Highest-Rated Movies about 'Manhattan', Sort by Popularity

Winged Migration (2001), The Mouse That Roared (1959), Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015), Justice Society: World War II (2021), Rope (1948), English Vinglish (2012), Lucky Number Slevin (2006), The Warriors (1979) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Manhattan movies.

#17. Black Widow (1954)

Storyline: A married Broadway producer is taken with an innocent young woman who wants to be a writer and make it on Broadway. He decides to take her under his wing, but it's not long before the young lady is found dead in his apartment. At first thought to be a suicide, it is later discovered that she has been murdered, and suspicion immediately falls on the producer. He begins his own investigation in order to clear his name, and one of the first things he finds out is that the young woman wasn't quite as naive and innocent as she appeared to be.—frankfob2@yahoo.com

Plot Keywords: producer, writer, actor, actress, wife, dark, suspenseful ...

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#18. Love Is Strange (2014)

Storyline: After nearly four decades together, Ben (John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina) finally tie the knot in an idyllic wedding ceremony in lower Manhattan. But when George loses his job soon after, the couple must sell their apartment and - victims of the relentless New York City real estate market - temporarily live apart until they can find an affordable new home. While George moves in with two cops (Cheyenne Jackson and Manny Perez) who live down stairs, Ben lands in Brooklyn with his nephew (Darren Burrows), his wife (Marisa Tomei), and their temperamental teenage son (Charlie Tahan), with whom Ben shares a bunk bed. While struggling with the pain of separation, Ben and George are further challenged by the intergenerational tensions and capricious family dynamics of their new living arrangements.

Plot Keywords: couple, family, emotional, manhattan, united states, family relationships, religious hypocrisy ...

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#19. Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015)

Storyline: Doris Miller is a shy, eccentric 60-something woman, living alone following the death of her mother, whom she has lived with for her whole life. At the funeral, her brother Todd and his wife Cynthia try to persuade her to sell the house, especially the possessions, as she is a hoarder. Her only close friend is the fiery Roz, though she also gets along with Roz's granddaughter Vivian. On her way to work, where she has been doing data entry for decades, she meets new young co-worker John, with whom she is immediately infatuated. Empowered by self-improvement tapes, Doris decides to go after him..

Plot Keywords: older woman, young man, co-worker, single woman, granddaughter, best friend, amusing ...

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#20. No Man of Her Own (1932)

Storyline: Clark Gable plays a card cheat who has to go on the lam to avoid a pesky cop. He meets a lonely, but slightly wild, librarian, Carole Lombard, while he is hiding out. The two get married after Lombard wins a coin flip and they move back to the city. Gable continues his gambling/cheating scheme unbeknownst to Lombard. When she discovers his "other life", she presures him to quit. Gable feels crowded and tells her that he is leaving for South America. In fact, Gable has decided he wants to go straight and turns himself in to the cop...—Jordan Caldwell <jcaldwell@tamu.edu>

Plot Keywords: gambler, librarian, partner, detective, wife, mistress, cheeky ...

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#21. Love at First Dance (2018)

Storyline: There was a time in Mark's life where he thought he had it all. He had money, power but he had never experienced true love. That was until the day that Tonya came back into his life. Will she love the man that he became or will have to change who he is? A choice has to be made. Or can there be an amalgamation between "Love and Drugs".—DeMarcus Bailey

Plot Keywords: dance instructor, bachelor, heartwarming, uplifting, tender, mushy, cheery ...

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#22. Black Caesar (1973)

Storyline: Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on the take, during a payoff gone bad. Nursing his vengeance, he rises to power in New York City's Harlem. Angry at the racist society around him, both criminal and straight, he sees the acquisition of power as the solution to his rage. He performs a free-lance hit on a Mob contract to attract the attention of the head of a Mafia family. Reluctantly accepted into 'The Family,' he grows increasingly autonomous and aggressive, eventually starting a gang war.—Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>

Plot Keywords: kingpin, police officer, racist, mafia boss, reverend, brutal, unrestrained ...

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#23. Morning Glory (1933)

Storyline: Eva Lovelace, would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage, is a wildly optimistic chatterbox full of theatrical mannerisms. Her looks, more than her talent, attract the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. Is she destined for stardom or the "casting couch"? Will she fade after the brief blooming of a "morning glory"?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Plot Keywords: actress, theatrical producer, diva, uplifting, moving, manhattan, small town ...

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#24. Two Night Stand (2014)

Storyline: After an extremely regrettable one night stand, two strangers wake up to find themselves snowed in after sleeping through a blizzard that put all of Manhattan on ice. They're now trapped together in a tiny apartment, forced to get to know each other way more than any one night stand should.

Plot Keywords: dancing girl, young man, adult, young woman, amusing, apartment, manhattan ...

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#25. Mr. Jealousy (1997)

Storyline: Lester is an occasional substitute teacher and he's very jealous. He is jealous about the last boyfriend of Lester's slightly wacky current partner Ramona - arrogant best-selling author Dashiell. Lester joins Dashiell's therapy group under an alias to find out if Dashiell still has any feelings for her.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: teacher, girlfriend, novelist, therapist, best friend, fiancé, dark ...

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#26. Two for the Money (2005)

Storyline: Brandon Lang loves football: an injury keeps him from the pros, but his quarterback's anticipation makes him a brilliant predictor of games' outcomes. Needing money, he leaves Vegas for Manhattan to work for Walter Abrams advising gamblers. Walter has a doting wife, a young daughter, and a thriving business, but he has problems: a bum heart, a belief he's a master manipulator, and addictions barely kept in check. He remakes Brandon, and a father-son relationship grows. Then, things go awry. Walter may be running a con. The odds against Brandon mount.

Plot Keywords: quarterback, al pacino, star, engaging, college, manhattan, money ...

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#27. My Blue Heaven (1990)

Storyline: The mobster Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli is under the witness protection program and the FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to take Vinnie and his wife Linda to a house in the suburbs. However their wives leave Vinnie and Barney and the agent gets closer to the gangster and befriends him. Vinnie is a bon vivant and a crook and does not keep the necessary low profile. The District Attorney Hannah Stubbs arrests him but Barney releases him from jail since he needs to testify against the Mafia. Soon Barney falls in love with Stubbs, but Vinnie gets into many troubles calling the attention of two hitmen from the Mafia. The police officer Crystal Rybak protects him and they also falls in love with each other. In the end, the good-hearted Vinnie becomes a prominent personality in the suburbs.

Plot Keywords: mobster, fbi agent, criminal, ex-husband, district attorney, neighbor, playful ...

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#29. Ann Vickers (1933)

Storyline: During WWI, Ann Vickers, a humanitarian who is just starting the adult phase of her life, wants to make a difference in the world - using her friend Dr. Malvina Wormser as a role model - but she also wants a fulfilling personal life. She isn't sure if she can accomplish both at the same time. So after a failed relationship with soldier Captain Lafe Resnick which includes a deeper personal tragedy for her, Ann decides instead to focus solely on her career. With a background in nursing and social work, she decides the area of her work will be in prison reform. Her lofty goals do not sit well with many of the male traditionalists in the field, they who may stop her from accomplishing what she wants, at her own personal reputation at risk. Although she has a multitude of wannabe suitors, it isn't until she meets Supreme Court judge Barney Dolphin that she contemplates having that fulfilling personal life at the same time as having a career. But the road to a possible happy ending for Ann and Barney will be a difficult one as he is already married (although he has long wanted a divorce, even before meeting Ann) and as he goes through a career threatening issue which may tarnish his good name.—Huggo

Plot Keywords: social worker, army officer, doctor, judge, suitor, engaging, moving ...

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#30. Mister Buddwing (1966)

Storyline: A man (James Garner) wearing an expensive gray suit finds himself in Central Park in New York City not knowing who he is or how he got there. His amnesia even extends to the fact that he doesn't know how he takes his coffee. All he has in his possession is a crumpled piece of paper wrapped around a couple of pills, the paper also has a scribbled telephone number. He is also wearing a ring with a broken stone, the ring engraved from its giver with his or her monogram, G.V. The telephone number takes him to a woman who doesn't know who he is. Based on what she calls him and some item association, he begins to call himself "Sam Buddwing" if anyone asks him. As he wanders New York City in a daze, he believes he may be an escaped mental patient based on a newspaper story, his clothes, and the monogrammed ring. But a vision of a young brunette makes him remember a woman in his life named Grace. He manages to spend time with a few women during the day, many times believing that woman is Grace. His time with these women triggers happy and not-so-happy memories of Grace. Time with one of the women who he knows is not Grace may provide the strongest trigger to remembering who he and Grace are and why he was in Central Park in such a despondent state.—Huggo

Plot Keywords: amnesiac, woman, stranger, tense, rousing, central park, manhattan ...

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