Movies and TvShows featuring "communal-living" theme.

Martha is a young woman who escapes from a dangerous cult led by a charismatic leader. She struggles with paranoia and memories of her time in the cult as she tries to rebuild her life and find a sense of normalcy.

Explore the rise and fall of the Synanon organization — through the eyes of the members who lived it — from its early days as a groundbreaking drug rehabilitation program to its later descent into what many consider a cult.

Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires dealing with the mundane aspects of modern life while living as flatmates. They navigate paying rent, socializing, and conflicts with each other. When a new vampire joins their group, their dynamic changes. They banish one of their own after an incident and later attend a masquerade party where they encounter a werewolf pack. Through unexpected events, they form an unlikely friendship.

A partially autobiographical film about Leona, an actress living in a communal household with her husband, her son, two models, and three drag queens.

Sunako is very happy living her life in the darkness of her room, with her skeleton friends and her horror movies to keep her company. The darkness she so loves is pierced brightly by four dazzling young men, who come to live in the same mansion as her, and she soon realizes that they have orders from her aunt to do anything to turn her into a prim and proper lady.

The story of two young single mothers who join forces to make a new kind of family unit for themselves and their children.

After May 1968, they experimented with communities, squats or free love, with the hope of real change. Today, at retirement age, they live in new places and promote ways of living better and growing old together. What if they were right, these former protesters whose utopias have been muted by triumphant individualism?

A group of vampire roommates navigate daily chores, friendship, and the challenges of eternal life in a flat in New Zealand.

Haida Gwaii, an archipelago off the west coast of Canada, is home to Skil Jaadee and her family. They live in harmony with nature and have made it their mission to save their language and preserve their history.

My Queen Karo is a coming-of-age drama that follows a young girl named Karo as she grows up in a 1970s hippie commune. Karo navigates the complexities of love, sex, drugs, and alternative lifestyles while trying to find her place in the world.

Keur Simbara is an intimate, lyrical short documentary that follows a group of women community organizers in a rural Senegalese village as they build and sustain systems of health, finance, agriculture, and domestic infrastructure. Amid water scarcity and environmental challenges, they articulate their hopes for the future and the legacy they wish to leave behind. Keur Simbara is a tribute to communal wisdom and the power of local organizing.

Taking its title from a popular 1960s dance craze, this digital video comedy concerns the exploits of a particularly odd fictional talk-show host, portrayed by real-life French talk-show sensation Edouard Baer. Baer -- who also directed and co-wrote the film -- plays a sarcastic TV personality who decides to gather together the panel members from his live show before they shoot the program so that they have a chance to rehearse. To this end, the absurd group -- including a lawyer, a transvestite, and a grown woman who acts like a child -- rents a villa for a month. It doesn't take long for resentment to fester among the motley crew.

The Tenants is a satirical comedy set in an Iranian apartment building, where the lives of the tenants are thrown into chaos due to a series of misfortunes. The film explores themes of modernity, corruption, and communal living, and is filled with satirical humor and ironic situations. The tenants, including a swindler, a government official, and a construction worker, navigate through a messy apartment, marital problems, and controversies, leading to explosive and comical moments.

Igo (main hero) goes through adventures as he (main hero) loves to live in a communal apartament. Or does he?

Half Sour is a documentary film that follows the life of a skateboarder living in New York. It explores his journey in the city's skateboarding community and his experiences of living in a communal setting. The film also touches upon the unique flea market culture and the influence of skateboarding on his life.

A documentary exploring the back-to-the-land movement, counterculture, and flower power of the 1960s. It delves into the ideals of living off the grid, communal living, and the environmental and social experiments of the time.

Children of the Sun is a documentary film that delves into the unique social experiment of a Jewish kibbutz. The film showcases the experiences and perspectives of individuals who grew up in this communal living environment. It explores themes of childhood, family relationships, and coming-of-age within the collective setting. Through interviews and home movie footage, the film provides an intimate glimpse into the lives of these individuals and their shared experiences.

The story of Nisar Ahmed Khan, told through his children and the people he served, a spiritual guide whose followers still visit his tomb on his birth and death anniversaries. And alongside how his family spends a few days at the village keeping his traditions alive.

Inventing Our Life examines the 100 year history of Israel's kibbutz movement, one of the world's longest running and most successful experiments in pure communism. Recreating its glorious past and chronicling its recent decline, Inventing Our Life focuses on the heartbreak and hope of the modern kibbutz, as a new generation struggles to insure its survival. Can a radically socialist institution survive a new market-driven reality with its ideological integrity intact? How will this affect the lives of the tens of thousands of people who still believe in the kibbutz experiment and continue to call it home? As the film progresses, the drama shifts from Can it survive? to Yes, but at what price?