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'80s New York Sleaze

Showcasing the gritty, underground, hidden sides of NYC, from No Wave to nuclear mutants. Horror, exploitation, crime, subcultural and oddball cult flicks of the late '70s (after Taxi Driver) until 1990. Includes latter-day documentaries and films shot during that time period but released later.

Only in New York, baby!*

* I have never been to New York

  • Taxi Driver
  • The Blank Generation
  • Marathon Man
  • Sex Wish
  • God Told Me To
  • News from Home
  • The Police Tapes
  • The Sentinel
  • Audrey Rose
  • Bad
  • The Prince of Central Park
  • Death Promise
  • Short Eyes
  • Looking for Mr. Goodbar
  • Blitzkrieg Bop!
  • A Dream Is What You Wake Up From
  • Fingers
  • Eyes of Laura Mars
  • Blackout
  • Bloodbrothers
  • The Squeeze
  • King of the Gypsies
  • Rome '78
  • They Eat Scum
  • Alien Portrait
  • The Deadly Art of Survival
  • Beauty Becomes the Beast
  • The Warriors
  • From Corleone to Brooklyn
  • Love at First Bite
  • El Super
  • Nocturna
  • The Driller Killer
  • Stone Cold Dead
  • Windows
  • Inferno
  • Cruising
  • 80 Blocks from Tiffany's
  • Defiance
  • Maniac
  • Bloodrage
  • Night of the Juggler
  • Dressed to Kill
  • Contamination
  • Gloria
  • The Exterminator
  • Hoodlums
  • Permanent Vacation
  • Seed of Innocence
  • Blank Generation
  • The First Deadly Sin
  • Times Square
  • House on the Edge of the Park
  • Fort Apache, the Bronx
  • Nighthawks
  • Subway Riders
  • Ms .45
  • The Fan
  • Escape from New York
  • Wolfen
  • The House by the Cemetery
  • Prince of the City
  • So Fine
  • Tulips
  • Tattoo
  • Nightmare
  • A Policewoman in New York
  • Baby Doll
  • A Stranger Is Watching
  • The New York Ripper
  • Basket Case
  • I, the Jury
  • Q: The Winged Serpent
  • Vigilante
  • Dreams Don't Die
  • T.V. Transvestite
  • Night Shift
  • Liquid Sky
  • Wild Style
  • Manhattan Baby
  • The Last Horror Film
  • 1990: The Bronx Warriors
  • Vortex
  • Smithereens
  • Hey Good Lookin'
  • The Clairvoyant
  • Still of the Night
  • Style Wars
  • Goodbye 42nd Street
  • Born in Flames
  • Copkiller
  • American Nightmare
  • Exposed
  • The Hunger
  • 2019: After the Fall of New York
  • Escape from the Bronx
  • Pain Mania
  • Variety
  • Den of Dominance
  • New York Nights