One-shot films
by inzenl | created - 28 Mar 2023 | updated - 28 Mar 2023 | PublicA one-shot film (also one-take film, single-take film, continuous shot feature film) is a full-length movie filmed in one long take by a single camera.*
This list does not contain "Yuddha Kaandam (2022)" since there is no IMDb entry for it (and the information online is very inconsistent, other than it being a one-shot)
*An exception would be Timecode, where it is four cameras
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1. Big Monday (1999)
75 min
A young man wanders through the streets of Manhattan in search of a job interview.
Director: Michael T. Rehfield | Stars: David Campbell, Mary Geralyn Cassidy, Joseph D'Alesandro, Jay Deitz
Votes: 25
2. Timecode (2000)
R | 97 min | Drama, Romance
Four frames of simultaneous action that alternately follow a smitten lesbian lover as she obsesses over her partner's dalliances and the tense goings-on of a Hollywood film production company.
Director: Mike Figgis | Stars: Jeanne Tripplehorn, Stellan Skarsgård, Salma Hayek, Xander Berkeley
Votes: 7,105 | Gross: $0.95M
3. Russian Ark (2002)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Fantasy, History
A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Sergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky
Votes: 21,823 | Gross: $0.04M
4. Sábado (2003)
65 min | Drama
"Mother" stands out on the front of her black t-shirt, "Fucker" on the back. And as angrily as these words sound when combined into a curse, is how Antonia behaves. Because she is pregnant,... See full summary »
Director: Matías Bize | Stars: Blanca Lewin, Víctor Montero, Antonia Zegers, Diego Muñoz
Votes: 303
5. PVC-1 (2007)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Thriller
Shot in real time, PVC-1 is based on the true story of a woman who is turned into a human time bomb in a bizarre act of terrorism.
Director: Spiros Stathoulopoulos | Stars: Hugo Pereira, Daniel Páez, Gilberto Ramirez, Patricia Rueda
Votes: 1,154
6. Ainda Orangotangos (2007)
81 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
The film tells the story of sixteen people in the hottest day of the year in the city of Porto Alegre.
Director: Gustavo Spolidoro | Stars: Karina Kazue, Lindon Satoru Shimizu, Artur Pinto, Kayodê Silva
Votes: 184
7. Rati Chakravyuh (2013)
106 min | Drama
On a lunar eclipse midnight, in a desolate temple, six young newlywed couples and a priestess meet after a mass wedding. They sit in a circle and talk. This their last conversation - an ... See full summary »
Director: Ashish Avikunthak | Stars: Mandira Banerjee, Trisha Baura, Joyraj Bhattacharya, Saswati Biswas
Votes: 28
8. Fish & Cat (2013)
134 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A number of students have traveled to the Caspian region in order to participate in a kite-flying event during the winter solstice. Next to their camp is a small hut occupied by three cooks who work at a nearby restaurant.
Director: Shahram Mokri | Stars: Babak Karimi, Saeed Ebrahimifar, Siavash Cheraghi Pour, Mohammad Berahmani
Votes: 2,879
9. The Sad Smell of Flesh: El Triste Olor De La Carne (2013)
Drama
Director: Cristóbal Arteaga | Stars: Alfonso Míguez, Alfredo Rodríguez, Ruth Sabucedo
Votes: 9
10. Ana Arabia (2013)
85 min | Drama
A story about the life of Sagi Dash, a legendery guitar player.
Director: Amos Gitai | Stars: Yuval Scharf, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Sarah Adler, Assi Levy
Votes: 193
11. Somebody Marry Me (2013)
98 min | Comedy, Romance
David has to get married before his father dies or he will lose his inheritance. So he post an ad online to find a wife. Finding love is just a click away.
Director: John Asher | Stars: Ray Abruzzo, Deborah Baker Jr., Marlane Barnes, Ben Begley
Votes: 94
12. Airport 2013 (2013)
100 min | Comedy
An airplane lands due to bad weather. A family, who rode on that airplane, goes through various troubles and it gets worse.
Director: Kôki Mitani | Stars: Sayaka Aoki, Toshiki Ayata, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Anna Ishibashi
Votes: 481
13. Agadam (2013)
123 min | Thriller
Awarded as the longest uncut film by Guinness World Records, Agadam is about three men who brutally murder a woman in the middle of night and bury her in an isolated place. In fact these ... See full summary »
Director: Mohamad Issack | Stars: Baskar, Srini Iyer, Sri Priyanka, Tamizh
Votes: 29
14. Victoria (II) (2015)
Not Rated | 138 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A young Spanish woman who has recently moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.
Director: Sebastian Schipper | Stars: Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Burak Yigit
Votes: 63,148
15. Anino sa likod ng buwan (2015)
120 min | Drama
The armed conflict between the Philippine military and the communist resistance at the beginning of the 1990s forms the backdrop to this study of three individuals who, for different reasons, are trying to resolve an untenable situation.
Director: Jun Lana | Stars: LJ Reyes, Adrian Alandy, Anthony Falcon
Votes: 114
16. Daksha (2015)
142 min | Drama
Daksha is an action thriller starring Duniya Vijay in the role of a commando. The whole movie has been shot in a single take of 2 hours 22 minutes and is about a terrorist attack.
Director: S. Narayan | Stars: Pankaj, Neha Patil, Bullet Prakash, Rangayana Raghu
Votes: 7
17. Paint Drying (2016)
Not Rated | 607 min | Documentary
10 hours of paint drying on a wall.
Director: Charlie Shackleton | Star: Charlie Shackleton
Votes: 1,152
18. Eight (II) (2016)
81 min | Drama
A woman suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) struggles with her morning routine of trying to get to work on time.
Director: Peter Blackburn | Stars: Jane Elizabeth Barry, Libby Munro, Cadence Parkes, Darrell Plumridge
Votes: 235
19. Immortality (2016)
145 min | Drama, Family
A portrait of six different families on a train, told in a single shot without edits, offers insight into the lives of Iranians.
Director: Mehdi Fard Ghaderi | Stars: Maral Farjad, Anahita Ne'mati, Soudabeh Beizaee, Ali Abdali
Votes: 92
20. King Dave (2016)
99 min | Drama, Thriller
Adapted from the play by Alexandre Goyette, King Dave is the story of Dave, self-proclaimed King, influence but not unconscious, told IN A SINGLE BREATH IN ONE SEQUENCE SHOT.
Director: Daniel Grou | Stars: Alexandre Goyette, Karelle Tremblay, Mylène St-Sauveur, Philippe Boutin
Votes: 512
21. Fourplay (2018)
77 min | Comedy, Drama
A story of friendship, love, marriage, secrets, and lies that unfolds between two couples in one apartment during a Sunday brunch that will affect their lives forever.
Director: Dean Matthew Ronalds | Stars: Tammy Blanchard, Bryan Greenberg, Dominic Fumusa, Emanuela Galliussi
Votes: 198 | Gross: $0.00M
22. The Wedding Party (I) (2016)
PG-13 | 112 min | Comedy, Romance
A groomsman must navigate a slew of disasters to maintain order at his best friend's wedding reception.
Director: Thane Economou | Stars: Michael Adler, Deniz Akdeniz, Molly Burnett, Meg Cionni
Votes: 226
23. One Shot - Fear Without Cut (2014)
Director: Haroon Rashid | Stars: Triyug Mantri, Shyam Thombre, Veerta
24. One Cut of the Dead (2017)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies.
Director: Shin'ichirô Ueda | Stars: Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Harumi Shuhama, Kazuaki Nagaya
Votes: 29,736
25. Watch the Sunset (2017)
82 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In a single afternoon a man comes to grips with the power of his past when his estranged family becomes tangled in its web.
Directors: Tristan Barr, Michael Gosden | Stars: Tristan Barr, Chelsea Renee Zeller, Aaron Walton, Michael Gosden
Votes: 169
26. Lost in London (I) (2017)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
Within the course of one night, Woody Harrelson finds himself in a misadventure in London that winds him up in jail.
Director: Woody Harrelson | Stars: Louisa Harland, Daniel Radcliffe, Woody Harrelson, Owen Wilson
Votes: 4,724
27. The Silent Pasture Of Sparrows (2018)
20 min | Short, Drama | Completed
This is a "single shot" movie and it is a story about a woman(Feri), her boyfriend(Sati) and a girl named Sisi. Any of these characters has a dream, Feri wants to get power, Sati wants to ... See full summary »
Director: Qmars Mootab | Stars: Sara Abedi, Saba Karimi, Saeb Karimi
Votes: 34
28. Utoya: July 22 (2018)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Thriller
A teenage girl struggles to survive and to find her younger sister during the July 2011 terrorist mass murder at a political summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utøya.
Director: Erik Poppe | Stars: Andrea Berntzen, Aleksander Holmen, Solveig Koløen Birkeland, Brede Fristad
Votes: 15,819
29. Blindsone (2018)
98 min | Drama
BLIND SPOT is a story about the grey zones in mental illness; the blind spots hard to discover, as experienced by a mother realizing her daughter struggling with far worse issues than she realized.
Director: Tuva Novotny | Stars: Pia Tjelta, Anders Baasmo, Per Frisch, Oddgeir Thune
Votes: 1,164
30. Jaalo (2018)
100 min | Thriller
Director: Araaj Keshav Giri | Stars: Muna Gauchan, Menuka Pradhan, Nirajan Pradhan, Neer Bikram Shah
31.
Tatort (1970– )
Episode:
Die Musik stirbt zuletzt
(2018)
TV-14 | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director: Dani Levy | Stars: Stefan Gubser, Delia Mayer, Hans Hollmann, Andri Schenardi
Votes: 165
32. El Amor No Puede Esperar (2019)
TV-14 | 75 min | Comedy, Romance
In a Single Take, Viri and Agustin, will realize that love always operates in unexpected ways, as in the movies.
Director: Juan Carlos Carrasco | Stars: Adal Ramones, Mónica Huarte, Jorge Adrián Espíndola, Arturo Beristáin
Votes: 46
33. Limbo (II) (2020)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
90 minutes, one take: When a young compliance manager encounters a money laundering network, her paths cross with those of an aging small-time crook, an undercover agent and a Viennese gangster boss during an illegal bare knuckle fight.
Director: Tim Dünschede | Stars: Elisa Schlott, Tilman Strauss, Martin Semmelrogge, Mathias Herrmann
Votes: 250
34. Let's Scare Julie (2019)
Not Rated | 83 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A group of teen girls set out to scare their reclusive new neighbor, but the prank turns to terror when some of them don't come back.
Director: Jud Cremata | Stars: Troy Leigh-Anne Johnson, Isabel May, Odessa A'zion, Brooke Sorenson
Votes: 1,327
35. Joyful Mystery (2021)
85 min | Drama
A couple in Kerala, India, are on their way to a doctor's clinic to confirm a suspected pregnancy. Tension builds during the ride as the two discuss their future and how to handle the changes in their lives.
Director: Don Palathara | Stars: Rima Kallingal, Jitin Puthanchery, Neeraja Rajendran
Votes: 187
36. Rendez-vous (2019)
102 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
Shot in one single take with no cuts, Rendez-vous is an original Mexican thriller about a couple who meet online.
Director: Pablo Olmos Arrayales | Stars: Antonio Alcantara, Italo Maximiliano Concha Veloz, Aaron Gomez, Markin López
Votes: 221
37. Années 20 (2021)
85 min | Drama
In a single unbroken shot, Roaring 20's gives viewers the chance not only to travel to Paris, but to live a day in the life there during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Director: Elisabeth Vogler | Stars: Vladimir Seguin, Alice de Lencquesaing, Aurore Déon, Manuel Severi
Votes: 98
38. Boiling Point (I) (2021)
R | 92 min | Drama, Thriller
Enter the relentless pressure of a restaurant kitchen as a head chef wrangles his team on the busiest day of the year.
Director: Philip Barantini | Stars: Stephen Graham, Vinette Robinson, Alice Feetham, Ray Panthaki
Votes: 42,226
39. Causality (2021)
114 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Stifling, the best compliment for a thriller, while entertaining, "Causality" is presented as a disruptive product. A psychological thriller, which is filmed in a single sequence shot, is a critique of the current justice system
Director: Marcelo Politano | Stars: Laura Novoa, Juana Viale, Esteban Bigliardi, Pablo Mónaco
Votes: 510
40. Iravin Nizhal (2022)
122 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Nandhu, a financier, journeys through the struggles of his internal guilt while searching for his mortal rival. We follow him, as if we are a reflection of his shadow, eventually leading to us to only one question...will Nandhu succeed?
Director: Parthiban Radhakrishnan | Stars: Parthiban Radhakrishnan, Brigida Saga, Master Aarav, Jai Bala
Votes: 1,954
41. Medusa Deluxe (2022)
R | 101 min | Drama, Mystery
A murder mystery set in a competitive hairdressing contest. Extravagance and excess collide, as the death of a contestant sows seeds of division in a community whose passion for hair verges on obsession.
Director: Thomas Hardiman | Stars: Luke Pasqualino, Lilit Lesser, Clare Perkins, Kayla Meikle
Votes: 1,879
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