Films that are set in the same place/room throughout

radiospan

Might seem like an odd request, but I'm looking for some recommendations of films which are almost entirely set in the same place or room. I've liked the ones I've seen :pac:

Some examples:
12 Angry Men
Cube
Phone Booth
Jim Henson's The Cube

Nevyn

Death and the maiden.

MagicMarker

The Man from Earth

mikemac

Not 100% sure but Glengarry Glenross

Gauge

The majority of Hard Candy takes place inside one apartment.

MikeHoncho

Off the top of my head.
The Hole
Haunted Mansion
Psycho
The Breakfast Club
Pans Labrynth
The Orphanage

Lots of horrors id say.

Pigman II

I recommend all of the following:

'Tape'. The entire movie is literally set in one motel room.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275719/

'Cube' is another one. Takes place in a maze/prison made up of rooms that are all exactly the same in construction. ie it's pretty much shot in the one single location for all intents and purposes.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123755/

Finally 'Treed Murray'. Doesn't take place in a room but the entire movie does take place in (and under) a tree.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293664/

kings mistake

Dog Day Afternoon

Rear Window

A good percentage of Resevoir dogs was shot in the one room I think

MisterAnarchy

Sleuth is set in one house.

Carturo

Deathtrap, Misery, The 'Burbs (to some extent).

Shacklebolt

Most of Das Boot is set entirely within the U-Boat.

ronnie3585

Downfall.

monkeyfudge

The Star Wars films are set entirely within a galaxy far, far away.

Narcissus

try this:
http://www.imdb.com/keyword/single-set-production/

Latchy

micmclo wrote: »

Not 100% sure but Glengarry Glenross

At least 90% of that film is set in the same office /room throughout .

It's amazing how a made-for-tv (I think) low-budget movie like Man From Earth is up there with the likes of Rear Window, 12 Angry Men etc.

It's a fantastic movie though.

Pugsley

For films the best example off hand would be Downfall, most of it takes place in the same Bunker

Best I've seen of this has to be the Babylon5 Season 4 Episode 18, 'Intersections in Real Time', the whole episode involves 2 people, in a plain, dark, square room.

dooloo

Rope

Hitchcock film with Jimmy Stewart.

Whole film set in an apartment

BeautifulLoser

Dogville? Well, technically it's set in a whole town but if you've seen it you'll catch my drift..

bnt

micmclo wrote: »

Not 100% sure but Glengarry Glenross

I was thinking of Glengarry Glen Ross too, but I can't quite remember if that's true of the film version. I know the stage play has two acts, set in a restaurant, then in the office. Other films based on plays could be good examples e.g. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Death and the Maiden, The Odd Couple - though I think these have some external scenes because, well, it's film.

You could argue that The Matrix takes place within a space even smaller than one room... one head. :pac:

rednik

Streamers an excellent film from the eighties directed by Robert Altman.

daisykc

4 months 3 weeks and 2 days
(hotel room)

PeakOutput

probably not what your looking for but lions for lambs has very few settings

each set of characters is pretty much in the same place for the entire film iirc

Average-Ro

Saw

Panic Room (All but 5-10 minutes are set in the same house)

Rabies

The Truman Show. Its just one big ass tv set.

Tomohawk

Groundhog Day

Hell in the Pacific - set on a remote island.

Cast Away - set on different remote island.

Blind Flight - the story of Brian Keenan and John McCarthy's hostage experiences in Beirut back in the 1980.

The Wizard of Oz - set on a Kansas farm and in Dorothys head really!

longshanks

albino alligator is mostly set in a bar
open water is set in, eh, open water

Miguel_Sanchez

Average-Ro wrote: »

Saw

Except for all the flashbacks that take place all over the shop.

D-FENS

MikeHoncho wrote: »

Psycho

Apart from the first 15-20 mins where Janet Leigh's travelling across an entire state!

Another Hitchcock - Lifeboat, was set entirely in , yes you've guessed it, the lifeboat

Most of Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder was set in the one apartment, apart from when

Grace Kelly is in "court" near the end, which was probably a toilet or something because we never actually see anything except her and the Judge's voice

Eirebear

daisykc wrote: »

4 months 3 weeks and 2 days
(hotel room)

Except for the bits in the suburbs of bucharest, in the school, at the boyfriends house, meeting the person who carries out her abortion...

AL][EN

Liberty Stands Still

Phonebooth (which is just a rip off of Liberty Stands Still)

Most of The Hole *shudder*

Cube and all its many sequels (well its suppose to be different rooms but the whole thing is shot in one room)

12 angry men

thats all i can think of for now

MagicMarker

Can't believe no one has thought of...

Alien

D-FENS

MagicMarker wrote: »

Can't believe no one has thought of...

Alien

They do get off the ship near the start.
You know, to pick up the alien?...:D

Alien Resurrection would have more of a case for the defence though

The Don

Evil Dead I & II - set in and around the cabin.

The Others
The Trench
Event Horizon
Resident Evil - all in the underground complex except the end.

2001 maybe

spiritcrusher

[REC]/Quarantine to a certain extent. The bulk of the film is in the apartments building.

RNL

Russian Ark fits the bill pretty nicely.

rizzla

Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 set in a cabin.

Cabin Fever, set in a cabin.

Blair Witch Project set in a forrest.

Dawn of the Dead, in a shopping centre.

Mallrats, in a shopping centre too.

Posy

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest- (mental hospital)
The Shining- (creepy hotel)
MASH- (set in an army hospital unit)
The Shawshank Redemption- (nearly all inside a prison)
Strangers on a Train- (on a train)

Mackman

The Thing - Research Lab in the Antartic

Identity - 95% in a motel in the middle of nowhere

Assault on Precinct 13 - Police Station (Go for the original)

Die Hard 1 & 2 - Come on People!!!!:p

Empire Records - Record Shop

rizzla

Airplane and Airplane 2
Snakes on a Plane
Zombies on a Plane or Flight of the Living Dead or Plane Dead, all the same film I saw it as Plane Dead but it's changed it's name so many times.
Snakes on a Train

D-FENS

I think the boundaries of what constitutes a “place” have been well and truly stretched here!

Do the Bourne / Bond films deserve a mention? There’s a lot of jet setting fair enough, but it all takes place on Earth! (Except parts of Moonraker!)

Otis Driftwood

Clerks 1 + 2

Nolanger

Abigail's Party - Mike Leigh movie set in a sitting room
Time of your life - James Cagney movie set in a pub

quickbeam

Caderyn wrote: »

Strangers on a Train- (on a train)

The main characters meet on a train early in the film, but the rest of the film takes place in multiple locations.

Aurora Borealis

An Inspector calls and Cre na Cille.

keefg

Thirteen Ghosts

and if I remember correctly, Peters Friends

TestTransmission

Transporter 3 - Audi A8

kraggy

4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days.

Vast majority is set in a hotel room.

ben bedlam

Glengarry Glenross - 90% set in the real estate office