Every Minute Counts: 24 Real-Time Movies
In Money Monster, a financial TV host (George Clooney) gets his show taken over by an angry audience member. The twist: it’s all in real-time (i.e. the 98 minutes it takes to watch this is the exact amount of time that passes in the movie), inspiring this gallery of 24 more in-the-moment movies.
Year: 2012
Tomatometer: 41%
Old family secrets threaten to tear down this fixer-upper. Edited to look like a single take.
Year: 2015
Tomatometer: 85%
A night out clubbing in Germany goes awry. Actually shot in a single take.
Year: 1999
Tomatometer: 93%
A woman has twenty minutes to scrounge up 100,000 Deutsche Mark before her boyfriend is killed by the mob.
Year: 2006
Tomatometer: 61%
A resurrected hitman (Jason Statham) needs constant surges of adrenaline to stay alive.
Year: 2004
Tomatometer: 95%
One-time lovers (Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy) reminisce on past, present, and future as dusk looms.
Year: 2015
Tomatometer: 78%
Two youths steal some wheels from a crooked cop (Kevin Bacon).
Year: 2003
Tomatometer: 71%
A sniper ensnares Colin Farrell in New York City.
Year: 2010
Tomatometer: 87%
A U.S. military contractor (Ryan Reynolds) in Iraq wakes up in a coffin with only 90 minutes of air to last him.
Year: 2014
Tomatometer: 91%
A construction supervisor abandons the biggest job of his life to drive and deal with a past carnal dalliance.
Year: 1995
Tomatometer: 29%
Johnny Depp is handed a gun with these instructions: murder a politician nearby or his daughter gets killed.
Year: 1948
Tomatometer: 97%
Two libertines kill a colleague in an effort to execute the perfect murder.
Year: 1957
Tomatometer: 100%
Jurors must confont their own histories and prejudices while weighing the fate of a young man accused of murder.
Year: 2006
Tomatometer: 56%
Bruce Willis on the escort mission from hell.
Year: 1981
Tomatometer: 91%
Trenchant insights and bon mots are on the menu in Louis Malle’s intellectual classic.
Year: 1949
Tomatometer: 86%
A manager bets against his own washed-up boxer (Robert Ryan).
Year: 2006
Tomatometer: 93%
An old alcoholic and a tenacious nurse jump from hospital to hospital seeking medical assistance.
Year: 1961
Tomatometer: 96%
Corinne Marchand kills some time in Paris while waiting for a cancer diagnosis.
Year: 1952
Tomatometer: 96%
A retiring marshal is challenged to a showdown as he’s leaving town.
Year: 2002
Tomatometer: 89%
Hundreds of years of Russian history comes to life for 96 minutes.
Year: 2000
Tomatometer: 68%
Four simultaneous stories take place in Los Angeles as they prepare for a movie shoot.
Year: 2015
Tomatometer: 61%
Timecode for millenials.
Year: 2006
Tomatometer: 91%
A harrowing glimpse into the sacrifice of those onboard a hijacked plane heading towards Capitol Hill on 9/11.
Year: 2011
Tomatometer: 71%
Two married couples meet to discuss a physical fight among their sons.
Year: 1964
Andy Warhol’s unblinking 8-hour stare at the Empire State Building. It’s in the National Film Registry, people!
