Urban Life Movies

An authored film by Margaret Drabble about the rise of the suburbs and the failure of city planning.

A migrant working-class couple, after losing their daughter to an ill-fated destiny, seeks friends in each other.

The film is about terrible life of a common man

Meet Vern Harper, Urban Elder, who walks the "Red Road" in a fast-paced, urban landscape. The camera follows Vern as he leads a sweat lodge...

Anna wastes her day in her apartment as she waits to see her boyfriend later. A short mumblecore drama about clinging to connection.

This documentary explores the complexities of Los Angeles. Blending a highly structured montage of shots exploring the city with interviews of...

Five stories about dignity in the capital of Peru. A local leader looking for someone to leave the post of her complex work, a tourist guide who is a...

The young couple Han-gyeol and Go-woon are staying in a Sauna with their son Woo-rim. One day, Woo-rim gets badly hurt and to save hospital bills,...

Hidayet Usta is a shoemaker in his early 80s who has made a living repairing shoes. Having separated from his wife years ago and with a strained...

Bern, 1980: A caleidoscopic portrait of Swiss urban life in the early 1980s.

A young woman wanders through the city in search of Johannes Gutenberg. According to what she has been told, he is a printer who can be found near...

Luca, a careless high school student on the verge of failing, drifts through life in the outskirts of the neighborhood with indifference and apathy....

Fantasy A, autistic Seattle rapper, suffers trials and tribulations from total creeps as he attempts to become a superstar. Along the way he also...

A young woman arrives in a city for the first time. She observes the people around her and realizes that she does not belong to that world,...

Young members of 3 New Orleans school marching bands grow up in America's most musical city, and one of its most dangerous. Their band directors get...

Story of six interwoven narratives in Mexico City, exploring the human condition against intermittent rain. With each encounter, the characters...

Determined to hold on to their moniker of "the Mural Kings," world-renowned artists Tats Cru produce a wall painting for Harlem's Graffiti Hall of...