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87
7.9
/122634/
78
/3515/
77
/1925/
4.4
/483084/
92
/150/
89
/3366/
93
/26/
cc age 16+

Do the Right Thing (1989)
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.
poster
Netflix
84
7.8
/166584/
78
/4421/
76
/2170/
4.0
/285879/
96
/71/
93
/3913/
76
/20/
cc age 17+

Boyz n the Hood (1991)
In the middle of the Los Angeles ghetto, drugs, robberies and shootings dominate everyday life. During these times, Furious tries to raise his son Tre to be a decent person. Tre's friends, on the other hand, have little regard for the law and drag the entire neighborhood into a street war...
poster
82
7.4
/34117/
75
/2189/
73
/711/
4.1
/77660/
94
/179/
86
/299/
75
/43/
cc age 16+

Blindspotting (2018)
Collin must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning. He and his troublemaking childhood best friend, Miles, work as movers, and when Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two men’s friendship is tested as they grapple with identity and their changed realities in the rapidly-gentrifying neighborhood they grew up in.
poster
82
7.2
/55446/
73
/2653/
71
/770/
3.5
/248470/
94
/372/
94
/1444/
84
/55/
cc age 11+

In the Heights (2021)
The story of Usnavi, a bodega owner who has mixed feelings about closing his store and retiring to the Dominican Republic or staying in Washington Heights.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
7.4
/6241/
76
/105/
70
/96/
3.9
/9593/
92
/13/
85
/77/
84
/12/

High Hopes (1989)
Working-class couple Shirley and Cyril are in conflict over whether they should have children, their problems with 'yuppies' moving into the neighbourhood and outpricing them, and the advent of Cyril's ageing mother's seventieth birthday.
poster
Netflix
80
6.5
/661/
63
/37/
56
/22/
3.6
/2125/
94
/32/
58
/8/
82
/12/
cc age 14+

Residue (2020)
A young filmmaker returns home after many years away, to write a script about his childhood, only to find his neighborhood unrecognizable and his childhood friends scattered to the wind.
poster
80
7.4
/72054/
71
/1264/
73
/1333/
3.8
/138571/
87
/52/
84
/1447/
82
/15/

Blow-Up (1966)
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.2
/806/
68
/42/
67
/25/
4.0
/2383/
96
/52/
79
/3/

In Jackson Heights (2015)
Legendary documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman (At Berkeley, National Gallery) explores the culture, politics and daily life of the Queens, NYC district of Jackson Heights, which lays claim to being the most diverse neighbourhood in the world.
poster
Peacock Premium
77
6.9
/9061/
68
/502/
66
/143/
3.8
/35533/
97
/129/
85
/141/
81
/30/
cc age 15+

A Thousand and One (2023)
Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a smart yet quiet teenager, but the secret that has defined their lives threatens to destroy the home they have so improbably built.
poster
MUBI
76
6.9
/228/
50
/11/
75
/2/
3.7
/1217/
97
/38/
81
/14/

Mountains (2024)
While looking for a new home for his family, a Haitian demolition worker is faced with the realities of redevelopment as he is tasked with dismantling his rapidly gentrifying Miami neighborhood.
poster
76
7.7
/323702/
79
/15542/
75
/6081/
3.8
/621022/
77
/65/
90
/28766/
62
/13/
cc age 10+

The Goonies (1985)
Young teen Mikey Walsh and his friends set off on a quest to find Pirate One-Eyed Willie's treasure in hopes of saving their homes from demolition. However, on their quest to find the treasure, they run into a family of recently escaped criminals, determined to capture the kids and reach the treasure first.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
6.7
/8139/
67
/438/
64
/169/
3.5
/9967/
97
/142/
63
/104/
86
/37/
cc age 13+

Little Men (2016)
Jake is a quiet, sensitive middle schooler with dreams of being an artist. He meets the affably brash Tony at his grandfather's funeral, and the unlikely pair soon hit it off. The budding friendship is put at risk, however, when a rent dispute between Jake's father, Brian, and Tony's mother, Leonor, threatens to become contentious.
poster
73
6.9
/3429/
63
/62/
58
/48/
3.7
/5649/
93
/15/
79
/58/
75
/12/

The Landlord (1970)
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.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
73
7.1
/28342/
71
/622/
69
/398/
3.6
/16258/
86
/28/
82
/560/
60
/19/

State of Grace (1990)
Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects with Jackie, a childhood friend and member of the Irish mob, and rekindles his love affair with Jackie's sister Kathleen.
poster
71
7.5
/2355/
73
/95/
64
/42/
3.5
/772/
88
/32/
72
/60/
57
/13/

You've Been Trumped (2012)
In this David and Goliath story for the 21st century, a group of proud Scottish homeowners take on celebrity tycoon Donald Trump as he buys up one of Scotland's last wilderness areas to build a golf resort.
poster
The Roku Channel
69
7.0
/4393/
63
/48/
62
/36/
3.3
/1579/
86
/94/
72
/386/
72
/31/
cc age 16+

Quinceañera (2006)
As Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin.
poster
Peacock Premium
69
5.9
/82537/
61
/4989/
60
/1704/
3.0
/320465/
84
/335/
72
/1272/
72
/54/
cc age 16+

Candyman (2021)
A Chicago artist's sanity starts to unravel, unleashing a terrifying wave of violence when he begins to explore the macabre history of the Candyman.
poster
AMC+
69
6.6
/2967/
66
/71/
60
/47/
3.3
/9242/
85
/40/
65
/110/
62
/14/

Medicine for Melancholy (2009)
Waking from a one-night stand that neither remembers, Micah and Joanne find themselves wandering the streets of San Francisco, sharing coffee and conversation and searching for a deeper connection.
poster
69
6.7
/108628/
69
/3836/
67
/1743/
3.7
/259508/
79
/82/
64
/3012/
61
/15/
cc age 16+

Candyman (1992)
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
poster
68
6.8
/65795/
70
/3653/
67
/1550/
3.2
/47602/
65
/220/
80
/677/
60
/36/
cc age 16+

Motherless Brooklyn (2019)
New York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, tries to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend, armed only with vague clues and the strength of his obsessive mind.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
74
67
7.2
/9489/
70
/165/
70
/140/
3.6
/7718/
83
/12/
77
/88/

Dead End (1937)
The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.
poster
Netflix
64
5.7
/11908/
60
/919/
57
/312/
2.9
/29470/
91
/43/
45
/128/
76
/5/
cc age 13+

Vampires vs. the Bronx (2020)
Three gutsy kids from a rapidly gentrifying Bronx neighborhood stumble upon a sinister plot to suck all the life from their beloved community.
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66
62
6.8
/4371/
68
/197/
65
/115/
3.3
/6838/
70
/23/
76
51
/10/

Next Door (2021)
Berlin, the Prenzlauer Berg district. Daniel is a movie star accustomed to success. His loft apartment is stylish and so is his wife, and the nanny has the children under control. Everything is tip-top, bilingual and ready for him to jet off to an audition in London where a role in an American superhero film awaits the celebrated German-Spanish actor. Popping into the local bar on the corner, he finds Bruno sitting there. As transpires by the minute, Bruno has been waiting for this moment for a long time. And so this eternally overlooked man – one of reunification's losers and a victim of the gentrification of what was once East Berlin – takes his revenge. With Daniel as his target...
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61
7.0
/2055/
68
/85/
56
/32/
3.3
/890/
50
/26/
72
/153/
47
/17/

La Mission (2009)
Growing up in the Mission district of San Francisco, Che Rivera has always had to be tough to survive. He's a powerful man respected throughout the Mission barrio for his masculinity and his strength, as well as for his hobby building beautiful lowrider cars. A reformed inmate and recovering alcoholic, Che has worked hard to redeem his life and do right by his pride and joy: his only son, Jes, whom he has raised on his own after the death of his wife. Che's path to redemption is tested, however, when he discovers Jes is gay. To survive his neighborhood, Che has always lived with his fists. To survive as a complete man, he'll have to embrace a side of himself he's never shown.
poster
Disney Plus
61
5.7
/9507/
66
/621/
61
/430/
2.9
/7674/
83
/6/
53
/262/
49
/5/
cc age 6+

Herbie Rides Again (1974)
The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.
poster
59
5.4
/8993/
65
/91/
52
/35/
3.0
/1015/
56
/9/
56
/62/

Who's the Man? (1993)
Ed Lover and Doctor Dre are two inept barbers. Deciding that maybe they ought to find another line of work, they join the police. A big mistake, as far as their duty sergeant, Sgt Cooper is concerned, who proceeds to harass them at every turn. Despite this, they discover a major crime, and proceed to solve it in their own unusual fashion.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
56
5.2
/5163/
64
/235/
49
/86/
3.0
/5454/
29
/7/
67
/385/
55
/7/

Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984)
The dance crew from "Breakin'" bands together to save a community center from a greedy developer bent on building a shopping center in its place.
poster
53
6.1
/85690/
64
/3006/
59
/1542/
2.7
/17205/
26
/152/
40
/1149/
49
/38/
cc age 17+

Broken City (2013)
In a broken city rife with injustice, ex-cop Billy Taggart seeks redemption and revenge after being double-crossed and then framed by its most powerful figure, the mayor. Billy's relentless pursuit of justice, matched only by his streetwise toughness, makes him an unstoppable force - and the mayor's worst nightmare.
poster
MGM Plus
50
43
5.8
/3981/
65
/135/
59
/70/
2.9
/2559/
29
/7/
36
/38/

Malone (1987)
Erstwhile C.I.A. assassin Richard Malone hopes for a tranquil retirement in the placid Pacific Northwest, but what he gets is a rumble with a right-wing extremist plotting a secret revolution.
poster
Hoopla
43
5.2
/7456/
59
/203/
50
/93/
2.6
/3581/
11
/28/
36
/123/
40
/13/

Club Paradise (1986)
When Chicago firefighter Jack Moniker retires and moves to a small Caribbean island, he is befriended by the owner of a run-down resort. Together they renovate the resort and lure tourists to Club Paradise in an effort to fight off corrupt officials and businessmen who want to claim the resort as their own.
poster
54
43
5.6
/2553/
60
/160/
52
/85/
2.8
/1642/
61
/38/
40
/14/
55
/12/

City of Tiny Lights (2016)
In the teeming, multicultural metropolis of modern-day London, a seemingly straightforward missing-person case launches a down-at-heel private eye into a dangerous world of religious fanaticism and political intrigue.
poster
78
40
7.4
/454/
74
/16/
78
/4/
3.8
/1222/
100
/6/
67

The Street (2019)
The baker, the pie-maker and the diminished long-term community of Hoxton Street face gentrification in this compelling portrait of a rapidly changing London.
poster
61
38
6.4
/3182/
59
/52/
59
/40/
3.2
/1071/

Şaban Pabucu Yarım (1985)
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poster
Hulu
38
5.8
/64554/
62
/3994/
59
/1769/
2.5
/52712/
10
/70/
36
/586/
23
/22/
cc age 13+

The Cobbler (2014)
Max Simkin repairs shoes in the same New York shop that has been in his family for generations. Disenchanted with the grind of daily life, Max stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to step into the lives of his customers and see the world in a new way. Sometimes walking in another man's shoes is the only way one can discover who they really are.
poster
59
36
6.6
/1702/
64
/78/
50
/32/
56
/77/

East Side Story (2006)
Diego is a gay but closeted Hispanic chef living in East Los Angeles who works in the restaurant operated by his grandmother. Frustrated by the secretive lifestyle he shares with his similarly closeted lover, Pablo, Diego finds himself attracted to Wesley, one of the openly gay Caucasian men he feels are gentrifying his neighborhood. Their relationship pushes Diego to consider the possibility of a life he had never imagined.
poster
Plex
61
33
6.1
/1051/
66
/46/
57
/31/
3.3
/943/
59
/43/

Boystown (2007)
Victor works in a real estate agency in the well-known Chueca neighborhood of Madrid. He hides a terrible secret: he makes apartments available for sale by murdering the old ladies owners that live in them. Then, refurbishes and decorates the apartments to sell them to gay couples with high purchasing power. His ultimate objective is to transform Chueca into a kind of London Soho area.
poster
27
3.7
/26117/
45
/745/
42
/482/
1.6
/7009/
3
/59/
18
/2990/
17
/11/
cc age 15+

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)
When a teenager, Chun-Li witnesses the kidnapping of her father by wealthy crime lord M. Bison. When she grows up, she goes on a quest for vengeance and becomes the famous crime-fighter of the Street Fighter universe.
poster
Hoopla
65
23
6.8
/1156/
68
/69/
58
/20/
3.4
/494/

The One Percent (2006)
Jamie Johnson takes the exploration of wealth that he began in Born Rich one step further. The One Percent, refers to the tiny percentage of Americans who control nearly half the wealth of the U.S. Johnson's thesis is that this wealth in the hands of so few people is a danger to our very way of life.
poster
55
14
5.9
/329/
72
/18/
61
/20/
32
/16/

I Love Hong Kong 2011 (2011)
After his business goes bust, Ng Shun and his family move back to his old apartment to stay with his father. He has not returned for 10 years because the apartment is too small for his family. Furthermore, the environment is unfamiliar to Shun's family. Coincidentally Shun's old childhood friend, Lung returns too. Due to an old misunderstanding, Shun is distrustful of Lung. Will Lung regain Shun's trust again?
poster
66
13
6.9
/646/
59
/10/
70
/13/
3.4
/230/

Ladies Who Do (1963)
The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save their old neighbourhoods from the wicked developer.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
65
13
6.9
/441/
64
/32/
66
/14/
3.2
/219/

San Francisco 2.0 (2015)
San Francisco has long enjoyed a reputation as the counterculture capital of America, attracting bohemians, mavericks, progressives and activists. With the onset of the digital gold rush, young members of the tech elite are flocking to the West Coast to make their fortunes, and this new wealth is forcing San Francisco to reinvent itself. But as tech innovations lead America into the golden age of digital supremacy, is it changing the heart and soul of their adopted city?
poster
?
8.6
/8/

The Last Ride (2025)
A journey among the forgotten: U.S. citizens experiencing homelessness, forced to live in extreme marginalization. Giving voice to these wounded souls is the unmistakable sound of Tom Waits.
poster
Plex
96
?
9.2
/125/
100
/1/

Barbenheimer and the Cult of Walt Disney (2024)
It's the summer of Barbie and Oppenheimer aka Barbenheimer, and The Egos take on blockbuster madness with a Top Gun parody. When streaming numbers plummet, they uncover the bizarre cult of Walt Disney.
poster
?
5.9
/13/
100
/1/

When Chueca Dies (2025)
Chueca in central Madrid has been an oasis of freedom for the LGTBQIA+ community since the 1990s. But recently, due to the changing political climate of hate speech by politicians, the neighborhood has been under a magnifying glass.
poster
?
7.0
/7/

East Side Showdown (1999)
This feature documentary is a portrait of the downtown Toronto neighbourhood of Dundas and Sherbourne, where the gap between rich and poor is growing wide. There, middle-class homeowners, angry radicals, desperate drug addicts and people simply looking for a place to lay their head are embattled in a bitter struggle for space.
poster
?
9.6
/9/
100
/1/
100
/1/

Un día por Málaga (2024)
Emilio Pascual, a historical figure of Andalusian cinema from the early 1900s, appears in today's Malaga with the mission of bringing the first documentary filmed in Andalusia to its first screening.
poster
Hoopla
40
?
6.2
/108/
40
/5/
19
/4/

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" Harlem would never be the same. They thought they had it all... Money, cars, the lifestyle and the lingo. The only two words They didn't know were JURISDICTION AND GENTRIFICATION but in their world it was all for one and one for all until an unexpected, mysterious death, forced "The Stick Up Kids"to change their focus from doing crime to stopping the "North Manhattan Project". Now it was up to Santos to pull off one last sting before it destroyed them all. Watch out America. 'The Stick Up Kids" are coming to your town!
poster
?
10
/1/

Gay Power (1979)
KPIX's Emmy Award winning People's 5 report with Don Knapp from November 24th 1979, on the lifestyle and and political ambitions of the gay community in San Francisco.


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