One Cut of the Dead (2017)

A cheap zombie movie opens with an unbroken 37-minute single take, and the fun of Shinichiro Ueda's Japanese comedy is discovering why it looks so strange. Stick with that rough opening: the rest of the movie rewinds and shows everything that went wrong behind the camera, and each awkward pause you noticed pays off as a visual gag. Because the biggest laughs come from things you have already seen, you never feel you missed a joke in the subtitles. It famously opened on just two screens before becoming a nationwide hit.