Plaza Hotel, with the style of Renaissance French castle, was once used as the shooting place for dozens of famous movies. In early movies, the Plaza Hotel often just flashed by. It was not until the suspenseful movie master Alfred Hitchcock filmed the classic film "North by Northwest" in 1959 that the Plaza Hotel really surfaced, and directors, actors and filmmakers all concentrated in the hotel to shoot. Prior to this, most American films were shot in Hollywood studios, and few were shot in the field.

Subsequently, several films were filmed in the Plaza Hotel, including Barefoot Couple by 1967, Past Feelings by 1973, Cotton Club and Mr. Crocodile by 1984, and then Mission Impossible and Kid.

A staff member who has served in Plaza Hotel for more than ten years said: "Even though it is not the largest or most luxurious hotel in the world, its reputation has raised it to a different level. If nothing else, in the movie "Mission Impossible" starring Tom Cruise, the simple sentence "I live in the Plaza Hotel" shows that there is no need to report the house number. Fans all over the world know how famous this Plaza Hotel is in the south of Central Park in Manhattan, new york. "

During 1985, the finance ministers and central bank governors of five industrialized countries, namely, the United States, Japan, Britain, France and the Federal Republic of Germany, met in secret at the Plaza Hotel and signed the famous Plaza Agreement to jointly intervene in the foreign exchange market and reduce the exchange rate of the US dollar against other countries' currencies.

Plaza Hotel was designated as a landmark building in new york by new york Landmark Building Protection Committee on 1969, and was listed in the national historical sites list. 1986, Plaza Hotel was designated as a national historical landmark, becoming the only hotel in new york to receive this title.