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Good movies that (mostly) take place in a single location

posted 2 years ago by M1sterDoct0r (4571)
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I recently caught Phone Booth on TV. Really good film.

What are some one-location-based films that you like? Here are some of mine

-12 Angry Men (1957)
-Die Hard (1988)
-Rear Window (1954)
-Panic Room (2002)
-The Breakfast Club (1985)
-Buried (2010)
-Snowpiercer (2013
-The Raid (2011)
-10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
-127 hours (2010)
-Locke (2013)
-Ex Machina (2014)
-Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
-John Carpenter's The Thing (1982)
-Reservoir Dogs (1992)

[–] robocat893 (16257) 2 years ago

Reality (2023) A very tense drama that takes place mostly in one room.

[–] roger_dat (1684) 2 years ago

Phone boot
Carnage
Coherence

[–] blue1981 (8199) 2 years ago

The Hateful Eight

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4571) 2 years ago

Oh wow, genuinely forgot about that one.

[–] Stratego (31085) 2 years ago

The Room. Mostly takes place on The Roof.

[–] movieace11 (1370) 2 years ago

And then there's Room (2015).

What's more, Room 1408 (2007).

[–] BillHicksFan (10718) 2 years ago

12 Angry Men
My Dinner With Andre
Knife In The Water
The Last Day of Summer
What Happened Was...
Dog Day Afternoon
The Wife
Tape

[–] [email protected] (6247) 2 years ago

The Breakfast Club
Alien
The Odd Couple- a few brief scenes in other locations, but mostly everything important takes place in Oscar's apartment.

[–] Bloodshot77 (14277) 2 years ago

Saw

Signed, million man.

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4571) 2 years ago

First movie holds up amazingly. A legit good movie.

[–] Bateman (607) 2 years ago

Friendship’s Death (1987)
Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
Coherence (2013)
The Infinite Man (2014)

[–] beancrisp (1746) 2 years ago

Lifeboat (1944)