Movies that take place entirely at night in the city

this was a thing in the 80s

Night Shift
After Hours
Into the Night
Escape from NY

The Warriors

night on earth

xp: (mostly)

Miracle Mile

Deadline At Dawn, a film noir I recently watched, takes place over one NYC night (loved this film, btw)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038458/

Is Judgement Night all at night, or is there a daylight start?

Adventures in Babysitting

Dark City, mostly.

Jules Dassin's Night in the City? I've never seen it...Sweet Smell of Success must be very close, but there are a couple of daytime scenes. Taxi Driver, more than a couple, although the nighttime stuff is what you remember.

Taxi Driver is close - and it definitely set the bar for 70s-NY-at-night-creepiness but it is definitely broken up by the daytime scenes

definitely

I assume Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist is some kind of shitty variation on this

this was a thing in the 80s

Night Shift
After Hours

Both of these have daytime scenes, however brief. Actually the Night Shift ones are pretty long -- it starts off in daytime, and I know there's at least one scene in Shelly Long's apartment that's in daytime.

Is Judgement Night all at night, or is there a daylight start?

Yep, it's all daylight until they get off the freeway.

Yeah, I wasn't sure - I haven't seen it since it came out, I think.

Sweet Smell Of Success iirc

Laura

Both of these have daytime scenes, however brief. Actually the Night Shift ones are pretty long -- it starts off in daytime, and I know there's at least one scene in Shelly Long's apartment that's in daytime.

the After Hours one is REALLY brief (albeit crucial).

I think Into the Night has a couple daytime scenes as well, now that I think of it...?

maybe I should've revised this thread title to just be "Movies about things that take place at night in the city", I dunno.

vendredi soir

Miracle Mile's opening 15 mins or so are in daytime - the rest takes place over one night. (Incidentally, one of my favorite American movies of the '80s.)

hmm I think Woody Allen's Shadows & Fog might fit here

mostly I'm just trying to compile a list of movies that are about evoking a specific kind of urban nighttime-alternate reality. sleeplessness, surrealism, mystery, crime, that kind of thing.

xp

The Big Sleep *feels* like that even though I know it doesn't fit your parameters. Also, Basket Case.

oooooooh yeah Basket Case! definitely

Before Sunrise
(starts in the train in the afternoon, but it's all about the evening/night basically

Escape From New York

There are daytime scenes in that.

I wasn't sure, I couldn't remember any...?

http://ramascreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Escape-From-New-York.jpg

Planet Terror except for the epilogue.

Die Hard (it starts at dusk/early evening, iirc).

Die Hard 2 then, also. Although it's snowing the whole time, so I might be wrong about this.

Adventures in Babysitting

― emil.y, Monday, April 18, 2011 3:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

lol my knee-jerk reaction

My Dinner w/ Andre

Cloverfield?

the end of Cloverfield and most of the flashbacks are during the day

The Crow

Dark City, mostly.

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Planet Terror except for the epilogue.

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, April 18, 2011 4:10 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Isn't PT set in the rural/exurban south & like military bases and shit?

Before Sunrise

yeah I don't think PT fits. all that hick shit.

xp

whoops, someone already mentioned.

fuckin JUDGEMENT NIGHT

o wait sry nevermind

mostly I'm just trying to compile a list of movies that are about evoking a specific kind of urban nighttime-alternate reality. sleeplessness, surrealism, mystery, crime, that kind of thing.

Most of Eyes Wide Shut fits here, no?

Prob some Takeshi Miike films fit this bill.

Collateral

Light Sleeper, I think?

Was gonna say Assault on Precinct 13, but there's a lot more daytime stuff in there than I was thinking.

Night at the Museum.
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.

i presume.

fun fact: I was visiting the Museum of Natural History w/ my gf one day, when we found ourselves being cleared out before regular visiting hours usually ended, except we were at the extreme end of some far-flung end of the building, so we were among the last people out - we exited just in time to stumble upon the red-carpet premiere for Night at the Museum, which we didn't even know was a thing until that moment. It was pretty surreal.

ok I suck at this game

well Bladerunner kind of tricks you - a bunch of scenes that take place during the day are indoor with the blinds drawn, for ex.

In my head, Two Lovers, but my head is unreliable. We Own The Night?

Does Glengarry Glen Ross go here?

I believe the scene with Alec Baldwin was during the day

So is the entire ending, which hinges on whether or not Alan Arkin will just GO TO LUNCH.

In fact I never get tired of this scene!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3EvCIU7gb8

Hmm. Baldwin does say 'You drove a Hyundai to get here tonight I drove a $80,000 BWM — that's my name.'

love that he's essentially playing donald trump and nailed the 'you're fired' line 20 yrs prior

Dark City isnt even "almost" if you think about it cos the scene on the beach is a fake, really.

By the same measure, The Matrix.

Alphaville has a few day (or at least morning) scenes. The car chase is in daylight.

Sea of Love?

Isn't the point in Bladerunner that humanity has fucked up the planet so even when it's daytime it's gloomy and raining?

There are day scenes but i think "Naked" should be here.

By the same measure, The Matrix.

I dunno calling the Matrix a "city" seems like cheating

Naked, Irreversible, and Seven all feel like they qualify, even with daytime scenes.

Se7en doesn't really have anything to do with living in a city. the last scene (which goes on FOREVER) takes place in a field during the day.

enter the void?, other than flashbacks

night on earth

― just sayin, Monday, April 18, 2011 3:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

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200 Cigarettes...?

I've never seen it

― All this information makes America phat (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, April 18, 2011 6:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Yeah.

Mystery Train

― Jaq, Monday, April 18, 2011 5:46 PM Bookmark

Some scenes in the beginning with the Japanese couple going on the Sun Records tour, the Italian woman in the airport, and the end of "Lost In Space" where they throw Buscemi into the pick-up and drive off to Arkansas.

A Night At The Roxbury

oh come on tons of that takes place during the day

haha, I never saw it.

How about: Night of the Comet?

I remember day scenes in that too.

What about "Airplane!"?

haha

an airplane is like the antithesis of a city

LAX?

No, I keep missing that final preposition.

Pretty sure Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is all after dark, even though it's hardly "the city".

Wait Until Dark mebbe? (Never seen it myself)

http://www4.images.coolspotters.com/photos/558792/i-come-in-peace-profile.jpg

Freejack surely?

Freejack has loads of day scenes. Some seen below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzo0MmRY8aU

an airplane is like the antithesis of a city

― All this information makes America phat (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, April 19, 2011 12:28 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

tempted to bust this out into its own thread to give it the full analysis and response it deserves

feel free. I can't tell if you disagree with me or not...?

i don't know if i do? there are just so many levels to unpack, so many questions to answer, before i can decide.

Blind Date

But the first half and last half of the movie take place in broad daylight... 'cept for the climbing the trellis scene.

forthwith, Blind Date shall be stricken from the record

Black Rain
Pickup on South Street (I think?)
T-Men

Black Rain had a couple day scenes, wasn't the one near the end where the dude cuts off his finger during the day? Like aren't there motorcycles in fields and shit too?

Isn't the point in Bladerunner that humanity has fucked up the planet so even when it's daytime it's gloomy and raining?

― Number None, Tuesday, April 19, 2011 8:14 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

but we see the sunlight at the end when Rutger Hauer's character dies. The dove being released and all that.

toute une nuit, btw

The City of Lost Children is mostly set at night, or in sepulchral fog and gloom at least.

xp oops, forgot — and even the first scene is during the day

Was thinking Eraserhead, but then there's a couple of daylight scenes near the start. Otherwise it would fit perfectly.

lol Into the Night was on cable the other night and I spent way too much time formulating a dissertation comparing it to After Hours (NY vs LA etc)... was trying to figure out some way to work a pun on nocturnal emissions into the title

attack the block

Issues of the Night

Isn't the point in Bladerunner that humanity has fucked up the planet so even when it's daytime it's gloomy and raining?

― Number None, Tuesday, April 19, 2011 8:14 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

but we see the sunlight at the end when Rutger Hauer's character dies. The dove being released and all that.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 21 April 2011 06:12 (5 months ago)

We see the sun shining through the window when Deckard meets Tyrell. He even asks for the blinds to be closed because it's too bright for the VK machine to work otherwise.