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Movies: Best "landlord" Movies


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Sliver(1993)

R
| 1h 48min | Drama, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 279 votes)

A woman moves into an apartment in Manhattan and learns that the previous tenant's life ended mysteriously after they fell from the balcony.

The People Under the Stairs(1991)

R
| 1h 42min | Horror, Mystery
3.3/5 (with 271 votes)

Poindexter "Fool" Williams, his brother Leroy, and their family face eviction from their rented home in South Central Los Angeles. Their landlords are a greedy, uncaring couple who live in a mansion that's as huge as it is eerie. Leroy has a plan to burglarize the mansion, but what the boys find inside is not what they expected.

The Resident(2011)

R
| 1h 31min | Thriller, Mystery
2.9/5 (with 273 votes)

Juliet, a beautiful doctor, has found the perfect New York apartment to start a new life after separating from her husband. It's got spacious rooms, a spectacular view, and a handy, handsome landlord. But there are secrets behind every wall and terror in every room as Juliet gets the unnerving feeling that she is not alone.

Showing Up(2023)

R
| 1h 48min | Comedy, Drama
2.9/5 (with 19 votes)

In the days leading up to a possibly career-changing exhibition, a sculptor navigates her relationships with family, friends, and colleagues.

Chachi 420(1997)

3.5/5 (with 27 votes)

In order to see his little girl more often, a divorcee disguises himself as an old lady and gets a job as his own daughter's caretaker.

The Knack... and How to Get It(1965)

3.0/5 (with 23 votes)

A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' - how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men meet up with a new girl in town, as well as a friendly lunatic who can’t help but paint things white.

The Brute(1953)

1h 21min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 26 votes)

A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.

Directed by Luis Buñuel - With Pedro Armendáriz, Katy Jurado, José Antonio Muñoz, Andrés Soler, Jaime Fernández Barros, Gloria Mestre, ...

The Broken Landlord(1985)

1h 41min | Drama, Comedy
4.1/5 (with 36 votes)

The landowner (Agha) of the Haraptar village marries off his old father with the young and beautiful Kiraz. But on the nuptial night, his father dies and everthing starts to go bad for the Agha. Due to the long drought and provocations of Kekec Salman (big brother of Kiraz), the peasants steal the crops and run away to Istanbul. Without the peasants and crops, Agha is also forced to sell the village and move to Istanbul. But he cannot keep up with the big city life and consumes all his money and belongings. Agha's wife and relatives leave him during this downfall.

Naran(2005)

2h 45min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 9 votes)

Mullankolli is a rustic remote village in northern Kerala. Velayudhan (Mohanlal) is an orphan who came floating during floods and he was brought up by Valiya Nambiar (Madhu) a do-gooder and a feudal landlord of the area. Velayudhan grows up into a riff-raff, drunkard and a local rowdy with a good heart. He hates injustice and has set his own rules for the villagers who are scared of him including local moneylender and politician - Member Kurupu (Jagathy) and Gopinathan Nambiar (Siddique), son-in-law of Valiya Nambiar who wants to rule over the village in his own way.

A Film with Me in It(2008)

NR
| 1h 29min | Comedy, Thriller, Mystery
3.0/5 (with 28 votes)

A dissolute scriptwriter and a dejected actor become unwittingly drawn into a labyrinthine mess when several people experience bizarre accidental deaths in their flat. Though the men didn't deliberately cause any of the incidents, they fear that they will be unfairly pegged as murderers if they relay information to the cops, and promptly set about disposing of the corpses in gruesome ways.

The Last Supper(1976)

2h | Drama
3.9/5 (with 10 votes)

A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.

A Brand New You(2014)

Grieving young widower Santiago convinces his landlord - a disgraced biochemist with a serious hygiene problem - to help him clone his dead wife, using their female housemate as a surrogate mother.

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The Landlord(1970)

1h 52min | Comedy, Drama
2.8/5 (with 19 votes)

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.

Man About the House(1974)

1h 30min | Comedy
2.6/5 (with 6 votes)

An unscrupulous property developer wants to flatten the street to make way for new buildings.Householder George Roper is happy to take the offered money and run but his wife Mildred and their lodgers join with other residents to take a stand and keep things as they are, finally winning the day.

Directed by John Robins - With Richard O'Sullivan

Inn for Trouble(1960)

1h 30min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Peggy Mount and David Kossoff star as Ada and Alf Larkin in this big screen version of the hugely popular 1950s TV comedy. Alf Larkin has finally made good his dream to own a pub. The trouble is, it's got no customers. But leave it to the Larkins to find unorthodox ways to bring in the punters.

Any Old Port!(1932)

NR
| 20min | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 16 votes)

Stan and Ollie check into a seedy hotel and help a young girl escape the clutches of the landlord. They are forced to flee the hotel with no money and Ollie arranges for Stan to fight at a local boxing hall for $50. Stan's opponent turns out to be Musgy who uses a loaded glove. During the fight the glove is swapped and Stan triumphs only to find that Ollie has bet their fee that he would lose.

Nina(2004)

1h 25min | Drama, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 11 votes)

Psychological thriller larded with manga-like animations about the young, poor comic strip illustrator Nina, living with her mean landlady. She sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.

Ashi Hi Banwa Banwi(1988)

2h 17min | Comedy
3.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Dhananjay makes Parshuram and Sudhir to act as his and his brothers wife as the landlady only wants married couples. What will happen when the landlady will come to know the truth and how will they all face her as she is very lovable to all.

Insomnium(2017)

1h 20min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

Long time friends George and Phinneas share a duplex in Los Angeles. Their Russian landlord, Mr. Romanovsky lives in the upstairs unit. George's girlfriend Kim and her friend Olivia come over and after some drinking, they bring out a Ouija board. That night, Phinneas begins to exhibit disturbing nocturnal behaviour. As George investigates more into his friends behaviour, he suspects that his friend has become possessed by a dark entity.

Lethal Eviction(2005)

R
| 1h 37min | Thriller
1.8/5 (with 3 votes)

A first time landlord purchases a run-down, rent-controlled apartment building in hopes of making a solid investment. Everything seems to be going smoothly until, one by one, the tenants begin to meet strange, untimely gruesome deaths.

Directed by Michael Feifer

Vienna Waits for You(2012)

26min | Horror
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

After breaking up with her boyfriend Daniel, Anna just wants to hole up somewhere and recover. But she should have had a closer look at the fineprint of her rental contract – for the old Viennese appartment it is a creature with never ending appetite, living off the youth of its residents. There is no escaping it anymore when Anna faces herself in the mirror as an old lady. Unless she deliveres a new victim….

Beanstalk(1994)

PG
| 1h 18min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy
2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

A young boy finds a crate of green beans. When they're planted, they grow a beanstalk to the clouds, where a castle of giants are habited.

My Intimate Partner(1960)

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Adapted from a popular 'three dime novel' the story revolves around two down-and-out buddies, one streetwise and quick-witted the other naïve and kind-hearted. This oddball duo go through up and downs and eventually get their break in life.

In Old Missouri(1940)

NR
| 1h 8min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is in money trouble too. He also has a wastrel son and a socialite wife who wants a divorce. He begs the Weavers to trade places with him and fix things up.

Directed by Frank McDonald

The Silver Lining(1932)

NR
| 57min | Drama

A women in prison tale. Ones rich ones poor. Can they prosper after prison?

Pitaah(2002)

2h 13min | Drama, Action
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

A small town in rural India gets to witness a confrontation between two fathers - one a rich, powerful, influential, and cruel Zamindar Thakur Avadh Narayan Singh - who wants the man who filed a police complaint against his two sons to be killed immediately. And the other is Rudra, a poor laborer employed by Avadh, who wants justice when he finds out that his nine year old daughter, Durga, has been beaten and brutally raped by Avadh's sons, Bachhu, and Bhola. Amidst this background we have a corrupt doctor, who is willing to change his medical report after he is bribed appropriately; and a Police Inspector, Ramnarayan Bhardwaj, who is willing to drop any charges against Avadh's sons provided he gets his "dues" from the Thakur.

Directed by Mahesh Manjrekar - With Sanjay Dutt, Jackie Shroff, Nandita Das, Anupama Verma, Mink Brar

The Blood Let(2015)

1h 26min | Comedy, Horror

Ex-cop Gus is all messed up and in therapy after he was shot in the line of duty. He takes a job as a resident manager of a creaky old, creepy apartment building, The Royal Vista Apartments. It would seem that his new employment would be a piece of cake compared to his last job as a police officer, but not so. Tenants start dying, left and right, bizarre and bloody deaths. The greedy old owner, Wang, puts unrelenting pressure on Gus to "Rent apartments!!! Rent Apartments!!!" Gus finally gives in and makes a fateful error in judgment. He rents to vampires.

The People Under the Stairs(2023)

Remake of Wes Craven's 1991 horror comedy.

Clown Princes(1939)

2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

The Our Gang kids put on a circus in the barn to raise money to help Porky's family pay the rent and avoid getting evicted.

Directed by George Sidney - With Carl Switzer

Ramsbottom Rides Again(1956)

1h 32min | Western, Comedy

Bill Ramsbottom sells his English pub and drags his family off to Canada where he has inherited a ranch from his grandfather Wild Bill Ramsbottom. He ends up tangling with outlaw Black Jake, an Indian chief Blue Eagle, and the local law.

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