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1. The Godfather Part II (1974)
R | 202 min | Crime, Drama
The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
Votes: 1,363,848 | Gross: $57.30M
2. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)
PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
During the '90s, a new faction of Transformers - the Maximals - join the Autobots as allies in the battle for Earth.
Director: Steven Caple Jr. | Stars: Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Luna Lauren Velez, Dean Scott Vazquez
Votes: 103,697 | Gross: $157.07M
3. X-Men (2000)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In a world where mutants (evolved super-powered humans) exist and are discriminated against, two groups form for an inevitable clash: the supremacist Brotherhood, and the pacifist X-Men.
Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen
Votes: 646,389 | Gross: $157.30M
4. Brooklyn (2015)
PG-13 | 117 min | Drama, Romance
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Director: John Crowley | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent
Votes: 150,456 | Gross: $38.32M
5. Hitch (I) (2005)
PG-13 | 118 min | Comedy, Romance
A smooth-talking man falls for a hardened columnist while helping a shy accountant woo a beautiful heiress.
Director: Andy Tennant | Stars: Will Smith, Eva Mendes, Kevin James, Amber Valletta
Votes: 335,366 | Gross: $179.50M
6. Ragtime (1981)
PG | 155 min | Drama
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: James Cagney, Elizabeth McGovern, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Brad Dourif
Votes: 10,554 | Gross: $21.02M
7. The Immigrant (2013)
R | 120 min | Drama, Romance
In 1921, an innocent immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.
Director: James Gray | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner, Dagmara Dominczyk
Votes: 33,776 | Gross: $2.01M
8. Mafia! (1998)
PG-13 | 87 min | Comedy, Crime
Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father
Director: Jim Abrahams | Stars: Jay Mohr, Christina Applegate, Lloyd Bridges, Billy Burke
Votes: 15,982 | Gross: $19.88M
9. The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A mute alien with the appearance of a black human is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem.
Director: John Sayles | Stars: Joe Morton, Daryl Edwards, Rosanna Carter, Ray Ramirez
Votes: 6,563 | Gross: $3.70M
10. The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992 Video)
R | 583 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The multigenerational saga of the rise and fall of the Corleone crime family.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Robert De Niro
Votes: 16,386
11. Hester Street (1975)
PG | 89 min | Drama, Romance
In 1896, a Russian Jewish woman immigrates to New York's Lower East Side to reunite with her Americanized husband, but has difficulty assimilating.
Director: Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: Steven Keats, Carol Kane, Mel Howard, Dorrie Kavanaugh
Votes: 1,877 | Gross: $5.00M
12. America America (1963)
Approved | 174 min | Adventure, Drama
A young Greek stops at nothing to secure a passage to America.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff, Elena Karam, Harry Davis
Votes: 5,991
13. Sweet Land (2005)
PG | 110 min | Drama, Romance
In 1920, Inge, a German national, travels from Norway to rural Minnesota for her arranged marriage to Olaf, a Norwegian farmer; bureaucracy and prejudice cause major complications.
Director: Ali Selim | Stars: Elizabeth Reaser, Lois Smith, Patrick Heusinger, Stephen Pelinski
Votes: 4,148 | Gross: $1.71M
14. Golden Door (2006)
PG-13 | 118 min | Drama, History, Romance
A Sicilian peasant begins the journey to the promised land and meets a beautiful Englishwoman. But neither is prepared for the harsh realities of Ellis Island. Can they make it through the golden door to the America of their dreams?
Director: Emanuele Crialese | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vincenzo Amato, Vincent Schiavelli, Aurora Quattrocchi
Votes: 5,195 | Gross: $1.06M
15. Ellis Island (1984)
420 min | Drama, History
The lives and struggles of some of the countless immigrants who arrived on Ellis Island during the 19th century in search of the American Dream.
Stars: Peter Riegert, Gregory Paul Martin, Claire Bloom, Judi Bowker
Votes: 291
16. New York: A Documentary Film (1999– )
600 min | Documentary, History
Exploration of New York City's rich history as a complex and dynamic city that has played an unparalleled role in shaping the nation and reflecting its ideals.
Stars: David Ogden Stiers, Kenneth Jackson, Mike Wallace, Mike Wallace
Votes: 1,120
17. Four Sons (1928)
Passed | 100 min | Drama, War
A family saga in which three sons of a Bavarian widow go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent.
Director: John Ford | Stars: James Hall, Margaret Mann, Charles Morton, Francis X. Bushman Jr.
Votes: 920
18. Park Row (1952)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, Thriller
The Globe is a small, but visionary newspaper started by Phineas Mitchell, an editor recently fired by The Star. The two newspapers become enemies, and the Star's ruthless heiress Charity Hackett decides to eliminate the competition.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Bela Kovacs, Herbert Heyes, Tina Pine, George O'Hanlon
Votes: 2,013
19. Little City (1997)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
San Francisco is a little city, where you keep running into the same 6 people, here 5 around 30 y.o. and a cougar on the prowl for young women, all going in and out of relationships.
Director: Roberto Benabib | Stars: Jon Bon Jovi, Penelope Ann Miller, Joe Bellan, Robert Elross
Votes: 1,138
20. Across the Sea of Time (1995)
G | 51 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A young Russian boy, Thomas Minton, travels to New York as a passenger on a Russian freighter. Close to Ellis Island he gets off and thus starts his journey to America the same way as all ... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Low | Stars: Peter Reznick, John McDonough, Avi Hoffman, Victor Steinbach
Votes: 314 | Gross: $15.98M
21. Ellis (2015)
15 min | Short, Drama
A short film that evokes the early years of Ellis Island through the experience of one immigrant.
Director: JR | Star: Robert De Niro
Votes: 2,143
22. Frank Serpico (2017)
Unrated | 98 min | Documentary, Biography
In his own words, Frank Serpico tells the story of his one-man crusade for police reform in the NYPD during the early 1970s.
Director: Antonino D'Ambrosio | Stars: Frank Serpico, Stanislao Pugliese, Janet Panetta, John O'Connor
Votes: 389 | Gross: $0.01M
23. An American Romance (1944)
Passed | 151 min | Drama
Stefan Dangos immigrates to America and works his way up from the iron mines and steel mills to become a great American success story as an industrialist.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Ann Richards, Walter Abel, John Qualen
Votes: 573
24. Romance in Manhattan (1934)
Passed | 77 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Rejected as an immigrant because he doesn't have the required $200, a Czech immigrant jumps ship and is befriended by a chorus girl and becomes a taxi driver.
Director: Stephen Roberts | Stars: Francis Lederer, Ginger Rogers, Arthur Hohl, Jimmy Butler
Votes: 827
25. Paddy O'Day (1936)
Approved | 76 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Paddy O'Day is an Irish immigrant who learns on arrival in the U.S. that her mother is dead. Friends help her survive as an entertainer, and success is a good argument against the immigration officials.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Jane Withers, Pinky Tomlin, Rita Hayworth, Jane Darwell
Votes: 281
26. East Side, West Side (1927)
Passed | 92 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
After his mother and stepfather have been killed in a barge accident, John Breen is rescued from some East Side toughs by the Lipvitches. He remains in the city, determined to find his real... See full summary »
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: George O'Brien, Virginia Valli, J. Farrell MacDonald, Dore Davidson
Votes: 166
27. My Boy (1921)
55 min | Comedy, Drama
An orphan escapes immigration officials at Ellis Island and goes to live with an old ship's master who can't find work and can't pay the rent.
Directors: Albert Austin, Victor Heerman | Stars: Mathilde Brundage, Claude Gillingwater, Jackie Coogan, Frank Hayes
Votes: 304
28. Ellis Island (1936)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
It opens in 1926 when three bank robbers, Theodore Kedrich, Jan Imarski, and Petra Lonelli, stage a daring daylight bank robbery and get away with a million dollars in cash. They are soon ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Donald Cook, Peggy Shannon, Jack La Rue, Joyce Compton
Votes: 80
29. The Italian (1915)
Passed | 72 min | Drama
An Italian immigrant and his sweetheart search for a better life in America, but the harsh realities of life in the slums of New York City lay waste to their hopes and dreams.
Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: George Beban, Clara Williams, J. Frank Burke, Leo Willis
Votes: 458
30. Ellis Island (1997 TV Movie)
138 min | Documentary, History
The story of the Ellis Island immigration station, as related by historians and the immigrants themselves.
Director: Lisa Bourgoujian | Stars: Mandy Patinkin, Cy Abrams, Isabel Belarsky, Marinus de Nooyer
31. That Girl from Paris (1936)
Approved | 104 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Nikki Martin (Lily Pons), a Parisian opera star, takes off in search of adventure and true-love, leaving her arranged husband to be at the altar. While hitchhiking, Nikki meets handsome ... See full summary »
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Lily Pons, Jack Oakie, Gene Raymond, Herman Bing
Votes: 372
32. Vera (1980)
Drama
In 1909 Walter Hayter traveled from England to the United States with 12 siblings. The family became ill during their trip and recuperated in Ellis island contagious disease hospital. This is their story as patients on Ellis Island.
Stars: Vic Morrow, Aldo Ray
33. The Mating Call (1928)
Passed | 72 min | Drama
A WWI vet takes on the KKK when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Evelyn Brent, Renée Adorée, Alan Roscoe
Votes: 394
34. This Is Heaven (1929)
Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
This Is Heaven (1929) is an American Pre-Code film, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, released through United Artists, and directed by Alfred Santell.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Vilma Bánky, James Hall, Fritzi Ridgeway, Lucien Littlefield
35. Strange Wives (1934)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Romance
When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Roger Pryor, June Clayworth, Esther Ralston, Hugh O'Connell
Votes: 16
36. Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen (2004)
77 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary about the "King of B-Movies", Edgar G. Ulmer. It includes interviews with well-known filmmakers Roger Corman, Peter Bogdanovich, Wim Wenders, Joe Dante, and Ulmers's daughter, Arianne Ulmer.
Director: Michael Palm | Stars: Peter Bogdanovich, Christian Cargnelli, John Carradine, Robert Clarke
Votes: 239
38. Frank Capra's American Dream (1997 TV Movie)
PG | 115 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Ron Howard hosts a biography of the life and career of filmmaker Frank Capra, including interviews with the director's friends, colleagues and admirers.
Director: Kenneth Bowser | Stars: Ron Howard, Robert Altman, Jeanine Basinger, Edward Bernds
Votes: 321
39. Welcome to the Max (1993)
12 min | Short, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Whimsical space explorer journeys to Earth to learn about 'OMNIMAX', and along the way discovers the sights, sounds and spectacle of New York City and the Tri-state region, learns the meaning of freedom, and makes a novel friend for life.
Director: Dugan Rosalini | Stars: Joseph F. Carpenter, Jane Galloway Heitz, Ross Gottstein, Lauro Lopez
40. The Immigrant Experience: The Long Long Journey (1972)
28 min | Short, Drama, Family
A family of Polish immigrants has a difficult time adjusting to life in the United States. The story centers on the son, named Janek, who has trouble fitting in at school and with his family.
Director: Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: John Kowalczyck, Thomas Kubiak, Joan Kendall, Jane McCloud
Votes: 19
41. Santa Fe (1986 TV Movie)
110 min | Drama
Santa Fe begins where Corti's 1982 film God Does Not Believe In Us Anymore leaves off. In 1940, a ship arrives in New York harbor filled with exhausted Jewish immigrants desperate to begin ... See full summary »
Director: Axel Corti | Stars: Valda Aviks, Gabriel Barylli, Monica Bleibtreu, Tilli Breidenbach
Votes: 112
42. Crashing the Gate (1933)
20 min | Musical, Short
Director: Joseph Henabery | Stars: Ruth Etting, John Hamilton, Roy Atwell, Adler & Bradford
43. Arrival of Immigrants, Ellis Island (1906)
4 min | Documentary, Short
Immigrants and boats departing and arriving at Ellis Island.
Votes: 95
44. A Son of Erin (1916)
Passed | 50 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Julia Crawford Ivers | Stars: Dustin Farnum, Winifred Kingston, Tom Bates, Jack Livingston
Votes: 31
45. Italians in America (1998 TV Movie)
98 min | Documentary, History
The rich history of the Italian-American experience and its contributions to American culture are explored.
Stars: Joseph Campanella, Anthony Arricale, Philip V. Cannistraro, Joe DiMaggio
Votes: 8
46. Living in a Metropolis (1952)
Approved | 20 min | Short, History, News
This look at New York City shows it as a hub of transportation, and its citizens are shown in their thousands on varied occupations, trades, industries and the arts---all of them shown as ... See full summary »
Director: Louis De Rochemont | Star: Jackson Beck
47. Mariutch (1930)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
An Italian immigrant discovers his wife is a hootchy-kootchy dancer. Later, the audience is invited to follow the bouncing ball and sing along to "Mariutch Down at Coney Island."
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Grim Natwick | Star: Billy Murray
Votes: 41
48. One More American (1918)
50 min | Drama
Luigi Riccardo, the proprietor of a marionette theater in New York's Little Italy, eagerly anticipates the arrival of his wife Maria and daughter Tessa, whom he has not seen in five years. ... See full summary »
Director: William C. de Mille | Stars: George Beban, Marcia Manon, Mae Giraci, Helen Jerome Eddy
49.
Project Twenty (1954–1970)
Episode:
The Island Called Ellis
(1967)
60 min | Documentary
Director: Donald B. Hyatt | Star: José Ferrer
50.
Good Eats (1999–2012)
Episode:
American Classics IV: Spaghetti and Meat Sauce
(2009)
TV-G | 22 min | Documentary, Comedy
Alton Brown explores an American classic, spaghetti with meat sauce.
Stars: Alton Brown, Widdi Turner
Votes: 18