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2) Nicky Deuce
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Nicholas Borelli II is an over-protected teen who has the adventure of a lifetime when his plans to attend math camp go awry. He spends the summer in Brooklyn, NY with family he never knew he had; his Italian grandmother Tutti and Uncle Frankie. Nicholas leans on the local kids to help him fit in and winds up mistakenly into his new persona, Nicky Deuce. Nicky uncovers family secrets.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The tale of four huge but huggable dinos who visit New York City to make millions of children's dreams come true. With his IQ-boosting 'Brain Grain' cereal, the time-traveling Captain New Eyes transforms Rex, Elsa, Dweeb, and Woog into thinking, feeling, talking creatures. Produced by Steven Spielberg.
5) Tower heist
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Queens native Josh Kovacs has managed one of the most luxurious and well-secured residences in New York City for more than a decade. Under his watchful eye, nothing goes undetected. In the swankiest unit atop Josh's building, Wall Street titan Arthur Shaw is under house arrest after being caught stealing two billion from his investors. The hardest hit among those he defrauded? The tower staffers whose pensions he was entrusted to manage.
6) Wonder wheel
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
On Coney Island in the 1950s, a lifeguard tells the story of a middle-aged carousel operator and his beleaguered wife.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Michael Felgate, a Manhattan art autioneer, is eager to marry Gina, a schoolteacher he's been dating for three months. Gina's father is a gangster who extracts money for the mob, and he starts to out the squeeze on Michael, using the auction house as money laundering scam for dubious artwork.
8) James White
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
James White is a troubled twenty-something trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. He retreats further into a self-destructive, hedonistic lifestyle, but as his mother battles a serious illness James is forced to take control of his life. As the pressure on him mounts, James must find new reserves of strength or risk imploding completely.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Alan is a swinging single who uses his New York apartment as a harem of sorts for his legion of lady friends. Buddy, his kid brother, wants to break free of his overprotective parents and moves in with Alan, hoping to emulate him in the sex department. Alan teaches Buddy his tricks of the trade and it isn't long before Buddy is stealing women away from Alan.
Pub. Date
℗2013.
Language
English
Description
When an American academic in Pakistan is kidnapped by anti-American radicals, the CIA thinks popular young Pakistani professor Changez is involved. But as Changez tells his story about his life in the US to an American foreign correspondent, the truth becomes harder to pin down.
11) The professional
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York's top hit man becomes the unwilling guardian of his next-door neighbors' 12-year-old daughter and helps her track the psychotic agent who murdered her family so she can exact her revenge.
12) Violet & Daisy
Pub. Date
℗2013.
Language
English
Description
A brutal fable about a pair of teenage assassins who believe they've landed a straightforward assignment but soon find themselves thrown off their game when their latest target isn't who they expected.
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Meet Jonathan Ames: writer, romantic, unlicensed private detective. Moonlighting from his job as a novelist and writer for a New York magazine, Jonathan is looking to jettison some heavy emotional baggage (his girlfriend just dumped him, okay?) through an unusual second career of cracking cases of missing persons, espionage and infidelity in the Big Apple.
Series
Criterion collection volume 97
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"The hottest day of the year explodes onscreen in this vibrant look at a day in the life of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. A portrait of urban racial tensions sparked controversy while earning popular and critical praise, "--Container.
15) Person to person
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
During a single day in New York City, a variety of characters grapples with the mundane, the unexpected, and the larger questions permeating their lives. An investigative reporter struggles with her first day on the job, despite help from her misguided boss; a rebellious teen attempts to balance her feminist ideals with other desires; and a young man seeks to reconcile with his ex-girlfriend, even as her brother threatens revenge.
16) New York
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Hindi
Description
"New York is a contemporary story of friendship set against the larger than life backdrop of a city often described as the centre of the world. Omar has gone abroad for the first time in his life and soon enough he begins to see and love America through the eyes of his American friends -- Sam and Maya. It is the story of these three friends discovering a new world together. But one day the world around them changed..."--Container.
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The 22 episodes of Season Four couldn't be juicier! And Gossip Girl is there to keep you clued in to the buzz, secrets, and scandals of Manhattan's elite. Witness Blair and Serena's thrilling summer in Paris, Chuck's new girlfriend and new identity, unexpected fatherhood for Dan, a power play for Bass Industries, Blair's too-haute-to-handle internship at W Magazine, and a vicious conspiracy that threatens to bring down one of your favorite Upper East...
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Writer turned private-eye Jonathan Ames was last spotted duking it out in a dean's office (almost) saving Super Ray from a stalker, and endorsing George's decision to resign from his glossy magazine gig. This season Jonathan will come face-to-face with 'furries', hang with Dick Cavett, and go on the ultimate oedipal investigation.
20) Serpico
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of the true story of a young New York police officer refuses to extort money from criminals as the other officers do. His fellow police officers turn against him when he seeks to expose the situation during a grand jury investigation.
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