From 12 Angry Men to Carnage, a list of films about characters as confined as you are

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List of chamber dramas: Films about characters as confined as you are

A lot can happen inside the four walls and we are slowly realising it in this lockdown. Similarly, despite being set in a confined space, the following chamber dramas are engrossing like any other movie

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Published:10th Apr, 2020 at 3:40 PM

12 Angry Men: A film that's part of the starter kit of any new cinema fans. The 1957 classic is about 12 jurors deciding the fate of a young teen from a slum, who is accused of murder.

Rope: It is hard to choose just one from Hitchcock's limited settings film. But we have picked two of his all-time classics. Rope (1948) and...

Rear Window: An adventurous photographer fractures his leg and is confined to a wheelchair. As he spends his time observing his neighbors something sinister happens.

Carnage: Two boys get into a fight at a park. Their respective parents meet and try to solve the issue but things don't go as expected. Polanski's film stars Kate Winslet, Jodi Foster, Christoph Waltz

The Man From The Earth: An uncut gem about a professor, who confesses to his colleagues that he doesn't age and he has been living on earth for hundreds of years.

Chinese Coffee: Based on the one-act play by Ira Lewis, the film is all about an all-night conversation between a struggling writer (Al Pacino) and his friend (Jerry Orbach).

The Mist: Based on the novella of Stephen King of the same name, the 2007 monster film is about a group of people stuck in a grocery shop as a mist envelope the entire town and monsters emerge from it

Gravity: A chamber drama in space! George Clooney and Sandara Bullock are astronauts, who desperately try to return to earth after a huge mishap on space in this Alphanso Cuaron's film.

Trapped: A man locks himself in an isolated and empty high-rise building with no one to his rescue. He has to get out and elope with his girlfriend before she is married off to someone else.

Game Over: A wheel-chair bound gamer and her maid have to defend themselves from dangerous intruder and they have just three chances before the game gets over for them.

Ottha Seruppu: This one-act film stars Parthiben, who also wrote, directed, and produced it and thereby making it the first of its kind in Asia.

Shutter: A family man gets stuck in his empty shop with a prostitute he had hired. The two spend two nights and a day inside the shop when the guy's family and friends worry about his absence.