List of Every Movie Set in New York: 1,056 Movies (Page #2)

A cooking writer, whom the world believes is living on a cozy farm in Connecticut with her husband and baby, is actually a single woman living on her own in New York. The ruse is discovered when a holiday meal is planned at her fake farm.

Greed and ambition takes place in the exuberant months leading up to the Dow Jones all-time stock market high. In New York, a hedge fund manager has everything he wants – money, sex and power, but he wants more. In London, a young couple just wants to buy their first home, but it seems impossibly out of reach. And in Mumbai, a cop fights against corruption between property speculators and his colleagues.

Citizen Jane: Battle for the City is a story about our global urban future, in which nearly three-fourths of the world’s population will live in cities by the end of this century. It’s also a story about America’s recent urban past, in which bureaucratic, “top down” approaches to building cities have dramatically clashed with grassroots, “bottom up” approaches. The film brings us back mid-century, on the eve of the battles for the heart and soul of American cities, about to be routed by cataclysmically destructive Urban Renewal and highway projects.

The film details the revolutionary thinking of Jane Jacobs, and the origins of her magisterial 1961 treatise The Death and Life of Great American Cities, in which she singlehandedly undercuts her era’s orthodox model of city planning, exemplified by the massive Urban Renewal projects of New York’s “Master Builder,” Robert Moses. Jacobs and Moses figure centrally in our story as archetypes of the “bottom up” and the “top down” vision for cities.

They also figure as two larger-than-life personalities: Jacobs—a journalist with provincial origins, no formal training in city planning, and scarce institutional authority—seems at first glance to share little in common with Robert Moses, the upper class, high prince of government and urban theory fully ensconced in New York’s halls of power and privilege. Yet both reveal themselves to be master tacticians who, in the middle of the 20th century, became locked in an epic struggle over the fate of the city.

A Brazilian shoeshine guy, working at a preeminent New York financial institution, is befriended by a reporter who exploits his relationship with the legal immigrant to uncover corporate crimes taking place at the Wall Street firm.

Set 175 years after Earth is devastated by a nano-terrorist attack, with the human race dying out, a historian and team of soldiers are sent back in time to present-day New York City in the hope of figuring out who launched the catastrophic attack and why. The one-way mission is the last chance for humanity, saving the future by altering the past.

On a trip to Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia in January 2000, filmmaker Anne Bass came across a sixteen year old boy who moved her immensely with his amazing and seemingly natural charms and grace as a dancer. Having been a longtime devotee to the world of dance herself back in the United States, Anne felt compelled to give this young boy the opportunity to leave his home and follow a dream that she felt he hadn’t even yet seen for himself. From the serene countryside of Southeast Asia to the halls of the New York’s School of American Ballet to the stage of the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, "Dancing Across Borders" peeks behind the scenes into the world of dance and chronicles the intimate and triumphant story of a boy who was discovered, and who only much later discovered all that he had in himself.

A romantic comedy set in New York, about a widower whose wife returns to haunt him when he falls for a much younger woman. Her posthumous reappearance forces him to confront the "ghosts" in their relationship.

Based on the last day of Welsh Poet, Dylan Thomas’ short life at the White Horse Tavern in New York.

Ten-year-old Keith Byrne and his 13 year-old friend Noel Murray take a train to the ferry port of Dun Laoghaire, near Dublin, and travel to London via Holyhead in 1985. They manage to evade security to board an Air India flight to New York. They are arrested near JFK Airport, igniting an investigation that spanned several continents.

A woman returns from combat and befriends a family in New York City. When a gang of thieves plot to take the family's valuables, she fights to defend the family.

Inspired by a Sundance short film from 1998, "Down to the Bone", set in upsate New York, is the story of a woman who is fighting drug addiction while trying to keep her fraying family from falling apart.

The legendary Chelsea Hotel, an icon of 1960s counterculture and a haven for famous artists and intellectuals including Patti Smith, Janis Joplin and the superstars of Warhol's Factory, is under renovation. Soon it will reopen to the public as one of New York's most fashionable luxury hotels. Dozens of long-term residents, most in their later years, have lived amidst the scaffolding and constant construction for close to a decade. Against this chaotic backdrop, Dreaming Walls takes us through the hotel’s storied halls, exploring its living body and the bohemian origins that contributed to its mythical stature. Its residents and the walls themselves now face a turning point in their common history.

A small-town woman comes to New York only to find out magic is commonplace in Gotham and has existed there for centuries. But because she is one of the rare creatures without the slightest bit of magic inside her, she can see through any spell.

A man with extraordinary superpowers realizes he can be of better service to humanity by becoming a politician, and decides to become the mayor of New York.

Fairytale and folk characters ranging from Snow White and Cinderella to the Big Bad Wolf and Little Boy Blue are kicked out of their world and now live in a secret pocket of New York City.

Story is a contemporary retelling of Bram Stroker’s "Dracula," in which a New York-based producer travels to Romania for an interview with a notorious European arms dealer, who turns out to be a modern-day Dracula.

Tom Reilly is a bit of an underachiever when it comes to his career (or lack thereof), but his adoring wife Sofia, a formidable lawyer, has always been happy to act as the breadwinner. With the birth of their first child, Sofia decides she wants to be a stay-at-home mom, so Tom needs to step up and take care of his growing family. Unfortunately he gets fired from his job in New York City and is forced to start working with his father-in-law in Sofia's hometown of Ohio. Tom soon clashes with his work colleagues, especially the outrageous Chip, who still carries a torch for Sofia from their high school days, and Sofia becomes increasingly uncomfortable staying home with their new baby. In doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons, the couple needs to get back to what they're good at, before their model family goes completely off track.

A dozen female prisoners move from county jail to life in a Malibu fire camp. With only three weeks of training, the diverse crew must bind together not only to fight devastating blazes, but also their own personal demons and a system that seeks to keep them invisible.

In the aftermath of a tragic family accident, two sisters separately navigate the struggles of love, marriage and children in the midst of their grief. Josie and Meredith must decide if their paths will take them even further apart or bring them closer together.