Urban Setting Movies

A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

Housed inside a vault in the basement of an abandoned school lurks an evil that has been locked away for over a hundred years. When a teacher and 5...

The disturbed young loner Paul is looking for his place in life in the urban 80s metropolis Night City. When the sleazy city pushes him to the edge,...

After decades of terror, two deadly street gangs reach a delicate truce and young MJ (Silkk the Shocker) sees a way out of the hood once and for all....

A sophisticated and beautifully constructed account of landscape change in and around Paris in the early 1960s. The film raises complex issues about...

The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with...

Three children living in a displacement camp in northern Uganda compete in their country's national music and dance festival.

Louis Malle presents his entertaining snapshot of the comings and goings on one street corner in Paris.

The adventures and misadventures of officers Salinas and Freire, who will have to settle for their lives to be respected by their superiors.

Major Galeazzo, Chancellor Enea, the goalkeeper Placido, journalist Antenor and others living in a building of the city. All are drawn to the morbid...

Planning to take any job she can get in order to save enough money and leave Turkey for the U.S., Mina is hired at an Istanbul café as a...

A hypochondriac irks his partner by embracing the advice of an eccentric healer.

Three young friends trying to break into the entertainment business inadvertently anger a mob boss, setting in motion a chain of events that results...

A boy and his sister are abducted from the streets of Tehran and sold into slavery.

Sunshine and America reminisce over a relationship that goes back "like skellys".

Mike lives in New York. Every day he walks in the streets and what he sees mixes with his thoughts, while his dreams blur with the mirages of the...

Defend me from the Night

A neighborhood divided by gang violence that may prove impossible to heal unless the killing stops in this tense drama.

The conscientious policeman ACP Surya is a powerful and efficient officer who works for law and order and protects people. One day when he is chasing...

Marine private John Rossi is looking forward to a new assignment in New York City on the night he ventures into a Hell's Kitchen bar, and meets a...