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New York City

The best films set in New York City that I've seen.
No particular order.

  • Basquiat
  • Taxi Driver
  • Gangs of New York
  • Bringing Out the Dead
  • GoodFellas
  • Raging Bull
  • Frances Ha
  • Mistress America
  • The Squid and the Whale
  • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • Annie Hall
  • Manhattan
  • Summer of Sam
  • Do the Right Thing
  • 25th Hour
  • Midnight Cowboy
  • Carol
  • Synecdoche, New York
  • Factory Girl
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Sweet and Lowdown
  • Being John Malkovich
  • Rounders
  • Donnie Brasco
  • Searching for Bobby Fischer
  • Big
  • Radio Days
  • Once Upon a Time in America
  • Ghostbusters
  • Gloria
  • Opening Night
  • Shadows
  • Dog Day Afternoon
  • The Godfather
  • The Godfather Part II
  • The Panic in Needle Park
  • Joe
  • Killer's Kiss
  • Rear Window
  • Pickup on South Street
  • Little Fugitive
  • Scarlet Street
  • Citizen Kane
  • King Kong
  • A Bronx Tale
  • The Fisher King
  • The Warriors
  • Shame
  • Bad Lieutenant
  • Requiem for a Dream
  • Black Swan
  • Man on Wire
  • Inside Llewyn Davis
  • Elf
  • Malcolm X
  • Don Jon
  • Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
  • Brooklyn
  • The Big Short
  • Side Effects
  • 2 Days in New York
  • In America
  • Above the Rim
  • Kids
  • Good Time
  • You Were Never Really Here
  • The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
  • Margaret
  • A Most Violent Year
  • Smoke
  • Eyes Wide Shut
  • Gimme the Loot
  • Sully
  • Léon: The Professional
  • Wonderstruck
  • While We're Young
  • Wait Until Dark
  • Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
  • The Apartment
  • Landline
  • Person to Person
  • Inside Man
  • Igby Goes Down
  • Vanilla Sky
  • Brooklyn Castle
  • Annie
  • The Day After Tomorrow
  • The Central Park Five
  • The Ninth Gate
  • Golden Exits
  • The Pleasure of Being Robbed
  • Klute
  • Uncut Gems
  • Marathon Man
  • Q: The Winged Serpent
  • Blast of Silence
  • Something Wild
  • In the Cut
  • Little Murders
  • The Taking of Pelham One Two Three