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Browse 121 movies from New York University (NYU)
Against the simmering anxieties of post-Roe America, a Chinese-American teenager and her boyfriend attempt to buy the morning-after pill in a small town where reproductive rights are contested and quietly policed.
Aug 2024
A young girl takes a look at her grandfather's life, both in and out of the office.
Dec 2021
Through the streets and boroughs of New York, Jimmy, a bicycle messenger from the Albatross Courier Company is out to deliver a package "on time". Braving the perilous city streets there's nothing Jimmy can't handle...or is there? This 1987 comedy classic short shown worldwide marked the debut of Director/Screenwriter Ari Taub and captured the spirit of low-budget filmmaking in New York City.
Mar 1987
Cahaya, a 10-year old trash-picker from the slums of North Jakarta dreams of owning a bicycle. One day, while searching for recyclables, her wish comes true through an unexpected, fantastic find. Yet soon enough, the other children see her treasure and want it too - especially a neighborhood bully named Hasan, who corners Cahaya and steals the bike.
Sep 2012
Dramatic portrait of the Coney Island boardwalk and some of the strange and shocking things that take place off-season in which along the windswept Coney Island boardwalk, Sonny meets young Eddie who introduces him to some of the many mysteries of this faded, forgotten neighborhood.
Apr 1993
The first student film of Nancy Savoca and Rich Guay while they were attending NYU in 1982. Starring Marriane Leone (Cooper) as a young mother struggling with raising her children in Little Italy while dealing with a frequently absent father.
Jan 1982
When Skeeve, an East Village hardcore punk, breaks into an apartment intent on burglary, he meets his match and his conscience in Estelle, a sharp old widow.
May 1989
Hank's just an ordinary guy trying to get his wife pregnant, when his mother-in-law shows up and threatens to ruin everything.
Jul 2011
"This film examines immigration to the United States from the late 1800s to the 1950s. Ellis Island is the focal point of the program, which includes reminiscences by an immigrant as well as live action footage and old still pictures" (US National Archives). This documentary was a product of the Young Filmmaker Bicentennial Grant given by the US Information Agency.
Jan 1975
Profiles Roy Smeck, a former vaudeville star known as "The Wizard of the Strings" because of his virtuoso talents on the guitar, banjo, ukelele and Hawaiian guitar, and who is shown to be still active, in his mid-80s, teaching students and giving occasional public performances.
Jan 1985
Joe Wild, a virtuoso of vocal effects and acoustic body noises who earns his living driving a taxi. In his travels, he encounters the experimental vocalist Shelley Hirsch. Together they flee the Nothing Human sound studio, whose engineers have been attempting to steal their voices, and they stroll off into the sunset warbling sweet nothings at each other.
Nov 1989
An intellectually disabled young man has his childlike world threatened by a violent neighborhood loan shark.
Feb 1981
A young boy has a terrible encounter with a strange man while fishing in the woods. From the award winning story by Stephen King.
Sep 2004
A winter's tale of a young boy haunted by his mother's ghost.
May 1990
In an effort to reconcile with his ex-girlfriend, Charlie lies about being diagnosed with cancer. However, things become far more complicated than he could ever have imagined when he learns that both his ex, Jess, and best friend, Alex, have secrets – and agendas – of their own.
May 2024
A live-action story of a six-year-old boy who goes shopping with his mother and eventually gets lost. During that time, the imaginative boy's mind alternates between fantasy and an attempt to decipher the world around him. A film about the perceptions of children
Jan 1984
Dramatizes the kidnapping of a young white boy by a black teenager after an attempted robbery in a Florida supermarket. Filmed from the perspective of the child.
Tells the story of a thirteen-year-old boy's summer day on the beaches of New York. Adventures and misadventures with friends, lunch with her mother and her new boyfriend, and the unexpected meeting with an older girl. Through all this we want to reconstruct the point of view of the protagonist and the difficult emotions that are felt at his age.
May 1983
As the celebrated star of the 21st Century's most unique act of human contortion, Bailey becomes increasingly unable to perform...
Jan 1988
Barbara's and Bob's conjugal life is upset when Bob's former college roommate shows up unexpectedly.
Feb 1986