Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "trapped-in-a-burning-building"

1. Come and See (1985)

Not Rated | 142 min | Drama, Thriller, War

After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.

Director: Elem Klimov | Stars: Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas

Votes: 97,232

2. Ready or Not (I) (2019)

R | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

A bride's wedding night takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws force her to take part in a terrifying game.

Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett | Stars: Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O'Brien, Henry Czerny

Votes: 182,399 | Gross: $28.71M

3. The Towering Inferno (1974)

PG | 165 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Faye Dunaway

Votes: 48,250 | Gross: $116.00M

4. 13 Hours (2016)

R | 144 min | Action, Drama, History

During an attack on a U.S. compound in Libya, a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.

Director: Michael Bay | Stars: John Krasinski, Pablo Schreiber, James Badge Dale, David Denman

Votes: 160,763 | Gross: $52.85M

5. The Name of the Rose (1986)

R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger, Elya Baskin

Votes: 117,243 | Gross: $7.15M

6. Skyscraper (2018)

PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A security expert must infiltrate a burning skyscraper, 225 stories above ground, when his family is trapped inside by criminals.

Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Roland Møller

Votes: 134,102 | Gross: $68.42M

7. Bright (I) (2017)

TV-MA | 117 min | Action, Fantasy, Thriller

A detective must work with an Orc to find a powerful wand before evil creatures do.

Director: David Ayer | Stars: Will Smith, Joel Edgerton, Noomi Rapace, Edgar Ramírez

Votes: 201,655

8. Don't Breathe 2 (2021)

R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Horror

The sequel is set in the years following the initial deadly home invasion, where Norman Nordstrom lives in quiet solace until his past sins catch up to him.

Director: Rodo Sayagues | Stars: Stephen Lang, Madelyn Grace, Brendan Sexton III, Adam Young

Votes: 71,529 | Gross: $32.64M

9. Halloween Kills (2021)

R | 105 min | Action, Drama, Horror

Surviving victims of Michael Myers form a vigilante mob and vow to end his reign of terror.

Director: David Gordon Green | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney

Votes: 98,307 | Gross: $92.00M

10. The Howling (1981)

R | 91 min | Horror

After a bizarre and near deadly encounter with a serial killer, a television newswoman is sent to a remote mountain resort whose residents may not be what they seem.

Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Christopher Stone

Votes: 40,198 | Gross: $17.99M

11. Frankenstein (1931)

Passed | 70 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.

Director: James Whale | Stars: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, John Boles

Votes: 79,704

12. Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

R | 90 min | Horror, Thriller

Three years after he last terrorized his sister, Michael Myers confronts her again, before traveling to Haddonfield to deal with the cast and crew of a reality show which is being broadcast from his old home.

Director: Rick Rosenthal | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Busta Rhymes, Brad Loree, Bianca Kajlich

Votes: 49,277 | Gross: $30.35M

13. Ladder 49 (2004)

PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A firefighter, injured and trapped in a burning building, has flashbacks of his life as he drifts in and out of consciousness. Meanwhile, fellow firefighters led by the Chief attempt to rescue him.

Director: Jay Russell | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, John Travolta, Jacinda Barrett, Robert Patrick

Votes: 59,427 | Gross: $74.54M

14. I Married a Witch (1942)

Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.

Director: René Clair | Stars: Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley, Susan Hayward

Votes: 9,520 | Gross: $0.31M

15. The Reaping (2007)

R | 99 min | Horror, Thriller

A former Christian missionary, who specializes in debunking religious phenomena, investigates a small town which seems to be suffering from the 10 biblical plagues.

Director: Stephen Hopkins | Stars: Hilary Swank, David Morrissey, AnnaSophia Robb, Idris Elba

Votes: 44,640 | Gross: $25.12M

16. Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992)

G | 84 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Cat and mouse duo Tom and Jerry reluctantly work together to save a young girl from her evil aunt.

Director: Phil Roman | Stars: Richard Kind, Dana Hill, Anndi McAfee, Tony Jay

Votes: 12,087 | Gross: $3.56M

17. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

Passed | 77 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh

Votes: 6,832

18. Hangover Square (1945)

Passed | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Music

A promising classical musician finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer -- and by the strange gaps in his memory.

Director: John Brahm | Stars: Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, George Sanders, Glenn Langan

Votes: 4,139

19. Santa Fe Trail (1940)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, War, Western

In 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, Ronald Reagan

Votes: 4,156

20. Mickybo and Me (2004)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama

This movie tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. They share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), with the consequence that they run away to Australia.

Director: Terry Loane | Stars: John Joesph Mcneill, Niall Wright, Julie Walters, Ciarán Hinds

Votes: 2,447

21. June (I) (2015)

Not Rated | 84 min | Fantasy, Horror

JUNE is a 9-year-old orphan girl who shares her body with an ancient supernatural being whose mission is to destroy mankind to allow nature to prevail on earth.

Director: L. Gustavo Cooper | Stars: Kennedy Brice, Victoria Pratt, Eddie Jemison, Lance E. Nichols

Votes: 1,772

22. High-Rise Rescue (2017)

TV-PG | 87 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

An emotionally gripping family action drama about a mother who will do whatever it takes to save her family.

Director: Robert Vaughn | Stars: Catherine Bell, Adrian Holmes, Greg Bryk, Sam Ashe Arnold

Votes: 229

23. The Fireman (1916)

TV-G | 24 min | Short, Comedy

Charlie is a fireman who always does everything wrong. A man talks the Fire Chief into ignoring his burning home (he wants the insurance money) unaware that his daughter (the love of the ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Lloyd Bacon, Eric Campbell

Votes: 2,881

24. The Girls of Slender Means (1975)

50 min | Drama

When their friend Nicholas is killed in 1960, several women think back to the time when they knew him, in 1945 "when all the best people were poor".

Stars: Miriam Margolyes, Patricia Hodge, Marion Bailey, Mary Tamm

Votes: 26

25. Playa prohibida (1985)

80 min | Drama, Crime, Thriller

An engineer moves into a bungalow on the beach next to a widow and her two boys. The older boy has a bit of an Oedipal complex and seems to like his mom.

Director: Enrique Gómez Vadillo | Stars: Sasha Montenegro, José Alonso, Jaime Garza, Óscar Alejandro

Votes: 145

26. Deadly Inferno (2016 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

During some extensive renovations on an eight-storey office building, a major gas leak leads to a terrible explosion, trapping the injured staff in a fiery maze. Can the brave firefighters provide a safe exit from this deadly inferno?

Director: Brent Cote | Stars: David Sutcliffe, Michael Xavier, Charlotte Arnold, Jodie Dowdall

Votes: 169

27. King of the Texas Rangers (1941)

Approved | 215 min | Drama, Western

When Captain King of the Texas Rangers is murdered by saboteurs, his son, Tom ("Slingin' Sammy Baugh"), a famous football star, leaves college and joins the Texas Rangers himself. Shortly ... See full summary »

Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Sammy Baugh, Neil Hamilton, Pauline Moore, Duncan Renaldo

Votes: 88

28. His First Flame (1927)

Passed | 48 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

A misogynist Fire chief counsels his nephew to avoid matrimony at all costs. Uhe love-struck Harry is determined to marry his sweetheart Ethel.

Director: Harry Edwards | Stars: Harry Langdon, Natalie Kingston, Ruth Hiatt, Vernon Dent

Votes: 180

29. Mickey's Fire Brigade (1935)

Approved | 8 min | Comedy, Family, Animation

Mickey, Donald and Goofy are firefighters. As you might expect, their attempts at fighting a boarding house fire are not particularly effective. They hear Clarabelle singing in the bathtub ... See full summary »

Director: Ben Sharpsteen | Stars: Beatrice Hagen, Elvia Allman, Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney

Votes: 1,209

30. Brenda Starr, Reporter (1945)

Approved | 243 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Chapter 1 finds Daily Flash newspaper reporter Brenda Starr (Joan Woodbury), and her photographer, Chuck Allen (Syd Saylor), assigned to cover a fire in an old house where they discover the... See full summary »

Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Joan Woodbury, Kane Richmond, Ernie Adams, William 'Billy' Benedict

Votes: 91

31. The Master Key (1945)

Passed | 226 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Government agents battle a gang of Nazis who are trying to use the Orotron machine, which can turn seawater into gold.

Directors: Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor | Stars: Milburn Stone, Jan Wiley, Dennis Moore, Addison Richards

Votes: 87

32. The Fire Fighters (1930)

Approved | 7 min | Comedy, Family, Animation

Mickey and his ragtag crew of firefighters have to save a burning building and Minnie.

Director: Burt Gillett | Stars: Purv Pullen, Walt Disney, Marcellite Garner

Votes: 581

33. 9/11: Surviving the Impact (2012 TV Movie)

45 min | Documentary

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Director: Nick Maddocks | Stars: Brian Clark, Ron DiFrancesco, Richard Fern, Alan Mann

Votes: 36

34. Hoodoo Ann (1916)

65 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An orphan girl, believing herself cursed with the hoodoo until she gets married, is adopted by a childless couple after the orphanage burns down. Boy-next-door meets girl-next-door, and all looks great until she finds a loaded gun.

Director: Lloyd Ingraham | Stars: Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, William H. Brown, Wilbur Higby

Votes: 938

35. D-Day on Mars (1966 TV Movie)

Approved | 100 min | Sci-Fi

This is a shortened version of the 1945 Republic serial "The Purple Monster Strikes," which was released to television in 1966.

Directors: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Fred C. Brannon | Stars: Dennis Moore, Linda Stirling, Roy Barcroft, James Craven

Votes: 20

36. The Cyclone Kid (1942)

Passed | 57 min | Drama, Western

Big Jim Johnson is a cattleman who wants to run all the settler's off the land. He has a number of hired guns including Johnny Dawson. Doctor Bill Dawson comes to town and wants to see the ... See full summary »

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Don 'Red' Barry, Lynn Merrick, John James, Alex Callam

Votes: 32

37. Terrorns finger (1989 TV Movie)

79 min | Crime, Thriller

The wife of a prosecutor in Stockholm is kidnapped. The kidnappers demand that a bank robber in prison shall be set free.

Director: Mikael Håfström | Stars: Lars-Erik Berenett, Björn Gedda, Leif Liljeroth, Robert Sjöblom

Votes: 129

38. Hammer House of Horror (1980)
Episode: Witching Time (1980)

TV-14 | 52 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

The ghost of a witch returns to her place of residence before she died, a rural farm, and possesses one of the current occupants.

Director: Don Leaver | Stars: Jon Finch, Patricia Quinn, Prunella Gee, Ian McCulloch

Votes: 887

39. Tru Calling (2003–2005)
Episode: Putting Out Fires (2003)

TV-14 | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A young fire fighter who has died after trying to save a child asks Tru to help him. While she investigates about the fire's cause, Tru meets the fire fighter and, as a strong bond between ... See full summary »

Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Eliza Dushku, Shawn Reaves, Zach Galifianakis, A.J. Cook

Votes: 313

40. The Wild Wild West (1965–1969)
Episode: The Night of the Hangman (1967)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Western

Jim and Arte go undercover to overturn a hanging verdict unjustly given to an innocent man.

Director: James B. Clark | Stars: Robert Conrad, Ross Martin, Martin E. Brooks, Sarah Marshall

Votes: 167

41. Smallville (2001–2017)
Episode: Sneeze (2006)

TV-PG | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Still trying to fix the aftermath of Black Thursday, Clark gets a little run down and begins to show symptoms of the common cold, including a sneeze that has some effects of its own. Meanwhile, someone kidnaps Lex.

Director: Paul Shapiro | Stars: Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Erica Durance

Votes: 1,134

42. EastEnders (1985– )
Episode: Episode #1.2404 (2002)

TV-PG | 28 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

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Director: Emma Bridgeman-Williams | Stars: Alex Ferns, Colm O'Maonlai, Kacey Ainsworth, Letitia Dean

43. Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode: Ashes and Dust (2007)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The team tries to identify a serial arsonist who has escalated to murder.

Director: John Gallagher | Stars: Mandy Patinkin, Thomas Gibson, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore

Votes: 2,184

44. Matty's Funnies with Beany and Cecil (1959–1962)
Episode: Hero by Trade/The Illegal Eagle Egg/Cecil Gets Careless (1962)

29 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

Cecil and Dishonest John battle for the treasure on Treasure Island. A bald eagle becomes an egg thief. Careless the Mexican hairless outwits Dishonest John, the dogcatcher.

Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Sody Clampett, Jim MacGeorge, Irv Shoemaker

45. Who Killed Sara? (2021–2022)
Episode: Yo maté a Sara (2021)

TV-MA | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A videotape hidden in Sara's closet becomes a key piece of evidence that makes everyone realize they've been seeking the murderer in the wrong place.

Director: David Ruiz | Stars: Manolo Cardona, Ginés García Millán, Carolina Miranda, Ximena Lamadrid

Votes: 285

46. Paradox (2009–2010)
Episode: Episode #1.4 (2009)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi

Christian gets no joy from his bosses when he suspects the Ministry of Defence is controlling the images beamed to him, the latest dozen including those of burnt bodies and serial numbers ... See full summary »

Director: Omar Madha | Stars: Tamzin Outhwaite, Emun Elliott, Mark Bonnar, Chiké Okonkwo

Votes: 115

47. Who Killed Sara? (2021–2022)
Episode: Presunción de muerte (2022)

TV-MA | Crime, Drama, Mystery

While investigating the link between Nicandro and Dr. Alanis, Alex uncovers a key suspect. Rodolfo asks Alex to help him bring his father to justice.

Stars: Manolo Cardona, Ginés García Millán, Carolina Miranda, Ximena Lamadrid

Votes: 176

48. EastEnders (1985– )
Episode: Episode #1.4067 (2010)

TV-PG | 28 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

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Director: Lee Salisbury | Stars: Barbara Windsor, Steve McFadden, Lacey Turner, Neil McDermott

49. Manhunt (2024– )
Episode: Useless (2024)

TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, History, Thriller

Stanton gets a win, but not the way he wanted. He plans for the conspirators' trial, which he must conquer to keep Lincoln's legacy alive.

Director: Eva Sørhaug | Stars: Tobias Menzies, Anthony Boyle, Lovie Simone, Will Harrison

Votes: 168

50. EastEnders (1985– )
Episode: Episode #1.4537 (2012)

TV-PG | 28 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

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Director: Lance Kneeshaw | Stars: Jamie Foreman, Jacqueline Jossa, David Witts, Jo Joyner