5 Great Minimalist Movies

1.) Dogtooth 

5 Main Actors - 2 Settings (No major visual effects or special effects, lavish sets or wardrobe. It's all story.)

Some crazy ass over protective parents tell there children that they must stay locked into there house until the 'lose their dogtooth' . . . yeah. A brilliant movie.

2.) Funny Games

(5 Main actors - 1 Setting, no lavish sets, no major special effects, no major costumes) **Yes I know this film was 'shot for shot' remade with Tim Roth...but c'mon, watching that version is the film equivalent of saying you can't read, + the German actors feel much more real.)

 (He looks like Germany's answer to Ben Affleck)

Two tormentors make a bet with a family in there vacation home as to weather or not they'll survive the night.

3.) Cube

(Handful of actors, 1 amazingly bizarre set that keeps getting recycled and relit and some special effects.)





 

A group of people are trapped in a futuristic prison were each chambered room houses a different secret deathtrap and they have to figure out how to escape the puzzle box.

4.) 12 Angry Men

(The entire film)

This is easily the most famous movie in my list so I'm not going to bother explaining it's greatness. Based on a play, 12 jurors in a room debating the guilt of a young man convicted of murder. It's brilliant. 

5.) Primer



Two men build a time machine in a storage container and travel back in time . . . . and it gets complicated from there.

* Runner Up *

Timecrimes - A man travels back in time 1 day and witnesses a crime from a different point of view while chasing a killer . . . even though it's my runner up it's possibly the most brilliant script ever written about time travel. But it has more of a budget and cast than "Primer" so I threw it here. Timecrimes however is a must see for time-travel fans.