43 One-Location Movies Holding You On The Edge Of Your Seat

 

 

After the world froze over, a handful of survivors continue living aboard a train that never stops. But even here, wealth and social class are the main driving factors for a lot of things. Following the uprising of the lower class, led by a young man named Curtis, the story deals with the issues of climate change and class… never once leaving the train. 

 

 

Confined to the space of the protagonist’s bedroom, the film unravels her relationships with men as well as with the women who are there with her in the bedroom.

 

 

A crime fiction writer and a businessman try to outsmart each other to settle the score, but in this deadly game of cat and mouse that is mainly confined to the writer’s mansion, there are no winners.

 

 

New York cop John McClane finds himself in Nakatomi Plaza during his wife’s corporate Christmas party. It is on the same very day that a group of terrorists decide to take over the building. In his mission to save everyone, McClane is alone, but now he’s got a machine gun… ho ho ho!

 

 

Four rooms, four different tenants, four separate stories. One hotel and one bellboy during an unusually eventful night. But are those stories really not connected?

 

 

This film is definitely not for those suffering from claustrophobia, as its only location is the inside of a coffin underground, while its only character is an American civilian buried alive in the desert of Iraq with only so much time to rescue himself.

 

 

Unlike many other stories that tell the tale of well-structured, utopian societies built after a catastrophe, this film, based on the novel of the same name, unravels a more unappealing — and probably more realistic — story of what would happen if a group of young boys were stranded on a deserted island, trying to survive until help arrives.

 

 

As burglars break into their house to take something that belonged to the previous owner, a mother and daughter take shelter in the panic room. Caught between the violent men and the daughter’s diabetic seizure, they need to figure out a way to survive in a room that has no other connection to the outside world.

 

 

Whoever said hotels are not exciting has definitely never looked beyond the facade. With gambling, theft, and murder all taking place within its walls, the Grand Hotel definitely exceeds the label of “exciting.”

 

 

Five inhabitants of a gloomy, claustrophobia-inducing apartment go about their lackluster lives, trying and failing to relate to each other, living through their darkest secrets and fears.

 

 

As an audio virus hits Canada, people get infected by hearing certain words in English, turning into zombies. Trapped inside a radio station, several people have to figure out how to survive.

 

 

A game night and some personal grudges, all the elements for a perfect disaster stuck in one place where people could but won’t leave. No one has to be there, but everyone is too polite to break the evening. And then suddenly even that choice is taken from them.

 

 

They say the experience of motherhood makes you rethink lots of things. Three pregnant women in a hospital ward come to understand this personally as they re-evaluate their lives.

 

 

Four inmates try to escape prison. As they decide to include the new inmate in the plan, things come to a halt, with distrust and tension growing by the minute.

 

 

When her husband brings a stranger home on a stormy night, Paulina is certain this is the man who held her captive and brutalized her for weeks back during the old regime. As fate would have it, the electricity is cut off in the house, and now the stranger has to prove his innocence to the enraged woman.

 

 

A reporter and her cameraman follow a group of firefighters into a building where an unusual infection was found, causing the residents to be quarantined. The film is presented as found footage from the reporter’s camera.

 

 

Four couples gather in a suburban house for a regular brunch when a catastrophic disaster strikes the US. Unable to leave the house, they try to survive, but secrets they kept from each other and tense relationships start surfacing.

 

 

As a woman discovers she might come into considerable money, she also discovers all the threats it involves: from spending a night in a decaying mansion to being chased by a serial killer.

 

 

As the president of the United States arrives in Colorado for his election campaign, an unexpected blizzard traps him in a random diner. At the same time, he learns that Iraq has invaded Kuwait. With no possibility of leaving the diner, the president now has to take care of the international conflict as well as confront those present at the diner.

 

 

Three people come together in a motel room to resolve the grudges they have been carrying since high school. The entire film was shot on location in real-time.