SEX AND THE CITY 2 (2010) Stream on Netflix. Rent on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. New York is arguably as big a character in “Sex and the City” as Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda or Samantha. But for a good chunk of this installment of the franchise, the women leave the Big Apple behind. Their destination: Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. Samantha, a public relations maven, has a client there who treats her and her friends to an all-expenses-paid trip. Their time in the Middle East includes all cultural faux pas you’d expect, and Aiden, a divisive character from the original series, makes an appearance.

BUFFALO ’66 (1998) Stream on Hulu and Amazon. Rent on Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. Vincent Gallo returns to the city he left at 16 in this film about a troubled man desperate to win his parents’ approval. Soon after being released from prison, Billy (Gallo) kidnaps a tap dancer named Layla (Christina Ricci) and forces her to pose as his wife. After unsuccessfully trying to curry favor with his emotionally distant father (Ben Gazzara) and obsessive mother (Anjelica Huston), Billy and Layla go bowling and check into a motel, where they acknowledge the real connection they’ve developed. But their deepening relationship is threatened by Billy’s desire to take revenge on the man he thinks is responsible for sending him to prison. Janet Maslin called the film “a deadpan original mixing pathos with bravado” in her review for The Times.