Movies and TV shows set in new york
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in new york ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, humorous, entertaining, feel good, sexy and light films and TV shows about / with love, teenager, dialogue, mentor, women, friendship, urban, chase, storytelling and city plots mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres shot in USA, Italy, France and other countries.
new york
TOP 10 movies tagged as new york: A Rainy Day in New York (2019), Coyote Ugly (2000), Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), Working Girl (1988), You've Got Mail (1998), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Gossip Girl (2007), Before We Go (2014), Taxi Driver (1976), Girls (2012).
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List of movies set in new york
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two young people arrive in New York to spend a weekend; once they arrive they are met with bad weather and a series of adventures.
Style:
light, colourful, captivating, humorous, disturbing ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
boyfriend girlfriend relationship, infidelity, high society, college student, love, party, wealthy family, money, job, couple relations, couples, relationship problems ...
Place:
new york
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117K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and notoriety she receives at her "day" job as a barmaid at ...
Style:
romantic, humorous, sweet, stylized, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
music, dancing, dancer's life, love affair, nightlife, ambition, parents and children, nightclub, love and romance, teenager, desire for fame, cheerleading ...
Time:
2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In the glamorous world of New York City, Rebecca Bloomwood is a fun-loving girl who is really good at shopping-a little too good, perhaps. She dreams of working for her favorite fashion magazine, but can't quite get her foot in the door-until ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, light, ridiculous, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
fashion, shopping, overnight success, addiction, love and romance, fashion industry, women, rise to the top, city life, teenager, lifestyle, temptation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, london, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Witty, romantic look at life in the corporate jungle. Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess takes over her office, her ...
Style:
feel good, captivating, light, inspirational, talky ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
business, women, secretary, workplace, career, career woman, rise to the top, female protagonist, love and romance, workplace romance, boss, love story ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet – both blissfully unaware that he's putting her out of business.
Style:
feel good, sweet, touching, light, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, kids, chick flick
Plot:
love, fall in love, happy ending, bookstore, internet, destiny, unlikely couple, online dating, rivalry, christmas, hidden identity, love story ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, san francisco
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 229 min.
Story:
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Style:
melancholic, epic, ambiguous ending, atmospheric, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
gangsters, organized crime, friendship, mafia, prohibition, gunfight, rape, betrayal, childhood friend, criminal heroes, corruption, flashback ...
Time:
1930s, 60s, 1920s, year 1984, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, usa, italy, miami, florida
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179K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the book series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series, created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, originally ran on The CW for six seasons from September 19, ...
Style:
romantic, witty, stylized, talky, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, popularity, gossip and rumors, friends, teenage love, high school life, youth, love triangle, lifestyle, adolescence, coming of age, betrayal ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A woman who is robbed on her way to catch the 1:30 train to Boston is left stranded in New York City. She meets a man who helps her during the course of the night and the two form a romance.
Style:
touching, romantic, sweet, light, witty ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love and romance, chance meeting, love, hopes, life philosophy, love story, loneliness, honest, jazz musician, nothing goes right, friendship, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, boston
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849K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
Style:
psychological, bleak, neo noir, disturbing, cerebral ...
Plot:
character study, loner, violence, vigilante, obsession, alienation, loneliness, vigilantism, psychology, lone wolves, taxi, antisocial behavior ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, vietnam, harlem
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74K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story:
The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art gallery assistant and cousins Jessa and Shoshanna.
Style:
realistic, humorous, sexy, semi serious, witty ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
ambitious, friends, best friends, roommate, city life, sex, female friendship, sexuality, everyday life, lifestyle, strong sexual content, humiliation ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, humorous, funny, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
holiday, christmas, children, home alone, snow, hotel, mischievous children, young heroes, child, trap, airport, luxury hotel ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, florida, manhattan new york city, chicago illinois, miami ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Top student Jane Ryan heads to Manhattan for a college-scholarship competition. Her rebellious twin Roxy Ryan goes along to crash a video shoot. But anything can happen - and does - in a romp involving a pursuing truant officer, a smuggler, ...
Style:
sweet, not serious, humorous, romantic, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
twins, teenager, youth, siblings relations, dream, friendship, multiple storylines, high school, happy ending, disorder, friends, city life ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, manhattan new york city, usa, oxford university
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty. With a little magic, her wish is granted, but it turns out that being thirty isn't as always as awesome as she thought it would be!
Style:
feel good, romantic, light, sweet, funny ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, date night ...
Plot:
body swapping, time travel, youth, fashion, true love, love and romance, best friends in love, child as adult, adolescence vs adulthood, wish come true, desire, friendship ...
Time:
80s, year 2004, 2000s, year 1987, 21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him – and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman ...
Style:
mind bending, romantic, thought provoking, philosophical, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
destiny, love story, alternate reality, power of love, fictional reality, twists and turns, fall in love, politics, changing the past or future, manipulation, true love, mind control ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The Devil Wears Prada is about a young journalist who moves to New York to work in the fashion industry. Her boss however is extremely demanding and cruel and won’t let her succeed if she doesn’t fit into the high class elegant look of their ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, funny, light, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
fashion, women, city life, workplace intrigue, fashion industry, journalism, workplace situations, career woman, strong female character, relationship vs career, obnoxious boss, ambitious woman ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, miami ...
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379K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Bank robber Dalton Russell enters a Manhattan bank, locks the doors and takes hostages, working methodically and without haste. Detective Frazier is assigned to negotiate, but his mind is occupied with the corruption charges he is facing. With an ...
Style:
clever, tricky, surprise ending, confusing, tense ...
Plot:
heist, bank robbery, hostage, robbery, police, bank, thief, perfect crime, master criminal, manipulation, swat team, twists and turns ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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10K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Christmas Eve in New York, and the lonely divorced publisher, Rose Collins, needs a miracle to improve the health of her mother, interned in a hospital with Alzheimers. She feels sorry for another patient and meets his visitor. Meanwhile, Nina ...
Style:
touching, humorous, emotional, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
christmas, love and romance, parents and children, hopes, angel, couple relations, winter, jealousy, hospital, mother daughter relationship, forgiveness, crisis of faith ...
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
Before she was a fashion icon, before her column in the New York Star, before Mr. Big, Carrie Bradshaw was an innocent 16-year-old girl living in suburban Connecticut.
Style:
exciting, captivating, semi serious, humorous, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, youth, high school life, teenage girl, prom, friends, teenage life, boyfriend, first sex, first love, teenage boy, high school hunk ...
Time:
20th century, year 1984, 80s
Place:
new york, connecticut, usa
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150K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws ...
Style:
touching, emotional, romantic, sad, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
relationships, love, suicide, death in the family, 9/11, love story, teenager, young love, love and romance, twists and turns, dealing with death, parenthood ...
Time:
september 11 2001, year 1991, year 2001, 90s, 2000s ...
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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113K
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
On December 28th, 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, the Devil decides to crash the party by coming to the city, inhabiting a man's body, and searching for his chosen bride, a ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, satanic, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
supernatural, devil, apocalypse, deal with the devil, good versus evil, end of the world, demon, suspense, disaster, priest, church, heroic mission ...
Time:
20th century, year 1979, 70s, year 1999, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city
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209K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn't operate on ...
Style:
fairy tale, romantic, feel good, stylized, parody ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot:
princess, magic, disney, true love, good versus evil, fall in love, witch, prince, dragon, imaginary kingdom, love and romance, magical ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Rob Brooks, a female record store owner in the rapidly gentrified neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn revisit past relationships through music and pop culture, while trying to get over her one true love.
Style:
sincere, inspirational, atmospheric, romantic, lyrical ...
Plot:
musician's life, music, introspection, love affair, couple relations, friendship, music fan, mishap, female protagonist, ex lover, hopes, lgbtq ...
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The lives of several couples and singles in New York intertwine over the course of New Year's Eve.
Style:
romantic, feel good, light, sweet, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
new year, multiple storylines, new year's eve, teenager, love and romance, singleness, looking for love, hopes, lifestyle, starting over, christmas, destiny ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, los angeles, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.
Style:
surreal, funny, atmospheric, realistic, art house ...
Plot:
twists and turns, dark humor, suicide, coincidence, artist, mistaken identity, paranoia, female nudity, nightclub, city life, nightlife, murder ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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100K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Comedy about the unlikely friendship that develops between two very different young women who meet waitressing at a diner in trendy Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and form a bond over one day owning their own successful cupcake business. Only one thing ...
Style:
not serious, sitcom, feel good, humorous, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
ambitious, friendship, financial problem, money raising, lifestyle change, best friends, workplace situations, female friendship, friends, everyday life, waiter, waitress ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all single and in their late thirties, as they pursue their careers and talk about their sex lives, all while trying to survive the New York ...
Style:
sentimental, sitcom, sexy, sexual, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
female friendship, sexual intercourse, couple relations, looking for love, everyday life, sex, up and down relationship, friendship, looking for sex, sexual attraction, love, friends ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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168K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores.
Style:
romantic, feel good, light, sweet, ridiculous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
wedding, fall in love, love story, love, opposites attract, women, wedding planner, love and romance, bridesmaid, unlikely couple, couple relations, female protagonist ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, manhattan new york city, usa, san francisco
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105K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' ...
Style:
neo noir, stylized, futuristic, intense, tense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
gang, survival, street gang, chase, gang war, gangsters, gang member, violence, murder, cult, subway, assassination ...
Time:
future, 70s, 80s, near future, year 1979
Place:
new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, new jersey, los angeles, bronx new york city ...
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1.0M
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
The misadventures of a group of friends as they navigate the pitfalls of work, life and love in Manhattan.
Style:
sitcom, feel good, humorous, not serious, witty ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, family outing, boys' night, adult
Plot:
friendship, best friends, looking for love, best friend, love and romance, everyday life, couple relations, family relations, group of friends, roommate, friend, couples ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also ...
Style:
exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, entertaining, serious ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, catastrophe, natural disaster, post apocalypse, end of the world, apocalypse, climate change, environmental, nature, scientist, stranded, global warming ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, los angeles, washington d.c., antarctica, california ...
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