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Overview:A Bronx Tale is a 1993 American crime drama film directed by Robert De Niro and produced by Jane Rosenthal, adapted from Chazz Palminteri's 1989 play of the same name. It tells the coming of age story ...
Release date: 14 September 1993
Genre:Crime, Drama
A father becomes worried when a local gangster befriends his son in the Bronx in the 1960s.
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Overview:The Untouchables is a 1987 American crime film directed by Brian De Palma, produced by Art Linson, written by David Mamet, and based on the book of the same name (1957). The film stars Kevin Costner, ...
Release date: 2 June 1987
Genre:Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
During the era of Prohibition in the United States, Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone and, because of rampant ...
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Overview:Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American dance drama film directed by John Badham and produced by Robert Stigwood. It stars John Travolta as Tony Manero, a young Italian-American man from the Brooklyn ...
Release date: 14 December 1977
Genre:Drama, Music, Romance
Anxious about his future after high school, a 19-year-old Italian-American from Brooklyn tries to escape the harsh reality of his bleak family life by ...
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Rocky
1976 American sports drama directed by John G. Avildsen
Overview:Rocky is a 1976 American sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen, written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. It tells the rags to riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa, an uneducated, ki ...
Release date: 21 November 1976
Genre:Drama, Sport
A small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for ...
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Overview:Summer of Sam is a 1999 American crime thriller film about the 1977 David Berkowitz (Son of Sam) serial murders and their effect on a group of fictional residents of an Italian-American neighborhood in ...
Release date: 20 May 1999
Genre:Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast ...
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Rocky III
1982 boxing film directed by Sylvester Stallone
Overview:Rocky III is a 1982 American sports drama film written, directed by, and starring Sylvester Stallone. The third installment of the Rocky franchise, it is the sequel to the 1979 film Rocky II and the second ...
Release date: 28 May 1982
Genre:Action, Sport, Drama
Rocky has been holding the title as the heavyweight champion until he is defeated by a brutal challenger, and now must regain his fighting spirit through ...
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Overview:Rocky II is a 1979 American sports drama film written, directed by, and starring Sylvester Stallone. It is the sequel to the 1976 film Rocky, and was the last installment in the film series that was d ...
Release date: 15 June 1979
Genre:Action, Sport, Drama
Rocky struggles in family life after his bout with Apollo Creed, while the embarrassed champ insistently goads him to accept a challenge for a rematch ...
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Overview:Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical sports drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, produced by Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler and adapted by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin from Jake LaMotta's ...
Release date: 14 November 1980
Genre:Biography, Drama, Sport
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
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Overview:Out for Justice is a 1991 American action film directed by John Flynn, produced by and starring Steven Seagal. He plays Gino, a veteran police detective who sets out to avenge his partner Bobby's murder ...
Release date: 12 April 1991
Genre:Action, Thriller, Crime, Drama
The gruesome murder of a Brooklyn Detective will turn the case into a personal vendetta when the deceased's best friend and fellow officer will unleash ...
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Overview:Moonstruck is a 1987 American romantic comedy film directed by Norman Jewison, written by John Patrick Shanley, and starring Cher, Nicolas Cage, Danny Aiello, Olympia Dukakis, and Vincent Gardenia. The ...
Release date: 16 December 1987
Genre:Comedy, Romance, Drama
Loretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed ...
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Overview:Jungle Fever is a 1991 American romantic drama film written, produced and directed by Spike Lee. The film stars Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Lee, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Samuel L. Jackson, Lonette ...
Release date: 5 June 1991
Genre:Drama, Romance
Friends and family of a married black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary.
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Overview:Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!! is a 2009 comedy film directed, written, and produced by Evgeny Afineevsky and starring Lainie Kazan, Saul Rubinek, Vincent Pastore, John Lloyd Young, Jai Rodriguez, Bruce Vilanch ...
Release date: 29 August 2009
Genre:Comedy
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Overview:The Rose Tattoo is a 1955 American film adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play of the same name. It was adapted by Williams and Hal Kanter and directed by Daniel Mann, with stars Anna Magnani, Burt ...
Release date: 12 December 1955
Genre:Drama, Romance, Comedy
A Sicilian seamstress who idolizes her husband must deal with several family crises upon his sudden death.
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Overview:Spike of Bensonhurst is a 1988 American comedy-drama and mafia film written and directed by Paul Morrissey and starring Sasha Mitchell. The film also features Ernest Borgnine, Maria Pitillo, and Talisa ...
Release date: 16 September 1988
Genre:Comedy, Drama
Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss...
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Overview:Everybody Wants to Be Italian is a 2007 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Jason Todd Ipson. The screenplay focuses on the relationship between a blue collar worker and a veterinarian ...
Release date: 18 September 2007
Genre:Comedy, Romance
It's a case of mistaken ethnicity, where two non-Italians pretend to be Italian to win each others hearts in Boston's North End.
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Overview:Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American comedy-drama film produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee. It stars Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, John ...
Release date: 1 May 1989
Genre:Comedy, Drama
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes ...
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Overview:Green Book is a 2018 American biographical comedy-drama buddy film directed by Peter Farrelly. Set in 1962, the film is inspired by the true story of a tour of the Deep South by African American classical ...
Release date: 21 November 2018
A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver for an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South ...
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Overview:Wise Guys is a 1986 black Mafia comedy film directed by Brian De Palma and produced by Aaron Russo from a screenplay written by George Gallo and Norman Steinberg. It stars Danny DeVito and Joe Piscopo ...
Release date: 18 April 1986
Genre:Comedy, Crime
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to A ...
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Overview:Who's That Knocking at My Door, originally titled I Call First, is a 1967 American independent drama film written and directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Harvey Keitel and Zina Bethune. It was Sc ...
Release date: 15 November 1967
Genre:Drama
J.R. is a typical Italian-American on the streets of New York. When he gets involved with a local girl...
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Overview:Wait Until Spring, Bandini is a 1989 film written and directed by Dominique Deruddere, based upon the novel by John Fante. The film received the André Cavens Award for Best Film and won three Joseph ...
Release date: 6 December 1989
Genre:Drama, Sport
Young Arturo Bandini loves his father Svevo, his mother Maria and his brothers.
