The House of 72 Tenants

Sep 21, 1973

1h 38m

★ 6.3

Overview

Set during a period of depression, the film chronicles the daily lives of a single urban building split up into several separate units, and the actual people that dwell within.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

TVB

Shaw Brothers

The House of 72 Tenants Trailers

Cast

Fat Chai

Elliot Ngok Wah

Chow Bing-ken

Tin Ching

Ah Heung

Ching Li

Landlady Pak Ku

Hu Chin

Shanghai Po

Lydia Shum Tin-Ha

Thief in the market

Chor Yuen

Ah Fook

Sau Sun Ho

Police Constable 369

Lau Yat-Fan

Brother Fung

Ku Feng

Shanghai man

Cheng Kang-Yeh

Wo Kee

Lee Sau-Kei

Doctor Kim

Ching Miao

The film is about the stories of Ailí, Morón, Equis, Fer and Toro. They live together in Buenos Aires. It shows the intimacy of every day situations combining like a puzzle fragments of the five characters during five days of the week. Each one go through different situations that ends in an unique scene about the desires and limitations of our lives.

6.6

The Living Room of the Nation

Sep 11, 2009

The Living Room of the Nation is a documentary film that portrays a number of Finnish living rooms. The film is a story of changes, the inevitable passing of time, and the human desire to be needed, visible.

0.0

L'Appartement

Sep 3, 2021

No overview available.

5.5

Volunteers

Aug 16, 1985

After his rich father refuses to pay his debt, compulsive gambler Lawrence Bourne III joins the Peace Corps to evade angry creditors. In Thailand, he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with the help of American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler. What they don't realize is that the bridge is coveted by the U.S. Army, a local Communist force, and a powerful drug lord. Together with the help of At Toon, the only English speaking native, they must fight off the three opposing forces and find out what is right for the villagers, as well as themselves.

6.2

Spies Like Us

Dec 6, 1985

Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.

No Image Available

5.0

Packing the Monkeys, Again!

May 15, 2004

A couple who lost their communication tries to refresh the relationship by renting another apartment.

7.7

Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me

Jan 6, 2018

Yuuta and Rikka are in their third year of high school. One day in Spring, Touka declares that she will take Rikka to Italy with her, as her job has stabilized there and thinks they should migrate together as a family. Touka is also worried about Rikka not being competent enough to advance to universities in Japan. The gangs from the club suggested Yuuta, who doesn't want to be separated, to elope with Rikka!! A runaway drama throughout Japan begins.

5.8

The Landlord

May 20, 1970

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.

4.2

Hemet, or the Landlady Don't Drink Tea

Feb 24, 2024

During a cannibalistic bath salts epidemic in Hemet, California, a tyrannical landlady lords it over her tenants, pitting them against each other in a web of paranoia spun for deadly results.

0.0

Chopsticks

Dec 12, 2025

An Asian representative shows up at a man's door to personally address a mildly racist tweet he posted. What starts as an awkward conversation slowly turns into something much stranger, and a lot more uncomfortable.

6.0

Living on Love

Nov 12, 1937

A man and a woman, who have never met, are forced by pecuniary circumstances to share the same basement apartment in shifts.

3.2

Flirting Scholar 2

Jul 8, 2010

Tang Bohu's mother sends him to study at Qingfeng Monastery, but he can't bear the austere and monotonous life at the monastery. So, his three good friends secretly take Tang Bohu out for an excursion, where they run into Qian Qian/Qiu Xiang. Tang Bo Hu immediately falls for her, but later, she gets accused as being a spider spirit and is about to be burned to death by a priest...

6.7

The Diabolic Tenant

May 29, 1909

A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.

5.0

Under One Roof

Nov 9, 2002

San Francisco twenty-something Daniel Chang faces a bind when he can't resist the hot tenant recruited by his clueless, traditional mother.

6.9

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Feb 23, 2012

British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose in their old age.

4.5

Nine Girls and a Ghost

Nov 23, 2002

A girl receives a Mini Cooper that is possessed by Marco, a ghost.

3.8

Beauty and the 7 Beasts

Sep 25, 2007

Teddy (Eric Tsang) is a ladies man. He is constantly with a woman, but never accepts the responsibility that comes with a relationship. Short of cash, his friend Wendy (Jo Koo) comes up with a plan for him to impart his knowledge in hitching up women to desperate men who will pay for some tips.

6.7

Fast & Feel Love

Apr 6, 2022

When a world champion of sport stacking is dumped by his long-time girlfriend, he has to learn basic adulting skills in order to live alone and take care of himself.

5.8

Operation Pink Squad II

Mar 31, 1989

A police sting takes place in a haunted apartment building. The sting goes bad when a wicked female ghost crashes the party.

6.5

Kiracı

Sep 30, 1987

Kerim lives with his family in a rent house for years. One day his landlord tells him to look for another house or raise the rent money.He finds a house by the help of Sühandan whom he works together and in love.