Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "brighton-beach-brooklyn-new-york-city"

1. New York, I Love You (2008)

R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Eleven love stories set in one of the most loved and hated cities of the world, New York City.

Directors: Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Randall Balsmeyer, Allen Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Wen Jiang, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman, Brett Ratner | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Natalie Portman, Bradley Cooper, Hayden Christensen

Votes: 47,968 | Gross: $1.59M

2. Mysterious Skin (2004)

Unrated | 105 min | Drama

Two pre-adolescent boys both experienced a strange event and later it affects their lives in different ways. One becomes a reckless, sexually adventurous prostitute, while the other retreats into a reclusive fantasy of alien abduction.

Director: Gregg Araki | Stars: Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elisabeth Shue, Chase Ellison

Votes: 76,605 | Gross: $0.70M

3. Two Lovers (2008)

R | 110 min | Drama, Romance

A Brooklyn-set romantic drama about a bachelor torn between the family friend his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor.

Director: James Gray | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Anne Joyce

Votes: 43,638 | Gross: $3.15M

4. Very Good Girls (2013)

R | 91 min | Drama, Romance

Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. When they both fall for the same street artist, the friends find their connection tested for the first time.

Director: Naomi Foner | Stars: Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen, Sterling Jones, Lenny Platt

Votes: 16,392

5. The Code (I) (2009)

R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A veteran thief recruits a younger crook to help him pull off one final job in order to repay his debt to the Russian mob.

Director: Mimi Leder | Stars: Ivan Petrushinov, Victor Boichev, Nickolay Hadjiminev, Rade Serbedzija

Votes: 35,967

6. Operation Odessa (2018)

TV-MA | 92 min | Documentary, Crime

In the early 1990s, three friends set out to hustle the Russian mob, the Cali cartel and the DEA for the score of a lifetime.

Director: Tiller Russell | Stars: Ludwig Fainberg, Juan Almeida, Nelson Yester, Kristy Galeota

Votes: 6,941

7. The Sunlit Night (2019)

106 min | Drama, Romance

An aspiring painter meets eccentric locals and a fellow New Yorker while working on a barn in Norway.

Director: David Wnendt | Stars: Jenny Slate, Alex Sharp, Fridtjov Såheim, Gillian Anderson

Votes: 2,572

8. Little Odessa (1994)

R | 98 min | Crime, Drama

A cold-blooded hitman visits his estranged Russian immigrant family in Brooklyn.

Director: James Gray | Stars: Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Moira Kelly, Vanessa Redgrave

Votes: 9,173 | Gross: $1.10M

9. Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)

PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy

Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual fantasy, and living the life of a poor boy in a crowded house.

Director: Gene Saks | Stars: Blythe Danner, Jonathan Silverman, Stacey Glick, Lisa Waltz

Votes: 3,876 | Gross: $11.96M

10. Minyan (2020)

Unrated | 118 min | Drama

A young Jewish man is caught between thrilling private trysts and his repressive family in this thoughtful drama set in 1980s Brooklyn.

Director: Eric Steel | Stars: Samuel H. Levine, Ron Rifkin, Christopher McCann, Mark Margolis

Votes: 1,121

11. The Christmas Waltz (2020 TV Movie)

TV-G | 83 min | Drama, Family, Romance

A woman dumped by her fiancé a month before her storybook Christmas wedding decides to take the series of ballroom lessons intended for her wedding dance.

Director: Michael Damian | Stars: Lacey Chabert, Will Kemp, Katrina Reynolds, Jeremy Guilbaut

Votes: 2,470

12. No Love in the City (2009)

Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Three Russian expatriates are loving life and seducing women in New York City until they meet up with Saint Valentine in disguise and he curses them with impotence until they learn about true love. No love - no sex.

Director: Marius Vaysberg | Stars: Aleksey Chadov, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ville Haapasalo, Fiona Kuchina

Votes: 1,865

13. Act One (1963)

Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama

Story of the life of writer/playwright Moss Hart.

Director: Dore Schary | Stars: George Hamilton, Jason Robards, George Segal, Jack Klugman

Votes: 285

14. Brighton Beach (2016)

Short

Brighton Beach, shot on location at the predominantly Russian seaside neighborhood in New York City, shows how Cityscape is also a frame of mind in this collaboration of language and film.

Director: Franck Bohbot

15. No Sleep America (1999)

8 min | Documentary, Short

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Director: Imogen Thomas | Stars: Vitor Alfonso, Kolya Chingrinsky, Natalya Dresvin

16. August (II) (2011)

G | 7 min | Short

After a man discovers his HIV results, he sets out to end his life. While in the process, changing his mind thanks to an iconic symbol of New York.

Directors: Anne Bergstedt, AnnaClaire Boyd | Star: Ryan Doyle May

Votes: 19

17. Paramount-Bray Pictographs, No. 108 (1918)

Documentary, Short

Subjects include: "Human Polar Bears", "Magic for Home Use, No. 3", "Camouflage - What It Is and What It Does", and the cartoon Bobby Bumps at the Dentist (1918).

Director: P.D. Hugon

18. Bored to Death (2009–2011)
Episode: The Case of the Lonely White Dove (2009)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A smitten Russian parolee contracts Jonathan to track down a chanteuse known as "the Lonely White Dove." After a vodka-fueled reconnaissance mission at the Brighton Beach restaurant where ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Feig | Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Zach Galifianakis, Ted Danson, Heather Burns

Votes: 422

19. Blue Bloods (2010–2024)
Episode: Family Ties (2011)

TV-PG | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When the son of a Russian gangster is killed at his own engagement party, Danny delves into the world of the Russian mob and the family politics that exist. Meanwhile, Erin is thrown into a high-profile corruption case.

Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal | Stars: Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, Will Estes, Len Cariou

Votes: 558

20. Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy (2011– )
Episode: Larry Gets Whipped (2013)

TV-14 | 44 min | Documentary

Larry travels to the Big Apple to show how that town exemplifies great American qualities like keeping cultures alive and never giving up the fight. He starts by uncovering how terriers ... See full summary »

Star: Eric Weingrad

21. The Strain (2014–2017)
Episode: Occultation (2014)

TV-MA | 42 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

After warning Kelly to leave the city with Zack ahead of the spreading plague, Eph is arrested by the FBI. Eichhorst has one final job for Gus, while Setrakian realizes that the coming ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Weller | Stars: Corey Stoll, David Bradley, Mía Maestro, Kevin Durand

Votes: 1,745

22. The Strain (2014–2017)
Episode: Collaborators (2016)

TV-MA | 42 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Setrakian offers hope in a new plan to trap the Master while Eph and Dutch seek out the Master's "voice." Palmer, frail and close to death, needs Setrakian's access to the white to hold up ... See full summary »

Director: T.J. Scott | Stars: Corey Stoll, David Bradley, Kevin Durand, Jonathan Hyde

Votes: 852