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Browse 79 movies from New York University (NYU)
Ten aliens in human host bodies learn how to be men.
Jan 2019
A short that explores only three minutes of real time in a convenience store through four different perspectives and three different languages.
Jan 1999
People are seen waiting for various things, ranging from a train to a phone call from the Pope.
Oct 1993
Prom nears and things seem to be spiraling out of control for the typically composed Isatu. In this coming of age story, West African tradition conflicts with American idealism as Isatu is forced to reassess her idea of the perfect dress.
Oct 2007
Zack Homer takes over managing the barbershop after Joe is killed for trying to rip off his "investor", Mr. Lovejoy. All Zack wants to do is run a traditional barbershop giving traditional haircuts, but modern styles have passed him by and business is slow. One evening, Mr. Lovejoy shows up to offer Zack the same deal he gave to Joe. It could turn his business around, but what will he have to give in return?
Mar 1983
Mike lives in New York. Every day he walks in the streets and what he sees mixes with his thoughts, while his dreams blur with the mirages of the society of images. In such a large city it may be difficult to find a balance between the words and the noises around. Suddenly, Mike realizes what he wants: to go away, as far as he can.
Jan 1982
When Sandy finds out her almost boyfriend is a werewolf, she questions his fidelity causing her to ask herself – is he having sex with dogs?
Nov 2018
Karl has a childlike innocence and naive purity. In spite of making false friends and enemies, he retains his decency in New York which remains a foreign city for him.
Jan 1990
Young Ursula plays in a tree and ruins her fancy dress. Her elderly mother teaches her a cruel lesson about whether things can ever be mended; what Ursula learns about how to behave may not be what her mother intended.
Jan 1961
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
On her 30th birthday, a first-time unfaithful wife picks up a strange hitchhiker who helps her conceptualize her values.
Jan 1976
A colorful comedy about an irritating trip to the grocery store.
Jan 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
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 mother tries to ease her terminally ill son through his final days of treatment, using a classic bedtime tale.
Nov 2010
A young white woman leaving a nightclub alone drops her cigarette lighter on the street. When a young black man follows her and attempts to return it, she panics and assumes he is attacking her. The ensuing chase threatens to erupt into violence.
Jan 1991
Animated adaptation of the Edgar Allen Poe 1839 short story The Fall of the House of Usher, a work of Gothic fiction that includes themes of madness, family, isolation, and metaphysical identities.
Jan 1984
Two soldiers are lost in a snowy forest, one of whom steps on a land mine that will not go off unless he steps off it.
Jan 1985
One of the early short films of director Brett Ratner.
An adaptation of a play by Rainer Maria Rilke in which a six-year-old orphan tries to understand death.
May 1989