Two teenagers from rival New York street gangs, the Jets and the Sharks, fall in love - but it causes already simmering tensions to explode. Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's Oscar-winning musical based on Romeo and Juliet, adapted from the stage play, starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno and George Chakiris.

In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, New York, a gang of Polish-American teenagers called the Jets compete with a rival gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, the Sharks, to "own" the neighborhood streets. Tensions are high between the gangs but two romantics, one from each gang, fall in love leading to tragedy.