Movies That All Happen in One Day or Less ...

By Neecey

Movies That All Happen in One Day or Less ...

Movies can cram thousands of years or a few hours into the storyline. You can live a lifetime in a movie or you can just get a snapshot of time. I’ve made a list of movies where all the action takes place in 24 hours or less.

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1

Adventures in Babysitting

This 80s classic shows you just how much trouble you can get in to in a single night when you are stuck babysitting instead of going out on a date!

Buy at: itunes.apple.com

2

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

A really tense and thrilling one day tale about a group of criminals that hi-jack a train and demand a ransom.

Buy at: itunes.apple.com

3

Dredd

In this modern remake of the classic Judge Dredd series, the famous character fights his way up a 200-story building to defeat the bad guys!

Buy at: itunes.apple.com

4

Rope

An underrated Hitchcock movie about two friends who murder another friend and hold a dinner party with his body still in the apartment to prove if they can handle it!

Buy at: itunes.apple.com

5

A Single Man

Still grieving for his dead lover, a man decides to kill himself but not before he spends the day with an old friend and a student of his.

Buy at: itunes.apple.com

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6

Rebel without a Cause

The defining performance of James Dean’s short career, his teenage character arrives at a new school, falls in love with a girl and takes on the bullies!

Buy at: itunes.apple.com

7

High Noon

A classic Western about a town sheriff who has to wait all day to confront the released convict that he sent to jail.

Buy at: itunes.apple.com

8

The Breakfast Club

One of the best teen movies of the 80s, telling the story of a single day in Saturday detention for five completely different high school students.

Buy at: itunes.apple.com

9

Cloverfield

A group of friends attend a going away party, but it just so happens that the part falls on the same night as a crazy monster attack on the city!

Buy at: itunes.apple.com

10

The Goonies

After discovering an old Spanish map, a group of young friends go on a crazy adventure in search of hidden treasure.

Buy at: itunes.apple.com

11

Groundhog Day

Perhaps the quintessential one day movie, as Bill Murray is forced to relive Groundhog Day over and over again!

Buy at: itunes.apple.com

12

From Dusk Till Dawn

The film’s title kind of gives the one day nature of this movie away, but it’s a fun crime romp starring George Clooney so you can’t go wrong!

Buy at: itunes.apple.com

13

12 Angry Men

Considered to be one of the best films ever made, 12 Angry Men details the tense deliberations of a jury deciding a verdict on a murder case.

Buy at: itunes.apple.com

14

American Graffiti

A great movie about a bunch of high school students who have a night filled with fun, romance and of course a whole lot of trouble!

Buy at: itunes.apple.com

15

Dog Day Afternoon

A classic Al Pacino movie about a bank hostage situation that gets completely out of control.

Buy at: itunes.apple.com

16

Dazed and Confused

A fun movie about the crazy antics that a bunch of students get up to on their very last day of school.

Buy at: itunes.apple.com

17

Magnolia

A fast paced and quirky movie that tells you the stories of a bunch of different characters over the course of a single day.

Buy at: itunes.apple.com

18

Training Day

An incredibly tense movie that depicts an LAPD policeman going on a daylong ride along with a notorious gangster.

Buy at: itunes.apple.com

19

Airplane!

This classic comedy is about a plane ride on which the pilot is taken ill and the only qualified person left is an ex pilot who is afraid of flying!

Buy at: itunes.apple.com

20

Do the Right Thing

A great movie about a crazy fight that breaks out between a group of friends and a pizzeria on the hottest day of the year!

Buy at: itunes.apple.com

21

Before Sunrise

The first of a great trilogy, Before Sunrise details the whirlwind romance of a couple who meet on a train and spend the day in Vienna.

Buy at: itunes.apple.com

22

Ferris Bueller’s Day off

The movie that inspired every single high school student in America to skip school for the day and go on an adventure!

Buy at: itunes.apple.com

23

Die Hard

The sort of action that Bruce Willis gets in to on this Christmas Eve would kill any normal person, but not the human superhero that is John McLane!

Buy at: itunes.apple.com

24

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

An absolute cult classic that takes place when a young innocent couple go in search for some help with their broken down car, only to find so much more in an old castle.

Buy at: itunes.apple.com

25

Date Night

A crazy comedy starring Tina Fey and Steve Carell who go out in a date night and end up going on a crazy adventure through New York City.

Buy at: itunes.apple.com

26

Night of the Living Dead

A zombie apocalypse, a single farmhouse of survivors. Probably still one of the best horror movies out there.
Buy at: itunes.apple.com

27

The out of Towners

Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin are a very good comedy couple. In this movie from 1999 the pair experience a series of disasters in the Big Apple.

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What other movies do you know of that take place in 24 hours or less?

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Where Thoughts and Opinions Converge

According to my boyfriend the cult classic movie "Warriors" happened in one day.

There is also before sunset which is 10 years between sunrise and midnight

I would love to see before sunrise since I have already seen before midnight I loved the movie.. So before sunrise is when they first met.

@ Annie yeah I haven't seen before sunset yet I so wanna see that too.

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