The New Yorker at 100

Hard-hitting journalism. Era-defining fiction. Witty cartoons. The New Yorker marks its 100th anniversary with this look at its past, present and future. The New Yorker's centennial reveals behind-the-scenes access to editors, writers, and archives of this culturally vital magazine, one of print's last survivors.

Bright Lights, Big City

1988

English

5.7

♡ 12

57%

38%

Action

based on novel or book

James Bridges Director

Phoebe Cates as Amanda

David Hyde Pierce as Bartender at Fashion Show

John Houseman as Mr. Vogel

Kiefer Sutherland as Tad

A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.

When We Went MAD!

2025

English

7.1

♡ 2

A historical documentary and tribute to the legacy and influence of MAD Magazine, featuring interviews with MAD celebrity readers, along with MAD artists, writers, and editors—affectionately known as "The Usual Gang of Idiots".

Cover Girl

1944

English

6.7

♡ 13

94%

Charles Vidor Director

Barbara Pepper as Chorus Girl

Virginia Gardner as Chorus Girl

Sam Flint as Coudair's Butler

Betty Jane Graham as Cover Girl: McCalls

A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.

Life

2015

English

6.0

♡ 25

63%

Anton Corbijn Director

Robert Pattinson as Dennis Stock

Barbara Gordon as Grandma Dean

Ben Kingsley as Jack Warner

Dane DeHaan as James Dean

In 1955, young photographer Dennis Stock develops a close bond with actor James Dean while shooting pictures of the rising Hollywood star.

Her Private Hell

1968

English

4.8

♡ 4

Norman J. Warren Director

Terence Skelton as Bernie

Lucia Modugno as Marisa

Robert Crewdson as Neville

Jeannette Wild as Paula

A young Italian girl comes to London, and is tricked into posing nude for risqué magazines.

Fixing Pete

2011

English

5.9

♡ 3

Michael Grossman Director

Brooke Burns as Ashley

Sufe Bradshaw as Janice Taylor

Charlie Schlatter as Marty

Mercedes Colon as Taryn

Ashley is a journalist and does makeovers for a TV show. Her editor offers her the job of being the editor of a new fashion supplement, provided she does a makeover on a sports writer, who is an uncouth, loudmouthed, sexist slob.

The Bride Comes Home

1935

English

6.1

♡ 3

Wesley Ruggles Director

Fred MacMurray as Cyrus Anderson

Richard Carle as Frank - Butler

Robert Young as Jack Bristow

Claudette Colbert as Jeannette Desmereau

A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon, however, they find themselves more interested in her than in their publishing venture.

Delirium

1987

Italian

5.7

♡ 13

Lamberto Bava Director

George Eastman as Alex

Capucine as Flora

Serena Grandi as Gioia

Karl Zinny as Mark

Gioia is a buxom centerfold working for Pussycat magazine. In such a profession, having an admirer or two is expected, but Gioia's admirer is a vicious killer! He murders her fellow magazine models one at a time, using a variety of twisted implements of death. Gioia is the lucky recipient of a collection of photos, each with murdered bodies arranged around posters of her.

All in a Night's Work

1961

English

6.1

♡ 6

43%

Joseph Anthony Director

Charles Evans as Colonel Ryder

Mary Treen as Miss Schuster

Kenneth Gibson as Nightclub Patron

Ian Wolfe as O'Hara

After the sudden death of magazine publisher Colonel Ryder, his nephew, Tony inherits the magazine and has big plans to expand it. While negotiating a loan from the bank, Tony gets a call from a detective surrounding his uncle's death. It turns out Colonel Ryder died in his hotel room with a smile on his face and a young woman was seen fleeing his room wearing only a towel. Suspicious of this woman and afraid the magazine's wholesome image may be tarnished and their loan denied, Tony asks the detective to stick around and find her.

Positively Naked

2005

English

6.4

♡ 3

David Nelson Director

Spence Sutton as Self

Ron Singleton as Self

Sean O. Strub as Self

Barbara Kemper Powell as Self

No clothes. No apologies. This film marks artist Spencer Tunick's third 'Naked' documentary which feature photo shoots that create art from the naked bodies of men and women. In this shoot, 85 HIV-positive men and women gather in a downtown Manhattan bar where they bare it all for Tunick's camera, creating an unsentimental look at life with AIDS in America today.

Wife vs. Secretary

1936

English

7.0

♡ 4

70%

Clarence Brown Director

James Stewart as Dave

Jean Harlow as Helen

Myrna Loy as Linda Stanhope

John Qualen as Mr. Jenkins

Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

2008

English

6.4

♡ 48

36%

42%

Action

based on memoir or autobiography

Robert B. Weide Director

Kirsten Dunst as Alison Olsen

Jeff Bridges as Clayton Harding

Kate Winslet as Herself

Megan Fox as Sophie Maes

Sidney Young is a down-on-his-luck journalist. Thanks to a stint involving a pig and a glitzy awards ceremony, Sidney turns his fortunes around, attracting the attention of Clayton Harding, editor of New York-based glossy magazine 'Sharps', and landing the holy grail of journalism jobs. The Brit jets off to the Big Apple and moves from one blunder to the next.

Search for Beauty

1934

English

6.0

♡ 3

7%

Erle C. Kenton Director

Ida Lupino as Barbara Hilton

Lynn Bari as Beauty Contestant Entrant

Ann Sheridan as Dallas Beauty Winner

Buster Crabbe as Don Jackson

Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.

Sex and the Single Girl

1964

English

6.4

♡ 4

50%

56%

Action

breaking the fourth wall

Richard Quine Director

Robert Foulk as Arresting Police Detective

David Armstrong as Attendant

Kenneth Gibson as Office Worker

Barbara Bouchet as Photographer at Anniversary Party

A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown.

Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction

2020

Japanese

6.4

♡ 1

Daihachi Yoshida Director

Shirô Sano as Kazuo Kudo

Elaiza Ikeda as Saki Joshima

Yô Ôizumi as Teruya Hayami

Sôkô Wada as Yoichi Mimura

Hayami Teruya is a dedicated salaryman who does a workman like job as the chief editor for a magazine. He has personal charm, get along with both the publisher and subordinates and runs the ship well. Chatting with his direct boss he picks up a certain vibe. Did he misunderstand that the magazine is doomed and will be terminated? If so, he is not going down without a fight. He will fight to make it through and keep his, and the others', jobs.