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Car Wash
1976 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- inclu…
Matched on: Boyar
Night of the Juggler
1980 • Thriller • Crime • Action
When a twisted psychotic kidnaps a young girl, mistaking her for the daughter of a wealthy developer, her father, a hardened ex-cop, doggedly hunts them through New York's seamy…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
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 Jazz Singer
1980 • Music • Drama • Romance
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
The Manhattan Project
1986 • Thriller • Science Fiction
A gifted high school student steals plutonium from the secret nuclear weapons facility in his home town in order to construct his own nuclear bomb, win a national science fair,…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Science Fiction
The King of Marvin Gardens
1972 • Drama
Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer who asks his brother David, a radio personality from Philadelphia, to help h…
Why matched: genres Drama
Best Seller
1987 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Oliver's Story
1978 • Drama • Romance
Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hours don't ease his pain, espe…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Too Scared to Scream
1984 • Thriller • Mystery • Crime
A killer is brutally attacking several tenants that live in a high rise apartment building in New York City.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
The Entity
1982 • Thriller • Mystery • Horror
A single mom is raped by an invisible force. Her psychiatrist believes the experience stems from childhood trauma, while she knows something supernatural is at play.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
Prizzi's Honor
1985 • Romance • Crime • Comedy
Charley Partanna is a hitman who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime families in the US. When he sees Irene Walker, it's love at first sight. But he soon finds that…
Why matched: genres Romance, Crime
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
In the Soup
1992 • Drama • Comedy
An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Betsy's Wedding
1990 • Romance • Comedy
Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé Jake Lovell just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father Eddie, a Long…
Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy
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
The Gambler
1974 • Drama • Crime
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to de…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Just the Ticket
1998 • Romance • Comedy
Gary Starke is one of the best ticket scalpers in New York City. His girlfriend, Linda, doesn't approve of his criminal lifestyle, though, and dumps him when she gets the opport…
Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy
Up the Sandbox
1972 • Drama • Comedy
Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apar…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy