Description: movies filmed in old new york or give me a dose of new york nostalgia
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Bad Lieutenant
( 1992 )
While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness and redemption.
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The Warriors
( 1979 )
A street gang known as the Warriors must fight its way from the Bronx to its home turf on Coney Island when its members are falsely accused of assassinating a respected gang leader.
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The Search for One-eye Jimmy
( 1996 )
Les is making a film about his old neighborhood in Brooklyn. One-eye Jimmy goes missing and Les switches to making a film about Jimmy and the people searching.
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Kids
( 1995 )
A day in the life of a group of teens as they travel around New York City skating, drinking, smoking and deflowering virgins.
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Laws of Gravity
( 1993 )
The lives of two incompetent young men from Brooklyn spin out of control after a friend returns from Florida with guns to sell.
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Do the Right Thing
( 1989 )
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
( 2012 )
A nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
( 2000 )
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
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Smoke
( 1995 )
A Brooklyn smoke shop is the center of neighborhood activity, and the stories of its customers.
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A Bronx Tale
( 1993 )
An intense drama about a boy torn between his tough, hard-working father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss.
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Juice
( 1992 )
Four inner-city teenagers get caught up in the pursuit of power and happiness, which they refer to as "the juice".
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Paid in Full
( 2002 )
A young man from Harlem, forced to cope with the 1980s drug scene, builds an illegal empire, only to have a crisis of conscience.
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Taxi Driver
( 1976 )
A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.
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King of New York
( 1991 )
A drug kingpin is released from prison and seeks to take total control of the criminal underworld in order to give back to the community.
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St. Vincent
( 2014 )
A young boy whose parents have just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic war veteran who lives next door.
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American Gangster
( 2007 )
An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.
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The Super
( 1991 )
Karma comes into play when a wealthy wisecracking landlord is ordered by a court to live in the filthy building that he runs.
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Serpico
( 1973 )
An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
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The Taking of Pelham 123
( 2009 )
Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
( 1974 )
Four armed men hijack a New York City subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. The city's police are faced with a conundrum: Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
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Wall Street
( 1987 )
An impatient young stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless, greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.
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He Got Game
( 1998 )
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.
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Crooklyn
( 1994 )
Spike Lee's vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school teacher, her stubborn jazz musician husband and their five kids living in Brooklyn in 1973.
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Little Odessa
( 1995 )
A cold-blooded hitman visits his estranged Russian immigrant family in Brooklyn.
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The Squid and the Whale
( 2005 )
Follows two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.
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Bored to Death
( 2009 )
Jonathan Ames continues to ply his trade as an unlicensed private detective, getting caught up in increasingly risky jobs and absurd adventures around New York City with George and Ray, his always supportive partners in solving crime. In addition, a shocking revelation drives him to embark on one of his most important cases yet, the quest to find his biological father. As if that wasn't enough, Jonathan's writing career is finally starting to look up with the publication of his long-delayed second book.
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The Royal Tenenbaums
( 2002 )
The eccentric members of a dysfunctional family reluctantly gather under the same roof for various reasons.
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Bomb the System
( 2003 )
A tribute to graffiti art and the city where it all began. Blest, a 19-year-old graffiti writer, has just graduated from high school. With no ambition toward mainstream goals of work and family, he spends his time bombing the city with graffiti messages until he and his crew become the most wanted bombers by the corrupt NYPD Vandal Squad. He even attracts major media and gallery attention for his tags.
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Hangin' with the Homeboys
( 1991 )
Four young friends spend one crazy Friday night on the streets of Manhattan that quickly turns into a night, they'll never forget.
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Infamy
( 2005 )
A feature-length documentary about graffiti culture as told through the experiences of six well-known graffiti writers and a graffiti buffer.
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Carlito's Way
( 1993 )
A Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C.
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Inside Man
( 2006 )
A police detective, a bank robber and a high-power broker enter high-stakes negotiations after the criminal's brilliant heist spirals into a hostage situation.
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The Departed
( 2006 )
An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.
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Fresh
( 1994 )
Death and violence anger a twelve-year-old drug courier, who sets his employers against each other.
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New Jack City
( 1991 )
A crime lord ascends to power and becomes megalomaniacal while a maverick police detective vows to stop him.
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Shaft
( 2000 )
New York City police detective John Shaft (nephew of the original 1970s detective) goes on a personal mission to make sure the son of a real estate tycoon is brought to justice after a racially-motivated murder.
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Summer of Sam
( 1999 )
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
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Straight Out of Brooklyn
( 1991 )
A young man living in poverty makes a plan to rob a drug dealer and change the life of his family.
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Brooklyn's Finest
( 2010 )
Three unconnected Brooklyn cops wind up at the same deadly location after enduring vastly different career paths.
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Clockers
( 1995 )
Young drug pushers in the projects of Brooklyn live hard dangerous lives, trapped between their drug bosses and the detectives out to stop them.
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Kiss of Death
( 1995 )
A reformed convict goes undercover with the help of an angry detective to ensnare a psychotic mobster.
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Be Kind Rewind
( 2008 )
Two bumbling store clerks inadvertently erase the footage from all of the tapes in their video rental store. In order to keep the business running, they re-shoot every film in the store with their own camera, with a budget of zero dollars.
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Lord of War
( 2005 )
An arms dealer confronts the morality of his work as he is being chased by an INTERPOL Agent.
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