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Don’t you love New York in the fall? It’s a great time to rank movies set in the Big Apple.
New York City has been the center of countless iconic movies over the last century, and Rotten Tomatoes has neatly assembled the best of the best into an extensive rankings list.
From “Annie” to “The Warriors,” there’s no stone left unturned in this Top 212 list. The rankings are based on each film’s adjusted Tomatometer, which takes Tomatometer score, audience reviews, year of release and more into account.
Documentaries were also included in the ranking.
The number 212 was chosen because it was the first area code assigned to New York City by AT&T in the 1940s.
Over 200 movies can be a bit overwhelming, so here are the top 50 movies set in the Concrete Jungle according to Rotten Tomatoes:
50-41
Starring: Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Timothy Spall
Directors: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
Starring: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, George Chakiris
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Michael Murphy
Director: Susan Seidelman
Starring: Susan Berman, Richard Hell, Brad Rinn, Nada Despotovich
Director: Jaques Tourneur
Starring: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
40-31
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Keenan Wynn
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Richard Romanus, Amy Robinson
Director: Jennie Livingston
Starring: André Christian, Freddie Pendavis, Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija
Directors: Josh and Bennie Safdie
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Barkhad Abdi, Benny Safdie
30-21
Director: Lorene Scafaria
Starring: Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Stiles, Mercedes Ruehl
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: Hugh Hurd, Lelia Goldoni, Ben Carruthers, Anthony Ray
Starring: Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard
Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Joe Mantell, Esther Minciotti
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco
20-11
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Starring: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough
Directors: Josh and Bennie Safdie
Starring: Adam Sandler, LaKeith Stanfield, Julia Fox, Kevin Garnett
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Raymond Burr
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Jim Broadbent
10-1
Directors: Merian Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack
Starring: Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot, Robert Armstrong, Frank Reicher
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Phylicia Rashad, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson
Director: Joseph Mankiewicz
Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, Celeste Holm, George Sanders
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard S. Castellano
Did you guess the No. 1 movie?
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