New York City street films

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As a born & raised New Yorker (transplanted out west) who went to school there and used to make films there, I'm very interested in gathering films made on the streets of the Big Apple. Especially grungy films made by independents and documentarians in the 1950s through the 1970s. Some of the drama student and theater people I mixed with turn up in the the forgotten indies of the 1970s. Part of the appeal of 1970s blaxploitation films for me is the location photography showing the city I knew at the time. Anyhow, I'm making a list of NYC street films. What's missing? Anyone care to contribute some titles to this list:


1953 Little Fugitive -- Morris Engel
1953 Fear and Desire -- Stanley Kubrick
1955 Killer's Kiss -- Stanley Kubrick
1956 The Killing -- Stanley Kubrick
1956 On the Bowery -- Lionel Rogosin
1959 Shadows -- John Cassavetes
1961 Blast of Silence -- Allen Baron
1961 Dark Odyssey -- Radley Metzger
1961 The Young Savages -- John Frankenheimer
1962 The Connection -- Shirley Clarke
1962 Satan In High Heels -- Jerald Intrator
1963 America, America -- Elia Kazan
1963 The Moving Finger -- Larry Moyer
1964 The Cool World -- Shirley Clarke
1968 Confessions of a Psycho Cat -- Herb Stanley
1969 Who's That Knocking at My Door -- Martin Scorsese
1970 Joe -- John G. Avildsen
1971 Little Murders -- Alan Arkin
1973 Sisters -- Brian DaPalma -- Staten Island is NYC too
1975 Abigail Lesly Is Back In Town -- Joseph Sarno -- Long Island counts as well
1975 Laura's Toys -- Joseph Sarno -- Long Island
1978 Girlfriends -- Claudia Weill

[Alex K. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Alex K.]

Off the top of my head:

Everything done in the Cinema of Transgression.

Basket Case.

There must be shit loads of B films made and shot in Manhattan but Basket Case sticks out the most to me.

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[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

Every seventies porno movie made on the east coast is bound to feature some decent location footage - most of the roughies of the sixties as well.

A few more obvious omissions:

Taxi Driver
Hardcore
Death Wish

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Mean Streets

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Also, great thread. I love NY films, especially when New York was a little more rough around the edges.

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There must be thousands but here are a few...

The Naked City
Panic in Needle Park
Who Killed Teddy Bear
Driller Killer
The Sex Killer
The Incident
most Larry Cohen films from the 70s
Born To Win
Carnival of Blood
Fleshpot on 42nd St
Fingers
early DePalma films like Greetings, Hi Mom, Murder a la Mod

Plus lots of documentaries like 50 Miles From Times Square, etc.

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A few more....

King Of New York
Goodfellas
Serpico
The Warriors
Taking Of Pelham 123
Saturday Night Fever
CHUD
Cruising
French Connection
Requiem For A Dream
Summer Of Sam
Dressed To Kill
Fort Apache The Bronx

Also Carnival Of Blood - loads of great Coney Island footage shot in the 70s there.

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Night of the Juggler
Ms .45
Frankenhooker
Wolfen
Q the Winged Serpent
Exterminator 1 & 2
Nighthawks
Street Smart
Shakedown

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29th Street
Moscow on the Hudson
Across 110th Street
After Hours
Black Caeser
Central Park Drifter
China Girl
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Fear City
Kids
The Killing Hour
The Last Dragon
New York Ripper
Night Shift
The Protector
The Seven-Ups
Tenement
Year of the Dragon

[Ehren H Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ehren H]

I know they're not really "street" movies, but personally I think the best location footage of NYC is usually in Woody Allen's movies. Gordon Willis' cinematography on Manhattan is still the best the city has ever looked in my mind. To me, NYC should always be in B&W and scored by Gershwin.

Oh, and all the early Findlay roughies have great NYC footage. I just watched one of the few hardcore films that Michael Findlay did, and it opens with some GREAT full-color shots of Times Square back in the day, including the marquis of a theater playing Snuff!

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Liquid Sky (1982)
Times Square (1980)
Five Corners (1987)


these aren't necessarily in the 70's . In fact, they're in the 80's.

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Godfather I and II.

[Roderick Butthorn Find all posts View Profile Close Roderick]

Street Trash

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Street Trash

A lot of that was Jersey, wasn't it?