Best "City" Movies

[PyroChamber]

What do you think are some of the best movies that shows the city, where the movie takes place, at it's finest; almost like that city is a character itself?

For example: best New York movie, best Chicago movie, best Philadelphia movie, etc.

 

[StrainedEyes]

Rocky

 

[patrickbateman]

Ghostbuster

 

[Asr]

Collateral was amazing in this aspect. The "LA at night" vibe just felt so realistic.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

Tokyo Drift.

 

[craigdbfan]

"Lost in Translation" I felt did a good job of showing various cities and towns in Japan. I really felt the atmosphere, which was done by adding great setting placement within the country in that movie.

 

[dude stannis]

Heat
The Burton and Nolan Batman films.
Blade Runner
Se7en
Predator 2
American Gangster

And the most obvious....

Sin City

 

[Evil Twin]

New York City
Manhattan

Vienna
The Third Man

Paris
Before Sunset

Rome
The Bicycle Thief

Chicago
Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Los Angeles
Chinatown

 

[terry78]

The Fugitive for Chicago, hands down.

 

[cerealkiller182]

New York City
Manhattan

Chicago
Ferris Bueller's Day Off

These are hard to argue.

Boston- Monument Ave. or known to some as Snitch. Not at its finest, but the city is almost a character and its very location specific movie

 

[bullets]

Good Will Hunting - Boston

 

[CelticPredator]

Hotties in the City 5: Cindy's Comeback....



Oh......real movies eh?

 

[WolfCypher]

Detroit? Robocop.

 

[Figs]

The Rock - San Francisco

 

[Gallagher]

Escape From New York

 

[CelticPredator]

Predator 2.

 

[DieSmiling]

Gone Baby Gone is awesome for Boston.

 

[cerealkiller182]

Gone Baby Gone is awesome for Boston.

This one and Mystic River. Dennis Lehane really captures Boston well.

 

[The Englishman]

London - An American Warewolf in London

Liverpool- 51st State

 

[IRON_Lad]

In Bruges

 

[PyroChamber]

No love for The Blues Brothers?

 

[Cmill216]

In Bruges

Also, Body Heat makes South Florida look amazing.

 

[BMM]

Collateral was amazing in this aspect. The "LA at night" vibe just felt so realistic.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

"Lost in Translation" I felt did a good job of showing various cities and towns in Japan. I really felt the atmosphere, which was done by adding great setting placement within the country in that movie.

I sense much win in you.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Woody Allen's movies from the 70's and 80's are pretty much love letter's to New York.