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1. West Side Story (2021)
PG-13 | 156 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez
Votes: 95,849
2. Up (2009)
PG | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
78-year-old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his house equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway.
Directors: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson | Stars: Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger, Christopher Plummer
Votes: 1,127,142 | Gross: $293.00M
3. Batman (1989)
PG-13 | 126 min | Action, Adventure
The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl
Votes: 404,924 | Gross: $251.19M
4. Ashes to Ashes (2008–2010)
TV-MA | 1,320 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
After being shot in 2008 while investigating DCI Sam Tyler, DI Alex Drake wakes up in 1981.
Stars: Philip Glenister, Keeley Hawes, Dean Andrews, Marshall Lancaster
Votes: 11,126
5. Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A developer tries to bulldoze a community recreation center. The local breakdancers try to stop it.
Director: Sam Firstenberg | Stars: Lucinda Dickey, Adolfo Quinones, Michael Chambers, Susie Coelho
Votes: 4,796 | Gross: $15.10M
6. Be Kind Rewind (2008)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy
Two bumbling store clerks inadvertently erase the footage from all of the tapes in their video rental store. In order to keep the business running, they re-shoot every film in the store with their own camera, with a budget of zero dollars.
Director: Michel Gondry | Stars: Jack Black, Yasiin Bey, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow
Votes: 94,322 | Gross: $11.17M
7. City Hall (1996)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The accidental shooting of a boy in New York leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.
Director: Harold Becker | Stars: Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda, Danny Aiello
Votes: 22,478 | Gross: $20.20M
8. The Best of Times (1986)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Robin Williams, Kurt Russell, Pamela Reed, Holly Palance
Votes: 8,210 | Gross: $7.79M
9. Close My Eyes (1991)
R | 108 min | Drama, Romance
An estranged brother and sister begin an intense sexual relationship, behind the curtain of their otherwise normal working-class lives.
Director: Stephen Poliakoff | Stars: Alan Rickman, Clive Owen, Saskia Reeves, Karl Johnson
Votes: 3,628 | Gross: $0.14M
10. Roger & Me (1989)
R | 91 min | Documentary
After General Motors closes its factory in Flint, Michigan, eliminating 35,000 jobs, filmmaker Michael Moore undertakes a quixotic quest to interview General Motors' chairman, Roger B. Smith.
Director: Michael Moore | Stars: Michael Moore, Roger B. Smith, Rhonda Britton, Fred Ross
Votes: 27,532 | Gross: $6.71M
11. Tomorrow (2015)
G | 118 min | Documentary
The world's climate is changing. Instead of showing the worst that can happen, this documentary focuses on the people suggesting solutions and their actions.
Directors: Cyril Dion, Mélanie Laurent | Stars: Anthony Barnosky, Olivier De Schutter, Cyril Dion, Emmanuel Druon
Votes: 3,601 | Gross: $0.04M
12. Don't Touch the White Woman! (1974)
108 min | Comedy, Western
A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.
Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret
Votes: 955
13. My Architect (2003)
116 min | Documentary, Biography
Director Nathaniel Kahn searches to understand his father, noted architect Louis Kahn, who died bankrupt and alone in 1974.
Director: Nathaniel Kahn | Stars: Edmund Bacon, Edwina Pattison Daniels, Balkrishna Doshi, Frank Gehry
Votes: 3,322 | Gross: $2.75M
14. Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (2002)
TV-14 | 24 min | Action, Adventure, Animation
Two kids whose families own businesses in a shopping arcade that's scheduled to shut down are thrown into a series of dimensions, each one a parody of some form of anime or video game, and try to find their way home.
Stars: Luci Christian, Jessica Boone, John Gremillion, Yuki Matsuoka
Votes: 723
15. London (1994)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary
An inspiring tale through London by pictures narrated by Paul Scofield.
Director: Patrick Keiller | Stars: Paul Scofield, John Major, Norma Major, Dennis Skinner
Votes: 761
16. A Place to Go (1963)
86 min | Crime, Drama
A young man employed by a cigarette factory is tired of his working class status and joins a gang planning to rob the factory warehouse.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Rita Tushingham, Michael Sarne, Bernard Lee, Doris Hare
Votes: 311
17. Detropia (2012)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
A documentary on the city of Detroit and its woes, which are emblematic of the collapse of the U.S. manufacturing base.
Directors: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady | Stars: Noah Stewart, Rachele Gilmnore, Michael Wanko, Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra
Votes: 1,626 | Gross: $0.36M
18. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2011)
Not Rated | 79 min | Documentary
2011 "The Pruitt-Igoe Myth" explores the rise & fall of titular housing complex in St. Louis, examining racism & gov. Policies through interviews with former residents & historical footage. Ft racism, urban poverty & inequality in America.
Director: Chad Freidrichs | Stars: Slyvester Brown, Irvin Dagen, Elmer Fiedler, Robert Fishman
Votes: 932 | Gross: $0.04M
19. Siren's Call (2018)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
Tahsin is a burnt-out architect. One night, he encounters an old friend, Siren; a woman who now lives on the remote southern coast of Turkey. Enchanted, he decides to follow her down south.
Director: Ramin Matin | Stars: Deniz Celiloglu, Ezgi Çelik, Gizem Erdem, Tekin Ezgütekin
Votes: 648
20. The Fall of the I-Hotel (1983)
57 min | Documentary
After the Manongs labored to build America, their San Francisco Manilatown community is wiped out by urban renewal, and 50 old-timers are forcibly evicted from the International Hotel by ... See full summary »
Director: Curtis Choy
Votes: 23
21. Property (1979)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama
A group of likeable eccentrics whose sense of their own culture sparks them to try to buy up their houses from developers. Contradictions abound. Affectionate comic sense deftly captures the afterglow of a generation.
Director: Penny Allen | Stars: Walt Curtis, Lola Desmond, Cork Hubbert, M.G. Horowitz
Votes: 44
22. Elena (I) (2014)
Comedy, Romance
Elena was a factory worker, and a car accident bonded her with violin at the age of 26. She becomes a violin teacher, but earns no more than before. After having worked flat out for eight ... See full summary »
Director: Jing-Jie Lin | Stars: Tammy Chen, Kaiser Chuang, Shao-Hua Lung, Leon Dai
Votes: 124
23. Folsom Forever (2014)
TV-MA | 72 min | Documentary, History
Folsom Forever tells the story of how the Folsom Street Fair, held in San Francisco, grew into the biggest outdoor kink and fetish event in the world, and managed to do a lot of good along the way.
Director: Mike Skiff | Stars: Cléo Dubois, Jack Fritscher, Lance Holman, Liliane Hunt
Votes: 55
24. Serenade for the 12th Floor (1976)
69 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Light comedy about various Bucharest house dwelling families trading their houses for apartments in a brand new apartment building complex in a new subdivision of a large Bucharest neighborhood.
Director: Carol Corfanta | Stars: Toma Caragiu, Ileana Stana Ionescu, Octavian Cotescu, Olga Bucataru
Votes: 79
25. Mission Hill and the Miracle of Boston (1978)
Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary
Traces the alteration, through economic and political influences, of the Parker Hill area of Roxbury in Boston. An ethnically mixed family neighborhood, at present largely Irish Catholic, ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Broadman | Stars: William Leonard Geoghegan, Catherine Killilea, James Killilea
Votes: 11
26. The Candid Candidate (1937)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Betty Boop campaigns for Grampy for Mayor; he wins by one vote, but finds politics is no picnic. Urban renewal is parodied.
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Myron Waldman | Stars: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel
Votes: 203
27. Last Call at the Gladstone Hotel (2007)
65 min | Documentary
When aggressive developers buy a century-old, flophouse hotel to turn it into an artscentric hot spot, long-time staff and residents begin a five-year struggle to survive.
Directors: Neil Graham, Derreck Roemer
Votes: 22
28. Ev Kira Semt Bizim (2018)
87 min | Comedy
Director: Mustafa Kenan Aybasti | Stars: Soner Ada, Büsra Akbulut, Erkan Akbulut, Kerem Aksakal
Votes: 383
29. Namens ... De kinderen van de Pijp (1972 TV Movie)
39 min | Documentary
As part of a large city renewal project in Amsterdam, children successfully fight for their own play street in the run-down, severely congested De Pijp district.
Director: Roeland Kerbosch | Stars: Ronald Dam, Jan van Dijk, Ruud Boontje, Roger de Reus
30. Remember Africville (1991)
35 min | Documentary, Short, History
Director: Shelagh Mackenzie | Star: Delvina Bernard
Votes: 8
31. Turkse Video (1984)
27 min | Short, Drama
Yilmaz' life is not turning out the way he wants. He seeks refuge in dreaming about films.
Director: Otakar Votocek | Stars: Tuncel Kurtiz, Funda Müjde, Gerald Stadwijk, Joost Kraanen
Votes: 23
32. Namens ... Nogmaals de Pijp (1972 TV Movie)
41 min | Documentary
A follow-up to the documentary Namens ... De kinderen van de Pijp (1972), showing the realization of a play street for the children in De Pijp district in Amsterdam, but focusing more on ... See full summary »
Director: Roeland Kerbosch | Stars: Werner Buck, Ronald Dam, Roger de Reus, Jan van Dijk
33. Death & Life (2017)
68 min
The Artist has been living in The Great City, far away from home, and has grown increasingly disenchanted by the reality.
Director: Eric Norcross | Stars: Michael Ionescu Bailey, Jon-Marc MacDonald, Jan Major, Eric Norcross
34. The Incredible Bread Machine Film (1975)
55 min | Documentary
A discussion of the economic and political ideas presented in the book "The Incredible Bread Machine".
Director: Theo Kamecke | Stars: Susan Love Brown, Milton Friedman, Walter W. Heller, Karl Keating
35. Operation Bootstrap (1968)
58 min | Documentary
Director: Charles Carey | Stars: Robert Hall, Dorothy Moore, Louis Smith, Ruth Warrick
36. Namens ... Jan Schaefer (1971 TV Movie)
34 min | Documentary
A portrait of unconventional, working-class politician Jan Schaefer (1940-1994). Schaefer was a Member of Parliament for the Dutch Labour Party at the time, as well as a community activist ... See full summary »
Director: Han Meyer | Stars: Jan Schaefer, Berend Jan Udink, Roelof Nelissen, Remco Schaefer
37. The Alley (2009)
26 min | Short
A narrow, unlit alley off Spadina Avenue in downtown Toronto is the sort of place you may walk by without thinking twice. But the alley in question is critical to those who use it. It's ... See full summary »
Director: Philip Maglieri
38. Columbus Neighborhoods: Olde Towne East (2012 TV Movie)
57 min | Documentary
A history and profile of the Olde Towne East neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, situated east of Downtown. Throughout much of the 19th century, Columbus' first "streetcar suburb" was home to ... See full summary »
Director: Diana Bergemann | Star: Jonathan Putnam
39. Brownsville Black and White (2000)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary, History
Brownsville Black and White is the story of sixty years of Black/Jewish relations in the Brooklyn Community of Brownsville. The film is a poignant examination of group cooperation, urban ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Broadman
Votes: 9
40. The Baltimore Plan (1953)
Not Rated | 20 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary concerning Baltimore's efforts at urban renewal with an emphasis on improving housing in the city's slums.
Director: John Barnes
41. Columbus Neighborhoods: King-Lincoln (2011 TV Movie)
57 min | Documentary
A history and profile of the King-Lincoln neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, situated around Mount Vernon Avenue and Long Street on the east side of town.
Star: Angela Pace
42. Columbus Neighborhoods: German Village (2010 TV Movie)
57 min | Documentary
A history and profile of the German Village neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, situated just south of downtown.
Star: Jonathan Putnam
43. Voices of the Breslin (2008)
7 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Nick Schlyer | Stars: Yael Acher, Miriam Garcia, Jim Grasset, Leena Lobo
44. Columbus Neighborhoods: Short North (2010 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary
A history and profile of the Short North neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, situated north of downtown and south of The Ohio State University.
Director: Mary Rathke | Stars: Jonathan Putnam, John Allen, David Brownstein, Erica Brownstein
45. New York - Twin Parks Project - TV Channel 13 (1974)
57 min | Documentary
A look at the realities of life in New York City in the 1970's. Two housing projects and the people trying to fix the city issues are profiled.
Director: Michel Régnier | Stars: Penny Bernstein, Joseph Fernandez, Lloyd Lee, Paul Matson
46. Neighbor by Neighbor: Mobilizing an Invisible Community in Lewiston, Maine (2009)
Unrated | 98 min | Documentary
In the summer of 2004, the Mayor of Lewiston, Maine announced a plan to develop a four-lane boulevard across downtown's low-income neighborhood. This project was called "The Heritage ... See full summary »
Director: Craig Saddlemire
Votes: 15
47. Urban Renewal Is People Removal (2005)
23 min | Documentary, Short
"Urban Renewal is People Removal", directed by Sara Booth, brings uprooted residents together to weave a people's history of Newark, from the late 1940s and until today.
Director: Sara Booth
48. Columbus Neighborhoods: University District (2011 TV Movie)
57 min | Documentary
A history and profile of the University District neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, dominated by the "city within a city" known as The Ohio State University.
Director: Mary Rathke | Stars: Jonathan Putnam, Steve Abbott, Cheri Alexander, Julie Anstine
49. Christie Walk: A Piece of Ecocity (2011 Video)
45 min | Documentary
Stars: Paul Downton, Kingsley Knott, Helen Lawry
50. Taken by Storm (1983 Video)
25 min | Documentary, Short, Comedy
Director: Mario Andreacchio | Stars: Robin Harrison, Bernadette Bencini, Jonathan Leigh, Dave Flannagan