Movies and TvShows featuring "east-village" theme.

In 'Habit', a woman in New York City spirals into addiction, becoming a vampire in order to sustain herself.

Anita's boyfriend Mitchell dumped her after 3.5 years for Heather. All she can think about is humiliating him, mostly in poems that are bitter, banal, and hilarious.

1989, New York City's Alphabet City and East Village. A year after the Tompkins Square Park Riot, squatters and their community allies try to stop the demolition of their building after an arson. Police forces occupy the neighborhood while the demolition continues. A portrait of an East Village that is no more. An homage to the voices and sounds of a neighborhood before its gentrification.

Nelson Sullivan's Video Diaries (1989) is a documentary film that offers a unique and personal glimpse into the life of Nelson Sullivan, a vibrant character living in New York City. Through his video diaries, Nelson captures the essence of the city and shares his experiences as a part of the gay and transgender communities in the dynamic East Village. The film provides an intimate portrait of his life, relationships, and the vibrant culture that surrounded him.

Dash Snow rejected a life of privilege to make his own way as an artist on the streets of downtown New York City in the late 1990s. Developing from a notorious graffiti tagger into an international art star, he documented his drug- and alcohol-fueled nights with the surrogate family he formed with friends and fellow artists Ryan McGinley and Dan Colen before his death by heroin overdose in 2009. Drawing from Snow’s unforgettable body of work and involving archival footage, Cheryl Dunn’s exceptional portrait captures his all-too-brief life of reckless excess and creativity.

During a typical morning in New York's East Village, two strangers are changed after a chance encounter. Linus, a street musician, is an East Village staple who serenades passersby with his most prized possession every morning, his trumpet. When Kyle, a young man from Harlem, neglectfully knocks over Linus' trumpet, his slight becomes an act that leaves both of these strangers changed forever.

Three friends spend an unseasonably warm day together in the midst of immense loss.

Follows a group of hippies in Greenwich Village during the 1960's, centering on the story of a girl exploring various relationships with men, and her search for the values of the time.

Danny Roberts shave his head after completing post-production on the film, "The Last Nice Sunday in the East Village"

From suspected arson to illegal evictions, Paul Garrin’s documentary follows two years of police harassment of unsheltered people in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, as well as acts of protests and resistance in the fight for housing justice.