Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1976 • United States
Starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks

Scripted by Paul Schrader and directed by Martin Scorsese, TAXI DRIVER is a powerful study of a dangerously fractured psyche, as well as a vividly grimy portrait of New York City in the 1970s....

Directed by John Schlesinger • 1969 • United States
Starring Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles

One of the British New Wave’s most versatile directors, John Schlesinger came to New York in the late 1960s to make MIDNIGHT COWBOY, a picaresque story of friendship that captured a city in cris...

Directed by Ivan Passer • 1971 • United States
Starring George Segal, Karen Black, Paula Prentiss

J (George Segal), a former New York City hairdresser turned heroin junkie, sees his life spiral out of control as he bounces between committing petty crimes, a new relationship with a free-spirited ...

Directed by Gordon Parks • 1971 • United States
Starring Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi

While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a n...

Directed by Allan Moyle • 1980 • United States
Starring Tim Curry, Trini Alvarado, Robin Johnson

Problem teens Pamela (Trini Alvarado) and Nicky (Robin Johnson) bust out of a mental institution and go straight through the looking glass into Koch-era New York City, a grimy wonderland wherein the...

Directed by Andrew Bergman • 1981 • United States Starring Ryan O’Neal, Jack Warden, Mariangela Melato

Blood proves thicker than Velcro in this screwball comedy, as a young college professor is forced to ...

Directed by Lucio Fulci • 1982 • Italy
Starring Jack Hedley, Almanta Suska, Howard Ross

A blade-wielding psychopath is on the loose, turning the Big Apple bright red with the blood of beautiful young women. As NYPD detective Fred Williams (Jack Hedley) follows the trail of butchery from the dec...

Directed by Bette Gordon • 1983 • United States
Starring Sandy McLeod, Will Patton, Richard M. Davidson

The provocative, sexually charged tale of a woman’s journey of self-discovery, Bette Gordon’s independent landmark offers a bold challenge to conventional notions of feminism and pornography. ...

Directed by Curtis Hanson • 1986 • United States
Starring Howard E. Rollins Jr., Joanna Cassidy, David Ackroyd

Runaway teens from all over are drawn to the glitz and glamour of New York City. But beneath the seductive bright lights and promise of freedom lurks a sordid world of...

Directed by Alexander Mackendrick • 1957 • United States
Starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison

In the swift, cynical SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, directed by Alexander Mackendrick, Burt Lancaster stars as the vicious Broadway gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis as Sidney ...

Directed by Larry Cohen • 1976 • United States
Starring Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis

A rooftop sniper guns down fourteen pedestrians on the streets of New York City. A mild-mannered dad takes a shotgun and blows away his wife and children. A cop goes on a sudden shooting spree at...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1990 • United States
Starring Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne, David Caruso

Renegade director Abel Ferrara—working in collaboration with his regular screenwriter Nicholas St. John—brings his murky moral worldview and eye for pulp imagery to this kinetic, stylish...

Directed by Richard Sandler • 1999 • United States

Over the course of six years, street photographer and filmmaker Richard Sandler documents the Giuliani-era transformation of Manhattan’s Times Square, as mom-and-pop stores and the colorful characters who made the intersection a “speakers’ corne...