
14 Oct 1973

Mean Streets
A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.

Exiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in London, Dmytryk's Give Us This Day is set in New York during the depression. Fellow blacklistee Sam Wanamaker is starred as the head of an Italian immigrant family struggling to survive the economic crisis.

Geremio

Annuziata

Kathleen

Luigi

Julio

Giovanni

The lucy

Head of Pig

Murdin

Jaroslav

Katarina

Julio's Wife

Bastian
Pietro
Pasquale

14 Oct 1973

A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.

25 Feb 1977

A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.

14 Sep 1990

Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects with Jackie, a childhood friend and member of the Irish mob, and rekindles his love affair with Jackie's sister Kathleen.

11 Sep 2023

Saúl, a young bricklayer from Chilpancingo, Mexico, dreams of dancing in Los Tlacololeros dance, but lack of money and family problems prevent him from doing so. The brother of the girl he likes invites him to belong to his criminal group.

15 Sep 1993

A chronicle of three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York’s Little Italy.

23 Dec 1976

When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.

02 Apr 1922

A bricklayer and his wife clash over his end-of-the-week partying.

28 Oct 1965

Sergeant Cruchot and his faithful comrades have been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y.

27 Jul 1960

A beautifully rendered, fact-based crime film about a crusading Italian policeman battling Black Hand extortionists in New York’s Little Italy is back on the big screen. In addition to Ernest Borgnine’s brilliantly sensitive portrayal as Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino, this engrossing picture is deftly photographed by Lucien Ballard, beautifully scored by David Raksin with a stellar supporting cast including Zohra Lampert and Alan Austin. Literate, suspenseful and emotionally moving, this memorable film remains the definitive depiction about the emergence of the Mafia in America.

19 Oct 2001

An author spends a year and a half filming what happens as a new apartment building is built in a neighborhood of Barcelona.

28 Nov 1973

Mimoza is a haughty girl who only argues with her friends. However, through experiences and advice, she will change and become friendlier.

24 Jun 2025

If you walk down Manhattan’s Houston Street, you probably won’t notice this restaurant — unless you wonder what all the people are standing in line for. It’s famous, yet most people have never heard about it.

24 Nov 2025

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07 Feb 2026
A short companion piece that offers a present day walk through of Little Italy, now juxtaposing modern scenes with the world depicted in Mean Streets to illuminate its cultural and historical roots.

27 Nov 2004

Holly Grant has learned a long time ago not to rely on Santa Claus leaving Mr. Right in her Christmas stocking. But Holly is in for a surprise when a handsome man arrives on her doorstep with a twinkle in his eye and Yuletide tree in tow.