Movies and TV shows set in bronx new york city
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in bronx new york city ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, cult film, captivating, touching and entertaining films and TV shows about / with gangsters, runaway, dialogue, mentor, friendship, teenager, brutality, storytelling, coming of age and vengeance plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Comedy genres shot in USA, China, UK and other countries.
bronx new york city
TOP 10 movies tagged as bronx new york city: A Bronx Tale (1993), Green Book (2018), Fort Apache the Bronx (1981), American Gangster (2007), Cross Bronx (2004), The Godfather (1972), The Warriors (1979), Babygirl (2012), The Get Down (2016), Dead Presidents (1995).
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List of movies set in bronx new york city
146K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his ...
Style:
sentimental, intense, realistic, touching, reflective ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, coming of age, organized crime, mentor, loyalty, gang leader, father son relationship, friendship, african american, gang, brutality ...
Time:
60s, year 1960, 20th century, year 1968
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa, new york state, new jersey
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507K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, China
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line relied on ...
Style:
road movie, feel good, uplifting, funny, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
racism, travel, interracial friendship, road trip, journey, friendship, racial prejudice, friend, on the road, musician, dignity, black american ...
Time:
60s, year 1962, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
bronx new york city, southern usa, america, new york, los angeles ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers call their police station, which really seems like an outpost in enemy's country. ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, melancholic, dramatic, bad ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police, police station, drug addiction, prostitute, murder, cop killer, police brutality, hospital, drugs, violence, law enforcement, gang ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, new jersey, san francisco, usa ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he ...
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, harsh, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangsters, heroin, mob boss, drug lord, police, drugs, gang, crime boss, drug traffic, criminal ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century, year 1968, year 1970 ...
Place:
new york, new jersey, bronx new york city, harlem, usa ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
This Bronx-based coming-of-age drama follows four high school friends as they navigate the treacherous waters of independence, love and careers on their individual paths toward achieving their dreams.
Style:
realistic, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, semi serious
Plot:
high school, coming of age, city life, follow your dream, youth, hopes, gangsters, friendship, rivalry, moving, high school friends, major league ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bronx new york city, new york
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1.9M
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the ...
Style:
serious, epic, atmospheric, dramatic, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangsters, greed, revenge, betrayal, crime family, pride and honor, corruption, murder, wedding, gang war ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
italy, new york, bronx new york city, europe, sicily ...
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105K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' ...
Style:
neo noir, stylized, futuristic, intense, tense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
gang, survival, street gang, chase, gang war, gangsters, gang member, violence, murder, cult, subway, assassination ...
Time:
future, 70s, 80s, near future, year 1979
Place:
new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, new jersey, los angeles, bronx new york city ...
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163
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Set in the Bronx, BABYGIRL is a bittersweet drama about teenager Lena, who, since she can remember, has watched her mom Lucy squander her life on a series of deadbeat men. When Victor (her mom's latest boy toy) starts hitting on her, Lena sets ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, feminist film
Plot:
mother's boyfriend, love triangle, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, single parent, single mother, teenage life, family problems, relationships, male female relationship, teenager, love story ...
Place:
bronx new york city, new york
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Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
A ragtag group of teenagers run wild in the streets of the Bronx in the late 1970s.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thought provoking, serious, interesting
Plot:
teenager, black cast, subculture, social relations, society, city life, class society, teenage life, culture, urban ghetto, drastic change of life, hip hop culture ...
Time:
70s
Place:
bronx new york city, new york
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Depicts a heist of old bills, retired from circulation and destined by the government to be "money to burn". However, more broadly, it addresses the issues of Black Americans' involvement in the Vietnam War and their subsequent ...
Style:
realistic, disturbing, intense, tense, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
heist, vietnam war, gangsters, violence, redemption, robbery, gang, blaxploitation, african american, brutality, violent, suspense ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, new york, bronx new york city, africa, asia ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Three gutsy kids from a rapidly gentrifying Bronx neighborhood stumble upon a sinister plot to suck all the life from their beloved community.
Style:
parody, not serious, humorous, satirical, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, gangsters, fight, chase, racial stereotype, exorcism, monster, satire, group of teenagers, social satire, teenage life ...
Place:
bronx new york city, new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The streets of the Bronx are owned by 60’s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’
Style:
harsh, intense, allegory, unusual plot structure, visually appealing ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, gang, rock and roll, cheerleader, american football, street gang, teenager, bullying, high school, gangsters, subculture, organized crime ...
Time:
60s, 80s, 20th century, year 1963
Place:
new york, usa, bronx new york city, new jersey, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two African-Americans and two Puerto-Ricans (though one pretends to be Italian) go out on the town on a Friday night. They will be forced to get to know each other, and even worst, learn to like each other as friends
Style:
entertaining, talky, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
friends, gangsters, hip hop culture, hip hop, brotherhood, gang, blaxploitation, subway, police, interracial relations, friendship, bittersweet ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A business man decides that he wants to teach school in the inner city and chooses a tough school in the South Bronx. He teaches the children how to play the game of chess, and along the way they learn a lot about life.
Style:
uplifting, touching, realistic, serious
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
chess, school, teacher, misfit, youth, ambition, elementary school, teachers and students, lifestyle, hardcase students, high school life, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, bronx new york city
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
For two friends on the brink of losing everything, a dusty pipe dream of opening up an upscale restaurant in their hometown of the Bronx is all they have left to turn their lives around. Together, they take on the insanity of the New York restaurant ...
Style:
tense, serious, sincere, suspenseful, sitcom
Plot:
bandit, ex convict, restaurant, restaurant owner, food, father son relationship, love interest, single father, dead wife, corruption, self destructing, wine ...
Place:
bronx new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The Rizzos, a family who doesn't share their habits, aspirations, and careers with one another, find their delicate web of lies disturbed by the arrival of a young ex-con brought home by Vince, the patriarch of the family, who is a corrections ...
Style:
feel good, sexy, witty, emotional, funny ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, audition, eccentric family, character study, warden, deception, teenage boy, family life, family problems, prison, nothing goes right, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, bronx new york city, new jersey, manhattan new york city
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227K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young boy, Josh Baskin makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big. He wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how ...
Style:
sweet, feel good, touching, humorous, funny ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
body swapping, child as adult, teenager, friendship, adolescence, magic, toys, coming of age, child's point of view, fish out of water, childhood, wish fulfillment ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, bronx new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.
Style:
melancholic, light, harsh, talky, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hip hop, dancing, gangsters, rap, gang, music, graffiti, city, coming of age, dysfunctional family, unlikely friendships, finnish ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
new york, tokyo, san francisco, california, usa ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Harry and Sue Lewis met in the 40s as teenagers living in the Bronx. He was an aspiring architect, she was the most beautiful girl in school, and both had a fondness for bran muffins. They fell in love, got married, moved to Los Angeles, and had two ...
Style:
melancholic, romantic, sweet, intense, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
infidelity, fall in love, love story, happy ending, friendship, unlikely friendships, midlife crisis, couple relations, couples, self discovery, lifestyle, love ...
Time:
1940s, 70s
Place:
usa, bronx new york city, new york, argentina
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a successful New York public defender loses his first case, he is pulled into a drug heist by a former client in an effort to beat the broken system at its own game.
Style:
tense, captivating, humorous, psycho film
Plot:
drug bust, drug dealer, war on drugs, drugs, fighting crime, attorney, society, criminal, illegal drugs, fighting the system, lynching, crime boss ...
Place:
bronx new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Malcolm and Sofia, two determined teens from the Bronx, are the ultimate graffiti-writers. When a rival gang buffs their latest masterpiece, they must hatch a plan to get revenge by tagging an iconic NYC landmark, but they need to raise $500 to pull ...
Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, rough, light
Plot:
gang, graffiti, teenager, drug dealing, juvenile delinquency, city life, cons and scams, teenage life, vandalism, coming of age, gangsters, street art ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, africa, bronx new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Sequel to the 2003 dance movie Honey. Recently released from juvenile detention, talented dancer Maria Ramirez finds an outlet for her passion with a new dance crew.
Style:
captivating, uplifting, feel good, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
dancing, dance school, dancer's life, street dance, juvenile delinquency, music, rise to the top, rivalry, ambition, fall in love, dancer, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bronx new york city, usa, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
in 1957 an African-American criminal lawyer (Courtney B. Vance) defends his nephew, who faces the death penalty for murdering a white boy. Charles S. Dutton, Kadeem Hardison, Garland Whitt and Lonette McKee costar in this drama of racial and social ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious
Plot:
gay, lgbt, murder, criminal lawyer, gay slur, false accusation, courtroom drama, siblings relations, interracial relations, racism, police corruption, injustice ...
Time:
50s
Place:
bronx new york city, usa, new york
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359K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he's a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he's a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his ...
Style:
stylized, atmospheric, bloody, breathtaking, harsh ...
Plot:
character study, boxing, violent, sport, rise and fall, bad temper, tragedy, redemption, jealousy, gangsters, paranoia, fight ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 50s, 1940s, year 1956 ...
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, italy, detroit, miami ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Keong befriends a neighbor kid and beats up ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, entertaining, semi serious, exciting ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, martial artist, gang, kung fu, fight, gangsters, fight scenes, supermarket, street life, righting the wronged, revenge, rescue ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
china, new york, tokyo, hong kong, bronx new york city ...
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781
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Donna and Michael are getting married. But first, they have to plan the reception, get the tux, buy the rings, and cope with their own uncertainty about the decision. Michael fears commitment. Donna has her doubts about Michael's immaturity. ...
Style:
funny, biting, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
wedding, family relations, true love, friendship, argument, fall in love, looking for love, singleness, twentysomething life, couple relations, homecoming, family gatherings ...
Time:
80s
Place:
bronx new york city, new york, usa, atlantic city new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile
Style:
light, semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, gangsters, brutality, courage, eccentric family, redemption, aging, human nature, couples, single father, money, writers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city, new york yankees ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
After the gangsters who killed his father come to settle a score, a teenage boy and his mother turn the tables on the killers - one Latino family's quest for honor and revenge as the hunted become the hunters.
Style:
exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, on the run, pregnancy, haunted by the past, rivalry, drug dealing, vigilantism, revenge, murder, death of father, suspense, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
puerto rico, usa, latin america, new york, bronx new york city
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23K
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts
Style:
inspirational, realistic, sincere, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, date night, teen drama
Plot:
music, high school, dancing, teenager, teacher, gay, life philosophy, high school life, dysfunctional family, unlikely friendships, audition, graduation ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city
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132K
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In 1964, a Catholic school nun questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student, suspecting him of abuse. He denies the charges, and much of the film's quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality, and ...
Style:
sincere, psychological, clever, enigmatic, bleak ...
Plot:
priest, clergy, suspense, religion, sexual abuse, nun, teacher, guilt, pedophilia, pedophile, catholic, school ...
Time:
60s, victorian era, year 1964, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, bronx new york city
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