Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world's most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the run-down...

A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.

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...

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well...

An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or the police to believe him. The only people taking...

A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated mob shootout.

The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot....

The negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building's residents.

City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.

Disillusioned with his wealthy friends, a man pretends to be poor and goes to live in the slums where he falls in love with a burglar's sister.

Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks...

A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.

Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura Murdock decides not to marry the boy next door and instead accepts wealthy, older William Brockton's...

Harry, The Odd Fellow, is a tenement worker who lives alone in a shack alongside a warehouse and longs for the companionship of a wife and children...