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1. Summer of Sam (1999)
R | 142 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
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.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito
Votes: 41,360 | Gross: $19.28M
2. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)
Unrated | 113 min | Documentary
Follows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.
Director: Laura Poitras | Stars: Nan Goldin, David Velasco, Megan Kapler, Marina Berio
Votes: 7,822
3. 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: 42,097 | Gross: $22.83M
4. Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
While on the telephone, an invalid woman overhears what she thinks is a murder plot and attempts to prevent it.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey
Votes: 12,565
5. Pickup on South Street (1953)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye
Votes: 16,160
6. Tiny Furniture (2010)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
About a recent college grad who returns home while she tries to figure out what to do with her life.
Director: Lena Dunham | Stars: Lena Dunham, Laurie Simmons, Grace Dunham, Rachel Howe
Votes: 14,856 | Gross: $0.39M
7. Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Passed | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A formal tailcoat that gets passed from one owner to another affects each life in a significant way.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda
Votes: 2,516
8. 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: 1,803
9. Hells Angels Forever (1983)
R | 93 min | Documentary, Drama, Music
What starts off as a squadron of American daredevil bombers in World War II, branded by society as renegades, turns into a revealing ride into the world of honor, violence, and undying passion for motorcycles on the road.
Directors: Richard Chase, Leon Gast, Kevin Keating, Don Kelly | Stars: Sandy Alexander, Ray Archuleta, Sonny Barger, Scott Barnes
Votes: 233
10. The Bowery (1933)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
In New York's Bowery during the Gay Nineties, a saloon owner and a rebel share a rivalry.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Wallace Beery, George Raft, Jackie Cooper, Fay Wray
Votes: 615 | Gross: $4.36M
11. Joe Gould's Secret (2000)
R | 104 min | Drama
Around 1940, The New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character, who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of twenty thousand conversations he's overheard.
Director: Stanley Tucci | Stars: Ian Holm, Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis, Sarah Hyland
Votes: 1,646 | Gross: $0.64M
12. Dimples (1936)
Passed | 79 min | Family, Musical
Dimples Appleby lives with the pick-pocket grandfather in 19th century New York City. She entertains the crowds while he works his racket. A rich lady makes it possible for the girl to go legit. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is performed.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Shirley Temple, Frank Morgan, Robert Kent, Helen Westley
Votes: 972
13. The Dude Goes West (1948)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Western
Eastern gunsmith Daniel Bone goes out west to ply his trade, encounters a girl searching for the murderer of her father.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Eddie Albert, Gale Storm, James Gleason, Gilbert Roland
Votes: 286
14. On the Bowery (1956)
Not Rated | 65 min | Documentary, Drama
By focusing on the lives of three down-and-out alcoholic transients, the film creates a wrenching portrait of the tragic hopelessness of life on "The Bowery" in New York City.
Director: Lionel Rogosin | Stars: Ray Salyer, Gorman Hendricks, Frank Matthews, George L. Bolton
Votes: 1,163 | Gross: $0.01M
15. Two Sisters from Boston (1946)
Passed | 112 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A high society Boston girl goes from the Bowery to the opera with the help of her sister.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Kathryn Grayson, June Allyson, Lauritz Melchior, Jimmy Durante
Votes: 695
16. Master Minds (1949)
Approved | 64 min | Comedy, Family, Horror
Candy on a toothache turns Sach into a prognosticator, which attracts the attention of an exploitative Slip and a personality-switching doctor hoping to create an obedient super race.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Alan Napier
Votes: 413
17. The Photographer (2000)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
A Photographer has a single evening to find ten magical photographs or else he stands to lose everything that is important to him.
Director: Jeremy Stein | Stars: Reg Rogers, Tina Holmes, Anthony Michael Hall, Marisa Berenson
Votes: 359
18. 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: 1,432
19. 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
20. Hold That Baby! (1949)
Passed | 64 min | Drama, Comedy
The boys find a baby amid the bundles in their new laundry business, the heir to a fortune left in their care in his mother's desperate attempt to stave off conniving relatives.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Frankie Darro
Votes: 286
21. There's a Girl in My Heart (1949)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A Gay-Nineties musical set in New York City's Bowery and East Side explores the life of its inhabitants--an Irish policeman and his tap-dancing daughter and music-hall wife; a German ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Dreifuss | Stars: Lee Bowman, Elyse Knox, Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan
Votes: 23
22. Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947)
Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Mistaken for a detective, Slip takes on the case of a missing woman, which turns out to be bogus.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell
Votes: 362
23. Blonde Dynamite (1950)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
With Louie away, Slip turns the Sweet Shop into an escort service that attracts the attention of bank robbers.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Adele Jergens, Gabriel Dell
Votes: 415
24. The Lone Star Ranger (1930)
Passed | 64 min | Drama, Western
After shooting a man in self-defense, Buck Duane finds himself accused of many crimes, none of which he committed. In order to prove his innocence, he joins the Texas Rangers, and also ... See full summary »
Director: A.F. Erickson | Stars: George O'Brien, Sue Carol, Walter McGrail, Warren Hymer
Votes: 68
25. In the Money (1958)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Family
Sach is hired as the companion for a poodle on an ocean voyage from New York to London. What he doesn't know is that the people who hired him are actually diamond smugglers, and there is a cache of diamonds hidden in the poodle's coat.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements, Patricia Donahue, Paul Cavanagh
Votes: 203
26. Angels' Alley (1948)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy
Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring. While trying to help Jimmy get out of the ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, William 'Billy' Benedict
Votes: 279
27. Fighting Trouble (1956)
Approved | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
"Sach" has become a camera fiend so, in the pursuit of some ready cash, "Duke" takes him and his photographs to the editor of the New York Morning Blade, Mr. Ray Vance. He hires them to get... See full summary »
Director: George Blair | Stars: Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements, Adele Jergens, Joe Downing
Votes: 182
28. Triple Trouble (1950)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Slip, Sach, Whitey, Butch and Chuck witness a warehouse robbery, and are arrested and jailed on suspicion. Gabe Moreno, their lawyer-friend gets them released on bail. Since the charge of ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Richard Benedict
Votes: 299
29. New York (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Drama
The Ritz Social Club, a Bowery cabaret, is the rendezvous of four old friends: Michael Angelo Cassidy, a trap drummer and composer; Buck, his arranger; Izzy, who breaks into politics; and ... See full summary »
Director: Luther Reed | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Lois Wilson, Estelle Taylor, William Powell
Votes: 11
30. In Fast Company (1946)
Passed | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Slip confronts a monopolizing taxicab company whose criminal tactics aim to drive its rivals out of business.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Jane Randolph, Judy Clark
Votes: 337
31. Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe (2007)
Not Rated | 77 min | Documentary, Biography, Romance
A documentary on the relationship between curator Sam Wagstaff, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, and musician/poet Patti Smith.
Director: James Crump | Stars: Pierre Apraxine, Dick Cavett, Dominick Dunne, Raymond Foye
Votes: 296
32. 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
33. Crashing Las Vegas (1956)
Approved | 62 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
An electric shock enables Sach to predict numbers.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Mary Castle, Don Haggerty
Votes: 391
34. Jinx Money (1948)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Crime, Film-Noir
A man wins $50, 000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was discovered, and soon find themselves the target of both the police and the gamblers.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Sheldon Leonard
Votes: 298
35. Feudin' Fools (1952)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy
Sach discovers that he is heir to a farm in rural hillbilly country. He and the boys go to the farm to check it out, and find themselves mixed up with feuding hillbillies and a gang of bank robbers.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Dorothy Ford, Lyle Talbot
Votes: 312
36. Follow the Leader (1944)
Approved | 65 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Muggs and Glimpy, two East Side Kids in the army, return to their neighborhood, supposedly on furlough; actually, Muggs has been honorably discharged with a physical defect, but he tells no... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, William 'Billy' Benedict
Votes: 324
37. Derby Decade (1934)
22 min | Musical, Short
An entry in RKO Headliner series (and reissued in 1945 as a Headline Revival), it shows, with Ruth Etting and Tom Kennedy as the leads, New York when the Bowery first had electric lights, and the blue noses clashing with the red noses.
Director: Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: Ruth Etting, Tom Kennedy, Eddie Baker, Harry Bowen
38. The Chief (1933)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy
A timid man (Ed Wynn) is thrust into the spotlight when his father is honored as a hero. He blunders into a series of adventures because of a woman (Dorothy Mackaill) and becomes a hero ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Ed Wynn, Charles 'Chic' Sale, Dorothy Mackaill, William 'Stage' Boyd
Votes: 87
39. Tough Kid (1938)
Approved | 59 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Skipper Murphy is serving as trainer and inspiration for his brother Red Murphy training for a world championship title bout. Trouble comes for the Murphys when Red runs up against a ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Frankie Darro, Dick Purcell, Judith Allen, Lillian Elliott
Votes: 23
40. Tail End (1938)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A story of the outcast dogs NYC's East Side. They live in the dog slums, and are trying to get some of the bones the fat bulldog has piled up in his yard, but the bulldog is too watchful. ... See full summary »
Director: Les Kline | Stars: Billy Bletcher, Victor McLeod
Votes: 7
41. Amato: A Love Affair with Opera (2001)
66 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Director: Stephen Ives | Stars: Sally Amato, Tony Amato
Votes: 22
42. Tangled Trails (I) (1921)
Passed | 56 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Corporal Jack Borden, of the Northwest Mounted Police, trails the man who killed his partner to New York City. The killer is an unscrupulous promoter who is selling worthless stock in a ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Bartlett | Stars: Neal Hart, Violet Palmer, Gladys Hampton, Jean Barry
Votes: 58
43. The Pride of the Force (1925)
Passed | 55 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Popular patrolman Danny Moore fails of promotion when he stops to aid an injured child and lets several thugs escape. When Danny is later informed of the plans of a criminal gang to rob ... See full summary »
Director: Duke Worne | Stars: Tom Santschi, Edythe Chapman, Gladys Hulette, James Morrison
44. Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1926)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Romance
A baby girl is left at the door of Brady, an Irish-policeman in New York City. He and his friends bid for her, and she is won by Uncle Ben Shapiro, a pawnbroker, who raises her to young ... See full summary »
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Shirley Mason, Cullen Landis, E. Alyn Warren, William Conklin
45. Glad Rags (1922)
Passed | Short, Action, Comedy
"Frisco Flash," a pugilist with a taste for culture, is employed by the head of the aristocratic Bannerman family to put his children under control. "Frisco" takes to luxury like a cat to ... See full summary »
Director: Hugh Fay | Stars: Bull Montana, Betty Francisco, Otis Harlan, Tom O'Brien
46. This Is the Bowery (1941)
Approved | 11 min | Short, Documentary
In this somewhat-whitewashed documentary on Manhattan's Bowery, a newcomer to the area takes his first step toward redemption after a meal, bed, and inspiring talk.
Director: Gunther von Fritsch | Stars: John Nesbitt, Charles St. John
Votes: 126
47. For Your Convenience (1939)
Approved | 9 min | Short, Comedy
The short has four seemingly unconnected sections, except that a certain conveniences for the user are involved. In "Bowery Beautician", a beautician shows how he hides a hideous black eye ... See full summary »
Director: Ira Genet | Stars: Dwight Weist, Dorothy Patrick
Votes: 73
48. The Battler (1919)
60 min | Drama
Clean-living pugilist Jim Fortune assists Angelica Hart when her husband Duncan assaults her in a Bowery café. Soon after, Jim fights a bout with Hart, an amateur society boxer, during a ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Reicher | Stars: Earl Metcalfe, Virginia Hammond, Harry C. Browne, Edwin Denison
49. The Measure of a Man (1924)
50 min | Drama
Overcoming his addiction to drink, John Fairmeadow leaves the Bowery for a western logging camp posing as a minister. His fistic ability and his gentle manner reform the town drinkers and ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Rosson | Stars: William Desmond, Albert J. Smith, Francis Ford, Marin Sais
50. Rose of the Bowery (1927)
Passed | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Some of the stories of the six-million citizens of New York City are depicted her, including: a Judge, sworn to protect society, has to send his own son to prison; a tenement girl is ... See full summary »
Director: Bertram Bracken | Stars: Edna Murphy, Johnnie Walker, Crauford Kent, Mildred Harris
Votes: 17