Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), Ragtime (1981), Force of Evil (1948), City for Conquest (1940), The Glass Castle (2017), Pieces of April (2003), Crossing Delancey (1988), Rent (2005) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Lower East Side Manhattan New York City movies.
Storyline: Two boyhood friends, Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connolly have taken different paths in life. After Rocky is arrested he is sent to a juvenile facility and becomes a lifelong tough guy and criminal. Jerry on the other hand goes straight and becomes a Catholic priest ministering to people in the same neighborhood when he and Rocky grew up. When Rocky is released from prison he resumes his criminal lifestyle and becomes much admired by many of the local kids. Worried that the kids will follow Rocky into the criminal world, Jerry works hard to keep them on the straight and narrow. When Rocky is convicted and sentenced to the electric chair, Jerry asks him for one last favor.
Plot Keywords: priest, juvenile delinquent, church, irish catholic, redemption, cult film, childhood friend ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story runs in the 1910's New York. Coalhouse Walker Jr. is a black piano player. He has won fame and fortune playing with a jazz band. Some white men do not like this situation, and one day they assault him and spoil his brand new car. Walker tries by all means to get justice, without an answer...—Michel Rudoy <mdrc@hp9000a1.uam.mx>
Plot Keywords: racial slur, immigration, husband wife relationship, fireman, director, atlantic city new jersey, anarchist ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.—John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>
Plot Keywords: lawyer, wall street manhattan new york city, gangster, brother versus brother, femme fatale, eye witness, crooked lawyer ...
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: chorus line, rehearsal, police officer, doctor, corpse, singing, gunshot ...
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: restaurant, female stockinged leg, regret, gambling, illness, writer, child abuse ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a very poor zone of New York, April Burns and her boyfriend, the Afro-American Bobby, are preparing to receive April's family for thanksgiving dinner. While Bobby tries to borrow a suit for himself, April realizes that her stove is broken. She tries desperately to find a neighbor that can let her cook the turkey, since she does not want to fail (again) with her family. Meanwhile, in a suburb of Pennsylvania, her dysfunctional family is preparing to travel to New York. While driving, the relationship between the Burns and their black-sheep April is disclosed through the conversations between her father Jim, her resented mother Joy, her brother, her sister and her grandmother.
Plot Keywords: cell phone, camera, photographer, photograph, nipples, breast feeding, gas station ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Isabelle's life revolves around the New York bookshop she works in and the intellectual friends of both sexes she meets there. Her grandmother remains less than impressed and decides to hire a good old-fashioned Jewish matchmaker to help Isabelle's love-life along. Enter pickle-maker Sam who immediately takes to Isabelle. She however is irritated by the whole business, at least to start with.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: screenplay adapted by author, new york city, judaism, matchmaking, based on play, pickle, matchmaker ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village New York. The story centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark tries to capture it through his attempts to make a film. In the year that follows, the group deals with love, loss, AIDS, and modern day life in one truly powerful story.
Plot Keywords: junkie, promiscuity, drug addict, drug addiction, heroin, drug abuse, cocaine ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the 1960s, Richard Kuklinski is working as a porn film lab tech until his mob bosses persuade him to change his career into that of a contract killer. For years, Kuklinski gains a reputation for cold blooded professionalism even as he raises a family who are kept in the dark about his true career. Unfortunately, mob politics ultimately forces him to secretly work independently with the psychopathic Robert 'Mr. Freezy' Pronge. As much as Kuklinski tries to keep his lives separate, circumstances and his own weaknesses threaten a terrible collision as the consequences of his choices finally catch up to him.
Plot Keywords: serial murderer, based on true story, year 1964, arrest, contract killer, corpse, poison ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in 1949 New York, a Holocaust survivor who makes a living as a ghostwriter for a Jewish rabbi, finds himself involved with three women - his current wife, a passionate affair with a married woman, and his long-vanished wife whom he thought was killed during the war and suddenly reappears. The film concentrates on the views of the Jewish survivors, who no longer abide by religious morales and question a God who could let the Holocaust occur.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: jewish, new york city, bigamy, coney island brooklyn new york city, divorce, peasant, post world war two ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Young New York cop Dan falls in love with waterfront waitress Helen. Helen's sister Kate falls for gangster Duke. Dan must do in Duke.
Plot Keywords: dog, diner, drunkenness, escape, falling into water, father daughter relationship, fishing rod ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This movie is about a young woman who is married to a devout Jew and the problems that trouble their marriage because of her wanting something more out of her life.—Doug
Plot Keywords: cooking, girl, boy, snow, storytelling, teacher, school ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sheila Bennet returns to New York from Cuba carrying $40,000 worth of smuggled diamonds - and smallpox, which could start a devastating epidemic in the unprotected city. Treasury agent Johnson loses her but keeps doggedly on the trail, while Public Health Doctor Wood searches in vain for the unknown person spreading the deadly disease far and wide. Meanwhile, the increasingly ill Sheila is concerned only with her faithless husband Matt, who plans to abscond with the diamonds.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: epidemic, suicide, smuggling, sickness, rooftop, police officer, photographer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Marcus is a kid on Manhattan's mean streets. He's turning 15, his father is dead, his mother is in prison for smuggling undocumented aliens. His grandmother is raising him. He has four close buddies who have a basement clubhouse; they shoplift and sell the wares to kids. One is moving toward selling drugs. Marcus wants to take a breather from the city and visit family in New Mexico. He also meets Melena, 14, a sweet kid who dreams of going to Alaska; her father is not just protective but angry and uncommunicative. The gang pressures Marcus to move up to burglary and car theft. He just wants to breathe open air. Can anything go right?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: murder of father, immigrant, hiding place, hideout, hair pulling, guitar, grandmother grandson relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In colorful, bustling modern-day Manhattan, Rafi Gardet, a beautiful 37-year-old photography producer reeling from a recent divorce, meets David Bloomberg, a handsome 23-year-old painter recently out of college. Rafi's therapist, Dr. Lisa Metzger, who is working to help Rafi overcome her fears of intimacy, finds out that Rafi's new lover is--unfortunately for Lisa--her only son, David. Both David and Rafi must contend with their 14-year age gap, vastly different backgrounds and the demands of David's traditional mother. Despite their intense attraction, the charmed couple soon realizes that vastly different ages and backgrounds create much conflict. A Jewish hip-hop lover and closet painter who still lives with his grandparents, David has little in common with Rafi--a non-practicing Catholic from a wealthy, broken family who travels in the sophisticated, high-end world of fashion.
Plot Keywords: cat, older woman younger man relationship, mother son relationship, kiss, beer, being followed, following someone ...
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