In the American cinema history, many films have been set in New York City, or a fictionalized version thereof.
The following is a list of films and documentaries set in New York, however the list includes a number of films which only have a tenuous connection to the city. The list is sorted by the year the film was released.
1900s What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City (1901) Electrocuting an Elephant (1903) Coney Island at Night (1905) The Thieving Hand (1908)
1910s Regeneration (1915) Lights of New York (1916) Coney Island (1917) The Immigrant (1917) The Delicious Little Devil (1919)
1920s The Saphead (1920) Manhatta (1921) Manhandled (1924) The Rag Man (1925) Subway Sadie (1926) East Side, West Side (1927) The Jazz Singer (1927) Lights of New York (1928) The Cameraman (1928) (has a Scene at Coney Island) The Crowd (1928) (has a Scene at Coney Island) Speedy (1928) (has a Scene at Coney Island) Lonesome (1928) (has a Scene at Coney Island) Applause (1929) The Broadway Melody (1929) Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929)
1930s
The Divorcee (1930) Reaching for the Moon (1930) Street Scene (1931) Sidewalks of New York (1931) Central Park (1932) The Heart of New York (1932) Lawyer Man (1932) Pack Up Your Troubles (1932) 42nd Street (1933) The Bowery (1933) Dancing Lady (1933) Deluge (1933) Dinner at Eight (1933) Footlight Parade (1933) Gold Diggers of 1933 (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) Little Women (1933) Son of Kong (1933) It Happened One Night (1934) Manhattan Melodrama (1934) The Thin Man (1934) Annie Oakley (1935) Dangerous (1935) If You Could Only Cook (1935) A Night at the Opera (1935) Romance in Manhattan (1935) Adventure in Manhattan (1936) The Great Ziegfeld (1936) Libeled Lady (1936) Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) My Man Godfrey (1936) Dead End (1937) Nothing Sacred (1937) The Toast of New York (1937) Topper (1937) Just Around the Corner (1938) Professor Beware (1938) There Goes My Heart (1938) You Can't Take It with You (1938) The Rage of Paris (1938) 5th Ave Girl (1939) Bachelor Mother (1939) Dark Victory (1939) Rose of Washington Square (1939) Streets of New York (1939) Topper Takes a Trip (1939) The Women (1939)
1940s
Beyond Tomorrow (1940) City for Conquest (1940) Edison the Man (1940) I Love You Again (1940) Lillian Russell (1940) Little Nellie Kelly (1940) Remember the Night (1940) Babes on Broadway (1941) Citizen Kane (1941) The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) Mr. Bug Goes to Town (1941) Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) The Strawberry Blonde (1941) Ziegfeld Girl (1941) Cat People (1942) Grand Central Murder (1942) Holiday Inn (1942) The Pride of the Yankees (1942) Saboteur (1942) Tales of Manhattan (1942) Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942) Woman of the Year (1942) Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) Heaven Can Wait (1943) The Seventh Victim (1943) Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Bowery to Broadway (1944) Buffalo Bill (1944) Cover Girl (1944) Going My Way (1944) The Hairy Ape (1944) Laura (1944) The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) Christmas in Connecticut (1945) The Clock (1945) The House on 92nd Street (1945) The Lost Weekend (1945) Scarlet Street (1945) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) Week-End at the Waldorf (1945) The Brute Man (1946) The Dark Corner (1946) Deception (1946) House of Horrors (1946) The Locket (1946) The Bishop's Wife (1947) Boomerang! (1947) A Double Life (1947) Down to Earth (1947) Gentleman's Agreement (1947) It Happened in Brooklyn (1947) Kiss of Death (1947) The Lady from Shanghai (1947) Life with Father (1947) Miracle on 34th Street (1947) Out of the Blue (1947) Boarding House Blues (1948) Cry of the City (1948) Easter Parade (1948) Force of Evil (1948) In the Street (1948) Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) My Girl Tisa (1948) The Naked City (1948) Portrait of Jennie (1948) Rope (1948) Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) Up in Central Park (1948) Winter Meeting (1948) Adam's Rib (1949) C-Man (1949) City Across the River (1949) East Side, West Side (1949) The Heiress (1949) Holiday Affair (1949) Jigsaw (1949) Little Women (1949) My Friend Irma (1949) On the Town (1949) Port of New York (1949) The Window (1949)
1950s
1950 All About Eve (1950) Black Hand (1950) The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (1950) The Great Jewel Robber (1950) Guilty Bystander (1950) The Killer That Stalked New York (1950) Mister 880 (1950) Side Street (1950) The Sleeping City (1950) So Young, So Bad (1950) The Tattooed Stranger (1950) Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
1951 Detective Story Fourteen Hours I Can Get It for You Wholesale Love Nest Lullaby of Broadway The Model and the Marriage Broker The People Against O'Hara St. Benny the Dip Teresa When Worlds Collide
1952 Anything Can Happen The Belle of New York Captive Women Don't Bother to Knock Dreamboat Invasion, U.S.A. Love Is Better Than Ever The Marrying Kind Million Dollar Mermaid O. Henry's Full House Park Row The Story of Will Rogers The Thief
1953 99 River Street The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms Daybreak Express Dream Wife Francis Covers the Big Town The Glass Wall Houdini House of Wax How to Marry a Millionaire I Love Melvin Little Fugitive Main Street to Broadway The Moon Is Blue Pickup on South Street
1954 About Mrs. Leslie Black Widow The Country Girl Executive Suite The Glenn Miller Story It Should Happen to You Living It Up On the Waterfront Phffft Rear Window Sabrina Witness to Murder Woman's World
1955 Artists and Models Blackboard Jungle Daddy Long Legs Guys and Dolls Killer's Kiss Marty My Sister Eileen The Naked Street New York Confidential The Seven Little Foys The Seven Year Itch The Shrike
1956 Bundle of Joy The Catered Affair The Great Man The Harder They Fall Lovers and Lollipops The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Miracle in the Rain The Opposite Sex Patterns The Solid Gold Cadillac The Wrong Man
1957 12 Angry Men An Affair to Remember The Bachelor Party Beau James Designing Woman Desk Set Edge of the City A Face in the Crowd Funny Face The Garment Jungle The Giant Claw A Hatful of Rain A King in New York Man of a Thousand Faces N.Y., N.Y. On the Bowery Slaughter on Tenth Avenue Sweet Smell of Success
1958 Bell, Book and Candle The Colossus of New York Cop Hater I Married a Woman Marjorie Morningstar The Matchmaker Stage Struck
1959 Ask Any Girl The Best of Everything The Five Pennies The Gazebo Imitation of Life It Happened to Jane The Last Angry Man Middle of the Night The Mouse That Roared North by Northwest Odds Against Tomorrow Pillow Talk Shadows That Kind of Woman The World, the Flesh and the Devil Two Men in Manhattan
1960s
1960 All the Fine Young Cannibals The Apartment Bells Are Ringing Butterfield 8 From the Terrace Let's Make Love Murder, Inc. Pay or Die Weddings and Babies
1961 Blast of Silence Breakfast at Tiffany's A Cold Wind in August The Connection The Hustler Lover Come Back Madison Avenue Pocketful of Miracles Portrait of a Mobster Something Wild West Side Story The Young Savages
1962 Boys' Night Out If a Man Answers The Manchurian Candidate Requiem for a Heavyweight Satan in High Heels That Touch of Mink Two for the Seesaw
1963 An Affair of the Skin America, America Call Me Bwana Come Blow Your Horn The Cool World Critic's Choice Homesick for St. Pauli Love with the Proper Stranger Mary, Mary The Mouse on the Moon Scorpio Rising Sunday in New York Twice a Man What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? The Wheeler Dealers
1964 Dear Heart Empire Fail Safe A Global Affair A House Is Not a Home Marnie The Pawnbroker The Troublemaker The World of Henry Orient
1965 Andy Bad Girls Go to Hell How to Murder Your Wife Mirage Promise Her Anything A Thousand Clowns Three Rooms in Manhattan Who Killed Teddy Bear
1966 Any Wednesday Chelsea Girls Dutchman A Fine Madness The Group A Man Called Adam Mister Buddwing Penelope Seconds You're a Big Boy Now
1967 Barefoot in the Park David Holzman's Diary Enter Laughing Fitzwilly Games How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying In Like Flint The Incident The President's Analyst The Producers The Tiger Makes Out Up the Down Staircase Valley of the Dolls Wait Until Dark Wavelength Way Out Who's That Knocking at My Door
1968 Andy Warhol's Flesh Bye Bye Braverman Candy Confessions of a Psycho Cat Coogan's Bluff Destroy All Monsters The Detective For Love of Ivy Funny Girl Greetings A Lovely Way to Die Madigan Mingus: Charlie Mingus 1968 The Night They Raided Minsky's No Way To Treat A Lady The Odd Couple P.J. Planet of the Apes Rosemary's Baby The Secret Life of an American Wife The Subject Was Roses Sweet November Symbiopsychotaxiplasm What's So Bad About Feeling Good? Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
1969 Alice's Restaurant The April Fools The Arrangement Cactus Flower Change of Habit Coming Apart Generation Gidget Grows Up Hello, Dolly! John and Mary Me, Natalie Midnight Cowboy Popi Putney Swope Some Kind of a Nut Sweet Charity The Thirteen Chairs Topaz Trilogy Turn On to Love
1970s
1970 The Adventurers Andy Warhol's Trash The Angel Levine Beneath the Planet of the Apes The Boys in the Band Cotton Comes to Harlem The Cross and the Switchblade Diary of a Mad Housewife Hercules in New York Hi, Mom! Hospital Husbands I Never Sang for My Father Jenny Joe The Landlord Love Story Lovers and Other Strangers Loving The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart Move On a Clear Day You Can See Forever The Out-of-Towners The Owl and the Pussycat The Projectionist Puzzle of a Downfall Child Shinbone Alley The Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker Where's Poppa?
1971 The Anderson Tapes B.S. I Love You Bananas Believe in Me Born to Win Carnal Knowledge Cry Uncle! Desperate Characters The French Connection The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight The Hospital Jennifer on My Mind Klute Lady Liberty Little Murders The Love Machine Made for Each Other A New Leaf The Panic in Needle Park Plaza Suite The Pursuit Of Happiness A Safe Place Shaft Some of My Best Friends Are... Such Good Friends Taking Off The Telephone Book They Might Be Giants Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? Who Killed Mary What's 'Er Name? Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow! You've Got to Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat
1972 Across 110th Street Ciao! Manhattan Come Back, Charleston Blue A Fan's Notes Fritz the Cat The Godfather The Heartbreak Kid The Hot Rock Hotel Monterey Lady Sings the Blues The Last House on the Left Last of the Red Hot Lovers Portnoy's Complaint The Possession of Joel Delaney Rivals Shaft's Big Score Super Fly To Find a Man Up the Sandbox The Valachi Papers The War Between Men and Women
1973 40 Carats Badge 373 Bang the Drum Slowly Black Caesar Cops and Robbers The Exorcist From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Ganja & Hess Godspell Gordon's War Heavy Traffic Hell Up in Harlem Hurry Up, or I'll Be 30 Jeremy The Last Detail Live and Let Die Massage Parlor Murders Mean Streets Miracle on 34th Street No Place to Hide Serpico The Seven-Ups Shamus Sisters Soylent Green The Stone Killer Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams The Way We Were Willie Dynamite
1974 Alice in the Cities Claudine Crazy Joe Death Wish The Education of Sonny Carson For Pete's Sake The Gambler The Godfather Part II Harry and Tonto Italianamerican Law and Disorder The Lords of Flatbush Mame The Sister-in-Law The Super Cops The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
1975