Animals were harmed in these films
This Spanish Netflix original about a vertically shaped prison with different layers is an interesting essay on the nature of capitalism and human kindness.
Jordan Peele's racially charged horror film is set almost entirely at a family estate. It won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 2018.
The Stephen King adaptation by the great Stanley Kubrick is set in the eerie Overlook Hotel and follows an alcoholic writer's descent into madness.
Tarantino's western about a bounty hunter and his prisoner is almost entirely set in a cabin in Wyoming.
Tom Hardy's titular character is in fact the only character we see, as the entire film is shot from his car. The film's other characters only feature with their voices.
Hitchcock's classic film on voyeurism sees James Stewart house-ridden because of a broken leg, distracting himself with spying on his neighbors and all but ignoring an absolutely radiant Grace Kelly, who plays his love interest.
This slow-burning but ultimately terrifying horror film has been dubbed "Big Brother meets The Blair Witch Project." Not for the faint of heart...
Sigourney Weaver and the team try to fight off an alien life-form that has invaded their spaceship, the Nostromo.
Karyn Kusama's 2015 supernatural horror tells of a dinner party among friends where tensions sizzle and old wounds are reopened.
The entire film is set in a jury deliberation room right after the closing arguments in a trial of a man accused of murdering his father.
Based on Anne Frank's diary, the movie is set entirely in their hide-out in Amsterdam.
Louis Malle's proto-French New Wave crime drama might not be set in one place, but one of its characters is trapped inside an elevator for the entirety of the film.
Another play adaptation, this time by David Mamet, directed by James Foley. Jack Lemmon won the Best Actor Oscar for the film set in a real estate agency.
Robert Altman's satire on class is set in a British country house between the wars.
Another Alfred Hitchcock/Grace Kelly collaboration shot in a single location. This time it's the apartment of a retired tennis-player plotting to murder his two-timing socialite wife.
This ensemble crime drama sees a number of characters finding themselves holed-up in a hotel on the Florida Keys as a hurricane approaches.
David Fincher's taut thriller centers entirely on the panic room in a New York apartment.
Set at the Beauregard hotel on the English south coast in the fall, 'Separate Tables' tells of the rootless and drifting characters peopling the establishment during its off-season.
Audrey Hepburn does some of her best work as a blind woman besieged by burglars in her house.
This Hitchcock curio is set entirely on a lifeboat on the Atlantic in the middle of WWII.
Steve Guttenburg is one of the stars in this classic coming-of-age drama.
A group of researchers in Antarctica encounter a deadly extraterrestrial life-form that can imitate other life-forms.
Feeling a little claustrophobic? You're not the only one. Being confined to a single location for too long isn't good for anyone. However, as we're still dealing with a global pandemic, many of us don't have a choice. Though our current situation is unique in many ways, confinement, isolation, and fear of what's outside are anything but. It's a story that's been told in film many times, often based on true events. Click on for movies that are set (mostly) in one single location.
Ryan Reynolds finds himself literally buried alive with his phone and a limited amount of oxygen.
Movies set (mostly) in a single location
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MOVIES Quarantine
Feeling a little claustrophobic? You're not the only one. Being confined to a single location for too long isn't good for anyone. However, as we're still dealing with a global pandemic, many of us don't have a choice. Though our current situation is unique in many ways, confinement, isolation, and fear of what's outside are anything but. It's a story that's been told in film many times, often based on true events. Click on for movies that are set (mostly) in one single location.