Comedy, Drama
At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert the building into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Broken Landlord
Nina
A Film with Me in It
Bare Ground
Kadikara Manithargal
The Tenants
Packing the Monkeys, Again!
The People Under the Stairs
The Tenant
Peeping Tom
Inn for Trouble
The Lower Depths
In My Ashtanga Class
Sliver
Beau Pere
Living on Love
The Knack... and How to Get It
The Cabin in the Cotton
Pitaah
Any Old Port!
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Broken Landlord
IMDB 8.2 | Apr , 1985
The landowner (Agha) of the Haraptar village marries off his old father with the young and beautiful Kiraz. But on the nuptial night, his father dies and everything starts to go bad for the Agha. Due to the long drought and provocations of Kekec Salman (big brother of Kiraz), the peasants steal the crops and run away to Istanbul. Without the peasants and crops, Agha is also forced to sell the village and move to Istanbul. But he cannot keep up with the big city life and consumes all his money and belongings. Agha's wife and relatives leave him during this downfall.Nina
IMDB 5.6 | Jan , 2004
After losing her job, an unstable woman sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.A Film with Me in It
IMDB 6.1 | Oct , 2008
A dissolute scriptwriter and a dejected actor become unwittingly drawn into a labyrinthine mess when several people experience bizarre accidental deaths in their flat. Though the men didn't deliberately cause any of the incidents, they fear that they will be unfairly pegged as murderers if they relay information to the cops, and promptly set about disposing of the corpses in gruesome ways.Bare Ground
IMDB 6 | Mar , 2003
The story takes place in a dilapidated building in the blocks of New Belgrade, whose tenants constantly fight and do bad things to one another. In the same building lives a quiet and young married couple, who are completely different from their environment.Kadikara Manithargal
IMDB 8 | Aug , 2018
The struggles of a poor family forced to rent a house owned by a cruel landlord.The Tenants
IMDB 1 | Feb , 1976
It proceeds to document the stages of sugar production once in the mill then shifts to the unrest outside where a sakada was shot to death by one of the hacienda's guards. A sakada is a farmer who works in a sugarcane field, harvesting it during the months of October to December.Packing the Monkeys, Again!
IMDB 5 | May , 2004
A couple who lost their communication tries to refresh the relationship by renting another apartment.The People Under the Stairs
IMDB 6.5 | Nov , 1991
Trapped inside a fortified home owned by a mysterious couple, a young boy quickly learns the true nature of the homicidal inhabitants, and secret creatures hidden deep within the walls.The Tenant
IMDB 7.6 | May , 1976
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.Peeping Tom
IMDB 7.4 | Apr , 1960
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.Inn for Trouble
IMDB 6.5 | Jan , 1960
Peggy Mount and David Kossoff star as Ada and Alf Larkin in this big screen version of the hugely popular 1950s TV comedy. Alf Larkin has finally made good his dream to own a pub. The trouble is, it's got no customers. But leave it to the Larkins to find unorthodox ways to bring in the punters.The Lower Depths
IMDB 7.1 | Oct , 1957
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.In My Ashtanga Class
IMDB 2.5 | Dec , 2022
A yoga instructor with a twisted mind meets a sugar daddy in this bumpy human romantic comedy.Sliver
IMDB 5.5 | May , 1993
A woman moves into a Manhattan apartment, where she learns that the previous tenant's life ended under mysterious circumstances.Beau Pere
IMDB 6.5 | Sep , 1981
Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard when Marion begins expressing her attraction to him. Initially repulsed, Marion's mature beauty wears him down as he finally caves to her seductions.Living on Love
IMDB 6 | Nov , 1937
A man and a woman, who have never met, are forced by pecuniary circumstances to share the same basement apartment in shifts.The Knack... and How to Get It
IMDB 5.9 | Jun , 1965
A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men meet up with a new girl in town, as well as a friendly lunatic who can’t help but paint things white.The Cabin in the Cotton
IMDB 6.3 | Sep , 1932
Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.Pitaah
IMDB 6.4 | Jan , 2002
A small town in rural India gets to witness a confrontation between two fathers - one a rich, powerful, influential, and cruel Zamindar Thakur Avadh Narayan Singh - who wants the man who filed a police complaint against his two sons to be killed immediately. And the other is Rudra, a poor laborer employed by Avadh, who wants justice when he finds out that his nine year old daughter, Durga, has been beaten and brutally raped by Avadh's sons, Bachhu, and Bhola. Amidst this background we have a corrupt doctor, who is willing to change his medical report after he is bribed appropriately; and a Police Inspector, Ramnarayan Bhardwaj, who is willing to drop any charges against Avadh's sons provided he gets his "dues" from the Thakur.Any Old Port!
IMDB 6.9 | Mar , 1932
Stan and Ollie check into a seedy hotel and help a young girl escape the clutches of the landlord. They are forced to flee the hotel with no money and Ollie arranges for Stan to fight at a local boxing hall for $50. Stan's opponent turns out to be Musgy who uses a loaded glove. During the fight the glove is swapped and Stan triumphs only to find that Ollie has bet their fee that he would lose.