After her family is murdered, 12-year-old Mathilda seeks refuge with an assassin named Léon. As she becomes his protégée, a unique bond forms between them. Together, they navigate the dangerous world of crime and seek revenge for Mathilda's lost loved ones.
Joseph Pistone, an FBI agent, goes undercover as a jeweler named Don to infiltrate the mafia. He gains the trust of Lefty Ruggiero, a small-time mobster, and starts sending reports and photographs to the police. As Joseph rises in the mafia, he struggles to balance his life as an informant and his responsibilities to his own family. When his true identity is revealed, he must go into witness protection to keep his family safe.
The Godfather Epic: 1901-1959 (1992) follows the life of an Italian-American cop who becomes entangled with the Sicilian Mafia. As a witness to various crimes, he is put into witness protection and faces numerous challenges as he tries to navigate a world filled with violence, betrayal, and tragedy. The movie explores themes of power, family, and vengeance.
Tony, a male dancer, struggles to make it on Broadway while dealing with personal and professional challenges in 1980s Manhattan.
The Gendarme in New York follows the story of a French gendarme who travels to New York City for a police conference. However, he becomes caught up in comedic crime situations when he disguises himself as a criminal in order to infiltrate a gang. Along the way, he encounters various challenges such as stowaways, taxi drivers, and psychoanalysis sessions. With a blend of humor and action, this movie showcases the gendarme's adventures in the Big Apple.
In 'The Freshman,' a college freshman named Clark is recruited by the mafia to carry out various tasks. Along the way, Clark finds himself in hilarious and dangerous situations as he navigates the underworld of crime. With the help of a professor and his newfound friends, Clark must find a way to outsmart the mafia and stay alive.
In 'Mickey Blue Eyes,' an English auctioneer named Michael Felgate falls in love with a woman named Gina Vitale. However, he soon discovers that Gina's father is a mafia boss. As he navigates the complex world of the mafia, Michael must balance his relationship with Gina and his new ties to the criminal underworld. Hilarity ensues as Michael gets dragged deeper into a life of crime, leading to comedic misunderstandings and mishaps.
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
A young Russian boy, Thomas Minton, travels to New York as a passenger on a Russian freighter. Close to Ellis Island he gets off and thus starts his journey to America the same way as all immigrants in former times. Thomas is searching for the family of one of his ancestors, who had emigrated decades ago, but once sent a letter home together with a sample of his new profession: 3D-Photography.
Third-rate doo-wop singers making a comeback hook up with a campy manager who books them to perform in drag.
The first 3 minutes of this Vitaphone Melody Master feature Phil Spitalny's orchestra playing popular music. The band's singer then fantasizes about her experience when she first arrived in America, looking for "Uncle Phil." As she wanders through the various ethnic neighborhoods of New York City (the Bowery; Hester Street; Mott Street; Harlem), music associated with each area is heard. She finally hears music from her homeland being played in a restaurant and is united with her relatives.
George Beban plays feisty Italian immigrant Luigi Riccardo, the eternal thorn in the side of New York political boss Regan (H.B. Carpenter). Fed up with Riccardo's interference in his graft-grabbing, Regan pulls a few strings and arranges for Riccardo and his family to be shipped back to Europe. But our hero's cause is championed by muckraking newspaper reporter Bump Rundle (Raymond Hatton), who takes on and exposes the Regan political machine.
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