NewYork, NewYork. Films set in New York

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So many films over the course of the years have been set in New York.

Off the top of my head I can think of a few:

Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn

Raging Bull by Martin Scorsese

Rosemary’s Baby by Polanski

Butterfield 8 with Liz Taylor

Love with a Proper Stranger with Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen

So what films set in New York do you like?
 
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Love with a Proper Stranger with Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen
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Wait, what? “Love With a Proper Stranger”? Isn’t that movie literally pro-abortion?

To answer the question:

“Working Girl” with Melanie Griffith – opening sequence with the WTC skyline still gives me goosebumps

“Smoke” (a.k.a. “Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story”) with Harvey Keitel – classic American film that anyone into photography would love

“Trading Places” with Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd
 
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Rosemary’s Baby by Polanski
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Campy, John Water-y B-movie icon William Castle produced “Rosemary’s Baby” (he reportedly sold the rights, once he had purchased them first, for a producer credit.) Ironically enough, nearly all of William Castle’s ‘horror’ movies - as director - are suitable for family viewing.
 
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Wait, what? “Love With a Proper Stranger”? Isn’t that movie literally pro-abortion?

To answer the question:

“Working Girl” with Melanie Griffith – opening sequence with the WTC skyline still gives me goosebumps

“Smoke” (a.k.a. “Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story”) with Harvey Keitel – classic American film that anyone into photography would love

“Trading Places” with Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd
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Actually, no. I didn’t think it was. The couple are tempted to abort, but they don’t go through with it. She decides to keep the baby and marry Tom Bosley. She doesn’t end up keeping Tom Bosley.

The woman in Bella is also considering abortion but doesn’t go through with it. That’s also a NY movie.
 
The Godfather. One and two only. ( The third one does not count. :D)

Serpico.

Saturday Night Fever. 😛

Goodfellas.
 
Mary_Gail_36 said:
So many films over the course of the years have been set in New York.

Off the top of my head I can think of a few:

Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn

Raging Bull by Martin Scorsese

Rosemary’s Baby by Polanski

Butterfield 8 with Liz Taylor

Love with a Proper Stranger with Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen

So what films set in New York do you like?
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A few Woody Allen films which I like are set in New York, I suppose. For example, Manhattan and Manhattan Murder Mystery. I have a story about the latter. I don’t remember all the details but a crew came up to my apartment at the time and was considering using it for the film. Ultimately, they chose a different building and apartment, but just the thought makes me feel like a celebrity!

Also, I believe A Bronx Tale, starring and directed by Robert De Niro, is set in, well, The Bronx. And several Martin Scorsese films were filmed in New York.
 
" The Apartment" with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. It’s hard to see Fred McMurray as a lechereous boss though. Mr Tate from Bewitched is in it. For those who watched mad men , Mr Tate sort of reminds me of Roger Sterling.
 
The Taking of Pelham 123 (both versions)
King Kong (at least partially)
Gangs of New York
 
The very gritty Midnight Cowboy as well. It gave us the phrase, “I’m walking here!!”

Also, "Moonstruck "

And “The Seven Year Itch”
 
Moonstruck

West Side Story

Would Planet of the Apes and Beneath the Planet of the Apes count? 😃
 
Lots of musicals!
A West Side Story
Hello Dolly
Guys and Dolls
On the Town
Annie
Easter Parade

And not a musical, but a good one, Miracle of 34th Street.
 
The Spider-Man movies. That’s one of the things I like about Spidey; the comics/movies/whatever make no bones about the fact that Spidey lives and fights crime in a city that exists in real life. Whearas Superman lives in the made-up “Metropolis” (often a thinly disguised NYC, as in the Christopher Reeve movies).
 
How about:

‘The Lost Weekend’ (Billy Wilder)

"Marathon Man’ (John Schlesinger)

‘The World of Henry Orient’ (George Roy Hill)

‘The Last Detail’ - partially - (Hal Ashby)

‘The Age of Innocence’ (Martin Scorcese)

‘Mean Streets’ (Martin Scorcese)
 
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