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Girlfight
2000 • Drama
Diana Guzman, a troubled Brooklyn teenager, decides to channel her aggression by training to become a boxer, all while keeping it a secret from her father.
Why matched: genres Drama
Yellow
2006 • Drama • Romance
Amaryllis Campos is a young, classically trained Puerto Rican ballerina, who dreams of leaving her impoverished home in Puerto Rico to pursue fame and fortune as a dancer. Amary…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Match
2014 • Drama • Comedy
A Seattle couple travel to New York to interview colorful former dancer Tobi for research on a dissertation about dance. But soon, common niceties and social graces erode when t…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Bella
2006 • Drama • Romance
An international soccer star is on his way to sign a multimillion dollar contract when something happens that brings his career to an abrupt end. A beautiful waitress, strugglin…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Fort Apache, the Bronx
1981 • Drama • Crime • Action
From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers call their police station, whi…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
The Old Man and the Sea
1990 • Drama • TV Movie • Action
Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. Santiago goes out on his usual fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life. Then a shark attacks and tries to steal his…
Why matched: genres Drama, TV Movie
Carlito's Way: Rise to Power
2005 • Drama • Thriller • Adventure
Seduced by the brutal New York underworld, future gangster legend Carlito Brigante enters a deadly circle of greed and retribution. Assisted by his two brothers-in-crime, Carlit…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Chapter 27
2007 • Drama • Crime
A film about Mark David Chapman in the days leading up to the infamous murder of Beatle John Lennon.
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
A Simple Wish
1997 • Adventure • Comedy • Family
Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple wish" - that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver, would win the leading rol…
Why matched: genres Adventure, Comedy
The Groomsmen
2006 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
Blue-collar Paulie prepares for fatherhood and his forthcoming wedding to Sue by hanging out with his groomsmen. Brother Jimbo, cousin Mike, and his pals fill the reunion with d…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders
1988 • Drama • Crime • Action
It is 1985, and a small, tranquil Florida town is being rocked by a wave of vicious serial murders and bank robberies. Particularly sickening to the authorities is the gratuitou…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
The Ministers
2009 • Thriller • Crime
A NYPD detective attempts to avenge the death of her father, but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his killers.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
The House of the Spirits
1993 • Drama • Romance
A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
State of Grace
1990 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects with Jackie, a childhood friend and member of the Irish mob, and rekindles his l…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Big
1988 • Drama • Comedy • Fantasy
When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he i…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Marathon Man
1976 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Author! Author!
1982 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
A broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him, and 5 children 4 of which be…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
City of Hope
1991 • Drama
This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who has been helped along his w…
Why matched: genres Drama
Penn & Teller Get Killed
1989 • Comedy
The "bad boys of magic" go over the edge in this mind-blowing, role-switching comedy murder mystery set in the dizzying world of Atlantic City casinos. In a TV interview, Penn m…
Why matched: genres Comedy
The Brother from Another Planet
1984 • Science Fiction • Comedy
A mute alien with the appearance of a black human is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem.
Why matched: genres Science Fiction, Comedy