Movies: Street scene

  • 1937
    Dead End

    Dead End (1937)

    Dead End

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    Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also cross...

    Dead End
  • 2021
    Moments Like This Never Last

    Moments Like This Never Last (2021)

    Moments Like This Never Last

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    Dash Snow rejected a life of privilege to make his own way as an artist on the streets of downtown New York City in the late 1990s. Developing from a notorious graffiti tagger into an international art star, he documented his drug- and alcohol-fueled...

    Moments Like This Never Last
  • 1931
    Street Scene

    Street Scene (1931)

    Street Scene

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    The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murd...

    Street Scene
  • 1930
    People on Sunday

    People on Sunday (1930)

    People on Sunday

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    A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann...

    People on Sunday
  • 1896
    A Corner of Barnet Fair

    A Corner of Barnet Fair (1896)

    A Corner of Barnet Fair

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    From the BFI Collection, this film is actually two films spliced together into one. The first is Birt Acres' work 'A Corner of Barnet Fair' which is the first film seen . This shows a merry-go-round and some people sitting in a doorway while street t...

    A Corner of Barnet Fair
  • 1896
    Street Scene in unidentified European city

    Street Scene in unidentified European city (1896)

    Street Scene in unidentified European city

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    An actuality film of traffic and pedestrian movement at the end of a bridge. In the distance on the other side of the bridge, the tops of some large buildings are visible, including a domed building. The location is unconfirmed....

    Street Scene in unidentified European city