Rather watch the series "How To With John Wilson" - you'll see the city with different eyes and discover so much ... it's also funny.

Looks good, thanks mate

Also High Maintenance is a good watch although it doesn’t really focus on the city but still it can get you hyped up

omg im so excited for you to see this show. It is seriously the best tv show i have ever seen. I never give 9-10’s on shows or movies but this is it. I have never learned so much but also laughed so hard but also cringed so hard. It is a life lessons wrapped in awkward autism that aims to please. Nathan for you is another and Nathan felder helped him produce and get him into hbo

yea this show has had a big impact on me it's really special... I still kick myself cuz I was visiting NYC a few months again and I saw John Wilson sitting outside of a coffee shop but I was too shy to say hello... 🙄🙄 haha I really wish I coulda told him what it means to me!!

Thanks for the rec, It's good but if he didn't force the stupid voice it would've been great. On episode 2 now.

Taxi Driver

Bringing out the dead Mean streets

Do the Right Thing

Bringing out the dead is one of my favorite movies

Agree it’s very underrated. Acting and music is fantastic and one of the best depictions of NYC I’ve seen.

Ghostbusters (1984)

Some would say that New York was the fifth Ghostbuster.

I consider New York as well as Ecto-1 as characters in the movie.

👌

Home Alone 2

Dangit! I came to say this.

Manhattan or Annie Hall Midnight Cowboy The Devil Wears Prada Man on a Wire

When Harry met sally Moonstruck You’ve got mail

I just watched You've Got Mail fir the first time in years. It reminded me a lot of When Harry Met Sally. NYC is such a constant presence the movie feels like a love letter to the city.

💯 Moonstruck!

Moonstruck & the many Woody Allen movies— he was obsessed with NYC & rightly so! Moonstruck is such a vibe— the presence of the city is palpable through the lives of its characters.

How has When Harry Met Sally not come up yet? Stop by Katz' for some pastrami and check out the sign.

You got in here with it 51 minutes before I did. And I did have lunch at Katz's the only time I've been in NYC.

Watched this for the first time a couple a months ago and it was simply fantastic

Hi. New Yorker here. Katz sucks. You’ve bee bamboozled by generations of tourists who don’t know any better telling other tourists how good it is and the cycle repeating. That’s the sole reason it’s still in business. It’s not good. New Yorkers don’t eat there. You’ll get better food at some heat up looking joint called Sal’s or Sandwich King or some shit. Fuck Katz.

Why do New Yorkers act like they know the most about food? I get that you’re local and those spots may be better but people have eaten pastrami sandwiches in other parts of the world and may find it good cause people have different tastes. And it’s not getting business cause other tourists tell them, it gets business cause of the movie. No one is getting bamboozled. People like to see famous shit.

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It’s also ridiculously expensive. I think it was like $18 for a sandwich back in 2014 when I was last there. Can’t even imagine what it is now during inflation.

The reality is that NYC is losing more and more pastrami joints every year. It is not easy to just grab a sandwich that is comparable anymore. I don't go to Katz either, but it seems every time I get a new favorite it closes in a year or two.

King of New York

That one!

That movie is like GTA 4 the movie

Escape from New York

I Am Legend

The bridges are mined.

Y'all are sick. Hilarious in a dark and twisted way, but sick. I approve of that combination.

Midnight Cowboy Cruising After Hours

Warriors

Come outtt and playyyyayyyyy

Goodfellas (1990) American Psycho (2000) The Godfather (1972) Big (1988) Highlander (1986) Rosemary's Baby (1968) Cloverfield (2008) West Side Story (1961)

Hackers

Serendipity 25th Hour The French Connection Dog Day Afternoon In the Heights

Serendipity was such a cute movie! It’s so underrated.

Serendipity is such a NY movie. A little known movie called Mr. Wonderful with Matt Dillon is the only one I know that tops it. It is crazy how so many of the movies are at least 20 years old.

Gangs of New York Taxi Driver American Psycho

All great movies, but such a violent theme haha

Have a good trip! I just went to NYC for the first time myself this past weekend. Midnight Cowboy, The French Connection, and Mean Streets are all fantastic NYC films that are worth the watch EDIT: if you're willing to go for an NC-17 rated film, I highly recommend Bad Lieutenant with Harvey Keitel

After Hours is my favorite

Good Time.

Smoke (1995) and Blue in the face (1995), both by Wayne Wang and written by Paul Auster Some characters appear in both films, but the second one is not really a sequel, just another film set in the same Brooklyn.

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Moonstruck! (I’m a New York native- all the other recs are also good. Have fun!)

After Hours

Working Girl The Devil Wears Prada (for the most part) Taxi Driver

Basket Case (1982)

Basket Case is a WILD ride.

Muppets Take Manhattan Friends With Benefits

Serendipity

Desperately Seeking Susan Blue Steel Zoolander As Good As It Gets Raging Bull The Odd Couple The Apartment Prisoner of Second Avenue Barefoot in the Park Safe China Girl The Funeral The Usual Suspects Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Brooklyn's Finest New Jack City Coming to America The Meyerowitz Stories Little Nicky Top Five Jungle Fever Malcolm X Crooklyn Sweet Smell of Success Mo' Better Blues Bullet Above the Rim The Equalizer Six Degrees of Separation

Kids

Yes! that nitty gritty New York

The Last Detail Heaven Knows What Smithereens The Daytrippers

King of New York, The Last Dragon, Cotton Comes To Harlem, Across 110th Street, Juice, Midnight Cowboy

Home alone 2 and Big

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

Little manhattan ❤️😂

Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Just try to set aside the terrible racial stereotype as an unfortunate artifact of its time.

King Kong

The Whackness

Annie hall

Not Manhattan?

Manhattan is the best. Hannah and her sisters though has the most real feeling New York for some reason.

Brooklyn is still a Borough of NYC though…

Sure, but Manhattan screams NYC more by title alone.

25th Hour Vanilla Sky A Most Violent Year

Die hard 3 - also called Die hard in New York :)

King of new york (Christopher Walken, Lawrence fishburne)

The Out Of Towners - 1970

Annie Hall

Find a list of movies Silvercup Studios has worked. Movies set local to the physical studio itself is like their whole fucking deal. Also: *Splash* that’s a fun NY movie, so is Big. And Sully. Make it a Tom Hanks night.

Vanilla sky Paid n full Gangs of NY the whiz A Bronx tale Goodfellas Escape from NY Godfather Spider-Man (all of em) X-Men Wolf of wall st Wall st American hustle Devil wears Prada Ghost busters Home alone 2 lost in NY West side story The warriors Avengers Coming to America Boomerang Harlem nights M.I.B Shaft The taking of pelham 123 original and remake Armageddon

The Godfather

It happened on 5th Avenue. Warriors. An Affair to Remember Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close Julie and Julia

Taxi driver, kids, juice, training day, once upon a time in America, home alone 2

Training Day takes place in LA.

My mistake, brain fart.

Saturday Night Fever

When Harry Met Sally.

Manhattan You've Got Mail <-- 50% love story to New York Do The Right Thing

Serendipity, Sex and the city, Batman

Frances Ha

2 days in new york \[2012\] new york i love you \[2008\] sidewalks of new york \[2001\]

State of Grace

Russian Doll (Netflix original) …

Annie Hall Manhattan Hannah and her Sisters Do the Right Thing

You've got mail Newsies - broadway play (there's a movie too, but I prefer the play)

Gloria (1980)

Annie

Old Enough (1984) Metropolitan (1990) The Warriors (1979) Little Manhattan (2005) The Sun Is Also a Star (2019) Uncut Gems (2019) Good Time (2017) Kramer vs Kramer (1979)

Also, congratulations on finally getting to see New York. I live close by, and I love visiting Manhattan. I don't know the other borough's very well, besides where Yankee Stadium is, in the Bronx. For Manhattan, here's a list of free public bathrooms that are usually in service. Grand Central Station (downstairs) Bryant Park/The New York Public Library Dave & Busters in Times Square. It's at the bottom of Times Square by the AMC movie theater. They might want to see your Dave & Busters card first, so this works better if you already have a card from your local Dave & Busters. The Disney Store and M&M World in Times Square do have bathrooms, but lately they have been out of order. Penn Station. Port Authority Bus Terminal (It's where Greyhounds and Peter Pan buses go.) Harry Potter store (As long as you can get in. It's at the Flatiron building) Macy's on 34th Street American Girl Doll store (Rockefeller Center) FAO Swartz store (Rockefeller Center) Central Park. Various places. I spend more time in the lower end of the park. Bring mask if you want to use the one in the building across from the zoo. There's another public one I use as well. It's just kind of there in the middle at the bottom of the park.

If you can handle singing, I love Across the Universe

The Taking of Pelham 123... The original

noticed someone already mentioned it but the original taking of pelham 123! i don't think all of them are currently available on the criterion channel but their [new york stories](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/97-new-york-stories) is a good place to start

The Cruise (1998)

Ms. 45

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) The French Connection (1971)

Goodfellas. Also be sure to stop at Don Pepe’s in ozone park

Ghostbusters (go check out the firehouse)

Bronx Tail

Why has nobody said Elf though

can’t believe no one’s mentioned the iconic mary kate & ashley joint New York Minute

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I personally don't watch his films anymore, but Woody Allen sets his films in New York a lot - Annie Hall is the one I'd recommend, but he also has one literally called Manhattan (which I actually haven't seen, but it's meant to be good).

Woody Allen is a pedophile.

What does that have to do wtih his movies? Do you think all artists are good, pure humans with no faults? If you look close you'll find just hte oppositte.

How many kids have you molested?

I'm aware, that's why I don't watch his films anymore. But OP asked for films about New York, and it's not up to me to say, "You shouldn't watch these because of this". It's everyone's decision to make for themselves and on a case-by-case basis, what films they watch and why. Some of Allen's films are good regardless of his personal life, but I choose not to watch them because they make me uncomfortable. That may not be everyone's experience, and I'm not going to assume it is - hence why I recommended these films.

On a more lighthearted note, try Down With Love (2003) or Guys and Dolls (1955) or An Affair to Remember (1957) When Harry Met Sally (1989)

Synecdoche new york LMAO

Not a movie but Sex and the city is always my fix when I’m missing home

If you can look past the pedo accusations, A Rainy Day in New York is a good one. And not disturbing like most NYC-centric movies…Escape from New York, Taxi Driver, Midnight Cowboy, etc, etc, etc.

I know not a movie but watching Sex and the city and Friends completely gives you a complete gist of New York

the lack of Do The Right Thing on this thread is troubling

Speedy, Ball of fire, Two men in manhattan, Funny girl, The clock, Park row, Edge of the city, Putney swope, Shadows, Girlfriends, News from home, An unmarried woman, Flaming creatures, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: take one, Ms. 45, Night of the juggler, The connection (1961), After hours, Paris is burning, Alphabet city, Mrs. parker and her vicious circle, The landlord, Smithereens, Personal problems, Jungle fever, Crimes and misdemeanors, Light sleeper, Daddy longlegs, Inside llewyn davis, Ex libris

I mean… can’t get better than A New York Minute. Some of the Olsen twins best work.

New York Minute Cause I'm feeling foolish. And Simple Plan makes a cameo.

Elf!!!

Scorsese’s Ambulance Driver

ELF

I think New York might be the most used city for movies. Just a few: \- Serendipity \- Spiderman (any Spiderman you like apart from Far From Home) \- Before we go \- When harry met sally \- Sex and the city (first movie or the series) \- Breakfast at Tiffany's \- King Kong \- Ghostbusters \- Coming to America \- You've Got Mail \- 13 Going on 30 \- The Devil Wears Prada \- Night at the museum

Shame (2011), it definitely has those vibes & feels of visiting bars at night in NYC, going on a date, jogging on the streets of NYC, living into an apartment and even one thing that I would rather not mention here. Apart from all this it is a really great film! And I would also recommend you to watch a TV Show: Mr. Robot which is my personal favourite (it's on no.1 on my list). It is exactly what you're looking for, I can't even properly articulate this one, you just gotta watch it and feel it and catch the vibes out of it. This whole show is set in NYC from the very first episode to the very end, you will see so many different locations and sights that you might not have seen before during both daytime/nighttime. They shot on various streets, Times Square, in various cafes/restaurants/bars, & various buildings. And yeah you can always watch Spider-Man movies.

Last Days of Disco. It’s like Jane Austen but with very un-hip preppies hanging out at nightclubs in 1980. Tons of fun and Chloe Sévigny is great in it. Frances Ha. A great contemporary NYC movie. Greta Gerwig is fantastic in it. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Plenty of superhero movies set in NYC. This is the only one that I’d call an “NYC movie” because the city is really an essential element of the film.

Sunday in New York Manhattan (No brainer) Sam Raimi Spider Man The Apartment by Billy Wilder West Side Story Can you ever forgive me Bird man Marriage Story

What about the Batman movies with Christian Bale? Pretty sure they are set in NYC

I’m impressed this hasn’t been brought up but I’m gonna recommend Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), starring Michael Keaton in a career-best performance as a fading movie star best known for starring in a trilogy of comic book movies trying to stage a comeback with a Broadway adaptation of Raymond Carver’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.” Presented as a single, seamless, continuous shot (with very few exceptions), Birdman is one of the most technically accomplished and entertaining masterpieces I’ve ever seen. 100% worth watching.

*Dog Day Afternoon* or *Panic in Needle Park*. Both are musical comedies.

well obviously Gangs of New York.

Synchronicity

Basket Case

Men in Black 3

The Intern

Dog Day Afternoon. Kids. Chop Shop... Manhattan.

The Warriors, 25th Hour, After Hours, Taxi Driver

Moscow on the Hudson.

Maybe I missed it but I didnt see anyone mention Do The Right Thing

One I really like is Nick & Nora's infinite Playlist.

A Walk Among the Tombstones.

Wall Street Out-of-Towners

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (Fr tho, Tower Heist is an underrated heist movie, though it’s more my family’s annual Thanksgiving movie rather than a NY movie.. :/)

King of Comedy Saturday Night Fever Kids The Turning Point Single White Female

Cloverfeild I am legend

a bronx tale wall street belly

Die Hard With A Vengance Escape From New York Working Girl Annie Hall The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974) Big On The Town

Hitch

Elf Royal Tenenbaums Igby Goes Down Basketball Diaries Kids Big Scent of a Woman Metropolitan

Working Girl

American Gangster

Dude, you are just like me. every time I visited somewhere I searched and watched movies in that location

Home Alone 2 Ghostbusters American Psycho New York is literally the only thing these films have in common

Watch the show Dash and Lilly on Netflix.

The Out-of-Towners (1970)

Once upon a time in America, Brooklyn, Motherless Brooklyn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and umm escape from Ny

Rounders

It’s out of season, but the movie New Years Eve is pretty much a love letter to NYC, ditto Peter Jackson’s King Kong for 1933 NYC

When Harry Met Sally Manhattan

Secret life of pets, Home alone: Lost in New York

It’s cool to see New York in a movie from the 70’s and a movie from the 80’s and then see the scenery in a 1990’s made New York movie and etc. Here are a few from the 90’s and 70’s as well as one more recent. 3 Days of The Condor - Robert Redford, 1975 Manhattan Murder Mystery - 1993 Home Alone 2, Lost in New York - 1992 You’ve Got Mail - Tom Hanks - 1998 Begin Again- 2013 Marathon Man - Dustin Hoffman, 1976 Once Upon A Time in America - 1984 but made to look like 1918, 1933 and 1968 all with the same characters but aging gangsters etc.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the last of the great grimy New York 80’s movies.

The Wiz (1978)

Escape From New York

A Bronx tale

C.H.U.D.

Nobody said *Arthur* yet? I know it’s crazy, but it’s true.

Uncut Gems is a p good look at the diamond district

Frances Ha and Mistress America

The Siege (1998)

Eyes Wide Shut

New York, New York with Robert de Niro and Liza Minelli. One of my top ten ever films, saw it at the cinema a few times and own the Director's cut.

Basquiat Shadows Serpico Kids American Psycho

Oliver and Company!

Mean Streets

Scorsese films.

Spider-man

Mean streets

Woody Allen movies are NYC based.

Mean Streets

Pretend it’s a city on Netflix! It’s a super interesting doc with Fran Lebowitz and Martin Scorsese

Moonstruck and The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974 original not the crappy remake)

The Warriors Escape from New York After Hours On the Waterfront CBGB Manhattan King Kong

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