King Corn (2007), Divan (2003), The Landlord (1970), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936), Off and Running (2009), Tyson (2008), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Lbs. (2004) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Brooklyn, N.y. movies.
Storyline: Two recent college graduates travel to Iowa to investigate the role that corn plays in an increasingly complicated and dysfunctional American food industry. After planting their own small crop of corn and tracing its journey through the industry, they are alarmed to discover that corn figures in almost everything Americans eat. The consequences of this are examined through interviews with various experts and industry insiders, providing a balanced look at this American agricultural issue.
Plot Keywords: friend, neighbor, politician, citizen, farmer, college graduate, striking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this film, documentarian Pearl Gluck chronicles her Hasidic Jewish upbringing and her subsequent, more secular life as a Manhattanite. Gluck then documents her return trip to her old neighborhood, where she tries to reconcile with her devout father, who hopes that she will move back to Brooklyn. Gluck strikes an on-camera compromise with her dad, and agrees to trek to Hungary in order to find a long-lost family heirloom -- a couch that many notable rabbis have crashed on.
Plot Keywords: jew, great-grandfather, filmmaker, relative, rabbi, touching, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As his 30th birthday nears, the aristocratic Elger Winthrop Enders (Beau Bridges) finally decides to leave his parents' home, and he purchases an apartment complex in the slums of New York. The coldhearted Elger plans to boot out the current residents and refashion the crumbling dwelling into a luxurious bachelor pad. But after the spoiled young man befriends locals Francine (Diana Sands) and Margie (Pearl Bailey), he abandons his plans and instead focuses on charming his lovely neighbors.
Plot Keywords: wealthy man, mother, girlfriend, tenant, wife, neighbor, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An 1880s Brooklyn boy (Freddie Bartholomew) is summoned to England by his grandfather (C. Aubrey Smith) and raised as a lord.
Plot Keywords: heir, earl, mother, lawyer, impostor, tender, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The focus of this film rests on Avery Klein-Cloud, a teenage African-American girl living in Brooklyn, N.Y., with her Caucasian Jewish lesbian mothers and two brothers who are also of other races. When Avery decides to contact her birth mother, this development triggers a major identity crisis for the college-bound teen, leading to troubling behavior that threatens her promising academic career and her relationship with her adoptive family. Can Avery reconcile her roots with her everyday life?
Plot Keywords: teen girl, mother, lesbian, brother, brooding, emotional, brooklyn, n.y. ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Interviews, archival footage and photographs help illustrate a biography of the life of former boxer Mike Tyson, in and out of the ring.
Plot Keywords: boxer, mentor, trainer, emotional, engaging, brooklyn, n.y., new york state ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Epic tale of a group of Jewish gangsters in New York, from childhood, through their glory years during prohibition, and their meeting again 35 years later.
Plot Keywords: mafia boss, bootlegger, gang member, police chief, girlfriend, mobster, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An obese man (Carmine Famiglietti) moves away from home and into the woods in a bid to lose weight and beat his addiction to food.
Plot Keywords: obese person, drug addict, childhood friend, mother, sister, brother-in-law, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A fragile woman is already stressed from a fast-paced world when her mother dies and she must find a means for survival while hiding her struggles from her new boyfriend.
Plot Keywords: woman, sick person, mother, bleak, melancholy, brooklyn, n.y., struggle ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mortimer Brewster is a newspaperman and author known for his diatribes against marriage. We watch him being married at city hall in the opening scene. Now all that is required is a quick trip home to tell Mortimer's two maiden aunts. While trying to break the news, he finds out his aunts' hobby; killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar. It gets worse.
Plot Keywords: writer, wife, aunt, brother, neighbor, uncle, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Jewish boy (Lukas Haas) uses dolls to communicate with a war-shocked refugee girl (Vanessa Zaoui) in 1944 Brooklyn.
Plot Keywords: friend, jew, young boy, young girl, mother, father, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This film looks at life in the Bedford-Stuyvesant district of Brooklyn on a hot summer Sunday. As he does everyday, Sal Fragione opens the pizza parlor he's owned for 25 years. The neighborhood has changed considerably in the time he's been there and is now composed primarily of African-Americans and Hispanics. His son Pino hates it there and would like nothing better than to relocate the eatery to their own neighborhood. For Sal however, the restaurant represents something that is part of his life and sees it as a part of the community. What begins as a simple complaint by one of his customers, Buggin Out - who wonders why he has only pictures of famous Italian-Americans on the wall when most of his customers are black - eventually disintegrates into violence as frustration seemingly brings out the worst in everyone.
Plot Keywords: owner, brother, son, sister, young boy, gutsy, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Biograpical epic of Malcolm X, the legendary African American leader. Born Malcolm Little, his father (a Garveyite Baptist minister) was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. Malcolm became a gangster, and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. He preaches the teachings when let out of jail, but later on goes on a pilgrimage to the city of Mecca, there he converts to the original Islamic religion and becomes a Sunni Muslim and changes his name to El-Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz. He is assassinated on February 21, 1965 and dies a Muslim martyr.
Plot Keywords: activist, gangster, love interest, criminal, inspiring, new york city, prison ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: William Friedkin's gritty police drama portrays two tough New York City cops trying to intercept a huge heroin shipment coming from France. An interesting contrast is established between 'Popeye' Doyle, a short-tempered alcoholic bigot who is nevertheless a hard-working and dedicated police officer, and his nemesis Alain Charnier, a suave and urbane gentleman who is nevertheless a criminal and one of the largest drug suppliers of pure heroin to North America. During the surveillance and eventual bust, Friedkin provides one of the most gripping and memorable car chase sequences ever filmed.
Plot Keywords: detective, cop, drug dealer, drug smuggler, engaging, tense, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stingo, the movie's narrator, a young American writer new to New York City. But the happiness of Sophie and Nathan is endangered by her ghosts and his obsessions.
Plot Keywords: writer, immigrant, crazy person, nazi, child, sad, shocking ...
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