The Ice Storm (
1997) | IMDb:
7.3
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.
Starring:
Kevin Kline
,
Joan Allen
,
Sigourney Weaver
,
Jamey Sheridan
,
Christina Ricci
,
Tobey Maguire
Men in Black (
1997) | IMDb:
7.3
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent K and new recruit Agent J find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.
Starring:
Tommy Lee Jones
,
Will Smith
,
Linda Fiorentino
,
Vincent D'Onofrio
,
Rip Torn
,
Tony Shalhoub
Everyone Says I Love You (
1996) | IMDb:
6.7
A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.
Mighty Aphrodite (
1995) | IMDb:
7
When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda Ash, a kindhearted prostitute and porn star, Lenny is determined to reform her immoral lifestyle. A Greek chorus chimes in to relate the plot to Greek mythology in this quirky comedy.
Starring:
Woody Allen
,
Mira Sorvino
,
Helena Bonham Carter
,
F. Murray Abraham
,
Donald Symington
,
Claire Bloom
The Usual Suspects (
1995) | IMDb:
8.5
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.
Starring:
Gabriel Byrne
,
Stephen Baldwin
,
Kevin Spacey
,
Chazz Palminteri
,
Kevin Pollak
,
Pete Postlethwaite
Smoke (
1995) | IMDb:
7.4
Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.
Starring:
Harvey Keitel
,
William Hurt
,
Stockard Channing
,
Harold Perrineau
,
Forest Whitaker
,
Giancarlo Esposito
Bullets Over Broadway (
1994) | IMDb:
7.4
After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of a psychiatrist—but not only is she a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist—she's a dreadful actress. David puts up with the leading man who is a compulsive eater, the grand dame who wants her part jazzed up, and Olive's interfering hitman/bodyguard—but, eventually he must decide whether art or life is more important.
Starring:
John Cusack
,
Chazz Palminteri
,
Dianne Wiest
,
Jennifer Tilly
,
Mary-Louise Parker
,
Tracey Ullman
It Could Happen to You (
1994) | IMDb:
6.4
Charlie Lang is a simple, kindhearted New York City cop. When he realizes he has no money to tip waitress Yvonne Biasi, Lang offers her half the winnings of his lottery ticket. Amazingly, the ticket happens to be a winner, in the sum of $4 million. True to his word, Lang proceeds to share the prize money with Biasi, which infuriates his greedy wife, Muriel. Not content with the arrangement, Muriel begins scheming to take all the money.
Manhattan Murder Mystery (
1993) | IMDb:
0
A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.
Shadows and Fog (
1991) | IMDb:
6.7
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
Crimes and Misdemeanors (
1989) | IMDb:
7.8
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.
New York Stories (
1989) | IMDb:
6.4
Get ready for a wildly diverse, star-studded trilogy about life in the big city. One of the most-talked about films in years, New York Stories features the creative collaboration of three of America's most popular directors, Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola, and Woody Allen.
Starring:
Nick Nolte
,
Rosanna Arquette
,
Patrick O'Neal
,
Steve Buscemi
,
Talia Shire
,
Giancarlo Giannini
Another Woman (
1988) | IMDb:
7.2
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.
Big (
1988) | IMDb:
7.3
When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.
Radio Days (
1987) | IMDb:
7.4
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.