Danny Aiello
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Cecilia is a poor waitress in a dumpy New Jersey diner who goes to movies to escape the realities of the Depression Era life. Her favorite is "The purple rose of Cairo." When the leading man Tom Baxter decides to be with Cecilia, confusion abounds.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
This comedy with much Jewish humor is about the widows Doris, Ester and Lucille, who's husbands died one after another in just a few years. The 3 friends in their 50s react quite differently on the deaths. But they make it a habit to meet every year at the graves of their husbands and talk about perspectives in their lives.
4) Moonstruck
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
An "unlucky in love" Italian-American widow just weeks away from her wedding falls for her fiance's younger brother.
6) Once around
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The oldest daughter of a close-knit Italian-American family falls in love with an abrasive, obnoxious but forcefully charming businessman. He almost demolishes her family while winning her heart, but they all learn how to balance her happiness with the family's survival.
8) Leon
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Calling himself a cleaner, the mysterious Leon is New York's top hit man. When his next door neighbors are murdered, Leon becomes the unwilling guardian of the family's sole survivor, 12 year old Mathilda. But Mathilda doesn't want protection--she wants revenge. Training her in the deadly tricks of his trade, Leon helps her track the psychotic agent who murdered her family.
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Jacob is a man living in a nightmare. Having survived Vietnam, he's back home in New York City. But memories of both his wartime demons and the accidental death of his son haunt and terrorize him. Jacob's grip on reality begins to slip and only his friend can save him.
11) Moonstruck
Series
Criterion collection volume 1056
Language
English
Description
"A full moon, a New York City night, and love and music in the air: One of the most enchanting romantic comedies of all time assembles a flawless ensemble cast for a tender and boisterously funny look at a multigenerational Italian American family in Brooklyn, wrestling with the complexities of love and marriage at every stage of life. At the center of it all is a radiant Cher as Loretta, an unlucky-in-love bookkeeper whose feelings about her engagement...
12) Jacob's ladder
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Jacob Singer is a Vietnam vet haunted by the memories of war and the death of his young son. As Jacob starts to experience visions of demons all around him, he begins to question what is real. Is he going insane? Is he suffering from post-traumatic stress? Or could he be caught in the middle of some horrific supernatural battle he can't understand?
13) Radio days
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
A look back at radio from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, focusing on an extended Jewish family, all avid radio listeners, and on a young woman who eventually succeeds as a radio gossip columnist.
Series
Criterion collection volume 97
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Tensions are growing, with the only local businesses being a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria. Mookie is Sal's delivery boy. Radio Raheem has the letters of love and hate written on his hands. He is defiant and together with a motivated Buggin Out, push Sal and his sons to their breaking point. The cops intervene, using force and brutality to apprehend the large...
15) Pinocchio
Author
Publisher
Abdo
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Pinocchio, a wooden puppet full of tricks and mischief, with a talent for getting into and out of trouble, wants more than anything else to become a real boy.
16) The professional
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After her parents are brutally murdered, Mathilda vows vengeance and becomes the protégé of professional assassin Léon.
17) Moonstruck
Series
Criterion collection volume 1056
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A full moon, a New York City night, and love and music in the air: One of the most enchanting romantic comedies of all time assembles a flawless ensemble cast for a tender and boisterously funny look at a multigenerational Italian American family in Brooklyn, wrestling with the complexities of love and marriage at every stage of life. At the center of it all is a radiant Cher as Loretta, an unlucky-in-love bookkeeper whose feelings about her engagement...
Series
Criterion collection volume 97
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Traces the course of a single day on a block in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. It's the hottest day of the year, a scorching 24 hour period that will change the lives of its residents forever.