Movies and TvShows featuring "downtown" theme.
Baby's Day Out is a comedy movie about a baby who gets kidnapped by three bumbling criminals. However, the baby manages to escape and goes on an adventurous journey through the city. Along the way, he outsmarts the criminals and encounters various funny situations. The movie is filled with humor, excitement, and heartwarming moments.
Follows the events that happen after an NYU student is shot in Central Park. Samantha Cicciaro is alone; there are no witnesses and very little physical evidence. Her friends' band is playing her favorite downtown club but she leaves to meet someone, promising to return. She never does. As the crime against Samantha is investigated, she's revealed to be the crucial connection between a series of mysterious citywide fires, the downtown music scene, and a wealthy uptown real estate family fraying under the strain of the many secrets they keep.
Centered around the largest heist ever attempted, Kaleidoscope explores the themes of vengeance and betrayals. Spanning 24 years, the show follows the story of the heist and the scheming, loyalties, and betrayals that surround it. The plot is loosely inspired by the real-life event where seventy billion dollars in bonds went missing in downtown Manhattan during Hurricane Sandy.
Rent-a-Goalie is a half-hour comedy television series from Canada that aired on Showcase from 2006 - 2008. Its third season premiered 20 October 2008. The first season was nominated for three Gemini Awards, including Best Comedy Series. It was also nominated for a Directors Guild of Canada Award, the CFTPA Indie Award for Best Comedy Series, an ACTRA Award for Best Male Performance for Christopher Bolton, and four Canadian Comedy Awards, winning two. The second season was nominated for six Gemini Awards, including Best Comedy Series, Best Ensemble Performance, Best Directing, Best Writing, Best Cinematography and Best Casting. It has also been nominated for three Canadian Comedy Awards.
Sort Of is a comedy-drama TV show set in downtown Toronto, following the life of a gender-fluid young person as they navigate love, family relationships, and friendship. The show explores themes of self-discovery, identity, and the challenges of being a part of the LGBTQ+ community.
September Mornings follows Cassandra, a trans woman living in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She navigates the challenges of being Afro-Brazilian, homeless, and embracing her true identity. The show explores themes of family, love, and social issues in Brazil.
In New York City, Phil and Claire Foster, a bored married couple, decide to spice up their relationship by going on a glamorous and romantic date night. However, their plans take a dangerous turn when they are mistaken for another couple and get mixed up in a mobster's criminal activities. To survive the night, they must evade the mob, corrupt cops, and use their wit and resourcefulness. Along the way, they discover the importance of keeping the flame alive in their marriage and the power of teamwork.
After a one-night stand, a woman must navigate the streets of Los Angeles to make it to an important job interview, encountering various obstacles and hilarious situations along the way.
Kanal is a black-and-white war drama set during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. The film follows a group of Polish resistance fighters as they attempt to navigate the city's sewers to evade capture by the Wehrmacht. Faced with hopelessness and despair, the group discovers the true cost of their fight for freedom.
Rabid Dogs (2015) is a crime thriller film about a group of criminals who take a family hostage while on a road trip. The criminals, wearing masks, have just completed a heist and are on the run from the police. As tension rises, the fate of the hostages becomes uncertain.
In Calamari Union, a group of men from the outskirts of Helsinki, Finland, embark on a journey to the city center. Along the way, they encounter various obstacles and engage in comedic and dramatic situations.
Donald (Barry Primus) promises Sam (Charlie Robinson) the best day of his life. This seems unlikely, given they are both homeless men mired in the bleak landscape of Los Angeles' Skid Row. Moreover, the source of Donald's optimism is a mere $20 bill (called a "Jackson") which he bummed off a passing businessman (Steve Guttenberg) earlier that day. But Donald vows that with it, they can do anything, and drags a reluctant Sam off in search of adventure.
Waydowntown is a comedy-drama movie set in an office building downtown. A group of office workers, including Curt, Marion, Sandra, and Randy, make a bet to see who can go the longest without going outside. As the days go by, tension rises and relationships are tested. The movie explores themes of office culture, relationships, and the challenge of staying indoors. With its unique split-screen technique and quirky characters, Waydowntown provides a satirical commentary on urban life.
Oddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man ripping his own throat out, woman stabbing herself to death.
Real-life kung fu master Nathan Ingram stars in this gritty, low-budget martial arts epic as a local karate school owner who clashes with a gang of drug traffickers posing as the owners of a rival dojo. Director Charlie Ahearn (who helmed the landmark hip-hop film Wild Style) used the housing projects next to his New York Lower East Side apartment as his central location in this 1979 classic, shot on a vintage Super 8 camera.
A series of murders involving a stripper are investigated by a hard-drinking reporter.
Blurring the line between fiction and reality, aspiring fashion photographer Shawn Regruto--obsessed with documenting every part of his life--assembles his personal and professional home-video footage into a feature film. Ironically, amidst this fast-paced environment of New York's nightlife scene, is the purest of love stories between Shawn and Athena, an accomplished model in her own right, who becomes the focus of Shawn's story. As the tale unfolds, the chronicle reveals the darker side of a world where young people are exposed to glamour and fortune at an early age, in ways that often lead them down a path of self-destruction. Part documentary, part autobiography, part reality TV, Shawn's film serves as a behind-the-scenes exploration of the glamorous, reckless life of Manhattan's young and beautiful, caught up in a metropolis of drugs, clubs, and fashion models.
THE SINEMA OF NICK ZEDD is the first DVD collection of the filmmaker’s works, and includes 11 of his films as well as outtakes, interviews, and rare concert footage of Zedd’s music project, the noise band Zyklon-B. Contains: Police State, The Bogus Man, Ecstasy in Entropy, Why do you Exist, Whoregasm, War is Menstual Envy (exerpt), Tom Thumb in the Land of the Giants, the Wild World of Lydia Lunch, Go to Hell, Zedd’s Collaborations: Thrust in Me (with Richard Kern), Go to Hell, I of K9 with outtakes and screentests from Why do you Exist and Ecstasy in Entropy, Concert Footage and Interview with Zedd’s Industrial noise band Zyklon Beatles, and a trailer for War is Menstrual Envy.
Sparks and bullets fly when a Wall Street yuppie must steer a Brooklyn mob crew legit before a beautiful FBI agent can build RICO indictments against them.
The Boys (1962) is a crime drama set in 1960s London. The story follows a group of teenagers who get involved in a series of robberies and murders. As the police investigate, the boys find themselves caught up in a web of violence and betrayal.