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- The Breakfast Club has been hailed as the quintessential movie of the 1980s and has landed on numerous critics and publication lists as one of the greatest films of all time.
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- Rope (1948) The oldest bottle movie on this list, Rope, was one of the best Alfred Hitchcock movies I watched while I was still in my Hitchcock phase. The setting is a single apartment, and two upper class friends have just murdered a man.
- 12 Angry Men (1957) Directed by the late, great Sidney Lumet, (His directorial debut no less! Which just goes to show that some directors can make a great movie on their very first try.)
- The Breakfast Club (1985) John Hughes’ classic, The Breakfast Club, is one of the quintessential movies of the ‘80s. Starring Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald, and Emilio Estevez, the film is about five wildly different teenagers (who may not be as different as they think), who have to spend a Saturday detention being monitored by a nasty vice-principal, played by the late Paul Gleason.
- Clue (1985) Best movie based off of a board game ever? Well, yeah, but it’s not really all that hard when your closest competition was the shameless movie, Battleship.
- 12 Buried
- 11 Clue
- 10 Locke
- 9 Carnage
- 8 Coherence
- 7 The Guilty
- 6 Conspiracy
- 5 The Breakfast Club
- 4 The Man from Earth
- 3 Rope
Ryan Reynolds stars as Paul Conroy, an abducted American truck driver in Iraq who wakes up underground in a wooden box with nothing but a knife, a lighter, and a cell phone. With only hours of oxygen, the film stays on Reynolds in the box for its entire duration as he pieces together how he got there and tries to find a way out. He receives a serie...
Set within a sprawling and secluded New England mansion in 1954, the wildly entertaining whodunit Clue is based on the beloved board game of the same name and centers on six mysterious strangers who each receive an anonymous invitation to gather for a strange dinner. When their enigmatic host winds up dead, it is up to the six guests and the conniv...
Before he was rambling to an alien in his body in Venom, Tom Hardy was a dad on a fateful car ride in Locke. Set entirely in a car and through monologues and phone calls, tense drama ensues as Ivan Locke receives notice that a woman from an extra-marital affair is going into premature labor. Choosing not to repeat the sins of his father, he drives ...
An investment banker, Nancy, and her husband Alan pay a visit to the home of the Longstreets to meet with an aspiring writer, Penelope, and her salesman husband, Michael, to discuss an incident between their two eleven-year-old sons at school. As they talk, the four parents eat and drink and gradually change their behaviors towards one another, sho...
Coherenceis an under-the-radar gem is set entirely at a dinner party between eight friends. While becoming reacquainted, a comet passes overhead and leads to a strange and unexplainable phenomenon. First, the phones crack before the power goes out, putting the friends in darkness. Next, they discover themselves, and not in a metaphorical sense. Som...
Set in an emergency response call center, this Danish thriller follows Asger as he works through his last day on dispatch duty before a hearing for an on-duty incident. He takes a call from a woman who indicates that she has been abducted. Asger struggles from behind a call center desk to save the woman's life before harm can befall her or her chil...
During World War II, there was a meeting to discuss the practice and implementation of the extermination of the Jewish population in Europe. Unfortunately, there was no documentation or recording of the existence of the meeting as it was kept secret. All documentation was destroyed, except for a log of the minutes belonging to one of the attending ...
John Hughes' cherished '80s coming-of-age classic The Breakfast Club is without-a-doubt one of both the cinema's and legendary director's most celebrated and memorable films. Set at Shermer High School on March 24, 1984, the winning teen dramedy follows five vastly different students as they convene for Saturday detention, with the group described ...
The entire film primarily takes place in a single room at the home of John Oldman, a professor who claims to be ageless, having been alive for over 1,400 years. His colleagues, who had arrived for a farewell party, debate the validity of his absurd claims, which include having been born in the Paleolithic era, being a disciple of Buddha, and owning...
Adapted from a stage play of the same name, this Alfred Hitchcock classic takes place in a single apartment. It follows the attempts of two upper-class college men attempting to prove their superiority by getting away with the perfect murder. Hitchcock is known for his ability to take a single setting and turn it into a breeding ground for tension ...
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Jun 19, 2024 · Famously shot at the convenience store filmmaker Kevin Smith himself worked at in the early 1990s, Clerks fits the “bottle episode” mold, being largely confined to the two stores the main...
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- Locke (2013) Instead of a room inside a house, this brilliant British film Locke takes place all inside the confines of a BMW automobile that stars Bane himself Tom Hardy without a mask this time.
- Devil (2010) After M. Night Shyamalan delivered films where the blowing wind kills people (The Happening), the Philadelphia filmmaker took a lot of credit for the film Devil, which was all set inside an elevator in a tall skyscraper.
- All Is Lost (2013) This beautifully shot movie all takes place inside a small fishing boat meant for one person that stars only Robert Redford as he tries to survive without food or water until he is rescued.
- 12 Angry Men (1957) At the time, only Sidney Lumet could bring this fantastic stage play to the big screen and still evoke the character development and intense drama that goes inside this courthouse office in 12 Angry Men.
Bottle movies are movies that entirely (or the vast majority) play out in a small space (e.g. a room, a car, meth lab, etc.)
My understanding of what qualifies as a bottle film has widened somewhat over the years, and I've never seen a really comprehensive list of the best films in this genre. So I wanted to try and make one, and see if anybody has some good ones to add to it. (no particular order, personal bests in bold) Man From Earth. 12 Angry Men.
Sep 16, 2023 · Have you ever heard the term “bottle movie”? It’s not quite what it sounds like — i.e. a movie so bad you have to drink through it or possibly one where all the characters have been shrunk down and stuffed in a bottle like a ship, which admittedly seems very specific for a whole genre.
