The best single-location movies
The top 3 according to 133 votes from people: 12 Angry Men (1957) · Alien (1979) · The Shining (1980). (Updated Sep 4, 2024.)
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.
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Top 12
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12 Angry Men (1957)
Sidney Lumet: twelve jurors locked in a deliberation room.
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2
Alien (1979)
Ridley Scott: one ship, one crew and one creature.
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The Shining (1980)
Stanley Kubrick: a hotel snowed in all winter.
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The Man from Earth (2007)
Richard Schenkman: a professor claims to be 14,000 years old.
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The Dinner Game (1998)
Francis Veber: Jacques Villeret and Thierry Lhermitte in one flat.
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The Breakfast Club (1985)
John Hughes: five high-schoolers in Saturday detention.
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Garde à vue (1981)
Claude Miller: Lino Ventura questions Michel Serrault on New Year's Eve.
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Buried (2010)
Rodrigo Cortés: Ryan Reynolds buried alive in a coffin.
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The Hateful Eight (2015)
Quentin Tarantino: eight strangers in a stagecoach lodge during a blizzard.
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8 Women (2002)
François Ozon: a murder and eight suspects in a snowbound house.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Mike Nichols: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, a night of reckonings.
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12
Rear Window (1954)
Alfred Hitchcock: a laid-up photographer watches his neighbours from his window.
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13
Repulsion (1965)
Roman Polanski: Catherine Deneuve alone in a London flat.
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14
Misery (1990)
Rob Reiner: a writer held captive by his 'number one fan'.
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Comments (1)
Garde à vue, Ventura et Serrault face à face, c'est du très grand cinéma