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Amazon Prime Video
89
8.5
/282032/
82
/4436/
82
/3930/
4.3
/246885/
98
/113/
95
/1798/
96
/4/
cc age 6+

Modern Times (1936)
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
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Kanopy
87
7.8
/28698/
76
/876/
77
/623/
4.2
/96230/
98
/55/
89
/577/
99
/19/

PlayTime (1967)
Clumsy Monsieur Hulot finds himself perplexed by the intimidating complexity of a gadget-filled Paris. He attempts to meet with a business contact but soon becomes lost. His roundabout journey parallels that of an American tourist, and as they weave through the inventive urban environment, they intermittently meet, developing an interest in one another. They eventually get together at a chaotic restaurant, along with several other quirky characters.
poster
Kanopy
86
8.2
/25243/
79
/388/
80
/635/
4.3
/37427/
91
/33/
94
/189/
84
/7/

Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.
poster
Kanopy
79
7.3
/2352/
75
/140/
74
/80/
3.6
/2237/
100
/14/
85
/48/

Urbanized (2011)
A documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world's foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
75
7.2
/38027/
72
/1959/
72
/1134/
3.7
/120798/
86
/14/
77
/731/
77
/8/
7.2
/69308/
cc age 10+

Pom Poko (1994)
The Raccoons of the Tama Hills are being forced from their homes by the rapid development of houses and shopping malls. As it becomes harder to find food and shelter, they decide to band together and fight back. The Raccoons practice and perfect the ancient art of transformation until they are even able to appear as humans in hilarious circumstances.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
64
7.6
/3615/
72
/76/
74
/151/
3.9
/4564/
87
/471/

Hands Over the City (1963)
Prior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal.
poster
78
58
7.2
/1229/
71
/64/
74
/60/
3.8
/3378/
100
/9/

Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains (2020)
In the Chinese town of Fuyang, four brothers go about their day-to-day lives, their destinies shaped by love and challenges.
poster
Kanopy
68
31
5.9
/466/
52
/9/
69
/9/
3.1
/687/
100
/5/

Anatolian Leopard (2022)
At Turkey’s oldest zoo, a lonely manager and a neglected female officer form an unlikely bond: as they hide the death of the zoo’s oldest inhabitant, an Anatolian leopard, in order to stop the privatization process and fake its escape, they set in motion an absurd charade that spins out of control. In Turkey’s grey and quiet capital, the ghost of the leopard persists.
poster
71
30
8.0
/523/
65
/39/
78
/22/
3.2
/1561/

Under the Dome (2015)
Chai Jing's documentary about the massive smog problem in China. Chai Jing started making the documentary when her as yet unborn daughter developed a tumour in the womb, which had to be removed very soon after her birth. Chai blames air pollution for the tumour. The film, which combines footage of a lecture with interviews and factory visits, has been compared with Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth in both its style and likely impact. The film openly criticises state-owned energy companies, steel producers and coal factories, as well as showing the inability of the Ministry of Environmental Protection to act against the big polluters.
poster
64
21
6.8
/124/
66
/3/
48
/5/
76
/718/

Histoire de famille (2006)
N/A
poster
80
13
7.3
/1499/
67
/14/
100
/1/
3.5
/441/
90
/3/

Harami (2021)
An orphan teenage pickpocket working the trains of Mumbai along with his gang, embarks on a life-altering journey when faced by the daughter of one of his victims who's committed suicide after being robbed.
poster
72
12
7.6
/321/
72
/21/
68
/10/
3.6
/379/

Helsinki, Forever (2008)
Helsinki, Forever is a montage film about the city of Helsinki by the award-winning Finnish film director and academic Peter von Bagh. The film draws a portrait of Helsinki and also acts as an essay on Finnish culture in a wider sense. It shows Helsinki as captured by leading Finnish feature film and documentary makers over a period of one hundred years.
poster
74
9
7.2
/278/
64
/5/
80
/10/
82
/2/

Varmints (2008)
Adapted and directed by Marc Craste, Varmints is a 24-minute film based on the award-winning book of the same name by Helen Ward and illustrated by Craste, that tells the story of one small creature's struggle to preserve a world in danger of being lost forever through recklessness and indifference. A crew of 35 people worked in three countries over a two year period to make the film, and an original score by Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson and sound design by Adrian Rhodes complete the picture.
poster
?
6.4
/19/
10
/1/

The City on Islands (1958)
A documentary tackling the subject of living in the ruins of Warsaw. This austere portrait of the capital of Poland consists of static images: the camera is positioned to show the new city "logo" - the Palace of Culture and Science. However, after 13 years of rebuilding, Warsaw looks empty.
poster
?
9.9
/11/
100
/1/

Occurrences of Questionable Significance (2020)
When forest animals invade our cities, the world is in disarray. Office vixen Fiona struggles with her banana phone addiction. Will she succumb to it? Temperamental bunny Barbara only gives her stag sugar daddy Nestor his special massage, after he dines her and plays the big spender. This obscure short film pinpoints postmodern tropes of consumerism, eroticism, and art with an homage to the theater stage and references to literature. This work uses a fantasy language and needs no subtitles.
poster
?
8.2
/37/
45
/2/
75
/2/

The Man Who Stopped the Desert (2010)
As a child in Burkina Faso, Yacouba was sent away from home to study the Qur'an, where he and his classmates were almost starving. The young boys would trek across miles of wilderness, only to fall and beg at a straw hut for meagre rations. It is from this harsh background that the young farmer became determined to develop techniques that would bring exhausted soil back into production. His efforts have outdone the work of the world's leading scientists and technological advances costing millions of pounds. They may also yet prove crucial to the future of the world's rapidly growing population and global food demands.
poster
?
5.8
/8/
10
/1/
10

Philippines, My Philippines (1989)
Philippines my Philippines (1989) is a feature length documentary about the situation in the Philippines two years after the notionally democratic Cory Aquino replaced the dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the ‘People Power’ revolution of 1986. Touching on the influence and interests of the United States and Australia, it examines the social context and dimensions of the violent conflict between government and big business on one hand and the rural and urban poor (led by the Communist Party of the Philippines and its New People Army) on the other.
poster
65
?
7.0
/39/
57
/4/
63
/3/
3.5
/390/

Megalopolis (1973)
An analysis of the phenomenon of accelerated urbanization in Brazil, and more particularly in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.
poster
?
7.4
/15/
10
/1/

Indradhanura Chhai (1993)
The disparate lives of three generations of women living simultaneously in a contemporary, rural Indian town are chronicled in this socially conscious drama. The three women are Vijaya, a recently widowed and deeply depressed young woman, her elderly aunt, and Sonia, a girl in her early 20s. In addition to their own problems, the three must cope with the increasing urbanization of their home village, changing attitudes, and the erosion of cultural values.
poster
?
6.2
/33/

Charley in New Town (1948)
Meet Charley, your jovial cartoon guide to Britain’s changing towns and cities.
poster
61
?
7.2
/216/
63
/3/
48
/6/

Uncle Au in the City (1979)
Uncle Au is an usual wood goblin loving to frighten and misbehave. Once he woke up and surprised, how the world changed around. And even children now are not afraid of him.
poster
?
7.7
/44/
90
/1/
60
/1/

Slums: Cities of Tomorrow (2014)
One billion people on our planet—one in six—live in shantytowns, slums or squats. Slums: Cities of Tomorrow challenges conventional thinking to propose that slums are in fact the solution, not the problem, to urban overcrowding caused by the massive migration of people to cities. (Lynne Fernie, HotDocs)
poster
?
10
/1/

Taken by Storm (1983)
N/A
poster
?
5.9
/22/
10
/1/

At the Beach (1984)
"At he beach" - A hidden masterpiece: one part rural elegy, one part urban romance, forged together in an editing tour de force. Rarely screened in China or outside, this story of a fisherman’s daughter caught between factory work and feudal forced marriage is simply astonishing.
poster
66
?
6.3
/377/
68
/6/
69
/8/
3.3
/377/

Palunku (2006)
Monichan, a farmer, moves to a city with his family to provide better education to his children. Problems arise when he gets influenced by anti-social elements who involve him in illegal activities.
poster
?
60
/1/
50
/1/

Fim de Semana (1976)
Documentary about the self construction in peripheral neighborhoods of São Paulo. It gathers statements of residents of three areas: Taboão neighborhood in São Bernardo do Campo; Jardim d’Ávila in Osasco and Jardim Castilho in Embu. The film registers the life conditions in those areas and the sacrifice the workers are committed to in order to fulfill their dream of having a house: building, little by little, with the help of friends and relatives, on the weekends.
poster
?
10
/1/

Brás (1973)
A look at Brás, one of São Paulo's main Italian districts from its start until the 70s.
poster
72
?
7.5
/134/
70
/3/

Newtopia (2020)
The adventurous Norwegian backpacker Audun Amundsen is driven by his search for a utopian world and ends up in the jungle of Indonesia. Here he meets the shaman Aman Paksa and his clan who lives a traditional life, surviving without money, electricity or modern tools. Amundsen follows Aman Paksa for nearly 15 years on his turbulent path towards modernity.
poster
?
6.1
/87/
67
/7/
20
/3/

Ein Reihenhaus steht selten allein (2014)
After some back and forth are graphic designers Jan Börner can finally bring himself and his wife Anne and their children Lisa and Luke a terraced house in a modern housing estate to relate. But a short time later reveal the dark side of this decision. In the midst of gossiping settlement residents privacy is nil. To make matters worse, the busy neighbors feel even called to overwhelm Jan and Anne with supposedly helpful advice for running the household and raising children. The tense atmosphere in the family finally reached a new climax when one day Jan's ex-girlfriend Maren moves into the house next door ...
poster
?
6.5
/45/
20
/2/

Property (1979)
Facing eviction, the residents of a bohemian quarter of Portland, Oregon organize to collectively purchase a block of houses, only to get a crash course in bureaucracy.
poster
?
2.9
/10/
12
/4/

False Saints (2003)
This experimental animation film examines society's deification of architecture and urbanization in the modern world and the impact on our relationship to nature. This film was made with the NFB Hothouse program for emerging filmmakers.
poster
52
?
6.9
/205/
30
/2/
59
/8/

A Worker's Diary (1967)
Juhani, a welder and Ritva, a right-wing backgrounded, future clerk get married. Soon we see that their marriage seems to be all about long business trips, housing problems, concerns about the money and political disagreements.
poster
?
7.2
/33/
10
/1/
70
/3/

Town Is Our Future (1967)
With its sharp opinions, the film is a follow-up to the film Asuminen ja luonto (Living and Nature). One of the most important Finnish short films, it is a lively analysis of urban living and the functions of the city.
poster
36
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3.6
/477/
40
/9/
40
/4/
30
/4/

Gang of Ghosts (2014)
A group of ghosts reside in an old house and live in harmony despite cultural differences. However, when they learn that a builder plans to demolish the building, they band together to stop him.
poster
?
6.5
/24/
55
/2/

San Yuan Li (2003)
San Yuan Li, the collaborative project by Ou Ning, Cao Fei, and the members of U-thèque Organization, is a case study of the typical “urban village” phenomenon of Guangzhou in 1990s. Armed with video cameras, the crew penetrated San Yuan Li as “city flâneurs,” presented a highly stylized portrait of the village, attempting to rethink the debt of history, to document the confrontation and reconciliation between the newly urbanization and the patriarchal-clan-based traditional community, as well as the weird architectures and cultural landscape emerging from this previously rural area. At the end, all the colored footages were eidted into a piece of black-and-white video poetry. The project was exhibited in the 50th Venice Biennale for the first time, and then screened worldwide.
poster
?

Farewell Chang Chun (2023)
This film is dedicated to the house that has anchored a home for my family for over 30 years: Chang Chun, my grandmother’s house. Just like the fate of several old buildings in Taipei, she will be demolished by the end of this year.
poster
?

Who Killed Jenny Langby? (1975)
Traces the events leading up to the suicide of an Adelaide mother of five children.
poster
?

Not Just Roads (2021)
A massive urban transformation is underway in India. As part of the government’s Bharatmala (‘Garland of Limitless Roads’) programme, highways are being constructed at an unprecedented rate—with the aim of opening up new territories to the emerging Indian middle classes.


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