Movies with Very Small Casts

[JamesG.]

How many do you know of?



Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)




Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, and Sandy Dennis.





My Dinner with Andre (1981)




Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory.





The Others (2001)




95% of the movie was the mom (Nicole Kidman), her 2 children, and the 3 servants.





Tape (2001)




Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, and Uma Thurman.





Hard Candy (2005)




Ellen Page and Patrick Wilson, featuring Sandra Oh in a small role. There are others with very minor appearances.





Buried (2011)




Ryan Reynolds is buried alive in a wooden coffin for the entire film. He speaks to other characters on the phone, but they do not appear onscreen.





All Is Lost (2013)




Basically just Robert Redford.





Ex Machina (2014)




Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac, and Sonoya Mizuno.





10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)




John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and John Gallagher Jr.





American Son (2019)




Kerry Washington, Steven Pasquale, Jeremy Jordan, and Eugene Lee (all from the Broadway play).





The Lighthouse (2019)




Willem Dafoe, Robert Pattinson, and Valeriia Karamän

[Cremildo]

David Mamet's Oleanna is basically a two-hander.

[levcore]

Time Bandits

[Leslie Dame]

The Shining (1980)



It's a small cast if you don't count the

[Show spoiler]ghosts.

[Elgie]

I read the title as “small cats” and I was wondering how I missed the cat in The Lighthouse.

[sawdustandtinsel]

Walkabout, Gerry, Arctic, Bug, Gravity, Duel, Psycho, Persona, Autumn Sonata.

[sharky1999]

A Quiet Place

[Gacivory]

Secret Honor.

[RossyG]

Sleuth.

[DR Herbert West]

[Al_The_Strange]

Smallest cast I can think of:

[BlueRagtop]

[AKORIS]

[drush9999]

Originally Posted by levcore

Time Bandits

[Mothravka]

Originally Posted by JamesG.

How many do you know of?

Quite many. But here's 20 of the best ones with one to about six credited cast members:

Mother and Son (1997, Aleksandr Sokurov)
Le révélateur (1968, Philippe Garrel)
Kamen (1992, Aleksandr Sokurov)
Landscape Suicide (1987, James Benning)
Agatha et les lectures illimitées (1981, Marguerite Duras)
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943, Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid)
Un homme qui dort (1974, Bernard Queysanne)
My Name Is Oona (1969, Gunvor Nelson)
Je tu il elle (1974, Chantal Akerman)
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Il dono (2003, Michelangelo Frammartino)
Nostos: Il ritorno (1989, Franco Piavoli)
Les hautes solitudes (1974, Philippe Garrel)
Heart, Beating in the Dark (1982, Shunichi Nagasaki)
The Turin Horse (2011, Béla Tarr, & Ágnes Hranitzky)
The Embryo Hunts in Secret (1966, Kôji Wakamatsu)
Taste of Cherry (1997, Abbas Kiarostami)
Uski Roti (1970, Mani Kaul)
The Naked Island (1960, Kaneto Shindô)

[AaronJ]

Jeanne Dielman ... is brilliant.

[Chaotic]

Gravity

[canucksam]

[levcore]

Originally Posted by canucksam

This has a massive cast compared to a lot of the already mentioned movies. Morgan Freeman's band of survivors consists of about 40 people.

[bladerunner6]

Alien

Dark Star

Also, post apocalypse movies?

The World, Flesh and the Devil comes to mind.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053454/