Do the Right Thing (1989)

The Protector (1985)

Summary: Two New York City cops, Billy Wong and Danny Garoni, head to Hong Kong after the daughter of a rich businessman is kidnapped by the drug lord, Mr. Ko.

Release Date: August 23, 1985

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Director: James Glickenhaus

Writers: James Glickenhaus

, King Sang Tang

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: R

Production: Eurasia Investments, Golden Harvest Company, Golden Way Films Ltd.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Fortune Star Media Limited, Media Asia Distribution, Shout! Factory, Warner Home Video

Countries: Hong Kong, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 981,817

Lucky Number Slevin (2006)

Summary: A case of mistaken identity lands Slevin into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses. Under constant surveillance by Detective Brikowski and assassin Goodkat, he must get them before they ge...

Release Date: April 07, 2006

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Paul McGuigan

Writer: Jason Smilovic

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: R

Production: The Weinstein Company, Ascendant Pictures, FilmEngine, Lucky Number Slevin Productions Inc., Mel's Cite du Cinema, The Complex

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Genius Products

Countries: United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 27,000,000

Domestic: $ 22,495,466

International: $ 33,813,415

Harlem Nights (1989)

Summary: During the 1930s, a New York City illegal gambling house owner and his associates must deal with strong competition, gangsters, and corrupt cops in order to stay in business.

Release Date: November 17, 1989

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Crime

Director: Eddie Murphy

Writer: Eddie Murphy

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: R

Production: Eddie Murphy Productions, Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, HBO Max, WGN

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 60,864,870

Jacob's Ladder (1990)

Summary: Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of...

Release Date: November 02, 1990

Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Director: Adrian Lyne

Writer: Bruce Joel Rubin

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: R

Production: Carolco Pictures

Distributor: TriStar Pictures, Image Entertainment, Live Home Video, Avid Home Entertainment, Artisan Entertainment, Pioneer Entertainment, CBS Media Ventures, CBS Paramount Domestic Television, HBO Max, International Video Entertainment (IVE), Paramount Domestic Television, TBS Superstation, Trifecta Entertainment and Media, Worldvision Enterprises

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 26,118,851

Fingers (1978)

Summary: A dysfunctional young man is pulled between loyalties to his Italian mob-connected loan-shark father and his mentally-disturbed Jewish concert-pianist mother.

Release Date: August 23, 1978

Genres: Drama, Crime, Music

Director: James Toback

Writer: James Toback

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: R

Production: Brut Productions, Fingers Productions

Distributor: Brut Productions, CBS, Turner Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Worldvision Enterprises

Country: United States

Language: Russian

Movie budget: $ 1,300,000

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

Summary: A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Release Date: June 01, 1984

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Sergio Leone

Writers: Harry Grey

, Leonardo Benvenuti

, Piero De Bernardi

Runtime: 3 h 49 min

MPAA: R

Production: The Ladd Company, Warner Bros., Producers Sales Organization (PSO)

Distributor: Warner Home Video, National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

Countries: United States, Italy

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,321,508

International: $ 152,582

Once Around (1991)

Summary: Renata Bella feels like a failure at life and career. But when Renata attends a seminar on selling real estate, she finally finds True Love. Sam Sharpe, while a top-notch, successful salesman, is much older than Renata. She is swe...

Release Date: February 01, 1991

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Lasse Hallström

Writer: Malia Scotch Marmo

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: R

Production: Cinecom Entertainment Group, Double Play, Dreyfuss / James Productions

Distributor: Universal Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 16,000,000

Domestic: $ 14,851,083

The Godfather Part II (1974)

Summary: The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.

Release Date: December 18, 1974

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Writers: Francis Ford Coppola

, Mario Puzo

Runtime: 3 h 22 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Pictures, The Coppola Company, American Zoetrope

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: The Godfather

Movie budget: $ 13,000,000

Domestic: $ 47,834,595

International: $ 127,324

City Hall (1996)

Summary: The accidental shooting of a boy in New York leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.

Release Date: February 16, 1996

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Harold Becker

Writers: Ken Lipper

, Paul Schrader

, Nicholas Pileggi

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: R

Production: Castle Rock Entertainment

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Columbia TriStar Home Video, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 40,000,000

Domestic: $ 20,340,204

The Stuff (1985)

Summary: A delicious, mysterious goo that oozes from the earth is marketed as the newest dessert sensation, but the tasty treat rots more than teeth when zombie-like snackers who only want to consume more of the strange substance at any co...

Release Date: June 14, 1985

Genres: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Larry Cohen

Writer: Larry Cohen

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: R

Production: Larco Productions

Distributor: New World Pictures, New World Video, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Arrow Video, Image Entertainment, Tubi TV

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,700,000

Hide in Plain Sight (1980)

Summary: A divorced factory worker in 1967 Buffalo fights for custody of his children after his ex-wife marries a low-level mobster who enters the witness protection program, battling with government officials who seem to have little sympa...

Release Date: March 21, 1980

Genre: Drama

Director: James Caan

Writers: Leslie Waller

, Spencer Eastman

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: CBS, MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Oldies.com

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 3,806,930

Ready to Wear (1994)

Summary: A chronicle of the interconnected lives of a group of people in the lead up to Paris Fashion Week.

Release Date: December 25, 1994

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Robert Altman

Writers: Robert Altman

, Barbara Shulgasser

Runtime: 2 h 13 min

MPAA: R

Production: Etalon Film, Miramax

Distributor: Miramax, Buena Vista Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 11,300,653

2 Days in the Valley (1996)

Summary: 48 hours of intersecting lives and crimes in Los Angeles.

Release Date: September 27, 1996

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Director: John Herzfeld

Writer: John Herzfeld

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: Rysher Entertainment, Redemption Productions

Distributor: Home Box Office Home Video (HBO)

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 11,132,210

29th Street (1991)

Summary: Frank's been lucky from the day, he was born. So why's he throwing rocks at a church after winning $6,200,000 in 1976 NYC lottery? He tells his story at the police station.

Release Date: November 01, 1991

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: George Gallo

Writers: Frank Pesce

, James Franciscus

, George Gallo

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: R

Production: JVC Entertainment Networks, Largo Entertainment, Permut Presentations, Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox

Countries: Japan, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 2,120,564

Brooklyn Lobster (2005)

Summary: Giorgio's Lobster Farm has been a tradition in Brooklyn for over 65 years. Manned by an eccentric crew and serving the best seafood in the state, the renowned establishment now faces grave financial troubles. The Giorgio family mu...

Release Date: November 04, 2005

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Kevin Jordan

Writer: Kevin Jordan

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: Red Claw Inc., Moe Greene Associates, Groovestrings

Distributor: Virgil Films & Entertainment, Warner/Elektra/Atlantic (WEA)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 200,000

Domestic: $ 138,267

Moonstruck (1987)

Summary: Loretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry.

Release Date: January 15, 1988

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Norman Jewison

Writer: John Patrick Shanley

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Star Partners

Distributor: MGM/UA Home Entertainment, CBS, Warner Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, KTLA, Philips, The Criterion Channel, WPIX

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 80,640,528

International: $ 4,184

The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

Summary: In 1935 New Jersey, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.

Release Date: April 19, 1985

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Director: Woody Allen

Writer: Woody Allen

Runtime: 1 h 22 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions, Orion Pictures

Distributor: Image Entertainment, Lifetime, Orion Home Video, Twilight Time, United American Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 10,631,333

Fort Apache the Bronx (1981)

Summary: In New York City, South Bronx's main police precinct is nicknamed Fort Apache by its employees who feel like troopers surrounded by hostiles in a wild west isolated outpost.

Release Date: February 06, 1981

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Daniel Petrie

Writers: Heywood Gould

, Thomas Mulhearn

, Pete Tessitore

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: R

Production: Time Life Films, Producers Circle

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, HBO Video, Home Box Office (HBO), Live Entertainment, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Vestron Video, Video Treasures

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 29,200,000