kinda funny that i've never been to the states, so this is how i think of a lot of american cities: New York - Manhattan, Annie Hall, about a million other movies LA - Heat, Collateral, LA Story, Boyz n the Hood Detroit - Robocop Philadelphia - Rocky movies London - 28 Days Later (really, woody allen specialises in this kind of filmmaking - i associate london with 'match point', paris with 'midnight in paris', barcelona with 'vicky cristina barcelona', ...)
Including TV shows New York- Taxi Driver, Law & Order Miami- Scarface, Miami Vice Beverly Hills- Beverly Hills Cop, Beverly Hills 90210 Detroit- Beverly Hills Cop, Narc, Robocop Baltimore- The Wire
Philadelphia - "Philadelphia", "The Philadelphia Story", "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia", "The Philadelphia Experiment", "The Philadelphia Experiment II", "Slumdog Millionaire"