对于音乐家雷米（帕特里克·迪瓦尔 Patrick Dewaere 饰）来说，日子变得越来越不好过，不仅仅是职业上的停滞不前，妻子一成不变的容颜和乏味的婚姻生活也让他几近抓狂。就在这个节骨眼上，妻子车祸身亡的消息让雷米感到震惊却又有一丝解脱，而妻子留下的14岁的继女玛丽安（阿里尔·贝西 Ariel Besse 饰）也成为了一个包袱。玛丽安的生父想夺回玛丽安的抚养权，没想到，小小的玛丽安却更愿意和继父生活在一起。同一屋檐下，这对没有血缘关系的“父女”之间的情感变得朦胧而又暧昧。对于玛丽安的火热表白，雷米从最初的果断拒绝到之后的欲拒还迎，他能否守住伦理道德的最后一条底线呢？

一位青年只身到人地生疏的巴黎居住，他找到一所合适的房子，但原来前一位房客是一位女子，在该处跳楼受伤。当男主角去探望她时，她受伤的模样深印男主的脑海中。随后，男主角感到四周的人要把他代替女房客的角色，他不断抗拒，却又不由自主地买了很多女性衣服，把自己装扮成女性的模样，最后也从该房子跳下受伤，所受的伤和女房客一模一样。

大饥荒发生两年后最艰苦的1847年，一位叫费尼Feeney的士兵为英国打完了战争后逃回到爱尔兰，看到一片挣扎与混乱，发现亲人全部死去，便下定决心复仇。同时英国派出了汉那Hannah去阻止费尼，而费尼和汉那却又是当年的战友……

马里斯特拉扎被称为建筑界的艺术家和大师，他所设计的建筑被同行奉为典范。在某个，一幢马里斯特拉扎的代表作拔地而起，然而这里却发生了惨绝人寰的凶案。许多无辜之人被砌在墙壁中，浇筑水泥窒息而死，这幢大楼也从此废弃。 　　15年后，年轻美丽的女拆迁工程师萨曼莎（Mischa Barton 饰）自学校毕业，她从父亲手中得到拆毁那幢大楼的任务。萨曼莎独自一人前来，在这里认识了女管理员玛丽•苏特（Shannon Jardine 饰）和她的儿子吉米（Cameron Bright 饰）。从母子的口中，萨曼莎得知这幢大楼的一些禁忌，而在吉米的引导下，她逐渐发现这里阴暗的一面……

年轻的房产经纪人艾丽西亚计划和男友西蒙在旧大楼里来个浪漫的约会，但他们并不知晓杀手被派遣来杀死租客，目睹杀戮的男女们不得不躲藏起来。

1995年冬天，加拿大魁北克正对是否独立进行第二次公投，一位连环杀手隐居在蒙特利尔的一个小镇上的公寓里，公寓里的居民必须想清楚哪个邻居是值得信任的，哪个邻居是危险的。

At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert the building into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind.

A middle-aged woman takes on a young female tenant to help pay her debts, but gets a lot more than she bargains for when the girl starts to act very strangely indeed . . .

女孩杰茜与女友吉姆在毕业晚会后，携弟弟马尔斯找男友洛根一起去一俱乐部狂欢。狂欢中吉姆拿着杰茜的手机突然失踪了，通过手机GPS定位，她们三人找到了变态囚禁狂爱德华家。糟糕的是，吉姆是爱德华的亲妹妹，她们落入了精心设计的圈套中……

初到柏林，苦于找不到落脚之所的大一新生马丁意外得到他人帮忙，住进了一间小公寓。据称公寓的前房客已失踪，房间里还留着他大堆东西。简单收拾完屋子之后，马丁正在为自己终于可以睡在床上而庆幸时，他发现白天素未谋面的古怪女房东就跟他一墙之隔，从那边传来的娇羞喘息声，勾起了他内心的无限好奇……

Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

Tenants share wild times in a Hollywood apartment building.

A romance novelist (David Arquette) moves into a "cottage" behind the home of a composer and his family. He seems sweet, but what do they really know about him?

提着小棺材的男人以很低的价钱租了一间公寓，他从棺材里搬出了桌椅板凳钢琴和他的家人，此情此景吓坏了房东，迅速叫来警察。男人则把东西重新收回棺材里，跳窗逃跑了

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

旧金山二十多岁的丹尼尔·张（Daniel Chang）面临着困境，因为他无法抗拒他母亲带来的炙手可热的房客。

It proceeds to document the stages of sugar production once in the mill then shifts to the unrest outside where a sakada was shot to death by one of the hacienda's guards. A sakada is a farmer who works in a sugarcane field, harvesting it during the months of October to December.

　　故事围绕着一幢破旧的旧式大院展开，着力描画了租住在此的七十二家房客的众生相。众房客在包租婆八姑的欺压下，终日不得安生。八姑风骚刁泼，待人刻薄。而她的养女阿香却乐于助人。终于，八姑的苛刻规定“房客每天只能用两桶水”成为了导火索，做洗熨的上海婆带头抗议，得到房客们的合力支持。加上发仔、阿福等人的附和，一段段斗智斗勇的小故事连番上演。

The film was shot in an old, decrepit building where dozens of guest-workers' families live. The owner, a local influential politician, has avoided paying for the maintenance of the building under the legal standards by using his connections to proclaim the building a national cultural heritage. However, the rent he has been charging was as if the building were an object that offered standard comfort. The only German tenant takes the crew around and speaks of his battle against the landlord’s manipulation.

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