Los Angeles
27 films and 85 exactly located places in Los Angeles.
Where it was shot · 85 places mapped
Films (27)
- American History X (1998)
7 exact places
A story of Los Angeles gangs, filmed on a school campus and a jail rooftop in the city - Apollo 13 (1995)
1 exact places
The Houston control room and the stricken spacecraft were built on a Los Angeles studio lot; no filming in Texas is confirmed - Argo (2012)
4 exact places
Tehran in the film was shot in Los Angeles, Istanbul and a disused airport terminal in Ontario, California - Back to the Future (1985)
4 exact places
Hill Valley never existed: the town square is a Universal backlot, the school and mall are real, and the 1955 mansion is a landmark in Pasadena - Back to the Future Part II (1989)
3 exact places
Hill Valley across four eras, and nearly all of it was one studio backlot square in Los Angeles - Catch Me If You Can (2002)
2 exact places
A con man's chase across continents, filmed on stand-in locations from Los Angeles to Quebec City, with Montreal as the final shooting stop - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
2 exact places
A stranded alien's hideout is a Tujunga house, its rooms are Culver City sets, and its forest is hundreds of miles north. - Furious 7 (2015)
3 exact places
Tokyo and the Caucasus mountains are only in the story: the real shoot was Atlanta, Colorado and Abu Dhabi - Ghostbusters (1984)
1 exact places
The firehouse is in Tribeca, but its inside, the library stacks and the hotel are all in Los Angeles - Her (2013)
6 exact places
The future city skyline in Her was filmed in Shanghai, and Theodore's apartment is a Los Angeles landmark - Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)
3 exact places
A revenge story set across Japan, mostly shot in Los Angeles and on sets in Beijing - La La Land (2016)
5 exact places
Mia and Seb's Los Angeles: a freeway dance, a studio lot and a hillside house that is not in the hills - Oppenheimer (2023)
3 exact places
The Los Alamos town and the Trinity tower were built in New Mexico, and Cambridge and Göttingen are one building in Los Angeles. - Rocky (1976)
3 exact places
Philadelphia's hero, but the fight club, the gym interiors, the ice rink and the title bout were filmed in California - Rush Hour (1998)
9 exact places
Hong Kong opens the film, but almost everything after was shot in and around Los Angeles - Scarface (1983)
2 exact places
Set in Miami, shot mostly in Los Angeles: the Miami Tourist Board refused, so only one scene was filmed at a real Miami hotel. - Spider-Man (2002)
1 exact places
Peter Parker's New York was half Manhattan and half Los Angeles: the lab, the Bugle offices and Times Square each have a stand-in on the West Coast - Suicide Squad (2016)
1 exact places
The city the squad fights through is made up: it was Toronto, plus a street built inside a studio. - The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
1 exact places
A film about Tokyo drift racing where most of Tokyo was filmed in Los Angeles - The Hangover (2009)
1 exact places
A Las Vegas night nobody remembers, and how little of it was filmed in the real places: a tiger suite built on a Burbank soundstage, a hospital in Van Nuys, a chapel made from a hostel car park - The Holiday (2006)
2 exact places
Two houses swapped for Christmas: the English cottage was a set that no longer exists, and the Los Angeles mansion is a house plus a studio - The Lost Weekend (1945)
1 exact places
A New York bar that was really built in Hollywood, and one hospital ward that was real - The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
2 exact places
A lost island of dinosaurs, filmed from a redwood canyon in California to a Hawaiian beach, with a San Diego rampage shot in Burbank - The Prestige (2006)
8 exact places
Victorian London was built in Los Angeles, and Tesla's Colorado lab was a parking lot on a California mountain - The Ring (2002)
2 exact places
The island in the story does not exist: its beach is in Port Townsend and its lighthouse is on the Oregon coast - The Usual Suspects (1995)
5 exact places
A New York lineup shot in Los Angeles, and a San Pedro harbor that opens the film - Whiplash (2014)
3 exact places
The story is set in New York, but the cameras were in Los Angeles.
Set in vs. shot in
| Film | Story setting | Shot in |
|---|---|---|
| American History X Set here and shot here | Chino, Compton, Los Angeles | Castaic, Los Angeles, Malibu |
| Argo Set here and shot here | Beverly Hills, Burbank, Istanbul | Beverly Hills, Burbank, Istanbul, Los Angeles |
| Furious 7 Set here and shot here | Abu Dhabi, Lancaster, Los Angeles | Abu Dhabi, Atlanta, Coolidge, Forest Park |
| La La Land Set here and shot here | Boulder City, Burbank, Hermosa Beach | Burbank, Los Angeles |
| Rush Hour Set here and shot here | Los Angeles | Beverly Hills, Hong Kong, Long Beach, Los Angeles |
| The Holiday Set here and shot here | Los Angeles, Oxfordshire, Surrey | Los Angeles, Oxfordshire, Surrey |
| The Usual Suspects Set here and shot here | Los Angeles, New York | Los Angeles, Malibu, New York, New York City |
| Apollo 13 Set elsewhere, shot here | , Houston, Merritt Island | Burbank, Houston, Los Angeles, Merritt Island |
| Catch Me If You Can Set elsewhere, shot here | Marseille, Miami, Montrichard | Altadena, Burbank, Downey, Los Angeles |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Set elsewhere, shot here | Crescent City, Culver City, Los Angeles | |
| Ghostbusters Set elsewhere, shot here | New York | Los Angeles, New York |
| Kill Bill: Volume 1 Set elsewhere, shot here | El Paso, Okinawa, Pasadena | Beijing, Hi Vista, Los Angeles, Pasadena |
| Oppenheimer Set elsewhere, shot here | Berkeley, Cambridge, Göttingen | Abiquiú, Albuquerque, Alhambra, Belen |
| Rocky Set elsewhere, shot here | Philadelphia | Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Santa Monica, Vernon |
| Scarface Set elsewhere, shot here | , Key Biscayne, Miami | Beverly Hills, Key Biscayne, Los Angeles, Miami Beach |
| Spider-Man Set elsewhere, shot here | New York | Burbank, Culver City, Los Angeles, Los Angeles area |
| The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift Set elsewhere, shot here | Oro Valley, Tokyo | Azusa, Hawthorne, Long Beach, Los Angeles |
| The Hangover Set elsewhere, shot here | Jean, Las Vegas, Pasadena | Burbank, Jean, Las Vegas, Los Angeles |
| The Lost Weekend Set elsewhere, shot here | New York | Los Angeles, New York |
| The Lost World: Jurassic Park Set elsewhere, shot here | San Diego | Arcadia, Burbank, Fieldbrook, Humboldt County |
| The Prestige Set elsewhere, shot here | Colorado Springs, London | Angeles National Forest, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Redstone |
| The Ring Set elsewhere, shot here | Bellingham, Los Angeles, Monroe, Mukilteo | |
| Whiplash Set elsewhere, shot here | New York City | Los Angeles, New York City, Santa Clarita |
Walkable clusters of filming places
- 23 places within about 1.5 km, around AT&T Switching Center, 420 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles (10 films)
- 8 places within about 1.5 km, around Hollywood (6 films)
- 5 places within about 1.5 km, around Hancock Park (5 films)
- 4 places within about 1.5 km, around Chester Place (4 films)
- 3 places within about 1.5 km, around Arleta · Roslyndale Avenue (2 films)