Crime, Drama, Thriller
A 19 year old Brooklyn boy who is torn between two worlds when his photography portfolio wins him a partial scholarship to NYU. He must figure out how to balance his Italian neighborhood roots with the expansive, sophisticated world on the other side of the East River. Based on Tim McLoughlin's novel "Heart of the Old Country".
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Simon Birch
The Butcher Boy
The Prince and the Pauper
American Son
The Orange Girl
Black Cloud
Dear John
Paper Towns
Dark Mirror
Ežo Vlkolinský
Peter a Lucia
Liz and the Blue Bird
The Stone Killer
Tony Rome
The Canyon
Park Row
Pépé le Moko
Harper
Over the GW
Dragonwyck
SIMILAR MOVIES
Simon Birch
IMDB 6.8 | Sep , 1998
Simon Birch and Joe Wenteworth are boys who have a reputation for being oddballs. Joe never knew his father, and his mother, Rebecca, is keeping her lips sealed no matter how much he protests. Simon, meanwhile, is an 11-year-old dwarf whose outsize personality belies his small stature. Indeed, he often assails the local reverend with thorny theological questions and joins Joe on his quest to find his biological father.The Butcher Boy
IMDB 6.8 | Feb , 1998
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tries to counter it with further insanity, with dire consequences.The Prince and the Pauper
IMDB 6 | Jun , 1977
Tom Canty is a poor English boy who bears a remarkable resemblance to Edward, Prince of Wales and son of King Henry VIII. The two boys meet and decide to play a joke on the court by dressing in each other's clothes, but the plan goes awry when they're separated and each must live the other's life.American Son
IMDB 4.1 | Jan , 2008
The story of a young Marine, fresh from Camp Pendleton, who is forced to confront the complexities of adulthood and a volatile home life during a four-day Thanksgiving leave.The Orange Girl
IMDB 5.8 | Feb , 2009
The film is based on a 2003 novel by the same name, written by Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder. The main character is the young boy Georg who one day finds a long letter from his deceased father. The letter tells, among other things, about the father's youthful love for the mysterious "orange girl" (appelsinpiken), and leaves a mystery for Georg to solve.Black Cloud
IMDB 3.6 | Jan , 2004
Black Cloud, is an inspirational story about a young Navajo, Native American boxer, who overcomes personal challenges as he comes to terms with his heritage, while fighting his way for a spot on the US Olympic boxing team.Dear John
IMDB 6.8 | Feb , 2010
While Sergeant John Tyree is home on two weeks leave from Germany, he meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off a pier. John eventually falls in love with Savannah, who promises to write to him until he returns from overseas.Paper Towns
IMDB 6.2 | Jun , 2015
Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge, he follows. After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Quentin arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Quentin soon learns that there are clues, and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer Quentin gets, the less he sees of the girl he thought he knew.Dark Mirror
IMDB 5.1 | Jan , 2007
The story about a photographer who moves her family into a home filled with mirrors which seem to reflect a different reality.Ežo Vlkolinský
IMDB 8 | Jan , 1978
The TV dramatization of PO Hviezdoslav's epic tells of a time when the feudal system as a social force begins to disappear. Its only salvation is to merge with the people. Ežo is a supporter of this idea.Peter a Lucia
IMDB 4.5 | Jan , 1968
Television production about love killed by the rampage of war. It depicts two months of a fragile relationship between a student, Peter, and an amateur painter, Lucie. In Easter week, the young couple's love was supposed to reach its climax, but the lovers' fate is tragically fulfilled - they die in a bombing raid in the ruins of a church.Liz and the Blue Bird
IMDB 7.5 | Apr , 2018
In their last year of high school, two girls in the brass band club perform a song inspired by a fairy tale that parallels their friendship.The Stone Killer
IMDB 6.1 | Aug , 1973
A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.Tony Rome
IMDB 6.3 | Nov , 1967
Tony Rome, a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat, is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry stolen from his daughter, and in the process has several encounters with local hoods as well as the Miami Beach PD.The Canyon
IMDB 5.6 | Oct , 2009
A survival story about a honeymooning couple who get lost in the wide expanse of the Grand Canyon.Park Row
IMDB 6.5 | Sep , 1952
In New York's 1880s newspaper district, a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opposition from one of the bigger papers and its newspaper heiress owner.Pépé le Moko
IMDB 7.2 | Jan , 1937
Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.Harper
IMDB 6.6 | Feb , 1966
Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.Over the GW
IMDB 2.3 | Jan , 2007
A cult-like rehabilitation center abuses, brainwashes and imprisons vulnerable teens.Dragonwyck
IMDB 6.7 | Apr , 1946
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.