Tisch School of the Arts (NYU) Popular Movie

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Zeph Michelis

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...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Peter Bernuth

Now middle-aged, mobster Murray looks back at his humble beginnings as a bootlegger and his rise to becoming wealthy and highly influential. Through...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ira Rubin

This animated twist on Halloween memories involves the traumatic theft of a candy bag on Halloween night.

Genre: Horror

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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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Grayson Taylor

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rachel Sennott

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Danny DeVito

It’s just another ordinary day in 1930s Los Angeles for private investigator Clyde Umney, until a new client walks into his office. Umney soon...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Joel Nagle

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...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Brian K. Vaughan

Home from college, Alex reconnects with his sister Sam to work through an anxiety attack on New Year’s Eve.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brant Simmons

Samah attempts tirelessly to escape wearing a burkini for her middle school swim meet, feeling embarrassed by its shape and cultural meaning.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paloma Mafoud

A devastating plague has wiped out half the population of New York City, leaving it in a perpetual state of emergency. After years of lockdown, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Baksh

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...

Genre: History

Cast: Jasmine Guy

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Monty Ross

On the stormy night of July 5th, 1995, Trick Stuart works the graveyard shift with his plus-sized pal Meathead at the Delta Kream, a 24HR fast food...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: David Rysdahl

An Olympic platform diver struggles to return to the pool after a horrific training accident.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Steele Johnson

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ryan G. Metzger

A young woman wakes up on a train going to an unknown destination. She has no recollection of how she got there or where she is. She finds herself in...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Nina Chatterjee

On a laid-back summer day, a young woman spends some time with her casual partner. Irmak Akgur directs "Limerence," a slice-of-life portrait that...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Zeynep Kalender

The first animated short by Michael Dougherty, about a young kid trying to survive in a Catholic school.

Genre: Animation

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