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COMEDY

(aka Forever, Lulu) A novelist's search for fame and fortune leads to murder and mistaken identity in NYC in this offbeat 1987 mystery comedy. Starring Hanna Schygulla, Debbie Harry, Alec Baldwin, Brooklyn's Annie Golden (Orange Is The New Black) AND Dr. Ruth!
Join Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Buster Keaton and the Keystone Cops for antics on the boardwalk and beach in this classic 1917 silent comedy, filmed on location in Coney Island!
'Gertie' is one of the world's first animated films, created by pioneering cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay (creator of Little Nemo.) From Brooklyn's legendary Vitagraph Studios!
Comedy team Mitchell and Petrillo (a pair of Martin & Lewis clones) parachute into the jungles of the Pacific island of Cola-Cola, where they meet primitive tribesmen, the chief's sarong-clad daughter Nona, and mad scientist Dr. Zabor (Lugosi) conducting experiments in evolution. Hilarity, fright and gorillas ensue!
To inherit a fortune, voice teacher Shemp must marry before 6:00, but no girl will accept his proposal. Finally one of his repulsive students agrees to marry him, and mayhem ensues. Starring (of course) Brooklyn's own legendary 3 Stooges!
This 1961 comedy is a parody of gangster, spy and monster movies. Directed by Roger Corman and starring Brooklyn-born actress Betsy Jones-Moreland!
"Twelfth Night", produced by Brooklyn's Vitagraph Studios and directed by Charles Kent, is a short film based on the comedy of Shakespeare, featuring silent film star Florence Turner. From 1910.

DRAMA

A previously lost classic from Brooklyn's legendary Vitagraph Studios, with Margaret Gibson, George Holt, Myrtle Gonzalez. The only known performance of famed director William Desmond Taylor, who Margaret Gibson confessed to have murdered in 1921.
An Italian grindhouse crime drama starring Brooklyn-born Henry Silva!
"The Pride of Brooklyn" Jackie Robinson plays himself in this 1950 biopic that traces his early life and struggles with racism as he goes on to become the first African-American player in major league baseball as one of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
This 1974 Drama tells the story of bi-racial Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella, whose career was cut short when he was paralyzed in a 1958 auto accident. Starring Paul Winfield, Ruby Dee and Louis Gosset Jr.
Nightclub singer Angie Evans (Brooklyn's Susan Hayward) puts aside her successful career to marry a struggling songwriter. As he prospers, her self-confidence slips. When her drinking and suspicion drive him to file for divorce, Angie kidnaps their daughter.
A classic noir from 1946 starring Kirk Douglas, Van Heflin and Brooklyn-born screen legend Barbara Stanwyck that deals with wealth, power, secrets and... murder?
Brooklyn's Mickey Rooney stars as a young mechanic drawn into an ever-worsening 'quicksand' of crime to cover up his petty theft to impress femme fatale Vera Novak (Jeanne Cagney.)
In this 1936 classic, an young Brooklyn boy (Freddie Bartholomew) turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He and his widowed mother are sent to England to live with his cold, disapproving grandfather, the Earl.
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman (Brooklyn-born Gene Tierney) living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.

HORROR + SCI-FI

(a.k.a. Communion a.k.a. Holy Terror) A very creepy 1976 cult horror/slasher classic featuring the film debut of a young Brooke Shields, Paula Sheppard (Liquid Sky) and Brooklyn-born Mildred Clinton (Mrs. Tredoni.) Directed by Alfred Sole.
Uncut version of Abel Ferrara's 1979 NYC punk rock slasher classic... with original music by Brooklyn-born composer Joe Delia. For Mature Audiences.
Dr. Bill Cortner preserves his fiancée Jan’s severed head in a pan, then hunts for a new body. His surgeon father (Brooklyn’s Bruce Brighton) condemns his son’s weird methods. Jan’s angry head communicates telepathically with Bill’s other failed transplant experiments to exact her revenge!
In this 1973 cult classic, a mad scientist (Anitra Ford) creates an army of mutated beauties who seduce men and love them... to death! Also starring Brooklyn-born character actor extraordinaire Ben Hammer! (Rated MA for Nudity and extremely groovy situations.)
(1986, Italy) An evil industrialist ( Brooklyn's John Saxon) has created cyborg Paco Querak to kill an ecologist who stands in his way. But Paco's 30% humanity won't let him do it, no matter what his hands are made of!
A scientist, a reporter and repairman are accidentally transported to a prehistoric world in a parallel universe when they fall into a matter transmitter beam during an earthquake aftershock. (That happened a lot in 1983.)
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