Helen Lyle ist eine Studentin in Chicago, die an einer Arbeit über urbane Legenden sitzt und bei ihren Nachforschungen auf die Geschichte vom Candyman stößt. Er war ein Afroamerikaner, der wegen seiner verbotenen Liebe zu einem weißen Mädchen von einer Gang auf brutale Weise hingerichtet wurde. Die Schergen sägten ihm eine Hand ab und übergossen ihn mit Honig, sodass hunderte Bienen ihn zu Tode stachen. Die Legende besagt, dass der Candyman zurückkehrt, wenn sein Name fünf Mal genannt wird. Helen glaubt der Geschichte kein Wort, bis sie selbst den Namen fünfmal ausgesprochen hat. Daraufhin beginnt eine Serie grausamer Morde. Jetzt muss sich die aufgeklärte Studentin dem Dämonen stellen, der in ihrem Umfeld auf brutale Weise sein Werk verrichtet. Dabei kann sie kaum auf Hilfe hoffen, denn niemand glaubt ihr die Geschichte vom Candyman.
Der afroamerikanische Drogendealer Ronald 'Strike' Dunham führt ein klar geregeltes Leben in New York. Seine Geschäfte laufen ganz ordentlich und er kann sich der Freundschaft des erfahrenen Rodney Little sicher sein. Das kriminelle Milieu der Straße ist für Strike ein Zuhause, in dem er sich auskennt. Aber als Rodney eine wichtige Angelegenheit klären muss, wird Strikes Bruder Victor verdächtigt, den leitenden Angestellten eines Burgerladens getötet zu haben. Mit der Ermittlung des Verbrechens sind die beiden Polizisten Rocco Klein und Larry Mazilli beauftragt, denen Zweifel am Geständnis von Victor kommen. Und auch Strike muss erkennen, dass Gaunerehre ihre engen Grenzen hat, wenn es um den eigenen Vorteil eines Gangsters geht.
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.
Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Eines der größten Wohnbauprojekte Deutschlands. Lange als „Sozialpalast“ bekannt, war er für Kriminalität, Vandalismus und Drogen bekannt.
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.