Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) est étudiante à l'université d'Illinois à Chicago et mariée à un professeur, Trevor (Jean-Louis dans la version française). Avec son amie Bernadette, elles rédigent une thèse sur les légendes urbaines et les croyances populaires. Au cours de ses investigations, elle est interpellée par une histoire récurrente, celle du mythique Candyman qui terrorise les habitants du quartier défavorisé de Cabrini Green depuis des décennies, assassinant des femmes et des enfants principalement. Helen sentant qu'elle tient là l'occasion rêvée de pimenter son travail, convainc Bernadette d'aller enquêter sur les lieux mêmes des crimes, dans la cité sordide de Cabrini Green, un ghetto noir livré aux gangs et à la misère.
Contrairement à son frère Strike, devenu dealer, Victor Dunham mène une existence familiale des plus saines. Jusqu'au jour où il se charge d'une mission à la place de Strike...
Un garçon de la campagne, Raj, parti d'Allahabad, marche vers la grande ville de Bombay pour gagner sa vie. Il tombe amoureux de la pauvre mais vertueuse Vidya, mais est rapidement séduit par la richesse sans entrave et contraire à l'éthique, qui lui sont présentées par un homme d'affaires sans scrupules et malhonnête, Seth Sonachand Dharmanand et la sulfureuse tentatrice Maya . Il se met finalement au service de la tricheuse, ou « 420 », qui triche même dans les jeux de cartes.
Regard sur un grand ensemble de logements sociaux, Ida B. Wells a Chicago, ou une population marginalisée vit dans une situation d'extrême pauvreté.
Toronto filmmaker Charles Officer profiles the young people of Villaways Park, a housing project on brink of historic change.
High school student Sam decides to run for office when a corrupt politician threatens to close down the housing project where his mother lives.
I'm Bout It is a 1997 film by rapper Master P. The plot details his life in a New Orleans uptown ghetto. Master P wrote, directed and acted in the film.
A student of architecture from Zagreb believes that the new model of city can meet the need of its citizens. However, his professors, the corrupt business environment and even the parents of his fiancée stand on his way.
Real-life kung fu master Nathan Ingram stars in this gritty, low-budget martial arts epic as a local karate school owner who clashes with a gang of drug traffickers posing as the owners of a rival dojo. Director Charlie Ahearn (who helmed the landmark hip-hop film Wild Style) used the housing projects next to his New York Lower East Side apartment as his central location in this 1979 classic, shot on a vintage Super 8 camera.
An in-depth look at the life of the hip-hop MC known as Tragedy Khadafi, aka Intelligent Hoodlum, who hails from the Queensbridge housing project in New York City.
Feature documentary debut of 29 year old director Kei Tanaka. In the Japanese town of Kawasaki, elderly residents who have lived hard lives are now facing their own death at a public housing complex called “Danchi“. The young director explores and depicts the ageing population in Japan by focusing on the personal lives of few individuals who live quietly on the outskirts of society. While some of the protagonists chose to interact and establish friendships with their fellow elderly residents, others prefer to spend the rest of their years in solitary.
In buildings where foreign workers lived in Germany, there were strict rules of conduct, defined by the house rules and supervised by the building superintendents. Many rights regarding the freedom of movement, communication and behavior were abused. Interviews with the tenants and with the "orderlies" which point out absurd situations and clashes caused by these restrictions.
Alex is a young adult from a social housing district. When he left his home in the morning, he faces a situation apparently out of the ordinary.
Green Valley was a housing commission estate in western Sydney, much maligned by the media of the day. The residents were hurt by the criticism but lacked access to the media to respond. Supplied with equipment by Film Australia, they used this film to present a different image of themselves and their daily lives. In so doing, they answered the question of "Whatever happened to Green Valley?" The core of this film is the work of half a dozen residents, co-ordinated by acclaimed filmmaker Peter Weir in one of his earliest film projects. Weir also acts as the moderator at a public forum that is included in the film.
One of the biggest housing projects in Germany. Known for a long time as the “Sozialpalast” it had a reputation for crime, vandalism and drugs.