| Hint | Year | Answer | % Correct |
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| Recounts the rise and fall of stockbroker Jordan Belfort. | 2013 | The Wolf of Wall Street | 74%
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| A mentally ill war veteran tries to save a girl from a pimp. | 1976 | Taxi Driver | 70%
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| A ruthless corporate raider takes a young stockbroker under his wing. | 1987 | Wall Street | 70%
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| Two people wonder if men and women can ever be just friends. | 1989 | When Harry Met Sally | 70%
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| A boy’s wish to become older comes true and he wakes up in the body of a twenty-something man. | 1988 | Big | 67%
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| An Australian man from the Outback must adjust to the hustle and bustle of New York. | 1986 | Crocodile Dundee | 63%
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| A prince travels to NYC in search of a woman who will love him for who he is, and not for his status or wealth. | 1988 | Coming to America | 59%
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| The owner of a small bookshop has an online correspondence with a man she does not know is the owner of a corporate bookstore chain. | 1998 | You’ve Got Mail | 48%
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| Neighborhood racial tensions come to a head during a sweltering day in Bedford–Stuyvesant. | 1989 | Do the Right Thing | 44%
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| A struggling theater actor poses as a woman in order to land a role on a soap opera. | 1982 | Tootsie | 44%
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| A girl’s wish to become older comes true and she wakes up in the body of a thirty-year-old woman. | 2004 | 13 Going on 30 | 37%
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| A young exotic dancer thinks she's hit the jackpot when a wealthy Russian heir asks her to marry him. | 2024 | Anora | 37%
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| A young boy ends up in the Big Apple after his parents lose him—again. | 1992 | Home Alone 2: Lost in New York | 37%
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| A man leaves Texas to make it as a hustler in New York City. | 1969 | Midnight Cowboy | 37%
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| A street gang must fight its way from the Bronx to its home turf in Coney Island. | 1979 | The Warriors | 33%
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| A jeweler and gambling addict must find an opal he purchased to pay off his debts. | 2019 | Uncut Gems | 30%
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| Musical about a Dominican neighborhood in Manhattan. | 2021 | In the Heights | 26%
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| Biopic of a famed folk singer. | 2024 | A Complete Unknown | 22%
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| A saxophonist and lounge singer fall for each other. | 1977 | New York, New York | 22%
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| A Spike Lee joint about a bank heist. | 2006 | Inside Man | 15%
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| Follows a group of juveniles delinquents' disturbing exploits in the city. | 1995 | Kids | 15%
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| A bartender tries to get ahead during the heyday of an infamous nightclub. | 1998 | 54 | 11%
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| A police detective goes undercover to catch a serial killer targeting gay men in the Manhattan club scene. | 1980 | Cruising | 11%
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| A Brooklyn woman finds herself in a dilemma when she falls for the brother of the man she is set to marry. | 1987 | Moonstruck | 11%
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| A man embarks on a twisted odyssey through the NYC underworld to get his brother out of jail. | 2017 | Good Time | 7%
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| A college student of modest means tries to ingratiate himself to the upper class in Manhattan. | 1990 | Metropolitan | 7%
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