New York City is not only the capital of the world, it’s also the most romaܫntic s♔pot on the planet.
Check out our list of the most romantic NYC-filmಞedꦑ moments in movie history. Paris wishes it could match up.
“Superman” (1978)
220 E. 42nd St.
Superman (Christopher Reeve) rescues Lois Lane from certain death as she falls off a helicopter stuck on the roof of the Daily Planet building (actually the Daily News building at the time). “I’ve got you,” Superman reassures her. “Who’s got you?” she asks. Rent on , $2.99
“Moonstruck” (1987)
The Metropolitan Opera House, 63rd Street and Broadway.
Loretta (Cher, in her Oscar-winning role) is engaged to Johnny, but when he’s away she gets to know his brother Ronny (Nicolas Cage), with whom she shares an exhilarating evening in fancy dress seeing “La Boheme” at Lincoln Center. Stream on ; subscription required
“Scent of a Woman” (1992)
The Pierre Hotel, Fifth Avenue and 61st Street.
Al Pacino won his only Oscar as Frank, a suicidal blind man who regains his will to live via his friendship with a boy (Chris O’Donnell). Frank teaches a young beauty (Gabrielle Anwar) to tango at the ballroom of the hotel. Rent on , $2.99
“Carlito’s Way” (1993)
The Joffrey Ballet School, Sixth Avenue and West 10th Street.
Released from prison, Carlito Brigante roams th🃏rough the rain looking for his ex-girlfriend Gail (Penelope Ann Miller). He climbs to the top of a building and, using a garbage-can lid as an umbrella, stares into the windows of the Joffrey Ballet, where he spots Gail dancing to the “Flower Duet” from the opera “Lakmé.”
Later, they finally get together at her apartment at 17 Gay St. in the West Village, where she refuses to remove the chain lock on her door but teases him, “If you can’t get in, you don’t get in.” He breaks the lock, this time with the Joe Cocker song “You Are So Beautiful” playing on the soundtrack. Rent on , $2.99
“Sleepless in Seattle” (1993)
The Observation deck of the Empire State Building, 34th Street and Fifth Avenue.
Meg Ryan’s Annie and Tom Hanks’ Sam finally meet at a place suggested by the 1957 movie after spending the movie missing connections with each other. She first noticed him in Baltimore when he called in to a radio talk show in Seattle to reminisce about his dead wife. Stream on ; subscription required
“When Harry Met Sally . . .” (1989)
The Puck Building, Lafayette and Houston streets.
In the last scene, Sally is attending an elegant New Year’s Eve party in the grand ballroom when Harry realizes he can’t live without her and dashes into the room just as the final seconds of the year are ticking down. Rent on , $2.99
“‘Crocodile’ Dundee” (1986)
59th Street-Columbus Circle subway platform.
Separated from her love by a huge crowd between the steps and the IND platform at the 59th Street station, Sue (Linda Kozlowski) is forced to relay the news that she isn’t going to marry another man via two strangers who pass their shouted messages back and forth through the mob. Stream on ; subscription required
“Love Story” (1970)
Wollman Rink, Central Park at Fifth Avenue and 63rd Street.
Crushed by the death of his 25-year-old wife (Ali MacGraw) at Mount Sinai Hospital, Oliver (Ryan O’Neal) sits alone in the snow overlooking the skating rink they used to visit. Stream on ; subscription required
“Manhattan” (1979)
The Queensboro Bridge, a k a the 59th Street Bridge, later the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge.
Woody Allen’s down-to-earth writer Isaac Davis and Diane Keaton’s snooty Radcliffe grad Mary Wilkie, the girlfriend of a friend of his, discover an unexpected fondness for each other during an all-night conversation that winds up at the east end of 58th Street, just under the bridge. Perhaps the single most beautiful shot of Allen’s entire directorial career was filmed at 4 a.m. on Aug. 14, 1978 — nearly the absolute nadir of New York City history. Cinematographer Gordon Willis, whose other achievements included “The Godfather,” was not nominated for an Oscar for either film and never won a competitive Academy Award. Rent on , $2.99
“You’ve Got Mail” (1998)
The 91st Street Flower Garden, Riverside Park.
In Nora Ephron’s “You’ve Got Mail,” a book retailer played by Tom Hanks and the small-business owner (Meg Ryan) he put out of business have been flirting via e-mail even as they’ve become professional antagonists. In the final scene in the movie, the businessman reveals he’s the same guy as her e-mail love in a patch of flowers in Riverside Park on the Upper West Side. Rent on , $2.99