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) ... ...
Drama, Crime
Italy|USA
1984
139 Minutes
Robert De Niro James Woods Elizabeth McGovern Treat Williams Tuesday Weld Burt Young Joe Pesci Danny Aiello William Forsythe James Hayden Darlanne Fluegel
mafia boss bootlegger gang member police chief girlfriend mobster bleak intense gripping lower east side brooklyn, n.y. buffalo, n.y. street big city organized crime coming of age prohibition corruption america growth
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.
Drama
USA
1940
101 Minutes
James Cagney Ann Sheridan Frank Craven Donald Crisp Frank McHugh Arthur Kennedy
boxer dancer girlfriend younger brother truck driver composer uplifting gripping gritty melodramatic new york city lower east side carnegie hall boxing ring apartment boxing self-sacrifice aspirations corruption blindness
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.
Comedy, Drama
France|USA
2002
88 Minutes
Victor Rasuk Judy Marte Melonie Diaz Altagracia Guzman Silvestre Rasuk Krystal Rodriguez Kevin Rivera Wilfree Vasquez Donna Maldonado
teen boy brother grandmother teen girl love interest overweight person amusing brash moving lower east side pool family home bedroom street new york city family teen angst immigrants sexual awakening religion
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.
Biography, Drama
USA
2017
127 Minutes
Brie Larson Woody Harrelson Max Greenfield Sarah Snook Naomi Watts Brigette Lundy-Paine Sadie Sink Charlie Shotwell Ella Anderson Eden Grace Redfield Dominic Bogart
free spirit father mother son daughter emotional heartwarming hedonistic inspiring new york city lower east side abandoned building american west woods parental pressure alcoholism parenthood family ties adventure growing up
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.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1975
90 Minutes
Steven Keats Carol Kane Mel Howard Dorrie Kavanaugh Doris Roberts Stephen Strimpell Lauren Frost Paul Freedman Zvee Scooler Eda Reiss Merin
immigrant wife son boss landlady emotional gritty new york city ellis island lower east side assimilation immigration judaism culture clash marriage discovery pursuit sacrifice 1900s
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 »
Drama
USA
1994
88 Minutes
Jason Andrews Eddie Daniels Kimberly Flynn Kevin Corrigan Sean Haggerty Mark Alfred Paul Rodriguez Cynthia Sley
hustler girlfriend pretty woman junkie gritty bleak new york city lower east side apartment seaside poverty mental illness drug addiction city life romance love fall 1990s
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 »
Musical
USA
1927
97 Minutes
Al Jolson May McAvoy Warner Oland Eugenie Besserer Otto Lederer William Demarest Roscoe Karns Richard Tucker Nat Carr William Walling Robert Gordon
cantor singer lover mother neighbor father melodramatic winsome uplifting lower east side manhattan, n.y. ghetto stage cabaret family home singing family traditions defiance acceptance father/son relationship
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.
Drama
USA
1979
103 Minutes
Jan-Michael Vincent Art Carney Theresa Saldana Fernando Lopez Danny Aiello Santos Morales Don Blakely Frank Pesce Rudy Ramos Lee Fraser Randy Herman
merchant mariner pretty woman gang leader gang member shopkeeper neighbor gripping suspenseful tense inspiring lower east side apartment shower nightclub alley new york city street fighting gangs vigilantism outsider
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 »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1968
100 Minutes
Jason Robards Britt Ekland Norman Wisdom Elliott Gould Forrest Tucker Harry Andrews Joseph Wiseman Denholm Elliott
stripper amish man comedian club owner performer hilarious sultry unrestrained pennsylvania lower east side new york city nightclub burlesque running away amish culture love triangle father/daughter relationship dance escape love
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.
Drama
USA
2003
84 Minutes
David Krumholtz Clara Bellar Paul Calderon Jon Budinoff Cliff Gorman Damian Young Heather Burns Otto Sanchez Zak Orth Larry Gilliard Jr.
new yorker stripper frenchwoman boxer drug dealer uncle hilarious offbeat frenetic new york city lower east side tenement house apartment basement newsstand marriage relocation poverty neighbors cross-cultural relations
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 »
Biography
1956
113 Minutes
Paul Newman Pier Angeli Everett Sloane Eileen Heckart Sal Mineo Harold J. Stone Joseph Buloff Sammy White Arch Johnson Robert Lieb Theodore Newton
boxer trainer young woman mother inmate father brooding tense passionate new york city jail boxing ring lower east side street army base boxing rebellion training blackmail prison life
A youth turns his rebellious nature into a successful ring career in this fact-based portrait of boxer Rocky Graziano.