14 best movies about New York

1. Sweet Smell of Success

Sweet Smell of Success

• United States, 1957.
• Noir.
• Duration: 96 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,2.

Advertising agent Sidney Falco is promoting beginners celebrities, what helps him the influential journalist JJ Hanseker. But when it turns out that Falco broke, Hanseker puts the question squarely: it will not work until Sidney quarrel sister JJ with her boyfriend - a musician Steve Dallas.

"Sweet Smell of Success" flopped at the box office, but eventually became one of the exemplary satirical films. The film tells about the ugly side of the shadow of New York City and is considered one of the best movies about the city.

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2. Apartment

The Apartment

• United States, 1960.
• Tragicomedy.
• Duration: 125 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,3.

Billy Wilder comedy picture tells a touching story of a relationship modest accountant and elevator woman. Bachelor CC Baxter - ordinary employee of the insurance company. His lone New York apartment on the West Side is ideal for meetings with their married counterparts lovers.

The good-natured man did not mind helping friends. In the end, among the secret apartment of visitors it is even the head of Baxter. The situation changes when the hero falls in love with a charming girl Fran, not even knowing that she was the most mysterious mistress of the boss.

Movies Hollywood magician Billy Wilder - "Some Like It Hot", "Sunset Boulevard" and others - to this day do not lose their sharpness and urgency. "Apartment" definitely one of the best directed films. Curiously, the main role is played by Jack Lemmon, who played in the comedy "Some Like It Hot" one of the main characters.

3. Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany's

• United States, 1961.
• Romantic comedy.
• Duration: 115 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,7.

Alphonse and not too successful writer Paul Varzhak moved to New York and meets a new neighbor in the house Holly GolightlyDesperate Playgirl worshipful jewelry store "Tiffany". Holly initially makes an impression on Paul surface fool, but in the end it turns out that the girl is much deeper than it seems.

In the film, "lit up" many legendary places "Big Apple": The New York Public Library, Central Park and, of course, Tiffany store, which showcases admired the heroine, eating breakfast on the go with a croissant coffee.

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4. West Side story

West Side Story

• United States, 1961.
• Musical.
• Duration: 152 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,6.

The story is told in a new way the classic story of Romeo and Juliet. Two rival gangs - "Jet" and "Sharks" - can not be divided between a New York street. But everything changes when Tony and Maria fall in love at first sight.

The film was shot in Manhattan's West Side, which in the 1960s was unsightly. Already after the release of "West Side Story" in place of slums built the famous Lincoln Center.

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5. Taxi driver

Taxi Driver

• USA, 1976.
• Drama, thriller, neo-noir.
• Duration: 113 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,3.

New York taxi driver Travis Bickle haunt thinking about how much dirt around, violence and corruption. At some point, he realizes that his true purpose - to clear the streets from evil.

Martin Scorsese painted New York in the gloomy light: dim lights, dirty lanes, huge skyscrapers, reminiscent of the Babylonian tower. All this is partly true. The fact that at the time of filming the city experienced one of the most difficult periods in its history: the impact the financial crisis and bad management decisions of President Gerald Ford.

In addition, when filming "Taxi Driver," in the midst of the strike it was the New York scavengers. Not surprisingly, the oppressive atmosphere seeped into Scorsese film itself.

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6. Annie Hall

annie Hall

• USA, 1977.
• Romantic comedy.
• Duration: 94 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,0.

The film tells the story of a relationship stand-up comedian Alvy Singer and Annie Hall aspiring singer. At the first meeting Alvy and Annie fall in love immediately, but over time it becomes clear that their differences give rise to a lot of problems.

It is known that New York took to heart Woody Allen special place. The director refers to his hometown with affection and hardly ever stop loving him. And Allen's films characterize New York from different sides: this is the place, where heroes can happen like Woody is a real tragedy, and light comedy history.

7. Manhattan

Manhattan

• USA, 1979.
• Romantic comedy.
• Duration: 96 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,0.

The protagonist - a 42-year-old writer Isaac - can not decide with their sympathies. When he meets a cynical bohemian Mary, then without thinking he throws his young friend, what then strongly regrets.

Woody Allen once again about love in the big city, and its characters are trying to find out their tangled relations in the most beautiful and recognizable locations in New York, from Central Park to Brooklyn bridge.

8. Hannah and Her Sisters

Hannah and Her Sisters

• United States, 1986.
• Comedy.
• Duration: 103 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,9.

The plot centers around three sisters: Hanna Lee and Holly. Their quiet life comes to an end when her husband called Hannah Elliott unexpectedly falls in love with Lee, but unable to leave his perfect wife. Meanwhile, former spouse Hannah is going through another bout of hypochondria, and Holly wants to be a stage actress, but repeatedly fails.

In each film, Woody Allen's New York a little bit different. And in "Hannah and her Sisters" shows the city with a special tenderness. The action takes place both in New York and in the luxury apartments of its inhabitants, who are looking for answers to complex questions of life.

9. New York Stories

New York Stories

• United States, 1989.
• Comedy, Romance.
• Duration: 124 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,4.

A successful artist is trying to get the favor of the beloved daughter of the rich and famous parents suddenly It is a party quite incredible situation, the New York lawyer dreams that overly critical mother left it alone.

Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen - many familiar names. The style of each of these filmmakers is unique. But one thing they are similar: all three creative work is closely linked with New York. The almanac "New York Stories" famous movie masters come together to in their own way to tell stories about the inhabitants of the "Big Apple".

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10. Good guys

Goodfellas

• United States, 1990.
• Crime, gangster.
• Duration: 146 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,7.

Beginning gangster Henry Hill wants to be cool and to be respected. Together with mobsters Jimmy Conway and Tommy De Vito Henry starts to climb to the heights of glory crime.

"Goodfellas," Martin Scorsese's long been recognized as the gold standard for film production. That only is one of the most famous "shoot one shot" in cinema history, when Henry Hill and his new girlfriend go to a night club "Copacabana" with a service entrance. There is a version that Scorsese came up with the stage being held through subsidiary premises after the director was not allowed to take it off at the main entrance to the club, where it is constantly crowded with people.

By the way, "Copacabana" exists in reality (unless changed address). Where once I worked Tony Lip of the "Green Book", in which the eponymous film played Viggo Mortensen. In the same institution in part the action takes pictures of "Raging Bull" and "Tootsie."

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11. New York, New York

Synecdoche, New York

• United States, 2008.
• Drama.
• Duration: 124 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,5.

The action takes place in the theater district of Manhattan. Kayden Kotar talented director is determined to put an honest and penetrating play about their lives and turn the whole world of contemporary art. While working on the play, Kayden more and more immersed in the world of his dreams and slowly going mad.

The film examines the complex issue of how often a fine line between genius and madness, and tells about the extinction, regret and loneliness.

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12. New York, I Love You

New York, I Love You

• United States, 2009.
• Drama, Romance.
• Duration: 110 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,3.

Once she conquered the audience almanac "Paris, I love you," was designed to remove a series of sequels, in which romantic stories would have developed in comparison with other cities.

Among the directors of the new project are sufficiently well-known masters such as Fatih Akin ( "at the limit", the "Golden Glove") and Shekhar Kapur ( "Elizabeth", "The Golden Age"). Actresses Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman also tried his hand at directing, and took off for the anthology of short film.

However, the episode Johansson cut from the final version of the film, because it did not comply with the general spirit of the tape. For the same reason, the film was not included novelty of the Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev.

13. Chinese puzzle

Casse-tête chinois

• France, USA, Belgium, 2013.
• Drama.
• Duration: 117 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,0.

Fastidious Xavier Rousseau can not choose their spouse. Finally he married an Englishwoman, Wendy. But there it was: the wife runs away from him from Paris to New York, taking with them two children. And then the hero goes after her to start living from scratch.

In a diverse and multi-ethnic New York Xavier will feel the hardships of migrant life, including marriage for a visa, as well as "fascinating" the search for an apartment and work.

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14. Brooklyn

Brooklyn

• Ireland, Canada, United Kingdom, 2015.
• Melodrama.
• Duration: 112 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,5.

Young Irish Eylish Lacey leaves Enniscorthy hometown for New York. Gradually, life in a new place is getting better: in Ailis appears study, work and boyfriend. But fate requires the return of the girl in a boring Irish backwater, where the heroine will have to make difficult choices.

Based on the eponymous novel by Colm Tóibín sensual "Brooklyn" felt like a real declaration of love to New York: where else to go in pursuit of the American dream, it does not there?

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