History Main / ExtremelyShortTimespan

* Every ''Film/JohnWick'' movie takes place over 2-3 days, and each one starts shortly after the previous one ended (the fact that 3 starts less than an hour after 2 ended is actually a plot point). So the entire series so far has taken place over the course of 2-3 weeks, at most.

* From the perspective of its protagonist, the ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' trilogy seems to take place in the course of a couple of weeks, at most. Otherwise, it took about 130 years. From an outside perspective, his adventures happened over two days. Your choice. The first film begins in October 25, 1985 at 8:25am and Marty travels to 1955 at 1:35am on the 26th. There he spends a week (from November the 5th to the 12th) only to return to 1985 11 minutes before he originally left. He wakes up on the morning of October 26 and travels, along with the Doc and Jennifer, to 2015 where he spends just under three hours. Then he spends about six hours in the alternate 1985 during the night of October 26-27, the whole of November 12, 1955 again but this time he spends the night. He departs 1955 on November 16 after Doc fixes the [=DeLorean=] and heads to September 2, 1885, where he spends five days and then he returns to October 27, 1985 at 11am. At the end, he spent '''16 days''' time traveling in two days, with the time periods he travels to spanning 130 years. And while the first and third film both have him spend about a week in both time periods, the entirety of the second film specifically occurs over a period of about 25 hours from his perspective, which itself starts only about 9 hours after the climax of the first film. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Doc when they go back to 1955.

* ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'': Due to SanDimasTime, the boys have only a single night to come up with their history class final.
* ''Film/BillAndTedFaceTheMusic'': Bill and Ted have precisely 78 minutes to come up with the song that will save the universe.

* The first two ''Franchise/EvilDead'' movies take place over the course of one night a piece. ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'' seems to takes place in the span of about the next three days (minus the epilogue), making the entire movie trilogy, which was released over the course of eleven years, happen in under a week. It's then contrasted with a gap of around ''thirty years'' before the story picks up again in ''Series/AshVsEvilDead'' (to match up with the real-life twenty-two-year SequelGap).

* About half of the movies in the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' franchise take place over the course of just a few days. To elaborate, ''Saw III'' and ''Saw IV'' take place simultaneously, ''Saw V'' starts during the events of ''Saw IV'', ''Saw VI'' begins just minutes after the end of ''Saw V'', and ''Saw 3D'' begins during the events of ''Saw VI''. While these films do feature time jumps, they are a few hours at most, not days or weeks. All told, a full five of the ten (at the time of this writing) ''Saw'' movies could have, concievably, taken place over the course of a single weekend.

* From the perspective of its protagonist, the ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' trilogy seems to take place in the course of a couple of weeks, at most. Otherwise, it took about 130 years. From an outside perspective, his adventures happened over two days. Your choice. The first film begins in October 25, 1985 at 8:25am and Marty travels to 1955 at 1:35am on the 26th. There he spends a week (from November the 5th to the 12th) only to return to 1985 11 minutes before he originally left. He wakes up on the morning of October 26 and travels, along with the Doc and Jennifer, to 2015 where he spends just under three hours. Then he spends about six hours in the alternate 1985 during the night of October 26-27, the whole of November 12, 1955 again but this time he spends the night. He departs 1955 on November 16 after Doc fixes the [=DeLorean=] and heads to September 2, 1885, where he spends five days and then he returns to October 27, 1985 at 11am. At the end, he spent '''16 days''' time traveling in two days, with the time periods he travels to spanning 130 years. And while the first and third film both have him spend about a week in both time periods, the second film specifically occurs over a period of about 25 hours from his perspective, which starts only about 9 hours after the climax of the first film. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Doc when they go back to 1955.