Some my favorite "setting is practically a character" movies

Taxi driver - mid 70ies new york

The 25th hour - Early 2000's new york

Repo man- 80ies LA

Harsh times - mid 2000's LA

Boyhood - Central Texas in the late 90ies

Primer - weirdly accurate depiction of north texas early 2000's suburban engineer bros (many of my homies)

This is England - working class 80ies northern england

American movie- documentary. working class late 80ies/early 90ies wisconsin

True detective - 1st season, the scenes set in the 90ies were really period accurate (characers, sets, costumes)