Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "lower-east-side-manhattan-new-york-city"

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: 79,639 | 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: 38,669 | 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: 55,981 | Gross: $29.08M

4. 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: 60,556

5. 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: 10,582 | Gross: $21.02M

6. 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: 42,133 | Gross: $22.83M

7. 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: 16,375 | Gross: $6.85M

8. 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: 23,268

9. 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: 11,114 | Gross: $7.63M

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: 4,998 | Gross: $16.26M

11. 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: 22,149 | Gross: $2.53M

12. 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: 5,498

13. 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: 7,692

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: 2,901 | Gross: $0.03M

15. 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: 2,586 | Gross: $7.75M

16. Mannequin (1937)

Passed | 95 min | Drama

Affluent Hennessey falls for Jessie who is married to good-for-nothing Eddie. To provide a better life for Jessie Hennessey wants to marry her, and Eddie even approves of the plan, hoping to profit from it financially.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy, Alan Curtis, Ralph Morgan

Votes: 1,519

17. 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: 1,897 | Gross: $5.00M

18. 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: 4,198

19. 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: 1,812

20. 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: 5,702 | Gross: $2.07M

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: 1,498

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: 1,202

23. 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: 1,837

24. 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: 1,137

25. 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: 2,716

26. 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: 1,407 | Gross: $1.42M

27. 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

28. 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: 1,305 | Gross: $0.33M

29. 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: 1,399

30. 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: 859

31. 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: 442

32. 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

33. 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: 331 | Gross: $1.60M

34. 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: 504

35. 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: 1,434

36. 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

37. 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: 593

38. 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: 65

39. 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: 298

40. Pre (2009)

Comedy, Drama

Pre takes place four days after 9/11 in New York City. A theatre ensemble struggles to decide whether or not to be the first play to go back up after the attack.

Director: Steven Tanenbaum | Stars: Kristen Abate, Kevin Breznahan, Chris Cipriano, Matt Cooper

Votes: 14

41. 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

42. '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: 710

43. The Volcano (1919)

Drama

Ruth Carroll, a schoolteacher in New York's Lower East Side, meets Bolshevist Alexis Minski at her grandfather's bookstore. After Ruth complains to her superintendent about undernourished ... See full summary »

Director: George Irving | Stars: Leah Baird, Edward Langford, W.H. Gibson, Jacob Kingsbury

44. 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: 317 | Gross: $15.98M

45. Superstar in a Housedress (2004)

Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy

"Jackie Curtis is not a drag queen. Jackie is an artist. A pioneer without a frontier." -- Andy Warhol. Superstar in a Housedress examines the life and legend of Warhol transvestite ... See full summary »

Director: Craig Highberger | Stars: Peter Allen, Paul Ambrose, Michael André, Penny Arcade

Votes: 171 | Gross: $0.03M

46. 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

47. 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: 601

48. 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: 666

49. 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

50. Lucky Losers (1950)

Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

To solve the death of a friend, the boys go to gambling school, then go undercover as croupiers in an illegal gambling house.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Hillary Brooke, Gabriel Dell

Votes: 363