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- 12-year-old Mathilda is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. An unusual relationship forms as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin's trade.
- When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories forever.
- David Marks, a real estate scion, is suspected of killing his wife Katie, who disappeared in 1982.
- An exceptionally-adept Florida lawyer is offered a job at a high-end New York City law firm with a high-end boss--the biggest opportunity of his career to date.
- When New York is put under siege by Oscorp, it is up to Spider-Man to save the city he swore to protect as well as his loved ones.
- A mysterious pill that enables the user to access 100% of his brain's abilities transforms a struggling writer into a financial wizard, but it also puts him in a new world with many dangers.
- Although they live married lives, two strangers keep running into each other, starting a friendship that could blossom into so much more.
- A New York woman apprentices for a dance company and throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as the possibility of realizing them dwindles.
- A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.
- A Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons.
- Three friends set out to disprove cannibalism on a trip to the Amazonian jungle, where they meet two men trying to escape a vicious cannibal tribe.
- A middle-aged, misanthropic divorcé from New York City surprisingly enters a fulfilling, Pygmalion-type relationship with a much younger, unsophisticated Southern girl.
- Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.
- While examining the influence of the fast food industry, Morgan Spurlock personally explores the consequences on his health of a diet of solely McDonald's food for one month.
- A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.
- In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city.
- Two friends who have gone too long without sex set out to get some.
- With the aid from a New York City policeman, a top immigrant cop tries to stop drug-trafficking and corruption by immigrant Chinese Triads, but things get complicated when the Triads try to bribe the policeman.
- A cynical former civil liberties attorney now reduced to "specializing" in defending drug dealers becomes transformed by an eight-year-old murder case.
- A 40-year-old father's life is complicated when the mother of his two children moves to New York. Since he can't bear them growing up far away from him, he decides to move there as well.
- A self-anointed 'renegade' male flight attendant must save the day when the airline he works for tries to eliminate flight attendants as a cost-cutting measure.
- Brian, painter Ellen and chef Sam timeshare an apartment on different days. A shift on Mon/Wednesdays causes mistaken identity as Ellen and Sam have never met but leave notes, food etc. behind for each other.
- In 1969 PRChina, two men survive a supernatural tomb. They later become tomb raiders with Shirley/Shu Qi. 20 years later in NYC, one is hired to find that tomb again and the 2 friends follow later.
- All the while, Master Chu tries to find his place in the foreign American world.
- Having reached the lowest point in his life, a self-destructive man on the brink of demise receives an unexpected call from his estranged sister to look after her young daughter for the night. Could this be the beginning of a new reality?
- Ruthless narcotics dealer and white slavery ring leader Olga keeps her harem of girls in line by hooking them on addictive drugs. Olga suspects an informant in their midst and uses various brutal methods of torture to weed out the squealer. Meanwhile, several of Olga's girls plot their revenge against Olga for her continual sadistic treatment of them.
- A boy surrounded by violence grows up to become an infamous gangster.
- Torn between his identity of his community and the NYPD, Detective Jack Yu delivers news of a son's murder to the victim's parents at the height of a gang turf war in Manhattan's Chinatown.
- A tough black martial artist cop takes on warring street gangs and an evil demon that haunts the New York City subways.
- Olga uses pot parties and comic-book violence to turn Gigi Darlene and other female captives before putting them to work as drug-addicted hookers.
- Giorgio's Lobster Farm has been a tradition in Brooklyn for over 65 years. Manned by an eccentric crew and serving the best seafood in the state, the renowned establishment now faces grave financial troubles. The Giorgio family must find a way to hold on to the business or risk losing the cornerstone of their identity. Under pressure, each member of the family is forced to take a new tack in their personal relationships.
- Filmmaker Roddy Bogawa reflects on his childhood in Hawaii and his involvement in the Los Angeles punk scene of the 1970s.
- Sam (Victor Rasuk) is a New Yorker and art teacher who is fixated on the TriBeCa neighborhood he grew up in, despite the fact that many of the people and places he grew up with are gone. Meanwhile, his girlfriend Rose (Gillian Zinser), an ambitious city transplant, is frustrated with her job writing for an online magazine about "city" lifestyle, which takes up most of her time and energy. When she drags Sam to a work party, her mysterious boss Dalia (Ione Skye), also a native New Yorker, takes an interest in him. As Sam finds an unlikely kindred spirit in Dalia, Rose connects with an alluring co-worker (iO Tillet Wright).
- Bloody gang fight story in New York China Town.
- Martin admits he has some repressed feelings regarding the death of his uncle. Katy takes him to Coney Island.
- A dishwasher feels confined in his world and longs for the glamour of New York.
- Nin Kwok has a peaceful life in New Jersey with a wife and child. But an attempt on the life of his foster father takes him back to the mean streets of New York.
- An amazing, witty and quite disturbing fiction, portrait of Julia, a 'wigger' who has a talent for beatbox. Shot in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Dumbo, The Bronx, Central Park, Cosney Island... with a cast composed by young actors discovered by Larry Clark, Michel Gondry and Adam Leon. A french girl teenager arrived in New York to meet her father. She has a special talent : the beatbox (imitate the sound of the drums with her mouth)...
- A documentary of an exhibition tournament in Japan showing the difference between American and Japanese gaming cultures.
- Within this building of 762 apartments there's a story in each of them.
- Although not officially an entry in the Traveltalks series, the same production crew was used for this two-reeler, and the opening credits have the same appearance. The film visits many of the neighborhoods and landmarks on Manhattan Island and occasionally includes a history lesson. The neighborhoods include the Bowery, Chinatown, Herald Square, and Times Square. Some of the architectural highlights are the Empire State Building, the New York Public Library, Temple Emanuel, the Central Park Zoo, and the Rockefeller Center complex. The film ends in with a visit to a dining room in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where the Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra entertains.
- A young boy from Chinatown befriends an elderly Central Park carriage driver. When the driver's horse dies, the young boy bands together with his friends to try and cheer him up.
- The first 3 minutes of this Vitaphone Melody Master feature Phil Spitalny's orchestra playing popular music. The band's singer then fantasizes about her experience when she first arrived in America, looking for "Uncle Phil." As she wanders through the various ethnic neighborhoods of New York City (the Bowery; Hester Street; Mott Street; Harlem), music associated with each area is heard. She finally hears music from her homeland being played in a restaurant and is united with her relatives.
- Upon inheriting her grandmother's dream interpreting business, Alice must decide between the client's expectations of her versus her family's plans in order to find her own path.
- Bella is an emigrant girl doing sweatshop work in the ghetto of a great city. By saving for some time, she manages to get together enough money to send to the old country for her two little sisters. She meets them at Ellis Island and escorts them across Battery Park to their new home. The three girls live with an uncle and aunt in one poor room in a tenement. The smallest of the sisters while playing on the sidewalk one day, gets lost and suddenly finds herself in Chinatown. She is dismayed at the entirely strange surroundings, and is weeping bitterly when found by John Magie, a young settlement worker. He dries her tears and takes her safely to her sweatshop home. John is at once attracted by Bella, whom he meets for the first time when he brings the little one back. He does the family many little kindnesses, bringing them flowers and books, and induces the girls to attend the classes at the settlement. While teaching his class one evening, John is suddenly attacked with a fever, which is epidemic at that time. All his pupils flee from him in fear, except Bella, who remains and nurses him back to health. Upon his recovery John makes Bella his wife and they take up together the work of bringing knowledge and happiness to the poor of the East Side.
- Nick (Nick Basil), and Tony (Henry Armetta, as Tony Martin), are New York City taxicab drivers, who are constantly arguing in broken-English and Italian, who take two out-of-town school teachers on a sight-seeing tour of their fair burg. They pick them up at Pennsylvania Station and drive through Washington Square, the Bowery, Chinatown, the financial district, by City Hall and, finally, across the Brooklyn Bridge.
- In China, a boy reads a legend about a mysterious woman's power over a wealthy Mandarin prince. In New York, Betty Cardon, a social butterfly, disregards her husband Blair's order to stop gambling their money at bridge, and finds herself in debt to Geoffrey North, who, encouraged by her flirting, now wants sexual payment. Cherry Blossom, a Chinese girl who refuses to be sold by her father to the brutal Li Hsun, a wealthy Mandarin, hides in Betty's home after Betty's friend, Susan Pettigrew, a mission worker, introduces them. Panicked and distraught, Betty accepts Li Hsun's gold for Cherry Blossom. She guiltily follows them and witnesses Cherry Blossom's torture to force her to give up her lover. Both are killed when she refuses. Blair arrives with the police who shoot Li Hsun trying to escape. After Blair denounces Betty, she awakens to discover she dreamed she accepted Li Hsun's offer. She then confesses to Blair and vows to stop gambling.