Best Movies Set in New York of 2024
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Best Movies Set in New York of 2024
TOP Movies: Megalopolis (2024), Wicked (2024), Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), The Great Lillian Hall (2024), Upgraded (2024), A Complete Unknown (2024), A Real Pain (2024), Anora (2024), The Fall Guy (2024), A Quiet Place: Day One (2024), Civil War (2024), Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024), 5lbs of Pressure (2024), A Novel Noel (2024), Carole & Grey (2024), The Idea of You (2024), Relay (2024), Twisters (2024), The Apprentice (2024), Checkmate (2024).
List of Best Movies
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Genius artist Cesar Catilina seeks to leap the City of New Rome into a utopian, idealistic future, while his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan ...
Style:
epic, exciting, captivating, thrilling, tense ...
Plot:
utopia, architect, disaster, male nudity, sex scene, mayor, distopia, time, satellite, uncle nephew relationship, city, urban setting ...
Time:
future
Place:
new york
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224K
Genre: Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
This is the story of how Elphaba becomes the Wicked Witch of the West, and it involves love, loss, hatred, envy and an unwillingness to accept anything that is different.
Style:
fairy tale, absurd, sinister, crying, powerful ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
bullying, wizard of oz, witch, magic, feminism, abuse of power, talking animal, prejudice, based on broadway musical, dancing, rebellion, fighting the system ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Third entry in the "Deadpool" franchise. Plot TBA.
Style:
buddy comedy, raunchy comedy, entertaining, psychotronic, action packed ...
Plot:
multiverse, x men, avenger, masked hero, final battle, regeneration, epic battle, redemption, mind reading, vulgar language, heroes, bald woman ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s
Place:
north dakota, new york, canada, north america
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, History, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Lillian Hall, a Broadway actress, has never missed a performance throughout her long, illustrious career. Yet in rehearsals for a new play her confidence is challenged. People and events conspire to take away her ability to do what she loves most.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
theater, aging, broadway, dementia, stage actress, old age, changing lives, lifestyle change, old woman, career, actress, character study ...
Place:
new york
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33K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Ana is an ambitious intern dreaming of a career in the art world while trying to impress her demanding boss Claire. When she's upgraded to first class on a work trip, she meets handsome Will, who mistakes Ana for her boss– a white lie that ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, psychological, romantic, captivating ...
Plot:
mistaken identity, romantic relationship, male female relationship, relationships, love affair, couples, couple relations, satire, pretense, hotel, airport, soccer coach ...
Place:
new york, london
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
New York, early 1960s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives in the West Village with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of ...
Style:
period drama
Plot:
musician, concert, motorcycle, singer, cuban missile crisis, folk singer, biopic, harmonica, career, disagreement, punched in the face, female singer ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s, year 1965, year 1963, year 1962 ...
Place:
new york, north america, monterey california
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138K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
Style:
compassionate, witty, buddy comedy, depressing
Plot:
travel, concentration camp, cousin cousin relationship, grief, jewish american, holocaust, cousin, airplane, cell phone, jewish man, tour guide, judaism ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
poland, warsaw poland, new york
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22K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the ...
Style:
sentimental, dark comedy, raunchy comedy, black comedy, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
sex worker, lap dance, marriage, mansion, hedonism, sex work, male female relationship, priest, swimming pool, husband wife relationship, new year's eve, baptism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city, las vegas, new york, nevada
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251K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Australia, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Hollywood stuntman Colt Seavers uses his daredevil skills to moonlight as a bounty hunter.
Style:
action comedy, captivating, semi serious, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot:
stuntman, attempted murder, framed for murder, missing person, film set, faked death, movie business, film industry, trick, film producer, movie star, race against time ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
australia, new york, sydney australia
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
As New York City is invaded by alien creatures who hunt by sound, a woman named Sammy fights to survive.
Style:
tense, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
alien, cat, alien invasion, survival, disaster, monster, silence, extraterrestrial, parents, eaten alive, pizza, survival horror ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
new york, harlem, manhattan new york city
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263K
Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK, Finland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In the near future, a group of war journalists attempt to survive while reporting the truth as the United States stands on the brink of civil war.
Style:
epic, thrilling, independent film, road movie, suspense ...
Plot:
civil war, war photographer, fictional war, president, photojournalist, dystopia, violence, soldier, photographer, journalist, white house, photograph ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
washington d.c., west virginia, brooklyn new york city, texas, new york ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
This is a follow-up to the comedy Beetlejuice (1988), about a ghost who's recruited to help haunt a house.
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, dark fantasy, gothic, surprise ending ...
Plot:
halloween, ghost, surrealism, mother daughter relationship, haunted house, female protagonist, artist, train, mansion, priest, funeral, frenchman ...
Time:
2020s, middle ages, 21st century
Place:
connecticut, new england, new york
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Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Fresh out of prison after serving time for murder, Adam returns to his old stomping grounds to seek out a son who doesn't know him. Eli, the brother of the man he killed is looking for revenge. Mike, is trying to escape a life of crime living ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
ex convict, redemption, murder, father son relationship, friend, jail, death, father and son, son, father son estrangement, father son reunion, family conflict ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A successful New York book editor is chosen to run a bookstore in the small town of Saint Ives for the month of December.
Style:
feel good, uplifting, romantic comedy, modern fairy tale
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bookstore, holiday, christmas, female protagonist, heartwarming, small town, winter, literary, women, community, opposites attract, intimate ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Best friends Carole and Grey go on an odyssey from Brooklyn to the Upper West Side to get Grey's Dog.
Style:
lighthearted, independent film, humorous, buddy comedy
Plot:
female friendship, loyalty, road trip, dog, intimate, odyssey, slice of life, personal growth, female empowerment, reconciliation, coming of age, cityscape ...
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Solène, a 40-year-old single mom, begins an unexpected romance with 24-year-old Hayes Campbell, the lead singer of August Moon, the hottest boy band on the planet. When Solène must step in to chaperone her teenage daughter's trip to the ...
Style:
thrilling, romantic, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
boy band, passionate kiss, older woman younger man relationship, older woman younger man, age difference, single mother, 40 year old, tattooed man, sexual attraction, asking someone out on a date, age-gap relationship, singer ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
southern california, south of france, manhattan new york city, new york, chicago ...
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30K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Tom, a world class "fixer", specializes in brokering lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten their ruin. He keeps his identity a secret through meticulous planning and always follows an exacting set ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling, intense ...
Plot:
money, corruption, money problems, alcoholics anonymous meeting, library, disguise, paranoid, escape, airport, suitcase of money, piano, goose ...
Place:
new york, oklahoma
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191K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
As storm season intensifies, the paths of former storm chaser Kate Carter and reckless social-media superstar Tyler Owens collide when terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed. The pair and their competing teams find themselves squarely ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, hilarious, epic, psychotronic ...
Plot:
tornado, hurricane, disaster, twister, teamwork, destruction, danger, risk, rainstorm, man versus nature, scientific experiment, flood ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
oklahoma, new york, north america
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Canada, Denmark, Ireland, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect ...
Style:
independent film, absurd, controversial, f word, period drama ...
Plot:
lawyer, aids, corruption, marriage, crooked lawyer, father son relationship, politics, mentor protege relationship, based on real people, female nudity, sex scene, real estate ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s, 70s, year 1986, year 1983 ...
Place:
atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey, manhattan new york city, florida, north america ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: India, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
In a tangled web of power and love, the lives of a pharmaceutical company CEO, a failed Don, a grieving widower, and a shrewd lawyer intersect when a mysterious woman is kidnapped, sparking a chain of events in New York City's underbelly.
Style:
tense, crime drama, suspense, dark, psychological ...
Plot:
kidnapping, corruption, lawyer, betrayal, mystery woman, power struggle, investigation, moral ambiguity, hostage, mafia, revenge, ceo ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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113K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A group of criminals kidnaps a teenage ballet dancer, the daughter of a notorious gang leader, in order to obtain a ransom of $50 million, but over time, they discover that she is not just an ordinary girl. After the kidnappers begin to diminish, ...
Style:
gothic, mystic, mystical, detective, dark comedy ...
Plot:
ballerina, violence, evil child, monster, kidnapping, blood, child vampire, vampire, rat, father daughter relationship, kidnapped, elevator ...
Place:
new york, mexico, africa, costa rica, ireland ...
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Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Spain, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Eddie and Venom are on the run. Hunted by both of their worlds and with the net closing in, the duo are forced into a devastating decision that will bring the curtains down on Venom and Eddie's last dance.
Style:
surprise ending, supernatural thriller, dark comedy, dark fantasy, psychotronic ...
Plot:
casino, superhero, alien, alien creature, villain, alien life-form, spider man, decapitation, road trip, alien monster, multiverse, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
mexico, nevada, new york, las vegas, north america
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A captivating neo-noir film set in the gritty urban landscape of 1990s New York City. The story revolves around an unlikely partnership between Pat, an aging hitman betrayed by his gang, and Sugar, a drag queen sex worker mourning the loss of a ...
Style:
neo noir, noir, crime thriller, suspenseful, melancholic
Plot:
betrayal, revenge, underworld, hitman, organized crime, moral ambiguity, sex worker, outsider, drag queen, survival, violence, gunfight ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york
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10K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society's ...
Style:
bleak
Plot:
nun, christian faith, prostitute, italian immigrant, poverty, immigrant, pope, priest, brothel, mayor, italian abroad, woman ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, 1900s, 1880s
Place:
new york
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22K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Inspired by real events, this fictional dramatization gives an insider account of how the women of Newsnight secured Prince Andrew's infamous interview.
Style:
thought provoking, informative
Plot:
journalist, male nudity, interview, journalism, prince, scandal, social issues, royalty, royal family, british royal family, career, female journalist ...
Time:
year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, london, buckingham palace
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65K
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A girl discovers she can see everyone's imaginary friends and embarks on a magical adventure to reconnect forgotten IFs with their kids.
Style:
sincere, feel good, stylized, light, humorous ...
Plot:
imaginary friend, imagination, friendship, childhood, child protagonist, surrealism, girl, magic, magic realism, magical, young woman, young girl ...
Place:
coney island brooklyn new york city, new york, brooklyn new york city
Is relevant?
57K
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Hired to cover up a high-profile crime, a fixer soon finds his night spiralling out of control when he's forced to work with an unexpected counterpart.
Style:
dark comedy, buddy comedy, crime thriller, black comedy, intense
Plot:
rat, wedding, heroin, hotel room, lone wolves, drug kingpin, male female relationship, bloodbath, telephone call, coca cola, christmas time, pistol ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A rock band has to record their third LP, which will either propel them to stardom or fade into oblivion. Despite executives’ reservations, their idea is to have the recording take place in New York. But everything complicates, and the creative ...
Style:
period drama
Plot:
rock band, creative process, music industry, indie rock, legacy, ambition, love triangle, obsession, jealousy, addiction, realism, sabotage ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In the immediate post-war period, amidst the rubble of a poverty-ridden Naples, two kids, Carmine and Celestina, try to survive as best they can by helping each other out. One night, they secretly board a ship bound for New York to reach ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, neorealism, historical drama, period piece ...
Plot:
post war, journey, immigration, struggle, social realism, hopes, resilience, working class, poverty, coming of age, friendship, survival ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s
Place:
new york, naples italy, italy
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Western
Country: Spain
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Mary and Tom are parentless Irish siblings who arrive in New York City via ocean liner in 1886 and quickly find themselves on a wild, cross-country journey aboard a transcontinental "Orphan Train" where they meet an extraordinary new ...
Style:
emotional, road movie, melancholic, 3d animation, computer animated ...
Plot:
orphan, cross country, ocean liner, journey, immigration, friendship, train travel, railroad, siblings, family drama, hopes, poverty ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s, victorian era
Place:
america, new york, north america
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