The Parallel Street

Jun 1, 1962

1h 23m

★ 7.5

Overview

Feature-documentary "pointing up a thousand facets of this world and probing to determine what may lie beneath the surface".

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Gesellschaft für bildende Filme

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Cast

Protokollführer

Friedrich Joloff

Gremiumsmitglied Nr. 1

Ernst Marbeck

Gremiumsmitglied Nr. 2

Wilfried Schröpfer

Gremiumsmitglied Nr. 5

Herbert Tiede

Gremiumsmitglied Nr. 3

Henry van Lyck

Gremiumsmitglied Nr. 4

Werner Uschkurat

In this hard-edged urban drama, when a shocking murder is committed in a Hispanic neighborhood in East Lost Angeles, the local residents are up in arms and demand action from the police. When the cops prove slow to investigate the killing, the local street gangs who prowl the area put aside their differences and set out to find the murderer themselves.

5.6

1 Out of 7

Mar 9, 2012

Runaway teen Lexi find herself alone and pregnant on the streets. Seemingly beyond hope, she must turn to Devon, a woman with her own demons, to help her find a way back from her past mistakes.

5.4

Sleight

Apr 28, 2016

A young street magician is left to take care of his little sister after his mother's passing and turns to drug dealing in the Los Angeles party scene to keep a roof over their heads. When he gets into trouble with his supplier, his sister is kidnapped and he is forced to rely on both his sleight of hand and brilliant mind to save her.

1.0

Downtown: A Street Tale

Nov 7, 2004

A group of street kids find that the only way to make it through the day is to hold onto their dreams while their reality is eating out of dumpsters, turning tricks and squatting in abandoned buildings.

6.7

Morning's Tree-Lined Street

Nov 1, 1936

As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point of view on a bus leaving the countryside and entering the metropolitan cityscape. After some fruitless job hunting in downtown Tokyo, Chiyo accepts a job as a bar hostess in Shiba ward. Well away from glamorous Asakusa and Ginza, this is a neighborhood bar where the women are dirt poor, each having only one kimono to their name....

6.8

'71

Oct 10, 2014

A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.

0.0

Paint Job

May 31, 2009

Daniel is a street painter. He just paints straight lines on the streets. Dotted, solid, white or yellow. Until Ruby, a strange wanderer enters his life and shows him the full palette of colors and shapes that he misses in his life.

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9.0

The Next Two Nights

Oct 15, 2016

When Chrissie's latest conquest, David, goes away for the weekend, she has no place to go and must take to the streets to survive..

7.4

El Barrendero

May 5, 1982

A cheerful sweeper collects garbage dancing, and the maids of the neighborhood get jealous because he invites another woman out.

7.1

The World Before Your Feet

Nov 21, 2018

For over 6 years, Matt Green, 37, has been walking every street in New York City – a total of more than 8000 miles. The World Before Your Feet tells the story of one man’s unusual quest and the journey of discovery, humanity, and wonder that ensues.

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3.6

Dragan Wende - West Berlin

Nov 6, 2014

Dragan Wende has lived in Berlin since the '70s and has seen the city change through the years. His nephew comes to live with him as Dragan remembers the better days he lived as a Yugoslavian immigrant in a divided city.

7.5

My Fair Lady

Dec 1, 1964

A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

5.6

The Sitter

Dec 9, 2011

Noah, is not your typical entertain-the-kids-no-matter-how-boring-it-is kind of sitter. He's reluctant to take a sitting gig; he'd rather, well, be doing anything else, especially if it involves slacking. When Noah is watching the neighbor's kid he gets a booty call from his girlfriend in the city. To hook up with her, Noah takes to the streets, but his urban adventure spins out of control as he finds himself on the run from a maniacal drug lord.

10.0

Snow Puppy

Feb 25, 2018

A short film about a white shepherd puppy playing in the snow. Filmed and released in the early months of 2018.