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

posted a year ago by M1sterDoct0r (4050)
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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)

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[–] robocat893 (14277) a year ago

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

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[–] roger_dat (1156) a year ago

Phone boot
Carnage
Coherence

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[–] blue1981 (6905) a year ago

The Hateful Eight

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[–] M1sterDoct0r (4050) a year ago

Oh wow, genuinely forgot about that one.

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[–] Stratego (29495) a year ago

The Room. Mostly takes place on The Roof.

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[–] movieace11 (1301) a year ago

And then there's Room (2015).

What's more, Room 1408 (2007).

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[–] BillHicksFan (10239) a year 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

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[–] [email protected] (5550) a year 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.

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[–] Bloodshot77 (10557) a year ago

Saw

Signed, million man.

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[–] M1sterDoct0r (4050) a year ago

First movie holds up amazingly. A legit good movie.

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[–] Bateman (570) a year ago

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

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[–] beancrisp (1513) a year ago

Lifeboat (1944)

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