City Life Movies, Movies about City Life

Here we've displayed a list of the best City Life films : Los Angeles Plays Itself(2003), Playtime(1967), Midnight Cowboy(1969), A Northern Soul(2018), The Tenant(1976), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three(1974), Vaya(2016), Always: Sunset on Third Street 2(2007), Mid90s(2018), Same Old Song(1997), The Cousins(1959), Manhattan Murder Mystery(1993) ... ...

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Los Angeles Plays Itself

A documentary on how Los Angeles has been used and depicted in the movies.

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Playtime

Monsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction.

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Midnight Cowboy

A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.

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A Northern Soul

A documentary following a resident of Hull as he attempts to make a positive impact on his community by travelling with a hip-hop tour bus.

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The Tenant

A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?

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Vaya

Three people board the train bound for Johannesburg. Strangers, each on their own mission, with a simple task to complete and in search of family to help them. But when they are betrayed by... See full summary »

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Always: Sunset on Third Street 2

Chagawa finds it increasing difficult to support his young ward Junnosuke in his store across the street from the Suzuki garage on Third Street. Unless he can provide a better life, ... See full summary »

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Mid90s

Follows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 1990s-era Los Angeles who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop.

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Same Old Song

A musical story about how people find their love on the streets of beautiful Paris.

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The Cousins

A pair of cousins share a flat, but animosity begins to build between the two when a woman gets involved.

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Manhattan Murder Mystery

A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.

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Poor Little Rich Girl

The daughter of a wealthy businessman becomes lost in the city while traveling to a new school, and is taken in by a pair of down-on-their-luck performers.

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My Sister Eileen

Two sisters move from Ohio to New York with hopes of stardom.

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Dredd

In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO.

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5 to 7

An aspiring novelist enters into a relationship with a woman, though there's just one catch: She's married and the couple can only meet between the hours of 5 and 7 each evening.

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Parting Glances

As Michael and Robert, a gay couple in New York, prepare for Robert's departure for a two-year work assignment in Africa, Michael must face Robert's true motives for leaving while dealing ... See full summary »

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Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll

Performance artist/comedian Bogosian brings to hilarious life 10 separate oddball characters in a one-man-show. This profane, smart, crisply edited film will have you screaming for more.

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A Most Violent Year

In New York City 1981, an ambitious immigrant fights to protect his business and family during the most dangerous year in the city's history.

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The Savage Eye

This drama takes the form of a story told using documentary material as an intrinsic part of the narrative. In this journey through the dark side of 1950s urban life, the camera follows ... See full summary »

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Gay Purr-ee

A farm cat moves to Paris in search of the high life while her wannabe lover from back home tries to reunite.

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Citizen Jane: Battle for the City

Writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs fights to save historic New York City during the ruthless redevelopment era of urban planner Robert Moses in the 1960s.

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Sunday in New York

On a Sunday, Eileen Tyler, still a virgin, leaves Albany to visit her airline pilot brother in New York but a chance encounter with a man on a city bus threatens to derail her upcoming marriage to boyfriend Russ.

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Rhythm Thief

Simon is a street retailer, his shop a corner on the lower east side in New York, his stock bootleg cassette tapes,the ambience a boombox. He scrounges food from restaurants, exists on ... See full summary »

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The Red Cockatoo

A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political climate forces him to make a fateful decision.

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Life Begins for Andy Hardy

Hoping his son will attend his alma mater, Judge Hardy agrees to let Andy look for work in New York for the summer before committing to start college. In the big city, Andy is confronted with the harsh realities of life and love.

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Bright Future

Two young guys work in a plant that manufactures oshibori (those moist hand-towels found in some Japanese restaurants). Their weird bond is based on uncontrollable rage--something neither ... See full summary »

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Jane Wants a Boyfriend

A young woman with Asperger's syndrome tries to find her first boyfriend with a little help from her older sister.

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The Rat Race

An aspiring musician who arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance develops.

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Summer of Sam

Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.

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