Directed by Todd Haynes • 2015 • United States
Starring Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler

Todd Haynes’s sumptuous, aching adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel “The Price of Salt” deploys the mechanics of classical melodrama in service of a moving and subversive queer love story for ...

Directed by Peyton Reed • 2003 • United States
Starring Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, David Hyde Pierce

A playfully postmodern take on the Doris Day/Rock Hudson sex comedy, this giddily inventive update delights in the midcentury style and clothes while offering a fresh perspective on the genr...

Directed by Steve Gordon • 1981 • United States
Starring Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud

Dudley Moore delights as the world’s richest and most lovable drunk in this giddy, bubbly modern screwball. He stars as Arthur, a spoiled, perpetually soused New York City millionaire whose family ...

Directed by Peter Sollett • 2002 • United States
Starring Victor Rasuk, Judy Marte, Melonie Diaz

Vividly set amid New York City’s Dominican community, this warm, naturalistic slice-of-life is one of the brightest gems of early-2000s American independent cinema. Growing up on the Lower East Side,...

Directed by Norman Jewison • 1987 • United States
Starring Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia

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 ...

Directed by Woody Allen • 1977 • United States
Starring Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Carol Kane

Woody Allen and Diane Keaton make for one of the great screen couples of the 1970s in this brilliantly bittersweet Oscar winner. Walking a fine line between humor and pathos, Allen plays a neurotic Manh...

Directed by Herbert Ross • 1977 • United States
Starring Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings

Richard Dreyfuss delivers an Academy Award–winning performance in this Neil Simon–penned classic in which romance blooms between two complete opposites forced to share a New York City apartmen...

Directed by Claudia Weill • 1980 • United States
Starring Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, Charles Grodin

Director Claudia Weill’s follow-up to her ’70s New York classic GIRLFRIENDS is another winningly offbeat look at women searching for fulfillment in the big city. Mathematics professor Kate G...

Directed by Ulu Grosbard • 1984 • United States
Starring Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Harvey Keitel

The palpable chemistry between Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro elevates this poignant romance, which plays like a 1980s update of a golden-age Hollywood melodrama. Architectural engineer Frank Ra...

Directed by Jonathan Demme • 1986 • United States
Starring Melanie Griffith, Jeff Daniels, Ray Liotta

A straitlaced businessman meets a quirky, free-spirited woman at a downtown New York greasy spoon. Her offer of a ride back to his office results in a lunchtime motel rendezvous—just the beginni...

Directed by Joan Micklin Silver • 1988 • United States
Starring Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, David Hyde Pierce

Joan Micklin Silver’s wonderfully, warmly Jewish spin on the romantic comedy follows literary, uptown-dwelling Manhattanite Izzy Grossman (a luminous Amy Irving), who finds herself caught...

Directed by Garry Marshall • 1991 • United States
Starring Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hector Elizondo

SCARFACE costars Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer reunited for this tender and witty tale of unlikely romance adapted by theater legend Terrence McNally from his own play. Frankie (Pfeiffer) i...

Directed by Kathleen Collins • 1982 • United States
Starring Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones

One of the first feature films directed by an African American woman, Kathleen Collins’s LOSING GROUND tells the story of a marriage between two remarkable people, both at a crossroads in their lives...

Directed by Mabel Cheung • 1987 • Hong Kong
Starring Cherie Chung, Chow Yun-fat, Danny Chan

A heartfelt tale of love and loneliness unfolds in New York City in this hugely popular romantic drama, the second film in director Mabel Cheung’s Migration Trilogy. Hong Konger Jennifer (Cherie Chung) ar...

Directed by Darnell Martin • 1994 • United States
Starring Luna Lauren Velez, Jon Seda, Desiree Casado

he first film directed by an African American woman to be produced by a major Hollywood studio, Darnell Martin’s vibrant feature debut is a vivid, funny, and refreshingly authentic look at a wo...

Directed by Andrew Bergman • 1994 • United States
Starring Nicolas Cage, Bridget Fonda, Rosie Perez

A true fairy tale unfolds in New York when a humble police officer leaves a two-million-dollar tip to a hard-luck waitress in this whirlwind romantic comedy inspired by a real-life story. Charlie ...

Directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld • 2001 • United States
Starring Jennifer Westfeldt, Heather Juergensen, Scott Cohen

The early-2000s romantic comedy gets a bi-curious twist with this girl-meets-girl indie charmer. After dating a string of disappointing men, neurotic New York journalist Jessic...