Single Actor Films

If you are tired of formulaic cinema, then we recommend that you pay attention to the films of one actor. An unbroken plot, an unexpected ending, tension throughout the film and ... one actor in a single role.

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1. Outcast

The hero of this picture, Chuck Nolan, is an employee of the world-famous Federal Express delivery service. Chuck is a meticulous practitioner and an incorrigible pedant. The life of Nolan, a high-ranking inspector of the international branches of FedEx, is scheduled by the minute. And these precious minutes are sorely lacking either for personal life or for a beloved woman ...

However, the ruthless fate forced Nolan to take a different look at the time allotted to him ... The plane on which Chuck travels falls into the ocean. The engineer, the only one who was lucky enough to stay alive, ends up on a desert island. Here Nolan will spend painfully long years in a fierce battle for survival ...

2. Buried alive

The hero of the film, Paul, who is in Iraq on a contract, loses consciousness during an ambush and after a while comes to his senses in a strange cramped dark place. It is not difficult to guess that, using a lighter, Paul finds himself buried in a coffin. He will have to go through many terrible, psychologically difficult, physically impossible moments of the struggle for his own life in an attempt to get out of an unexpected trap...

3. Lock

Ivan Lok lives a measured life and works very hard to succeed. Tomorrow is one of the most important days in his life, career growth awaits him. But in the evening there is a phone call that will turn his life upside down. Now, in order to survive, he has to win the fight against time. He only has 90 minutes.

4. 127 hours

An unstoppable rock climber and a lover of caves hidden in canyons once again rides alone into the mountains and finds himself in a death trap. 127 hours without food, without drink and with little or no hope of survival. This is where strength of character comes in...

5. Victim

The hero woke up in a broken car, in the middle of some kind of jungle. The car is broken, his leg is broken, there are several corpses around, and there is a revolver in the car. He does not remember anything - how he got here and even his name. Around the dense forest and no one. First you need to somehow survive, and then try to get to people. And along the way, remember what happened. And since there is also a bag full of money in the trunk, you still have to escape from people who will try to kill you.

6. Hope will not fade away

A tall, tanned man travels on a luxurious yacht in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, but the idyllic picture changes overnight, and the hero finds himself face to face with the abyss. For the sake of those who remained on the shore, he will fight against the ferocious elements.

7. Brake

Secret agent Jeremy Raines is kidnapped by mysterious strangers. One of the best masters of his craft has been cheated and is being used as bait in a terrorist operation. The life of Jeremy and his entire family is in the balance. Minutes are counting down, and he has less and less time to hand over to the kidnappers the secret information he swore to keep at the cost of his own life.

8. I am a legend

An adaptation of Richard Matheson's novel of the same name about an unknown virus that killed half the world's population and turned the other half into vampires. The plot revolves around the only surviving person with inexplicable immunity, holding an endless siege of ghouls at night, and during the day trying to find an antidote and find out the causes of the epidemic.

9. Gravity

Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer, embarks on his first space mission under the command of veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski, for whom this flight is his last before retiring. But during the seemingly routine work overboard, disaster strikes.

10.1408

Famous writer Mike Enslin, who writes his novels in the horror genre, is writing another book about unusual phenomena and poltergeist in hotels. Not believing in the existence of an afterlife, Enslin decides to settle in the infamous room 1408 of the Dolphin Hotel, which has been empty for many years: according to rumors, ghosts live there. Despite the warnings of senior manager Mr. Gerald Olin about the impending danger, the stubborn man insists on his own, not even imagining what a nightmare the coming night will turn into ...

11. Telephone booth

One phone call can change a person's whole life or even end it. The hero of the film, Stew Shepherd, becomes a prisoner of a telephone booth.

What will you do if you hear the phone ring in a phone booth? Most likely, you will instinctively pick up the phone, although you know very well that someone just got the wrong number. So Stu thinks that the call must be answered, and as a result, he is drawn into a monstrous game. “Just hang up the phone and you are a corpse,” an invisible interlocutor tells him.

12. Moon 2112

Sam's contract is coming to an end: he has spent three years on the moon, monitoring an automated rare gas station. Three long years in solitude, except for the talking robot GERTY, can change anyone. Two weeks before returning to earth, Sam meets his replacement...

13. Life of Pi

This is the story of the son of the owner of an Indian zoo, a boy named Pi. He learns the world, learns to defend his principles, seeks his own way to God, living according to the canons of three confessions, falls in love... But by the will of fate, his family is forced to emigrate. Halfway between India and Canada, the ship crashes and Pi is left on the boat with a Bengal tiger, a hyena, a zebra, and an orangutan. Around the boundless expanse of water, and ahead - the unknown ...

14. In the wild

After graduating from Emory College, one of its leading students and athletes, Christopher McCandless, leaves all his possessions, donates $ 24,000 accumulated during his studies to a charitable foundation, and hitchhikes to Alaska to plunge into the wild. Along the way, Christopher meets different people who in one way or another influence his life.

15. WALL-E

From year to year, the WALL-E robot diligently works on the deserted Earth, cleaning our planet from the mountains of garbage left behind by people who flew into space. He does not imagine that incredible events will happen very soon, thanks to which he will meet friends, rise to the stars and even be able to change his former masters for the better, who have completely forgotten their native Earth.

That's all for now! What other films with lone characters do you remember? Add your examples.