12 Directors on Their Favorite New York City Movies“That’s an element of New York: You can look into a window and see a totally different world, and you’re so separated from it ...

Flip through the slideshow for 25 films in which New York City is as much a character as any of the actors, from "The Godfather" to "Sex and the City." NEWSLETTERS Emailed Daily.

Spike Lee has made many movies about New York City, his longtime home and muse, but 2006's stylish crime thriller Inside Man might be the most fun.

When I was a teenager, the New York City I saw in the movies seemed attainable, the sort of place to bring big ambitions and a few suitcases. These films weren’t “The Warriors” or “Escape ...

Many of my favorite New York movies don’t even depict the city—not literally, at least—but, rather, reproduce some version of it in the studio. They capture New York states of mind, of which ...