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A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

A greedy film producer assembles a team of moviemakers and sets out for the infamous Skull Island, where they find more than just cannibalistic natives.

A gay Chinese-American and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.

What would you do if you could travel to your loved ones' past, heal their traumas, fix their problems, and change them into the perfect partner?

An unethical lawyer who wants to help his older brother becomes a partner with a client in the numbers racket.

A middle-aged spinster falls in love with a fellow resident of her boardinghouse, who mistakenly believes she has the money to help him start a new business.

Texan debutante Valentine Ransome tries to reform a bankrupt playboy.

Acquitted of murder charges, Carlotta moves to New York to start a new life.

A boy runs away from home and ends up at a music school for poor children. When the school suffers hard times, he enlists the aid of violinist Heifetz to save the day.

Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall after Siddall is arrested for the murder of an ex-girlfriend. With the help of nightclub singer Pat Abbott and crime boss Tony Gazotti (a former client), Durant launches his own investigation of the murder in order to prove his friend's innocence.

A theater producer and his protege star fall in love and decide to wed. In route to their nuptials, tragedy strikes and the would-be groom ends up bound to a wheelchair. Nine years later, the wife tries to adopt a little girl.

An ex-Hollywood screenwriter, now teaching an evening class in New York, finds himself in a battle of wits with a devious screenwriting student.

Kay Parrish, a society girl, finds she is penniless when her father dies. However she persuades Terry Gallagher to give her a hostess job at his New York City clip-joint, which he operates on the theory that if the suckers want it he'll give it to them, albeit he does apply some principles regarding the matter. A Broadway playboy, Greg Emerson, falls in love with Kay and proposes but his high-society parents object strongly. Terry. although he also has fallen in love with Kay and doesn't realize she feels the same about him, sets out to provide a happy ending for the couple.

American artist Lee Thornwood (John Boles) and his model, Sally Dennis (Frances Drake), appear to be made for each other, but he weds Parisian designer Toni Bonnet (Luli Deste) instead...and sings "Parlez-moi d'Amour/Speak to Me of Love" in both French and English along the way. Later, after the marriage breaks up, his housekeeper, Martha Moriarity (Helen Westley), attempts to bring Lee and Sally back together.

Essential, integral experimental work from the late 1950s is an incredible dance of montage and super-imposition starring none other than New York City's various bridges, transforming them into an urban jungle (jazz version) or an alien landscape (electro-acoustic version)

Forever Into Space tells the story of Audrey Harrington (Kelly Sebastian), an over-educated and underemployed twenty-something film blogger attempting to make sense of the times while living in New York City during a period of societal change and cultural shifts. As she finds her way we meet her "city family," a group of disillusioned - and sometimes entitled - young adults dealing with challenges of their own.

In the first of Paramount's "Headliner" series, narrator Ted Husing travels up and down and around Broadway and other main stem New York City locations, and views the likes of Earl Carroll picking show-girls for hie Varieties; Al Jolson and Jack Benny rehearsing their radio programs; and other celebs, such as Gary Cooper visiting The Big Apple, and Bea Lillie and Sophie Tucker and others caught by the Headliner camera.

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.

Subjects include: "Zoological Antics", "Swapping Foundations Under New York Skyscrapers", "Physical Experiments" (aka "Experiments with Light Rays"), and the cartoon Colonel Heeza Liar, Detective (1917).

A male and female bee meet. They dance, they fall in love, they pollinate. Unwittingly, they drink the nectar from a zombie flower and become zomblebees.

Shy college student Nasir Khan spends the night with a quirky, mysterious girl, and is horrified when he awakens to find she has been murdered.

The future is now as the designers use 3D printing technology to create avant garde fashion! It's the most fashion forward challenge yet. Pop icon, Mel B, guest judges.