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== [[Film]] ==
* In [[Buster Keaton]]'s "[[The Scarecrow]]," two farmhands share a one-room house in which all the furnishings have at least two
* The title characters' home in the movie ''[[Mr. and Mrs. Smith]]'' was filled with camouflaged and hidden equipment caches, including a gun drawer hidden as part of a wall oven.
* K from the second ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'' movie has a cache of weapons hidden in his old apartment, which is now someone else's home. They have to [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|neuralize this family]] in order to access it.
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* Pick a room in any of the ''[[Spy Kids]]'' movies.
* The film ''Robin and the Seven Hoods'', set in the 1920s Prohibition era, features a bar/casino that can transform into a temperance church meeting for when the police show up.
* Not actually a hideout, but the apartment of Bruce Willis's character in ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' had a lot of
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** Only the female ones.
* In ''[[Stingray (TV series)|Stingray]]'', the Gerry Anderson series, where X20, the weird sea creature who lives all alone in a house on a rock in the middle of the ocean, disguises the secret sea-creaturey equipment in an ordinary-looking house in case he gets visitors, which he did a few times (though he also had to don a quick human disguise on these occasions as well).
* Anderson did much the same thing at various times in [[Thunderbirds]]. International Rescue's headquarters on Tracy Island is a combination of this trope and [[To the Batpole]], with both huge hidden hangars for the Thunderbirds and parts of the main
* [[The Goodies]] lived and worked in an office that included fold-down beds that were also doors to other rooms, a window showing a choice of vistas or a TV screen, and in one episode, controls that drove the building in the famous Le Mans 24 hours race. Later episodes set in the office included props doing similar versatile work.
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