sometimes less can mean so much more
Lily Lily please call the cops send them
to the Dolphin Hotel welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 movies
that take place in one room but I’ve got
nothing to offer them in return no I
think you have plenty to offer Dom for
this list we’ve chosen movies that use a
single room setting for most of their
duration movies where a room is the
setting for half the duration or less
like the aptly named room are
unfortunately not included there’s room
in our space with all the TV planets
then heaven also the settings must be
literal rooms so if you want to see Ryan
Reynolds trapped in a coffin
check out our list of the top 10
claustrophobic movies American
convertible no I can’t breathe please
get me out of here
good oh yeah yeah get me out hear me out
please help number 10 saw most people
are so ungrateful to be alive but not
you not anymore
the highly saturated saw franchise had a
very humble beginning made on a
shoestring budget and primarily set in a
single bathroom the original film gave
horror a new identity yeah doesn’t want
us to cut through a change he wants us
to cut through saw features two men Cary
Elwes and Leigh Whannell who find
themselves chained between a corpse in
an unknown location neither knows how or
why they’re there and only once jigsaw
voices heard do they know they’re being
played and the game is not fun hello
mark
I want to play a game the plot takes
several unbelievable turns as the men
are pitted against death and each other
in jigsaws deranged social experiment
but the action remains relatively
confined to a single spot number 9 the
man from earth is everywhere we just
can’t see him
the man from Earth is a low-budget
direct-to-video movie and for all
intents and purposes it should not have
been good obviously you have something
would like to say say it instead the
film was pulled from obscurity and
passed around becoming a cult classic
that’s revered for its original plot and
mesmerizing dialogue I don’t have eyes
in the back of my head I can’t hear flea
walking I am not in any way Superman the
movie concerns a group of professors who
throw a goodbye party for their
colleague at his cabin unaware that the
colleague harbors an incredible secret
is that what they’re after eat it
oh stop Harry it shot entirely in the
living room of the cabin and the
suspense resides solely in the
unraveling of the revelation the Hobie C
times landscape existing before behind
us and we move we move through it slice
by slice based on Jerome Bixby
screenplay
it is a masterpiece on the importance of
writing that’s a secret we’d all love
dev number 8 The Breakfast Club it what
was that
eat my shorts you movies captured the
troubles of teenage life better than The
Breakfast Club and how could it not
every high school clique is represented
in this John Hughes classic as five
vastly different students served the
same detention period it is now seven oh
six you have exactly eight hours and 54
minutes to think about why to ponder the
error of your ways most of the film
takes place in the school library where
the reticent kids start warming up to
each other and slowly divulge the
intricacies of their lives what would
your friends say if we were walking down
the hall together they’d laugh their
asses off and you probably tell them
that you’re doing it with me so they’d
forgive you for being seamless don’t you
ever talk about my friend through this
development they realize they’re all
quite similar and it’s merely the social
hierarchy that keeps them from being
friends if you’re letting me there’s
someone for every person to relate to
which is why The Breakfast Club is so
beloved then we’re all pretty bizarre
some of us are just better at hiding it
that’s all number seven 14:08 my only
condition is that you do not stay in
that name based on a Stephen King story
this film about a haunted hotel room was
a critical and financial success how
many people slept in that bed before you
how many of them were sick how many of
them lost our minds
many of them died number 1408 of the
Dolphin Hotel caused the mysterious
deaths of many occupants which leads a
horror writer named Mike Enslin played
by John Cusack to investigate it from
all I heard was six scranton five I
think I see the pattern he decides to
spend the night in the room
ignoring the pleas and warnings from the
hotel’s manager what follows is a
disturbing journey through Mike’s own
personal hell as the room warps his
sense of reality something should happen
– I wanted to be known that it was an
accident
Rome
did not win almost the entire movie
takes place in room 1408 even the scenes
that don’t if you’ve seen the movie you
know what we’re talking about this room
is number 6 tape o argued stranger every
year set in a motel room in real time
tape stars ethan hawke Robert Sean
Leonard and uma Thurman and is directed
by the always trippy Richard Linklater
people change and of having nothing to
say to each other even if they were best
friends a year before the film was shot
on camcorder and revolves around three
former friends who talk in detail about
their high school years we’ve come a
long way since I don’t know high school
you know the Michigan motel room makes
for an intimate setting and the dialogue
is just as intimate as the 20-somethings
reminisce about their interconnected
lives so Vincent what do you want to me
yeah much I completely just call me like
that out of blue this morning then a
bomb drops and things get dark very
quickly I was totally in love with you
that night did you love me Linklater a
dialogue wizard creates such a natural
exchange that it’s hard to believe we’re
watching a movie and the brilliant
acting and tight setting are equally
responsible so I thought you would
appreciate well I don’t well why not
number five my dinner with Andre we
can’t be direct so we end up saying the
weirdest things my dinner with Andre is
a conversation between two people at a
restaurant that’s it you know as Bose
you’re going through some kind of Hell
in your own life well you would love to
know if your friends have experienced
similar things we just don’t dare to ask
each other no it’d be like asking your
friend to drop his roll the film stars
wallace shawn and andre gregory who also
wrote the screenplay in a performance
that walks the line between acting and
reality the exchange is scripted however
and the scenes are properly directed our
minds are just focused on these goals
and
which in themselves not reality no goals
and plans are not I mean they’re their
fantasy they’re part of a dream life
while the subject of performance art is
one that is broached in the nearly
two-hour conversation many others are
discussed ranging from electric blankets
to the meaning of life life becomes
habitual and it is today the dining
table is the only true setting which
allows the dialogue primary focus the
stripping of films habitual conventions
makes this one room film one of the most
unique viewing experiences and there
were enzyme adequate to do any sort of a
task um but I’m not adequate just to to
to be a human being
number four rear-window intelligence
nothing has caused the human race so
much trouble as intelligence Alfred
Hitchcock was known for making a lot out
of a little using high concept ideas and
low concept settings and rear window is
the very definition of that wish I could
be creative well sweetie you are you
have a great talent for creating
difficult situation often considered the
peak of Hitchcock’s filmmaking career
rear window tells the story of a peeping
tom an immobile man played by James
Stewart who spends considerable time
watching people from his apartment but
it’s not perversion that motivates the
man it’s murder
why why would a man leave his apartment
three times on a rainy night with a
suitcase and come back three times he
speculates that his neighbor committed a
crime and the rabbit hole gets deeper as
he continues to watch and unfold the
narrative from his wheelchair
the rear window room is the film’s
primary setting and the peeping-tom
concept has inspired countless
adaptations including 2007’s disturbia
that wasn’t me
wrong guy wrong house wrong wrong just
wrong number three Reservoir Dogs I got
the diamonds
said to be The Godfather of independent
cinema 1992’s Reservoir Dogs displayed
the talent of a new filmmaker named
Quentin Tarantino with the possible
exception of Pulp Fiction Reservoir Dogs
is considered Tarantino’s best work due
to its intricate plot that blends comedy
drama and/or seamlessly
what poor Yusei
well considering that torture scene yes
hey what’s going on centered on a heist
Reservoir Dogs is also notable for not
showing the heist itself it only deals
with the fallout of the botched
excursion as the criminals meet back at
the warehouse why can’t we pick our own
colors no way no way try to once it
doesn’t work
you get full guys well fighting over
who’s gonna be mr. black this empty
warehouse is the setting for most of the
film and spurred Tarantino’s single
setting fascination which was perfected
in the hateful eight that Sun comes out
I’m taking this woman into Red Rock to
hang number two rope good and evil right
and wrong were invented for the ordinary
average man the inferior man because he
needs them Hitchcock does it again in
rope which is a more faithful adherence
to the single-room concept you never
nervous ago I used to be quite a bit we
all do strange things in our childhood
along with its minimalist setting the
film was innovative for its real-time
pacing and long take approach nearly 70
years before Birdman applied the same
techniques you are not doing this for
the sake of art you are doing this
because you want to feel relevant again
rope is about to university students who
kill their classmate and host a dinner
party to test the strength of the crime
it’s like a pretty small farewell party
oh well we’re really killing two birds
with one stone
the rise in suspense is masterful as
Hitchcock unveils the perfect crime with
the perfect narrative and cements rope
as one of the genres best nobody commits
a murder just for the experiment of
committing it nobody except us before we
unveil our number one pick here are some
honorable mentions beautiful binoculars
are something they stopped to study here
solo indeed I will put this a factor I
ain’t a doubter but I am questioner
what’s the difference a questioner
most the truth a doubter won’t be total
ain’t no such thing let’s get out of
here Alan these people are monsters oh
stop it Nancy no no no I I want to drink
some more I want to get drunk off my ass
what are you done why they said – yeah
well that’s just it I don’t know in fact
I’m wondering if there hasn’t been some
terrible mistake number one 12 Angry Men
you’re faced with a grave responsibility
thank you gentlemen
maybe the greatest dialogue-driven movie
of all time 12 Angry Men is a masterful
example of storytelling based on a
teleplay by Reginald Rose it introduces
12 jurors who are tasked with
determining the fate of a man on trial
for murder I can’t see two slaps in the
face provoking him into committing
murder it may have been two too many
everyone has a breaking point the jurors
have to prove beyond reasonable doubt
that the man is guilty or innocent based
on the evidence presented in court what
do you want I say is guilty you want to
hear your arguments I gave you my
argument set almost entirely in the
deliberation room the movie rides with
suspense intrigue and climax through
nothing but conversation who’s got
something constructive to say I like to
go over something if you gentlemen don’t
mind heralded for its accurate portrayal
of deliberation and human nature 12
Angry Men is a Law School staple and is
among the National Film registry
selections for culturally historically
or aesthetically significant films now
listen guilty or not guilty
I told you not guilty why do you agree
with our list what’s your favorite
single room movie those awful figuring
you say more about the people in this
town in many words this is the town
then you really have a strange way of
showing for more confined top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com bye it was good
Lily Lily please call the cops send them
to the Dolphin Hotel welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 movies
that take place in one room but I’ve got
nothing to offer them in return no I
think you have plenty to offer Dom for
this list we’ve chosen movies that use a
single room setting for most of their
duration movies where a room is the
setting for half the duration or less
like the aptly named room are
unfortunately not included there’s room
in our space with all the TV planets
then heaven also the settings must be
literal rooms so if you want to see Ryan
Reynolds trapped in a coffin
check out our list of the top 10
claustrophobic movies American
convertible no I can’t breathe please
get me out of here
good oh yeah yeah get me out hear me out
please help number 10 saw most people
are so ungrateful to be alive but not
you not anymore
the highly saturated saw franchise had a
very humble beginning made on a
shoestring budget and primarily set in a
single bathroom the original film gave
horror a new identity yeah doesn’t want
us to cut through a change he wants us
to cut through saw features two men Cary
Elwes and Leigh Whannell who find
themselves chained between a corpse in
an unknown location neither knows how or
why they’re there and only once jigsaw
voices heard do they know they’re being
played and the game is not fun hello
mark
I want to play a game the plot takes
several unbelievable turns as the men
are pitted against death and each other
in jigsaws deranged social experiment
but the action remains relatively
confined to a single spot number 9 the
man from earth is everywhere we just
can’t see him
the man from Earth is a low-budget
direct-to-video movie and for all
intents and purposes it should not have
been good obviously you have something
would like to say say it instead the
film was pulled from obscurity and
passed around becoming a cult classic
that’s revered for its original plot and
mesmerizing dialogue I don’t have eyes
in the back of my head I can’t hear flea
walking I am not in any way Superman the
movie concerns a group of professors who
throw a goodbye party for their
colleague at his cabin unaware that the
colleague harbors an incredible secret
is that what they’re after eat it
oh stop Harry it shot entirely in the
living room of the cabin and the
suspense resides solely in the
unraveling of the revelation the Hobie C
times landscape existing before behind
us and we move we move through it slice
by slice based on Jerome Bixby
screenplay
it is a masterpiece on the importance of
writing that’s a secret we’d all love
dev number 8 The Breakfast Club it what
was that
eat my shorts you movies captured the
troubles of teenage life better than The
Breakfast Club and how could it not
every high school clique is represented
in this John Hughes classic as five
vastly different students served the
same detention period it is now seven oh
six you have exactly eight hours and 54
minutes to think about why to ponder the
error of your ways most of the film
takes place in the school library where
the reticent kids start warming up to
each other and slowly divulge the
intricacies of their lives what would
your friends say if we were walking down
the hall together they’d laugh their
asses off and you probably tell them
that you’re doing it with me so they’d
forgive you for being seamless don’t you
ever talk about my friend through this
development they realize they’re all
quite similar and it’s merely the social
hierarchy that keeps them from being
friends if you’re letting me there’s
someone for every person to relate to
which is why The Breakfast Club is so
beloved then we’re all pretty bizarre
some of us are just better at hiding it
that’s all number seven 14:08 my only
condition is that you do not stay in
that name based on a Stephen King story
this film about a haunted hotel room was
a critical and financial success how
many people slept in that bed before you
how many of them were sick how many of
them lost our minds
many of them died number 1408 of the
Dolphin Hotel caused the mysterious
deaths of many occupants which leads a
horror writer named Mike Enslin played
by John Cusack to investigate it from
all I heard was six scranton five I
think I see the pattern he decides to
spend the night in the room
ignoring the pleas and warnings from the
hotel’s manager what follows is a
disturbing journey through Mike’s own
personal hell as the room warps his
sense of reality something should happen
– I wanted to be known that it was an
accident
Rome
did not win almost the entire movie
takes place in room 1408 even the scenes
that don’t if you’ve seen the movie you
know what we’re talking about this room
is number 6 tape o argued stranger every
year set in a motel room in real time
tape stars ethan hawke Robert Sean
Leonard and uma Thurman and is directed
by the always trippy Richard Linklater
people change and of having nothing to
say to each other even if they were best
friends a year before the film was shot
on camcorder and revolves around three
former friends who talk in detail about
their high school years we’ve come a
long way since I don’t know high school
you know the Michigan motel room makes
for an intimate setting and the dialogue
is just as intimate as the 20-somethings
reminisce about their interconnected
lives so Vincent what do you want to me
yeah much I completely just call me like
that out of blue this morning then a
bomb drops and things get dark very
quickly I was totally in love with you
that night did you love me Linklater a
dialogue wizard creates such a natural
exchange that it’s hard to believe we’re
watching a movie and the brilliant
acting and tight setting are equally
responsible so I thought you would
appreciate well I don’t well why not
number five my dinner with Andre we
can’t be direct so we end up saying the
weirdest things my dinner with Andre is
a conversation between two people at a
restaurant that’s it you know as Bose
you’re going through some kind of Hell
in your own life well you would love to
know if your friends have experienced
similar things we just don’t dare to ask
each other no it’d be like asking your
friend to drop his roll the film stars
wallace shawn and andre gregory who also
wrote the screenplay in a performance
that walks the line between acting and
reality the exchange is scripted however
and the scenes are properly directed our
minds are just focused on these goals
and
which in themselves not reality no goals
and plans are not I mean they’re their
fantasy they’re part of a dream life
while the subject of performance art is
one that is broached in the nearly
two-hour conversation many others are
discussed ranging from electric blankets
to the meaning of life life becomes
habitual and it is today the dining
table is the only true setting which
allows the dialogue primary focus the
stripping of films habitual conventions
makes this one room film one of the most
unique viewing experiences and there
were enzyme adequate to do any sort of a
task um but I’m not adequate just to to
to be a human being
number four rear-window intelligence
nothing has caused the human race so
much trouble as intelligence Alfred
Hitchcock was known for making a lot out
of a little using high concept ideas and
low concept settings and rear window is
the very definition of that wish I could
be creative well sweetie you are you
have a great talent for creating
difficult situation often considered the
peak of Hitchcock’s filmmaking career
rear window tells the story of a peeping
tom an immobile man played by James
Stewart who spends considerable time
watching people from his apartment but
it’s not perversion that motivates the
man it’s murder
why why would a man leave his apartment
three times on a rainy night with a
suitcase and come back three times he
speculates that his neighbor committed a
crime and the rabbit hole gets deeper as
he continues to watch and unfold the
narrative from his wheelchair
the rear window room is the film’s
primary setting and the peeping-tom
concept has inspired countless
adaptations including 2007’s disturbia
that wasn’t me
wrong guy wrong house wrong wrong just
wrong number three Reservoir Dogs I got
the diamonds
said to be The Godfather of independent
cinema 1992’s Reservoir Dogs displayed
the talent of a new filmmaker named
Quentin Tarantino with the possible
exception of Pulp Fiction Reservoir Dogs
is considered Tarantino’s best work due
to its intricate plot that blends comedy
drama and/or seamlessly
what poor Yusei
well considering that torture scene yes
hey what’s going on centered on a heist
Reservoir Dogs is also notable for not
showing the heist itself it only deals
with the fallout of the botched
excursion as the criminals meet back at
the warehouse why can’t we pick our own
colors no way no way try to once it
doesn’t work
you get full guys well fighting over
who’s gonna be mr. black this empty
warehouse is the setting for most of the
film and spurred Tarantino’s single
setting fascination which was perfected
in the hateful eight that Sun comes out
I’m taking this woman into Red Rock to
hang number two rope good and evil right
and wrong were invented for the ordinary
average man the inferior man because he
needs them Hitchcock does it again in
rope which is a more faithful adherence
to the single-room concept you never
nervous ago I used to be quite a bit we
all do strange things in our childhood
along with its minimalist setting the
film was innovative for its real-time
pacing and long take approach nearly 70
years before Birdman applied the same
techniques you are not doing this for
the sake of art you are doing this
because you want to feel relevant again
rope is about to university students who
kill their classmate and host a dinner
party to test the strength of the crime
it’s like a pretty small farewell party
oh well we’re really killing two birds
with one stone
the rise in suspense is masterful as
Hitchcock unveils the perfect crime with
the perfect narrative and cements rope
as one of the genres best nobody commits
a murder just for the experiment of
committing it nobody except us before we
unveil our number one pick here are some
honorable mentions beautiful binoculars
are something they stopped to study here
solo indeed I will put this a factor I
ain’t a doubter but I am questioner
what’s the difference a questioner
most the truth a doubter won’t be total
ain’t no such thing let’s get out of
here Alan these people are monsters oh
stop it Nancy no no no I I want to drink
some more I want to get drunk off my ass
what are you done why they said – yeah
well that’s just it I don’t know in fact
I’m wondering if there hasn’t been some
terrible mistake number one 12 Angry Men
you’re faced with a grave responsibility
thank you gentlemen
maybe the greatest dialogue-driven movie
of all time 12 Angry Men is a masterful
example of storytelling based on a
teleplay by Reginald Rose it introduces
12 jurors who are tasked with
determining the fate of a man on trial
for murder I can’t see two slaps in the
face provoking him into committing
murder it may have been two too many
everyone has a breaking point the jurors
have to prove beyond reasonable doubt
that the man is guilty or innocent based
on the evidence presented in court what
do you want I say is guilty you want to
hear your arguments I gave you my
argument set almost entirely in the
deliberation room the movie rides with
suspense intrigue and climax through
nothing but conversation who’s got
something constructive to say I like to
go over something if you gentlemen don’t
mind heralded for its accurate portrayal
of deliberation and human nature 12
Angry Men is a Law School staple and is
among the National Film registry
selections for culturally historically
or aesthetically significant films now
listen guilty or not guilty
I told you not guilty why do you agree
with our list what’s your favorite
single room movie those awful figuring
you say more about the people in this
town in many words this is the town
then you really have a strange way of
showing for more confined top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com bye it was good
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