Single-Location Movies
Kinora's catalogue lists 104 films set in a single location, spanning 1928–2025. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.
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- 2007
[REC]
Urbandir. Jaume Balagueró - 1957
12 Angry Men
Urbandir. Sidney Lumet - 2010
127 Hours
Wilderness · Desert · Undergrounddir. Danny Boyle - 1956
A Man Escaped
Urbandir. Robert Bresson - 1977
A Special Day
Urbandir. Ettore Scola - 1951
A Streetcar Named Desire
Urbandir. Elia Kazan - 1979
Alien
Off Worlddir. Ridley Scott - 1945
And Then There Were None
Islanddir. René Clair - 1944
Arsenic and Old Lace
Urbandir. Frank Capra - 1976
Assault on Precinct 13
Urbandir. John Carpenter - 1974
Black Christmas
Urbandir. Bob Clark - 1996
Bound
Urbandir. Lilly Wachowski - 2025
Bugonia
Rural · Urbandir. Yorgos Lanthimos - 1958
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Ruraldir. Richard Brooks - 2009
Cell 211
dir. Daniel Monzón - 1962
Cléo from 5 to 7
Urbandir. Agnès Varda - 1994
Clerks
Suburbandir. Kevin Smith - 1985
Clue
Ruraldir. Jonathan Lynn - 2024
Conclave
Urbandir. Edward Berger - 2019
Crawl
Suburbandir. Alexandre Aja - 1995
Crimson Tide
Coastal Seadir. Tony Scott - 1998
Cube
dir. Vincenzo Natali - 1978
Dawn of the Dead
Urban · Suburbandir. George A. Romero - 2004
Dawn of the Dead
Suburban · Urbandir. Zack Snyder - 1985
Day of the Dead
Underground · Wildernessdir. George A. Romero - 1991
Delicatessen
Urban · Undergrounddir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet - 1951
Detective Story
Urbandir. William Wyler - 1954
Dial M for Murder
Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1988
Die Hard
Urbandir. John McTiernan - 1975
Dog Day Afternoon
Urbandir. Sidney Lumet - 2009
Dogtooth
Ruraldir. Yorgos Lanthimos - 1979
Escape from Alcatraz
Island · Coastal Seadir. Don Siegel - 1997
Event Horizon
Off Worlddir. Paul W. S. Anderson - 1987
Evil Dead II
Wildernessdir. Sam Raimi - 2015
Ex Machina
Urbandir. Alex Garland - 1943
Five Graves to Cairo
Desertdir. Billy Wilder - 1995
Four Rooms
Urbandir. Allison Anders - 1996
From Dusk Till Dawn
Desert · Ruraldir. Robert Rodriguez - 1997
Funny Games
Ruraldir. Michael Haneke - 1992
Glengarry Glen Ross
Urbandir. James Foley - 2013
Gravity
Off Worlddir. Alfonso Cuarón - 1940
His Girl Friday
Urbandir. Howard Hawks - 1959
House on Haunted Hill
dir. William Castle - 1948
Key Largo
Island · Coastal Seadir. John Huston - 1985
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Urbandir. Héctor Babenco - 1962
Knife in the Water
dir. Roman Polanski - 2003
Kontroll
Underground · Urbandir. Nimród Antal - 1961
Last Year at Marienbad
dir. Alain Resnais - 2024
Late Night with the Devil
Urbandir. Cameron Cairnes - 1960
Le Trou
Urban · Undergrounddir. Jacques Becker - 1944
Lifeboat
Coastal Seadir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1990
Misery
Ruraldir. Rob Reiner - 1976
Murder by Death
dir. Robert Moore - 1974
Murder on the Orient Express
Mountaindir. Sidney Lumet - 1981
My Dinner with Andre
Urbandir. Louis Malle - 1989
Mystery Train
Urbandir. Jim Jarmusch - 1968
Night of the Living Dead
Ruraldir. George A. Romero - 2007
Paranormal Activity
Suburbandir. Oren Peli - 2016
Perfect Strangers
Urbandir. Paolo Genovese - 2009
Pontypool
Rural · Undergrounddir. Bruce McDonald - 1954
Rear Window
Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1992
Reservoir Dogs
Urbandir. Quentin Tarantino - 2015
Room
Suburbandir. Lenny Abrahamson - 1948
Rope
Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1958
Run Silent, Run Deep
Coastal Seadir. Robert Wise - 1975
Shivers
Suburbandir. David Cronenberg - 1963
Shock Corridor
dir. Samuel Fuller - 1972
Sleuth
Ruraldir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz - 2015
Son of Saul
Undergrounddir. László Nemes - 1953
Stalag 17
Ruraldir. Billy Wilder - 2015
The 33
Underground · Ruraldir. Patricia Riggen - 1971
The Beguiled
Ruraldir. Don Siegel - 1983
The Big Chill
Ruraldir. Lawrence Kasdan - 1985
The Breakfast Club
Suburbandir. John Hughes - 1998
The Celebration
Ruraldir. Thomas Vinterberg - 1955
The Desperate Hours
Suburbandir. William Wyler - 1959
The Diary of Anne Frank
Urbandir. George Stevens - 1998
The Dinner Game
Urbandir. Francis Veber - 1983
The Evil Dead
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Sam Raimi - 1962
The Exterminating Angel
Urbandir. Luis Buñuel - 2020
The Father
Urbandir. Florian Zeller - 2015
The Hateful Eight
Mountain · Ruraldir. Quentin Tarantino - 1981
The Inquisitor
Urbandir. Claude Miller - 1968
The Lion in Winter
Urbandir. Anthony Harvey - 2022
The Menu
Islanddir. Mark Mylod - 1952
The Narrow Margin
dir. Richard Fleischer - 1968
The Party
Suburbandir. Blake Edwards - 1928
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Urbandir. Carl Theodor Dreyer - 1998
The Quiet Family
Mountain · Wildernessdir. Kim Jee-woon - 2012
The Raid
Urbandir. Gareth Evans - 1986
The Sacrifice
Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Andrei Tarkovsky - 1940
The Shop Around the Corner
Urbandir. Ernst Lubitsch - 1976
The Tenant
Urbandir. Roman Polanski - 1982
The Thing
Wildernessdir. John Carpenter - 1951
The Thing from Another World
Wildernessdir. Christian Nyby - 1974
The Towering Inferno
Urbandir. John Guillermin - 2022
The Whale
Suburbandir. Darren Aronofsky - 1969
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Sydney Pollack - 1961
Through a Glass Darkly
Island · Coastal Seadir. Ingmar Bergman - 2016
Train to Busan
Urbandir. Yeon Sang-ho - 2014
Unfriended
Suburbandir. Levan Gabriadze - 1967
Wait Until Dark
Urbandir. Terence Young - 1966
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
dir. Mike Nichols - 1964
Zulu
Ruraldir. Cy Endfield
Frequently asked
How many movies are set in a single location?
Kinora's catalogue lists 104 films set in a single location, spanning 1928–2025.
What are some movies set in a single location?
Films set in a single location in our catalogue include [REC] (2007), 12 Angry Men (1957), 127 Hours (2010), A Man Escaped (1956), and A Special Day (1977).
What is the oldest movie set in a single location?
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) is the earliest film set in a single location in our catalogue; the most recent is Bugonia (2025).