6 Best Deadly Puzzle and Escape Room Movies

By Vlad Zakh · June 3, 2026

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The nightmarish logic of a deadly, inescapable trap has powered some of cinema’s most tension-filled puzzle-box thrillers.

Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021) 01

Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021)

IMDb ★ 6.3

Survivors of deadly escape rooms are lured into a rigged new game with no way out.

Escape Room (2019) 02

Escape Room (2019)

IMDb ★ 6.5

Six strangers competing for a cash prize discover their escape room puzzles are deadly for real.

The Belko Experiment (2017) 03

The Belko Experiment (2017)

IMDb ★ 6.3

Office workers trapped in their building are forced by an unseen voice to kill each other or be killed.

Exam (2009) 04

Exam (2009)

IMDb ★ 6.4

Eight job candidates locked in a room must solve a bizarre, dangerous puzzle to win a prestigious position.

Saw (2004) 05

Saw (2004)

IMDb ★ 7.2

Two men wake up chained in a filthy bathroom, forced to play a sadistic killer's deadly game to survive.

Cube (1997) 06

Cube (1997)

IMDb ★ 6.9

Strangers wake up trapped in a maze of deadly booby-trapped cubic rooms with no memory of how they got there.

Vlad Zakh

Vlad Zakh

Founder, Movieix

Founder of Movieix, built to fix a specific annoyance: most recommendation sites are just algorithm-driven noise. Our lists are researched and organized by who's in a film, where it's from, and the mood you're actually in tonight.