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Brooklyn(2015)

1h 51min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.7/5 (with 1,431 votes)

In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.

The Conspirator(2010)

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| 2h 2min | Crime, Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 193 votes)

Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.

No One Gets Out Alive(2021)

1h 25min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
3.0/5 (with 258 votes)

An immigrant in search of the American dream is forced to take a room in a boarding house and soon finds herself in a nightmare from which she can't escape.

Directed by Santiago Menghini

Drive(1997)

3.1/5 (with 50 votes)

A prototype enhanced human, on the run from Chinese-hired hit men, hooks up with a dread-locked bystander, and the two of them elude their pursuers narrowly each time.

Stage Door(1937)

1h 32min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 41 votes)

The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.

Hell Drivers(1957)

1h 48min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 21 votes)

An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.

Twisted Nerve(1968)

1h 52min | Drama, Thriller, Horror
3.4/5 (with 20 votes)

Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls Georgie. After being caught during a theft attempt at a department store, he befriends a female customer who is sympathetic to him, but his friendship soon turns into obsession.

Inner Sanctum(1948)

1h 2min | Mystery, Thriller, Crime
2.5/5 (with 11 votes)

A killer hides out in a small-town boarding house.

In the White City(1983)

1h 48min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 14 votes)

Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon.

The L-Shaped Room(1962)

2h 6min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 16 votes)

Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London boarding house, Jane befriends the odd group of inhabitants and starts an affair with one boarder, Toby. As Jane's pregnancy threatens her new relationship, and the reality of single motherhood approaches, she is forced to decide what to do about both her baby and her budding romance.

Min and Bill(1930)

1h 6min | Drama, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 7 votes)

Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.

It All Came True(1940)

3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.

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The Caretaker(1964)

1h 40min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 5 votes)

Aston, a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house in a poor London district. He befriends and takes in Mac Davies, an old derelict who has been fired from a menial job in a café. In time Aston offers him a job as caretaker of the house. Aston's brother, Mick - a taunting, quasi-sadist - harasses the derelict when his brother is away, countermanding his orders...

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne(1987)

1h 56min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.

Bumping Into Broadway(1919)

25min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just before a police raid.

The Tomboy(1924)

1h 23min | Drama, Comedy

Miss Devore plays Tommy, a young woman who runs a boarding house for her father, an inventor of eccentric devices, and the boarders are the usual collection of neurotics in such an effort.

Directed by David Kirkland

Maison Ikkoku - Apartment Fantasy(1986)

1h 37min | Drama, Comedy
2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Travel into Japan's nuttiest apartment house and meet its volatile inhabitants: Kyoko, the beautiful and mysterious new apartment manager; Yusaku, the exam-addled college student; Mrs. Ichinose, the drunken gossip; Kentaro, her bratty son; Akemi, the boozy bar hostess; and the mooching and peeping Mr. Yotsuya.

Directed by Shinichiro Sawai

Recollections of the Yellow House(1989)

2h 2min | Comedy, Drama
4.2/5 (with 11 votes)

Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.

Praise(1999)

1h 38min | Drama
2.3/5 (with 3 votes)

An unfocused twentysomething moves in with a former co-worker, who is suffering from low self-esteem because of her weight, looks, and a case of eczema. Their relationship is based on unending drink, drugs, and sex.

Chicken Every Sunday(1949)

1h 34min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes.

The Old-Fashioned Way(1934)

1h 11min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.

Women of Twilight(1953)

1h 29min | Drama, Crime
2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific secret.

Directed by Gordon Parry

She's a Sweetheart(1944)

1h 9min | Music

In this musical drama, a woman turns her mansion into a boarding house for soldiers on furlough, providing them with room, board, and musical entertainment.

Directed by Del Lord - With Jane Frazee

The Adventures of a Rookie(1943)

1h 6min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Two bumbling GIs manage to get themselves invited to a dinner party at a boarding house "for women only". When the cook comes down with scarlet fever, the authorities quarantine the house and the pair find themselves locked up in a house full of attractive women.

Sunday Punch(1942)

1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Ma Galestrum (Connie Gilchrist) is a boardinghouse owner whose tenants are a group of aspiring boxers. When her young niece, Judy (Jean Rogers), comes to stay for a visit, college dropout Ken Burke (William Lundigan) and Swedish janitor Ole (Dan Dailey Jr.) immediately fall for her charms. Ken considers going back to college for Judy, but his fight promoter is less than thrilled with this idea. Meanwhile, Ole is determined to meet Ken in the ring to vie for Judy's heart.

The Girl from Manhattan(1948)

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A small-town girl who's made it big in New York as a fashion model returns home, only to find that her somewhat dotty uncle has mortgaged his boarding house to the hilt. In her efforts to help him keep his boarding house, she becomes involved with a handsome young minister and his superior, an older bishop.

Deadly Visitor(1973)

1h 30min | Horror, TV Movie

The operator of a turn-of-the-century boarding house is haunted by a vicious female entity. The ghost drives all visitors away except for a young writer who becomes infatuated with it.

Tant Ralie se Losieshuis(1974)

1h 32min | Comedy, Drama

Two eccentric woman Ralie and Matilda buys a new big house and then a lot of people starts to visit .Then Ralie gets the bright idea to start a Boarding house!

Directed by Dirk de Villiers

Thirst(1917)

23min | Comedy

A woman has moved to a small town boarding house to seek peace and quiet. All too soon she finds herself in a Keystone movie, where there's everything but.

Come Along with Me(1982)

54min | Comedy, TV Movie
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Newly-widowed Mabel Lederer, who has psychic and mediumistic abilities, sells her house and belongings, changes her name, and moves to a new town. There she rents a room in a boarding house and holds a seance with the other tenants, with comical results.

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