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    Baby Face (1933)

    An out-of-town working girl (Barbara Stanwyck) rises in a New York bank by using her power over men.

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    After Office Hours (1935)

    A managing editor (Clark Gable) sends a socialite reporter (Constance Bennett) to spy on her...

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    The Law Forbids

    Baby Peggy, a popular child star of the 1920s who grew up to become film historian Peggy Carey, who...

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    Theodora Goes Wild (1936)

    A small-town New England author (Irene Dunne) meets her racy novel's urbane illustrator (Melvyn...

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    Face Addict

    Documents the New York downtown scene and some of its main characters, whose legacy remains today....

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    Eliza's Horoscope

    Desirous of marrying a wealthy man, a delicate woman searches the stars and the streets of Montreal...

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    3 A.M. (2001)

    Three New York City cabdrivers working the graveyard shift must deal with a murderer who targets...

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    Black Beauty (1994)

    Based on Anna Sewell's novel about a horse in Victorian England and its often cruel treatment by...

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    Trick (1999)

    An unfulfilled man (Christian Campbell) meets another (John Paul Pitoc) who shares his passion, but...

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    Because They're Young (1960)

    A big-city high-school teacher (Dick Clark) tries to help wild students but only gets himself in...

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    The Cruise (1998)

    New York tour guide Timothy ``Speed'' Levitch offers a constant barrage of colorful commentary about...

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    The Big Town (1987)

    A lucky country boy (Matt Dillon) turns crapshooter in 1950s Chicago and falls for a gangster's...

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    Slow Dancing in the Big City (1978)

    A husky New York columnist (Paul Sorvino) falls for a ballerina (Anne Ditchburn) in bad health who...

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    Calcutta (1969)

    Filmmaker Louis Malle examines overpopulation and poverty in the Indian metropolis.

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    The House of God

    In this abysmal, tasteless farce, the pitfalls of patient and staff life in a big city hospital are...

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    Beau James (1957)

    Biopic of the political career of Jimmy Walker, flamboyant and somewhat corrupt Mayor of New York...

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    Edge of the City (1956)

    A labor boss (Jack Warden) harasses a longshoreman (Sidney Poitier) and his fugitive white friend...

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    City Hall (1996)

    The New York mayor (Al Pacino) and his idealistic deputy (John Cusack) cope with scandal generated...

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    Nynne

    The Danish Bridget Jones

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    The Battle of Love's Return

    Long before organizing Troma Pictures with Michael Herz, filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman ground out the...

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    Man Push Cart (2006)

    In New York, a Pakistani immigrant (Ahmad Razvi) who was once a rock star sells coffee and bootleg...

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    Big Eden (2001)

    A young man (Arye Gross) tries to tell his dying grandfather that he is gay, while dealing with the...

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    Girl With a Suitcase (1961)

    A beautiful woman, intent on making a career for herself as a singer, finds herself spurned by lover...

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    The Rat Race (1960)

    A saxophonist (Tony Curtis) tries to share an apartment platonically with a dancer (Debbie Reynolds)...

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    Rocco and His Brothers (1961)

    A widow and her five sons arrive in Milan from their impoverished farm in southern Italy. Hoping for...

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    Giuliani Time (2006)

    A documentary that investigates the 'new' New York City that then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani claimed he...

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    Chicago Cab (1998)

    A day in the life of a new Chicago cab driver during the holiday season, who discovers the meaning...

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    Smithereens (1982)

    A would-be weird girl (Susan Berman) club-hops around New York trying to hustle her way into punk...

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    Journey to the Sun (2001)

    Mehmet is from east Anatolia, Berzan from the west, but both have come to Istanbul to look for work...

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    Rock Around the Clock (1956)

    An unknown rock 'n' roll band (Bill Haley & the Com) becomes famous.