I need recommendations for good movies that are about New York, take place in New York, etc.
Thanks!
http://nymag.com/visitorsguide/sightseeing/movies.htm
Those are top 25 Movie Shots in New York City but they list some pretty great films overall that obviously take place in NYC.
I for one loved Breakfast at Tiffany's as well as a few others :).
God, there are so many. Martin Scorsese movies are a good place to start:
Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
New York, New York
New Your Stories
Gangs of New York
After Hours
Mean Streets
Here are some other good movies which take place in New York that come to mind:
The Pope of Greenwich Village
29th Street
A Bronx Tale
Brighton Beach Memoirs
The Goodbye Girl
Sea of Love
Scent of a Woman
Annie Hall
Sophie's Choice
Tootsie
Once Upon a Time in America
Sleepers
Frequency
Here are a few more...
Dinner Rush (indie film)
Love in the Time of Money (indie film based on Schnitzler's play "La Ronde")
Working Girl
Regarding Henry
Igby Goes Down
Tadpole
Six Degrees of Separation
The Devil Wears Prada
Serendipity
When Harry Met Sally
Hamlet
Cruel Intentions
You've Got Mail
As Good as It Gets
Something's Gotta Give
The Hudsucker Proxy
Sleepless in Seattle
Unfaithful
Mr. Jealousy
Pollack
The Apartment
Barefoot in the Park
Infamous
Off the top of my head...
Prince of the City
The Out of Towners
The World of Henry Orient
The French Connection
Coogan's Bluff
Joe
The Godfather
Sidewalks of New York
New York, I Love You
Pretty much anything by Spike Lee, but especially 25th Hour (2002) starring Edward Norton is a great movie about NY.
Here are a few others set in NY that I highly recommend:
Wall Street 2 - Money Never Sleeps (2010)
Finding Forrester (2000)
American Psycho (2000)
Meet Joe Black (1998)
Donnie Brasco (1997)
The Warriors (1979)
City Island. Sorta.
shareI can't believe noone mentioned Breakfast at Tiffany's :)
Don't worry darling. If you can paint, I can walk. Anything can happen.
Im surprised no ones said Midnight Cowboy!
also:
The Producers
Saturday Night Fever
Sweet Smell of Success
Dog Day Afternoon
Rosemarys Baby
Taxi Driver
Brain Damage
The Royal Tenenbaums
I Was Here But I Disapear
Some older films:
THE RAT RACE (Debbie Reynolds & Tony Curtis, but Don Rickles steals the show as a sweaty, evil show biz type)
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS
THE YOUNG SAVAGES (WEST SIDE STORY without the music; Irish vs. Puerto Rican gangs and a frightening scene when Dina Merrill is attacked on a subway by vicious gangbangers)
ODD AGAINST TOMORROW (A caper flick abetted by a throbbing jazz score by John Lewis and intense performances from Robert Ryan and Harry Belafonte; lotsa shots of no-longer-there NYC)
NAKED CITY (one of the first commercial films shot entirely in NYC; dated narration but the chase across the Williamsburg Bridge is still exciting. And look fast to see the likes of John Randolph, Molly Picon, David Opatoshou, Arthur O'Connell, James Gregory, Tom Pedi, Kathleen Freeman and Paul Ford.
THE LOST WEEKEND (first flick to study alcoholism as an illness; mostly shot on Hollywood soundstages, but a 10-minute sequence has Ray Milland walking north on the real Third Avenue desperately seeking a pawnshop to dispose of his typewriter)
"We're fighting for this woman's honor, which is more than she ever did."
Yeah, like someone above mentioned, you should watch Scorsese's movies. Those movies actually made me a fan of NY movies! You should also watch Bringing Out The Dead, it's a great NY Scorsese movie.
Another great movie you should see is Midnight Cowboy! Also, another movie I'm thinking of is The American Friend.
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Sex and the City.
And
Sex and the City 2.