New York Movies Bucket List

A former ballplayer in 1990s New York is handed a cat and the wrong people's problem.

Ichabod Crane investigates the Headless Horseman in a fog-bound 1799 New York.

A war reporter asks a friend to be there when she dies; Almodovar's first English feature, and a Golden Lion.

They killed his dog. Eighty-one bodies and a new action grammar.

Philippe Petit walks a wire between the Twin Towers in 1974, told as a heist.

Jackie Kennedy's aunt and cousin in a crumbling East Hampton mansion; the Maysles.

The Harlem drag balls of the 1980s and the houses that voguing came from.

The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival footage found after fifty years; Questlove's Oscar.

Three days of peace and music in 1969, in split screen; Scorsese edited.

A young Hasidic woman flees Brooklyn for Berlin; four episodes from Deborah Feldman's memoir.

Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez solve murders in their Upper West Side building.

The Roy children fight over a media empire; four seasons of Shakespeare in fleece.

Aziz Ansari in New York and Modena; the "Thanksgiving" episode.

A hacker with dissociative disorder takes down a conglomerate; Rami Malek and real code.

Lucille Ball and the chocolate factory; the sitcom that invented the three-camera format.

Tina Fey runs a sketch show under Alec Baldwin's executive; the fastest joke rate on television.

Don Draper and a Madison Avenue ad agency through the 1960s; seven seasons of slow change.

Adam Sandler as a gambling-addict jeweller through two weeks of chaos; the Safdies and Kevin Garnett.

Ethan Hawke as a pastor losing his faith over climate change; Schrader's Bresson film.

Robert Pattinson through one New York night trying to free his brother; the Safdies' breakthrough.

Joaquin Phoenix dances down the Bronx stairs; a comic-book film that won the Golden Lion.

Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson divorce between LA and New York; the argument scene.

Greta Gerwig runs through Manhattan to Bowie in black and white; a portrait of being 27.

George Clooney as a law-firm fixer and Tilda Swinton sweating; the best legal thriller of its decade.

Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and the Hulk together for the first time; the Battle of New York.

A portal into an actor's head on the 71/2th floor; Kaufman and Jonze's debut.

The hottest day in Bed-Stuy and a pizzeria; Spike Lee's film about race that ends without an answer.

A hitman and a 12-year-old Natalie Portman in New York; Gary Oldman's "EVERYONE".

Nobody puts Baby in a corner; the summer of 1963 at a Catskills resort.

Waterloo station, a Tangier rooftop chase and the end of Treadstone.