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1) Precious
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In 1987, obese, illiterate, black 16-year-old Claireece 'Precious' Jones lives in Harlem with her dysfunctional family. She has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl. She suffers constant physical, mental and sexual abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary. After getting pregnant for the second time, Precious is suspended from her school. Her principal arranges to have her attend an alternative school where her new teacher, Ms. Rain,...
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
Tony is an undereducated Brooklyn teenager who is bored with his daytime job. The highlight of his week is going to the local disco, where he is the king of the dance floor. Tony meets Stephanie at the disco and they agree to dance together in a competition. Stephanie resists Tony's attempts to romance her, as she aspires to greater things. Gradually, Tony also becomes disillusioned with the life he is leading and he and Stephanie decide to help one...
4) Phone booth
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Stu Shepard, a self-centered New York City publicist, suddenly finds himself on the deadly end of a high-powered rifle scope when he picks up a ringing payphone and the man on the other end tells him that he's going to kill him if he hangs up
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
New Yorkers Felix Unger and Oscar Madison try to live together as roommates despite the fact that one is a neat freak and the other is a total slob. In this season, sportswriter Oscar hosts his own television show, fussy Felix directs his first television commercial, the roommates appear on two game shows, get arrested, and even give their famous Manhattan apartment a makeover.
6) Night shift
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Charles Lumley used to be a high-pressure Wall Street financial analyst, but now he's working the night shift at the New York City morgue. There everything is very quiet, until Billy Blazejowski turns up with an X-rated idea for making money.
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
New Yorkers Felix Unger and Oscar Madison try to live together as roommates despite the fact that one is a neat freak and the other is a total slob. In this season, Felix announces to Oscar his plans to win back Gloria, but Oscar is more concerned about getting rid of his own ex-wife.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A contemporary take on the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes who investigates crimes in modern-day New York City as a consultant to the NYPD and is assisted by Joan Watson, a former surgeon, who is hired by Holmes' wealthy father to help keep the eccentric detective sober.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Dorothy is a 24-year-old Manhattan kindergarten teacher who is whisked away from her inner-city neighborhood via a snowstorm to the mysterious land of Oz. Oz is a sprawling, decaying, nightmarish, and dangerous megalopolis that resembles the physical characteristics of New York City.
10) Chop shop
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Willets Point, Queens, an industrial sliver of automotive-repair shops that remains perpetually at risk of being redeveloped off the map. It's within this precarious ecosystem that twelve-year-old Ale must grow up fast, hustling in the neighborhood chop shops to build a more stable life for himself and his sister even as their tenuous circumstances force each to compete with other struggling people and make desperate decisions.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A witty, perceptive and devastating look at the personal agendas and suppressed revelations swirling among a group of gay men in Manhattan. Harold is celebrating a birthday, and his friend Michael has drafted some friends to help commemorate the event. As the evening progresses, the alcohol flows, the knives come out, and Michael's demand that the group participate in a devious telephone game unleashes dormant and unspoken emotions.
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
When their father takes a job in Japan, rambunctious, spontaneous, impulsive and disorganized sixteen-year-old Holly Tyler moves in with her twenty-eight-year-old organization freak sister, Valerie, in Manhattan-- and the sisters discover they may make better siblings than roomies.
15) Parting glances
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
"The story concerns 2 men, Michael and Robert, who have been lovers for years. Robert is being transferred out of the country, leaving Michael behind. Their best friend Nick, who is also Michael's former lover, is dying of AIDS. So begins a surprisingly funny, wonderfully acted love story set in the gay scene of Manhattan."
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The fourth season of this upbeat comedy opens with Holly in Florida, stranded after her cramped back-seat car ride. It's now or never for Holly, and she puts her heart on the line, telling Vince her true feelings. Meanwhile, Val discovers that her marriage to Todd was only a dream. She actually married her former-boss-turned-firefighter Vic. Val wants out of the marriage, but Vic has other ideas.
17) On Broadway
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
As live performances on Broadway start up again after an unprecedented absence of eighteen months, an all-star cast tells the inside story of the last time Broadway theater came back from the brink. On Broadway shows how this revival helped save New York City, thanks to innovative work, new attention to inclusion, and the sometimes uneasy balance between art and commerce. Legends of the stage and screen, including Hugh Jackman, Helen Mirren, Christine...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A contemporary take on the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes who investigates crimes in modern-day New York City as a consultant to the NYPD and is assisted by Joan Watson, a former surgeon, who is hired by Holmes' wealthy father to help keep the eccentric detective sober.
19) Paris is Burning
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, it offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion 'houses,' from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty....
20) Raising Helen
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Helen is living the life she's always dreamed of with her career at a top modeling agency on the rise. But her carefree lifestyle comes to a crashing halt when she soon finds herself responsible for her sister's children - Audrey, Henry, and Sarah. No one doubts that Helen is the coolest aunt in New York, but the transformation from super-hip to super-mom is super difficult. Along the way, Helen finds support from Dan Parker, the handsome young pastor...
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