10 Most Claustrophobic Movies Of All Time

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 71%

Set entirely in and around a New York City phone booth, this film was actually proposed as a vehicle for Jim Carrey by director Joel Schumacher, but in the end the lead role went to Colin Farrell. The Irishman put on his best NY accent to portray a cynical and self-centred public relations manager juggling a busy job, a wife, and a girlfriend. When he uses a pay phone to call the latter and answers a call from a stranger, he is told that he will be shot the second he leaves the booth.

Coming out at a time when a lot of people were still actually using public phone booths, this taut and memorable thriller took an everyday object that wouldn't normally cause sufferers of claustrophobia any problems (it has a door that you can exit through at any time, after all) and turned it into a vertical, glass coffin.

There are no mass gun-battles, no high-speed car chases, just a man with a gun threatening to kill another man if he dares move. The film amounts to an increasingly tense standoff between Farrell and Kiefer Sutherland's deranged sniper, though Schumacher manages to stretch the yarn out over 90 minutes without breaking it.