10 Movies Worth Watching After Netflix’s ‘The Last House’

‘The Last House’ arrived on Netflix on August 7, 2026, and it wasted no time locking viewers into its premise. The science fiction horror film comes from director Louis Leterrier and writer Matthew Robinson, and it centers on a family of four who are suddenly sealed inside their home with no way out, forced to survive against both dwindling resources and a mysterious force keeping them trapped. Greta Lee, Wagner Moura, and Gabriel Barbosa lead the cast in a story that runs a tight two hours and seventeen minutes.

The film has already sparked plenty of conversation among horror and sci-fi fans looking for their next fix. Leterrier, who also directed ‘Now You See Me’ and ‘Lupin’, told Tudum that the movie “challenges the idea of a safe haven, turning a family home into a hostile environment where survival demands unity.” For anyone who finished ‘The Last House’ and immediately wanted more claustrophobic, family-driven survival stories, here are ten films worth adding to the queue.

‘The Silence’ (2019)

In ‘The Silence’, a family seeks refuge in a remote countryside home after deadly blind creatures begin hunting humanity by sound. The family seals themselves indoors and adapts to total silence to avoid drawing the swarm’s attention, only to find their sanctuary threatened by a cult as well. It shares the same instinct as ‘The Last House’ for turning a home into the last line of defense against something monstrous.

‘No One Gets Out Alive’ (2021)

This film follows Ambar, an undocumented immigrant who rents a room in a run down boarding house, only to discover the landlord is locking residents inside to perform ancient sacrifices to an entity in the basement. Trapped without documentation or outside help, she has to fight her way through a house that has become a prison. The vulnerability at its center gives the confinement an added layer of dread.

‘Extinction’ (2018)

A father named Peter, plagued by nightmares of an apocalyptic invasion, watches his fears come true when airborne forces attack his apartment complex and seal the residents inside. He has to lead his wife and daughters through a collapsing building while dodging an enemy that is not what it first appears to be. Like ‘The Last House’, the story hinges on a family unit trying to outlast a threat they do not fully understand.

‘ARQ’ (2016)

An engineer named Renton and his partner Hannah wake up trapped inside an underground laboratory home, hunted by masked raiders after a device that generates infinite energy. The twist is that the device has locked the house in a time loop that resets every three hours, forcing the couple to use knowledge from previous loops to survive. It swaps ‘The Last House’ single timeline for a puzzle box structure, but the trapped-at-home tension is identical.

‘Leave the World Behind’ (2023)

A family vacationing at a secluded Long Island home finds itself in the middle of a sudden collapse of communications and power, and things get tenser when two strangers arrive claiming ownership of the house. Strange occurrences outside push both families into a state of paranoia while stuck under one roof. It is one of the more grounded entries on this list, closer to a slow burn than an action thriller.

‘Oxygen’ (2021)

This one follows a woman who wakes up inside a high tech medical cryogenic pod with no memory of who she is and less than an hour of breathable air left. Communicating only with an artificial intelligence, she has to piece together her identity before her oxygen runs out. It trades a house for a pod, but the ticking clock and reliance on resourcefulness under pressure will feel familiar to ‘The Last House’ fans.

‘Gerald’s Game’ (2017)

Jessie Burlingame travels to an isolated lake house with her husband for a quiet getaway, and after he suffers a fatal heart attack during an intimate moment, she is left handcuffed to the bedframe with no neighbors or way to call for help. The film leans harder into psychological horror than the others on this list, forcing its lead to confront old trauma while fighting for survival. It is proof that a single room can carry an entire film if the character work is strong enough.

‘Bird Box’ (2018)

Set in a world devastated by entities that drive anyone who looks at them to suicide, a pregnant woman named Malorie takes shelter in a home with a group of strangers, sealing every window and door to block visual contact with the outside. Years later she has to lead two children on a dangerous journey while blindfolded. Both films share that same idea of a house as the only barrier between a family and total chaos.

‘Run’ (2020)

Chloe, a wheelchair user with multiple health conditions, relies entirely on her mother Diane, and after noticing suspicious changes to her medication she begins investigating her mother’s real motives. She discovers she has been kept isolated through years of medical deception, and has to use her own resourcefulness to escape a home that has quietly become a cage. It swaps sci-fi spectacle for a tighter, more personal kind of confinement.

‘What Happened to Monday’ (2017)

Set in a dystopian future where families are restricted to one child, seven identical sisters are raised sealed inside their apartment and take turns going outside under a single shared identity to avoid detection. When one sister fails to come home, the rest have to investigate without blowing their cover. It rounds out the list with a different kind of entrapment, one built on a system rather than a single supernatural threat.

Each of these films approaches the same basic fear that powers ‘The Last House’, the idea that the place meant to keep you safe can just as easily become the thing you cannot escape. Which of these trapped-family stories are you adding to your watchlist, and does any of them come close to matching the dread of watching Greta Lee and Wagner Moura’s family fight to get out of their own house?