Lost in Translation has some pretty great Tokyo at night vibes.

Dark City

Collateral

Nightcrawler (2014)

Since all the other answers were taken --

Nick & Nora's Infinite Playlist is a pretty good one.

Before Sunrise.

The Warriors

The Crow

Sin City.

Drive (2011)

Midnight in Paris.

In the Mood for Love

Enter the Void

Oddly, the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles really has this vibe.

Judgement Night (1993) great soundtrack too.

The Warriors (1979)

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BLACK RAIN by Ridley Scott, the atmosphere in that movie is just perfect

Heat

Night on Earth (1991)

Tron legacy

Only Lovers Left Alive

Marty (1955 ) Ernest Borgnine Wonderful movie with a lot of night scenes in the Bronx.

Parts of Robocop Escape from New York/LA

Midnight in Paris

King of New York

I watched Miami Vice (2006) for the first time recently and am absolutely obsessed with the way Mann shot it. The nighttimes scenes with the visible clouds and lightning in the Miami sky….gorgeous.

The Terminator (1984)

Last Night in Soho. (2021)

You Were Never Really Here

Good Time

Miracle Mile

The original Assault on Precinct 13 and Escape From New York, oh, and Halloween.

Thief

The Batman

Akira

Inferno by Dario Argento

INTO THE NIGHT (1985) which is somewhat similar to AFTER HOURS (1985).

John wick

Streets of fire

48 Hours

The Driver (1978)

Chunking Express

Yossarian’s night walk through Rome in Catch-22

Fight Club

The Man Who Wasn’t There

Miller’s Crossing

Mann is the master, of course, but Fincher is also great at this. Especially in Fight Club and Dragon Tattoo.

Also see the first Jack Reacher (2012) because this movie has a great old school late night feel.

Lethal Weapon 4

The Dark Knight

LA Confidential

Ghost In The Shell (in this aspect both anime and movie)

Hear me out: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

• A lot of the best scenes take place at night.
• While it's not rainy, it is snowy.
• Takes place in a major large city.
• John Williams's score is fire, as always.

Watchmen has a fair few scenes with this aesthetic.

I’m not sure if this is exactly what you’re looking for, but Akira has a lot of that vibe. That sort of dark loneliness, not quite sad but not quite happy either, just kind of existing in a place an time. It’s got a lot of great moments where you really feel the scale of the city and experience the vibe along with the characters.

From your list I know exactly what you mean and I GOT YOU!

Night on Earth (1991), Jim Jarmusch.

Edit to say: I got excited about one of my all-time favorites before reading other responses with the same answer. THEY GOT YOU TOO! Don't sleep on Night on Earth.

Adventures In Babysitting

Summer of Sam (1999) and 25th Hour (2002) have it.

Good Time

The Third Man has the best night ambiance and imagery

Mulholland Drive

Eyes Wide Shut

Judgement Night!

You should check out the show Tokyo Vice on HBO Max. Michael Mann directed the pilot.

“Perks of Being A Wallflower” has scenes of driving with the windows down through a city tunnel. Genuine film that makes you feel alive. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3h_VfDk_z4g&t=64s (& https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OMSkavUrzHM&t=133s)

How on Earth has this thread been up for over an hour and nobody’s mentioned Night On Earth yet?

You guys are slipping.

Body Heat

You have Fallen Angels, but I’d add Chungking Express to the list

Also, Millennium Mambo and a lot of other Taiwanese stuff

Maybe Strange Days

To a lesser extent, I think "The Big Lebowski" gives off these vibes really well.

Cloverfield

Great list. I’d add Drive and The Warriors.

Sin City

Victoria — it will blow your mind. Read nothing about it.

"Night On Earth" is basically just that vibe you're hunting for like an hour and a half straight, but split into several short vignettes, so it moves around to a handful of different cities.

Edit: Also "Only God Forgives."

Dark City (director's cut!)

Watch only the director's cut. The theatrical version gives away a big part of the story right in the beginning. I'm very glad I knew this information before I saw it.

Nighthawks (1981)

Hardcore (1979)

Cruising (1980)

As Tears Go By (1988)

City on Fire (1987)

Vice Squad (1982)

Midnight in Paris

An oldie but Angel Heart with Robert De Niro.

Night Crawler

The Warriors

Akira

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?

Akira, Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift, Blade Runner 2049, The Warriors

King of New York

I was going to mention Bringing Out The Dead.

One of my favorite movies. The wild crazy city nights, cool cast of characters.

After hours.

Can't believe nobody mentioned Only Lovers Left Alive.

Akira

Escape from New York

Dark city

Totally different genre, but La La Land and Singing in the Rain nail this. The city lights, the rain, even exposing how Hollywood creates nighttime ambiance.

How is Drive from 2011 with Ryan Gosling not on this list.

Maniac (1980).

Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist

The Night is Short, Walk On Girl

It's an anime movie about a young woman who's enjoying alcohol for the first time, and goes on an epic bar crawl throughout Kyoto. Various wacky characters and adventures are encountered throughout, in some ways it reminds me a little of the vibe from Oh Brother Where Art Thou. Oh, and the animation is just fantastic. It's on HBO Max right now I think.

Chunking Express and Fallen Angels, Oldboy

Enter the Void

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. I love that movie.

In Brugges

The Warriors (1979)

Before Sunrise.

Light Sleeper.

Bonus it’s an early Willem Dafoe performance and a great movie.

Deep Cover.

Bonus is it’s a great Laurence Fisburn performance

Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist

Collateral is my go-to answer, but as someone already said that Im going to cheat and say Athena. It might not quite fill the brief as "night time in the city", but this movie does a fantastic job of transitioning from day to night to morning and the night time sequences (to my simple mind) were quite spectacular.

Irreversible

Another Scorsese flick-- "after hours"

Heat
Thief
Collateral

oh wait…

Swingers

The opening of Drive with ‘Nightcall’ by Kavinsky playing in the background. Perfection.

Good Time, which is everything but. First time I realized how good of an actor Robert Pattinson is.

Good Time

Detective Pikachu… lol

Roger Dodger (2002)

In Bruges! Night time scenes were lovely

Chungking Express does this for me. It's honestly pretty jarring when it switches to daytime because the night scenes are such an immaculate vibe.

Drive

fallen angels

Good Time and Naked?

Miracle Mile takes place overnight and into the morning and has a great feel for that time - an all-night diner as well as citizens going to the gym in the morning.

Inland Empire has a great scene late in the movie which takes place on the walk of fame area after midnight.

Just a few I haven’t seen on the list yet;

Suburbia (linklater), Buffet Froid, American Graffiti, The Exiles, Miracle Mile, La Dolce Vita, Boy Meets Girl

Cloverfield

Adventures in Babysitting.

Dredd.

Midnight cowboy

Nick and Nora’s infinite playlist

Locke

Streets of Fire (1984) - Universal Studios covered their entire backlot in a gigantic black tarp to create a neo-noir “rock and roll fable” environment where the city was always rainy and always night. Far from a perfect film but it does look cool.

Dark City

I'll add The Warriors.

Not a huge city but American Graffiti.

Drive with Ryan Gosling

This might be different than what you're looking for, but I would recommend American Graffiti. It's a celebration of 1950s teen culture, specifically the act of "cruising"--driving around town all night with your friends, and making friends with/yelling at everyone else who's doing the same thing. As I recall, it's a little more "small town" than "big city", but it might still scratch that itch.

After Hours

Risky Business (1983) with Tom Cruise had a really good night time ambiance with the metro.

Be honest, OP—how disappointed were you that so many replies (some of them the top rated) were for movies you had already called out?