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Big Fan
2009 • Drama • Comedy
Paul Aufiero, a 35-year-old parking-garage attendant from Staten Island, is the self-described "world's biggest New York Giants fan". One night, Paul and his best friend Sal spo…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Requiem for a Dream
2000 • Drama • Crime
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
The Panic in Needle Park
1971 • Drama • Romance • Crime
A stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a youn…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Born to Win
1971 • Drama • Crime • Comedy
A smart-mouthed junkie and a former hairdresser spends his days looking for just "one more fix".
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Arranged
2007 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
ARRANGED centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the yea…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Dog Day Afternoon
1975 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Wrestler
2008 • Drama • Romance
Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Tower Heist
2011 • Comedy • Action
A luxury condo manager leads a staff of workers to seek payback on the Wall Street swindler who defrauded them. With only days until the billionaire gets away with the perfect c…
Why matched: genres Comedy, Action
Running on Empty
1988 • Drama • Romance • Crime
The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Good Nurse
2022 • Drama • Mystery • Crime
Suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse risks her own life to uncover the truth.
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
Recount
2008 • Drama • History • TV Movie
In 2000, the election of the U.S. Presidential boiled down to a few precious votes in the state of Florida — and a recount that would add "hanging chad" to every American's voca…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Find Me Guilty
2006 • Drama • Crime • Comedy
Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Black Swan
2010 • Drama • Thriller • Horror
A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake".
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towar…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Ass Backwards
2013 • Adventure • Comedy
Two best friends embark on a cross country trip back to their hometown to attempt to win a pageant that eluded them as children.
Why matched: genres Adventure, Comedy
One True Thing
1998 • Drama • Romance
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Center Stage
2000 • Music • Drama
A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals with the problems and stress o…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
Armageddon Time
2022 • Drama
In 1980, Queens, New York, a young Jewish boy befriends a rebellious African-American classmate to the disapproval of his privileged family and begins to reckon with growing up…
Why matched: genres Drama
Death Wish
1974 • Drama • Crime • Action
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime