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The Empire State Building is a 102-story landmark Art Deco skyscraper in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. Its name is derived from the nickname for the state of New York, The Empire State. It stood as the world's tallest building for more than forty years,...
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Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver is a 1976 film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. The movie is set in New York City, soon after the Vietnam War. The film stars Robert De Niro and features Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle,...
Initial release date:
- 1976
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Runtime:
- 113 min (67.8 hs )
Screenplay by:
When Harry Met Sally...
When Harry Met Sally... is a 1989 romantic comedy film written by Nora Ephron and directed by Rob Reiner. It stars Billy Crystal as Harry and Meg Ryan as Sally. The story follows the title characters from the time they meet just before sharing a...
Initial release date:
- 1989
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 96 min (58 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 16,000,000 (US$)
Screenplay by:
On the Waterfront
On the Waterfront is a 1954 American drama film about mob violence and corruption among longshoremen. The film was directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Steiger, Karl Malden and Lee J....
Initial release date:
- 1954
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 108 min (64.8 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 910,000 (US$)
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
Independence Day
Independence Day (also known by its promotional abbreviation ID4) is a 1996 science fiction film about a hostile alien invasion of Earth, focusing on a disparate group of individuals and families as they coincidentally converge in the Nevada desert...
Initial release date:
- 1996
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Rating:
Runtime:
- 145 min (87 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 75,000,000 (US$)
The Broadway Melody
The Broadway Melody is a 1929 American musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of...
Initial release date:
- Feb 1, 1929
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 110 min (66 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 379,000 (US$)
Annie Hall
Annie Hall is a 1977 American romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a script co-written with Marshall Brickman. One of Allen's most popular films, it won numerous awards at the time of its release, including four Academy Awards, and in...
Initial release date:
- 1977
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 93 min (56 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 4,000,000 (US$)
North by Northwest
North by Northwest is a 1959 American suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason, and featuring Leo G. Carroll and Martin Landau. The screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write ...
Initial release date:
- 1959
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 136 min (81.6 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 4,000,000 (US$)
Screenplay by:
Manhattan
Manhattan is a 1979 romantic comedy film about Isaac Davis (Woody Allen), a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer dating a 17-year-old high school girl (Mariel Hemingway). Isaac eventually falls in love with his best friend's mistress (Diane...
Initial release date:
- 1979
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 96 min (58 hs )
Produced by:
Shaft
Shaft is a 1971 American blaxploitation film directed by Gordon Parks and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. An action film with elements of film noir, Shaft tells the story of a black private detective, John Shaft, who travels through Harlem and to...
Initial release date:
- 1971
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 100 min (60 hs )
Produced by:
The French Connection
The French Connection is a 1971 American crime film directed by William Friedkin. The film was adapted and fictionalized by Ernest Tidyman from the non-fiction book by Robin Moore. It tells the story of New York Police Department detectives named ...
Initial release date:
- 1971
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 104 min (62.4 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 1,800,000 (US$)
Produced by:
Kramer vs. Kramer
Kramer vs. Kramer is a 1979 American drama film adapted by Robert Benton from the novel by Avery Corman, and directed by Benton. The film tells the story of a married couple's divorce and its impact on everyone involved, including the couple's young...
Initial release date:
- 1979
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 105 min (63 hs )
Produced by:
Fail-Safe
Fail-Safe is a 1964 film directed by Sidney Lumet, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. It tells the story of a fictional Cold War nuclear crisis, and the US President's attempt to end it.
The film takes...
Initial release date:
- 1964
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 112 min (67.2 hs )
Produced by:
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A Hatful of Rain
A Hatful of Rain is a 1957 dramatic film. The movie was a rarity for its time in its frank depiction of the impact of drug addiction.
It stars Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa, Lloyd Nolan and Henry Silva. The movie was adapted by...
Initial release date:
- Jul 17, 1957
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 109 min (65.4 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
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The Pawnbroker
The Pawnbroker is a novel by Edward Lewis Wallant which tells the story of Sol Nazerman, a concentration camp survivor who suffers flashbacks of his past Nazi imprisonment as he tries to cope with his daily life operating a pawn shop in East Harlem....
Initial release date:
- 1964
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 116 min (69.6 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 500,000 (US$)
Produced by:
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Serpico
Serpico is a 1973 American crime film directed by Sidney Lumet. It is based on the true story of New York City policeman Frank Serpico. Serpico eventually went undercover to expose the corruption of his fellow officers, after being pushed to the...
Initial release date:
- 1973
Runtime:
- 130 min (78 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 1,000,000 (US$)
My Sister Eileen
My Sister Eileen originated as a series of short stories by Ruth McKenney that eventually evolved into a book, a play, a musical, a radio play (and unproduced radio series), two films, and a CBS television series in the 1960-1961 season.
The...
Initial release date:
- 1942
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Come to the Stable
Come to the Stable is a 1949 film which tells the story of two French nuns who come to a small New England town and involve the townsfolk in helping them to build a children's hospital. It stars Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Elsa...
Initial release date:
- 1949
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 94 min (56 hs )
Produced by:
Detective Story
Detective Story (1951) is a film noir which tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. It features Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell, Lee Grant, among others. The...
Initial release date:
- Nov 6, 1951
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 103 min (61.8 hs )
Produced by:
Love with the Proper Stranger
Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) is a romantic comedy drama film made by Pakula-Mulligan Productions and Boardwalk Productions and released by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Robert Mulligan and produced by Alan J. Pakula from a...
Initial release date:
- Dec 25, 1963
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 102 min (61.2 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
Klute
Klute is a 1971 film which tells the story of a prostitute who assists a detective in solving a mystery. It stars Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Dorothy Tristan, Vivian Nathan, and Roy Scheider. The movie was written by Andy Lewis...
Initial release date:
- 1971
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 114 min (68.4 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 8,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
Sleepless in Seattle
Sleepless in Seattle is a 1993 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Nora Ephron. Based on a story by Jeff Arch, it stars Tom Hanks as Sam Baldwin and Meg Ryan as Annie Reed.
The film was inspired by An Affair to Remember and used...
Initial release date:
- Jun 25, 1993
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 105 min (63 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 21,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
Funny Face
Funny Face is an American musical film released in 1957 in VistaVision Technicolor, with assorted songs by George and Ira Gershwin. The film was written by Leonard Gershe and directed by Stanley Donen. It stars Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, and Kay...
Initial release date:
- Feb 13, 1957
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 103 min (61.8 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
Blackboard Jungle
Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 social commentary film about teachers in an inner-city school. It is based on the novel of the same name by Evan Hunter.
Richard Dadier (Glenn Ford) is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where...
Initial release date:
- Mar 19, 1955
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 101 min (60.6 hs )
Produced by:
King Kong
King Kong is a 1976 American motion picture produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Guillermin. It is a remake of the 1933 classic King Kong, about how a giant ape is captured and imported to New York City for exhibition.
The remake's...
Initial release date:
- Dec 17, 1976
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 134 min (80.4 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 24,000,000 (US$)
Screenplay by:
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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, by Sloan Wilson, is a novel about the American search for purpose in a world dominated by business. Tom and Betsy Rath share a struggle to find contentment in their hectic and material culture while several other...
Initial release date:
- May 8, 1956
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 153 min (91.8 hs )
Produced by:
Last Action Hero
Last Action Hero is a 1993 action comedy cult film directed by John McTiernan. The film is a satire of the action genre and its clichés. The film includes within it several parodies of action films, in the form of films within the film.
The film...
Initial release date:
- Jun 18, 1993
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 130 min (78 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 85,000,000 (US$)
Manhattan Melodrama
Manhattan Melodrama is a 1934 crime melodrama film, produced by MGM.
It was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and stars Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo, Nat Pendleton, and Isabel Jewell. The movie also provided one of the earliest film...
Initial release date:
- 1934
Directed by:
An Affair to Remember
An Affair to Remember is a 1957 film starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, and directed by Leo McCarey.
The film is considered one of the most romantic of all time, according to the American Film Institute. The movie was a remake of McCarey's 1939...
Initial release date:
- 1957
Runtime:
- 119 min (71.4 hs )
Easter Parade
Easter Parade is a 1948 musical film starring Fred Astaire and Judy Garland. It features music by Irving Berlin, including some of Astaire and Garland's best-known songs, such as "Steppin' Out With My Baby" and "We're a Couple of Swells."
The film...
Initial release date:
- Jun 30, 1948
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 107 min (64.2 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 2,503,654 (US$)
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
New York Stories
New York Stories is an anthology film which was released in the United States in March of 1989. The film consists of three shorts with the central theme being New York City. The first short is Life Lessons, directed by Martin Scorsese and written by...
Initial release date:
- Mar 10, 1989
Runtime:
- 124 min (74.4 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 15,000,000 (US$)
Screenplay by:
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Superman II
Superman II is the 1980 sequel to the 1978 superhero film Superman. It was the only Superman film to be filmed by two directors. For this reason the film is surrounded with controversy since original director Richard Donner had completed, by his...
Initial release date:
- Dec 4, 1980
Runtime:
- 127 min (76.2 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 54,000,000 (US$)
New York, New York
New York, New York is a musical-drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, released in 1977. It is a musical tribute, featuring new songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb as well as standards, to Scorsese's home town of New York City, and stars Robert De...
Initial release date:
- Jun 21, 1977
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 163 min (97.8 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 14,000,000 (US$)
Saboteur
Saboteur is a 1942 Universal film directed by Alfred Hitchcock with a screenplay written by Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison, and Dorothy Parker. The movie stars Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, and Norman Lloyd. It should not be confused with a...
Initial release date:
- Apr 22, 1942
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 108 min (64.8 hs )
Produced by:
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
The Prisoner of Second Avenue is an American black comedy play by Neil Simon, later made into a film released in 1975.
The play ran on Broadway from November 1971 until September 1973, with Peter Falk and Lee Grant starring as Mel and Edna Edison,...
Initial release date:
- Mar 14, 1975
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 98 min (59 hs )
Produced by:
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Champion
Champion (1949) is a American film noir drama based on a short story by Ring Lardner. Filmed in black-and-white, it recounts the struggles of boxer "Midge" Kelly fighting his own demons while working to achieve success in the boxing ring. The drama...
Initial release date:
- Apr 9, 1949
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 99 min (59 hs )
Produced by:
Nothing Sacred
Nothing Sacred (1937) is a screwball comedy film made by Selznick International Pictures and distributed by United Artists. It was directed by William A. Wellman and produced by David O. Selznick, from a screenplay credited to Ben Hecht, based on a...
Initial release date:
- Nov 25, 1937
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 77 min (46 hs )
Produced by:
A Fine Madness
A Fine Madness (1966) is a motion picture comedy based on the 1964 novel by Elliott Baker that tells the story of Samson Shillitoe, a frustrated poet unable to finish a grand tome. It stars Sean Connery (in the midst of his James Bond roles), Joanne...
Initial release date:
- Jun 29, 1966
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 104 min (62.4 hs )
Produced by:
The Butcher's Wife
The Butcher's Wife is an 1991 romantic comedy film, in which a clairvoyant woman (Demi Moore) thinks that she's met her future husband (George Dzundza), who she has seen in her dreams and is a butcher in New York. They marry and move to the city,...
Initial release date:
- Oct 25, 1991
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 107 min (64.2 hs )
Rock Around the Clock
Rock Around the Clock is the title of a 1956 musical motion picture that featured Bill Haley and His Comets along with Alan Freed, The Platters, and Freddie Bell and the Bellboys. It was produced by b-movie king Sam Katzman (who would produce...
Initial release date:
- 1956
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 77 min (46 hs )
Produced by:
Bell, Book and Candle
Bell, Book and Candle is a 1958 romantic comedy directed by Richard Quine based on the hit broadway play by John Van Druten. It starred James Stewart and Kim Novak in their second on-screen pairing (after the Alfred Hitchcock classic Vertigo). The...
Initial release date:
- Dec 25, 1958
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 106 min (63.6 hs )
Screenplay by:
The FBI Story
The FBI Story is a 1959 American drama film produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Richard L. Breen and John Twist is based on a book by Don Whitehead.
John Michael ('Chip') Hardesty (James Stewart) opens the film narrating the...
Initial release date:
- Oct 1959
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 149 min (89.4 hs )
Produced by:
Madigan
Madigan is a 1968 American crime-drama film directed by Don Siegel and starring Richard Widmark and Henry Fonda.
The screenplay, originally titled Friday, Saturday, Sunday, was adapted by two writers who had been blacklisted in the 1950s, Abraham...
Initial release date:
- Mar 29, 1968
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 101 min (60.6 hs )
Produced by:
The Sky's the Limit
The Sky's The Limit (1943) is a musical comedy film with a wartime theme starring Fred Astaire, Joan Leslie, Robert Benchley, Robert Ryan and Eric Blore, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The film was directed by Edward H....
Initial release date:
- Jul 13, 1943
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 89 min (53 hs )
Produced by:
Daddy Long Legs
Daddy Long Legs is a 1955 Hollywood musical comedy film set in France, New York City, and the fictional college town of "Walston" in Massachusetts. It stars Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Fred Clark and Thelma Ritter, with music and lyrics by Johnny...
Initial release date:
- May 5, 1955
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 126 min (75.6 hs )
Produced by:
Coogan's Bluff
Coogan's Bluff is a 1968 Universal film directed by Don Siegel and starring Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Don Stroud, and Susan Clark. Eastwood plays the part of a young veteran deputy sheriff from a rural county in Arizona who travels to New York...
Initial release date:
- 1968
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 93 min (56 hs )
The President's Analyst
The President's Analyst is a 1967 satirical comedy film written and directed by Theodore J. Flicker, starring James Coburn. The widescreen cinematography was by William A. Fraker, and Lalo Schifrin provided the film's musical score. The film has...
Initial release date:
- 1967
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 103 min (61.8 hs )
The World of Henry Orient
The World of Henry Orient is a 1964 American comedy film based on the novel of the same name by Nora Johnson. It was directed by George Roy Hill and stars Peter Sellers, Paula Prentiss, Angela Lansbury, Tippy Walker, Merrie Spaeth, Phyllis Thaxter,...
Initial release date:
- 1964
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 106 min (63.6 hs )
Produced by:
Bright Lights, Big City
Bright Lights, Big City may refer to:
Initial release date:
- 1988
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 110 min (66 hs )
Screenplay by:
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
The World, The Flesh and the Devil is a 1959 science fiction doomsday film written and directed by Ranald MacDougall. The star is Harry Belafonte, who was then at the peak of his film career. Using a science fiction premise about the end of the...
Initial release date:
- May 20, 1959
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 95 min (57 hs )
Screenplay by:
The French Line
The French Line is a 1954 musical film made by RKO Pictures, directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced by Edmund Grainger, with Howard Hughes as executive producer. The screenplay was by Mary Loos and Richard Sale, based on a story by Matty Kemp and...
Initial release date:
- 1954
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 102 min (61.2 hs )
Produced by:
Lullaby of Broadway
Lullaby of Broadway is a musical romantic comedy film released by Warner Bros. in 1951. It starred Doris Day as Melinda Howard, an entertainer who travels to New York to see her mother, and Gene Nelson as Tom Farnham, a fellow entertainer and...
Initial release date:
- 1951
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 92 min (55 hs )
The Seven-Ups
The Seven-Ups is a 1973 American film released by 20th Century Fox. It stars Roy Scheider as a renegade policeman who is the leader of The Seven-Ups, a police team who uses dirty, unorthodox tactics to snare their quarry. Produced by Philip D'Antoni...
Initial release date:
- Dec 14, 1973
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 103 min (61.8 hs )
Stand Up and Cheer!
Stand Up and Cheer! is a 1934 American musical film directed by Hamilton MacFadden. The screenplay by Lew Brown and Ralph Spence was based upon a story idea by Will Rogers and Philip Klein. The film is about efforts undertaken during the Great...
Initial release date:
- 1934
Who Done It?
Who Done It? is a 1942 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello.
Chick Larkin (Bud Abbott) and Mervyn Milgrim (Lou Costello) both work at the soda counter of a local radio station. Their true passion, however, is to become writers on the...
Initial release date:
- 1942
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 76 min (46 hs )
Screenplay by:
It's Always Fair Weather
It's Always Fair Weather is a 1955 MGM musical film scripted by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who also wrote the show's lyrics, scored by André Previn and starring Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Michael Kidd, and Dolores Gray. Directed by...
Initial release date:
- Sep 1, 1955
Runtime:
- 102 min (61.2 hs )
Produced by:
Any Wednesday
Any Wednesday is a 1966 comedy film directed by Robert Ellis Miller, starring Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, and Dean Jones. The story centers around a Manhattan woman (Fonda) who is trying to decide between two suitors (Robards and Jones) on the day of...
Initial release date:
- 1966
Runtime:
- 109 min (65.4 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
Fitzwilly
Fitzwilly is a 1967 film by Delbert Mann, based on Poyntz Tyler's novel, A Garden of Cucumbers, adapted for the screen by Isobel Lennart. Its title refers to the nickname of Claude Fitzwilliam, an unusually intelligent and highly educated mastermind...
Initial release date:
- Dec 20, 1967
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 102 min (61.2 hs )
Produced by:
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Finian's Rainbow
Finian's Rainbow is a 1968 American musical film directed by Francis Ford Coppola that stars Fred Astaire and Petula Clark. The screenplay by E. Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy is based on their 1947 stage musical of the same name.
A lovable rogue named...
Initial release date:
- Oct 1968
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 145 min (87 hs )
Auntie Mame
Auntie Mame is a 1958 film based on the novel by Patrick Dennis and its theatrical adaptation by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. This film version stars Rosalind Russell and was directed by Morton DaCosta. Mame, a musical version of the story,...
Initial release date:
- Dec 27, 1958
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 143 min (85.8 hs )
Produced by:
Bon Voyage!
Bon Voyage! is a 1962 film directed by James Neilson from Walt Disney Studios. Following their practice of the time, it was also issued as a comic book. It stars Fred MacMurray, Jane Wyman, Deborah Walley, Tommy Kirk and Kevin Corcoran as the...
Initial release date:
- May 17, 1962
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 130 min (78 hs )
