High-Rise

About High-Rise

Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.

Ben Wheatley's High-Rise is a 2015 drama film. Released in November 2015, it runs 119 minutes.

Its themes are architecture, upper class, skyscraper, and decadence. The film began as a novel.

Tom Hiddleston takes the lead as Dr. Robert Laing, Elisabeth Moss as Helen Wilder, Sienna Miller as Charlotte Melville, and Jeremy Irons as Anthony Royal. The screenplay is by Amy Jump. It comes from BFI, Film4 Productions, and HanWay Films. It streams on Magnolia Selects Amazon Channel, Monsters and Nightmares Amazon Channel, and Warriors and Gangsters Amazon Channel in the United States.

Sense and Sensibility, All of Us Strangers, and 18 Years Old and Rising make useful companions to High-Rise, all filed under social class, high rise, and class conflict. TMDB voters put it at 5.6 out of 10 across 1,294 votes and it carries a R rating.