Movies and TvShows featuring "ethnic-neighborhood" theme.

The Birthday Cake is a crime thriller set in an ethnic neighborhood where a young man must deliver a birthday cake for his father's celebration. However, the cake is poisoned, leading to a series of violent events and a race against time to uncover the truth and save his family.

Summer of Sam takes place in New York City during the summer of 1977. The story revolves around the Son of Sam serial killer who is terrorizing the city. The film follows various characters, including a group of punk rockers, an African-American detective, and residents of an Italian neighborhood in the Bronx. As the fear and paranoia escalate, relationships are tested, and the true face of intolerance is revealed.

In a racially divided society, a blind girl named Selina befriends Gordon, a kind stranger who helps her navigate through life and find happiness.

In a crime-ridden and decaying urban neighborhood, a pregnant woman living in a tenement building becomes the target of a sadistic gang. After her husband is killed by the gang, she takes up arms and fights back against the ruthless criminals. With the help of some sympathetic neighbors, she engages in a brutal battle for survival and revenge.

14-year-old Grasshoppers gang member Djibril leads a dangerous existence in a Marseille slum, along with his pregnant girlfriend Camilla who belongs to a rival gang, the Crickets. When Djibril is manipulated into killing the young Cricket Mahad, war breaks out. Djibril is haunted by the curse Mahad spat out as he lay dying, and begins to communicate with the spirit world. Convinced that global apocalypse is imminent, he embarks on a crazy plan to flee with Camilla and their unborn child – the only one capable of saving them all from Mahad’s malediction. But the law catches up with him. Now, after 12 years in prison and a secure psychiatric unit, Djibril will do whatever it takes to find his daughter and convince her to fulfil his prophecy.

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail is a documentary that tells the story of a small family-owned bank, Abacus Federal Savings Bank, and their legal battle against a prosecution by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. The bank was accused of mortgage fraud relating to the 2008 financial crisis. The film explores the dynamics of the trial, the impact on the bank's community, and the struggle of a small institution going up against the power of the government.

A Greek-American bakery owner, struggling with poverty and the illness of his son, takes a journey to Turkey with the hope of finding a better life. Along the way, he confronts his own philandering ways and learns valuable life lessons.

In The Big Shakedown, a con-man and racketeer gets involved in a scheme to counterfeit toothpaste. As he navigates the criminal underworld of New York, he becomes entangled in murder and druggist racketeering. Set during the Great Depression, this pre-code movie explores the dark side of society.

Here and There is a heartwarming comedy-drama film that follows the story of a Serbian immigrant who tries to make a living as a taxi driver in New York City. His life takes an unexpected turn when he is offered an opportunity to make some quick money by participating in a green card marriage. As he struggles to balance his relationships with his wife in Serbia and his girlfriend in New York, he grapples with the challenges of living in a foreign land and the clash of cultures.

The story of a Parsi boy's view of his community in modern day Mumbai.

Brownsville Black and White is the story of sixty years of Black/Jewish relations in the Brooklyn Community of Brownsville. The film is a poignant examination of group cooperation, urban change and social conflict as told through the personal histories of those who lived there. Brownsville is the first of two films dealing with inter-ethnic relations in the U.S., left unfinished after the untimely death of the director Richard Broadman. A small group of friends and colleagues completed the film after his death.