Movies: Tisch School Of The Arts Nyu

A writer named Algernon (but called Harry by his friends) buys a picture of a boat on a lake, and his obsession with it renders normal life impossible....

A young man walks into a meticulously clean and sterile bathroom and proceeds to shave away hair, then skin, in an increasingly bloody and graphic bathroom scene....

An unyielding attachment to the partner he lost in the AIDS crisis of 1980s New York propels a lonely gay man to connect with his estranged family....

At a shiva with her parents, a college student runs into her sugar daddy....

Now middle-aged, mobster Murray looks back at his humble beginnings as a bootlegger and his rise to becoming wealthy and highly influential. Through it he talks about how much of his success and happiness is due to the support of his "friend" Joe. Un...

Old memories and ghosts from the past resurface when a man reluctantly agrees to help his now-alcoholic childhood friend sober up over the course of a weekend....

The movie focuses on creating an experimental visual storytelling and questions: 'What makes us who we are."...

A young man's livelihood is put to the test when he gets profiled and stopped by the police on his way home from practice....

A modern day short noir film about suspicion, centered entirely on two characters – an older woman and a younger man. Sylvia tries to get Jim to kill someone off for her, but he fails – and now he thinks he’s being followed....

A down-on-his-luck photographer determined to capture visual magic and fame. He concocts an intricate plot to blow up the Statue of Liberty and sets his camera to record the exact moment of its destruction....

A young woman comes home to Taiwan, to say goodbye to her father before he goes to prison....

In Belleau Wood, France, during the Great War, a soldier named John writes a letter home to his wife Sara in Milwaukee. He writes that her picture "helps me remember what it was like to be me." He tells her about sorties into No Man's Land, and that ...

This visually ravishing and thought-provoking work portrays one of the USA’s great shames—the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till by two white men in Mississippi—and movingly reminds us of this dark episode’s enduring relevance....

Pedro, an outsider trapped in a passionless marriage, secretly escapes through music. When he meets Kira, another outsider who shares his yearning for true intimacy, they begin a risky conversational affair....

Based her grandfather’s boyhood in St. Louis, Yasmin Gorenberg tells a story of the pain passed from refugee parents to their children and the hope that can overcome it. “40 Nickels” captures the image of a generation of immigrants to the United Sta...

Zack Homer takes over managing the barbershop after Joe is killed for trying to rip off his "investor", Mr. Lovejoy. All Zack wants to do is run a traditional barbershop giving traditional haircuts, but modern styles have passed him by and business i...

Holly, an anxiety-ridden high school sophomore, is faced with the challenge of giving a class presentation....

On the day Maria commands her six-year-old son never to scream, John begins to perceive his mother's suppressed pain, as well as her intolerance for weakness. Ten years later, John's shameful secret will cause Maria to break her own rule....

Rural Appalachia explored through the eyes of two young brothers....

Max, a deaf 12-year-old, becomes infatuated with his big sister's boyfriend during a weekend retreat....