Movies and TvShows featuring "single-shot" theme.

When a princess is in danger, a soldier and an Irishman join forces to protect her. They face a series of challenges including sword fights, gunfights, and a showdown with evil forces.

Six families in different compartments of a train, moving through a rainy night. In a single, 145-minute take, the film depicts the families and how their lives are interwoven with each other. Vacillating between dream and reality, each story builds on the one before and leads into the next. Each destiny is influenced by the other one on board, and all hurtle to the same destination.

A young woman, interviewed by her doctor, gradually exposes her past and a vulnerable emotional core.

The faces of a 5:00 PM crowd descending via the Pan Am building escalators in one continuous shot. In old-fashioned black and white, these faces stare into the empty space, in the 5:00 PM tiredness and mechanical impersonality, like faces from the grave.

Mario Montez in drag eats a banana.

Death of a Man in the Balkans is a dark comedy that revolves around the events following a man's death in the Balkans. The film explores themes of hipocrisy, neighbor relations, and the hidden-camera footage that captures it all. With a single-shot style, the movie showcases the absurdity of life and the complexities of death in a unique and thought-provoking way.

"A short video featuring my friends the ants along with cheese, etc. and one-and-a-half tracks from the Thought Gang album."

Larry Gottheim’s Fog Line consists of a fixed shot of clearing fog in a valley in upstate New York where he lived and worked in the early seventies.

Jo is an outgoing, liberated second generation Chinese-American girl who begins a passionate romance with Helen at the opening of the film. Since long before dating Helen, Jo has been extravagantly out and on the scene as a lesbian, but crisis unfolds when she reveals a secret. Helen can't swallow the news and suddenly mistrusts Jo's intentions and fidelity.

The screen is in flames as we are inside a crematorium. No much can be seen and the director focuses on the sound recording of the conversations between the employees. There is no place for mystical experiences in their lives, to the contrary – they perform all their tasks mechanically. Cremation is a simple process which turns a human corpse into ash.

"Panic Attack!" is a hand-drawn animation from the point of view of a woman having a panic attack. I wanted the transitions between reality and her imagined fears to be seamless, so there are no edits -- it is one continually transforming drawing. -Eileen O'Meara