Movies and TvShows featuring "apartment-building" theme.
Number 96 was a popular Australian soap opera set in a Sydney apartment block. Don Cash and Bill Harmon of the Cash Harmon Television production company, produced the series for Network Ten, which requested a Coronation Street-type serial, and specifically one that explored adult subjects. The premise, original story outlines, and the original characters were devised by David Sale who also wrote the scripts for the first episodes and continued as script editor for much of the show's run. The series proved to be a huge success, running from 1972 until 1977. Number 96 was so popular it spawned a feature film version, filmed in December 1973. Number 96 was known for its sex scenes and nudity, somewhat risque at the time, and for its comedy characters. The series was the first Australian soap opera to feature an openly gay character.
Friends is a popular sitcom that follows the lives and relationships of a group of six friends in their 20s and 30s. The show explores the ups and downs of their careers, romantic entanglements, and personal struggles, all while providing plenty of laughs along the way.
The Big Bang Theory revolves around the lives of four socially awkward friends, Sheldon, Leonard, Raj, and Howard, who are brilliant scientists. They navigate through their personal lives and relationships while often struggling with everyday social situations. The show primarily focuses on their interactions with their neighbor, Penny, an aspiring actress who is not part of their geeky world. The series showcases their geek culture, love for comic books, sci-fi, video games, and their enduring friendship.
Three's Company follows the lives of Jack Tripper and his two female roommates, Janet and Chrissy. In order to live in the same apartment, Jack pretends to be gay, leading to a series of comedic misunderstandings and misadventures. The show explores themes of friendship, love, and the struggles of living in a sitcom world.
Aquí no hay quien viva is a Spanish sitcom that revolves around the daily lives and misadventures of the residents of an apartment building in Madrid, Spain. The show explores various comedic situations, relationships, and conflicts that arise between the neighbors, including romantic entanglements, housewife gossip, and clashes with the building's doorman. Through the characters' interactions, the series hilariously portrays the dynamics of apartment living and the challenges of maintaining relationships within a close-knit community.
The Jeffersons is a sitcom comedy that follows an African-American family's journey of social mobility after moving into a luxury Manhattan apartment building. The show explores various aspects of their lives, including interracial relationships, family dynamics, and the challenges they face in their new environment.
La que se avecina is a sitcom-comedy TV show set in Madrid, Spain. It revolves around the lives and relationships of the diverse residents in an apartment building, tackling topics such as dating, marriage, divorce, and friendship. The show brings humor through various characters, including an old woman, a doorman, an actor, an actress, and a psychologist. It explores themes of hatred, corruption, unfaithfulness, and family dynamics, providing an entertaining and relatable experience for viewers.
When Jessica Day moves into a new apartment in Los Angeles, she ends up living with three male roommates who help her navigate through life's ups and downs. Together, they form an unlikely group of friends who learn to embrace their eccentricities and support each other through thick and thin.
Caroline is a talented cartoonist living in Manhattan. She struggles with dating, dealing with her ex-boyfriend, and balancing her career. With the support of her friends, including her assistant Richard, she navigates the challenges of life in the big city.
Peep Show is a British sitcom that follows the lives of two socially awkward friends, Mark and Jeremy, who live in a flat-share in London. The show explores their personal and professional lives, their dysfunctional relationships, and their constant inner monologues and cynicism.
Kate and Allie are two divorced women who decide to move in together with their children to make ends meet. They support each other as they navigate the challenges of being single parents, while also dealing with their own personal and professional lives.
When two former lovers, Joey and Michael, are both named as the father of a teenage girl, they must put aside their differences and work together to raise her.
Half & Half follows two half-sisters, Mona and Dee Dee, who were raised separately but end up reconnecting and becoming roommates. Mona is the product of a one-night stand between her mother Phyllis and a rich white man, while Dee Dee is the result of Phyllis' marriage to a black man. The two sisters have very different personalities and get into comedic and heartwarming situations as they navigate their newly found sisterhood.
Toma Lá, Dá Cá is a Brazilian sitcom that revolves around the lives of the residents in an apartment building. The show explores the comedic and chaotic situations that arise from the interactions between the diverse and eccentric characters. It delves into themes of family relationships, LGBTQ representation, and societal stereotypes, all portrayed with humor and wit.
Punky Brewster is a comedy TV show that follows the adventures of a spirited little girl named Punky who is abandoned by her mother and then taken in by a kind-hearted photographer named Henry. With the help of her loyal golden retriever, Brandon, and a diverse group of friends, Punky learns to navigate life's ups and downs, while spreading love and joy to everyone she meets.
Former United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop a zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatens to destroy humanity itself. Gerry and a team of experts travel to South Korea to find the origin of the virus, then go to Jerusalem where a safe zone has been maintained. Finally, Gerry ends up in Wales where he comes up with a theory about how the infected behave. He tests his theory and succeeds, leading to the development of a vaccine and hope for humanity.
A twisted tale of two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable. Cousins Teresa and Jessica, and Jessica's new boyfriend Caleb, are vacationing at a lakeside cabin when a seemingly ill Jessica scalps Teresa and decapitates Caleb before levitating above the lake. One day earlier, upset at learning she is pregnant, guitar technician Beth visits her sister Ellie, a tattoo artist and single mother to teenagers Danny and Bridget, and child Kassie, in their home at Monde Apartments, a condemned Los Angeles apartment complex. The building is shaken by an earthquake while the children are in its basement parking lot, uncovering a concealed chamber. Danny investigates it, discovering religious artifacts, three phonograph records from 1923, and a strange book that he takes up to his room, believing he could possibly sell it and use the money to help Ellie. The initial record details rejected efforts by a priest to research the book, revealed to be one of three volumes of the Naturom Demonto. The subsequent record reveals the priest continued his research in secret and recites an incantation that summons demonic entities known as Deadites. The building's power fails, and an isolated Ellie is attacked and possessed by an unseen force. She returns to the apartment in a trance, menacingly threatens her family, and dies after pleading with Beth to protect her children. Beth and Ellie's neighbors help lay her to rest in her bedroom and search for a way out. They find that the staircase has collapsed, the elevator is damaged, and they are unable to access the fire escape before Ellie revives and attacks the family, wounding Bridget. Beth and the children lock Ellie outside the apartment after she pursues and massacres the neighbors. Danny confesses to Beth about recovering the Naturom Demonto, and Ellie tricks Kassie into unlocking the door before attacking her. While Danny and Beth are distracted rescuing Kassie and locking Ellie out, Bridget becomes possessed via her wound. Bridget attacks Beth before turning on Danny and Kassie, who inadvertently impales her through the head with a broken broom handle. Beth listens to the third record to understand how to exorcise the Deadites, but learns the priest failed and his allies were all possessed, with only complete destruction of the host stopping the Deadites. Bridget revives and fatally stabs Danny, who sets Bridget on fire before dying as Ellie infiltrates the apartment using the vents. Realizing Beth is pregnant, Ellie attempts to rip the fetus out of her, but Beth and Kassie are able to incapacitate her with scissors. Ellie fails to emotionally manipulate Kassie who accepts that her mother is already gone. Danny and the bodies of the neighbors are possessed, leading Beth and Kassie to take shelter in the damaged elevator. Ellie, Bridget, and Danny merge into a multi-limbed creature known as the Marauder and climb atop the elevator to attack the pair as the machine fills with blood. The combined weight causes the elevator to plummet to the ground floor, allowing Beth and Kassie to flee into the parking lot. The Marauder captures Kassie and attempts to behead her with a chainsaw, but Beth returns and distracts it, and she and Kassie destroy the Marauder's body by forcing it into a wood chipper. Ellie's decapitated head taunts Beth, saying she will be a failure as a mother, prompting her to kick Ellie's head into the chipper. Beth and Kassie escape the building together. The next morning, Jessica goes to the parking lot to leave for her vacation, where she is attacked by an unseen force.
227 is a sitcom comedy that revolves around the lives of the residents in an apartment building located in Washington, D.C. The show focuses on the African-American housewife and protagonist, Mary Jenkins, and her interactions with her neighbors and family. With a laugh track and set in the 1980s, the show portrays the dynamics of family relationships, neighbor-neighbor relationships, and friendships with humor and heartwarming moments.