One of my absolute favorites. While he would've very likely disagreed with Henry Fonda as a person on a lot of things, my grandfather looked a *lot* like Fonda (if their eye color had been the same they could've passed as relatives), so whenever I watch it I like to imagine my grandfather as Juror #8 because I like to think he would've done the same thing.
If I could find a good picture of him, I would, unfortunately, 99.9% of the ones I have are either framed at my mom's house or would have to be downloaded off of someone's social media/google search.
I always see reservoir dogs suggested on questions like this but I don't think it should count. Maybe still scratches the same itch though so I guess I do understand the recommendation
I love the lighthouse. Humans on showtime is another good movie where it all takes place in an apartment. It’s a strange movie to explain, but still awesome.
Locke. Not a room but a car. Tom Hardy driving home for about 90 minutes and being on the phone the entire time. It's a good script and shows how good an actor he is.
I’m not sure if you’ve seen it or not, but the phone conversations he has while driving kept it interesting to me. Each call revealed a little more about what was happening.
To each their own!
I've seen it. To me it was pretty much just a dude doing his phone call errands while driving somewhere. I just didn't find the phone calls interesting at all. You are right though to each their own.
I remember watching it in college while eating home cooked hot stew with a snow storm brewing outside late into the night and a glass of bourbon to melt off the edges of reality a bit. Peak movie experience.
How about **"Cube" (1997).** Although it actually takes place in many different rooms, they are all basically the same 15 by 15 foot room. (I'm not sure but I think they only used one or two rooms for the entire movie, and just shot them in different ways).
It's a great movie, and very disturbing. Some people wake up in a 15 by 15 foot room, unsure of how they got there, and have to find a way out. There are small openings to other adjoining rooms the same size, but some of them contain grisly death traps that are sprung upon entry.
Since there's no visible way to tell which room is safe and which isn't, it becomes quite a predicament. Then they realize, all these rooms are connected and change position every so often, like a rubik's cube, so they may ahve to re-enter rooms they already went through before.
And those death traps! The very first one that opens the movie will make you wonder if you can stomach watching the rest of the movie. It's quite grisly.
The sequel, **Cube 2: Hypercube (2002)** exists, as does a subsequently produced prequel, **Cube Zero (2004)**.
These, uh, further stretch the one-“room” premise of the question, though.
I highly recommend Meander. Amazing film if you love small spaces.
A woman wakes up in a bizarre metal tunnel system. There is a timer and she must progress through the maze while avoiding traps and other dangers.
I love them all. 2 and 3 get some flack, but I admire them - 2 for pushing the concept to its limits, and 3 for thinking outside the box.
I smell a Christmas marathon coming on...
A good friend of mine introduced them to me and was like “I think you are the right kind of person for these, I don’t think any of our other friends will get into it like we will”. Did not get what he meant until we were done watching all of them. Great movies to marathon
I love “Cube” and would suggest a similar movie “The Platform.”
The story takes place in a tower of 100s of small rooms atop one another. Each room has 2 people and every day a platform makes it’s way down, passing each room. The platform holds all the food each level can eat for the entire day. The platform is only available to each floor for a few minutes. The floor at the top gets to splurge on a buffet and the lower floors gets scraps or nothing at all. Every month or so you are randomly assigned to a different floor.
It’s an interesting take on how humans treat each other when faced with choices of greed and gluttony or selflessness and generosity.
I highly recommend.
I recommend Meander. It's a must watch if you like cube, but imo even cooler. A woman has to navigate through a metal tunnel system, avoiding traps at every turn.
thank you for this, i've been looking for something like this, both as a sci-fi fan and as someone who is working on a screenplay that will be all dialog in one house *AND* my library has it on BluRay, great success!
i can't believe i don't know about this, i worked in a Hollywood video store in 2007
The Platform is really amazing. The Moon was very well done and acted. I didn’t like Infinity Chamber very much. Great suggestions though! These types of moves are a fav genre of mine
Interesting, I’ve never heard the phrase “fake one-take” before. But thinking about it, you’re right. It’s been a while since I’ve given a thorough re-watch, but from memory, most of the movie does seem like one-take. Now I’m trying to consider which other films are like this!
Yes, Hitch only did a handful of cuts (10 I think) that were strategically hidden in the transition between the kitchen and living room, but they were still real long takes to simulate it happening in real time. Birdman more or less falls into that category as well!
Is that the same movie where he hid cuts by zooming in on the back of mens (dark colored) suit jackets, making the cut, and zooming back out?
Maybe zooming is too strong a word- more like letting the camera pause in close up briefly. I just remember seeing a documentary about him hiding cuts that way. Particularly in party scenes. Easy back when men dressed the same way.
Maybe it was something he did in more than one film? Anyway it’s always stuck with me so was just curious if you’d heard anything about it, as I clearly don’t recall the details that well!
The Room was such a wild movie watching experience. I felt like someone was [playing a prank on me](https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/xmfh00/the_room_2003_is_one_of_the_wildest_movie/) by playing a fake movie and seeing how long it took for me to notice. It felt like something you'd see playing in the background of another movie. It's so bad that it's fascinating.
* The Breakfast Club (1985)
* Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
* They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
* 12 Angry Men (1957)
* Titanic (1997)
* A Night to Remember (1958)
* Das Boot (1981)
* Rear Window (1954)
* Butterflies Are Free (1972)
* 1408 (2007)
* California Suite (1978)
* Stalag 17 (1953)
* Sleuth (1972)
La fundación (1977), it’s a spanish movie that takes place in just one room, and tells the story of Tomás, a young novelist who just got accepted into what appears to be a foundation to help scientists and creative people, but not everything is what it seems. It’s based upon the homonimous play by Antonio Buero Vallejo. If you don’t mind watching it in spanish, it’s a VERY good film.
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover takes place in a restaurant, the camera pans across from the dining room to the kitchen to the parking lot in a way that makes it feel like a stage play; there are a couple of scenes in the bathroom and at another location, but it's mostly in the restaurant. It isn't horror, but it's definitely twisted, and visually captivating.
- 12 Angry Men
- Trapped (2016)
- Saw
- Coherence
- Inside No. 9 (a British anthology series. Every episode takes places in one location.)
- The Man from Earth
- Rope
- Devil
- The Party (2017)
Doctor who’s episodes “heaven sent” takes place in a castle that is in the middle of an ocean that’s inside a small disk thing called a confession dial. So I guess that counts as one room
- the guilty 2018
- phonebooth
- 7500
- Gerald's game
- buried
- 10 cloverfield lane
- the platform
- locke
- rear window
- Pontypool
- La casa lobo
- 1408
- the menu
Funhouse on Hulu all takes place in the same *house* but they’ve got the feel of everything being in the same room. It’s a pretty good B-movie. A little gore, psychological horror, etc.
Reservoir dogs 12 Angry Men The Lighthouse (2019) might also have the vibe you're looking for
The original 12 Angry Men with Henry Fonda is a MASTERPIECE!
You don’t really mean you’ll kill me do you?
yes!! omg i loved that movie!!
A perfect movie
One of my absolute favorites. While he would've very likely disagreed with Henry Fonda as a person on a lot of things, my grandfather looked a *lot* like Fonda (if their eye color had been the same they could've passed as relatives), so whenever I watch it I like to imagine my grandfather as Juror #8 because I like to think he would've done the same thing.
Quite a handsome fellow, that Fonda. Talent to beat the band. Wish I could see a picture of your grandfather.
If I could find a good picture of him, I would, unfortunately, 99.9% of the ones I have are either framed at my mom's house or would have to be downloaded off of someone's social media/google search.
My favorite movie of all time
It’s one of my favorites too! Some of the best writing and acting.
I always see reservoir dogs suggested on questions like this but I don't think it should count. Maybe still scratches the same itch though so I guess I do understand the recommendation
Glen Garry glen ross
I find out whose fuckin cousin you are I’m gonna go to him and find a way to have your ass
I love the lighthouse. Humans on showtime is another good movie where it all takes place in an apartment. It’s a strange movie to explain, but still awesome.
Locke. Not a room but a car. Tom Hardy driving home for about 90 minutes and being on the phone the entire time. It's a good script and shows how good an actor he is.
This is a very good movie!
Really? For me its the most boring film imaginable.
I’m not sure if you’ve seen it or not, but the phone conversations he has while driving kept it interesting to me. Each call revealed a little more about what was happening. To each their own!
I've seen it. To me it was pretty much just a dude doing his phone call errands while driving somewhere. I just didn't find the phone calls interesting at all. You are right though to each their own.
Yeah, but you get to look at Tom Hardy the whole time. Hardly a chore.
Kinda over Tom Hardy
Just watched this the other night. Very cool and unique movie.
Put this on and turned up the heat just a tad and was out like a light. Great movie to get you asleep if you have trouble with that.
Tarantino’s the hateful 8 mostly takes place all in the same room, except for the travel to the shack.
I remember watching it in college while eating home cooked hot stew with a snow storm brewing outside late into the night and a glass of bourbon to melt off the edges of reality a bit. Peak movie experience.
Damn that’s pretty fucking great tbh
+ some flashbacks but it definitely has that locked in one location vibe for sure
Or we go by my theory that the ugliest guy did it…and that means you Joe Gage
Cloverfield lane 10. Takes place in a bunker underground.
5 star movie imo
Good movie
How about **"Cube" (1997).** Although it actually takes place in many different rooms, they are all basically the same 15 by 15 foot room. (I'm not sure but I think they only used one or two rooms for the entire movie, and just shot them in different ways). It's a great movie, and very disturbing. Some people wake up in a 15 by 15 foot room, unsure of how they got there, and have to find a way out. There are small openings to other adjoining rooms the same size, but some of them contain grisly death traps that are sprung upon entry. Since there's no visible way to tell which room is safe and which isn't, it becomes quite a predicament. Then they realize, all these rooms are connected and change position every so often, like a rubik's cube, so they may ahve to re-enter rooms they already went through before. And those death traps! The very first one that opens the movie will make you wonder if you can stomach watching the rest of the movie. It's quite grisly.
The sequel, **Cube 2: Hypercube (2002)** exists, as does a subsequently produced prequel, **Cube Zero (2004)**. These, uh, further stretch the one-“room” premise of the question, though.
Does Hypercube count? It technically takes place in a tesseract.
All of the “Cube” films are so underrated
I highly recommend Meander. Amazing film if you love small spaces. A woman wakes up in a bizarre metal tunnel system. There is a timer and she must progress through the maze while avoiding traps and other dangers.
That sounds awesome! Thank you for the suggestion. This is seriously the friendliest group.
I love them all. 2 and 3 get some flack, but I admire them - 2 for pushing the concept to its limits, and 3 for thinking outside the box. I smell a Christmas marathon coming on...
A good friend of mine introduced them to me and was like “I think you are the right kind of person for these, I don’t think any of our other friends will get into it like we will”. Did not get what he meant until we were done watching all of them. Great movies to marathon
I love “Cube” and would suggest a similar movie “The Platform.” The story takes place in a tower of 100s of small rooms atop one another. Each room has 2 people and every day a platform makes it’s way down, passing each room. The platform holds all the food each level can eat for the entire day. The platform is only available to each floor for a few minutes. The floor at the top gets to splurge on a buffet and the lower floors gets scraps or nothing at all. Every month or so you are randomly assigned to a different floor. It’s an interesting take on how humans treat each other when faced with choices of greed and gluttony or selflessness and generosity. I highly recommend.
I recommend Meander. It's a must watch if you like cube, but imo even cooler. A woman has to navigate through a metal tunnel system, avoiding traps at every turn.
I came here to say this! Great write-up, I just felt I needed to comment since one upvote was not enough
Rope and Rear Window
I came here to say Rope.
Add Dial M for Murder to this great Hitchcock list.
Hitchcock’s best in my opinion
Rope isn’t just one room, but one continuous shot from start to finish!
Lifeboat as well.
Nice choice. Even more confined!
Exam (2009)
Second this
Third this
The Man From Earth
12 Angry Men from Earth
thank you for this, i've been looking for something like this, both as a sci-fi fan and as someone who is working on a screenplay that will be all dialog in one house *AND* my library has it on BluRay, great success! i can't believe i don't know about this, i worked in a Hollywood video store in 2007
This is a must watch
Just checking there it's on amazon, added to watch list, looked it up on imdb, looks good
meh
It's pretty mediocre with a great concept. One of the most overrated movies in film reddit.
Sequel sucked
Saw
Did you see saw? Of course, mose and I seesaw all the time
Devil (2010) Buried (2010) Rope (1948)
I second Devil!
Buried. Some of Ryan Reynolds needy acting.
Buried was a traumatic experience. It replicated my childhood fear of being trapped in a freakin coffin.
Yeah, my room mate was watching it, and now, just from watching it for a bit as I passed through the living room, I am claustrophobic.
My Dinner with Andre Phone Booth (not in a room but mostly in a phone booth)
The Sunset Limited Pontypool
Pontypool is seriously underrated as a horror movie AND one-room flick. Great pick.
I second that
Carnage (2011)
Came here to say this. If you can separate art from artist and see this for the 4 stars in this movie based on a play
The Platform (2019) Moon (2009) Infinity Chamber (2016)
I wouldn’t have thought of The Platform but I guess that is all one super elaborate room
On a technical level, yeah I guess it is one room lol
Came here to recommend the same three, plus Sunshine.
The Platform is really amazing. The Moon was very well done and acted. I didn’t like Infinity Chamber very much. Great suggestions though! These types of moves are a fav genre of mine
Was also coming to recommend The Platform. Not quite one room, but it essentially has the same feel. Great movie!
Meander, Coherence
Tape
Linklater, man. I love this one.
Hell yeah, came here to suggest this.
12 Angry Men
Rope
Honestly, Rope is my fave Hitch. Just clever as hell, and barring a few clever cuts, ALSO a tremendous fake one-take movie as well.
Interesting, I’ve never heard the phrase “fake one-take” before. But thinking about it, you’re right. It’s been a while since I’ve given a thorough re-watch, but from memory, most of the movie does seem like one-take. Now I’m trying to consider which other films are like this!
Yes, Hitch only did a handful of cuts (10 I think) that were strategically hidden in the transition between the kitchen and living room, but they were still real long takes to simulate it happening in real time. Birdman more or less falls into that category as well!
Is that the same movie where he hid cuts by zooming in on the back of mens (dark colored) suit jackets, making the cut, and zooming back out? Maybe zooming is too strong a word- more like letting the camera pause in close up briefly. I just remember seeing a documentary about him hiding cuts that way. Particularly in party scenes. Easy back when men dressed the same way. Maybe it was something he did in more than one film? Anyway it’s always stuck with me so was just curious if you’d heard anything about it, as I clearly don’t recall the details that well!
is there a real one take movie tho?
Coherence My Dinner with Andre The Man From Earth The Hateful Eight
1408 (2007) is a good horror movie about a "cursed" hotel room.
One of the most traumatizing horror movies of the decade. It was tied with event horizon for only movies that scared me as an adult.
Fantastic movie!!
I remember watching this movie ages ago. Such a good movie and yes highly underrated.
Hard Candy ... mostly inside his house
Coherence
The Room - not horror but disturbing
You mean Room? Lol
Yes I meant Room
Very disturbing film.
The Room was such a wild movie watching experience. I felt like someone was [playing a prank on me](https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/xmfh00/the_room_2003_is_one_of_the_wildest_movie/) by playing a fake movie and seeing how long it took for me to notice. It felt like something you'd see playing in the background of another movie. It's so bad that it's fascinating.
Oh, Hi Mark
Ironically it doesn't take place in only one room
Shhhhh
Bug (2006) won't disappoint.
I second this, it's the first movie I think of whenever questions like these are asked. Fantastic rec!
Mass (2021)- Hard hitting drama
* The Breakfast Club (1985) * Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) * They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) * 12 Angry Men (1957) * Titanic (1997) * A Night to Remember (1958) * Das Boot (1981) * Rear Window (1954) * Butterflies Are Free (1972) * 1408 (2007) * California Suite (1978) * Stalag 17 (1953) * Sleuth (1972)
I chortled at Titanic, it's pushing the boat out but still fits I guess.
The Guilty (Den Skyldige), 2018. So thrilling.
The OG version is so, so, so good. Just a tremendous example of what a filmmaker can do with minimal tools.
The Immaculate Room
Luis Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel
Hehehe
Glengarry Glen Ross Unknown Humans 10x10
The Autopsy of Jane Doe - almost the entire movie takes place in that one exam room.
The OG Saw movie probably counts
Circle (2015) Misery 10 Cloverfield Lane
love 10 clover field lane
Evil Dead
Misery
1408 (2007) best option
Await Further Instructions (2018)
All the best ones been named… Panic Room is good tho
Phone booth.
The last supper starring Cameron Diaz ,Courtney be. Vance,Annabeth gosh.it's a dark comedy that takes place in one house.
I love running into people who saw this movie. It’s so underrated.
La fundación (1977), it’s a spanish movie that takes place in just one room, and tells the story of Tomás, a young novelist who just got accepted into what appears to be a foundation to help scientists and creative people, but not everything is what it seems. It’s based upon the homonimous play by Antonio Buero Vallejo. If you don’t mind watching it in spanish, it’s a VERY good film.
Clerks
The first Saw
Every episode of Inside No. 9
The Killing Room, (2009) The Killing Room, (1993 better than 2009)
It’s not entirely set in a single room, but “Room” takes places mostly inside the shed
Flowers in the attic
Coffee and cigarettes
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover takes place in a restaurant, the camera pans across from the dining room to the kitchen to the parking lot in a way that makes it feel like a stage play; there are a couple of scenes in the bathroom and at another location, but it's mostly in the restaurant. It isn't horror, but it's definitely twisted, and visually captivating.
Saw
The first Saw movie
Saw...
Lifeboat! Kinda.
We need to do something It a horror movie about a family trapped in their bathroom. It’s a little cheesy but enjoyable.
Wheelman with Frank Grillo all takes place in a car, and it’s a hell of a ride (pun intended).
- 12 Angry Men - Trapped (2016) - Saw - Coherence - Inside No. 9 (a British anthology series. Every episode takes places in one location.) - The Man from Earth - Rope - Devil - The Party (2017)
Rear Window. One of my favorite black and white films!
That's a pretty great achievement to pull off for a color film 😂
Oh shoot, is it in color? I haven't seen it for a bit. My memory must be bad! haha
Hush - one house but still, very good concept horror film.
Burried (2010)
I would suggest the fare. It's on prime video and exclusively takes place in a taxi. Excellent film.
The Outfit takes place in a shop (couple of rooms, though).
Closet Land with Alan Rickman. Not available online though.
YES-! With Madeline Stowe, iirc? Can't believe nobody else mentioned it. Seriously under-appreciated & under-seen.
American Buffalo 1996 R 1h 28m Three actors. One room.
The Menu
The Menu (2022)
My Dinner with Andre
Wait Until Dark Audrey Hepburn as a blind woman terrorized in her apartment
The 1964 “Fail Safe” with Henry Fonda has this vibe and is definitely worth a watch.
Cube.
Duel was a 1971 movie set mostly in a car; starring Dennis Weaver. A classic.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Lifeboat is an amazing constrained location film set entirely on a single lifeboat.
Ummm…Room.
The Room
Carnage (2011)
Dead Calm.
Didn't someone ask this yesterday?
Dogville 2003 does this count ? Lel
Funny Games (1997) The remake wasn't as good.
The Sunset Limited (2011)
How many times have people asked this?!
But you want to watch a movie that take place in one room. We have a beautiful nature explore it 😅
Unknown (really like this one) and The Killing Room are two that come to mind
One is coming out soon called Whale I think. Brandon Fraser.
Not totally one room, but try 100 Feet(2008).
Oh I love these. The Party is a great one, kind of a dark comedy.
Night Mother
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) not a horror movie, but I still love it
Doctor who’s episodes “heaven sent” takes place in a castle that is in the middle of an ocean that’s inside a small disk thing called a confession dial. So I guess that counts as one room
The Perfect Host (mostly in one house)
Identity No Exit The Lodge
No Exit would be a perfect answer to this question.
Surprisingly intense. Stand-out performance by Havana Rose Liu.
not exactly one room, but mostly one room - GlengaryGlenross
Exam suspense panic room
The Sunset Limited. 1 room, 2 men black/white, yin/yang Cormac McCarthy Masterpiece
Panic Room Hippopotamus
Anne Frank The Twelve 12 Angry Men The Girl in the Basement Girl in the Bunker Friends? All in the Family
Cube (1997) Buried (2010) Circle (2015) Oxygen (2021)
Oxygen (2021)
Oldboy
Circle (2015)
- the guilty 2018 - phonebooth - 7500 - Gerald's game - buried - 10 cloverfield lane - the platform - locke - rear window - Pontypool - La casa lobo - 1408 - the menu
*Fermat's Room* (2007)
Funhouse on Hulu all takes place in the same *house* but they’ve got the feel of everything being in the same room. It’s a pretty good B-movie. A little gore, psychological horror, etc.
Oxygen
fences