Best One Location Movies

Top 10 Movies Based In One Location

Don't go anywhere...

Here's the premise for Ryan Reynolds' latest movie, Buried: Ryan Reynolds is buried. That's pretty much it. Okay, there's a little more to it than that: his Iraq war contractor wakes up to find himself six-feet under in a small coffin with only a mobile phone, a lighter and a torch for company. 

For filmmakers, the movie set entirely in one location is the ultimate challenge; the appeal of films like Buried isn't the characters or even the story, but exactly how such a simple premise can be spun out to feature length. 

They're dubbed 'claustrocore' movies, and there are an increasingly large number of similar, 'Holy crap we're trapped in a blank'-type films on the horizon, we've recently had Devil set in a lift, and then there's Frozen set on a stairlift coming soon, but this is not a new trend by any means. 

So, as Reynolds begins scrabbling his way to freedom and hopes he won't end up as worm food, we've rounded up the ten greatest movies – in no particular order – set mainly in one location only. We'll allow a couple of establishing shots here and there, but these characters are going nowhere for now... 

PANIC ROOM (2002)

Unsurprisingly set in a hi-tech panic room (if there wasn't a room and at least a little panic, we'd be on the phone to Trading Standards), this is David Fincher flexing his muscles: he didn't need to make this movie, but wanted to show he could anyway. Jodie Foster and a young Kristen Stewart are the mother and daughter holed up in an expensive, oversized coffin, while Forest Whitaker and his cronies attempt to infiltrate the impenetrable. Fincher, meanwhile, swings his camera up and down stairs, in and out of air vents, and at one point, through the handle of a coffee pot for absolutely no reason. Pfft. Show off. 

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