The Broken Landlord

Sliver

May 1993 •English

A woman moves into a Manhattan apartment, where she learns that the previous tenant's life ended under mysterious circumstances.

L'Appartement

September 2021 •French

Clown Princes

April 1939 •English

The Our Gang kids put on a circus in the barn to raise money to help Porky's family pay the rent and avoid getting evicted.

Professor Bean's Removal

July 1913 •English

Professor Bean's Removal is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Mabel Normand.

The People Under the Stairs

November 1991 •English

Trapped inside a fortified home owned by a mysterious couple, a young boy quickly learns the true nature of the homicidal inhabitants, and secret creatures hidden deep within the walls.

Inn for Trouble

January 1960 •English

Peggy Mount and David Kossoff star as Ada and Alf Larkin in this big screen version of the hugely popular 1950s TV comedy. Alf Larkin has finally made good his dream to own a pub. The trouble is, it's got no customers. But leave it to the Larkins to find unorthodox ways to bring in the punters.

Peeping Tom

May 1960 •English

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.

In My Ashtanga Class

December 2022 •Korean

A yoga instructor with a twisted mind meets a sugar daddy in this bumpy human romantic comedy.

Ashi Hi Banwa Banwi

September 1988 •Marathi

Chaos ensues when two brothers, Dhananjay and Shantanu, force two friends to pose as their wives as their landlady allows only married couples as tenants.

Hemet, or the Landlady Don't Drink Tea

February 2024 •English

During a cannibalistic bath salts epidemic in Hemet, California, a tyrannical landlady lords it over her tenants, pitting them against each other in a web of paranoia spun for deadly results.

Nina

January 2004 •Portuguese

After losing her job, an unstable woman sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.

The Lower Depths

October 1957 •Japanese

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.

The Brute

February 1953 •Spanish

A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.

The Knack... and How to Get It

June 1965 •English

A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men meet up with a new girl in town, as well as a friendly lunatic who can’t help but paint things white.

A Film with Me in It

October 2008 •English

A dissolute scriptwriter and a dejected actor become unwittingly drawn into a labyrinthine mess when several people experience bizarre accidental deaths in their flat. Though the men didn't deliberately cause any of the incidents, they fear that they will be unfairly pegged as murderers if they relay information to the cops, and promptly set about disposing of the corpses in gruesome ways.

Pitaah

January 2002 •Hindi

A small town in rural India gets to witness a confrontation between two fathers - one a rich, powerful, influential, and cruel Zamindar Thakur Avadh Narayan Singh - who wants the man who filed a police complaint against his two sons to be killed immediately. And the other is Rudra, a poor laborer employed by Avadh, who wants justice when he finds out that his nine year old daughter, Durga, has been beaten and brutally raped by Avadh's sons, Bachhu, and Bhola. Amidst this background we have a corrupt doctor, who is willing to change his medical report after he is bribed appropriately; and a Police Inspector, Ramnarayan Bhardwaj, who is willing to drop any charges against Avadh's sons provided he gets his "dues" from the Thakur.

Kadikara Manithargal

August 2018 •Tamil

The struggles of a poor family forced to rent a house owned by a cruel landlord.

The Last Supper

March 1976 •Spanish

A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.

Any Old Port!

March 1932 •English

Stan and Ollie check into a seedy hotel and help a young girl escape the clutches of the landlord. They are forced to flee the hotel with no money and Ollie arranges for Stan to fight at a local boxing hall for $50. Stan's opponent turns out to be Musgy who uses a loaded glove. During the fight the glove is swapped and Stan triumphs only to find that Ollie has bet their fee that he would lose.

Living on Love

November 1937 •English

A man and a woman, who have never met, are forced by pecuniary circumstances to share the same basement apartment in shifts.