FILM
20s NYC Films of the 20s
The Jazz Singer
30s NYC Films of the 30s
Merian Cooper, Ernest Shoedsack
King Kong
40s NYC Films of the 40s
Orson Wells,
Citizen Kane
50s NYC Films of the 50s
Joseph Mankiewitz
All About Eve
Billy Wilder
Sabrina
Alfred Hitchcock
Rear Window
North by Northwest
Delbert Mann
Marty
Leo McCarey
An Affair to Remember
60s NYC Films of the 60s
Billy Wilder
The Apartment
Blake Edwards
Breakfast at Tiffanys
Sidney Lumet
The Pawnbroker
John Schlesinger
Midnight Cowboy
John Frankenheimer
The Manchurian Candidate
Mel Brooks
The Producers
70s 70s NYC films
Jerry Schatzberg
Panic in Needle Park
Arthur Hiller
The Out of Towners
Gordon Parks, Jr.
Superfly
Barry Shear
Across 110th Street
Carl Reiner
Where’s Poppa?
William Friedkin
French Connection
Sidney Lumet
Serpico
Network
Prince of the City
Network
Dog Day Afternoon
The Wiz
Alan Pakula
Klute
Sydney Pollack
The Way We Were
Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather 1 and 2
Bob Fosse
All That Jazz
John Schlesinger
Marathon Man
John Bedham
Saturday Night Fever
Martin Scorcese
Taxi Driver
Mean Streets
New York, New York
Woody Allen
Manhattan
Annie Hall
Walter Hill
The Warriors
Joan Micklin Silver
Hester Street (Based on Abraham Cahan novella, Yekl)
80s 80s NYC Films
Edo Bentoglio
Downtown 81
Charlie Ahearn
Wild Style
Alan Parker
Fame
Stuart Rosenberg
The Pope of Greenwich Village
Martin Scorcese
Raging Bull
The King of Comedy
New York Stories
Sydney Lumet
Prince of the City
Running on Empty
Alan Pakula
Sophie’s Choice
Francis Ford Coppola
The Cotton Club (about the 20s)
Woody Allen
Broadway Danny Rose
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Hannah and Her Sisters
Radio Days
Crimes and Misdemeanors
New York Stories
Spike Lee
She’s Gotta Have it
Do the Right Thing
Sydney Pollack
Tootsie
Adrian Lyne
Fatal Attraction
Norman Jewison
Moonstruck
Oliver Stone
Wall Street
Mike Nichols
Working Girl
Rob Reiner
When Harry Met Sally
Harold Ramis
Ghostbusters I & II
Louis Malle
My Dinner With Andre
Jeremy Kagan
The Chosen
John Landis
Trading Places
Coming to America
Sergio Leone
Once Upon A Time in America
Uli Edel
Last Exit to Brooklyn (Based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr)
90s
NYC Films of the 90s
Abel Ferrara
King of New York
Brian De Palma
Bonfire of the Vanities
Spike Lee
Mo Better Blues
Clockers
Crooklyn
He Got Game
Summer of Sam
Robert De Niro
A Bronx Tale
Martin Scorcese
Goodfellas
Age of Innocence
Walt Stillman
Metropolitan
Robert Redford
Quiz Show
Barbara Streisand
The Prince of Tides
Kenny Ortega
Newsies
Louis Malle
Vanya on 42nd Street
James Brooks
As Good as it Gets
Woody Allen
Sweet and Lowdown
Harold Ramis
Analyze This
Stanley Kubrick
Eyes Wide Shut
Spike Jonze
Being John Malcovich
Tim Robbins
Cradle will Rock
Larry and Andy Wachowski
The Matrix
Nora Ephron
You’ve Got Mail
Sleepless in Seattle
Scott Kalvert
The Basketball Diaries (Jim Carroll writer)
Alan Rudolph
Mrs Parker and Her Vicious Circle (About Algonquin Round Table
Wayne Wang
Smoke. Screenplay by Paul Auster
Steve Barron
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Jerry Zucker
Ghost
Mario Van Peebles
New Jack City
Ernest R Dickerson
Juice
Larry Clark
Kids
Boaz Yakin
Fresh
2000- 21st Century NYC Films
Mary Harron
American Psycho
Spike Lee
25th Hour
Martin Scorcese
Gangs of New York (about early 20th Century)
Ron Howard
Cinderella Man
Mark Levin
Little Manhattan (young adult)
Noah Baumbach
The Squid and the Whale
David Frankel
The Devil Wears Prada
Kevin Lima
Enchanted (young adult)
Shawn Levy
Night of the Museum I and II (young adult)
Darren Aronofsly
Black Swan
Requiem for a Dream
Multiple Directors
New York, I Love You