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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C.H.U.D.
1984, in 1 top list Check -
99 new
Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!
2006, in 0 top lists Check -
98 new
Black and White
1999 — a.k.a. Black & White, in 0 top lists Check -
97 new
Hi, Mom!
1970, in 1 top list Check -
96 new
God Told Me To
1976, in 1 top list Check -
95 new
Eyes Wide Shut
1999, in 11 top lists Check -
94 new
Wolfen
1981, in 1 top list Check -
93 new
Man Push Cart
2005, in 3 top lists Check -
92 new
Hamlet
2000, in 2 top lists Check -
91 new
Three Days of the Condor
1975, in 4 top lists Check -
90 new
The Last Days of Disco
1998, in 1 top list Check -
89 new
The Blank Generation
1976, in 0 top lists Check -
88 new
Hester Street
1975, in 2 top lists Check -
87 new
King Kong
1976, in 1 top list Check -
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Summer of Sam
1999, in 0 top lists Check -
85 new
The Hunger
1983, in 2 top lists Check -
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Rear Window
1954, in 31 top lists Check -
82 new
Little Murders
1971, in 0 top lists Check -
81 new
Dressed to Kill
1980, in 7 top lists Check -
80 new
Big
1988, in 7 top lists Check -
79 new
All About Eve
1950, in 25 top lists Check -
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Fort Apache the Bronx
1981, in 0 top lists Check -
77 new
Cruising
1980, in 2 top lists Check -
76 new
Two Lovers
2008, in 3 top lists Check -
75 new
The Cool World
1963, in 4 top lists Check -
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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1994 — a.k.a. Mrs. Parker and the Round Table, in 0 top lists Check -
73 new
Requiem for a Dream
2000, in 21 top lists Check -
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Bad Lieutenant
1992, in 6 top lists Check -
71 new
The Landlord
1970, in 0 top lists Check -
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Black Swan
2010, in 12 top lists Check -
69 new
Downtown 81
2000, in 1 top list Check -
68 new
Death Wish
1974, in 3 top lists Check -
67 new
Paris Is Burning
1990, in 12 top lists Check -
66 new
Broadway Danny Rose
1984, in 4 top lists Check -
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Speedy
1928, in 4 top lists Check -
64 new
Super Fly
1972, in 4 top lists Check -
63 new
On the Bowery
1956, in 4 top lists Check -
62 new
The Regeneration
1915, in 7 top lists Check -
61 new
Tootsie
1982, in 17 top lists Check -
60 new
Carnal Knowledge
1971, in 3 top lists Check -
59 new
The Squid and the Whale
2005, in 5 top lists Check -
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Margaret
2011, in 7 top lists Check -
57 new
Klute
1971, in 11 top lists Check -
56 new
Kramer vs. Kramer
1979, in 8 top lists Check -
55 new
Fame
1980, in 3 top lists Check -
54 new
When Harry Met Sally...
1989, in 16 top lists Check -
53 new
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
1999, in 7 top lists Check -
52 new
Fatal Attraction
1987, in 11 top lists Check -
51 new
The Crowd
1928, in 20 top lists Check -
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Desperately Seeking Susan
1985, in 6 top lists Check
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