Joe Grifasi

A compelling coming-of-age story set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Jersey City, NJ. The film examines the funny and touching relationship between a young Puerto Rican man and an immigrant pawnbroker. (Pawnshop Pictures LLC)

An in-depth examination of the way that the Vietnam war affects the lives of people in a small industrial town in the USA.

The lead singer of an oldies group reminisces about the good ol' days and a potential comeback. (imdb)

A widowed Brooklyn book-keeper is torn between her fiancé and his brother. (imdb)

Batman must battle Two-Face and The Riddler with help of an amourous psychologist and a young circus acrobat who becomes his sidekick, Robin

A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton. (imdb)

A man is reunited with a mermaid who saves him from drowning as a boy and falls in love not knowing who/what she is. (imdb)

Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced.

A Manhattan psychiatrist probes a patient's murder and falls for the victim's mysterious mistress.

A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company. (imdb)

A movie special effects man is hired to fake a real-life mob killing for a witness protection plan, but finds his own life in danger. (imdb)

Victor is a cook who works in a greasy bar/restaurant owned by his mother, Dolly. It's just the two of them, a waitress named Delores, and a heavy drinking regular, Leo. But things change when Callie, a beautiful college drop-out, shows up as a new waitress and steals Victor's heart. (imdb)

A vengeful New York transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares; his foster brother, a fellow cop, tries to protect him. (imdb)

Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums, back in their birth city. She was a singer on the radio, he a major league pitcher. Death surrounds them: she's sick, a pal has cancer, he digs graves at the cemetery and visits the grave of his infant son whom he dropped... (imdb)

Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda, together. It's not until Alex is invited to Louie's home that he begins to remember his former life, wife and best friend. Of course, there's also the problem that he's attracted to Louie's/his own daughter. (imdb)

The relationships and lives of three generations of Italian-American women are examined, showing the conflicts between old world and American ideas, and marriage and spiritual idealism.

The biography of Frank Sinatra.

A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight an evil land baron in the old west who wants to steal his family's farm and destroy their idyllic community. (imdb)

Will Browning is a slacker student who needs a good grade in science, or he has to go to a military camp for the summer. Attempting to get a good grade by ordering a product called "Ocean Pets" for his project. Accidentally, some clone formula leaked into his package. When stirring the ocean pet (and clone) mixture with a comb, he accidentally creates a clone of himself. He sends the clone to school, because the clone is a lot smarter than him. Everyone likes the clone better than Will... (imdb)

Queenie works as a social worker with kids while unsuccessfully pursuing an acting career in New York. Horace is a middle-aged ex-cop who lives by himself in the same neighborhood. Having been diagnosed by his doctor as terminal with only a few months to live, Horace starts going to a shrink and tries to find meaning to his life, at which point he meets Queenie, who takes him on a whirlwind of a ride, before they finally, truly find one another (imdb)

Jeff Marx wants to study medicine and become a physician. However, his grades are far from enough to get him into an American medical school. But he he gets a chance to study medicine abroad, in a small Latin American dictatorship, governed by the dictator Ramon Madera, who has a big interest in how the medical students behave. (imdb)

True story of a divorced father in search of his children when his ex-wife enters the witness relocation program. (TCM.com)

Lifelong friends Lenny (Dominic Chianese) and Ruben (Dick Latessa) are both in their 70s and dyed-in-the-wool New Yorkers. The New York they inhabit is fading away: the places they've frequented for years give them a refuge from the changes they see around them. At last they are confronted with the reality that the last holdouts are a threatened species, and they are too.

iring his grievances about pop culture and current events, Grammy-nominated comedian Lewis Black delivers a biting social commentary marked by his trademark aversion to self-censorship. Hot-button topics in this solo stand-up special that was originally filmed for HBO range from the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina and the effectiveness of FEMA to President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and embarrassing hunting accidents. (netflix)

This film concerns two mysterious characters who meet on a Sunday in Queens. Madeleine the most unsettling creature of that name since "Vertigo" is a middle-aged, moderately successful actress. Oliver/Matthew is either a homeless man or a famous film director or both. (imdb)

Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not to put an exit into the town. The people of Ticlaw, leaded by it's Mayor, will do anything in order to convince the governor to alter the project. (Michel Rudoy )

Charlie Sloan is an alcoholic defence lawyer drawn back into the courtroom by Robin Harwell, a woman he once loved who wants him to defend her stepdaughter Angel, who is accused of murder. Sloan is out of his depth as his opponents mount a bitter campaign to portray him as a drunk and the trial becomes a media circus. Can Sloan justify Robin's faith in him? (imdb)

Chicago police detective Jack Reed investigates the brutal murder of a stripper while he deals with corruption and bureaucracy within his own department. (imdb)

A man takes matters into his own hands when a pharmaceutical kingpin moves into his town to cause some real trouble. (imdb)

Following a mysterious suicide at Niagara Falls, a low-rent detective unravels a conspiracy to build a revolutionary invention by enigmatic scientist, Nikola Tesla. (imdb)

In prison, one prisoner buys some smokes from another. Then he admits he can't pay for it and becomes indebted to him and the interest is rising daily.

The story of the New York Yankees 1977 World Series win, with brief detours through the Son of Sam investigation, the blackout (and the riots that followed), and the chaotic mayoral race eventually won by Ed Koch.

In the 1920s a group of factory workers advocate for safer work conditions after some of their colleagues become ill from radium exposure. (imdb)

Filmed version of Julie Taymor's live theatrical adaptation of Shakespeare's romantic comedy about young lovers and magical sprites. (imdb)

A witness to a mob killing has second thoughts about testifying when he realizes his family might become a target. (imdb)

A Greenwich Village writer's new roommate is initially unaware of his sexuality, leading to tensions and efforts to find common ground. (imdb)

A romantic comedy revolving around the on-again, off-again relationship of a young New York couple. (imdb)