Apartment building movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant apartment building movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, realistic, psychological, suspense, serious and captivating films and TV shows about / with apartment building, apartment, danger, murder, elevator, haunted house, neighbor, blood, violence and family relations plots mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres shot in USA, Spain, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as apartment building: The Super (2017), Sleep Tight (2011), The Fool (2014), Havenhurst (2016), To Let (2006), Happiness (2021), 1BR (2019), Corridor (2010), *batteries not included (1987), The Landlady (1998).

List of apartment building movies

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 5.2
 22K
The Super (2017)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man becomes the superintendent of a large New York City apartment building where people mysteriously go missing.
Style: suspenseful, scary, captivating, enigmatic, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apartment building, missing person, father daughter relationship, disappearance, ex cop, secrets, child in peril, supernatural, paranormal, mysterious stranger, macabre, serial killer ...
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 7.2
 46K
Sleep Tight (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Apartment concierge Cesar is a miserable person who believes he was born without the ability to be happy. As a result, he decides his mission is to make life hell for everyone around him. A majority of the tenants are easy to agitate, but Clara ...
Style: psychological, psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: home invasion, stalking, apartment building, obsession, domestic disturbance, caretaker, maniac, woman in danger, danger, concierge, cruelty, blackmail ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: barcelona, spain, iberian peninsula, europe
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 8.0
 16K
The Fool (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dorm that is at risk of collapsing within the span of the night.
Style: atmospheric, realistic, suspense, bleak, serious ...
Plot: fighting the system, society, apartment building, corruption, injustice, tragedy, rebellion, moral dilemma, violence, small town, courage, dishonesty ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 90s, 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union
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 4.8
 4K
Havenhurst (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A troubled young woman takes up residence in a gothic apartment building where she must confront a terrifying evil.
Style: scary, rough, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: apartment building, serial killer, murder, evil, drug, drinking, abuse, friendship, danger, twists and turns, mysticism, missing person ...
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 6.2
 3K
To Let (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Australia, South Africa
Duration: 68 min.
Story: Mario and his pregnant girlfriend Clara are trying to find in a short period a new apartment to live since they have sold their apartment and they need to move in fifteen days. When Mario finds an attractive advertisement in his mailbox, he ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apartment building, psychopath, danger, isolation, confined, gory, family relations, pregnancy, female protagonist, female psychopath, trap, escape attempt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: barcelona
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 7.8
 10K
Happiness (2021)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: A new type of deadly virus spread throughout the city, and the apartment where has different social classes of people is sealed off. With the fear of the virus, and the conflicts of the different classes, the residents have to spend and survive in ...
Style: apocalyptic, dorama, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: epidemic, apartment building, survival, virus, illness, zombie apocalypse, social problems, struggle for survival, society, social isolation, isolated place, fighting illness ...
Time: near future
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 5.8
 15K
1BR (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Sarah lucks into a sweet one-bedroom at Asilo Del Mar Apartments in Los Angeles, she think she's hit the jackpot. It's got plenty of space, friendly tenants, group BBQs and even a cute neighbour next door. All is not what it seems: ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, brutal, suspenseful ...
Plot: neighbor neighbor relationship, community, apartment building, sect, brainwashing, father daughter relationship, stockholm syndrome, murder, coercion, loneliness, widower, girl heroine ...
Place: los angeles
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 5.9
 1K
Corridor (2010)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Lonely medical student Frank is pleased with his flat, a quiet place to focus on his coming exams. But when he meets the girl upstairs, the intrusive Lotte, he realizes there is something wrong with the place. Each time he leaves his apartment, ...
Style: tense, serious, psychological, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: apartment building, danger, murder, student, neighbor, uncover truth, suspicion, mental disorder, psycho, nordic, paranoia, stalker ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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*batteries not included (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In a soon to be demolished block of apartments, the residents resist the criminal methods used to force them to leave so a greedy tycoon can build his new skyscraper. When tiny mechanical aliens land for a recharge, they decide to stay and help out.
Style: feel good, entertaining, touching, light, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids, date night, teen drama
Plot: ufo, apartment building, alien, alien robot, benign alien, space and aliens, eviction, robot, alien invasion, friendship, elderly couple, alien encounter ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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 4.6
 729
The Landlady (1998)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Melanie decides that one of her tenants would be perfect as her husband and decides to eliminate everyone who might interfere in her plans.
Style: suspenseful, psychological, realistic, serious, scary ...
Plot: obsession, split personality, murder, disobey, dangerous attraction, mentally unstable, blind ambition, dishonesty, danger, psychopath, stalking, spouse killer ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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Macadam Stories (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A drama about several lonely inhabitants of the same council estate, adapted by Benchetrit from his novel.
Style: social, absurd, humorous, melancholic, enigmatic ...
Plot: apartment building, neighbor, neighbor neighbor relationship, astronaut, city life, social relations, irony, man in a wheelchair, small town, culture clash, kindness, mission ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s
Place: france
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 5.1
 34K
Sliver (1993)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A woman moves into an apartment in Manhattan and learns that the previous tenant's life ended mysteriously after they fell from the balcony.
Style: erotic, sexy, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: obsession, hidden camera, murder, voyeurism, dangerous attraction, serial killer, sex, voyeur, strong sexual content, apartment building, trapped, surveillance ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan, Canada, UK, Germany, Australia, Netherlands, South Korea
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sonic and the gang must team up to fight Dr. Eggman.
Style: funny, exciting, captivating, feel good, light ...
Audience: kids, date night, family outing
Plot: hedgehog, on the run, superhero, friendship, road trip, military, friend, super speed, bar fight, chase, anthropomorphic animal, evil man ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s
Place: san francisco, california, france, usa, egypt ...
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 8.4
 1.5M
Joker (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Australia
Duration: 122 min.
Story: During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
Style: thought provoking, suspense, atmospheric, bleak, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: mental illness, mental disorder, villain, psycho, psychopath, loneliness, psychological trauma, character change, insanity, social problems, comedian, social decay ...
Time: 2010s, 80s, year 2019, year 1981, 20th century
Place: new york, new jersey, los angeles, persia
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Good Neighbours (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Takes place in 1995, the year of the second referendum on the separation of Quebec. In the dead of winter, a serial killer is on the loose in the small Montreal neighborhood of Notre Dame de Grace. The tenants of an old apartment house must figure ...
Style: serious, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, police detective, cat, rape, apartment building, investigation, police investigation, who to trust, friendship, snow, male female relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1995
Place: canada, montreal
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The 7th Floor (2013)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Like every day, Marcelo gathers her children on the floor of his ex-wife. As each day play "to see who gets there first" them down the stairs, him in the elevator, a diversion that your ex-partner does not like. But when one day Marcelo ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious, surprise ending ...
Plot: missing child, twists and turns, apartment building, family relations, chases and races, parents and children, lawyer, divorced parents, kidnapping, vanished man, ex husband ex wife relationship, elevator ...
Time: 21st century
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 6.8
 3K
Strapped (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A routine trick propels a tall, dark, cynical hustler into a series of life-changing encounters in this drama. But this amicable and sexually efficient rent boy begins to look at himself differently when he finds himself lost in a maze-like ...
Style: realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, prostitution, apartment building, lgbt, gay sex, gays and lesbians, prostitute, loneliness, changing lives, couples, male prostitution, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco
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 5.3
 113
Poolman (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An eccentric pool cleaner stumbles upon an investigation by a dirty city council.
Style: captivating, detective, entertaining, light, exciting ...
Plot: swimming pool, apartment building, crime investigation, criminal, crime scene, slacker, daydreamer, male protagonist, dreaming, security guard, city council
Place: los angeles
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 5.5
 45K
High-Rise (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Belgium
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.
Style: disturbing, psychological, surreal, futuristic, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: distopia, decadence, tower, existentialism, dark humor, violence, insanity, surrealism, class conflict, apartment building, violent, visceral ...
Time: future, 70s, 2010s, year 2016, year 2015 ...
Place: london, england, ireland
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 6.5
 134K
Evil Dead Rise (2023)
Genre: Horror
Country: Ireland, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two sisters find an ancient book that gives birth to bloodthirsty demons that run amok in a Los Angeles apartment building and thrusts them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.
Style: psychological, mystical, suspenseful, slasher, psychotronic ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: sister sister relationship, demonic possession, demon, sibling relationship, evil, earthquake, supernatural horror, back from the dead, chainsaw, evil smile, elevator, blood ...
Time: 2020s
Place: los angeles
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 7.2
 2K
Half & Half (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Half & Half is an American sitcom that aired on UPN from September 23, 2002, to May 15, 2006. The show focuses on the lives of two paternal half-sisters in their twenties who were estranged throughout their childhood, and are finally developing ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Plot: sister sister relationship, dating, family relations, black, battle of the sexes, lifestyle, looking for love, couples, love and romance, culture clash, male female friendship, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa, california
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The First Wives Club (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit ...
Style: light, feel good, humorous, funny, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot: divorce, revenge, battle of the sexes, friendship, female protagonist, female bonding, feminism, women, dancing, breakup, feminist, suicide ...
Time: 90s, 60s, year 1969
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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 7.8
 442K
Ghostbusters (1984)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, light, cult classic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, monster, nerd, transformation, paranormal investigation, giant monster, chase, imagination, accountant, friendship, librarian ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, year 2016, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, nova scotia, usa
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Addicted to Love (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Good-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life, Linda, leaves him for a suave Frenchman named Anton. He therefore does what every other normal dumpee would do; go to New York and set up home in the abandoned building opposite ...
Style: clever, melancholic, romantic, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: obsession, love, breakup, love triangle, chef, love and romance, vengeance, infidelity, love story, women, fall in love, happy ending ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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 6.9
 3K
The Landlord (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: 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 it ...
Style: political, funny, realistic, semi serious, offbeat ...
Plot: racism, landlord, tenant, adoption, one night stand, ghetto, dysfunctional family, apartment building, father son relationship, class differences, interracial relations, satire ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
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 7.4
 21K
Aquarius (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Clara, a 65-year-old widow and retired music critic, was born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife, Brazil. She is the last resident of the Aquarius, an original two-story building, built in the 1940s, in the upper-class, seaside Boa ...
Style: realistic, talky, melancholic, stylized, allegory ...
Plot: real estate, horny, family drama, fighting the system, character study, manipulation, female protagonist, nostalgia, apartment building, class differences, capitalism, cancer ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, year 1980
Place: northeast brazil, brazil
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 5.5
 998
Tenement (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A drug-dealing band of violent street thugs terrorize the tenants of a South Bronx apartment building
Style: disturbing, terrifying, hood, controversial, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, exploitation, revenge, urban decay, apartment building, rape, home invasion, ghetto, street gang, violence, city, gangster ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
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 7.0
 715K
World War Z (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Malta
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is ...
Style: apocalyptic, suspenseful, scary, serious, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: zombie, virus, apocalypse, epidemic, zombie apocalypse, post apocalypse, deadly virus, survival, infected, end of the world, post apocalyptic, natural disaster ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, jurassic ...
Place: new jersey, new york, israel, philadelphia, seattle ...
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 5.5
 4K
Venus (2022)
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Lucía, a club dancer on the run, takes refuge in a sinister building on the outskirts of Madrid where her sister Rocío lives with her daughter Alba.
Style: tense, psychological horror, suspenseful, captivating, hood ...
Plot: gang, sister sister relationship, estranged sister, sibling relationship, apartment building, survival horror, female protagonist, death threat, runaway, fugitives, threat, gangster ...
Place: madrid
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 2.1
 515
Project Legion (2022)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A former marine awakens to an apocalyptic sight outside of his window and barricades himself from evil creatures that surround his apartment door and terrorize the city.
Style: tense, suspenseful, bleak, captivating, disturbing
Plot: post-apocalyptic future, apartment building, demon, fight, monster, survival, fantasy world, post apocalypse, epidemic, night, escape, apocalypse ...
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