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Great films set over one night

'Different rules apply when it gets this late, you know what I mean? It’s like, after hours.'

Stay up late watching these gems, all set over the course of one night. Read more.

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  • That Night's Wife
  • Rope
  • People in the Summer Night
  • The Set-Up
  • All Night Long
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Night of the Living Dead
  • American Graffiti
  • Assault on Precinct 13
  • Mikey and Nicky
  • The Warriors
  • My Dinner with Andre
  • Toute une nuit
  • After Hours
  • The Dead
  • Miracle Mile
  • Die Hard
  • Night on Earth
  • Dazed and Confused
  • Before Sunrise
  • Last Night
  • Go
  • Panic Room
  • PTU
  • Collateral
  • In Search of a Midnight Kiss
  • The Man from Earth
  • Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
  • Attack the Block
  • Locke
  • Horse Money
  • Victoria
  • The Invitation
  • Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
  • Good Time
  • The Vast of Night
  • Lovers Rock
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