Keyword: tenement

The Raid

7.8

2011

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A S.W.A.T. team becomes trapped in a tenement run by a ruthless mobster and his army of killers and thugs.

Street Scene

6.9

1931

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Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hells Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interacts with each other during a summer heatwave.

One Third of a Nation

6.1

1939

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A fire in a run-down tenement building injures young Joey Rogers. Wealthy passerby Peter Cortlant rushes the boy and his attractive older sister Mary to the hospital and pays the medical expenses for the poverty-stricken family. Only later does Peter learn that the firetrap tenement is one of his own vast real estate holdings. Faced with his own unwitting complicity in the deaths and injuries resultant from the fire and with his growing attachment to Mary, Peter decides to tear down his tenements and erect decent affordable housing. But his family is aghast at his plan and plots to wreck it.

A Patch of Blue

8

1965

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A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life by introducing her to the outside world.

In America

7.8

2002

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A family of Irish immigrants adjust to life on the mean streets of Hells Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

8

1945

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Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.

The Long Night

6.6

1947

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Police surround the apartment of apparent murderer Joe Adams, who refuses to surrender although escape appears impossible. During the siege, Joe reflects on the circumstances that led him to this situation.

The Easiest Way

5.7

1931

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Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura decides not to marry the boy-next-door and instead accepts wealthy, older Will Brocktons invitation to move in with him. After falling in love with young up-and-coming newsman Jack Madison she leaves Brockton to wait for Madisons return from a long assignment. She runs out of money and becomes desperate, returning again to Brockton who, upon learning of Madisons sudden arrival, tells Laura she must inform Madison of her living situation or he will.