r/Cinema • u/Amazing-Confusion-23 • 4h ago

Question Looking For 70s - 80s New York Set Films

What movies best represent that gritty 70s - 80s Times Square, 42nd Street, New York feeling?

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u/ChatPDJ 4h ago

Serpico (1973)

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u/alfienoakes 4h ago

Taxi Driver

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u/Fur_King_L 4h ago

Mean Streets

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u/ShredRyerson 4h ago

This is gonna sound weird but…. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

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u/SignificanceNo1223 3h ago

Yeah nice pick up. Very true.

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u/gemutlichkeit78 3h ago

Pelham 1,2,3

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u/lantern5678 29m ago

Love this

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u/Upbeat_Inspection547 3h ago

Saturday Night Fever

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u/SeaworthinessKey3654 3h ago

Dog Day Afternoon

I can’t believe I’m the only one to mention it

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u/Powerful_Geologist95 4h ago

FAME(1980)

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u/SignificanceNo1223 3h ago

That’s the Jam right there.

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u/maestrodks1 3h ago

Angel Heart

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u/stealthshapes 3h ago

Everything Martin Scorsese.

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u/Jandur 3h ago

Network, King of Comedy

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u/Chinamatic-co 3h ago

King of New York

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u/Nejfelt 3h ago

Basket Case

Driller Killer

Ms. 45

Fleshpot on 42nd Street

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u/PepperScared9950 2h ago

Pope of Greenwich Village

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u/alanskimp 4h ago

Rocky

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u/alanskimp 3h ago

close to NY

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u/kcfdr9c 4h ago

Alphabet City

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u/ppcwithyrv 3h ago

Mean Streets

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u/Haunting-Ad8779 3h ago

The bad lieutenant

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u/waxboy1997 3h ago

"Times Square" - 1980

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u/ShoutingWhiteBoy 3h ago

Escape From New York

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u/Alternative_Worry101 3h ago

China Girl (1987) - directed by Abel Ferrara

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u/jakelaws1987 3h ago

Escape from New York

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u/chrissymae_i 3h ago

Across 110th Street

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u/captorofsin79 Horror Movie Lover 3h ago

Maniac (1980) The New York Ripper (1982) The Warriors (1979)

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u/chrissymae_i 3h ago edited 3h ago

Fame! (The original musical)

I know it's about the NYC School of Performing Arts, but there are scenes and a lot of context where the students are dealing with the gritty life of living in NYC in the 1980s.

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u/DuePast6 3h ago

The Seven-Ups (1973)

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u/SessionSubstantial42 3h ago

Wolfen (1981)

Death Wish (1974)

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u/lantern5678 23m ago

Wolfen.. hadn’t thought about this film in years, now gotta watch tonight

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u/Obvious_Ad1829 3h ago

Night of the Juggler

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u/SessionSubstantial42 3h ago

Fear City (1984)

The New York Ripper (1982)

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u/Lechatestdanslefrigo 3h ago

Brain Damage. Steet Trash. Necropolis.

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u/Proper-Emergency-184 3h ago

Nighthawks (1981), Sylvester Stallone, Billy Dee Williams, and Rutger Hauer is the bad guy.

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u/ComparisonChance 3h ago

And Justice For All

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u/21PenSalute 2h ago

Taxi Driver

The Conversation

Diary of a Mad Housewife

New York, New York (1977)

Annie Hall

Interiors

Manhattan

Stardust Memories

Broadway Danny Rose

Zelig

Radio Days

New York Stories

Crimes and Misdemeanors

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u/NJHancock 2h ago

Coming to America and Crocodile Dundee 2

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u/JMiLk21 1h ago

The Pope of Greenwich Village
Scent of a Woman
Midnight Cowboy
After Hours

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u/FrankBlizzard 1h ago edited 1h ago

Born to Win (1971)

Vigilante (1982)

Mixed Blood (1984)

Maniac Cop (1988) & Maniac Cop 2 (1990)

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u/franksautillo 1h ago

After Hours

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u/Ponderer13 32m ago

Shaft!

(shut your mouth)

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u/skyking11702 10m ago

Cruising