Movies and TvShows featuring "tenement-house" theme.

In 1930s Warsaw, a radio speaker mistakenly rents out his apartment above a classical music quartet to a drag queen and her friends. Hilarity ensues as they navigate mistaken identities, masquerade balls, and musical performances.

Brooklyn youth Frank Cusack, good son and brother by day, is a gang member by night. The Dukes, seemingly likable dead-end-kids, are dangerously involved with racketeer Gaggsy Steens. Despite the efforts of Franks's parents, he and pal Benny get involved in a serious crime. Can Stan Albert, head of the community center, prevent them from becoming full-time crooks?

A juvenile delinquent on parole receives support from a social worker and a girl from a slum.

A reporter sets out to prove that his girlfriend was framed and sent to prison.

A heat wave sends the residents of a New York City tenement to their fire escapes for whatever breeze is stirring. The tenants are a cross section of melting-pot culture: Irish, Jewish, German, and Italian dialetcs create a rich aural mix on the sound track. As small talk is exchanged among the residents of different floors, an off-camera hurdy-gurdy supplies an often ironic counter-point to the action

Wealthy, powerful sweatshop owner falls in love with employee's teenage daughter, who feels obligated to marry him after he shares his wealth with her parents, though she actually loves a young Marxist unionizer.

Paweł Łoziński films his own neighbours, the drunk but charming Wiesio, his long suffering partner Mrs. Ania and a retired barber, Mr. Zdzislaw, who misses his late wife dearly. The film follows their daily lives and examines poverty, loneliness and death.

The Overcoat is a silent movie based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol. It tells the story of a draftsman who lives a monotonous life until he gets a new overcoat. He becomes obsessed with it, seeing it as a way to improve his social status. However, his life takes a turn for the worse when the overcoat is stolen, leading him down a path of desperation and madness. The film explores themes of class struggle, social hierarchy, and the absurdity of human existence.