Long Island Movies they don't tell you about
A list of movies and television shows shot on various locations within Long Island, possibly including Queens and Brooklyn. Will be expanded.
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- DirectorArthur HillerStarsJack LemmonSandy DennisSandy BaronAn Ohio sales executive accepts a higher position within the company and travels to New York City with his wife for his job interview but things go wrong from the start.The supposed "Twin Oaks (or Twin Forks), Ohio scenes include East Hills, New York, Roslyn, New York (note the clock tower), Central Islip, New York (part of which is now in Islandia), Bohemia, New York, and the Long Island MacArthur Airport.
- DirectorElaine MayStarsWalter MatthauElaine MayJack WestonHenry Graham lives the life of a playboy. When his lawyer tells him one day that his lifestyle has consumed all his funds, he needs an idea to avoid climbing down the social ladder. So he intends to marry a rich woman and - murder her.
- DirectorAram AvakianStarsCliff GormanJoseph BolognaCharlene DallasTwo disillusioned New York City policemen plan a ten million dollar robbery to fuel their low pensions, only to run into one debacle after another in the process.In Douglaston, Queens, Maspeth, Queens, and other parts of the Long Island Expressway in Queens.
- DirectorGeorge SeatonStarsEdmund GwennMaureen O'HaraJohn PayneAfter a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mistaken.
- DirectorKieran MulroneyMichele MulroneyStarsJeff DanielsEmma StoneRyan ReynoldsA washed-up writer forms an unlikely friendship with a teenager from Long Island.Besides Montauk, you've also got some scenes along the Long Island Expressway, including at Exit 65 in Medford.
- DirectorMichael CuestaStarsBrian CoxPaul DanoBruce AltmanA 15-year-old Long Island boy loses everything and everyone he knows, soon becoming involved in a relationship with a much older man.
- DirectorIrvin KershnerStarsBarbra StreisandDavid SelbyAriane HellerA bored housewife takes refuge in a fantasy world.Not sure where on Long Island it's filmed, but there is a Long Island Rail Road train passing by in one scene.
- DirectorElia KazanStarsNatalie WoodWarren BeattyPat HingleThe love of high school sweethearts Deanie and Bud is weighed down by the oppressive expectations of their parents and society in smalltown Kansas in 1928, threatening the future of their relationship.Despite supposedly taking place in Kansas, the movie was actually shot in parts of the Town of Brookhaven, and even on Staten Island.
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMarlon BrandoAl PacinoJames CaanThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
- DirectorGarry MarshallStarsMatt DillonHector ElizondoMolly McCarthyA recent high-school graduate unsure of his future gets a summer job at the Flamingo beach club, and meets the charismatic Phil Brody.
- DirectorDaniel PetrieStarsBurt LancasterSuzy AmisPatricia ClarksonAn old patriarch unites all members of his family for his birthday, but the group of people are full of personal and social problems.Sagaponack, New York, which is near Wainscott and East Hampton
- DirectorAlan AldaStarsAlan AldaMichael CaineMichelle PfeifferAfter selling the rights of his book to a movie production company, a writer finds himself fighting the many egos and varying views around him.
- DirectorAlan AldaStarsAlan AldaMolly RingwaldJoey BishopThe very different Betsy and Jake are getting married. They want a small wedding, but their dads want to give them a huge one.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsCary GrantEva Marie SaintJames MasonA New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.