Downtown

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows downtown

poster Manhatta
Manhatta
11mn - Documentary
Morning reveals New York harbor, the wharves, the Brooklyn Bridge. A ferry boat docks, disgorging its huddled mass. People move briskly along Wall St. or stroll more languorously through a cemetery. Ranks…
poster A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire
A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire
12mn - Documentary
A Trip Down Market Street is a 13-minute actuality film recorded by placing a movie camera on the front of a cable car as it travels down San Francisco’s Market Street. A virtual time capsule from over 10…
poster Cordeliers' Square in Lyon
Cordeliers' Square in Lyon
1mn - Documentary
Pedestrian and horse-drawn vehicles traffic, across the Place des Cordeliers, in Lyon.
poster Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
67mn - Drama, Romance
Amarilly comes from a large family in a working-class neighborhood. She is happy with her family and her boyfriend Terry, a bartender in a cafe. But one day she meets Gordon, a sculptor who comes from a r…
poster The Campus Carmen
The Campus Carmen
20mn - Comedy
A campus set-up of Carmen featuring Daphne Pollard & Carole Lombard.
poster Bumping Into Broadway
Bumping Into Broadway
25mn - Comedy
A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just bef…
poster The Downy Girl
The Downy Girl
(3.1/5)
124mn - Drama, Comedy, Romance
The mayor's son Mauritz Fristedt, has become deeply in love with the baker's daughter Dunungen. The mayor applauds the engagement because Mauritz will to try to foist a pack of worthless shares from his …
poster Avenue de l'Opéra
Avenue de l'Opéra
(2.8/5)
2mn - Documentary
A shot of a busy street in Paris is shown in reverse.
poster Constantinople, panorama des rives du Bosphore
Constantinople, panorama des rives du Bosphore
1mn - Documentary
Panorama of Constantinople from the river.
poster Paseo a Playa Ancha
Paseo a Playa Ancha
2mn - Documentary
A group of people perform local dances and prepare to have lunch outdoors in Playa Ancha.
poster Manhattan Tower
Manhattan Tower
(3.2/5)
67mn - Drama
When a naive secretary invests her life savings with her charming but corrupt boss in the gleaming Manhattan Tower, she unwittingly becomes entangled in a web of embezzlement, forbidden romance, and high-…
poster Durango Is Coming, Pay or Die
Durango Is Coming, Pay or Die
100mn - Western
A determined debt collector arrives in Tucson to collect his 10% commission after retrieving $100,000 for a corrupt bank president. When the banker refuses to pay and frames him for a crime, the collector…
poster I Cover Chinatown
I Cover Chinatown
(3.1/5)
64mn - Crime, Drama, Music
A tour guide in Chinatown and his girlfriend get mixed up with jewel thieves and murder.
poster Top of the Town
Top of the Town
(2.9/5)
86mn - Music, Comedy
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone…
poster Daring Daughters
Daring Daughters
(2.9/5)
59mn - Drama
Terry Cummings, a savvy and cynical city girl working at a hotel cigar counter, tries to protect her naive younger sister Betty from the predatory men and temptations of big-city life. When Betty arrives …
poster East Side - West Side
East Side - West Side
(3.1/5)
60mn - Drama
Poor, decent young woman Lory (Percy) avoids moral pratfalls after she is employed by a rich family. She falls in love with the son (Harlan) but the couple is separated by his cruel, class-conscious mothe…
poster Chinatown Nights
Chinatown Nights
(2.8/5)
83mn - Drama, Action, Crime
When bored socialite Joan Fry ventures into San Francisco's Chinatown seeking excitement, she becomes caught in the violent crossfire of a brutal gang war and falls for Chuck Riley, the ruthless white lea…
poster The Crowd
The Crowd
(4.1/5)
98mn - Drama
John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid th…
poster Dinty
Dinty
72mn - Adventure, Comedy
Dinty is a newsboy whose fight to care for his ailing mother leads him into conflicts with the other boys on the street and then with drug smugglers in Chinatown.
poster All Dolled Up
All Dolled Up
(3.0/5)
50mn - Comedy, Drama
The department store clerk Mary prevents a robbery at the store where she works, involving a necklace belonging to a rich unmarried woman named Eva Bandy. Later, she manages via a misunderstanding to prev…
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