New Jersey Movies, Movies about New Jersey

Here we've displayed a list of the best New Jersey films : The Happy Years(1950), Cinderella Man(2005), The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town(2010), The Purple Rose of Cairo(1985), Happiness(1998), Clerks(1994), Being John Malkovich(1999), The Station Agent(2003), The Godfather, Part III(1990), Welcome to the Dollhouse(1995), Paterson(2016), Garden State(2004) ... ...

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The Happy Years

A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.

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Cinderella Man

The story of James J. Braddock, a supposedly washed-up boxer who came back to challenge for the heavyweight championship of the world.

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The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town

Takes us into the studio with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band for the recording of their fourth album.

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The Purple Rose of Cairo

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

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Happiness

The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.

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Clerks

A day in the lives of two convenience clerks named Dante and Randal as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the store roof.

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Being John Malkovich

A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.

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The Station Agent

When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.

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The Godfather, Part III

Follows Michael Corleone, now in his 60s, as he seeks to free his family from crime and find a suitable successor to his empire.

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Welcome to the Dollhouse

An awkward seventh-grader struggles to cope with inattentive parents, snobbish class-mates, a smart older brother, an attractive younger sister and her own insecurities in suburban New Jersey.

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Paterson

A quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.

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Garden State

A quietly troubled young man returns home for his mother's funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade.

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Broadway Danny Rose

In his attempts to reconcile a lounge singer with his mistress, a hapless talent agent is mistaken as her lover by a jealous gangster.

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Atlantic City

In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.

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City of Hope

An intersecting tale with a multitude of characters living lives which, in one way or another, revolve around an old apartment block scheduled to be demolished.

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Big Night

New Jersey, 1950s. Two brothers run an Italian restaurant. Business is not going well as a rival Italian restaurant is out-competing them. In a final effort to save the restaurant, the brothers plan to put on an evening of incredible food.

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The In-Laws

On the eve of their children's marriage, NYC in-laws Sheldon Kornpett and Vince Ricardo embark on a series of misadventures involving the CIA, the Treasury Department and Central American dictators.

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Across the Universe

The music of The Beatles and the Vietnam War form the backdrop for the romance between an upper-class American girl and a poor Liverpudlian artist.

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Room for One More

New Jersey couple Anna and Poppy Rose adopt several kids born into less fortunate circumstances, including a desperately unhappy 13-year-old girl and a physically handicapped boy with a penchant for getting into serious trouble.

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It's a Gift

A henpecked New Jersey grocer makes plans to move to California to grow oranges, despite the resistance of his overbearing wife.

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Chasing Amy

Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything's going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian.

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Win Win

A struggling lawyer and volunteer wrestling coach's chicanery comes back to haunt him when the teenage grandson of the client he has double-crossed comes into his life.

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Mallrats

Both dumped by their girlfriends, two best friends seek refuge in the local mall.

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Edison, the Man

82 year old inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Alva Edison is honored in 1929 and he reflects back on his sixty year career of scientific achievement.

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Eddie and the Cruisers

A television newswoman picks up the story of a 1960s rock band whose long-lost leader - Eddie Wilson - may still be alive, while searching for the missing tapes of the band's never-released album.

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Cheaper by the Dozen

"Cheaper By the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in ... See full summary »

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I Wanna Hold Your Hand

In 1964, six teenagers from New Jersey run off to see The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) in the hope of meeting their idols. However, they don't have tickets. Along the way, they learn new things about friendship and growing up.

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Blues in the Night

"Jigger' Lane forms a band that includes singer Ginger 'Character' Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powell, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi. All of them dedicate themselves to work as a unit ... See full summary »

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Jersey Boys

The story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group The Four Seasons.

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Lianna

A happily married woman comes to realize herself of being a repressed lesbian after she has an affair with a female college professor, and then tries to come to terms with her newfound lifestyle.

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