History Main / SymbolicGlassHouse

* ''Film/GameNight'': Brooks' rented house has enormous windows, and he's lying about how he made his money; he's actually a criminal embroiled with the mafia, and he gets violently kidnapped.

* In ''Film/BatmanVsSuperman'' Bruce lives in a lakeside mansion as opposed to Wayne Manor (which is generally depicted as his home), to convey his loneliness, isolation, and paranoia.

* ''Film/GoneGirl'': In addition to his city home (which doesn't qualify despite being both big and fancy), Desi has a home in rural Missouri that is all glass. Amy uses it against him when she realizes that [[spoiler:she's essentially trapped and he has no plans to let her go, by throwing herself down and screaming in front of the glass doors and security cameras to make it appear as though she's being held captive as a SexSlave.]]

* In the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, "genius billionaire playboy philanthropist" Tony Stark owns a sleek, modern clifftop mansion with panoramic views of the ocean below. It is generally a show of luxury, with a bit of 'isolation' in [[Film/IronMan2 the second film]], where he pushes his friends away while SecretlyDying of palladium poisoning and 'exposure' in [[Film/IronMan3 the third]], where the house is the target of a missile strike carried out by gunships disguised as news helicopters.

* The Basileus Machine from ''Film/Thir13enGhosts'' is a massive machine created by scholar and occultist Kalina Oretzia as a home and paranormal device. From the outside, it looks like a modernist house covered with windows. From the inside, it's composed almost entirely of sliding-glass doors and hallways lined with runes that is used to imprison the various {{Vengeful Ghost}}s he had captured over the years. [[spoiler:The heart of the house contains the Ocularis Infernum ([[CanisLatinicus ostensibly Latin]] for "The Eye of Hell"), a device that, when powered by 12 ghosts that follow the Black Zodiac and a human sacrifice representing the 13th one, can give its user the ability to see the future.]]
* Although it's actually a rental home for their vacation, miserable rich family the Tylers are staying in a stylish all-windows house that juxtaposes with the protagonist Adelaide's mom's cozy house in ''Film/{{Us}}''.

* ''Literature/GentlemanBastard'': The Five Towers are [[MadeOfIndestructium indestructible]] glass structures that host Camorr's seat of government, including the Duke's personal residence. Non-nobles and other outsiders tend to get horrible vertigo from the uninterrupted view.
* ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'': Thanks to plenty of bribery, Lord Asriel completes his InterdimensionalTravelDevice from a LuxuryPrisonSuite built to his own design. It's effectively a large mansion, complete with huge windows and a dramatic view, despite the incredible ConspicuousConsumption of heating such a place in the deep Arctic.
* ''Literature/JustListen'': The Greene family lives in a home with enormous windows. Although anyone can see what's going on inside the house from the street, the Greenes are defined by secrets and denial. Both parents want their lives to be perfect and ignore anything that isn't. StageMom Grace blinds herself to the fact that modeling makes her daughters miserable. Middle daughter Whitney [[spoiler:developed anorexia due to the pressure she was under to fit beauty standards, which she tried to hide from everyone]]. When the eldest daughter, Kirsten, tried to warn their parents [[spoiler:about Whitney's health]], they refused to believe her for months. Annabel, the youngest, [[spoiler:hides that she was raped by her friend's boyfriend]].

* In the third season of ''Series/TheBridge2011'', Freddie Holst, a millionaire art collector, has dark secrets relating to his family, such as illegally paying Jeanette to be his surrogate, and is a suspect in the murder. He lives in an all-glass modernistic house with lots of voyeuristic shots from outside. [[spoiler:He isn't the killer, but he is the killer's final target and was unintentionally responsible for the situation that drove them to murder.]]