The Friend

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 28 Mar 2025 · English

New York City writer Iris finds her comfortable, solitary life thrown into disarray after her closest friend and mentor bequeaths her a Great Dane named Apollo. The huge dog immediately creates practical problems for Iris, from furniture destruction to eviction notices, as well as more existential ones. Yet as Iris finds herself unexpectedly bonding with Apollo, she begins to come to terms with her past, and her own creative inner life.

House of D

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 7 May 2004 · English

In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappass, a mentally disabled man. With Tom's mother battling depression after the death of her husband, the young boy is left to his own devices. When Tom develops a crush on schoolmate Melissa, Pappass feels abandoned and begins behaving erratically.

The King of Staten Island

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 22 Jul 2020 · English

Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He's now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys — Oscar, Igor and Richie — and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey. But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray, it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life.

Throw Momma from the Train

Movie · 6.2 / 10 · 11 Dec 1987 · English

Larry Donner, an author with a cruel ex-wife, teaches a writing workshop in which one of his students, Owen, is fed up with his domineering mother. When Owen watches a Hitchcock classic that seems to mirror his own life, he decides to put the movie's plot into action and offers to kill Larry's ex-wife, if Larry promises to murder his mom. Before Larry gets a chance to react to the plan, it seems that Owen has already set things in motion.

Smoke

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 9 Jun 1995 · English

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.

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 19 Oct 2018 · English

When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.

Mother

Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 25 Dec 1996 · English

A neurotic, twice-divorced sci-fi writer moves back in with his mother to solve his personal problems.

Landline

Movie · 6.1 / 10 · 21 Jul 2017 · English

A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.

Saturday Night

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 27 Sept 2024 · English

At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television forever. This is the story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live.

Best Sellers

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 9 Sept 2021 · English

A cranky, retired author reluctantly embarks on a final book tour to help out a young publisher.

American Psycho

Movie · 7.4 / 10 · 13 Apr 2000 · English

A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

A Different Man

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 24 Aug 2024 · English

Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare.