

Buried
170,000 sq miles of desert. 90 minutes of oxygen. No way out.
As an American civilian truck driver working in Iraq, Paul Conroy's convoy is attacked by a group of Iraqi insurgents. Some time later, Paul awakes in a coffin with only a lighter, a cell phone, and his ever-growing anxiety. Faced with a dwindling oxygen supply and a dying battery, he must fight panic, despair, and delirium as he races against time to escape the claustrophobic death trap.
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6.6/10
3,173 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $2M
- Box office
- $19.2M
- Language
- Arabic
- race against time
- panic
- ambush
- underground
- despair
- coffin
- claustrophobia
- lighter
- buried alive
- iraq
- delirium
- cell phone
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Spain, United States of America, France, United Kingdom
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereSundance Film Festival23 Jan 2010
- TheatricalR24 Sept 2010
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1529 Sept 2010
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalMA15+7 Oct 2010
CanadaCA
- Theatrical (limited)R24 Sept 2010
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1610 Dec 2010
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical157 Oct 2010
FranceFR
- TheatricalU3 Nov 2010
- TVAction16 Oct 2026
GermanyDE
- Theatrical164 Nov 2010
GreeceGR
- Theatrical7 Oct 2010
IrelandIE
- Digital / OTT1529 Sept 2010
ItalyIT
- Theatrical15 Oct 2010
JapanJP
- Digital / OTTR15+6 Nov 2010
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Buried was released on 24 September 2010.
Audience reviews
4- A7/10
Andres Gomez
9/6/2013
Interesting and entertaining movie getting the maximum from just an actor and a coffin. However, you will feel cheated every now and then when you see how the coffin seems to enlarge and shrink.
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SamySam
6/3/2020
I really LOVE this movie ! I love films like this and “Entrapped . A Day of Terror” , entirely shooted inside one claustrophobic location :-) only a perfect screenplay can make the film Adrenalinic and not annoying, as of course the set is on few square mq2 !
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
1/30/2025
Despite the fact that there are quite a few plot holes in this quite tautly put together drama, Ryan Reynolds might actually have turned in one of the best performances of his career, here. Perhaps that's because he awakens to find he's been buried in a big wooden box with only an hip flask, torch and his phone. He's been in Iraq driving for an American truck company when it was attacked and he's now the subject of a…
- R7/10
r96sk
2/13/2025
<em>'Buried'</em> mostly delivers, the ending is what makes me definitively say that I had a positive time. The film does build tension nicely, it feels claustrophobic without a doubt. It is also paced competently, impressively so given its one location setting (credit to Ryan Reynolds). The only criticism I hold is that the film makes the lead character kinda unlikeable early on, which really shouldn't be the cas…
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