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- During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
- Debbie Ocean gathers an all-female crew to attempt an impossible heist at New York City's annual Met Gala.
- In Washington Heights, a sympathetic New York bodega owner saves every penny every day as he imagines and sings about a better life.
- In New York City 1981, an ambitious immigrant fights to protect his business and family during the most dangerous year in the city's history.
- Two corporate executive assistants hatch a plan to match-make their two bosses.
- In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that she can re-route her life in a better direction.
- Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
- A CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy.
- A Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons.
- A college student on suspension is coaxed into babysitting the kids next door, though he is fully unprepared for the wild night ahead of him.
- When Frank Castle's family is murdered by criminals, he wages war on crime as a vigilante assassin known only as The Punisher.
- A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other.
- Two newly acquainted music-lovers spend the night scouting the streets of New York City in search of their favourite band's surprise secret show. All the while, they're both being chased after by their tempting but devious exes.
- A troubled husband and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communication.
- When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.
- A New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption, and soon realises he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted.
- A group of young friends from the Bronx fight to save their neighborhood from gentrification...and vampires.
- After serving 17 years in prison for a violent mistake he made in his youth, a once-aspiring baseball player returns to his Bronx neighborhood.
- Warren has an extra room in his apartment (and is five months behind on the rent) after his lover moves out, so a friend places an ad on his behalf for a GWM roommate. Frankie, a pizza baker (and aspiring actor), decides to move out of his family's flat in The Bronx when he comes home one evening and walks in on his brother making love to Frankie's girlfriend. Frankie checks ads for roommates in "the city" (i.e., Manhattan), notices Warren's ad and decides to answer it, reasoning that GWM stands for "Guy With Money."
- A woman from a "cursed" family is released from a mental facility, and soon dismembered corpses start turning up.
- He's finally getting married at 50. With the clocks ready to spring ahead, four middle-aged men go out for a night on the town with a mission to win back the hour and beat time. Chasing sixty minutes proves to be hysterically enlightening.
- Three guys working the graveyard shift on and around a deserted urban college campus try to make it through a long and lonely night on the job.
- The body of a Jane Doe turns up in an abandoned car in New York and the police's only clue revolves around the tattoo she has on her arm, and the fact that someone tried to destroy the corpse to erase the fingerprints.
- New Media Comedy presents the most unusual love story of all time. Gail is human. Her new boyfriend is not. Can a woman and a ventriloquist's dummy find true love in NYC? Check out Amanda Nicholas and her co-star "Jack" as they give you a taste of the RomCom as you've never seen it before!
- The bald detective in a fedora finds himself attracted to a foxy, enigmatic woman who is suspected in the murders of her two small sons.
- Lost in the paranoia of a sinister city, Uma senses she is being haunted by a presence, pulling her deeper into a world of nightmares.
- ShortA delusional millennial from The Bronx gets in the ring with a junior boxing champion known as The Smoke.
- A troubled girl involved in a female gang called The Croniks, commits a crime and is sent to a "Scared Straight" program to meet the reformed leader who created it 25 years ago.
- A detective chases down rogue cops. In order to figure out who they are, the detective proves that his Sergeant is framing murders on two motorcycle riders.
- Bx3M: Sometimes love is the endgame. Maria, Mona and Michael are beginning their senior year at James Monroe High School in the Bronx when reality hits them like a ton of books to the head. Three interlacing narratives tell one story about finding love and losing it, about making hard choices that can even lead to death. Graduation is a no-brainer for Maria who is top in her class. Her best friend Mona wants to go to Cooper Union and that spells trouble for the aspiring photographer. Michael, Maria's boyfriend, is flunking out. No matter, Michael is on a mission yet unknown to him -- call it destiny or revenge. Like many teenagers, they are making choices that will shape their lives. Maria loves Michael more than anything in the world but that love is blind. Her father knows it. Maria will have to see for herself. Mona needs to choose between Seneca, a Monroe track star, and Sam, a Cooper Union art student. Her crisis is a well-kept secret till her mother finds out Sam is a girl. Michael sees the future through the bars of the past. As a child he watched his mother die at the hands of drug dealers and his father never did anything about it. Michael refuses to be like him. When his best friend is killed by the local drug dealer, Michael goes after him. Genuine experiences inform the lives of the three teens. Portraying the lives of inner city girls like Maria and Mona sets this urban drama apart. These portraits of Latina adolescents are memorably different, yet their struggle is universal. Michael's story, too, draws on the conventions used to represent ghetto life but with unpredictable twists and turns.
- This urban drama is based on a shocking true story. An undercover cop puts his life on the line to fight corruption in his department, while trying to take down the biggest Drug Kingpin of New York City. No one can be trusted as the body count rises.
- The film follows the head coach, Prairie Rugilo, and one of her students, DeAna, as they prepare for several fights, cope with setbacks and opposition that comes with training to get into the ring.
- Six New Yorkers experience the joys and trials of life in the big apple.
- Two brothers living in South Bronx find there brotherly loyalties tested when Joey wants to leave the street life behind and finish college while Junior turns to these very streets to stay alive. Will these brothers ever get out of the South Bronx ?
- NYPD cop Ruda is a cop during the day and a religious Santerio (High Ranking Priest) of "Black Magic" by night. A curse is placed on the NYPD by the mother of a boy shot by cops. Now the NYPD needs Ruda to help break the curse.
- A drama following the lives of fish oil salesmen
- Facing eviction in less than 24 hours, a struggling veteran and his girlfriend need a miracle, but with the clock ticking and their backs against the wall, they recklessly decide to take matters into their own hands.
- Michael "C2M" Mali expresses his poetic opinion about how this country has taken a wrong turn and what it'll take to redeem itself.
- As a filmmaker wanders his city capturing footage, he finds a series of riddles that lead him through the bizarre recruitment process of an all-powerful corporation. Also, a hole in his wall seems to have become sentient.
- Americas fickle love affair with Native Americans is limited to revisionist stories of passive Indian maidens like Pocahontas and Sacajawea or fierce doomed warriors like Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Worse, the modern stereotype America has about Native Americans is limited to the oppressed drunkard or the fat casino cat, neither of which deserves understanding nor empathy. No matter what kind of image is evoked, you cant win if youre Native: A successful Indian exploits the American way by not giving back his fair share and a downtrodden Indian cant pull himself up by his boot straps no matter how much government assistance hes given. Native Americans are blamed for not taking responsibility for the plight of their people and told that they dont deserve help or money despite the fact that Native Americans have the highest poverty rates and the lowest access to health care of any race in the United States. But when we look beneath the stereotypes and understand the issues and statistics of whats really happening in Indian Country, the truth is surprising, complex, and frustrating. There are spiritual, psychological, and physical wounds experienced in large numbers of the Native American population and these hurts have a name, Historical Trauma. The theory of Historical Trauma stemmed from research done by Dr. Maria Yellowhorse Braveheart in her own community during the 1980s. Dodging Bullets, confronts Historical Trauma head-on through interviews and discussions with young Native Americans whose lives are stricken by plights known to be effects of Historical Trauma. The film explores research professionals whose work helps develop a better understanding of Trauma, how it relates to Native Americans specifically and provides insight into ways we can improve the outcomes of Native people dealing with these challenges. The individuals shown in the film come from a variety of social and economic backgrounds: for example, a middle-school student living on the poverty stricken Blackfeet Indian Reservation battling an addiction to meth, a hardened enforcer of the A.I.M., who has leaned the importance of love late in life to a successful author/professor teaching the Ojibwe language to university students.
- High school dropout and aspiring musician, Mike, spends his days hanging out with his friends and confronting the members of the church next door. Most members have learned to keep their distance, but Sister Thomas is determined to open Mike's mind to GOD and religion. Connecting through a love for music she convinces Mike to pick up the Bible and start reading. He quickly learns that the Bible truly is a book of songs and slowly starts to believe in himself again. With the help of Sister Thomas, Mike stands up to his friends and begins to choose a more righteous path.
- 1.5 Million explores the political and economic forces that have brought about this literacy crisis in The Bronx, specifically, District 7 which is located in the south Bronx. With a lack of school libraries, classroom libraries, books within the community, bookstores, robust marketing by the NYPL in The Bronx and decades of divestment to education, a literacy crisis has come to fruition in The Bronx. Born from the stereotypes that people in The Bronx do not read and are only known for having interests in sneaker and liquor stores; it is not by coincidence that access to literature has a profound effect on the culture of reading. As of 2016, only 56% of high school graduates in The Bronx are college ready. Poverty is a major factor, with 40% of children in the South Bronx living below the poverty line. A child raised in poverty is 13 times less likely to finish high school on time, if at all. 70 percent of third grade students in The South Bronx are unable to read at their grade level. The New York City Department of Education has found that children who fail to meet the third grade benchmark are more likely to drop out of high school and remain in poverty. The South Bronx has the poorest congressional districts in the nation and has the most unemployed, according to a 2016 report by South Bronx Rising Together (SBRT)
- Lola is a rugged, Hispanic lesbian with a keen passion for boxing. She must break through countless obstacles of sexism, along with cultural and social pressures, as she fights to pursue her dreams. Lola is caught in an epic battle to fully embrace her identity and live her truth.
- A cult-like rehabilitation center abuses, brainwashes and imprisons vulnerable teens.
- From his start as a presidential photographer for Richard Nixon to his latest series, "The Americans" an homage to Robert Frank's series of the same name, John has held a lens to the world and captured its beauty, evolution and sometimes harsh reality with his unique vision.
- A woman tries to capture the difficulties of caring for her ailing husband in a series of letters to her daughter - letters she can never send, as her husband refuses to tell anyone, especially their daughter, of his illness.
- Alice Brady writes her brother Will that she is going to visit him. The letter is lost. Will writes his friend Jack Wilson to come over. Alice arrives while Will is away from the house and goes to her room to sleep. Jack, who has looked upon the wine when it was much too red, comes to the house and tries to get into Alice's room. She chases him out and Will comes home to find his friend shivering in the hallway. Jack explains that some woman threw him out of the room. Not knowing of Alice's presence, Will is very much wrought up. He knocks on the door of her room. Alice, thinking the inebriate, Jack, has returned, opens the door and throws a pitcher of water all over Will. Confusion reigns, until matters are straightened out by proper introductions and regrets.
- A glimpse into the maestro's life and musical journey, "CACHAO: Uno Mas" pays tribute to one of the greatest Afro-Cuban musicians of all time, Israel López 'Cachao'.