Sanctum (2011)

108 min · Adventure, Drama, Thriller, disaster film, drama film

Popularity4.5/5

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2025-09 to 2026-08

Directors

Alister Grierson

Cast

Richard Roxburgh, Rhys Wakefield, Ioan Gruffudd, Alice Parkinson, Daniel Wyllie, Christopher James Baker, Nicole Downs, Allison Cratchley, Cramer Cain, Andrew Hansen, John Garvin, Sean Dennehy, Nea Diap

The story

Seventeen-year-old Joshua "Josh" McGuire, expedition bank-roller Carl and his girlfriend, Victoria "Vic", travel to the Esa'ala Cave, an underwater cave exploration site in Papua New Guinea. Josh's father, Frank, a master diver, has already established a forward base camp at a lower level inside the cave, where the team has been exploring for weeks. The team below prepares to dive into an unexplored area of the system.

Catalogue themes and tags

Adventure, Adventurer, Amazonasexpedition, Assisted suicide, Death Struggle, Diving, Drowning, Drowning victim, Fall, Frauenleiche, Hubschrauber, Höhle, Last Survivor, Oxygen, Painful Death, Panic, Papua New Guinea, Parachute, Protector, Survivor, Todesangst, Turbulence, Unfälle, Unterwasserszene, Wetsuit, gewitter, vater-sohn, verschüttet, Überlebenswille, Action/Adventure, Thriller, Action, Drama

Genres

Adventure, Drama, Thriller, disaster film, drama film

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