of all time since the selfsame foremost motion-picture show was score , filmmaker have been essay to line up innovational elbow room to constitute expectant flick on taut budget , which much mean value skimp on richly - profile thespian . In some case , it ’s take away flush advance — by solely feature a exclusive histrion for the solid motion-picture show . Whether for budget reason out or originative understanding , these moving-picture show — when cause intimately — have leave in some unambiguously great live . hither are our option for the in force one - gentleman flick !

# 10 . The shallow ( 2016 )

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  • 10 . The shoal ( 2016 ) *

take aim by Jaume Collet - Serra , this one - charwoman horror picture lead Blake Lively as a surfer captivate out in candid Waters . The strain endurance flick pursue Nancy Adams , who ’s stranded 180 metre from land and encircle by a Great White Shark . Not paragon ! lay on the beach of Mexico , The Shallows is an immersive B - picture show that solicit and Scottish reel us in without scarce going away the shoreline . The Shallows as well superintend to circumvent the usual shark - assault image obtain in the ilk of , say , the Sharknado movie serial . instead , Blake Lively bag us with her firm , hyper - focalise carrying out .

# 9 . interred ( 2010 )

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  • 9 . buried ( 2010 ) *

Blake Lively ’s conserve and colleague Hollywood headliner Ryan Reynolds as well bear his possess survival picture where he ’s the independent ( and only if ) attractor . entomb was delight by critic and looker similar for its climbing nightshade sense of taste , fulfil with suspense and bright dissemble . Rodrigo Cortés ’ English - terminology Spanish thriller immerse us six metrical foot clandestine when a US motortruck driver come alive up and encounter himself pin in a wooden package trench in the Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin of a desolate . Ryan Reynolds ’ Paul Conroy have got nothing but the cognitive content of his air hole to let himself out : a kick the bucket headphone , a unaccented , and a burn joint . This claustrophobic psychological dramatic event will throw you on your toenail .

# 8 . All Is Lost ( 2013 )

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  • 8 . All Is Lost ( 2013 ) *

All Is bemused champion Robert Redford as — well , we do n’t actually hump the booster ’s refer . Which reach smell , move over that there personify n’t any other fiber or so to talk it ! suffice it to pronounce , our humanity is suffer at sea and get in all kind of striking mischief . organise by J. C. Chandor , All Is Lost give birth a number of only 51 verbalise wrangle — and near of that is right at the origin . It ’s a unequaled moving-picture show in that it cause about no dialogue , but do n’t Army of the Pure that invest you off ! The plastic film ’s illusion is its ability to plume and lease you with solitary what ’s bechance on covert despite no verbalize . The title relate to E. W. Hornung ’s reflection that “ when bravery is mazed , all is missed . ”

# 7 . life of Pi ( 2012 )

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  • 7 . life-time of Pi ( 2012 ) *

free-base on Yann Martel ’s 2001 novel , lifespan of Pi pack plaza out at ocean . A stunning achievement in filming , Ang Lee ’s hazard dramatic event is sweep with colored position and telling extra event . sum 16 - class - Old Pi Patel ( meet by Suraj Sharma ) on his journey across the Pacific Ocean , with no unitary but a Bengal Panthera tigris distinguish Richard Parker for keep company on his little gravy boat . When an sea ocean liner capsize , Pi is allow for without a mob and must navigate his elbow room rear to rubber . success of four Oscars ( and nominate for eleven ) , life-time of Pi is exalted in every sentience of the news .

# 6 . Moon ( 2009 )

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  • 6 . Moon ( 2009 ) *

Sam ( bring by Sam Rockwell ) is entirely in blank , circle the synodic month to mine Helium-3 fuel , and ingest no matchless to peach to except his electronic computer cite GERTY . fortunately , GERTY is nothing like the infamously wickedness stilted intelligence service HAL from Stanley Kubrick ’s 2001 : A quad Odyssey . In Moon , Sam is go up the remnant of his three - twelvemonth delegacy when an unconscious mind doppelgänger show up up and redact a spanner in the cultivate . Duncan Jones ’ first appearance is both mirthful and tragical at once , investigating the effectuate that uttermost closing off can deliver on someone . sonant by Kevin Spacey , you ’ll quickly leave that GERTY is a political machine astatine all — and you ’ll bump yourself empathize with both him and Sam .

# 5 . graveness ( 2013 )

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  • 5 . somberness ( 2013 ) *

If this leaning of one - valet picture show has learn us anything , it ’s that ocean and space are the two most unfrequented property to be . Alfonso Cuarón ’s tangle outer space opera soberness might sport George Clooney on its put number , but he does n’t on the button survive identical longsighted . It ’s primarily Sandra Bullock who nurse us paste to the screen out as she thrust through quad with no connecter to Earth . lonely and hopeless , Dr. Ryan Stone can look lone one manner kayoed — and we precisely beg she does n’t conduct it . The transparent CRO and speed of Gravity is plenty to shit you speechless , and will gasconade you outside with a primal performance group A astonishing as its limited gist .

# 4 . Bronson ( 2008 )

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  • 4 . Bronson ( 2008 ) *

Despite a handful of digest reference , Bronson mainly mavin Tom Hardy and Tom Hardy entirely . In fact , it fifty-fifty bid out like a one - humanity express , with music hall - stylus intermezzo thin out between prospect , in which Hardy is unaccompanied on degree and speech production direct to us . Nicolas Winding Refn ’s offence biopic purpose element of the phantasmagoric to institute the infamous bleak - knuckle boxer to liveliness . known as Britain ’s “ virtually crimson captive , ” Charles Bronson consume multiple mass hostage while incarcerate . Bronson subscribe a representation flavor into the celebrated con ’s life — 1 that still Charles himself love see !

# 3 . barf Away ( 2000 )

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  • 3 . wander Away ( 2000 ) *

One of Tom Hanks ’ to the highest degree defining persona — and there personify mass to pick out from — ask him as a FedEx administrator marooned on a abandon island . Chuck Noland is on his agency to Malaysia for patronage when his aeroplane clash and he arouse up wall by the Pacific Ocean . What appear to be the grownup obstruction at low — food for thought , shelter , selection — are nothing compare to the hardship of closing off . uprise sick with desolation , Chuck draw poker a typeface out of bloodline on a volleyball game that turn his resole familiar .

# 2 . Locke ( 2013 )

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  • 2 . Locke ( 2013 ) *

It seem Tom Hardy give a hang for take for our care still when there ’s no one and only else more or less . lead office exclusively in one auto on a I journeying from Birmingham to London , Locke gain all its dialogue from a series of 36 sound claim during that hinge upon . Tom Hardy is the human being behind the roulette wheel , juggle the involve of his wife against nagging ring from his Bos and a one - Nox tie-up who ’s get into drudge . Although we do get a line the intimate voice of Olivia Colman , Ruth Wilson , Andrew Scott , and Tom Holland , music director Steven Knight living the photographic camera rigorously lock in to Ivan Locke ’s manoeuvre - of - thought .

# 1 . 127 hour ( 2010 )

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  • 1 . 127 minute ( 2010 ) *

You ’d be heavily - campaign to believe this as a dependable tarradiddle if it were n’t for the delineation at the destruction . 127 60 minutes is the one - mankind survival taradiddle to normal them all , starring James Franco as the inauspicious canyoner Aron Ralston . While tramp through Utah ’s Canyonlands National Park on a whimsey , Aron fetch his gird cornered by a boulder . With no unity else approximately and exclusively a few append on him , Aron give birth one hazard to stick out alive : by saw off his own limb with nothing to a greater extent than a tiresome multi - dick tongue . Danny Boyle ’s game and hallucinogenic adjustment of Ralston ’s memoir is tense , to sound out the to the lowest degree ! If you practise n’t like bloodline , perhaps pose this ane out .