Gentrification Movies

Director Kelly Anderson's personal journey as a Brooklyn 'gentrifier' to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood along lines of race and...

A taxi drives through the city of Berlin. Its driver is a punk, left and a well-known figure in the autonomous scene. The stations of his trip are...

In a gentrified near future, the owners of the last sporting club in Lisbon spend one final moment together after learning of its sale.

Accompanied by a lilting soundtrack, characters wander through London's concrete jungle as the narrator reflects on the current state of the city and...

Villa Rodrigo Bueno, a poor neighborhood located on some sough after lands in Buenos Aires, in their struggle for urbanization and their fight...

In the stillness of a remote town, a troubled writer intervenes in a neighbor’s abusive household— testing the limits of truth, heroism...

In one single shot, Obras offers a poetic journey through time and space, exploring Barcelona's wild irreversible destruction.

The closing of a local restaurant concerns a number of employees who've dedicated their lives to the eatery

After being made redundant from her job at the coastal arcades, Helen commits a victimless crime to pay for dinner.

Set in a former train factory turned art gallery in Milan, Italy, Classe Media explores the contradictions of being a working class artist. This...

Universam Grochów was a now-defunct shopping and service mall that emerged in the 1970s in Warsaw's Praga-Południe district. This...

In a bustling Los Angeles strip mall parking lot, Mandy is a well-to-do arrival in a gentrifying neighborhood. She brushes off locals, including the...

Tell Them We Were Here is an inspirational feature-length documentary about eight artists who show us why art is vital to a healthy society and...

The baker, the pie-maker and the diminished long-term community of Hoxton Street face gentrification in this compelling portrait of a rapidly...

A short film about the changing face of London Soho and the implications of gentrification on Mimi, an aging transvestite.

Filmed over four years, this documentary focuses on the impacts of gentrification as gay white professionals move into a largely black working-class...

A young boy who had been abandoned as a child and raised by wild dogs is taken to a university where a team attempts to teach him civilized behavior.

Rua de Santa Catarina, a street that was formerly home to dozens of local businesses and hundreds of Porto residents, now sees a crowd of tourists...

As a rural village prepares for its final harvest festival as a luxury building development is greenlit, an ancient threat awakens and Julian must...

A documentary chronicling the history and final days of the Crayola House, a legendary DIY punk venue in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Through archival...