10 Best Films Set In Just One Location

1954 was definitely the year that Alfred Hitchcock developed agoraphobia and claustrophobia or rather that's what his characters seemed to develop as 1954 saw both Dial M for Murder and Rear Window as the director's two releases from that year and both feature one setting.

The plot of Rear Window is the adventurous photographer LB Jeffries who is forced to endure a fate worse than death... staying inside thanks to a broken leg while the sun beats down on the earth below during a heat wave.

James Stewart plays the bed-ridden Jeffries who uncovers a murder plot in an apartment across from the complex he lives in. While his socialite girlfriend Lisa has to investigate on his behalf, Jeffries uses his trusty camera to catalogue evidence along the way.

Rear Window is a lot funnier than some of Hitchcock's other films, showing the more voyeuristic lifestyle of the bedridden Jeffries and some of the stranger things that people get up to when they think no one's watching, like lowering a dog in a basket.

The entire set of the Greenwich Village apartment complex was built on site at Paramount Studios where set designers Hal Pereira and Joseph MacMillan Johnson spent a full six weeks building the hugely complex set, which ended up being the largest of its kind at Paramount. In fact, the set even had its own drainage system for the rain sequences.

The film has been parodied the world over, including a memorable episode of The Simpsons, but it's also used as one of the staples of anyone looking to take on their own one setting film.