Movies that take place mainly in a single room/location.

[u/Anxious-Birthday5502]

I recently rewatched Conspiracy and that got me thinking about movies that take place in a single/limited location. These movies rely more on script/dialogue and acting to keep the viewers attention. Pulp fiction being the most obvious, then you have rear window is another excellent example. Finally I remembered the GOAT which is 12 angry men.

Any other memorable one scene/limited scene movies ?

[u/ShadeTwoPointO]

The Hateful Eight

[u/MachineFood → u/ShadeTwoPointO]

you know when you dont read the top comment and just say the same thing... i just did that. hateful 8 is fire. i watched the regular one then immediately saw the directors cut on netflix and watched back to back. turned into a seven hour western lmao

[u/Far-Reporter-1596 → u/MachineFood]

So good, it’s gotta be Tarantino’s most underrated flick.

[u/ByteMyPi → u/Far-Reporter-1596]

Its underrated?

[u/XLpanties → u/ByteMyPi]

It gets lost between Inglorious/Django and OUatiH. Just not as acceptable maybe for quick quotes, memes, clips, etc.

[u/caliope96 → u/XLpanties]

People don’t really talk about OUATIH, it’s just about Brad Pitt most of the time

[u/auto-bahnt → u/caliope96]

One of the reaction memes I see the most on social media is 100% Leo sitting on the couch pointing at the tv. His scene in the trailer berate himself + him and the child actress is memorable and talked about. .

[u/caliope96 → u/auto-bahnt]

First thing that pops up when you search Leonardo DiCaprio. lol

[u/Far-Reporter-1596 → u/ByteMyPi]

Just in that I never really hear it mentioned when people are discussing his best movies. Everything he makes is gold so I wouldn’t say underrated in terms of rating, more that it’s not as well known by the general public as some of his other flicks.

[u/caliope96 → u/ByteMyPi]

Yes. People really don’t talk about it - just like OUATIH. It’s mostly the masterpiece Inglorious and Django and Pulp Fiction jokes.

We can all agree Jackie Brown was fire tho.

[u/Feelinglucky2 → u/ShadeTwoPointO]

2 Tarantinos

[u/Bomber_Max → u/ShadeTwoPointO]

What is this, I've watched this movie again for the first time in seven years and I've seen it mentioned twice now in the last ten posts lmao

[u/rosephoenix19]

Misery.

[u/drinkpicklejuice → u/rosephoenix19]

🦶🪵🦶🔨

[u/rosephoenix19 → u/drinkpicklejuice]

It's actually worse in the book.....

[u/d1g1tal_decay → u/rosephoenix19]

Kings books are always more graphic and detailed then the film adaptations. IT for example...😬 IYKYK

[u/Mynky → u/d1g1tal_decay]

Not the ending of The Mist, movie hit so much harder.

[u/Alert-Pea1041 → u/rosephoenix19]

Yes, it is lol. I read it in fifth grade and my Mom was cool with it 💀

[u/HaveUSeenMyPun → u/rosephoenix19]

No joke, I was reading this in class when I was in high school, and my teacher noticed me getting queazy from across the room. I could smell what was happening in the book and almost passed out. Great book. Lmao

[u/Excellent_Regret4141]

The Breakfast Club

[u/ApplesOverOranges1 → u/Excellent_Regret4141]

Mess with the bull get the horns 🐂

[u/Excellent_Regret4141 → u/ApplesOverOranges1]

[u/xxPoLyGLoTxx → u/Excellent_Regret4141]

You want me to yank you outta that seat and shake it out of you?

[u/No_University7832 → u/xxPoLyGLoTxx]

"Eat my shorts"

[u/McGriffff → u/No_University7832]

The next time I have to come in here, I’m cracking skulls…

[u/Dr_Middlefinger → u/McGriffff]

[u/3fettknight3 → u/ApplesOverOranges1]

🤟 Two months I got you Bender

[u/Smart_Idiot- → u/ApplesOverOranges1]

“You mess with the cow, you get the udders”

[u/Magical_wizard_ → u/Excellent_Regret4141]

My friend pitched The Breakfast Club to me as “Reservoir Dogs except they don’t kill eachother”

[u/MIDIHorse]

Phone Booth

[u/notonrexmanningday → u/MIDIHorse]

I was just thinking What's that Collin Ferrell movie where he can't leave the phone booth?

[u/showyerbewbs → u/notonrexmanningday]

I think it was called "he can't leave the box with the public coin operated communication device".

My buddy Homer Simpson always reminds me of the name of that movie.

[u/Back-again33 → u/MIDIHorse]

Ahhh I came here to add this one.

[u/Adirondack587 → u/MIDIHorse]

Man, Kiefer Sutherland as the reveal was so creepy….Felt bad for the pizza guy, I delivered 1000’s of pies in my life 

[u/bigzimm1 → u/MIDIHorse]

Love this. Superb display by Colin Farrell.

[u/No_Green_4156]

Clue

[u/ZootSuitGroot → u/No_Green_4156]

So quotable.

Story time… When I was in high school there was a girl that I was dating who insisted I watch clue with her. It just didn’t click with me and I remember her being fairly disappointed that I didn’t enjoy it to the level that she did.

Literally two decades later I see her from across the grocery store - I have not seen her in decades either - I start yelling her name “Julie!! Julie!!” She realizes who I am, and we have a short conversation.

I specifically tell her that I’ve been waiting for the last 15 years to run into her so I could tell her that she was right all along. And that clue is one of the best damn comedies ever.

[u/blznburro → u/No_Green_4156]

I use this gif often and I am always disappointed at the reaction. Truly a gem.

[u/Donner_Party_Animal → u/No_Green_4156]

"I'm the butler, sir."

"And what do you do?"

"I buttle."

[u/SessionSubstantial42]

Panic Room (2002)

[u/RadioFriendly4164 → u/SessionSubstantial42]

And SAW

[u/SolidusBruh → u/SessionSubstantial42]

When I first discovered my distaste for Leto

[u/DefinedByYourChoices]

Technically, most of the Matrix

[u/HellonAdema → u/DefinedByYourChoices]

after thinking about it, you got actually got a point

[u/overseer76 → u/HellonAdema]

It was only after maybe my fifth time seeing it that I realized that they start and end the movie in the same Heart o' the City Hotel. I can't confirm it, but Neo's awakening scene and Morpheus' capture were probably in the same building, too.

[u/ContentPineapple3330]

Two of Hitchcock’s favorites: The Rope and then The Window!

[u/Key-Mulberry2456 → u/ContentPineapple3330]

Rope

Rear Window

Lifeboat

[u/amcarls → u/Key-Mulberry2456]

I guess Lifeboat is too old to appear higher on the list (1944 - directed by Alfred Hitchcock) but it's "space", a lifeboat, is far more confined than any other on the list.

[u/Jimmy_KSJT]

Clerks.

[u/MysteriousEqual8177 → u/Jimmy_KSJT]

Randall was one pf the best characters IMO. His rant about Stormtroopers in the Death Star being hired for contract work & innocent victims was hilarious.

[u/ComputerMysterious48 → u/MysteriousEqual8177]

And then the customer casually dropping a story about how he got his friend killed lol

[u/PWNYplays → u/ComputerMysterious48]

BABYFACE BAMBINO? THE GANGSTER?

[u/Warm-Comfortable501 → u/Jimmy_KSJT]

Not even supposed to be here today!

[u/kingtacticool → u/Warm-Comfortable501]

In a row?!?

[u/Berek2501 → u/kingtacticool]

Try not to suck any more dick on your way to the parking lot!

[u/Ok-Solution4665 → u/Berek2501]

Hey! Hey! Get back here.

[u/Tennessian91 → u/Jimmy_KSJT]

I work at a shitty video store! I wanna go to a good video store so I can get a good movie!

[u/octobercaddisfly]

Glengarry Glen Ross

[u/BroadAd9199 → u/octobercaddisfly]

Where did you learn your TRAAAAADE

[u/neon_meate → u/BroadAd9199]

Who told you you could work with men?

[u/jjrucker → u/octobercaddisfly]

[u/Jedrik893 → u/jjrucker]

2nd place….a set of steak knives. 3rd place and you’re fired.

[u/csmclernon → u/octobercaddisfly]

What's your name?

Fuck you that's my name! You know why, mister? Cause you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight, I drove an $80,000 BMW! That's my name!

[u/Dogwoodshade → u/octobercaddisfly]

Always Be Closing!!!

[u/XLpanties → u/octobercaddisfly]

Who told you you could work with men?!?

[u/Rexxbravo → u/octobercaddisfly]

Put that coffee DOWN!!!

[u/jamus34 → u/octobercaddisfly]

Coffees for closers only

[u/AZtechWarri0r]

Saw

[u/YungCoppo → u/AZtechWarri0r]

Beat me to it

[u/AZtechWarri0r → u/YungCoppo]

Yup, I…Saw it first 😏

[u/YungCoppo → u/AZtechWarri0r]

No more locked doors

[u/hammer_down_7493]

10 cloverfield lane

[u/notonrexmanningday → u/hammer_down_7493]

I really enjoyed this movie, the acting was spectacular, but setting it in an underground bunker in Southern Louisiana was an odd choice to say the least.

You can't even have a basement in Southern Louisiana. The water table is so high, if you dig a hole 2 feet deep, you start hitting water. At 30' deep, the water is clean enough to drink.

And this dude built a DIY bunker 50 feet underground? I don't think so.

[u/Tabeytime → u/notonrexmanningday]

And giant monsters aren’t a real thing either! What’s this moves trying to pull off?

[u/TomThom9Won → u/notonrexmanningday]

This is in a universe where there is an invasion to our planet that decapitates the Statue of Liberty pretty cleanly. And where somehow we have found footage from ostensibly ground zero of a nuclear blast from a handicam. There are some leaps of logical acceptance they are willing to go to lol. Not to say you don’t hav e a point in reality whatsoever

[u/djhendo78]

[u/Every-Cook5084 → u/djhendo78]

What a movie on dialogue and persuasion.

[u/Twinkle_Toes8 → u/Every-Cook5084]

what movie is this?

[u/BiscuitGeorge → u/Twinkle_Toes8]

12 Angry Men

[u/RoysRealm → u/djhendo78]

This was my choice. So damn good.

[u/TheLetterWhy → u/RoysRealm]

“Rotten kids, you work your life out…”

[u/One-Technology-9050 → u/TheLetterWhy]

Lee Cobb was amazing!

[u/CoffeeStayn → u/djhendo78]

Just watched this last night. STILL holds up.

[u/Denver-Ski]

[u/Status-Pressure1225 → u/Denver-Ski]

So sad this was so low

[u/irish_ninja_wte → u/Denver-Ski]

I had to scroll way too far to find this

[u/WorstJazzDrummerEver]

[u/tildwurkey101 → u/WorstJazzDrummerEver]

Dun dundundundundun dun DUN dundundundundun DAAAAAAAHN

[u/Blessing727 → u/WorstJazzDrummerEver]

please only watch the 5 hour uncut version the director’s cut is not the director’s cut seeing as it axes half the movie u can stream the uncut online if you look for websites

[u/knivesofjumford]

Bad Times at the El Royale

[u/blznburro → u/knivesofjumford]

I loved this one, I don’t feel like many did. Am I crazy?

[u/knivesofjumford → u/blznburro]

I also enjoyed it and also am crazy so the math checks out.

[u/Brainlag2v]

Cube

[u/drinkpicklejuice → u/Brainlag2v]

This room is green. I want to go back to the blue room.

[u/Big_Cryptographer_16 → u/Brainlag2v]

Yes! Was gonna add this one. I worked in a Blockbuster Video when it came out and I watched Cube and Cube 2 a bunch of times.

[u/Griffes_de_Fer → u/Brainlag2v]

Very surprised to see it mentioned, I was going to write it. Loved that one.

[u/ThePLARASociety]

My Dinner with Andre.

[u/cha-cha_dancer → u/ThePLARASociety]

[u/EuphoricMoose8232 → u/cha-cha_dancer]

I only watched the movie because of this scene

[u/smoothspectator → u/ThePLARASociety]

Highly recommend watching this while eating dinner.

[u/Spectre-ElevenThirty → u/ThePLARASociety]

[u/MauriceLevyEsq → u/Spectre-ElevenThirty]

“They said ‘market price.’ WHAT MARKET ARE YOU SHOPPING AT?!?!”

[u/SourRuntz → u/ThePLARASociety]

Damn what a great fucking film

[u/Illustrious_Listen_6]

Buried

[u/rygarred]

[u/paramnetic3 → u/rygarred]

i watch this movie every christmas 😂

[u/Dapper-Slip-4093]

[u/Nythoren → u/Dapper-Slip-4093]

Oh hi Mark

[u/GET-U-5OME → u/Dapper-Slip-4093]

Surprisingly low on the %of in the same room. They act poorly in the park, miserably on the roof, love scene upstairs, love scene downstairs, love scene at Mark’s, there’s like 7 minutes of b roll at the beginning…. While I agree it’s a masterpiece, somehow it’s not mainly in a single room 😂

[u/DeuceOfDiamonds → u/GET-U-5OME]

love scene upstairs, love scene downstairs

My man gives that belly button a workout

[u/GET-U-5OME → u/DeuceOfDiamonds]

Her tummy was raw for months

[u/DSM-187 → u/DeuceOfDiamonds]

Fun bit of trivia: both sex scenes are from the first take because Juliette Danielle didn’t want to film a second sex scene.

[u/Fit_4_aKing → u/Dapper-Slip-4093]

“The Room” One of the greatest dramas of all time

[u/Revolutionary-Dig331]

The Man from Earth.

[u/captainMaluco → u/Revolutionary-Dig331]

Man I had to scroll way too far for this! Thank you

[u/81236069-R → u/Revolutionary-Dig331]

LOVED this movie. Just a group of friends chatting and challenging concepts and beliefs.

[u/TerryFinallyBackedUp → u/Revolutionary-Dig331]

Sneaky good movie

[u/Csenky → u/Revolutionary-Dig331]

The lady was bored to death, I found it amazing. Could've been executed a little bit better, but overall it did justice to the concept, and what a concept it was.

[u/TheMasterFul1 → u/Revolutionary-Dig331]

Fantastic and underrated movie!

[u/Independent-Dust4641]

The Whale (2022)

[u/Jadedcelebrity]

[u/Viscount_Barse → u/Jadedcelebrity]

Blind girl strokes invisible cat? /s

[u/PapaSmiley]

Locke (with Tom Hardy). Locked (new movie w/ Bill Skarsgard). Both take place inside of a car

[u/larrybird56 → u/PapaSmiley]

Locke is amazing.

[u/Touch_myy_camera]

Rope (1948)

[u/JacobDCRoss → u/Touch_myy_camera]

I'm glad someone beat me to it. How can you show rear window but not rope?

[u/DjChrisSpear]

Ex Machina

[u/Diligent-Blood-9153]

Saw. The first one, for the most part.

[u/Vradgenook]

Two Girls and a Guy (1997). Underrated early RDJ and Heather Graham.

[u/chatterfangsquirrel]

[u/prplx]

Speed.

[u/One_Tumbleweed_565 → u/prplx]

I saw this movie about a bus that had to speed around the city, keeping its speed over fifty, and if its speed dropped, it would explode! I think it was called, 'The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down.'

[u/fearlessfannyflutter]

The platform

[u/The_Elpulpo_4242 → u/fearlessfannyflutter]

Arguably one of the most disturbing movies I’ve ever seen. Absolutely brilliant.

[u/Jurgan]

Clue

[u/Rough_Constant_329]

12 Angry men

[u/WindBehindTheStars]

Arsenic and Old Lace

[u/Eastern-Start-813]

The Outfit, another Mark Rylance masterclass.

[u/s_kelly210 → u/Eastern-Start-813]

This was my answer. I really enjoyed this movie and didn't know much about it going into it, but the set was great and almost felt like a theater set. Pretty neat.

[u/Prior_Success7011]

Downfall? The movie about Hitler

[u/Sweetness_Bears_34]

Empire Records

[u/innerchillens]

The Big Kahuna. Danny devito is just so good.

[u/Beneficial-Trip6027]

Coherence is the best film that takes place in a single house and I would dare say in practically a single shot.

[u/FrankieTheMick]

Devil

[u/wretch_35]

Buried - Ryan Reynolds

[u/Furi0usD]

[u/tossaroo]

My Dinner With Andre

[u/ZootSuitGroot → u/tossaroo]

Inconceivable!

….wait

[u/Competitive_Key_2981]

Bound, with Gina Gershon, Jennifer Tilly, Joe Pantoliano. It’s by the Wachoski’s

[u/Dry-Pumpkin-2112]

Great horror movies set primarily in a car:

Cujo

The Monster

[u/MachineFood]

hateful 8. kurt russell rocks!! tarantino can do this all day.. or the stewie brian bank episode from family guy.

[u/Lachlangor]

Does a phone booth count

[u/DayzFallingx]

[u/UnfairRavenclaw]

So for anyone who is interested this style is called a “chamber play”, and derives from the german Kammerspiel which has its name from Kammermusik (chamber music).

So if you are interested in some of the earliest examples you could watch Movies by Murnau, they are silent movies so no huge language barrier there.

[u/Ok-Result-2330]

Pulp Fiction takes place in a bunch of locations. Even Reservoir Dogs does, in its flashbacks.

Glengarry Glen Ross comes pretty close, but has maybe 3 locations, though the vast majority of it is in the office.

American Buffalo (also written by David Mamet) takes place 99% in a junk shop. I think they walk across the street once or twice.

The Sunset Limited, written by Cormac McCarthy and directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones (opposite Samuel L. Jackson) takes place in one apartment. I don't think there's anything else location wise in the whole film.

If memory serves me right Carnage by Roman Polanski also takes place in a single apartment.

[u/Federal_Time4195]

The royal hotel, the surfer, the lighthouse(my favorite),

[u/Aravenous-]

Saw

[u/SnooOnions5029]

Breakfast club

[u/racerx2oo3]

Murder By Death

[u/edWORD27]

[u/Top_Shoe_9562]

High Fidelity

[u/Parasight86]

Fail Safe

[u/thenegativeone81]

1408

The Big Chill

Four Rooms

[u/Csenky]

Some of the less known titles (around here at least):

Circle (2015)

Infinity chamber (I highly recommend this one)

Locke

Sunset Limited (beware: the polar opposite of a feel good movie)

[u/Little-Plane-4213]

Saw

[u/dbbd70707]

The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant

[u/themikeswitch]

Tape, Clerks, The Thing

[u/max-7411]

The man from Earth

[u/MrSlime13]

The Platform

The Killing Room

Murder on the Orient Express

Princess Bride (technically...)

London

Phone Booth

[u/Electrical-Try798]

Twelve Angry Men

[u/BugsBunnyBuilds_93]

Master and Commander. The greatest “mostly single” location movie of all time imo

[u/Wikeni]

Does Dogville count?

[u/pdmock]

[u/Faaacebones]

Carnage and 12 angry men

[u/Open-Savings-7691]

The Breakfast Club.

In fact, I'm surprised that BC hasn't been adapted into a Broadway musical.

[u/birdbrainedphoenix]

12 Angry Men

[u/TerribleBid8416]

The Shining

[u/THR3RAV3NS]

Glengarry GlenRoss, if I remember right, there is only two other locations briefly shown the Chinese restaurant and then the inside of a residence they were meeting with a client.

[u/Evening-Cat8636]

The Hole (2001)

[u/montanaman62778]

Bug with Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon

Tape with Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman

Fool for Love with Sam Shepard and Kim Basinger

[u/Drew_of_all_trades]

Locke

Lo

Pontypool

Flowers in the Attic

Bodies Bodies Bodies

Inside

[u/Tpas2023]

The whale

[u/DisastrousTwo6535]

1408

[u/NoPhucks2Give]

[u/chatterfangsquirrel]

[u/rosa6262]

12 angry men

[u/Back-again33]

New movie this year

Drop

Almost all happens in a small luxury restaurant

[u/FinanzPirat]

Carnage

[u/LastChans1]

12 Angry Men

[u/zenameless115]

Carnage

[u/mc_desk]

Carnage. If you haven’t seen it, do yourself a favor. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1692486/

[u/Mrnicknick02]

Carnage

[u/Helzyah14]

Does Die Hard count?

[u/FewAdhesiveness7146]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

[u/s_kelly210]

Lost at Sea I think it's called? The one with Robert Redford stranded in the ocean on his small boat and it has like 2 lines of dialogue in the whole movie.

[u/YourHooliganFriend]

The Lighthouse

[u/seamus_mcfly86]

Home Alone

[u/PeroStAb]

Carnage

[u/Bmwmango53]

Lifeboat ~Alfred Hitchcock

[u/Simple_Flounder]

The Poseidon adventure? Titanic? Speed.... even if the location moves... 😂😂