Lower East Side Movies, Movies about Lower East Side

Here we've displayed a list of the best Lower East Side films : Once Upon a Time in America(1984), City for Conquest(1940), Raising Victor Vargas(2002), The Glass Castle(2017), Hester Street(1975), Rhythm Thief(1994), The Jazz Singer(1927), Defiance(1979), The Night They Raided Minsky's(1968), Kill the Poor(2003), Somebody Up There Likes Me(1956) ... ...

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Once Upon a Time in America

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

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City for Conquest

Danny is a content truck driver, but his girl Peggy shows potential as a dancer and hopes he too can show ambition. Danny acquiesces and pursues boxing to please her, but the two begin to spend more time working than time together.

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Raising Victor Vargas

A Lower East Side teen-ager struggles to find some sanity while surrounded by an eccentric grandmother, a crazy new girlfriend, and a longing younger brother.

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The Glass Castle

A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

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Hester Street

It's 1896. Yankel Bogovnik, a Russian Jew, emigrated to the United States three years earlier and has settled where many of his background have, namely on Hester Street on the Lower East ... See full summary »

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Rhythm Thief

Simon is a street retailer, his shop a corner on the lower east side in New York, his stock bootleg cassette tapes,the ambience a boombox. He scrounges food from restaurants, exists on ... See full summary »

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The Jazz Singer

The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.

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Defiance

Tommy takes up temporary housing in a New York City neighborhood plagued by a violent gang called the Souls. Tommy is waiting for his next assignment as a seaman, and though he tries to ... See full summary »

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The Night They Raided Minsky's

A naive Amish young woman runs away from her home in Pennsylvania to New York City where she hopes to act in religious stage plays but ends up performing in Burlesque theatre.

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Kill the Poor

When a marriage of convenience becomes the real thing, Joe moves his pregnant French wife to a tenement building on New York's Lower East Side. The street is like a war zone with none of ... See full summary »

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Somebody Up There Likes Me

A youth turns his rebellious nature into a successful ring career in this fact-based portrait of boxer Rocky Graziano.

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