Boarding house movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant boarding house movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychological, independent film, realistic, emotional, sentimental and melancholic films and TV shows about / with boarding house, coming of age, love, friendship, isolation, small town, death, slice of life, loneliness and cigarette smoking plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Horror genres shot in USA, UK, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as boarding house: The L-Shaped Room (1962), Age of Youth (2016), Carnival of Souls (1962), Down a Dark Hall (2018), It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Cabaret (1972), Brooklyn (2015), No One Gets Out Alive (2021), The Shootist (1976), The Sea (2013).
Best films
List of boarding house movies
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Leslie Caron plays a young, pregnant, unmarried Frenchwoman who takes a room in a seedy boarding house in London. She soon makes friends with Toby, a struggling writer who lives downstairs, and eventually gets to accept her room and the strange ...
Style:
independent film, depressing, crying
Plot:
kitchen sink realism, lesbian, landlady, morning sickness, homosexual subtext, single mother, boarding house, lesbian relationship, christmas party, baby girl, pregnancy, unwed pregnancy ...
Place:
london, england
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
University students Yoon Jin-Myung, Jung Ye-Eun, Song Ji-Won, Kang Yi-Na and Yoo Eun-Jae share a house. Jin-Myung is busy supporting herself financially and studying. She suffers from lack of sleep. Ye-Eun is devoted to her boyfriend, she is clear ...
Style:
dorama, humorous, light, thought provoking, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
female friendship, youth, friendship, love at first sight, house party, inferiority complex, friends who live together, love and romance, female protagonist, couples, college student, coming of age ...
Place:
seoul, korea
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish ...
Style:
atmospheric, cult classic, dark, gothic, creepy ...
Plot:
carnival, afterlife, female protagonist, ghost, supernatural, car accident, surrealism, nervous breakdown, american horror, boarding house, spirit, coffee ...
Time:
year 1962
Place:
salt lake city utah, utah, usa, kansas
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Kit, a troubled girl, is sent to the exclusive Blackwood boarding school, where she discovers that only other four female students have been admitted to learn the four pillars of knowledge under the ominous wing of the mysterious headmistress Madame ...
Style:
scary, demonic, gothic, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
boarding school, trance, haunted house, black magic, private school, troubled teen, possessed, ghost, talent, boarding house, schoolgirl, hearing voices ...
Place:
berlin germany
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. ...
Style:
feel good, inspirational, touching, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
christmas, holiday, small town, depression, small town life, angel, friendship, self discovery, second chance, life philosophy, life changing experience, alternate history ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1932, year 1945, 1910s ...
Place:
new york, america, new york state, usa
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Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
Style:
satirical, stylized, atmospheric, period piece, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
nazi, gay, fascism, lgbtq, cabaret, gay interest, decadence, world war two, closeted homosexual, dancing, politics, lgbt ...
Time:
1930s, year 1931, 20th century, year 1972
Place:
berlin germany, europe, germany, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Shitara, a man who fell from his elite life overnight. His new "place of employment", which has lost his job, house, and wife, is a boarding house?! Under one roof, a perverted love begins from the worst encounter with one of those living ...
Style:
romantic comedy, sentimental, feel good, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
divorce, boarding house, career change, male female relationship, relationships, love story, woman, japanese woman, japanese man, love, love affair, couple relations ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sweet, romantic, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
immigrant, love and romance, starting over, sex scene, marriage proposal, hopes, immigration, friendship, female protagonist, true love, love affair, homesickness ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 2010s, year 2015, 1900s ...
Place:
ireland, brooklyn new york city, new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, america ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
boarding house, spinster, hotel, female nudity, desperation, piano, loneliness, psychopath, aging, mental disorder, nude girl, betrayal ...
Time:
year 1987, 1950s, 50s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, new york, usa ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
suspense, slasher, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
nightmare, survival horror, immigrant, occult, haunted house, supernatural, illegal immigrant, secret, human sacrifice, survival, female protagonist, struggle for survival ...
Time:
2020s, 60s, year 1963
Place:
cleveland ohio
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Brooks, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler. Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and ...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
gunfight, old west, cancer, wild west, widow, self defense, small town, haunted by the past, cowboy, retirement, human nature, danger ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century, year 1976, turn of the century, 19th century ...
Place:
tucson arizona, el paso texas, nevada, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A man returns to the sea where he spent his childhood summers in search of peace following the death of his wife.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, non-linear, contemplative, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
family relations, haunted by the past, family problems, eccentric family, resort, childhood memory, grief, death of wife, grieving, boarding house, introspection, nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A serial killer murders people staying at a boarding house in this shot-on-video obscurity.
Style:
independent film, suspense, slasher, tense, grim ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, boarding house, violence, blood, fear, claustrophobia, paranoia, obscurity, stalking, isolation, whodunit ...
Time:
90s
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156
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After moving into a boardinghouse, a young woman becomes the object of her lonely neighbor's obsessions.
Style:
slasher, psychological thriller, tense, crime drama, psychological horror ...
Plot:
obsession, boarding house, murder, isolation, stalker, paranoia, male protagonist, loneliness, claustrophobia, character study, female victim, sexual obsession ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a border in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers. They torment him verbally, ask him idiotic unanswerable questions, force him to sit down and stand up, and give him a ...
Style:
enigmatic, existential, surreal, tension, psychological ...
Plot:
boarding house, absurdism, psychological torment, character study, claustrophobia, coercion, paranoia, isolation, identity crisis, breakdown, moral ambiguity, minimalism ...
Time:
60s
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Shiratori Ryuushi is a young artist-in-training, about to start studying at a vocational school. Arriving at his new lodgings he finds himself the focus of attention for the collection of weirdos that inhabit the place. He also meets and falls for ...
Style:
anime, funny, captivating, romantic, entertaining ...
Plot:
neighbor neighbor relationship, slice of life, daily life, boarding house, life, lifestyle, living together, painter, neighbor, humour, relationships, love and romance ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Stunningly sexy Pan Dang plays a Hong Kong woman who's traveling in search of her twin sister, who disappeared leaving nothing more than a native doll, the eponymous imp. Along the way she hooks up with a mobile film crew. They discover that ...
Style:
creepy, dark, suspenseful, disturbing, tension ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, doll, boarding house, twin sister, missing person, possession, macabre, obsession, occult, paranormal investigation, identity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
hong kong
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A woman in love, a weak man, a father stumbling with his emotions, an uncle dependent on the past and a teenager meet at Zagor’s boarding house. Despite the serenity of the house, they all struggle to find the peace that they each need.
Style:
psychological, realistic, contemplative, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
boarding house, character study, teenager, father son relationship, love, household, slice of life, domestic drama, intimate, memory, isolation, loss ...
Place:
turkey
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The four stories that possibly or impossibly can be happened in the pension; The parents who lost their child go to the pension with poison where the killer stays with his family; The husband and wife on a trip who are growing tired of their married ...
Style:
anthology, suspense, tension, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
pension, boarding house, problem, male female relationship, family relations, relationships, husband wife relationship, couples, relationship problems, marital problem, life is a bitch, family tragedy ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A disturbed young woman runs away from her New Zealand home and hides away in an Australian boarding house, named Terra Nova. There she finds that every one else in the boarding house is just as zany as she is, and on some levels make her seem sane ...
Style:
psychological, independent film, melancholic, art house, surreal ...
Plot:
boarding house, mental health, female protagonist, mental illness, character study, a vision, outsider, delusion, isolation, domestic drama, identity, trauma ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new zealand, australia
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Genre: Horror
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young college student moves to a new boarding house in a very haunted area.
Style:
creepy, tense, suspense, grim, psychological horror ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, ghost, boarding house, female ghost, possession, superstition, forest, curse, isolation, trauma, urban legend ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Two one-act plays explore love and loneliness. In "Table by the Window" an aging fashion model contrives a reunion with her ex-husband, a politician ruined by scandal, and their passion is rekindled. In "Table Number Seven" a ...
Style:
melancholic, emotional, psychological, tense, reflective ...
Plot:
hotel, loneliness, scandal, small town, female protagonist, love, boarding house, moral dilemma, reputation, bittersweet, intimate, unrequited love ...
Time:
1950s
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Kishimoto Kasumi, a 15-year-old girl, was supposed to live at her auntie's house in order to go to high school since April. However, when she moved to the house she was surprised with the fact that there were already four new male students ...
Style:
romantic comedy, lighthearted, anime, ecchi, shoujo ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school life, high school, coming of age, teen romance, friendship, comedy of errors, boarding house, innocence, shyness, first love, harem, slice of life ...
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Genre: Family, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Assorted Gems is a 2009 South Korean television series starring Go Na-eun, Lee Tae-gon, So Yi-hyun, Lee Hyun-jin and Lee Il-min. It aired on MBC from September 5, 2009 to February 21, 2010 on Saturdays and Sundays at 21:45 for 50 episodes.
Style:
family comedy, comedy drama, captivating, thrilling, psychological ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
family drama, siblings, parent child relationship, family problems, siblings relations, brother sister relationship, lifestyle, large family, brother brother conflict, family life, parents and children, family conflict ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ding Bo (Chen Po Lin) and his friends Nan Feng (Fan Bingbing) and Fei Zao aka Fatso (Fei Long) are a trio of 20-something outsiders who have no intention of sitting exams and getting into universities. When they need a new home, they answer an ad ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, touching, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenage life, teenage love, rebelliousness, best friend, love and romance, youth, rebellion, boarding house, opera singer, friendship, reconciliation ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
beijing china, china, asia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A railroad official, Owen Legate comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down much of the town's railway (town's main income). Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main attraction, Alva Starr. Alva and Owen then try to ...
Style:
southern gothic, romantic drama, technicolor, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
small town, railroad, mother daughter relationship, adolescence, dysfunctional family, forbidden love, boarding house, mental disorder, mother and daughter, deep south, swing, sad ending ...
Time:
1920s, year 1966, 1930s
Place:
mississippi, australia, tennessee, usa, new orleans
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New York.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, family relations, family problems, friends, parents and children, youth, lifestyle, black, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, blaxploitation ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
new york, usa, pennsylvania, russia, toronto ontario canada ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 225 min.
TV show
Story:
Tom Brown's Schooldays is a 1971 television serial adaptation of the Thomas Hughes novel of the same name.
It was originally shown on the BBC1 Sunday tea time slot, which often showed adaptations of classic novels aimed at a family audience. ...
Style:
period piece, dramatic, period drama, earnest
Plot:
coming of age, bullying, corporal punishment, boarding school, high school life, public school, friendship, literary, class system, boarding house, peer pressure, english countryside ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The summer break is over and the twins returned to Lindenhof. That has now changed a lot. Because Mrs Theobald had to travel, Mademoiselle Bertoux has taken the lead.
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, inspirational ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly
Plot:
best friend, youth, heroes, high school hunk, mischievous children, disorder, danger, boarding school, twin sister, high school life, girls' school, sisterhood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story:
It is August 12th. After the remote control to his boarding house's only air conditioning unit is inadvertently destroyed by spilled cola, "I" devises a plan to return to yesterday in a time machine to recover the remote before it ...
Style:
anime, mind bending, tension, psychological, psychedelic
Plot:
time travel, control, exploration, plan, friendship, travel, adventurer, adventure hero, butterfly effect, slice of life, college life, boarding house ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 90s
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