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1. The Iceman (2012)
R | 106 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man. When he was finally arrested in 1986, neither his wife nor his daughters had any clue about his real profession.
Director: Ariel Vromen | Stars: Michael Shannon, Chris Evans, James Franco, Winona Ryder
Votes: 79,372 | Gross: $1.94M
2. The Glass Castle (2017)
PG-13 | 127 min | Biography, Drama
A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.
Director: Destin Daniel Cretton | Stars: Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts, Ella Anderson
Votes: 38,500 | Gross: $17.27M
3. Rent (2005)
PG-13 | 135 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
In New York City's gritty East Village, a group of bohemians strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.
Director: Chris Columbus | Stars: Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Rosario Dawson, Anthony Rapp
Votes: 55,912 | Gross: $29.08M
4. 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: 10,552 | Gross: $21.02M
5. The Cobbler (2014)
PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A cobbler, bored of his everyday life, stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to become other people and see the world in a different way.
Director: Tom McCarthy | Stars: Adam Sandler, Melonie Diaz, Steve Buscemi, Method Man
Votes: 60,383
6. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Passed | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan
Votes: 23,197
7. Prime (2005)
PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.
Director: Ben Younger | Stars: Uma Thurman, Meryl Streep, Bryan Greenberg, Jon Abrahams
Votes: 42,087 | Gross: $22.83M
8. 200 Cigarettes (1999)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses.
Director: Risa Bramon Garcia | Stars: Ben Affleck, Casey Affleck, Dave Chappelle, Guillermo Diaz
Votes: 16,345 | Gross: $6.85M
9. Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
Unrated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A salesclerk at Macy's department store finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand with a musician who does not even remember her.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams, Herschel Bernardi
Votes: 5,476
10. Crossing Delancey (1988)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
A Manhattan single meets a man through her Jewish grandmother's matchmaker.
Director: Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Reizl Bozyk, Jeroen Krabbé
Votes: 4,968 | Gross: $16.26M
11. The Jazz Singer (1927)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Music, Musical
The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer
Votes: 11,067 | Gross: $7.63M
12. Pieces of April (2003)
PG-13 | 80 min | Comedy, Drama
A wayward daughter invites her dying mother and the rest of her estranged family to her apartment for Thanksgiving dinner.
Director: Peter Hedges | Stars: Katie Holmes, Oliver Platt, Patricia Clarkson, Derek Luke
Votes: 22,117 | Gross: $2.53M
13. House of Strangers (1949)
Approved | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After years in prison, Max promises revenge on his brothers for their betrayal. His lover Irene and memories of his past yield him a broader perspective.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Luther Adler
Votes: 4,186
14. The Hottest State (2006)
R | 117 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.
Director: Ethan Hawke | Stars: Mark Webber, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Laura Linney, Daniel Ross Owens
Votes: 2,896 | Gross: $0.03M
15. Force of Evil (1948)
Passed | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An unethical lawyer who wants to help his older brother becomes a partner with a client in the numbers racket.
Director: Abraham Polonsky | Stars: John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Beatrice Pearson, Marie Windsor
Votes: 7,666
16. 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: 1,876 | Gross: $5.00M
17. Enemies, A Love Story (1989)
R | 119 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: Ron Silver, Anjelica Huston, Lena Olin, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska
Votes: 2,572 | Gross: $7.75M
18. Alphabet City (1984)
R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A New York City drug dealer decides to get out of the business, but has to flee from mobsters.
Director: Amos Poe | Stars: Vincent Spano, Michael Winslow, Kate Vernon, Jami Gertz
Votes: 1,133
19. City for Conquest (1940)
Passed | 104 min | Drama, Sport
Danny is a content truck driver, but his girl Peggy shows potential as a dancer and hopes he too can show ambition. Danny acquiesces and pursues boxing to please her, but the two begin to spend more time working than time together.
Directors: Anatole Litvak, Jean Negulesco | Stars: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp
Votes: 2,710
20. Fiona (1998)
85 min | Drama
Despite the fact that Fiona has lived apart from her mother, they lead parallel lives as bi-sexual prostitutes. The meeting of the two women spells tragedy for the mother and hope for the daughter.
Director: Amos Kollek | Stars: Anna Thomson, Felicia Maguire, Alyssa Mulhern, Anna Grace
Votes: 647
21. A Hatful of Rain (1957)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama
A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 1,494
22. Hanukkah on Rye (2022 TV Movie)
TV-G | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Can a Hanukkah miracle keep fresh couple Molly and Jacob together after they realize that they are actually competing delicatessen owners?
Director: Peter DeLuise | Stars: Yael Grobglas, Jeremy Jordan, Linda Darlow, Paula Shaw
Votes: 1,195
23. Forever, Lulu (1986)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A beautiful novelist gets involved with the violent underworld crime elements in New York City and becomes a target. Alec Baldwin plays the cop who pursues her killers.
Director: Amos Kollek | Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Debbie Harry, Alec Baldwin, Annie Golden
Votes: 439
24. The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)
Passed | 79 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Police seek a smuggler while doctors, unaware she's the same person, desperately comb unprotected New York for a smallpox carrier.
Director: Earl McEvoy | Stars: Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, William Bishop, Dorothy Malone
Votes: 1,800
25. Raising Victor Vargas (2002)
R | 88 min | Drama, Romance
A Lower East Side teen-ager struggles to find some sanity while surrounded by an eccentric grandmother, a crazy new girlfriend, and a longing younger brother.
Director: Peter Sollett | Stars: Victor Rasuk, Donna Maldonado, Kevin Rivera, Krystal Rodriguez
Votes: 5,696 | Gross: $2.07M
26. Mannequin (1937)
Passed | 95 min | Drama
Rags-to-riches Hennessey meets newlyweds Jessie and Eddie from his old neighborhood. Eddie plots to have Jessie divorce him, marry Hennessey, divorce Hennessey, then bring Hennessey's money... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy, Alan Curtis, Ralph Morgan
Votes: 1,483
27. Hurricane Streets (1997)
R | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A teenage petty criminal dreams of escaping his increasingly unlawful lifestyle when he meets a sweet girl who hopes to one day travel to Alaska.
Director: Morgan J. Freeman | Stars: Brendan Sexton III, Shawn Elliott, Antoine McLean, Mtume Gant
Votes: 1,302 | Gross: $0.33M
28. Piñero (2001)
R | 103 min | Biography, Drama
Miguel Pinero's creative and turbulent life was cut short at age 40: a Tony Award nominee who did time at Sing-Sing, a volatile urban poet whose work is recognized as a precursor to rap and hip-hop, and a writer of hit TV shows.
Director: Leon Ichaso | Stars: Benjamin Bratt, Giancarlo Esposito, Talisa Soto, Nelson Vasquez
Votes: 1,404 | Gross: $1.42M
29. Starting Out in the Evening (2007)
PG-13 | 111 min | Drama, Romance
An ambitious graduate student convinces a writer that her thesis can resurrect his career.
Director: Andrew Wagner | Stars: Frank Langella, Lauren Ambrose, Patti Perkins, Lili Taylor
Votes: 3,346 | Gross: $0.90M
30. Me and My Gal (1932)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
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.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Marion Burns, George Walsh
Votes: 1,389
31. Law and Disorder (1974)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In the crime-ridden '70s New York City, two cops have had enough. They, along with few other disgruntled people decide to take the things into their own hands only to realize too late that they're in over their heads.
Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Carroll O'Connor, Ernest Borgnine, Ann Wedgeworth, Anita Dangler
Votes: 330 | Gross: $1.60M
32. Bowery Blitzkrieg (1941)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
While a cop steers a kid street-fighter away from being a public nuisance, a petty hoodlum leads a studious kid into a life of crime.
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Warren Hull
Votes: 668
33. Spooks Run Wild (1941)
Approved | 65 min | Horror, Comedy
The boys are stranded in a small rural town, they hear about a "monster killer" roaming the countryside. At night, they sneak out. Peewee is shot by a grave-digger, and they are forced to seek aid at an old mansion.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall
Votes: 1,830
34. The Regeneration (1915)
Passed | 72 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A boy surrounded by violence grows up to become an infamous gangster.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Rockliffe Fellowes, Anna Q. Nilsson, William Sheer, Carl Harbaugh
Votes: 1,430
35. Bye Bye Braverman (1968)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Drama
Four Jewish intellectuals carpool to the funeral of their old friend Leslie Braverman, who died suddenly at age 41.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: George Segal, Jack Warden, Joseph Wiseman, Sorrell Booke
Votes: 855
36. Cracking Up (1994)
Unrated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
Danny Gold is a Lenny Bruce-style performance artist whose brilliance is only exceeded by his urge to self-destruct. Cad, shark, comic, addict, Danny Gold rockets and ricochets through ... See full summary »
Director: Matt Mitler | Stars: Matt Mitler, Carolyn McDermott, Jason Brill, Kimberly Flynn
Votes: 63
37. 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
38. Loose in London (1953)
Approved | 62 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The Bowery Boys find themselves in London, in an old mansion complete with a dungeon, an ominous bell tower and the ghost of an old hangman.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Angela Greene
Votes: 348
39. The Doctor and the Girl (1949)
Passed | 98 min | Drama, Romance
Dr. Michael Corday, a recent graduate of the Harvard Medical School, is the son of Dr. John Corday, an eminent New York City surgeon who has a tendency to continue to direct the lives of ... See full summary »
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Glenn Ford, Charles Coburn, Gloria DeHaven, Janet Leigh
Votes: 503
40. East Side Kids (1940)
Approved | 62 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After being falsely accused of a murder, a group of kids have to find the real killer in order to clear their name.
Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Leon Ames, Dennis Moore, Joyce Bryant, Hal E. Chester
Votes: 296
41. 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge (1942)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The East Side Kids uncover the body of a murder victim, but must protect the innocent girl accused of the crime.
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell
Votes: 708
42. Boys of the City (1940)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey, Hal E. Chester, Frankie Burke
Votes: 665
43. Captured (2008)
Not Rated | 93 min | Documentary
CAPTURED - Since 1979 Clayton Patterson has dedicated his life to documenting the final era of raw creativity and lawlessness in New York City's Lower East Side, a neighborhood famed for ... See full summary »
Directors: Daniel B. Levin, Ben Solomon | Stars: Clayton Patterson, Elsa Rensaa, William Leroy, Joe Coleman
Votes: 27
44. Age 7 in America (1991 TV Movie)
120 min | Documentary, Biography
US take on the classic UK documentary series "Up". This first US entry follows a group of economically, racially and socially diverse 7-year-olds. The idea was to make followup films on them every 7 years but the project ended in 2006.
Director: Phil Joanou | Stars: Alexis, Ashtyn, Brandon, Douglas
Votes: 90
45. Four Walls (1928)
60 min | Drama
While Benny is in jail his old henchman Monk takes over the gang and Benny's girl Frieda. Once out Benny wants nothing to do with either. He has reformed and is beloved of his god-fearing ... See full summary »
Director: William Nigh | Stars: John Gilbert, Joan Crawford, Vera Gordon, Carmel Myers
Votes: 409
46. Million Dollar Kid (1944)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy
In ridding the area of muggers, the East Side Boys acquire a wealthy benefactor whose privileged son, unbeknownst to him, has fallen in with thugs.
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, William 'Billy' Benedict
Votes: 599
47. Acts of Worship (2001)
R | 94 min | Drama
Alix is taken in by a photographer, Digna, who despite her friends' protests, tries to help Alix piece her life back together and overcome her addictions.
Director: Rosemary Rodriguez | Stars: Ana Reeder, Michael Hyatt, Christopher Kadish, Nestor Rodriguez
Votes: 318 | Gross: $0.01M
48. The Younger Generation (1929)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Romance
Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Jean Hersholt, Lina Basquette, Ricardo Cortez, Rex Lease
Votes: 338
49. Five Feet High and Rising (2000)
29 min | Short
Victor, a twelve year-old boy growing up on New York City's Lower East Side experiences what growing up is all about.
Director: Peter Sollett | Stars: Victor Rasuk, Carlos Santiago, Judy Marte, Daniela Rivera
Votes: 592
50. Pride of the Bowery (1940)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Drama
New York City street principles get an East Side kid in trouble at a Civilian Conservation Corps camp.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Kenneth Howell, Mary Ainslee
Votes: 628