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Setting a movie entirely ( or almost whole ) in one location takes away all the cinematic frills and pull filmmakers to centre on fictional character and story . One of the biggest advantages that cinema has over dramaturgy is the ability to jump between unlike location . James Bond moving picture take audiences all over the globe , Star Warsmovies take them across a galaxy far , far away , andEverything Everywhere All at Oncetakes them to a cluster of parallel universe of discourse . But a story can be just as compelling when it ’s limit to one place .
Quentin Tarantino would go on to make globetrotting epics likeKill BillandInglourious Basterds , but his first movie was set almost entirely in an abandoned warehouse . Kevin Smith shot his first movie in the contrivance memory where he was work a day job . From a panel resolve whether to convict a murderer to a cheat on husband force back to the birth of his schoolmistress ’ baby , some of the greatest stories ever tell on - screen have been set in one location .
10Locke
Steven Wright, 2013
Tom Hardy spends the entireness ofLockein a car on the thruway , utter to his loved ones on the phone . Although his wife and sons are await for him to get home to look on a football mates , and he has the cock-a-hoop job of his career the follow day , he decides to drive to London , where his fraught schoolma’am has lead into premature labor . Hardy ’s typically splendid performance ensure the movie is consistently engaging;Lockeplays like a one - man show immortalise on film .
9Bodies Bodies Bodies
Halina Reijn, 2022
While a bunch of vapid Gen Z kids wait out a hurricane in their champion ’s plush mansion , the power break down out and one of them turns up dead inBodies Bodies Bodies . Directed by Halina Reijnin her English - language debut , Bodies Bodies Bodiesis botha chilling whodunit with a tense atmosphere – lit mostly by the torch on the characters ’ iPhones – and an incisive satire of advanced - mean solar day young culture . The star - studded ensemble is ground by Amandla Stenberg , Maria Bakalova , and a standout Rachel Sennott , and the razor - precipitous playscript leads to a attractively ironic , totally unexpected construction finish .
8Assault On Precinct 13
John Carpenter, 1976
John Carpenter reimaginesRio Bravoin a contemporary urban setting inAssault on Precinct 13 , as a courageous cop and a dangerous yard bird reluctantly squad up to protect a police precinct from a unpitying gun - toting crew . Afterthe gonzo sci - fi satire ofDark Star , Assault on Precinct 13introduced audiences to Carpenter ’s on-key cinematic gritstone . The violence is uncompromising , the pacing is exhilarating , and Carpenter never fall behind passel of the film ’s worked up core : the improbable friendship that blossoms between its two mismatch hoagy .
7Clerks
Kevin Smith, 1994
Kevin Smith turned his own mundane experience working at a public toilet store into the determinate Gen X clowning with his scummy - budget black - and - white debut featureClerks . Clerkschronicles a distinctive day in the lives of gruff clerk Dante and his loudmouthed ripe friend Randal . For about a calendar month , Smith work at the Quick Stop during the daylight , then germinate his movie there all dark . The ensue product was a darling on the festival circuit and apace became a cult classic , becauseit perfectly captures the everyday frustrations of working a dead - end problem .
Ever since his classic introduction feature film Clerks , Kevin Smith ’s movies have varied from incessantly rewatchable like Chasing Amy to less - than - leading .
6Misery
Rob Reiner, 1990
establish on the Stephen King novel of the same name ( presumably inspired by his bad nightmare),Miseryseesfamous author Paul Sheldonbeing held engrossed by a psychotic superfan , Annie Wilkes . keep the movie confine to the business firm where Paul is trapped allowed director Rob Reiner to draw the hearing into his claustrophobic imprisonment . James Caan gives a compelling everyman turn as Paul andKathy Bates more than earns her Academy Award – a rarified Oscar profits for a revulsion celluloid – with her haunting , iconic performance as Annie .
5The Breakfast Club
John Hughes, 1985
A bunch of child are stuck in Saturday detention in John Hughes ’ teen comedy classicThe Breakfast Club . Hughes used this introspective premise to deconstruct a lot of the high school day movie original that he help oneself to establish . The five minor in detention each belong to a different category of eminent schooler – a Einstein , a beauty , a jock , a Reb , and a recluse – but , as they open up and get to know each other , they substantiate there ’s a lot more to them than those label would intimate , and they have a slew more in vulgar than it initially seems .
4Rear Window
Alfred Hitchcock, 1954
James Stewart is an adventuresome photographer restrict to his apartment with a broken stage in Alfred Hitchcock ’s thriller masterpieceRear Window . To conquer the tedium , Jeff starts stag on his neighbour with a high - powered lens and get to suspect that the mankind across the courtyard is a murderer . InRear Window , Hitchcock habituate the single - positioning confinement to raise the suspense . Since Jeff ’s leg is broken , he ca n’t go anywhere . When the possible murderer is onto him , he ca n’t just run away – he ’s trapped there .
3Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Tarantino, 1992
Before he had the punch to demand $ 100 million to make a darkly comedic spaghetti westerly about bondage , Quentin Tarantino made his directorial debut with a modestly budget heist flick that does n’t show the heist . Reservoir Dogsinstead focalise on the aftermath of a failed jewellery store robbery in which the crew reconvenes at the rendezvous breaker point and try on to cypher out who among them is an surreptitious cop . Without the money to slant on spectacle , Reservoir Dogsrelies on Tarantino ’s signature verbose duologue and non - analog storytelling to keep the hearing hooked .
Most filmmakers take a couple of movies to discover their voice , but some , like David Lynch and Greta Gerwig , knock it out of the parking lot on their first try .
2Wait Until Dark
Terence Young, 1967
In Terence Young ’s nail - biting thrillerWait Until Dark , Audrey Hepburn plays a blind woman who unknowingly brings a drug stash home with her . Alan Arkin and Richard Crenna co - adept as the gangsters who go against in to get it back . Young uses the fact that Susy Hendrix ca n’t see the intruders – but the audience can – to keep stretching the natural rubber isthmus of tension . Wait Until Darkrarely leave Susy ’s apartment , butYoung ’s direction , paired with Henry Mancini ’s ominous musical account , keep the hearing on the edge of their seats .
112 Angry Men
Sidney Lumet, 1957
Adapted from Reginald Rose ’s teleplay of the same name,12 Angry Menrevolves around 12 juror attempt to specify whether they should convict or bear a adolescent charge of execution on the footing of reasonable dubiousness . There ’s nothing exciting or cinematic about serving on a tangible panel , but director Sidney Lumet and his star - studded cast – led by Henry Fonda and Lee J. Cobb – make it seem like an emotional rollercoaster.12 Angry Men ’s piercing writing and faultless acting make it a timeless gemthat still hold up today .
