# The best single-location movies

One place and rising tension: from 12 Angry Men and Rear Window to Garde à vue and The Hateful Eight, the best single-location films according to Vol au-dessus du 7e art and Mondocine.

- 133 votes · 14 items
- Sep 4, 2024 · C. Favre
- https://even.best/en/l/4326/the-best-single-location-movies

## Top 12

1. **12 Angry Men (1957)** (13 · ▲16 ▼3) — Sidney Lumet: twelve jurors locked in a deliberation room.
2. **Alien (1979)** (10 · ▲10 ▼0) — Ridley Scott: one ship, one crew and one creature.
3. **The Shining (1980)** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — Stanley Kubrick: a hotel snowed in all winter.
4. **The Man from Earth (2007)** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — Richard Schenkman: a professor claims to be 14,000 years old.
5. **The Dinner Game (1998)** (6 · ▲10 ▼4) — Francis Veber: Jacques Villeret and Thierry Lhermitte in one flat.
6. **The Breakfast Club (1985)** (6 · ▲8 ▼2) — John Hughes: five high-schoolers in Saturday detention.
7. **Garde à vue (1981)** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — Claude Miller: Lino Ventura questions Michel Serrault on New Year's Eve.
8. **Buried (2010)** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — Rodrigo Cortés: Ryan Reynolds buried alive in a coffin.
9. **The Hateful Eight (2015)** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — Quentin Tarantino: eight strangers in a stagecoach lodge during a blizzard.
10. **8 Women (2002)** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — François Ozon: a murder and eight suspects in a snowbound house.
11. **Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — Mike Nichols: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, a night of reckonings.
12. **Rear Window (1954)** (2 · ▲5 ▼3) — Alfred Hitchcock: a laid-up photographer watches his neighbours from his window.
13. **Repulsion (1965)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Roman Polanski: Catherine Deneuve alone in a London flat.
14. **Misery (1990)** (0 · ▲4 ▼4) — Rob Reiner: a writer held captive by his 'number one fan'.

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