San Francisco
5 films and 35 exactly located places in San Francisco.
Where it was shot · 35 places mapped
Films (5)
- Basic Instinct (1992)
7 exact places
A thriller shot on the real hills of San Francisco, but its police headquarters and its nightclub never stood there. - Dirty Harry (1971)
15 exact places
The 'Do you feel lucky?' scene never left Hollywood, while the rest of the film is a street-by-street tour of 1971 San Francisco - The Conversation (1974)
6 exact places
A film set entirely in San Francisco, where its workshop address is disputed and half its scenes have no recorded location - The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
6 exact places
A father and son with nowhere to sleep cross the San Francisco the real Chris Gardner walked, from a Chinatown alley to the church that sheltered him, and the subway entrance he dives into was a fake built in a park. - Titanic (1997)
1 exact places
The Atlantic crossing was filmed in a water tank in Mexico, and the Southampton departure was shot in reverse.
Set in vs. shot in
| Film | Story setting | Shot in |
|---|---|---|
| Basic Instinct Set here and shot here | Mill Valley, Oakland, San Francisco | Big Sur, Burbank, Carmel-by-the-Sea, Oakland |
| Dirty Harry Set here and shot here | San Francisco | Larkspur, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sausalito |
| The Conversation Set here and shot here | San Francisco | San Francisco |
| The Pursuit of Happyness Set here and shot here | San Francisco | Oakland, San Francisco |
| Titanic Set elsewhere, shot here | North Atlantic, Southampton | Dartmouth, Long Beach, North Atlantic, Rosarito |
Walkable clusters of filming places
- 23 places within about 1.5 km, around Union Square (4 films)
- 4 places within about 1.5 km, around Pacific Heights · Broadway (3 films)
- 3 places within about 1.5 km, around Embarcadero (3 films)
- 3 places within about 1.5 km, around Golden Gate Park · Haight-Ashbury (2 films)