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Starring Marlon BrandoDiane KeatonAl Pacino
By Francis Ford Coppola, 1972.
Vito Corleone is the aging don (head) of the Corleone Mafia Family. His youngest son Michael has returned from WWII just in time to see the wedding of Connie Corleone (Michael's sister) to Carlo Rizzi. All of Michael's family is involved with the Mafia, but Michael just wants to live a normal life.
- GoodFellas
Starring Robert De NiroRay LiottaJoe Pesci
By Martin Scorsese, 1990.
Martin Scorsese explores the life of organized crime with his gritty, kinetic adaptation of Nicolas Pileggi 's best-selling Wiseguy, the true-life account of mobster and FBI informant Henry Hill.
- American Psycho
Starring Christian BaleWillem DafoeJared Leto
By Mary Harron, 2000.
With a chiseled chin and an iron physique, Patrick Bateman's looks make him the ideal yuppie -- and the ideal serial killer. That's the joke behind American Psycho, which follows a killer at large during the 1980s junk-bond boom. Bateman (Christian Bale) takes pathological pride in everything from...
- Ghostbusters
Starring Bill MurrayDan AykroydHarold Ramis
By Ivan Reitman, 1984.
After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists (Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and Harold Ramis) goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes.
- Gangs of New York
Starring Leonardo DiCaprioDaniel Day-LewisCameron Diaz
By Martin Scorsese, 2002.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz and Daniel Day-Lewis star in this epic tale of vengeance and survival! As waves of immigrants swell the population of New York, lawlessness and corruption thrive in lower Manhattan's Five Points section. After years of incarceration, young Irish immigrant Amsterdam...
- West Side Story
Starring Natalie WoodRichard BeymerRuss Tamblyn
By Robert Wise, 1961.
Winner of 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture, this classic musical set among the tenements of New York City finds star-crossed lovers Maria (Natalie Wood) and Tony (Richard Beymer) caught in the midst of a turf war between rival street gangs. The modern Romeo and Juliet story features...
- Taxi Driver
Starring Robert De NiroJodie FosterAlbert Brooks
By Martin Scorsese, 1976.
Mentally unstable Vietnam vet Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) drives a nocturnal cab through the sleaziest streets of pregentrified New York City and befriends a child hooker (Jodie Foster). Along the way, the morally righteous Bickle slowly loses his mind, turning into a well-armed, homicidal...
- The Muppets Take Manhattan
Starring Frank OzDabney ColemanGregory Hines
By Frank Oz, 1984.
When the Muppets graduate from Danhurst College, they take their song-filled senior revue to New York, only to learn it isn't easy to find a producer willing to back a show starring a frog and a pig. But Kermit and Miss Piggy won't take no for an answer, and eventually, they find a...
- Annie Hall
Starring Woody AllenDiane KeatonTony Roberts
By Woody Allen, 1977.
Romantic adventures of neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer and his equally neurotic girlfriend Annie Hall. The film traces the course of their relationship from their first meeting, and serves as an interesting historical document about love in the 1970s.
- Once Upon a Time in America
Starring Robert De NiroJames WoodsElizabeth McGovern
By Sergio Leone, 1984.
Director Sergio Leone's sprawling crime epic follows a group of Jewish mobsters (including Robert De Niro, James Woods and Elizabeth McGovern) who rise in the ranks of organized crime in 1920s New York. Their story unfolds in flashbacks as ringleader Noodles (De Niro) returns to Brooklyn some 30...
- A Bronx Tale
Starring Robert De NiroJoe PesciChazz Palminteri
By Robert De Niro, 1993.
An evocative slice-of-life film. A Bronx boy (Lillo Brancato) grows to adulthood worshipping disparate heroes: his hardworking father (Robert De Niro), who drives a city bus, and the neighborhood mob boss (Chazz Palminteri), who becomes a kind of surrogate dad.
- King Kong
Starring Fay WrayRobert ArmstrongBruce Cabot
By Merian C. Cooper, 1933.
King Kong is a Pre-Code 1933 fantasy monster adventure film co-directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, and written by Ruth Rose and James Ashmore Creelman after a story by Cooper and Edgar Wallace. The film tells of a gigantic island-dwelling apeman creature called Kong who dies in...
- The French Connection
Starring Gene HackmanFernando ReyRoy Scheider
By William Friedkin, 1971.
Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman), a foul-mouthed, violent narcotics detective, pursues a suave French drug dealer (Fernando Rey) through New York City with Captain Ahab-like zeal. Director William Friedkin took the provocative stance that both the narcs and the smugglers use similar thuggish...
- Breakfast at Tiffany's
Starring Audrey HepburnGeorge PeppardPatricia Neal
By Blake Edwards, 1961.
In this Blake Edwards-directed adaptation of Truman Capote's novel, fortune hunter Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) finds herself captivated by aspiring writer Paul Varjak (George Peppard), who's moved into her building on a wealthy woman's (Patricia Neal) dime.
- Manhattan
Starring Woody AllenDiane KeatonMichael Murphy
By Woody Allen, 1979.
In the thick of a midlife crisis, television writer Isaac Davis (Woody Allen) finds himself torn between the sweet but far too young Tracy (Mariel Hemingway, who received an Oscar nod for the role) and his best friend's mistress, Mary (Diane Keaton). Shot in black and white and in wide-screen...
- Rounders
Starring Matt DamonGretchen MolJohn Turturro
By John Dahl, 1998.
This bleak drama follows the downward spiral of law student Mike McDermott (Matt Damon), who has a penchant for high-stakes gambling. He befriends and "befoes" the usual suspects: a fellow gambling addict named Worm (Edward Norton) and club owner Teddy KGB (John Malkovich).
- Coming to America
Starring Eddie MurphyJames Earl JonesArsenio Hall
By John Landis, 1988.
A pampered African prince (Eddie Murphy) wants more out of life than the beautiful woman to whom he's engaged. So, he heads to America to find a mate who will fall for him, not his riches. Joined by his trusty sidekick (Arsenio Hall), the prince plunges into a low-paying job at a fast-food chain ...
- Whatever Works
Starring Larry DavidEvan Rachel WoodHenry Cavill
By Woody Allen, 2009.
While falling for a young Southern belle (Evan Rachel Wood), an aging New York City eccentric (Larry David) finds himself caught in a series of bizarre situations involving the girl's parents and his own Greenwich Village group of pals. Written and directed by legendary filmmaker Woody Allen, this...
- Serpico
Starring Al PacinoJohn RandolphJack Kehoe
By Sidney Lumet, 1973.
Based on the real-life story of New York City undercover cop Frank Serpico (an honest man who refused to take part in the corruption forced upon him by his peers and was grievously wounded because of it), this movie ranks among Al Pacino's greatest film roles.
- 25th Hour
Starring Edward NortonPhilip Seymour HoffmanBarry Pepper
By Spike Lee, 2002.
This is the story of the last 24 hours Monty Brogan (Edward Norton) gets to spend with his two best friends -- Frank (Barry Pepper), a bonds trader, and Jakob (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a high school English teacher -- and his girlfriend, Naturelle (Rosario Dawson), before he goes to prison for 7...
- Wall Street
Starring Charlie SheenMichael DouglasTamara Tunie
By Oliver Stone, 1987.
Enterprising stockbroker Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) falls under the enticing spell of Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), an unabashedly greedy Wall Street arbitrageur. Gekko takes Fox under his wing, tutoring his charge in the unscrupulous tactics that put the corporate raider on top.
- Morning Glory
Starring Harrison FordRachel McAdamsDiane Keaton
By Roger Michell, 2010.
When hard-working TV producer Becky Fuller (McAdams) is fired from a local news program, her career begins to look as bleak as her hapless love life. Stumbling into a job at "Daybreak" (the last-place national morning news show), Becky decides to revitalize the show by bringing on legendary TV...
- Escape from New York
Starring Kurt RussellAdrienne BarbeauLee Van Cleef
By John Carpenter, 1981.
Soaring crime rates cause the United States to turn the city of New York into a maximum-security prison. Unfortunately for the president of the United States (Donald Pleasence), that's precisely where he lands when he's forced to bail out of a crashing Air Force One.
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Starring Walter MatthauBeatrice WindeRobert Shaw
By Joseph Sargent, 1974.
Mr. Blue (Robert Shaw) and his crew take hostages on a subway car. If Blue and Co. don't get a million dollars in an hour, Blue will start carving graffiti on the passengers' foreheads. Quentin Tarantino borrowed a lot from this unsung classic of crime cinema -- including criminals using colors for...
- Miracle on 34th Street
Starring Maureen O'HaraJohn PayneEdmund Gwenn
By George Seaton, 1947.
Miracle on 34th Street is a 1947 Christmas film written by Valentine Davies, directed by George Seaton and starring Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Natalie Wood and Edmund Gwenn. It is the story of what takes place in New York City following Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, as people are left wondering...
- An Affair to Remember
Starring Cary GrantDeborah Kerr
By Leo McCarey, 1957.
Each already engaged to another, Nikkie Ferrante (Cary Grant) and Terry McKay (Deborah Kerr) meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Tempting fate, they agree to meet at the Empire State Building in six months if they still feel the same way, but a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous...
- The Fisher King
Starring Robin WilliamsJeff BridgesMercedes Ruehl
By Terry Gilliam, 1991.
The Fisher King is a comedy-drama film made in 1991, written by Richard LaGravenese and directed by Terry Gilliam. It stars Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, Mercedes Ruehl, Amanda Plummer and Michael Jeter. The film is about a radio shock-jock who tries to find redemption by helping a homeless man...
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Starring Thomas HornSandra BullockTom Hanks
By Stephen Daldry, 2011.
Eleven-year-old Oskar Schell is an exceptional child: amateur inventor, Francophile, pacifist. And after finding a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11, he embarks on an exceptional journey -- an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of...
- The Age of Innocence
Starring Daniel Day-LewisMichelle PfeifferWinona Ryder
By Martin Scorsese, 1993.
Daniel Day-Lewis plays Newland Archer, a well-bred New Yorker who's engaged to an appropriate match for him: May Welland (Winona Ryder). But when May's alluring and gorgeous cousin, the Countess Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer), comes along, Archer puts society's rules to the test.
- Saturday Night Fever
Starring John TravoltaKaren GorneyBarry Miller
By John Badham, <undefined>.
John Travolta graduated from minor celebrity to superstar with Saturday Night Fever.
- Midnight Cowboy
Starring Dustin HoffmanJon VoightSylvia Miles
By John Schlesinger, <undefined>.
Based on a James Leo Herlihy novel, British director John Schlesinger 's first American film dramatized the small hopes, dashed dreams, and unlikely friendship of two late '60s lost souls.
- In America
Starring Samantha MortonPaddy ConsidineSarah Bolger
By Jim Sheridan, 2002.
Academy Award-winning director Jim Sheridan brings authenticity and grit to this heartwarming drama about an Irish family starting life anew in early-1980s America. With their two daughters in tow, Johnny (Paddy Considine) and Sarah (Samantha Morton) leave Ireland and head to New York so Johnny can...
- The Apartment
Starring Jack LemmonShirley MacLaineFred MacMurray
By Billy Wilder, 1960.
Jack Lemmon's place makes a love nest for Fred MacMurray and Shirley MacLaine in Billy Wilder's mix of comedy and drama.
- On the Waterfront
Starring Marlon BrandoKarl MaldenLee J. Cobb
By Elia Kazan, 1954.
Winner of eight Oscars, director Elia Kazan's classic morality tale stars Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy, a has-been boxer who experiences a crisis of conscience while working for mobbed-up union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb). Terry turns a blind eye when Friendly's thugs kill a fellow...
- Network
Starring Faye DunawayWilliam HoldenPeter Finch
By Sidney Lumet, 1976.
Howard Beale is an aging TV anchorman for UBS who is fired, effective in two weeks, after his ratings have been steadily deteriorating. He reacts to this by sensationally announcing on live television his intention to commit suicide on air. In doing so, Beale becomes a major TV icon and one of the...
- After Hours
Starring Griffin DunneRosanna ArquetteVerna Bloom
By Martin Scorsese, 1985.
Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) embarks on a trip to New York City's SoHo district in hopes of hooking up with a recent acquaintance, the beautiful Marcy Franklin (Rosanna Arquette). But Paul loses all his money, and just to get back home he must endure a night of kooks, psychotics, punks and an angry...
- Sid and Nancy
Starring Gary OldmanChloe WebbDavid Hayman
By Alex Cox, 1986.
Punk rock's first great embodiment of the motto "live fast and die young," Sid Vicious joined The Sex Pistols when they were already established as the most controversial rock band in British history; and it soon became apparent that he couldn't play his instrument, had a magnetic attraction to...
- Working Girl
Starring Melanie GriffithHarrison FordSigourney Weaver
By Mike Nichols, 1988.
It tells the inspiring story of a Staten Island-raised secretary, Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith), working in a department of a Wall Street investment bank. When her boss, Katharine Parker (Sigourney Weaver), breaks her leg skiing, Tess uses her absence and connections, including Parker's errant...
- Shaft
Starring Richard RoundtreeMoses GunnGwen Mitchell
By Gordon Parks, 1971.
John Shaft is the ultimate in suave black detectives. He first finds himself up against Bumpy, the leader of the Black crime mob, then against Black nationals, and finally working with both against the White Mafia who are trying to blackmail Bumpy by kidnapping his daughter.
- Morning Glory
Starring Adolphe MenjouKatharine HepburnDouglas Fairbanks Jr.
By Lowell Sherman, 1933.
Stagestruck but unseasoned actress Eva Lovelace (Katharine Hepburn) heads for Broadway's bright lights, where she eventually gets her break with help from a paternal thespian (C. Aubrey Smith), an ambitious playwright (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) and a womanizing producer (Adolphe Menjou).
- The Naked City
Starring Barry FitzgeraldHoward DuffDorothy Hart
By Jules Dassin, 1948.
When a model is found drowned in her bathtub, homicide detectives Dan Muldoon (Barry Fitzgerald) and Jimmy Halloran (Don Taylor) are on the case. Their investigation, the inner workings of the police department and some of the "eight million stories in the Naked City" are explored.
