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 The Pop Culture Lover's Guide to New York City: Movie and Sitcom Locations

AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF OVER 300 OF THE BEST LOVED MOVIES FEATURING NEW YORK CITY




A Chorus Line (1985)
Across the Universe (2007)
Across 110th Street (1972)
Addicted to Love (1997)
After Hours (1985)
All About Eve (1950)
All That Jazz (1979)
Almost Famous (2000)
American Hustle (2013)
American Psycho (2000)
An Affair to Remember (1957)
An Unmarried Woman (1978)
Angel Heart (1987)
Anger Management (2003)
Annie (1982)
Annie Hall (1977)
Antz (1998)
The April Fools (1969)
The Apartment (1960)
Arthur (1981)
As Good As It Gets (1997)
The Avengers (2012) August Rush (2007)
Autumn in New York (2001)

Bad Lieutenant (1992)
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
Basquiet (1996)
Batman (1989)
Batman Returns (1992)
*batteries not included (1987)
Bed of Roses (1996)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Big (1988)
The Big Broadcast (1932)
Big Business (1988)
The Big City (1927)
The Big Clock (1948)
Big Daddy (1999)
Birdman (2014)
Black and White (1999)
The Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Black Caesar (1973)
Black Rain (1989)
Black Swan (2010)
Blank Generation (1980)
Blue Valentine (2010)
Boiler Room (2000)
Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
Boomerang (1992)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Brewster's Millions (1985)
Bride Wars (2009)
Bright Lights, Big City (1988)
Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)
Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
The Butcher's Wife (1991)
Butterfield 8 (1960)

Carlito's Way (1993)
Carnal Knowledge (1971)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Center Stage (2000)
Chasing Amy (1997)
Chelsea Girls (1966)
Children of Men (2006)
City Hall (1996)
The Clock (1945)
Clockers (1995)
Cloverfield (2008)
Cocktail (1988)
Coming to America (1988)
Coogan's Bluff (1968)
The Cotton Club (1984)
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
Cowboy Way, The (1994)
Coyote Ugly (2001)
Crocodile Dundee (1986)
Crocodile Dundee II (1988)
Crooklyn (1994)
Crossing Delancey (1988)
The Crowd (1928)
Cruel Intentions (1999)
Cruising (1980)

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Death Wish (1974)
Deceived (1991)
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
The Detective (1968)
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Devil's Advocate (1997)
Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
Do The Right Thing (1989)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Donnie Brasco (1997)
Downtown 81 (2001; aka New York Beat)
Dressed to Kill (1980)
Driller Killer (1979)

Eat Pray Love (2010)
Elf (2003)
Empire (Andy Warhol) (1964)
Enchanted (2007)
Escape from New York (1981)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Eyewitness (1981)

Factory Girl (2006)
Fame (1980)
The Family Man (2000)
Fatal Attraction (1987)
First Wives Club (1966)
The Fisher King (1991)
For Love or Money (1993)
Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981)
42nd Street (1933)
Frankie and Johnny (1991)
The French Connection (1971)
The Freshman (1990)
Friends With Benefits (2011)
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973)
Funny Girl (1968)
F/X (1986)

Ghost (1990)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Ghostbusters II (1989)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather, Part II (1974)
The Godfather, Part III (1990)
Going the Distance (2010)
Godspell (1973)
Godzilla (1998)
The Goodbye Girl (1977)
Goodfellas (1980)
The Great Gatsby (1974)
Great Expectations (1998)
Green Card (1990)
Greetings (1968)

Hair (1979)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Hamlet (2000)
Hell Up in Harlem (1973)
Hester Street (1974)
Hi, Mom! (1970)
Highlander (1986)
Hitch (2005)
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
The Hours (2002)
The House on Carroll Street (1988)
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
Hudson Hawk (1991)
The Hunger (1983)
Husbands and Wives (1992)
Hustler (1961)

I Am Legend (2007)
The Ice Storm (1997)
The Immigrant (1917)
Independence Day (1996)
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
Inside Man (2006)
The International (2009)
The Interpreter (2005)
It Could Happen To You (1994)
It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)
It Should Happen to You (1954)

The Jazz Singer (1980)
Joe Versus The Volcano (1990)
Johnny Dangerously (1984)
Julie & Julia (2009)
Jungle 2 Jungle (1997)
Just My Luck (2006)

Kate + Leopold (2001)
Kids (1995)
King Kong (1933)
King Kong (1976)
The King of Comedy (1982)
King of New York (1990)
Kinsey (2004)
Klute (1971)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

The Landlord (1970)
The Last Action Hero (1993)
The Last Days of Disco (1998)
The Last Detail (1973)
Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)
Legal Eagles (1986)
Leon: The Professional (1994)
Limitless (2011)
Little Fugitive (1953)
Little Manhattan (2005)
Little Murders (1971)
Live and Let Die (1973)
Look Who's Talking (1989)
The Lords of Flatbush (1974)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Love Affair (1994)
Love Story (1970)

Madagascar (2005)
Made (2001)
Maid in Manhattan (2002)
Malcolm X (1992)
Man on a Ledge (2012)
Man on a Wire (2008)
Man Push Cart (2005)
Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Manhattan (1979)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
Marathon Man (1976)
Marty (1955)
Mean Streets (1973)
Men in Black (1997)
Men in Black II (2002)
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Metropolitan (1990)
Micky Blue Eyes (1999)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
Mirage (1965)
Miss Congeniality
Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Money Pit (1986)
Money Train (1995)
Moonstruck (1987)
Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
Mr. Deeds (2002)
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
Music and Lyrics (2007)
My Dinner With Andre (1981)
My Favorite Year (1982)

The Naked City (1948)
The Nanny Diaries (2007)
National Treasure (2004)
Network (1976)
New Jack City (1991)
New Year's Eve (2011)
New York Stories/Life Lessons (1989)
New York Stories/Life Without Zoë (1989)
New York Stories/Oedipus Wrecks (1989)
Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)
Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist (2008)
Night and the City (1992)
Night at the Museum (2006)
Nighthawks (1981)
9+1/2 Weeks (1986)
North by Northwest (1959)

The Odd Couple (1968)
On the Bowery (1957)
On the Town (1949)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Once Upon A Time In America (1984)

Once Upon A Time In America in a scene filmed in DUMBO (Down Under The Manhattan Bridge Overpass), Brooklyn.



One Fine Day (1996)
The Other Guys (2010)
The Out-of-Towners (1970)
The Out-of-Towners (1999)
Three of Hearts (1993)

Panic in Needle Park (1971)
Panic Room (2002)
The Paper (1994)
The Park is Mine (1986)
Paris is Burning (1990)
The Pawnbroker (1965)
A Perfect Murder (1998)
Phone Booth (2002)
The Pick-Up Artist (1987)
Pitch Perfect (2012)
Planet of the Apes (ending) (1968)
Plaza Suite (1971)
The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
Port of New York (1929)
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
The Prince of Central Park (2000)
Prince of the City (1981)
Prince of Tides (1991)
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
Prizzi's Honor (1985)
The Producers (1968)
The Producers (2005)
P.S. I Love You (2007)
Prime (2005)
Putney Swope (1971)

Queens Logic (1991)
Quiz Show (1994)

Radio Days (1987)
Raging Bull (1980)
Ransom (1996)
Rear Window (1954)
Reds (1981)
Regarding Henry (1991)
Remember Me (2010)
Rent (2005)
Report to the Commissioner (1975)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Reversal of Fortune (1990)
Revolutionary Road (2008)
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
The Rose (1979)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Rumble in the Bronx (1995)

Sabrina
The Saint of Fort Washington (1993)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)

John Travolta as Tony Manero struts along 86th Street in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn in 1977's Saturday Night Fever.


Scarface (1983)
Scent of a Woman (1992)
School of Rock (2003)
Sea of Love (1989)
Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
Serendipity (2001)
Serpico (1973)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)
Shadows (1959)
Shaft (1971)
Shaft (2000)
She Devil (1989)
She's Gotta Have It (1986)
She's The One (1996)
Sid and Nancy (1986)
Side Effects (2013)
Sidewalks of New York (2001)
The Siege (1998)
Single White Female (1992)
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
16 Blocks (2006)
Sleepers (1996)
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Sliver (1993)
Smithereens (1982)
Small Time Crooks (2000)
Smoke (1995)
Soapdish (1991)
Something's Gotta Give (2003)
Sophie's Choice (1982)
Speedy (1928)
Spider-Man (2002)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Spike of Bensonhurst (1988)
Splash (1984)
The Squid and the Whale (2005)
Straight Out Of Brooklyn (1991)
Stuart Little (1999)
Stuart Little 2 (2002)
Summer of Sam (1999)
The Sunshine Boys (1975)
Super Fly (1972)
Superman (1978)
The Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
The Terminal (2004)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
13 Going on 30 (2004)

Jennifer Garner as Jenna RInk outside 5th Avenue and 12th Street in 2004's 13 Going on 30.



A Thousand Clowns (1965)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Three Men and a Baby (1987)
Three of Hearts (1993)
Times Square (1980)
Titanic (1997)
Tootsie (1982)
Trading Places (1983)
Transformers (2007)
Trash (1970)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Turbulence (1997)
The Turning Point (1977)
12 Angry Men (1957)
25th Hour (2002)
27 Dresses (2008)
28 Days (2000)
2 Days in New York (2012)
Two Weeks Notice (2002)

Unfaithful (2002)
An Unmarried Woman (1978)
Up The Down Staircase (1967)
Uptown Girls (2003)

Vanilla Sky (2001)
Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)

Wait Until Dark (1967)
Wall Street (1987)
The Walk (2015)
The Warriors (1979)
The Way We Were (1973)
Weekend At Bernie's (1989)
West Side Story (1961)
Whatever Works (2009)
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
The Wiz (1978)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Wolfen (1981)
Working Girl (1988)
The World of Henry Orient (1964)

X-Men (2000)

You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)
You've Got Mail (1998)


SOURCES:

Books:
• The Movie Lover's Guide to New York, Richard Alleman, Perennial Library, NY,1988.
• Manhattan on Film, Chuck Katz, Hal Leonard Corp., Milwaukee, 1999, rev. 2005.
• The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations, Tony Reeves, Titan Books, London, 2001, rev. 2006.
• Celluloid Skyline, James Sanders, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2003.
• Scenes from the City: Filmmaking in New York, edited by James Sanders, Rizzoli, New York, 2006
• On Location NYC: New York City's Top 100 Film and TV Locations by Alex Child, 2013, Museyon Guides, NY.
• Ultimate Book of NY Lists by Bert Sugar with C.N. Richardson, Skyhorse Publishing, New York, 2009

Websites:
• AM New York - AMNY.com
• On the Set of New York - (otsony.com)
• Central Park Sunset Tours.com
• "Top 10 Central Park Movies" Central Park.org
• On Location Tours - onlocationtours.com
• I AM Not A Stalker - Iamnotastaler.com
-• World of Wanderlust Blog - "The Best of New York Filming Locations to Visit": http://www.worldofwanderlust.com/best-new-york-filming-locations-visit/
• "Lower Manhattan Film and TV Locations" (new-york-tours.com)
• "Staten Island Films " Rob Bailey/Staten Island Advance) source: http://www.silive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/08/34_movies_you_probably_didnt_know_were_filmed_on_staten_island.html
• "Top 20 Movies": Central Park Toursnyc.com
• " Lower Manhattan Film and TV Locations" by new-york-tours.com
• "Visit the FIlming Locations of HBO's Girls" by "Hopper, contributor", The Huffington Post, huffingtonpost.com, May 14, 2014
• Seinfeld Locations : TV Guide aticle
• "Take a Walking Tour of NyC based on Mad Men" , TImeOut.com, Aug. 4, 2009