A due amiche viene la cattiva idea di indagare su una serie di delitti, opera di un fantomatico Candyman. Reincarnazione di uno schiavo nero, divorato da un tremendo sciame di api, basta nominare il suo nome tre volte per fare una brutta fine. Tratto da una storia di Clive Barker, un buon film horror; la musica di Philip Glass, insolita per il genere horror, avvolge in maniera inquietante il film.
Dal romanzo omonimo di Richard Price. Della morte violenta del gestore notturno di un fast food a Brooklyn (New York) si accusa un nero, onesto padre di famiglia, ma l'anziano poliziotto bianco Rocco Klein concentra le indagini su un suo fratello sedicenne che spaccia droga pesante. Sul piano del racconto realistico corale sulla cultura della droga e della violenza nei ghetti neri, alimentata dai mass media, è ineccepibile, ma su quello dei risultati espressivi rivela uno S. Lee riconciliato e un po' incerto. In un primo tempo doveva essere diretto da Martin Scorsese che ne è uno dei produttori.
The story of a small-town man who comes to make it big in the city, where he is almost instantly relieved of all his possessions. Homeless and penniless, he is taken in by a woman who looks after him.
Toronto filmmaker Charles Officer profiles the young people of Villaways Park, a housing project on brink of historic change.
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.
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.
Public Housing is Wiseman’s unflinching portrayal of life at the Ida B. Wells housing project in Chicago, a raw exposition of the daily conflicts between residents and the bureaucratic machinery to which they are continually subjected. With intimate detail and an abiding dedication to his subject, Wiseman unearths the hidden facets of institutions to find humanity and sites of unexpected beauty.
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.
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.
High school student Sam decides to run for office when a corrupt politician threatens to close down the housing project where his mother lives.
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.
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.
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.