Urban Movies
Kinora's catalogue lists 330 films set in urban environments, spanning 1927–2024. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.
- 1957
12 Angry Men
Urbandir. Sidney Lumet - 2002
25th Hour
Urbandir. Spike Lee - 2002
28 Days Later
Urban · Ruraldir. Danny Boyle - 2007
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Urbandir. Cristian Mungiu - 1963
8½
Urbandir. Federico Fellini - 1991
A Brighter Summer Day
Urbandir. Edward Yang - 1971
A Clockwork Orange
Urbandir. Stanley Kubrick - 2017
A Fantastic Woman
Urbandir. Sebastián Lelio - 1964
A Fistful of Dollars
Urban · Wildernessdir. Sergio Leone - 2014
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Urbandir. Ana Lily Amirpour - 1992
A League of Their Own
Urban · Ruraldir. Penny Marshall - 2009
A Prophet
Urban · Undergrounddir. Jacques Audiard - 1986
A Room with a View
Urban · Ruraldir. James Ivory - 2011
A Separation
Urbandir. Asghar Farhadi - 1988
Akira
Urbandir. Katsuhiro Otomo - 1974
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Urbandir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 1974
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 1950
All About Eve
Urbandir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz - 1999
All About My Mother
Urbandir. Pedro Almodóvar - 1976
All the President's Men
Urbandir. Alan J. Pakula - 2000
Almost Famous
Urbandir. Cameron Crowe - 1984
Amadeus
Urbandir. Miloš Forman - 2001
Amélie
Urbandir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet - 2023
American Fiction
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Cord Jefferson - 2000
Amores Perros
Urbandir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu - 2012
Amour
Urbandir. Michael Haneke - 2010
Animal Kingdom
Urbandir. David Michôd - 1977
Annie Hall
Urbandir. Woody Allen - 2024
Anora
Urbandir. Sean Baker - 2020
Another Round
Urbandir. Thomas Vinterberg - 2016
Aquarius
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Kleber Mendonça Filho - 1969
Army of Shadows
Urbandir. Jean-Pierre Melville - 2007
Atonement
Rural · Urban · Coastal Seadir. Joe Wright - 2022
Babylon
Urbandir. Damien Chazelle - 2019
Beanpole
Urbandir. Kantemir Balagov - 1995
Before Sunrise
Urbandir. Richard Linklater - 2004
Before Sunset
Urbandir. Richard Linklater - 1967
Belle de Jour
Urbandir. Luis Buñuel - 1948
Bicycle Thieves
Urbandir. Vittorio De Sica - 2000
Billy Elliot
Urbandir. Stephen Daldry - 2014
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Urbandir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu - 1966
Black Girl
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Ousmane Sembène - 2010
Black Swan
Urbandir. Darren Aronofsky - 2018
BlacKkKlansman
Urbandir. Spike Lee - 1982
Blade Runner
Urbandir. Ridley Scott - 2017
Blade Runner 2049
Urbandir. Denis Villeneuve - 2018
Blindspotting
Urbandir. Carlos López Estrada - 1966
Blow-Up
Urbandir. Michelangelo Antonioni - 1997
Boogie Nights
Urban · Suburbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 2014
Boyhood
Suburban · Urbandir. Richard Linklater - 1960
Breathless
Urbandir. Jean-Luc Godard - 2022
Broker
Urbandir. Hirokazu Kore-eda - 2018
Burning
Urban · Ruraldir. Lee Chang-dong - 2005
C.R.A.Z.Y.
Urbandir. Jean-Marc Vallée - 1972
Cabaret
Urbandir. Bob Fosse - 2005
Caché
Urbandir. Michael Haneke - 2018
Capernaum
Urbandir. Nadine Labaki - 1943
Casablanca
Urbandir. Michael Curtiz - 1995
Casino
Desert · Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 2002
Catch Me If You Can
Urbandir. Steven Spielberg - 1998
Central Station
Urban · Ruraldir. Walter Salles - 1964
Charulata
Urbandir. Satyajit Ray - 2006
Children of Men
Urbandir. Alfonso Cuarón - 1974
Chinatown
Urbandir. Roman Polanski - 1994
Chungking Express
Urbandir. Wong Kar-Wai - 1988
Cinema Paradiso
Rural · Urbandir. Giuseppe Tornatore - 1941
Citizen Kane
Urbandir. Orson Welles - 1931
City Lights
Urbandir. Charlie Chaplin - 2002
City of God
Urbandir. Fernando Meirelles - 1962
Cléo from 5 to 7
Urbandir. Agnès Varda - 1990
Close-Up
Urbandir. Abbas Kiarostami - 2018
Cold War
Urban · Ruraldir. Paweł Pawlikowski - 2004
Collateral
Urbandir. Michael Mann - 2022
Decision to Leave
Urban · Coastal Sea · Mountaindir. Park Chan-wook - 1995
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Urban · Ruraldir. Aditya Chopra - 1989
Do the Right Thing
Urbandir. Spike Lee - 1975
Dog Day Afternoon
Urbandir. Sidney Lumet - 1944
Double Indemnity
Urbandir. Billy Wilder - 1964
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Urbandir. Stanley Kubrick - 2021
Drive My Car
Urbandir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi - 1999
Election
Urban · Suburbandir. Alexander Payne - 2014
Enemy
Urbandir. Denis Villeneuve - 1998
Enemy of the State
Urbandir. Tony Scott - 2000
Erin Brockovich
Urban · Suburbandir. Steven Soderbergh - 2004
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Urban · Suburbandir. Michel Gondry - 2022
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Urbandir. Daniel Scheinert - 2015
Ex Machina
Urbandir. Alex Garland - 1995
Fallen Angels
Urbandir. Wong Kar-Wai - 2023
Fallen Leaves
Urbandir. Aki Kaurismäki - 1982
Fanny and Alexander
Urbandir. Ingmar Bergman - 1993
Farewell My Concubine
Urbandir. Chen Kaige - 1996
Fargo
Rural · Urbandir. Joel Coen - 1999
Fight Club
Urbandir. David Fincher - 1994
Forrest Gump
Rural · Urban · Coastal Seadir. Robert Zemeckis - 2013
Fruitvale Station
Urbandir. Ryan Coogler - 1987
Full Metal Jacket
Urbandir. Stanley Kubrick - 2012
Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1
Urbandir. Anurag Kashyap - 2000
Gladiator
Urbandir. Ridley Scott - 1987
Good Morning, Vietnam
Urbandir. Barry Levinson - 1997
Good Will Hunting
Urbandir. Gus Van Sant - 1990
GoodFellas
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 2008
Gran Torino
Urbandir. Clint Eastwood - 1988
Grave of the Fireflies
Urbandir. Isao Takahata - 1986
Hannah and Her Sisters
Urbandir. Woody Allen - 1997
Happy Together
Urbandir. Wong Kar-Wai - 1995
Heat
Urbandir. Michael Mann - 2013
Her
Urbandir. Spike Jonze - 1963
High and Low
Urbandir. Akira Kurosawa - 1959
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Urbandir. Alain Resnais - 2019
Hotel Mumbai
Urbandir. Anthony Maras - 2005
Hustle & Flow
Urbandir. Craig Brewer - 2013
Ida
Rural · Urbandir. Paweł Pawlikowski - 1952
Ikiru
Urbandir. Akira Kurosawa - 2000
In the Mood for Love
Urbandir. Wong Kar-Wai - 2010
Incendies
Urbandir. Denis Villeneuve - 2010
Inception
Urbandir. Christopher Nolan - 2002
Infernal Affairs
Urbandir. Alan Mak Siu-Fai - 2013
Inside Llewyn Davis
Urbandir. Joel Coen - 1934
It Happened One Night
Urbandir. Frank Capra - 1976
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Urbandir. Chantal Akerman - 2021
Judas and the Black Messiah
Urbandir. Shaka King - 1961
Judgment at Nuremberg
Urbandir. Stanley Kramer - 1962
Jules and Jim
Urbandir. François Truffaut - 2003
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Urban · Ruraldir. Quentin Tarantino - 2012
Killing Them Softly
Urbandir. Andrew Dominik - 1971
Klute
Urbandir. Alan J. Pakula - 1997
L.A. Confidential
Urbandir. Curtis Hanson - 1960
L'Avventura
Island · Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Michelangelo Antonioni - 1960
La Dolce Vita
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Federico Fellini - 1995
La Haine
Urban · Suburbandir. Mathieu Kassovitz - 2016
La La Land
Urbandir. Damien Chazelle - 2005
Lady Vengeance
Urbandir. Park Chan-wook - 1949
Late Spring
Urbandir. Yasujirō Ozu - 1967
Le Samouraï
Urbandir. Jean-Pierre Melville - 2016
Lion
Urban · Ruraldir. Garth Davis - 1998
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Urbandir. Guy Ritchie - 1997
Lost Highway
Urban · Desertdir. David Lynch - 2003
Lost in Translation
Urbandir. Sofia Coppola - 2017
Loveless
Urbandir. Andrey Zvyagintsev - 1931
M
Urbandir. Fritz Lang - 1999
Magnolia
Urbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 1992
Malcolm X
Urbandir. Spike Lee - 1979
Manhattan
Urbandir. Woody Allen - 2019
Marriage Story
Urbandir. Noah Baumbach - 1973
Mean Streets
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 2000
Memento
Urbandir. Christopher Nolan - 1968
Memories of Underdevelopment
Urbandir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea - 1927
Metropolis
Urban · Undergrounddir. Fritz Lang - 2011
Midnight in Paris
Urbandir. Woody Allen - 1990
Miller's Crossing
Urbandir. Joel Coen - 2004
Million Dollar Baby
Urbandir. Clint Eastwood - 1936
Modern Times
Urbandir. Charlie Chaplin - 2011
Moneyball
Urbandir. Bennett Miller - 2023
Monster
Urbandir. Hirokazu Kore-eda - 2016
Moonlight
Urbandir. Barry Jenkins - 2009
Mother
Urbandir. Bong Joon Ho - 1960
Mughal-e-Azam
Urbandir. K. Asif - 2001
Mulholland Drive
Urbandir. David Lynch - 1989
Mystery Train
Urbandir. Jim Jarmusch - 2003
Mystic River
Urbandir. Clint Eastwood - 1975
Nashville
Urbandir. Robert Altman - 1976
Network
Urbandir. Sidney Lumet - 1959
North by Northwest
Urban · Ruraldir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1946
Notorious
Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock - 2003
Oldboy
Urbandir. Park Chan-wook - 1954
On the Waterfront
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Elia Kazan - 1984
Once Upon a Time in America
Urbandir. Sergio Leone - 2019
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Urbandir. Quentin Tarantino - 1994
Once Were Warriors
Urbandir. Lee Tamahori - 2013
Only Lovers Left Alive
Urbandir. Jim Jarmusch - 2023
Oppenheimer
Desert · Urbandir. Christopher Nolan - 2014
Paddington
Urbandir. Paul King - 2019
Pain and Glory
Urban · Ruraldir. Pedro Almodóvar - 2019
Parasite
Urban · Undergrounddir. Bong Joon Ho - 1984
Paris, Texas
Desert · Urbandir. Wim Wenders - 2023
Past Lives
Urbandir. Celine Song - 2016
Paterson
Urbandir. Jim Jarmusch - 1998
Perfect Blue
Urbandir. Satoshi Kon - 2023
Perfect Days
Urbandir. Wim Wenders - 2007
Persepolis
Urbandir. Vincent Paronnaud - 2017
Phantom Thread
Urbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 1959
Pickpocket
Urbandir. Robert Bresson - 2020
Pieces of a Woman
Urbandir. Kornél Mundruczó - 2021
Pig
Wilderness · Urbandir. Michael Sarnoski - 1980
Pixote
Urbandir. Héctor Babenco - 1967
PlayTime
Urbandir. Jacques Tati - 2023
Poor Things
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Yorgos Lanthimos - 1994
Pulp Fiction
Urbandir. Quentin Tarantino - 2002
Punch-Drunk Love
Urbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 1980
Raging Bull
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 1981
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Desert · Urbandir. Steven Spielberg - 1991
Raise the Red Lantern
Urbandir. Zhang Yimou - 2007
Ratatouille
Urbandir. Brad Bird - 1999
Ratcatcher
Urbandir. Lynne Ramsay - 1954
Rear Window
Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock - 2000
Requiem for a Dream
Urbandir. Darren Aronofsky - 1992
Reservoir Dogs
Urbandir. Quentin Tarantino - 2022
Return to Seoul
Urbandir. Davy Chou - 1987
RoboCop
Urbandir. Paul Verhoeven - 1960
Rocco and His Brothers
Urbandir. Luchino Visconti - 2008
RocknRolla
Urbandir. Guy Ritchie - 1976
Rocky
Urbandir. John G. Avildsen - 2018
Roma
Urbandir. Alfonso Cuarón - 1945
Rome, Open City
Urbandir. Roberto Rossellini - 1948
Rope
Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1968
Rosemary's Baby
Urbandir. Roman Polanski - 1998
Run Lola Run
Urbandir. Tom Tykwer - 1998
Rushmore
Urbandir. Wes Anderson - 2002
Russian Ark
Urbandir. Aleksandr Sokurov - 1998
Satya
Urbandir. Ram Gopal Varma - 1993
Schindler's List
Urbandir. Steven Spielberg - 1995
Se7en
Urbandir. David Fincher - 1989
Sea of Love
Urbandir. Harold Becker - 2012
Searching for Sugar Man
Urbandir. Malik Bendjelloul - 1996
Secrets & Lies
Urbandir. Mike Leigh - 2014
Selma
Urban · Ruraldir. Ava DuVernay - 2004
Shaun of the Dead
Urbandir. Edgar Wright - 2018
Shoplifters
Urbandir. Hirokazu Kore-eda - 1993
Short Cuts
Urban · Suburbandir. Robert Altman - 2015
Sicario
Urban · Desertdir. Denis Villeneuve - 1952
Singin' in the Rain
Urbandir. Gene Kelly - 2008
Slumdog Millionaire
Urbandir. Danny Boyle - 2000
Snatch
Urbandir. Guy Ritchie - 1959
Some Like It Hot
Urbandir. Billy Wilder - 1977
Sorcerer
Wilderness · Urban · Mountaindir. William Friedkin - 2020
Sound of Metal
Rural · Urbandir. Darius Marder - 2018
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Urbandir. Bob Persichetti - 2001
Spirited Away
Urbandir. Hayao Miyazaki - 2006
Still Life
Urbandir. Jia Zhangke - 1950
Sunset Boulevard
Urbandir. Billy Wilder - 1977
Suspiria
Urbandir. Dario Argento - 2002
Sweet Home Alabama
Rural · Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Andy Tennant - 2002
Talk to Her
Urbandir. Pedro Almodóvar - 1985
Tampopo
Urbandir. Jūzō Itami - 2022
TÁR
Urbandir. Todd Field - 1997
Taste of Cherry
Urbandir. Abbas Kiarostami - 1976
Taxi Driver
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 1991
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Urbandir. James Cameron - 1959
The 400 Blows
Urban · Coastal Seadir. François Truffaut - 1960
The Apartment
Urbandir. Billy Wilder - 2011
The Artist
Urbandir. Michel Hazanavicius - 2014
The Babadook
Urban · Suburbandir. Jennifer Kent - 1966
The Battle of Algiers
Urbandir. Gillo Pontecorvo - 1998
The Big Lebowski
Urbandir. Joel Coen - 2017
The Big Sick
Urbandir. Michael Showalter - 2024
The Bikeriders
Urbandir. Jeff Nichols - 2009
The Blind Side
Suburban · Urbandir. John Lee Hancock - 2024
The Brutalist
Urbandir. Brady Corbet - 2021
The Card Counter
Urbandir. Paul Schrader - 1971
The Conformist
Urbandir. Bernardo Bertolucci - 1974
The Conversation
Urbandir. Francis Ford Coppola - 2008
The Dark Knight
Urbandir. Christopher Nolan - 2017
The Death of Stalin
Urbandir. Armando Iannucci - 1978
The Deer Hunter
Urban · Wildernessdir. Michael Cimino - 2006
The Departed
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 1972
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Urbandir. Luis Buñuel - 1991
The Double Life of Véronique
Urbandir. Krzysztof Kieślowski - 1973
The Exorcist
Urbandir. William Friedkin - 2018
The Favourite
Urbandir. Yorgos Lanthimos - 2010
The Fighter
Urbandir. David O. Russell - 1993
The Firm
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Sydney Pollack - 1971
The French Connection
Urbandir. William Friedkin - 1977
The Gauntlet
Urban · Desertdir. Clint Eastwood - 1972
The Godfather
Urbandir. Francis Ford Coppola - 1974
The Godfather Part II
Urban · Ruraldir. Francis Ford Coppola - 2013
The Great Beauty
Urbandir. Paolo Sorrentino - 1940
The Great Dictator
Urbandir. Charlie Chaplin - 2006
The Host
Urbandir. Bong Joon Ho - 2011
The Ides of March
Urbandir. George Clooney - 2019
The Irishman
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 1963
The Leopard
Urban · Ruraldir. Luchino Visconti - 2006
The Lives of Others
Urbandir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck - 1980
The Long Good Friday
Urbandir. John Mackenzie - 2013
The Lunchbox
Urbandir. Ritesh Batra - 1979
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Urban · Suburbandir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 2012
The Master
Urbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 1999
The Matrix
Urban · Off Worlddir. Lana Wachowski - 1985
The Official Story
Urbandir. Luis Puenzo - 1928
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Urbandir. Carl Theodor Dreyer - 2002
The Pianist
Urbandir. Roman Polanski - 1992
The Player
Urbandir. Robert Altman - 2006
The Prestige
Urbandir. Christopher Nolan - 2001
The Royal Tenenbaums
Urbandir. Wes Anderson - 1939
The Rules of the Game
Rural · Urbandir. Jean Renoir - 2016
The Salesman
Urbandir. Asghar Farhadi - 2015
The Second Mother
Urbandir. Anna Muylaert - 2009
The Secret in Their Eyes
Urban · Ruraldir. Juan José Campanella - 1994
The Shawshank Redemption
Urbandir. Frank Darabont - 1991
The Silence of the Lambs
Urbandir. Jonathan Demme - 1999
The Sixth Sense
Urbandir. M. Night Shyamalan - 2010
The Social Network
Urbandir. David Fincher - 1973
The Sting
Urbandir. George Roy Hill - 2024
The Substance
Urbandir. Coralie Fargeat - 1999
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Anthony Minghella - 1949
The Third Man
Urban · Undergrounddir. Carol Reed - 2010
The Town
Urbandir. Ben Affleck - 1964
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Jacques Demy - 1987
The Untouchables
Urbandir. Brian De Palma - 1995
The Usual Suspects
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Bryan Singer - 2013
The Wolf of Wall Street
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 1959
The World of Apu
Urban · Ruraldir. Satyajit Ray - 2005
The World's Fastest Indian
Rural · Desert · Urbandir. Roger Donaldson - 2021
The Worst Person in the World
Urbandir. Joachim Trier - 2008
The Wrestler
Urbandir. Darren Aronofsky - 2023
The Zone of Interest
Urbandir. Jonathan Glazer - 2009
Thirst
Urbandir. Park Chan-wook - 1994
Three Colors: Red
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Krzysztof Kieślowski - 1953
Tokyo Story
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Yasujirō Ozu - 1958
Touch of Evil
Urbandir. Orson Welles - 2016
Train to Busan
Urbandir. Yeon Sang-ho - 1996
Trainspotting
Urbandir. Danny Boyle - 1993
True Romance
Urbandir. Tony Scott - 2005
Tsotsi
Urbandir. Gavin Hood - 1995
Twelve Monkeys
Urban · Undergrounddir. Terry Gilliam - 2000
Unbreakable
Urbandir. M. Night Shyamalan - 2019
Uncut Gems
Urbandir. Benny Safdie - 2014
Under the Skin
Urban · Wilderness · Mountaindir. Jonathan Glazer - 1958
Vertigo
Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock - 2015
Victoria
Urbandir. Sebastian Schipper - 2006
Volver
Urban · Ruraldir. Pedro Almodóvar - 2012
Wadjda
Urbandir. Haifaa al-Mansour - 1971
Walkabout
Desert · Wilderness · Urbandir. Nicolas Roeg - 2005
War of the Worlds
Urban · Suburbandir. Steven Spielberg - 2021
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
Urbandir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi - 2014
Whiplash
Urbandir. Damien Chazelle - 2014
Wild Tales
Urban · Wildernessdir. Damián Szifron - 1987
Wings of Desire
Urbandir. Wim Wenders - 1975
Xala
Urbandir. Ousmane Sembène - 2000
Yi Yi
Urbandir. Edward Yang - 2007
Zodiac
Urbandir. David Fincher
Frequently asked
How many movies are set in urban environments?
Kinora's catalogue lists 330 films set in urban environments, spanning 1927–2024.
What are some movies set in urban environments?
Films set in urban environments in our catalogue include 12 Angry Men (1957), 25th Hour (2002), 28 Days Later (2002), 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), and 8½ (1963).
What is the oldest movie set in urban environments?
Metropolis (1927) is the earliest film set in urban environments in our catalogue; the most recent is The Substance (2024).