Movies That Show the Bad Side of Big Cities

Movies that show the worst aspects of a large city like New York.
Taxi Driver, Seven and Midnight Cowboy are my first thoughts.
They don’t aim at that specific point, but is unequivocal.
Recommend me others.

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I don't know why, but the first movie that popped into my head when I saw the title of this thread was The Departed

Mike's Murder (1984) Starring the talented Debra Winger, it shows the seamy side of L.A. I was living there at the time, and the film was captivating. Presumably they fooled around too much with the re-editing.

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Honestly though if you look at films which have some kind of judgement of a big city environment in them I'd say the vast majority are negative or at least very mixed.

Positive ones seem rarer to me, maybe Edwards Yang's Yi Yi and Lost in Translation?

OP, maybe this is not quite what you're looking for but check out films by Jim Jarmusch. He's known for filming on location in seedy sides of real cities.

Then there's always Woody Allen's Manhattan... Not to mention Stanley Donen's On the Town.

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The Movie City of Hope is not about a huge city like New York City. but it does show how politics in a larger city work. City of Hope is by John Sayles. Very hard to find

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First thing that came to my mind wasn't a movie, but The Wire. It's a show about how sh*tty Baltimore is.

John Sayles' City of Hope used to be hard to find in the VHS/DVD days. It is currently available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

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