Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), City for Conquest (1940), Raising Victor Vargas (2002), The Glass Castle (2017), Hester Street (1975), Rhythm Thief (1994), The Jazz Singer (1927) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Lower East Side movies.
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: A youth turns his rebellious nature into a successful ring career in this fact-based portrait of boxer Rocky Graziano.
Plot Keywords: boxer, trainer, young woman, mother, inmate, father, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Cagney is Danny Kenny, a truck driver who enters "the fight game" and Sheridan plays his girlfriend, Peggy. Danny realizes success in the ring and uses his income to pay for his brother Eddie's music composition career, while Peggy goes on to become a professional dancer. When Peggy turns down Danny's marriage proposal for her dancing career, Danny, who wanted to quit the fight game, continues on & is blinded by rosin dust purposely placed on the boxing gloves of his opponent during a fight. His former manager finances a newsstand for the now semi-blind Danny. The movie ends with brother Eddie becoming a successful composer and dedicates a symphony at Carnegie Hall to his brother who listens to the concert on the radio from his newsstand. Peggy, now down on her luck, but in the audience at Carnegie, rushes to Danny at his newsstand where they reunite. The movie is based on a novel of the same name.—Bacardi
Plot Keywords: boxer, dancer, girlfriend, younger brother, truck driver, composer, uplifting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Victor is growing up on the Lower East Side and is at the age where he is driven by desire and unchained by maturity. His image as a ladies man is shattered when he is found in Fat Donna's bedroom. Soon, as a result of his sister's big mouth, the whole Dominican community knows. Full of confidence, Victor sets out to reclaim his image by winning Judy. Judy proves to be elusive and difficult. Victor persists, and with a surprising tenderness, ultimately wins Judy's heart.—johnno.r@xtra.co.nz
Plot Keywords: teen boy, brother, grandmother, teen girl, love interest, overweight person, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young woman reflects on her unconventional upbringing at the hands of her artsy, nonconformist parents, which sometimes resulted in the family living in poverty. Now married to a man who works in finance in New York, she faces criticism from her parents that she's betrayed their values..
Plot Keywords: free spirit, father, mother, son, daughter, emotional, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's 1896. Yankel Bogovnik, a Russian Jew, emigrated to the United States three years earlier and has settled where many of his background have, namely on Hester Street on the Lower East Side of New York City. He has assimilated to American life, having learned English, anglicized his name to Jake, and shaved off his beard. He is working at a $12/week job as a seamster, the money earned to be able to bring his wife Gitl and his son Yossele to America from Russia. Regardless, he has fallen in love with another woman, a dancer named Mamie Fein. Nonetheless, he is excited when he learns that Gitl and Yossele are indeed coming to America. His happiness at their arrival is dampened when he sees that Gitl is not "American" looking like Mamie and has troubles assimilating as quickly as he would like. Except to Mamie, he tries to show a public façade that everything is fine at home with Gitl. But can their marriage survive these differences, and if not, will Gitl be able to manage in this new land where she has few supports?—Huggo
Plot Keywords: immigrant, wife, son, boss, landlady, emotional, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Simon is a street retailer, his shop a corner on the lower east side in New York, his stock bootleg cassette tapes,the ambience a boombox. He scrounges food from restaurants, exists on vodka and beans, sleeps on the floor, and cares for an unloved cat. Marty, who may be an old girlfriend, visits. Down and out New York, unlovely and violent.—Bruce Cameron <dumarest@midcoast.com>
Plot Keywords: hustler, girlfriend, pretty woman, junkie, gritty, bleak, new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Cantor Rabinowitz is concerned and upset because his son Jakie shows so little interest in carrying on the family's traditions and heritage. For five generations, men in the family have been cantors in the synagogue, but Jakie is more interested in jazz and ragtime music. One day, they have such a bitter argument that Jakie leaves home for good. After a few years on his own, now calling himself Jack Robin, he gets an important opportunity through the help of well-known stage performer Mary Dale. But Jakie finds that in order to balance his career, his relationship with Mary, and his memories of his family, he will be forced to make some difficult choices.—Snow Leopard
Plot Keywords: cantor, singer, lover, mother, neighbor, father, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tommy takes up temporary housing in a New York City neighborhood plagued by a violent gang called the Souls. Tommy is waiting for his next assignment as a seaman, and though he tries to avoid the gang and his neighbors, it does not work. Soon he is battling the Souls and not only changing their attitudes, but the attitudes of his previously intimidated neighbors as well.—Ørnås
Plot Keywords: merchant mariner, pretty woman, gang leader, gang member, shopkeeper, neighbor, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately Billy Minsky's Burlesque is hardly the place for her Dances From The Bible. But the show's comedian Raymond sees a way of wrong-footing the local do-gooders by announcing the new Paris sensation "Mme Fifi" and putting on Rachel's performance as the place is raided. All too complicated, the more so since her father is scouring the town for her and both Raymond and his straight-man Chick are falling for Rachel.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: stripper, amish man, comedian, club owner, performer, hilarious, sultry ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a marriage of convenience becomes the real thing, Joe moves his pregnant French wife to a tenement building on New York's Lower East Side. The street is like a war zone with none of the nostalgic appeal that Joe remembers from tales of his immigrant grandparents arriving in the same neighborhood with a new life. This is the urban frontier filled with comic mixture of gentrifies, homeboys, dealers and local residents simply bent on staying a float.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: new yorker, stripper, frenchwoman, boxer, drug dealer, uncle, hilarious ...
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