List of movies set in New York City
The following is a partial
list of movies set in
New York City
:
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1930s
Central Park
(
1932
)
Lawyer Man
(
1932
)
42nd Street
(
1933
)
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
(
1933
)
King Kong
(
1933
)
Manhattan Melodrama
(
1934
)
The Thin Man
(
1934
)
Libeled Lady
(
1936
)
My Man Godfrey
(
1936
)
Nothing Sacred
(
1937
)
Rose of Washington Square
(
1939
)
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1940s
The Devil and Miss Jones
(
1941
)
The Pride of the Yankees
(
1942
)
Tales of Manhattan
(
1942
)
Bowery to Broadway
(
1944
)
The Clock
(
1945
)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
(
1945
)
Life with Father
(
1947
)
Miracle on 34th Street
(
1947
)
The Big Clock
(
1947
)
Up in Central Park
(
1948
)
On the Town
(
1949
)
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1950s
How to Marry a Millionaire
(
1953
)
It Should Happen to You
(
1954
)
The Seven Year Itch
(
1955
)
An Affair to Remember
(
1957
)
On the Bowery
(
1957
)
Sweet Smell of Success
(
1957
)
Bell Book and Candle
(
1958
)
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1960s
The Apartment
(
1960
)
Breakfast at Tiffany's
(
1961
)
West Side Story
(
1961
)
America, America
(
1963
)
How to Murder Your Wife
(
1965
)
The Pawnbroker
(
1965
)
Barefoot in the Park
(
1967
)
Coogan's Bluff
(
1968
)
Funny Girl
(
1968
)
The Odd Couple
(
1968
)
Rosemary's Baby
(
1968
)
Planet of the Apes
(
1968
)
Midnight Cowboy
(
1969
)
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1970s
The Out-of-Towners
(
1970
)
The French Connection
(
1971
)
Klute
(
1971
)
The Panic in Needle Park
(
1971
)
Plaza Suite
(
1971
)
Shaft
(
1971
)
The Godfather
(
1972
)
Godspell (
1973
)
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
(
1973
)
Live and Let Die
(
1973
)
Mean Streets
(
1973
)
Serpico
(
1973
)
The Godfather: Part II
(
1974
)
Death Wish
(
1974
)
Harry and Tonto
(
1974
)
The Lords of Flatbush
(
1974
)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
(
1974
)
Three Days of the Condor
(
1975
)
Dog Day Afternoon
(
1975
)
The Stepford Wives
(
1975
) (Opening sequence only - the rest of the movie takes place in fictional Stepford,
Connecticut
)
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
(
1975
)
King Kong
(
1976
)
Network
(
1976
)
Taxi Driver
(
1976
)
Annie Hall
(
1977
)
The Goodbye Girl
(
1977
)
New York, New York
(
1977
)
Saturday Night Fever
(
1977
)
All That Jazz
(
1979
)
Hair
(
1979
)
Manhattan
(
1979
)
The Warriors
(
1979
)
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1980s
Arthur
(
1981
)
Brooklyn Bridge
(
1981
)
The Chosen
(
1981
)
Escape from New York
(
1981
)
Fort Apache the Bronx
(
1981
)
Nighthawks
(
1981
)
Ragtime
(
1981
)
Annie
(
1982
)
Q, the Winged Serpent
(
1982
)
Tootsie
(
1982
)
The Cotton Club
(
1984
)
Ghostbusters
(
1984
)
Moscow on the Hudson
(
1984
)
The Muppets Take Manhattan
(
1984
)
Once Upon a Time in America
(
1984
)
The Pope of Greenwich Village
(
1984
)
A Chorus Line
(
1985
)
After Hours
(
1985
)
Desperately Seeking Susan
(
1985
)
Year of the Dragon
(
1985
)
Brighton Beach Memoirs
(
1986
)
Crocodile Dundee
(
1986
) (last half of the film; the first half takes place mostly in
Australia
)
Hannah and Her Sisters
(
1986
)
Graveyard Shift
(
1987
)
Moonstruck
(
1987
)
Radio Days
(
1987
)
Wall Street
(
1987
)
Big
(
1988
)
Bright Lights, Big City
(
1988
)
Coming to America
(
1988
)
Crocodile Dundee II
(
1988
) (opening sequences only; the rest takes place in Australia)
Crossing Delancey
(
1988
)
Married to the Mob
(
1988
)
Oliver and Company
(
1988
)
Spike of Bensonhurst
(
1988
)
Working Girl
(
1988
)
Do the Right Thing
(
1989
)
The January Man
(
1989
)
Sea of Love
(
1989
)
Sidewalk Stories
(
1989
)
When Harry Met Sally...
(
1989
)
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1990s
The Bonfire of the Vanities
(
1990
)
The Freshman
(
1990
)
Goodfellas
(
1990
)
Green Card
(
1990
)
Jacob's Ladder
(
1990
)
Joe Versus the Volcano
(
1990
)
Last Exit to Brooklyn
(
1990
)
Metropolitan
(
1990
)
Quick Change
(
1990
)
The Fisher King
(
1991
)
Prince of Tides
(
1991
)
Queens Logic
(
1991
)
Regarding Henry
(
1991
)
Straight Out of Brooklyn
(
1991
)
Bad Lieutenant
(
1992
)
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
(
1992
)
Scent of a Woman
(
1992
)
The Age of Innocence
(
1993
)
A Bronx Tale
(
1993
)
Carlito's Way
(
1993
)
Manhattan Murder Mystery
(
1993
)
Searching for Bobby Fischer
(
1993
)
Six Degrees of Separation
(
1993
)
Sleepless in Seattle
(
1993
)
Bullets Over Broadway
(
1994
)
It Could Happen to You
(
1994
)
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
(
1994
)
Quiz Show
(
1994
)
The Shadow
(
1994
)
Vanya on 42nd Street
(
1994
)
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
(
1995
)
Money Train
(
1995
)
Rumble in the Bronx
(
1995
) (set in New York, but obviously filmed in
Vancouver
)
Vampire in Brooklyn
(
1995
)
City Hall
(
1996
)
Independence Day
(
1996
)
She's the One
(
1996
)
As Good As It Gets
(
1997
)
A Brooklyn State of Mind
(
1997
)
Men in Black
(
1997
)
Night Falls on Manhattan
(
1997
)
54
(
1998
)
Antz
(
1998
)
Godzilla
(
1998
)
You've Got Mail
(
1998
)
Analyze This
(
1999
)
Being John Malkovich
(
1999
)
Big Daddy
(
1999
)
Bringing Out the Dead
(
1999
)
Cradle Will Rock
(
1999
)
Great Expectations
(
1999
)
The Out-of-Towners
(
1999
)
The Astronaut's Wife
(
1999
)
Stuart Little
(
1999
)
Summer of Sam
(
1999
)
The Thomas Crown Affair
(
1999
)
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2000s
Astoria
(
2000
)
Brooklyn Sonnet
(
2000
)
Boiler Room
(
2000
)
The Family Man
(
2000
)
Finding Forrester
(
2000
)
Frequency
(
2000
)
Hamlet
(
2000
)
Little Nicky
(
2000
)
Loser
(
2000
)
Shaft
(
2000
)
Brooklyn Babylon
(
2001
)
Kate & Leopold
(
2001
)
Prince of Central Park
(
2000
)
Sidewalks of New York
(
2001
)
Zoolander
(
2001
)
25th Hour
(
2002
)
Catch Me If You Can
(
2002
)
Deuces Wild
(
2002
)
Gangs of New York
(
2002
)
Maid in Manhattan
(
2002
)
Men in Black II
(
2002
)
Panic Room
(
2002
)
Phone Booth
(
2002
)
Spider-Man
(
2002
)
Stuart Little 2
(
2002
)
Two Weeks Notice
(
2002
)
Daredevil
(
2003
)
Elf
(
2003
)
In the Cut
(
2003
)
Uptown Girls
(
2003
)
New York Minute
(
2004
)
The Stepford Wives
(
2004
) (Opening sequence only - the rest of the film takes place in fictional Stepford,
Connecticut
Spider-Man 2
(
2004
)
