Browse Movies : "new york"

The story centers on a Korean exchange student who moves to the United States. Her parents set up various (matchmaker) dates to meet appropriate young men from Seoul to San Francisco.

The Federal Bureau of Narcotics is formed in New York City at 90 Church to combat organized crime and drug traffic in the mid-1960s through early 1970s. While the FBI refuses even to acknowledge organized crime, 30 agents stand alone against a well-organized Mafia and vicious drug cartels. To survive against impossible odds, the agents use incredibly brutal and cunning tactics to make cases and bring the war to a stalemate. Using an ever-expanding network of criminal informants hold together by secret immunity deals, the sinister reputation of 90 Church grows along with the rising body count. The bureau later merges with another and becomea the DEA.

Tells the incredible saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York. Accused of mortgage fraud by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., Abacus becomes the only U.S. bank to face criminal charges in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. The indictment and subsequent trial forces the Sung family to defend themselves – and their bank’s legacy in the Chinatown community – over the course of a five-year legal battle.

Follows the director of an Indian orphanage on the verge of bankruptcy, who discovers that her organization is in contention to receive a large charitable donation from a wealthy American businesswoman, forcing her to travel to New York City, where she is confronted by a past she tried to forget.

A journalist goes undercover in one of New York City's worst neighborhoods to write a book about drug culture and gangs.

Biopic about Alvin Ailey who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City in 1958 and helped popularize modern dance.

A New York womanizer who cannot commit confesses the details of his conquests to his psychiatrist. He finally meets his dream woman, but she turns out to be his shrink's daughter. As their relationship blossoms, his best friend and her dad do all they can to keep them apart.

A New York detective is hired by a mysterious client to track down a once-popular performer indebted to him. While pursuing this seemingly routine investigation, the detective encounters dark and supernatural forces.

After breaking off an engagement, a young woman moves into a landmark New York building only to discover it's haunted by both ghosts and spooky tenants. The latter force her to build a portal to a macabre world.

It’s a New York-set story that centers on a man in need of a place to live, who’s given the chance to house-sit in exchange for free rent. He discovers the house is occupied by the man’s elderly mother Flo, who is part of the deal.

First-time feature filmmaker Rebeca “Beba” Huntt undertakes an exploration of her own identity in the remarkable coming-of-age documentary/cinematic memoir Beba. Reflecting on her childhood and adolescence in New York City as the daughter of a Dominican father and Venezuelan mother, Huntt investigates the historical, societal, and generational trauma she’s inherited and ponders how those ancient wounds have shaped her, while simultaneously considering the universal truths that connect us all as humans. Throughout Beba, Huntt searches for a way to forge her own creative path amid a landscape of intense racial and political unrest.Poetic, powerful and profound, Beba is a courageous, deeply human self-portrait of an Afro-Latina artist hungry for knowledge and yearning for connection.

Paul Aufiero, a hardcore New York Giants football fan, struggles to deal with the consequences when he is beaten up by his favorite player.

For decades, the Schwinn-riding Bill Cunningham, cultural anthropologist, has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the New York Times Style section.

Three men (Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall) in a small Western town travel to New York City to exact revenge on a Wall Street swindler who has stolen money from them.

An older Wyatt Earp spends his last years as a private detective and movie consultant in Los Angeles. Earp learns that his friend and compatriot Doc Holliday had a son, who is now living in Prohibition-era New York City. While Holliday is long dead, the son has gotten himself in trouble with a rising mobster, Al Capone. Earp teams up with Bat Masterson, one of his former deputies and now noted sportswriter for the New York Morning Telegraph, to take on the gang in what becomes a tale of six-shooters versus Tommy guns.

The story is set in early 1980s New York as Madonna Louise Ciccone works on her first album, struggling in a business that treats women badly, while also dealing with a burgeoning love life and the first hints of fame.

Blonde Ambition is about to meet the girl that doesn't quit. Jessica Simpson stars as Katie Gregerstitch, a small-town Oklahoma beauty who's come to New York to visit her long-time boyfriend. But after finding him in the arms of another woman, Katie decides to lose her cheating man and to find herself. With the help of two scheming co-workers (Andy Dick and Penelope Ann Miller), she lands a job at a top construction firm where she meets and falls for a great guy (Luke Wilson) with an even greater secret. Now, nothing is going to stop this go-getter from getting exactly what her heart desires in the romantic comedy that proves you can't keep a bright, beautiful down-home girl down. Also starring Willie Nelson.

A series of killings in the New York subway system are thought to be the work of a serial killer, but it later is revealed that the murders are the work of a vampire who has been living in the tunnels of the city from the days when it was still New Amsterdam.

Gabrielle Hamilton, the youngest of five siblings born to a French mother and an artist father who made the sets for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus, takes an unorthodox trajectory to becoming a chef. She later becomes the owner and chef of New York's Prune restaurant and also a trained writer with an MFA from the University of Michigan.