Drama, Music
Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky Toresca. Petey has what it takes to handle Nicky, but then she meets San Thomas, formerly great jazz pianist now on the skids, and falls for him hard.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
When Strangers Marry
Coogan's Bluff
The Poppy Girl's Husband
'G' Men
Force of Evil
Nora Prentiss
Downtown '81
Hell's Kitchen
Permanent Vacation
Going the Distance
Shanghai Triad
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - Live in New York City
Puppets of Fate
Ryuichi Sakamoto: async at the Park Avenue Armory
While the City Sleeps
Lookin' Italian
Max Payne
High Art
Waking the Dead
Two Lovers
SIMILAR MOVIES
When Strangers Marry
IMDB 6.1 | Aug , 1944
A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.Coogan's Bluff
IMDB 6.3 | Oct , 1968
Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff goes to New York to pick up a prisoner. While escorting the prisoner to the airport, he escapes and Coogan heads into the city to recapture him.The Poppy Girl's Husband
IMDB 1 | Mar , 1919
A silent romantic love triangle crime melodrama about a man who gets out of prison after ten years and discovers that his wife has divorced him and married the man who sent him to prison. Worse yet, she fears he will want to exact revenge, so she sets up her new husband to frame her first husband, so he will be sent back to prison!'G' Men
IMDB 6.6 | May , 1935
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.Force of Evil
IMDB 6.5 | Aug , 1950
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.Nora Prentiss
IMDB 6.1 | Feb , 1947
Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings they become heavily involved and Talbot finds he is faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. When a patient expires in his office, a third option seems to present itself.Downtown '81
IMDB 6.7 | Jul , 2001
The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.Hell's Kitchen
IMDB 5.1 | Sep , 1998
Newly released from jail, an ex-gang member asks a former contender to teach him to box.Permanent Vacation
IMDB 5.9 | Mar , 1981
In downtown Manhattan, twentysomething Allie, whose father is not around and whose mother is institutionalized, is a big Charlie Parker fan. He almost subconsciously searches for meaning in his life and meets some idiosyncratic characters along the way.Going the Distance
IMDB 6.1 | Aug , 2010
Erin and Garrett are very much in love. When Erin moves to San Francisco to finish her journalism degree and Garrett stays behind in New York to work in the music industry, they gamely keep the romance alive with webcams and frequent-flyer miles. But just when it seems the lovers will soon be reunited, they each score a big break that could separate them for good.Shanghai Triad
IMDB 6.7 | Sep , 1995
Shanghai, China, 1930. When young Shuisheng arrives from the countryside, his uncle Liushu puts him at the service of Bijou, the mistress of Laoda, supreme boss of the Tang Triad, constantly threatened by his enemies, both those he knows and those lurking in the shadows.Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - Live in New York City
IMDB 7.9 | Jun , 2000
A two disc amalgam of the final performances of 2001's Madison Square Gardens performances by one of the greatest bands in the world of some of the greatest music in the world. The atmosphere positively floods out of the screen to envelop you and the hairs on your neck will be standing on end before the first note has been struck. After watching this you'll believe that The Boss is incapable of putting a foot wrong. By the end, he's only just short of defying gravity.Puppets of Fate
IMDB 0 | Mar , 1921
Gabriel Palombra, a Venetian Punchinello Street show operator decides to move to America leaving his wife, Sorrentina, behind, with a promise to send for her. In the United States, disillusioned, he takes a job as porter in a barbershop, but when he is rewarded for returning a lost pocketbook, manicurist "Babe" Reynolds persuades him to bet on a winning horse. Under her influence he rises to wealth. Meanwhile, Sorrentina arrives in New York and takes work as a flower girl.Ryuichi Sakamoto: async at the Park Avenue Armory
IMDB 7.2 | Feb , 2018
A live performance film capturing an intimate concert by composer, pianist and music producer Ryuichi Sakamoto in New York City. The performance marked the first public unveiling of Sakamoto’s new opus, async, hailed as one of the best albums of 2017 by Rolling Stone and Pitchfork.While the City Sleeps
IMDB 6.9 | Apr , 1956
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".Lookin' Italian
IMDB 6.5 | Jan , 1994
After an unfortunate incident causes him to leave the "family business" and move to Los Angeles, Vinny Pallazzo is living a quiet life. When his nephew, Anthony, moves in with him, Vinny slowly learns to live life to the fullest again. However, Anthony is young, and is living life in the fast lane. He brings out the demons from Vinny's past. Now Vinny must try to stop Anthony from making the same mistakes that changed his life forever.Max Payne
IMDB 5.4 | Oct , 2008
A DEA agent whose family was slain as part of a conspiracy, and an assassin out to avenge her sister's death, join forces to solve a series of murders in New York City.High Art
IMDB 6.2 | Jun , 1998
When Syd, a young editor at an influential art magazine, becomes involved with her neighbor, a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both seek to exploit each other for their respective careers while slowly falling in love with each other.Waking the Dead
IMDB 6.1 | Mar , 2000
A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.Two Lovers
IMDB 6.9 | Nov , 2008
A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.