Justine,
A quick keyword search to IMDB with the term "buried alive" yields 150
titles. You'll have to browse each one's plot description as not all truly
involve "buried alive" as a major plot point (e.g. the film Witness has a
scene where one of the villians is buried alive in the grain silo, but
obviously that is not the crux of the story), but certainly the list
includes those which do.
The motif of the person once presumed dead, but later discovered to be
living, is usually only a part of a greater plot- many of which fall into
these catagories:
* person fakes own death to escape: marriage, the law, debt, family
* person suffers from amnesia and creates new life from scratch only to
discover they have lived another life entirely
* person is thought to be lost or killed (war, revolution, natural
disaster, accident, etc) and loved one, family, or associates cannot find
them but person resurfaces at a later time.
Sometimes the story is told from the "absent" person's POV, others are told
from that of the person or persons "left behind."
This list includes stories from either perspective:
Laura (1944)
My Favourite Wife and the remake Move Over Darling (1963)
Today We Live (1933)
Caroline (1990)
Anastasia (1956)
Charlie Chan's Secret (1936)
Obsession (1976)
Deep Dark Secrets (TV) (1987)
To Love, Honor and Deceive (TV) (1996)
Tomorrow is Forever (1946)
The Years Between (1946)
Random Harvest (1942)
The Ghost Comes Home (1940)
Blackout (1950)
Somewhere in the Night (1946)
The Lady Confesses (1945)
Kill Me Again (1989)
For Better, For Worse (1919)
Missing (1918)
Scream (a major plotline in the trilogy-- the heroine's mother is presumed
to be dead-- I believe her mother resurfaces in the 3rd installment?)
Twin Peaks (TV or movie)
This is a pretty mixed bag and is by no means complete. Just those which
come to my attention.
Lifetime Television is a goldmine for this sort of plot and a diligent
search should uncover even more stories in this vein.
Lori
PS I know the Ashley Judd film Double Jeopardy gets a lot of sniffs from
critics, yet why am I compelled to watch it every time it's on cable??? I
think women like it more than men... (revenge?)
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