA reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves.A woman thought to be dead is buried alive in a cemetary, but she is rescued.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsVincent PriceMark DamonMyrna FaheyUpon entering his fiancée's family mansion, a man discovers a savage family curse and fears that his future brother-in-law has entombed his bride-to-be prematurely.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.
- DirectorWes CravenStarsBill PullmanCathy TysonZakes MokaeAn anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies.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.
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsBoris KarloffEllen DrewMarc CramerOn a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people, a superstitious old peasant woman, suspects one young girl of being a vampiric kind of demon called a vorvolaka.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.
- DirectorDaniel AlfredsonStarsNoomi RapaceMichael NyqvistLena EndreAs computer hacker Lisbeth and journalist Mikael investigate a sex-trafficking ring, Lisbeth is accused of three murders, causing her to go on the run while Mikael works to clear her name.Lisbeth Salander is shot, thought to be dead, and buried in a shallow grave. She revives and digs herself out.
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAxel JodorowskyBlanca GuerraGuy StockwellA former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms".A dozen nude women wearing only bridal veils all emerge from graves together at night.
- DirectorRichard ShepardStarsMaura TierneyAdrien BrodyJames NaughtonTwo guys kidnap the wife of a rich man and bury her in a box with 24 hours of oxygen. Tough NYPD Detective Maddy and others get the case. Will they get to her in time?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.
- DirectorGuerdon TruebloodStarsTiffany BollingBen PiazzaSusan SennettA nonverbal autistic boy stumbles upon a teenage heiress who has been kidnapped by a trio of young psychopaths, who are intent on extorting diamonds from her stepfather.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.
- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsChristian BaleHugh JackmanScarlett JohanssonAfter a tragic accident, two stage magicians in 1890s London engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other.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.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsRay MillandHazel CourtRichard NeyAn artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.The title says it all.
- DirectorClaire McCarthyStarsDaisy RidleyMia QuineyCalum O'RourkeA reimagining of Hamlet, told from Ophelia's perspective.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.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsNorma ShearerLeslie HowardJohn BarrymoreYoung love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.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.)