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8 Great Movies That Are Set (Almost) Entirely In A Single Room

In Lenny Abrahamson's Room, a mother and her son are kept captive inside 'Room' - actually a garden shed behind the house of 'Old Nick', the disturbed man who keeps them locked in and fed. It's a bold concept, and one that director Abrahamson must have been mad or overly-ambitious (or both) to take on. And yet the ambition paid off, as Room is drawing rave reviews from critics, some of whom see it as an Oscar contender.

Brogan Morris Oct 23, 2015 9:16 am2018-03-09T23:33:44-05:00

1) Rear Window

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Hitchcock again, proving he was surely the master of the single location movie. (Along with Rear Window and Rope, Hitch also made Lifeboat, a film set entirely on a raft escaping a sinking wartime ship. You’d think his obligatory cameo would be impossible to fit into that one, but nope, he manages it.) So good it might just be Hitchcock’s best, Rear Window is also the finest example of a single location, one-room movie.

Holed up in his apartment following a work-related accident, LB Jefferies (James Stewart) takes to spying on his neighbors as a way of passing the time until his broken leg heals. Looking through his window-perched binoculars one day, he witnesses what appears to be a murder – leading to all sorts of typically tension-filled hijinks from Hitchcock, and the sight of Jimmy Stewart losing his mind with paranoiac panic.

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