new york city has long served as inspiration for filmmakers spanning every decade in genre the city not only serves as a beautiful backdrop but also has its own life and personality if you're a part-time fan of the movies chances are you can recall at least one iconic movie scene or a film shot at a famous location that made you want to visit nyc here's the list of top 10 movies to display their love for the most beautiful city in the world nyc but before starting the video be sure to smash that
like button and subscribe to never miss out on any of our videos number one king kong 1933 kong is a silver screen monster movie so iconic the image of him atop the empire state building is one of the most indelible cultural images from the history of film this film has been remade and updated but never imitated showing the clash of a giant ape loose in the urban jungle the climactic moment of kong scaling what was the world's tallest building at the time a title claim from the chrysler buildin
g has remained with us ever since new york skyline may have changed but when you visit nyc you can help looking up and imagining a giant a battling biplanes number 2 miracle on 34th street 1947. miracle on 34th street also called the big heart of the uk became an instant holiday classic as soon as it was released in 1947. the film was written by valentin davies was directed by george season and starred maureen o'hara natalie wood don payne and edmund gwen the film was highly recognized at the ac
ademy awards shot on location in new york including a sequence filmed during the 1946 macy's thanksgiving day parade the movie remains an endearing story about the power of belief and the importance of trust number three pick up on south street 1953 as bodies jostle on a new york city subway train the grifter skipped mccoy richard wenmark picks the handbag an alarmingly graphic metaphor for sexual revulsion the fellow passenger candy jane peters the wallet he lifts from her contains marco film o
f top-secret u.s government information she is unwittingly carrying for her communist spy ex-boyfriend samuel fuller's gripping cold war film noir was mostly filmed in hollywood but it offers a genuine tank of manhattan in the early 1950s thanks to our full use of back projection and second unit locations number four west side story 1961. new york is historically a city of immigrants from different countries robert wise and jerome robbins's romeo and juliet reboot what side story based on the 19
57 musical showed the depth of the cultural divides by the rumbles between the sharks and jets respectively puerto rican and white street gangs the setting was the upper west side's old lincoln square tenement area which was demolished to make way for the lincoln center complex in the early 1960s some of the filming took place where the west side meets the east side on 110th street number five ghostbusters 1984. in this eternally hip comedy bill murray dan aykroyd and harold ramis played the par
apsychologists who saved new york city from a ghost infestation and a 100-foot marshmallow man among the new york's institutions captured in ghostbusters were columbia university the new york public library columbus circle and the waldorf astoria hotel ghostbusters on the other hand is a stone-cold comedy classic the movie still has a new york feel to it anyway number 6 the apartment 1960. billy wilder's sardonic romantic drama a 1960s best picture oscar winner lacerates the sleazy corporate pol
itics of an era when male workers traded their workplace as a pickup joint insurance clerk cc baxter jack lemmon has found that lending his upper west side brownstone apartment to his bosses so they can sleep with their female colleagues is the shortest means of getting a quick promotion number seven all about eve written and directed by joseph l mankiewicz in the 1950 best picture oscar winners skewered egoism and ambition among new york theater types at a time when there was intense rivalry be
tween broadway and hollywood betty davis stars as the aging diva who hires a supposedly smitten fan and baxter as her assistant only to find the girl is intent on replacing her as broadway's ruling actress all about eve is the only movie for which four actresses have been oscar nominated number eight the other guys 2010 the new yorkness of the other guys begins with the fact mark wahlberg's character has been busted to desk duty for accidentally shooting derek jeter just as important is the fact
that the city is such an epicenter for finance the humor in the other guys comes from will ferrell and wallberg playing opposites or partner together but one of the underlying themes is that the villains aren't the boisterous ones but the second immoral rich people number nine spider-man homecoming 2017 spider-man is a new york superhero through and through the fact that he's from queens is indelible to his character personally our favorite of the spider-man so far has been tom holland but spid
er-man far from home mostly takes place in europe homecoming on the other hand is very much a new york film and a great step into the marvel world for our friendly neighborhood spider-man number 10 you've got mail 1998 one of the films being parodied by that they came together that would be you've got mail you know how it goes to people who don't like each other finally fall for one another in this case it's because they've been chatting over email anonymously not knowing that they were talking
to one another it's a bit dated now as anything involving aol is but it still has tom hanks and meg ryan thank you for watching you liked our video then hit the subscribe button to never miss out on any of our videos see you next time
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