The following is a partial list of movies set in New York City:

1920s

• For the Love of Mike (1927)
• The Cameraman (1928)

1930s

• Central Park (1932)
• Lawyer Man (1932)
• 42nd Street (1933)
• Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933)
• Hold Your Man (1933)
• The House on 56th Street (1933)
• King Kong (1933)
• Lady for a Day (1933)
• Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
• The Thin Man (1934)
• A Night at the Opera (1935)
• Libeled Lady (1936)
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
• My Man Godfrey (1936)
• Nothing Sacred (1937)
• Rose of Washington Square (1939)

1940s

• The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
• The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
• Tales of Manhattan (1942)
• Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
• Bowery to Broadway (1944)
• Laura (1944)
• The Clock (1945)
• The Lost Weekend (1945)
• The House on 92nd Street (1945)
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
• Life with Father (1947)
• Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
• The Big Clock (1947)
• The Naked City (1948)
• Up in Central Park (1948)
• Adam's Rib (1949)
• On the Town (1949)

1950s

• The Tattoed Stranger (1950)
• When Worlds Collide (1951)
• How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
• Pickup on South Street (1953)
• It Should Happen to You (1954)
• On the Waterfront (1954)
• Rear Window (1954)
• Guys and Dolls (1955)
• The Seven Year Itch (1955)
• An Affair to Remember (1957)
• Desk Set (1957)
• On the Bowery (1957)
• Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
• Bell Book and Candle (1958)
• Marjorie Morningstar (1958)
• Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)

1960s

• The Apartment (1960)
• Murder, Inc. (1960)
• Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
• West Side Story (1961)
• The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
• America, America (1963)
• How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
• The Pawnbroker (1965)
• A Thousand Clowns (1965)
• Mister Buddwing (1966)
• Barefoot in the Park (1967)
• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
• The Incident (1967)
• Wait Until Dark (1967)
• Coogan's Bluff (1968)
• Funny Girl (1968)
• The Odd Couple (1968)
• The Producers (1968)
• Planet of the Apes (1968)
• Rosemary's Baby (1968)
• Midnight Cowboy (1969)

1970s

• Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
• The Out-of-Towners (1970)
• The French Connection (1971)
• Klute (1971)
• The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
• Plaza Suite (1971)
• Shaft (1971)
• The Godfather (1972)
• The Hot Rock (1972)
• Godspell (1973)
• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973)
• Live and Let Die (1973)
• Mean Streets (1973)
• Serpico (1973)
• The Seven-Ups (1973)
• The Godfather: Part II (1974)
• Death Wish (1974)
• Harry and Tonto (1974)
• The Lords of Flatbush (1974)
• The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
• Three Days of the Condor (1975)
• Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
• The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
• King Kong (1976)
• Network (1976)
• Next Stop Greenwich Village (1976)
• Taxi Driver (1976)
• Annie Hall (1977)
• The Goodbye Girl (1977)
• New York, New York (1977)
• Saturday Night Fever (1977)
• All That Jazz (1979)
• Hair (1979)
• Manhattan (1979)
• The Warriors (1979)

1980s

• Raging Bull (1980)
• Arthur (1981)
• Brooklyn Bridge (1981)
• The Chosen (1981)
• Escape from New York (1981)
• Fort Apache the Bronx (1981)
• Nighthawks (1981)
• Ragtime (1981)
• Annie (1982)
• My Favorite Year (1982)
• Night Shift (1982)
• Q, the Winged Serpent (1982)
• Tootsie (1982)
• A Bronx Tale (1983)
• Trading Places (1983)
• Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
• The Cotton Club (1984)
• Ghostbusters (1984)
• Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
• The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
• Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
• The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
• Splash (1984)
• After Hours (1985)
• A Chorus Line (1985)
• Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
• Year of the Dragon (1985)
• Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)
• Crocodile Dundee (1986)
• Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
• Highlander (1986)
• She's Gotta Have It (1986)
• Graveyard Shift (1987)
• Moonstruck (1987)
• Radio Days (1987)
• Wall Street (1987)
• Big (1988)
• Bright Lights, Big City (1988)
• Cocktail (1988)
• Coming to America (1988)
• Crossing Delancey (1988)
• Married to the Mob (1988)
• Oliver and Company (1988)
• Spike of Bensonhurst (1988)
• Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
• Working Girl (1988)
• Do the Right Thing (1989)
• Ghostbusters II (1989)
• Harlem Nights (1989)
• The January Man (1989)
• New York Stories (1989)
• Sea of Love (1989)
• Sidewalk Stories (1989)
• When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

1990s

• The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
• The Freshman (1990)
• The Godfather Part III (1990)
• Goodfellas (1990)
• Green Card (1990)
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
• Jacob's Ladder (1990)
• Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)
• Last Exit to Brooklyn (1990)
• Metropolitan (1990)
• Q & A (1990)
• Quick Change (1990)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
• The Fisher King (1991)
• One Good Cop (1991)
• Other People's Money (1991)
• The Prince of Tides (1991)
• Queens Logic (1991)
• Regarding Henry (1991)
• Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991)
• (1991)
• 29th Street (1991)
• Bad Lieutenant (1992)
• Freejack (1992)
• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
• Scent of a Woman (1992)
• The Age of Innocence (1993)
• A Bronx Tale (1993)
• Carlito's Way (1993)
• Last Action Hero (1993)
• Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
• The Saint of Fort Washington (1993)
• Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
• Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
• Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)
• Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
• It Could Happen to You (1994)
• Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
• Quiz Show (1994)
• Fresh (1994)
• The Shadow (1994)
• Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
• Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
• Money Train (1995)
• Rumble in the Bronx (1995)
• Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
• City Hall (1996)
• Independence Day (1996)
• She's the One (1996)
• As Good As It Gets (1997)
• A Brooklyn State of Mind (1997)
• The Fifth Element (1997)
• Men in Black (1997)
• Night Falls on Manhattan (1997)
• 54 (1998)
• Antz (1998)
• Godzilla (1998)
• The Siege (1998)
• You've Got Mail (1998)
• Analyze This (1999)
• Being John Malkovich (1999)
• Big Daddy (1999)
• Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
• Cradle Will Rock (1999)
• End of Days (1999)
• Great Expectations (1999)
• The Out-of-Towners (1999)
• The Astronaut's Wife (1999)
• Stuart Little (1999)
• Summer of Sam (1999)
• The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)

2000s

• Astoria (2000)
• Brooklyn Sonnet (2000)
• Boiler Room (2000)
• The Family Man (2000)
• Finding Forrester (2000)
• Frequency (2000)
• Hamlet (2000)
• Happy Accidents (2000)
• Little Nicky (2000)
• Loser (2000)
• Prince of Central Park (2000)
• Shaft (2000)
• Brooklyn Babylon (2001)
• Kate & Leopold (2001)
• K-PAX (2001)
• Sidewalks of New York (2001)
• Vanilla Sky (2001)
• Zoolander (2001)
• 25th Hour (2002)
• Catch Me If You Can (2002)
• Changing Lanes (2002)
• Death to Smoochy (2002)
• Deuces Wild (2002)
• Gangs of New York (2002)
• In America (2002)
• Maid in Manhattan (2002)
• Men in Black II (2002)
• Mr. Deeds (2002)
• Panic Room (2002)
• Phone Booth (2002)
• Spider-Man (2002)
• Stuart Little 2 (2002)
• Two Weeks Notice (2002)
• Anger Management (2003)
• Daredevil (2003)
• Down with Love (2003)
• Elf (2003)
• In the Cut (2003)
• Uptown Girls (2003)
• The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
• The Forgotten (2004)
• The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
• Maria Full of Grace (2004)
• Melinda and Melinda (2004)
• New York Minute (2004)
• She Hate Me (2004)
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
• Spider-Man 2 (2004)
• The Terminal (2004)
• Hitch (2005)
• In Good Company (2005)
• Madagascar (2005)
• War of the Worlds (2005)