The Landlords(2002)

The Landlords is a French comedy that follows an eccentric group of apartment dwellers united by cruelty and indifference. When a couple of neighbors ask to have their units connected, their request is coldly rejected. During the Christmas season, tenants mock beggars at a charity event, while a Portuguese concierge faces replacement by a cheaper alternative and a grieving widow receives no mercy from her rent-obsessed landlords. Directed by Rémi Waterhouse, the film paints a darkly comic portrait of urban selfishness and the petty tyrannies of apartment living, where compassion is in short supply and every resident seems determined to make life harder for everyone else.