Nothing draws the attention of cinephiles quite like a long, unbroken take of a shot.
When a film masterfully executes an unbroken moving one-take shot, it forever belongs to the canon of film history.
Some films, even ones going back to the 1940s, are built around a framework of the whole movie being done in one long take.
While an impressive visual feat, films like Rope, Birdman, and 1917 are not entirely executed in one take.
In these cases, the wholly unbroken nature of the films is an illusion.
The list of films below feature authentic long shots with no cuts, and you’ll be thinking about how in the world these shots were composed for days.
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