Ooh, one could go wild with that one--so many movies where a city is important. 
Any movie both set and shot in Paris or London or Brooklyn almost by definition 
would be very different if it were set or shot somewhere else. 

Lost in Translation for Tokyo?

How about Boudu sauve des eaux for Paris? (but then L'Atalante comes to mind, 
where Paris is definitely a character more than a location--pick one). Sous les 
toits de Paris, Children of Paradise? Amelie?

West Side Story, Do the Right Thing, Taxi Driver for New York? Moonstruck? 
Maybe New York should be divided into boroughs.

My favorite thing about the recent Sherlock Holmes movie was its London (and 
one could argue that London is a character in the Holmes stories), but maybe it 
shouldn't count since apparently they "moved" a bridge for plot purposes. 

Judy

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