NYC Watchlist

Exploration of New York City's rich history as a complex and dynamic city that has played an unparalleled role in shaping the nation and reflecting its ideals.

In 1862, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher; his father's killer.

A tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.

The conflicts surrounding the new money Russell family and their old money neighbors, the van Rhijn family, in 1880s New York City high society.

Newspaper illustrator John Moore meets with criminal psychologist (alienist) Dr. Laszlo Kreizler to investigate a serial killer in New York during the late 19th century.

While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must locate them while trying to survive in a new country.

A writer and wall street trader, Nick Carraway, finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his mysterious millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby, amid the riotous parties of the Jazz Age.

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.

Meet the jazz musicians, dancers, owner, and guests (like gangster Dutch Schultz) of The Cotton Club in 1928-1930s Harlem.

A film crew goes to a tropical island for a location shoot, where they capture a colossal ape who takes a shine to their blonde starlet, and bring him back to New York City.

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

The ups and downs of life as experienced by a group of aspiring young artists in the early Fifties New York.

A bored photographer recovering from a broken leg passes the time by watching his neighbors and begins to suspect one of them of murder.

An ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.

A powerful Broadway columnist coerces an unscrupulous press agent into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.

Cassavetes' jazz-scored improvisational film explores interracial friendships and relationships in Beat-Era (1950s) New York City.

A drama about one of New York's most prestigious ad agencies at the beginning of the 1960s, focusing on one of the firm's most mysterious but extremely talented ad executives, Donald Draper.

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but office politics and his own romantic hopes complicate matters.

A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way.

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

Eddie harbors secret love for his niece Catherine. When her cousins, illegal immigrants Marco and Rodolpho, arrive, Catherine falls for Rodolpho. Eddie, consumed by jealousy, reports the immigrants, leading to tragic consequences.

Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's art house classic follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City, presented in a split screen with a single audio track in conjunction with one side of screen.

A stage-play producer devises a plan to make money by producing a sure-fire flop.