Movies (148) tagged by 'Urban Setting'
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Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Struggling writer Paul Varjak moves into a New York apartment building and becomes intrigued by his pretty, quirky neighbor Holly Golightly. Holly's lifestyle ...
Who Made the Potatoe Salad? (2006)
An urban romantic comedy about a young San Diego policeman who travels to Los Angeles with his fiancée to meet her dysfunctional family and announce their ...
Rad (1986)
A bicycle-motocrosser (Bill Allen) tries to enter a corrupt promoter's nationally televised cash-prize race.
The Terminator (1984)
In the future, Skynet, a computer system fights a losing war against the humans who built it and who it nearly exterminated. Just before being destroyed, Skyne...
Land of the Dead (2005)
The living dead have overtaken humanity. The last remnants of the human race live inside a walled city as they come to grips with the situation. The wealthy li...
Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987)
Realistic story of working class Yorkshire life. Two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man. Serious and light-hearted by turns.
Killa Season (2006)
Cameron Giles (also known as Cam'ron) takes on the grim realities of street violence with this urban thriller. Inspired by gang and drug-related bloodshed in ...
Talento de Barrio (2008)
A young drug dealer falls in love while facing disruption among the men in his gang, and being offered a career as a Reggaetón singer.
The Harder They Come (1972)
Ivanhoe Martin comes to the city to make it big singing Reggae. However, he finds life in the city to be harder than he thought, and is taken advantage of by b...
Lady Gaga Presents: The Monster Ball Tour At Madison Square Garden (2011)
Local girl makes good. In February, 2011, Lady Gaga (1986- ) brings a band and dancers to Madison Square Garden, about 20 blocks from where she grew up. She sin...
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2003)
Ellen is given the Red Rose Mansion by her husband, who is an oil tycoon. When she discovers that various people close to her husband have mysteriously gone m...
Strapped (1993)
Ex-con attempting to go straight runs accross serious problems. His girlfriend gets arrested for dealing crack to an undercover police officer. In a desperate ...
Leave It on the Floor (2011)
Our African-American hero , Brad is bullied by his dysfunctional mom; he flees his home and by chance tumbles down the rabbit-hole into the LA ball scene where ...
Break Up Club (2010)
Have you just been dumped? What if there was a website that could get your loved one back? There is ! It is called BreakUpClub.asia. All you have to do is break...
Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara (2005)
Professor Uttam Chaudhary is a retired Hindi teacher who lives with his daughter and young son in the city of Mumbai. He is suffering from what is laughingly ...
Dragnet (1987)
Friday and Streebek are assigned to some very strange robberies, like i.e. the stealing of one bat, a 30 feet long snake and the mane of a lion from a zoo. All...
A Simple Life (2011)
After suffering a stroke, an altruistic maid announces that she wants to quit her job and move into an old people's home.
I Love Trouble (1994)
A romantic-comedy-thriller set amidst Chicago's newspaper trade, this star vehicle pits an established news writer against a beautiful cub reporter from a rival...
One Night Stand (1997)
Los-Angeles commercials director Max visits his friend, artist Charlie, who was diagnosed with AIDS in New York. There he meets Karen, they are attracted to eac...
Air Doll (2009)
A blow-up doll is given a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk.
The Black Balloon (2008)
All Thomas wants is a normal adolescence but his autistic brother, Charlie, thwarts his every opportunity. Will Thomas, with the help of his girlfriend, Jackie ...
Last Train Home (2009)
Last Train Home follows a Chinese Family as they leave their daughter and family to look for work in more industrialized areas. They leave the country side and...
Urban Menace (1999)
A preacher (Snoop Dogg) seeks revenge after the murder of his family and the burning of his church by a local crime syndicate in this hip-hop-soaked action-ho...
My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999)
Based on a wildly popular Japanese comic strip, master animator Isao Takahata directs this loosely structured work about that wacky household, the Yamadas.
Go Lala Go! (2010)
Going the Distance is an observational comedy about a young couple navigating their way through the perils of a long distance relationship who quickly discove...
Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
Of the cities in the world, few are depicted in and mythologized more in film and television than the city of Los Angeles. In this documentary, Thom Andersen ex...
Mama's Foot (2007)
Two low-life twins from South Central have two days to make $1,000 to save their mama's foot. The fun kicks in as the guys resort to everything from chili ...
Ek Stree (1999)
The story of a group of people from Northern Ireland, trying to make their way in life in the face of sectarian and political polarization. Chucky is an overwei...
Hurricane in the Rose Garden (2009) (2009)
A family comedy about what happens when a happily married couple's life is suddenly turned upside-down during an unwelcome visit from the husband's very traditi...
Speechless (1994)
Two political speechwriters fall in love before they find out they are working for candidates on opposite sides.
Rappas (2009)
Twins Gary and Cary are set on being big time rappas...only problem is they don't have any talent! Desperate for big bucks and fame they are suckered into signi...
Elisa (1995)
Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small ...
Any Questions for Ben? (2012)
: For 27-year-old Ben, life couldn’t be better. A well paid job, friends, parties, girls and nothing to tie him down. But when he is invited back to his old sch...
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1985)
A developer tries to bulldoze a community recreation center. The local breakdancers try to stop it.
Karthik Calling Karthik (2010)
Born in Delhi, but now living in Mumbai, Karthik Narayan is a much abused employee with ACL Construction, secretly in love with leggy Architect, Shonali Mukherj...
Anne B Real (2003)
ANNE B. REAL is the coming of age story of a young female rapper, who finds her inspiration by reading the Diary of Anne Frank.
The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All (1999)
At a college visit to a war buddy's professor daughter, mercenary Treat Williams finds her brutally beaten. He then poses as a teacher to teach a lesson to the ...
Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2008)
Batman isn't going at it alone this time! From Warner Bros. Animation comes the latest interpretation of the classic Batman franchise. Our caped crusader is te...
Step Off (2010)
Set in Atlanta's hip-hop underground scene, Rippa (Conrad Clifton), a struggling music producer working on his latest tracks for a regional beat battle, loses e...
The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
An ex-convict dentist (James Cagney) recalls his wife (Olivia de Havilland) and another man's wife (Rita Hayworth), in circa-1900 New York. ...
Puberty Blues (1981)
The mating rituals of two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of Sydney.
Paper Planes (2009)
I make mine. You make yours. He makes his. Everybody makes their own. Ervin Szabó: Paper Planes Seven stories independent from each other... See ful...
The Stick Up Kids (2008)
People always told Santos he was something special. His Uncle told him to get a skill, so he became a hustler and with his three,they became "The Stick Up Kids"...
Free Wall (2009)
When forced to deal with someone from a different background than you, do you accept them, or immediately shun them away? James is a young, single dad working a...
Get Pony Boy (2007)
After Spending years in prison, Pony Boy is finally returning to the world he has missed so much, his old neighborhood. A former gang member, pony is now a chan...
Starstruck (1982)
Young woman wants to become the next big singer with the help of her friends and despite the wishes of her working class family.
Dead-End Drive In (1986)
In the near future, drive-in theatres are turned into concentration camps for the undesirable and unemployed. The prisoners don't really care to escape because ...
Breathless (2009)
Multiple award winning film on the cyclical nature of violence in society. Sang-hoon is a low-life gangster debt-collector, trying to make good his life. His ...
A Simple Promise (2008)
A struggling young artist meets a talented, and undiscovered songstress. Desperately seeking success, they both must face hard truths and contend with sacrific...
When Nature Calls (1985)
Greg Van Waspish, feeling that there's more to life than spending day after day working in the city, decides one day to pack up the family and move out to the ...
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
An old roué arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld.
Burn (2012)
A documentary about Detroit told through the eyes of firefighters charged with the thankless task of saving a city that many have written off as dead.
Baton Baton Mein (1979)
Meeting on a train, Tony and Nancy fall in love, but their affair is hindered by family intervention.
The Night Before Christmas (1967)
After buying tickets for her neighbors from a scalper, Donald mentions that sometimes people are robbed while they are at the show. Ann and Donald remove their ...
Just Another Girl on the IRT (1992)
Chantel Mitchell (Ariyan Johnson), a hip, articulate, black high-school girl in Brooklyn, is determined not to become "just another girl on the IRT" (the IRT is...
Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
Filmmaker Dziga Vertov gives a surrealist view of Russia, emphasizing machinery and architecture.
Lonely Hearts (1982)
This is a film about two people falling in love for the very first time. She's afraid it may be too soon. He's afraid it may be too late.
Auto Recovery (2008)
Auto Recovery is a heart warming story about three young men, Slim, Ralph and Cory who specialize in recovering high end, expensive and well protected autos tha...
Street Poet (2010)
In underground clubs around the country is an undiscovered phenomenon called Slam Poetry where gifted poets fresh off the street go to war with each other throu...
Little Black Dress (2011)
After graduating from university a group of five close friends have to define their own lives in ways that challenge their friendship.
Confessions of a Gangsta (2006)
On the mean streets of Harlem, New York, the mayor is kidnapped by his illegitimate son, Jay. From a sex videotape ring to hustling drugs, Jay blames his fath...
Fighting Back (1982)
It's a hard crime story about a Philadelphia shop owner who has enough of the criminals' violences and ravages. He organizes a patrol of civil people. It all ...
Viruddh… Family Comes First (2005)
Vidyadhar Patwardhan lives a middle-class life with his wife, Sumitra. They have a son, Amar, who lives abroad in London, U.K., and it is through his income tha...
Do I Sound Gay (2014)
A documentary about the stereotype of the gay voice.
Friday at Dewaynes (2009)
After Dewayne's parents go on a vacation, his mischievous best friend Reggie insists they throw a house party. Trouble soon comes about for Dewayne as he has to...
Stone Cold Dead (1979)
A lady of the night can sell anything...even her life.
Indiscreet (1958)
Anna Kalman is a London based actress. She has been unable to find love in her life. The reason why she came home early from a vacation to Majorca fits into tha...
Studs Lonigan (1960)
A young man tries to escape the South Side of 1920s Chicago.
4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle (1987)
Reinette and Mirabelle are two young girls. Reinette lives in the countryside, Mirabelle in Paris. They meet during a holiday of Mirabelle in the country, when ...
The Tale of the Voodoo Prostitute (2012)
In the Tale of the Voodoo Prostitute, a master manipulator and hustler by the name of Fleetwood Deville dispenses heinous wrong-doings to nearly everyone that c...
Battle (2011)
Set in Atlanta's hip hop underground scene, Rippa, (Conrad Clifton) a struggling music producer, working on his latest tracks for a regional beat battle, loses ...
Still (2014)
Set in North London, 'Still' is a gritty and atmospheric thriller about the violent disintegration of a man and father. Tom Carver (Aidan Gillen) is a man stumb...
Trash Dance (2012)
Sometimes inspiration can be found in unexpected places. Choreographer Allison Orr finds beauty and grace in garbage trucks, and in the men and women who pick u...
Black Tar Heroin The Dark End of the Street (2000)
lack Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street is a 1999 documentary directed by Steven Okazaki. Filmed from 1995 to 1998 in the Tenderloin, San Francisco, Califor...
The Cuckold (2009)
A controversial dramatic feature that pushes a camera lens through the peephole of American taboo, focusing on the flashpoint where racial and sexual tensions c...
The Boys of Baraka (2005)
Twenty 12-year-old black boys from one of the most violent ghettos in Baltimore, Maryland, are taken 10,000 miles away to an experimental boarding school in rur...
Mongolian Bling (2012)
Forget about nomads and monks, it's hip hop that's making Mongolia move in the 21st century. Mongolian Bling jumps into the thriving music scene in the capital;...
Strong Language (2000)
While a narrator tells the story of a night of terror that changes his life forever, 16 young people chat about their lives in London. With topics ranging from ...
Waiting Alone (2004)
Chen Wen, an antique shop worker and aspiring author, who has just met the girl of his dreams. The only problem is that she only wants him as a very close frien...
Lord Help Us (2007)
An urban romantic comedy about two young misfits who help a recently widowed elderly Baptist preacher regain his church after members of his congregation are co...
Play with Fire (2009)
The sun begins to rise but for some the night is still going. The hum from the smelter takes over the morning radiance. Then the shift change gauges and the tow...
Heart of Now (2010)
"Heart of Now" concerns a young woman with a profound longing for a sense of family. Devastated by her boyfriend's sudden withdrawal from their relationship, sh...
Jungleground (1995)
Roddy Piper portrays a police Lt. working undercover in the so-called Jungleground. His sting operation goes bad and as a result he is caught. Young Odin, his c...
Jail Party (2005)
Jail Party, a "sublte satire" of straight-to-video urban films, follows the life of a young man trying to get out of the hood once and for all. The only problem...
Cost of a Soul (2010)
A gritty tale of two veterans who return home from Iraq to the war-zone of their own slum neighborhood. Their lives collide as their own families become entangl...
Champion Road (2008)
Jonathan Mercer is a normal everyday guy with problems, but none greater than the day his wife Rain was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. He turns to his li...
What's the Matter with Gerald? (2016)
A hypochondriac irks his partner by embracing the advice of an eccentric healer.
Trust (2006)
E. Roger Mitchell stars as Myles Rome , an architect in steamy Atlanta Georgia . He buys an engagement ring from a beautiful woman who happens to be the devil's...
Thuong nho dong que (1995)
Nostalgia for the Countryside explores the tensions and traumas of everyday life in a rural Vietnamese village. The arrival from abroad of Quyen, who fled the v...
London Eyes (2009)
London. Over half-a-million CCTV security cameras make it the most watched city on the planet. But who watches the watchers? LONDON EYES goes behind the cameras...
Big Fish in Middlesex (2006)
Set against the life in a prejudiced southern small town, with hilarious street-smart humor, the rules are clear- there are no rules.
Madonna The Immaculate Collection (1990)
Madonna has created videos that are among the most popular, memorable, controversial and innovative ever .
Echoes of Forgotten Places (2005)
Urban explorers and Industrial Archeologists visit decaying factories and abandoned buildings in Toronto.
Breaking All the Rules (1985)
The story of two guys and two girls who meet and fall in love in an amusement park on the last day of summer. All the while outwitting three moronic would-be je...
Perhaps Love (2005)
A love triangle develops during the making of a musical in mainland China.
Five Corners (1987)
A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who protected he...
Let's Do It Again (1975)
Two Atlanta men raise funds for their charity by rigging boxing matches in New Orleans, but their tricks attract the mob's attention.
Mona (2008)
Ever know somebody too nice? Lovable, but you just want to smack them? That's Bob, 34, witty and self-deprecating. Bob meets the right girl. Smart and beautiful...
United Skates (2018)
When America's last standing roller rinks are threatened with closure, a community of thousands battle in a racially charged environment to save an underground ...
Dayereh mina (1978)
Ali and his father go from their poor neighborhood in the outskirts of the city to a hospital so that Ali's father can be treated for his sickness. However sinc...
The George McKenna Story (1986)
The true story of a teacher in Los Angeles who becomes the Principal of George Washington Memorial High School. The school and its students are affected by the ...
Once Upon a Time in the Hood (2004)
In the gang infested neighborhoods nearby Chicago's Little Village, Raul follows in the footsteps of his older brother Freddy. Raul's destiny as a memb...
A Piece of the Action (1977)
Dave Anderson and Manny Durrell are two high-class sneak thieves who have never been caught. Joshua Burke is a retired detective who has enough evidence on the ...
Bloodz vs. Wolvez (2006)
A turf war is started by two rival supernatural gangs, The "Bloodz" which are vampires and the "Wolvez" which are werewolves.
Zombiez (2005)
A woman finds herself on the run from the living dead. Her friends are being slaughtered and she can find no help. Will she survive or will she too fall victim ...
Urban Massacre (2002)
The hottest underground Hip Hop group, Tha Supanatchralz, Ivory, Krumbsnatcha, Remedy, Dia, Baby Sham have a killer in their midst. Bodies are dropping all arou...
In Vanda's Room (2000)
The film follows the daily life of Vanda Duarte, a heroin addict in Lisbon, and the community she lives in.
4K Killer (2019)
4K Killer Movie. This feature-length movie is a collection of footage that has been shot, edited, and released by the 4K Killer of South Valley. Please be sure ...
Private Wars (1993)
A wealthy businessman is trying to "convince" the inhabitants of an old neighborhood to abandon their homes in order to build a huge business center t...
10 Promises to My Dog (2008)
A teenage girl adopts a homeless puppy and names it "Socks". They take care of each others since then, until one day when she is thinking Socks to be smaller th...
The Fearless One (2017)
Cody is a top martial artist that has been focusing on peacefully rebuilding his life after a tragic family event, but trouble seems to find him as he attempts ...
The Wog Boy (2000)
Steve liked Celia from the moment they met. But following a clash with her boss, Raelene Beagle-Thorpe, Minister for employment, he finids himself on national t...
Halls of Anger (1970)
An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transfered there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to...
The Whistler (2006)
When a no-good band of thugs enter a quiet small town to unleash their terror, nothing could prepare them for the wrath of a gentle giant who would defend the h...
Grip: A Criminal's Story (2006)
After betting a fellow inmate he would not return to prison, recently released ex-con, Grip, tries to make an honest living but is soon re-introduced to the wor...
Hustruer - ti år etter (1985)
Ten years have passed since our three heroines' first outing in 1975. Now the women meet at yet another class reunion. Not surprisingly, they are still unwi...
Slam (1998)
Slam tells the story of Ray Joshua, an original, gifted young MC trapped in a war-zone housing project known as Dodge City. Unable to find a job, Ray copes with...
Colorz of Rage (1999)
When an interracial couple move to New York City from the suburbs of Boston, they are hit with a hard-core reality that they are totally unprepared for.
Cageman (1992)
The story about a young, unemployed man, who after being kicked out is desperate enough to live anywhere. He is directed to Roy Chiao, who owns the caged establ...
Everything's Jake (2000)
A homeless man takes a newly homeless man under his wing and teaches him how to survive on the streets.
The Dream Factory (1997)
Four friends come up with an unusual idea to make some money and have fun doing it. For a small fee, they will impersonate and act out any character role for th...
Not by Bread Alone (1967)
Leftist welder and right wing clerk get married. Soon enough they find themselves covered with finacial and emotional problems.
Birch Street Gym (1991)
A group of elderly retirees join a boxing gym, and rediscover their self-worth as they repudiate expectations that they're too old to lead vigorous lives. J...
Distance (2001)
Members of a cult, modeled on Aum Shinrikyo, sabotage a city's water supply, then commit mass suicide near the shores of a lake. Family members of those affecte...
Black Girl (1972)
An aspiring dancer and her wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
Sunday School (2008)
Rachel the new girl in town is urged to attend Sunday School but when she agrees she gets more than she bargained for. Quickly falling for a young handsome past...
The Street (1976)
This film deals with a Jewish family in Montreal, Canada as they care for a dying grandmother and the young boy who is impatient to get the room he was promised...
Lola 2 (2022)
When champion amateur boxer and lifelong fighter Lola falls in love and has a baby, she struggles to give up her championship and leave the ring with her career...
Baby Mama's Club (2010)
When Randall, a devoted husband becomes a father and James, a womanizer, for the 17th time, they both seek out an eccentric style of counseling to aid them in t...
Reindeer Games (2020)
With his promising and rising career in radio and the love of his life by his side, Rayne Wilkins feels that he is ready to conquer the world. However, an unexp...
Goon Squad (2024)
A retired all female heist crew is reactivated after 16yrs when the partner who took the fall is released from prison.
Mahogany (2022)
Judgments and loyalty are tested in this raw and uncensored coming-of-age drama about Mo a young woman growing up in the trenches of an urban neighborhood.
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