Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "west-side-manhattan-new-york-city"

1. West Side Story (2021)

PG-13 | 156 min | Crime, Drama, Musical

An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez

Votes: 95,826

2. Sleepers (1996)

R | 147 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized. Thirteen years later, an unexpected random encounter with a former guard gives them a chance for revenge.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Robert De Niro, Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt, Jason Patric

Votes: 237,862 | Gross: $49.10M

3. West Side Story (1961)

Approved | 153 min | Crime, Drama, Musical

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

Directors: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | Stars: Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn

Votes: 121,356 | Gross: $43.66M

4. The Kitchen (2019)

R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The wives of New York gangsters in Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s continue to operate their husbands' rackets after they're locked up in prison.

Director: Andrea Berloff | Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss, Domhnall Gleeson

Votes: 22,995 | Gross: $12.05M

5. The Black Donnellys (2007)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama

Four young Irish brothers are caught up in New York's underworld of organized crime.

Stars: Jonathan Tucker, Tom Guiry, Olivia Wilde, Billy Lush

Votes: 14,380

6. China Girl (1987)

R | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A modern day Romeo & Juliet story is told in New York when an Italian boy and a Chinese girl become lovers, causing a tragic conflict between ethnic gangs.

Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: James Russo, Richard Panebianco, Sari Chang, David Caruso

Votes: 2,346 | Gross: $1.26M

7. East Side, West Side (1949)

Passed | 108 min | Drama, Romance

A vain businessman puts a strain on happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, James Mason, Van Heflin, Ava Gardner

Votes: 2,513

8. Ash Wednesday (2002)

R | 99 min | Crime, Drama

Ash Wednesday is set in the Manhattan of the early 1980's and is about a pair of Irish-American brothers (Burns and Wood) who become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob.

Director: Edward Burns | Stars: Brian Burns, Vincent Rubino, James Michael Cummings, Elijah Wood

Votes: 3,160 | Gross: $0.00M

9. Diamond Jim (1935)

Approved | 88 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The story of legendary gambler Diamond Jim Brady and his romance with entertainer Lillian Russell.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Edward Arnold, Jean Arthur, Binnie Barnes, Cesar Romero

Votes: 254

10. East Side, West Side (1927)

Passed | 92 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

After his mother and stepfather have been killed in a barge accident, John Breen is rescued from some East Side toughs by the Lipvitches. He remains in the city, determined to find his real... See full summary »

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: George O'Brien, Virginia Valli, J. Farrell MacDonald, Dore Davidson

Votes: 168

11. West Side Girl (2010)

15 min | Short, Crime, Drama

Patty Reilly, devout Catholic, up-and-coming female punk and lifelong resident of New York City's rapidly gentrifying Hell's Kitchen, decides to wreak revenge against her landlord for evicting her in the middle of winter.

Director: Andrew Serban | Stars: Shannon Lower, Eric Kappenberg, Roland Uruci, Eric H. Roffman

12. The Sacred Heart (2012)

22 min | Short, Crime, Drama

When an unemployed young woman from Hell's Kitchen and her equally unemployed immigrant boyfriend are threatened with eviction, the couple resort to desperate measures and find themselves ... See full summary »

Director: Andrew Serban | Stars: Sara K. Edwards, Alfred Cantilina, Julia O'Neill, Dory Manzour

Votes: 9

13. Network First (1994– )
Episode: The War Against the Mafia Part 1: The Founding Father (1994)

Documentary

How America's law enforcement agencies tackled the Mafia. Concentrates on the Gambino family from 1980 to 1993. Includes secret FBI recordings, interviews and allegations that the family were responsible for the deaths of 200 people.

Director: Tim Shawcross | Stars: Jack Klaff, John Gotti, Joseph Armone, Wilfred Johnson

Votes: 5

14. The Irish Mob (2008–2016)
Episode: Owney Madden: Duke of the Westside/John 'Red' Hamilton and the Dillinger Gang (2008)

45 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

Notorious gangsters Owner "Killer" Madden and John "Red" Hamilton, who led similar lives that ended quite differently.

Director: Dathaí Keane | Stars: Michael Walsh, T.J. English, John Beatty, William Kennedy

Votes: 9

15. The Irish Mob (2008–2016)
Episode: Mickey Spillane: The Gentleman Gangster/Jimmy Coonan and the Westies Gang (2008)

45 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

Mickey Spillane, known as "the last of the gentleman gangsters,' and Jimmy Coonan, who led the much-feared Westies.

Director: Dathaí Keane | Stars: Robert Spillane, Jim McManus, T.J. English, Joseph Coffey

16. True Crime Authors (2003– )
Episode: The Westies (2003)

Documentary

Adapted from the critically acclaimed true crime bestsellers, each author tells their infamous stories on-camera. Each story is told only from the author's perspective. Even among the Mob, ... See full summary »

Stars: T.J. English, Brian Bogulski, Jimmy Coonan, Roy DeMeo

17. Mobs Mheiriceá (2007– )
Episode: Owney "Killer" Madden (2007)

Documentary

Owney Madden grew up on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen, New York where he earned the title very quickly as Owney the Killer - Duke of the West Side. When it came to kill or be killed ... See full summary »

Star: Owney Madden

18. Gangster Empire: Rise of the Mob (2013– )
Episode: Chicago and the rise of Al Capone (2013)

TV-14 | 48 min | Documentary, Action, Crime

We tell the story of the rise of Al Capone and mob rule in Chicago and explore why the roaring twenties played the crucial role in gangster life and the impact of widespread police corruption.

Director: Kevin R. Hershberger | Stars: Coby Batty, Matt K. Baker, Todd Barsness, James Christopher Cooke

19. Ah! Vous écrivez? (1976–1980)
Episode: Henriette Jelinek, romancière des pauvres (1978)

14 min | Short, Talk-Show

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Director: Nicolas Ribowski | Stars: Bernard Pivot, Henriette Jelinek