New York Movies

My dream is to one day be able to work and live in New York. It's very expensive for me to visit to New York so I sometimes daydream about being there. Something I often do is to watch movies that takes place in or captures the spirit of New York, to able to re-live the memories I have of this fantastic city.

So now I'm asking you guys if you have any favorite New York movies. It could be a movie, documentary or tv-series.

A few of my favorites are Taxidriver, Manhattan, Annie Hall, When Harry Met Sally, Rosemary's Baby, The Devil Wears Prada, Breakfast at Tiffany's, anything Sex and the City and Friends.



Also, I want to apologize if there's any grammar or spelling mistakes. English is not my first language.

Working Girl
Tootsie
Muppets Take Manhattan
Big

I hope you get to see all that are suggested by the BWWers! Have a NYC Netflix Party Month!

Panic in Needle Park - Pacino early film (drugs..)
Dog Day Afternoon - Pacino (one of my faves of all time). Based on a true story - phenomenal acting.
(Orig) The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three (subway hijacking)
Midnight Cowboy (great)
Mean Streets - Scorsese - Harvey Keitel
Bad Lieutenant - Harvey Keitel
Next Stop, Greenwich Village (a must!)
The French Connection - greatest car chase scene ever, and new yorkiest crime drama of all)
The King of Comedy - DeNiro, Scorsese
Kramer vs. Kramer - Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep
The Seven Ups - police drama
Saturday Night Fever
Author, Author - Al Pacino, as a Bway Playwright
Moonstruck (great!) - Cher, NiC Cage. Romantic comedy
6 Degrees of Separation - Will Smith, Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland
Klute - Jane Fonda as a hooker
The Incident (subway terror!) very young Martin Sheen. Love this flick!
The Odd Couple - need I say more>
Annie Hall - essential Woody Allen

Updated On: 7/7/11 at 02:01 AM

All good recommendations.

Of course there are scores of films set in NY, but the suggestions below are films that couldn't have taken place anywhere else. The city is almost another character in some of these.
They're not all great movies, but they all have a distinct flavor and capture the milieu of the city at a certain place in time.

New York, New York
Sweet Smell Of Success
Breakfast At Tiffany's
The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3(original 1974)
The Goodbye Girl
Fame (1980 original)
Prince Of The City
Trading Places
The Cotton Club
Once Upon A Time In America
Wall Street
Bright Lights, Big City
Torch Song Trilogy
King Of New York
The Fisher King
Party Girl
The Last Days Of Disco
Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist
New York, I Love You

Enjoy!

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For sure, there are a few clunkers on this list. And for sure there are a few that I would watch again and again (some because they are just so good, and some because they are true guilty pleasures). Enjoy, and I hope that some day you get to fulfill your dream of living here. We'll be waiting!

Desperately Seeking Susan
After Hours
Prisoner of Second Avenue
Little Manhattan
Splash
Ghostbusters
Ghost
Crossing Delancey
As Good as it Gets
The Turning Point
An Affair to Remember
The Turning Point
Center Stage
Serendipity
Two Weeks Notice
Keeping the Faith
You’ve Got Mail
13 Going on 30
The Nanny Diaries
Prime
Coyote Ugly
Igby Goes Down
Tadpole
The Squid and the Whale
The Basketball Diaries
Factory Girl
American Psycho
Plaza Suite
Barefoot in the Park
Fort Apache The Bronx
Serpico

Madagascar

Mad Hot Ballroom
I Shot Andy Warhol
Strictly Ballroom

Lords of Flatbush
City Island
Requiem for a Dream

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After Hours is a great film.

"What do you want from me? I'm just a word processor!"

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The Naked City
On The Town
Midnight Cowboy

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Just got back from a friends house and a viewing of Muppets Take Manhattan.