Movies

An overview of the making of the film Jacob's Ladder (1990).

A beautiful Puerto Rican girl and her family in Spanish harlem devise a novel plan to attract business to their restaurant, causing a wildly comic...

A young man is torn between following in his brothers' footsteps or striking out on his own.

Frank Tramontana, a hearse driver who unwittingly gets drawn into a scheme his co-workers have concocted for a series of unfortunate "accidents"...

Tommy takes up temporary housing in a New York neighborhood plagued by a violent gang called the Souls. Tommy is waiting for his next assignment as a...

A guardian angel takes a gravely ill boy on a magical journey to meet legendary players from the New York Yankees, both past and present.

The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.

A professional hockey player who is only happy when he is miserable signs a long-term contract that covers his entire career only to ruin it in his...

A young woman wants to get her boyfriend to commit to her, but the most she can get him to do is exchange apartment keys.

Taped in Chicago for HBO in 1990. The sun's too bright, the traffic's going to be bad, there's too many people out there... It's just easier to sit...

Mafia don Joseph Scassi is a man willing to use all of his vast resources to defend himself against an indictment for murder and extortion.

Television account of an honest New York narcotics cop who becomes unwillingly involved in a plan to uncover corruption in his department.

The story follows a skilled negotiator, an expert at closing difficult deals, who becomes entangled in a complex web of deception, manipulation, and...

Haunted by the drowning death of his own daughter, a police investigator embarks on an obsessive 10-year hunt for the identity of a dead boy, to the...

Two brothers pose as women to avoid marrying a mobster's ugly daughter.

Documentary highlighting the development of the screenplay into a film with the desired cast. It also describes the closeness among Italian families,...

Filmed version of the hit Broadway show with two of the original stars. Set in the backyard of a blue collar South Philadelphia neighborhood early in...

Born in the Bronx and raised in upstate New York, Abel Ferrara started his professional film career on Mulberry Street in 1975. For the past year...

Spike Lee and others reflect on this impactful film, more than two decades later.

Hooch is an inexpensive regional exploitation action-comedy (hicksploitation) about a small county in the Appalachians and its many moonshine-brewing...