Mina Bern

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• Movie6.7

  ComedyDrama

  Charlie Lang is a simple, kindhearted New York City cop. When he realizes he has no money to tip waitress Yvonne Biasi, Lang offers her half the winnings of his lottery ticket. Amazingly, the ticket happens to be a winner, in the sum of $4 million. True to his word, Lang proceeds to share the prize money with Biasi, which infuriates his greedy wife, Muriel. Not content with the arrangement, Muriel begins scheming to take all the money.

  It Could Happen to You

  1994 · 973 votes

• Movie6.0

  DramaComedy

  The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one lavish party to another and engages in numerous empty romances, he starts to doubt the worth of his work. Meanwhile, top TV producer Tony falls for Robin and introduces her to the world of celebrity.

  Celebrity

  1998 · 520 votes

• Movie6.1

  ComedyDrama

  An ultraconservative police officer suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons - with the drag queen next door.

  Flawless

  1999 · 320 votes

• Movie6.5

  DramaCrime

  Long separated from his family, hitman Joshua returns to Brighton Beach for a contract killing for the Russian Mafia. His abusive father, Arkady, banned him from returning after Joshua committed his first murder. He takes up residence in a hotel, and soon everyone knows he has returned. He goes home to visit his dying mother, Irina, and prepares for the assassination, getting drawn back into the criminal community he left behind.

  Little Odessa

  1994 · 251 votes

• Movie5.9

  ComedyRomance

  Thirty-something Isabelle spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that of her grandmother on the Lower East Side. While her grandmother plots to find her a romantic match, Isabelle is courted by a married, worldly author, Anton, yet can't seem to shake the down-to-earth appeal of Sam, a pickle vendor.

  Crossing Delancey

  1988 · 63 votes

• Movie6.7

  Drama

  A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.

  Avalon

  1990 · 94 votes

• Movie5.7

  Comedy

  Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threatened with retirement, Nat battles on his behalf. Nat also takes on his daughter, a drug dealer, and a mugger in this appealing version of a really 'odd couple'.

  I'm Not Rappaport

  1996 · 34 votes

• Movie

  In the late 1940s in New York's Jewish community, cobbler Feld and his wife try to convince their daughter Miriam to go to college. She is reticent, thinking she can get all the education she needs from the classic novels recommended by Feld's assistant, Sobel. Feld tries to fix Miriam up with neighborhood college boy Max. Sobel is angered and storms out -- does he have feelings for Miriam despite the fact he has worked for Feld for five years without revealing them?

  The First Seven Years

• Movie5.3

  ActionThriller

  A drug-dealing band of violent street thugs terrorize the tenants of a South Bronx apartment building.

  Tenement

  1985 · 32 votes

• Movie5.1

  DramaMusic

  A charismatic rapper falls in love with a young Jewish girl despite the confines of her religious background.

  Brooklyn Babylon

  2001 · 8 votes