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Nothing on this site is recommended because people liked it. Films are described by what they are (how heavy, how fast, how far from the real world), and you get the ones closest to what you asked for.
Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
63 films tagged one location, showing 50
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Little-known
2013 · Science fiction
Eight friends at a dinner party start noticing odd things the night a comet passes overhead, beginning with the phones. Almost all of it happens in one house, with the cast working from an outline.
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2010 · Thriller
Two US marshals travel to an island asylum in 1954 to find a patient who has vanished from a locked room, and a hurricane closes the way back. Nobody on the staff answers a question straight.
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2016 · Thriller
A woman wakes from a car crash in a locked underground bunker, where the man who put her there says the air outside will kill her. Nearly all of it is three people in a few small rooms.
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Little-known
2007 · Science fiction
A man spots something through binoculars behind his new house, walks into the woods to look, and ends up somewhere he cannot easily explain. Almost all of it happens on one hillside over a single afternoon.
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Little-known
2013 · Drama
A construction manager gets into his car the night before the biggest concrete pour of his career and drives to London instead, sorting out his life on the phone. One man, one car, eighty-five minutes.
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2023 · Mystery
A retired Poirot living quietly in post-war Venice is talked into sitting in on a seance at a crumbling palazzo, and the night ends with a body. Mostly one dark house, with the storm outside doing a lot of work.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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1988 · Action
A New York cop visiting his wife's office Christmas party in a Los Angeles tower is the only one out of the room when armed men take it over. He spends the night barefoot in the building's guts.
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Little-known
2012 · Drama
An elderly Paris couple, both retired music teachers, are living quietly together when the wife has a stroke and her husband takes on her care. Almost all of it happens inside their apartment.
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2017 · Mystery
A famous Belgian detective boards a train across Europe, and by morning a passenger is dead and the train is stuck in a snowdrift. Everyone on board is a suspect and nobody can leave.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2018 · Thriller
Seven strangers check into a faded hotel on the Nevada state line in 1969, none of them there for the reason they gave at the desk. It plays out room by room, in chapters, mostly at night.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2022 · Horror
A woman arrives late at night at the house she has rented in a rundown part of Detroit and finds a stranger already staying there. The first stretch is two polite people working out what to do, and it does not stay polite.
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2014 · Comedy
An actor known for playing a superhero two decades ago is directing and starring in a Broadway play, days from opening night. It is shot to look like one unbroken take and barely leaves the theatre.
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2022 · Horror
A group of rich twenty-somethings ride out a hurricane at a family mansion and start a party game where one of them is secretly the killer. Mostly one house, in the dark, with a lot of bickering.
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2025 · Science fiction
A young woman drives out with her boyfriend to a weekend at a rich friend's lake house, where the group is smaller and stranger than she expected. A handful of people in one house, and it turns nasty early.
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2024 · Thriller
The Pope dies and the cardinals are locked inside the Vatican to choose the next one, while the man running the vote keeps learning things about the candidates. Whispered talk in beautiful rooms.
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Little-known
2014 · Horror
A videographer answers an online ad and drives out to a cabin to film a stranger for a day, for a fee. It is all handheld, just the two of them, and awkward from the first minute.
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2022 · Mystery
A Belgian detective on holiday joins a wedding party cruising the Nile, where nearly everyone aboard has a reason to resent the bride. Once the boat leaves, the suspects are all in the same few rooms.
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Little-known
2017 · Drama
During the 1967 riots, police pull a group of young Black men and two women out of a motel annexe and question them through the night. The middle hour stays in that corridor and does not let up.
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2016 · Horror
Three young burglars pick a house on an emptied-out Detroit street belonging to a blind veteran who is supposed to keep cash at home. Almost all of it is one dark house and very little talking.
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2004 · War
The last days in Hitler's bunker under Berlin, watched mostly by the young woman hired to type his letters. Almost all of it is underground, in German, with the shelling going on above.
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2014 · Science fiction
A young coder wins a week at his boss's house in the mountains, where he is asked to sit with a robot and work out whether it can think. Three people, one building, and most of it is conversation.
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2016 · Drama
A Pittsburgh garbage man in the 1950s, who nearly made it as a ballplayer, holds forth in his backyard to his wife, his sons and his oldest friend. Nearly all talk, nearly all one yard, and it started as a play.
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Little-known
2015 · Horror
A broke punk band takes a late gig at a bar in the Oregon woods run by skinheads, and after the set they see something backstage they were not meant to see. Almost all of it is one building, one night, and trying to get out.
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2024 · Horror
Two young missionaries knock on the door of a polite man who says he is interested in their church, and he keeps them talking. Almost all of it is three people in one house, arguing about belief.
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Little-known
2020 · Horror
A couple who have fled South Sudan are given a rundown house on an English estate and told not to leave it while their asylum claim is decided. A haunted house film that spends as much time on the paperwork and the neighbours.
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Little-known
2023 · Drama
Three sisters who do not get on share a small New York apartment while their father is dying in the back bedroom. Almost entirely that one flat, and almost entirely the three of them talking.
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Little-known
2008 · Drama
In the Maze prison in 1981, Republican inmates refuse to wear uniforms or wash, and one of them stops eating. Barely any dialogue, one very long conversation in the middle, and a lot of time in cells.
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Little-known
2016 · Horror
A deaf writer living alone in the woods sees a masked man at her window, and he works out that she cannot hear him. Almost no dialogue, one house, eighty minutes.
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Little-known
2017 · Horror
A family lives sealed inside a house in the woods with strict rules about the doors, and then a second family asks to come in. Very quiet, very dark, and almost entirely in that house.
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2023 · Horror
A struggling late-night host books a Halloween special in 1977 with a parapsychologist and the girl she says came out of a satanic cult. Presented as the tape of that broadcast, near enough in real time.
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Little-known
2020 · Drama
A blues singer and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio on a hot afternoon in 1927 and spend most of it waiting. From a play: one building, long speeches, four musicians in a rehearsal room.
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2009 · Science fiction
A man three years into a solo contract mining the far side of the Moon, with a talking computer for company, has two weeks left before he goes home. One man, one base, and hardly anyone else in it.
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Little-known
2020 · Drama
On a night in February 1964, Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown sit together in a motel room after a title fight. From a play, and it is four men arguing in one room for most of it.
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2022 · Horror
In 1918 a young woman stuck on her family's Texas farm while her husband is away at war dreams of dancing in pictures. Bright, slow, and mostly her on the same few acres.
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2019 · Horror
A bride marries into a very rich family and learns that tradition calls for a game on the wedding night, with everyone in the house playing. One house, one night, fast and bloody and funny.
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Little-known
2007 · Horror
A late-night TV reporter and her cameraman follow a fire crew into a Barcelona apartment block, and the building is sealed off with them inside. Shot entirely as camera footage, in one place, and it is short.
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Little-known
2020 · Horror
A woman and her grown daughter drive out to the old family house when the grandmother goes missing, and she comes back with no idea where she has been. Slow, damp, and mostly three women in one house.
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Little-known
2020 · Comedy
A student turns up at a family shiva and finds her ex-girlfriend and the older man she has been seeing in the same crowded house. Seventy-eight minutes in one home, and it tightens the whole way.
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2013 · Science fiction
The last people alive circle a frozen Earth on a train that never stops, and the ones at the back decide to fight their way to the front. Each carriage is its own set piece and it only goes one way.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2011 · Science fiction
A soldier wakes in a stranger's body on a commuter train with eight minutes to find the bomber, and when the train blows up he starts again. The same carriage over and over, a little more known each time.
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2016 · Horror
A man with many personalities takes three teenage girls and locks them in a room underground, and they have to work out which of him they are talking to. Mostly a few rooms, one actor playing most of it.
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2007 · Science fiction
The sun is dying, and a crew of eight is sent out with a bomb the size of Manhattan to restart it, on the second ship to try after the first never came back. It all happens inside the ship, and it gets tense as they get closer.
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Little-known
2018 · Comedy
A general manager holds together a highway sports bar and the young women who work there through one very long day of small disasters. Almost all of it is in that one bar, across a single shift.
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2016 · Horror
A father and son who run a small-town morgue take in an unidentified body late at night and start the autopsy, and the basement gets stranger with every step. Two men, one building, most of one night.
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2014 · Horror
A widowed mother and her difficult six-year-old find a pop-up book on the shelf about a thing that visits once you know its name, and the boy stops sleeping. Almost all of it happens in one tired house.
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2013 · Horror
A family move into an old Rhode Island farmhouse in 1971, things start happening at night, and they call in a married pair of investigators. A straight haunted-house film of quiet shots and loud noises.
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2005 · Horror
Six women meet up for a caving trip in the Appalachians and drop into a system that is not on any map. Half of it is the dark and the squeeze, and then it turns into something else.
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2020 · Drama
An old man in London keeps turning down the help his daughter arranges, and the film is put together from inside his head, so rooms and faces do not stay put. Almost all of it is one flat and two or three people talking.
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2015 · Mystery
A bounty hunter and his prisoner are forced by a blizzard into a stagecoach stop in Wyoming with six strangers, at least one of whom is lying. It is three hours long, nearly all of it in one room and nearly all of it talk.
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Little-known
2015 · Thriller
A man goes to a dinner party at the house he used to live in, thrown by his ex-wife and the husband she came back from two years away with. One house, one evening, and it takes its time.
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