New York Movies: The 100 Best Films Set in New York
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Paradise and prison, bustling metropolis and the loneliest place on earth: New York City has a cinematic identity that infuses all walks of life. Even as we write our own narratives in this most famous of locations, we walk alongside fictional characters (and sometimes real ones, too, if we’re lucky).
In selecting the 100 most essential New York movies, we kept the city’s boldness in mind. TONY Film staffers David Fear, Joshua Rothkopf and Keith Uhlich teamed up with movie experts Stephen Garrett and Alison Willmore to gather titles from all genres and eras—the widely known and the obscure—in pursuit of a complete picture of NYC on film.
Our only parameter: The movie had to be set in New York City, not Metropolis (sorry, Superman fans), Oz (ditto, you Wiz diehards), nor anywhere else. Dive in, jostle politely, find your seat or ride standing: Please tell us what we’ve missed. It’s a big town.
—Joshua Rothkopf, senior Film writer at Time Out New York
List published on July 3rd 2012
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Hi, Mom!
1970, in 1 top list Check -
90 new
The Last Days of Disco
1998, in 1 top list Check -
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Little Murders
1971, in 0 top lists Check -
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Big
1988, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Landlord
1970, in 0 top lists Check -
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Downtown 81
2000, in 1 top list Check -
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Broadway Danny Rose
1984, in 4 top lists Check -
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Speedy
1928, in 4 top lists Check -
61 new
Tootsie
1982, in 17 top lists Check -
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The Squid and the Whale
2005, in 5 top lists Check -
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When Harry Met Sally...
1989, in 16 top lists Check -
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Desperately Seeking Susan
1985, in 6 top lists Check -
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Six Degrees of Separation
1993, in 0 top lists Check -
42 new
The Muppets Take Manhattan
1984, in 0 top lists Check -
39 new
Metropolitan
1990, in 5 top lists Check -
24 new
Breakfast at Tiffany's
1961, in 9 top lists Check -
23 new
42nd Street
1933, in 12 top lists Check -
21 new
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986, in 8 top lists Check -
17 new
Annie Hall
1977, in 34 top lists Check -
14 new
Ghostbusters
1984, in 13 top lists Check -
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After Hours
1985, in 7 top lists Check -
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On the Town
1949, in 10 top lists Check -
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Do the Right Thing
1989, in 25 top lists Check -
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Manhattan
1979, in 20 top lists Check
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