New York ? Remember the scene from “When Harry Met Sally …” when Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan are sitting at the diner? Or when Jack Nicholson exclaims, “You can’t handle the truth!” to Tom Cruise in “A Few Good Men”?

Or how about the dance number in “Flashdance” when Jennifer Beals gyrates around in leg warmers to the song “Maniac”?

Anastasia Fite knows them all and acts them out on stage at “movieoke,” which is essentially like karaoke but with movie scenes instead of songs.

Fite, 24, runs the event out of a campy little theater called the Den of Cin in downtown Manhattan on Wednesday nights.

“I can’t karaoke,” she said. “Film is my thing, which is why I had to create movieoke.”

Fite said she once made a film in school where the main character could only communicate in movie lines, and after she became manager at the Den, which also shows independent films, she concocted the idea of having people act their favorite scenes on stage.

The process is pretty rudimentary. Fite has patrons write down which scene they want to do, then she runs to the adjacent video store to get the DVDs and cues it up. The process takes about 10 minutes, she said.

The movie flickers against a small screen, and the actors stand in front, with the scene projected on them, reading subtitles from a monitor that’s set up on a table. Some people bring their friends on stage to act with them; others do all the characters.

The most requested scenes come from ’80s flicks such as “Breakfast Club” and “Pretty In Pink,” though Fite said some people did old movies such as “Casablanca.”

Dave Rubaltelli, an ophthalmologist in New York, heard about the event from friends and was making his acting debut.

“I talk about movies all the time. We all sit around and say ‘Oh did you see this?’ So this seems like a fun way to spend a night,” he said. “But I’m a little nervous.”

Movieoke might be there for you before long: The idea is spreading. In St. Louis, a little coffee shop and video store called Farrago started its own version a few weeks ago, and an Internet search returns hundreds of movieoke hits.