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Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
44 films tagged one night
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1995 · Romance
A young American and a young French woman meet on a train and get off together in Vienna, with one night before his flight. That is the whole film: two people walking around a city, talking.
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2025 · Mystery
A widowed therapist goes on her first date in years, at a restaurant on the top floor of a tower, and starts getting anonymous messages from someone who has to be in the room. Nearly all of it is that one table, over one evening.
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Little-known
2025 · Horror
In 1988 an outcast at Shadyside High signs up to run for prom queen against the popular clique, and a masked killer starts working through the candidates. A straight-ahead slasher, most of it on prom night.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
A burned-out paramedic finally gets the office job he applied for, and has to work one last 24-hour shift with his partner and a student riding along. The night runs from funny to awful, call by call.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
An ex-cop working as a mob henchman takes one last job, it goes wrong, and he has a single night to get his wife and children out of the city. Waves of attackers, with jokes in between.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
Two men meet by chance in a London pub on a cold December night and end up spending the whole of it together, talking. A two-hander across one night, with both of them in a bad way.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
A sex worker learns a curse can be lifted for a thousand dollars and a lamb, and sets off across a junk-strewn city on her moped to raise it. One long night of strange encounters, one after another.
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2004 · Romance
Nine years after one night in Vienna, a writer on a book tour runs into her again in a Paris bookshop, and they have the afternoon before his flight. One long walk and one long conversation.
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Little-known
2025 · Crime
A woman working every job she can get in Portland has one night to replace the $25,000 she had saved to buy the house she shares with her mother and brother. One night, and it gets uglier as it goes.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
Two friends in Los Angeles find their rent money gone and have until six in the evening to come up with $1,500 or lose the apartment. One long day, one bad idea after another, played for laughs.
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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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Little-known
2025 · Drama
In a SoHo apartment in 1974, the photographer Peter Hujar sits on a couch and tells a writer everything he did the day before while her tape recorder runs. Two people, one room, 76 minutes of talk.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
An eighteen-year-old promoter in 1975 Cologne talks her way past her conservative parents and a run of near-disasters to put a Keith Jarrett concert on. It is a true story about getting one night to happen.
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2019 · Comedy
Two straight-A students find out the night before graduation that the classmates they looked down on got into the same colleges, so they cram four years of fun into one evening. It is one long night, mostly the two of them talking.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
Two young brothers talk their often-absent father into taking them along to Lagos for the day, on the day of Nigeria's 1993 election. Mostly walking, talking and small stops around the city.
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2026 · Comedy
A couple whose marriage is going badly have the upstairs neighbours over for dinner, mostly because they can hear them having sex through the ceiling. It is one evening in one apartment, four people talking.
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Little-known
2026 · Comedy
Sex outside marriage is illegal except for one night a year, and two strangers keep crossing paths across that night. He meant to propose to someone else; she meant to find a connection worth having.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2026 · Comedy
Two college roommates take an experimental drug, learn the hallucinations only stop if they eat, and set out across the dorm for the pizza they ordered. One night, one building, and a run of very silly trials.
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2008 · Science fiction
A going-away party in Manhattan is cut short by something very large coming ashore, and the whole night is filmed on one guest's camcorder. Short, shaky and more or less in real time.
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2004 · Thriller
A Los Angeles cab driver picks up a smooth passenger who offers good money for a night of stops around the city, and the first stop goes badly. It is one night, mostly the two of them in the car.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
A hitman hiding out in Los Angeles is offered safe passage home if he can turn his boss's awkward son into a man, starting tonight, on a job. The two of them spend one night getting it very wrong.
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2007 · Comedy
Two best friends about to leave for different colleges try to buy drink for a party, mostly so the night will mean something. The plan rests on a fake ID with one name on it.
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2013 · Drama
New Year's Eve in Oakland, and a twenty-two-year-old runs errands, picks up his daughter and tries to sort his life out. Based on real events, shot close and small, staying with one man hour by hour.
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2018 · Comedy
A couple who take their weekly game night seriously turn up for a murder-mystery party thrown by his brother, and the fake kidnapping goes wrong. It runs fast and is played for laughs throughout.
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2017 · Crime
After a bank job goes wrong, a man spends one night crossing Queens trying to get his brother out of custody, and every fix he tries makes it worse. It never stops moving and the music sits right on top of you.
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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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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
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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2020 · Comedy
Two guests at a wedding in the desert find themselves living the same day over and over, with no way out and no reason to behave. Fast, silly, and it explains itself early.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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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 · 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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2025 · Horror
Twin brothers come home to the Mississippi Delta in 1932 and open a juke joint in an old mill, and opening night brings more than dancers. Half of it is the day of getting ready, and the blues playing matters as much as the plot.
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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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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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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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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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2013 · Comedy
A man in his forties drags four old schoolfriends back to their hometown to finish the twelve-pub crawl they failed as teenagers, and the town is not quite as they left it. Fast, very English, jokes stacked on jokes, and it turns into a fight.
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2001 · Crime
A rookie's first day with the LAPD narcotics unit is spent in a car with a detective who has his own way of doing things. One day, mostly two men talking, and the ground keeps shifting under the new guy.
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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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Little-known
2015 · Animation
A customer-service author on a one-night work trip to Cincinnati hears every voice in the world as the same voice, until he hears one that is not. Stop-motion, adult, and mostly one hotel.
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2019 · War
Two young British soldiers are sent on foot across enemy ground to call off an attack that would walk sixteen hundred men into a trap. Shot to look like one unbroken take, so it runs at their pace.
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Little-known
2023 · Comedy
Two people freshly out of bad relationships meet at a gallery in Peckham and spend the day walking around south London. Bright, short and very funny.
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