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89 films and 651 exactly located places in United States.

Where it was shot · 651 places mapped

Films (89)

• American History X (1998)
  8 exact places
  A story of Los Angeles gangs, filmed on a school campus and a jail rooftop in the city
• An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
  8 exact places
  The Navy flight school is really a Washington State park, and the family homes are streets in Port Townsend
• Apollo 13 (1995)
  3 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)
  8 exact places
  Tehran in the film was shot in Los Angeles, Istanbul and a disused airport terminal in Ontario, California
• Avengers: Endgame (2019)
  7 exact places
  Most of the 'New York', 'Tokyo' and 'New Jersey' in this film are streets and warehouses around Atlanta, and Asgard is a cathedral in Durham
• Back to the Future (1985)
  13 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)
  11 exact places
  Hill Valley across four eras, and nearly all of it was one studio backlot square in Los Angeles
• Basic Instinct (1992)
  11 exact places
  A thriller shot on the real hills of San Francisco, but its police headquarters and its nightclub never stood there.
• Black Panther (2018)
  8 exact places
  The hidden nation of Wakanda is a set in Atlanta, and the one real foreign shoot was a car chase through Busan
• Black Swan (2010)
  2 exact places
  The ballet world of New York was partly shot in Westchester, and the nightclub is in Chinatown
• Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
  2 exact places
  The famous store window is real, but the apartment upstairs was built in Hollywood.
• Cast Away (2000)
  2 exact places
  One FedEx parcel crosses the world and one man crosses the Pacific; the island is a real one in Fiji, and the ranch where it all starts is in the Texas Panhandle.
• Catch Me If You Can (2002)
  10 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
• Dirty Harry (1971)
  17 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
• Divergent (2014)
  9 exact places
  Future Chicago was built from a church, an empty lot on Wells Street, a few streets of fake L tracks and a film studio, and only the Navy Pier Ferris wheel is the real thing.
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
  3 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.
• Enchanted (2007)
  13 exact places
  A cartoon princess falls down a well and climbs out of a manhole in Times Square: the real places that stand in for her New York
• Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
  2 exact places
  Dom's drag race was shot at Piccadilly Circus, but the exploding tanker chase there was built as a replica at Shepperton Studios.
• Fast Five (2011)
  1 exact places
  The film is set in Rio, but its favela rooftops, its bridge and its vault chase were shot in Puerto Rico, and the train in California.
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
  12 exact places
  One skipped school day, one Chicago route: the loop skyscrapers are real, but the family house is in California
• Furious 7 (2015)
  4 exact places
  Tokyo and the Caucasus mountains are only in the story: the real shoot was Atlanta, Colorado and Abu Dhabi
• Ghostbusters (1984)
  11 exact places
  The firehouse is in Tribeca, but its inside, the library stacks and the hotel are all in Los Angeles
• Groundhog Day (1993)
  6 exact places
  Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania is the story's town, but nearly every frame was shot in Woodstock, Illinois.
• Hannibal (2001)
  4 exact places
  The film's whole second act is Florence, but the mansion, the market and the boar barn are all in the American South
• Her (2013)
  8 exact places
  The future city skyline in Her was filmed in Shanghai, and Theodore's apartment is a Los Angeles landmark
• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
  19 exact places
  Lost in New York, but the toy store, the hotel pool and the suite are Chicago, and the uncle's house is a Los Angeles backlot.
• I Am Legend (2007)
  4 exact places
  The loneliest city on earth was filmed in the busiest: Manhattan, closed block by block
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
  4 exact places
  Set in Peru and the Amazon, filmed in none of it: Hawaii played the jungle and Yale played the college.
• Joker (2019)
  18 exact places
  Gotham is New York and New Jersey in disguise: the Joker Stairs are a Bronx street, Wayne Manor is a shipbuilding college on Long Island, and Arkham is an Army depot in Brooklyn.
• Jurassic World (2015)
  6 exact places
  The dinosaur park's Main Street and labs were built in New Orleans, in an abandoned theme park and a NASA rocket factory.
• Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003)
  6 exact places
  A New York story filmed in Brooklyn and Long Island, with a Toronto detour and the finish in a Mumbai studio.
• Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)
  5 exact places
  A revenge story set across Japan, mostly shot in Los Angeles and on sets in Beijing
• La La Land (2016)
  6 exact places
  Mia and Seb's Los Angeles: a freeway dance, a studio lot and a hillside house that is not in the hills
• Letters to Juliet (2010)
  4 exact places
  A fictional heroine's trip through Verona and Tuscany, filmed in real squares, a villa near Verona and Siena.
• Live and Let Die (1973)
  3 exact places
  James Bond's New Orleans and a fictional island that is really Jamaica
• Léon: The Professional (1994)
  4 exact places
  A New York hitman's home is a hotel on 23rd Street, most of its rooms are a French studio, and the school at the end is in New Jersey.
• Mars Attacks! (1996)
  3 exact places
  The Martians land in Pahrump, Nevada, and Tim Burton really shot out by Pahrump; in Las Vegas a real hotel was blown up for the cameras
• Marty Supreme (2025)
  6 exact places
  London's Wembley is a New Jersey arena, the Ritz is New York's Plaza, and Cairo's pyramids are a beach in Rye.
• Memento (2000)
  8 exact places
  Nolan's amnesia thriller was shot in the Los Angeles suburbs: a Tujunga motel, a Burbank bar and an oil refinery that stood in for the film's key warehouse
• Moonraker (1979)
  1 exact places
  A villain's California estate is a French chateau, his jungle pyramid a Guatemalan ruin, and Rio is the only place that is what it says
• Mystic River (2003)
  6 exact places
  A film set in Boston neighbourhoods, shot across Jamaica Plain, East Boston, Charlestown and Canton, with almost no scene tied to a single spot
• North by Northwest (1959)
  1 exact places
  An ad man is chased across America from the Plaza Hotel to Mount Rushmore, but the Indiana cornfield, the Townsend mansion interior and the Oak Room were never where the movie says.
• Obsession (2025)
  4 exact places
  A cursed wish toy, a crystal shop and a pizzeria: where Obsession was really filmed around Los Angeles
• Ocean's 8 (2018)
  10 exact places
  From a Staten Island prison to the Met's Temple of Dendur: the heist was shot on real New York locations, from an East Village diner to a Brooklyn church annex and Cartier's Fifth Avenue mansion.
• Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
  3 exact places
  Almost none of the New York in this film is in New York: a Venice hotel, a Paris station, a Montreal prison and a Rome studio stand in for it
• Oppenheimer (2023)
  11 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.
• Past Lives (2023)
  4 exact places
  A film about two people between Seoul and New York, and where it was really filmed: hillside stairs in Seoul, a sculpture park outside the city, and a handful of East Village streets and New York landmarks.
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
  5 exact places
  The Fountain of Youth was built on a London studio stage, and the mermaid bay on a Hollywood backlot
• Rosemary's Baby (1968)
  5 exact places
  The Gothic Manhattan building is the Dakota, but every room inside it was built in Hollywood
• Rush Hour (1998)
  12 exact places
  Hong Kong opens the film, but almost everything after was shot in and around Los Angeles
• Saturday Night Fever (1977)
  15 exact places
  A whole film shot in Brooklyn: the disco is gone, the bridge, the hardware store's back door and Kelly's Tavern are still there.
• Scarface (1983)
  8 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.
• Scent of a Woman (1992)
  7 exact places
  A blind colonel's Thanksgiving weekend in New York ran through the Waldorf, the Plaza and the Pierre, while the Baird School that frames it was filmed in Troy and at Princeton.
• Spider-Man (2002)
  10 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
• Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
  13 exact places
  The New York of Peter Parker's year was mostly built in Atlanta, with a few real stops in Queens, Berlin and Staten Island
• Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
  6 exact places
  The New York you see is mostly a Georgia studio lot, with Greenwich Village and Queens only as background plates.
• 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.
• Ted (2012)
  16 exact places
  A foul-mouthed teddy bear, and the real Boston streets, diners and ballpark he stumbles through
• The Avengers (2012)
  8 exact places
  The Battle of New York was filmed in Cleveland, and Germany's Stuttgart is an Ohio downtown corner
• The Blues Brothers (1980)
  14 exact places
  A mission from God, filmed across two cities and a closed mall: the bridge jump, the orphanage facade and the ballroom that is really in Los Angeles
• The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
  3 exact places
  The Moscow in the opening chase was never filmed: Berlin stood in for it, and Madrid played Turin
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
  3 exact places
  A man born old and growing young: his New Orleans homes, and the cities that were really Montreal
• The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
  14 exact places
  Paris fashion week was shot in two days of exteriors; the Paris hotel interiors are a Manhattan hotel.
• The Devil's Advocate (1997)
  6 exact places
  A New York of glass towers, built from a Wall Street office, a lent penthouse, a New Jersey courthouse and a Florida shop
• The Exorcist (1973)
  2 exact places
  The haunted Georgetown house is real, but its bedroom is a Manhattan studio set and the opening dig is in Iraq.
• The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
  3 exact places
  A film about Tokyo drift racing where most of Tokyo was filmed in Los Angeles
• The French Connection (1971)
  15 exact places
  A Marseille harbour lunch, a Santa suit in Brooklyn, and a car racing an elevated train under the tracks of Bensonhurst.
• The Hangover (2009)
  10 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 Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014)
  4 exact places
  Panem's districts were built from a Georgia textile mill, a Berlin power station and a Paris housing complex.
• The Irishman (2019)
  30 exact places
  Philadelphia on screen, Queens and Long Island on set: where the Irishman was really shot.
• The Lost Weekend (1945)
  5 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)
  6 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 Lovely Bones (2009)
  3 exact places
  The Salmon family's house is a real house in Malvern, Pennsylvania, but its inside was a copy built in Hatfield, and heaven was made in New Zealand
• The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
  3 exact places
  Almost nothing happens anywhere real: the famous freeway chase was built on a closed air base in California, and Sydney's studios hold the rest.
• The Prestige (2006)
  9 exact places
  Victorian London was built in Los Angeles, and Tesla's Colorado lab was a parking lot on a California mountain
• The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
  8 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.
• The Revenant (2015)
  1 exact places
  The story runs along the Missouri River in the Dakotas, but it was filmed in Alberta, British Columbia, Montana and, for the final scenes, Tierra del Fuego.
• The Ring (2002)
  8 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 Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  6 exact places
  The Baltimore asylum, the Memphis courthouse and the killer's home were all shot in and around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• The Sixth Sense (1999)
  10 exact places
  The Sixth Sense is a Philadelphia film: its houses, churches and school are real addresses, from Delancey Place to Bryn Mawr
• The Untouchables (1987)
  13 exact places
  Prohibition-era Chicago on screen: the real buildings behind Ness's office, Capone's hotel and the station stairs, and a Montana bridge that played the Canadian border
• The Usual Suspects (1995)
  7 exact places
  A New York lineup shot in Los Angeles, and a San Pedro harbor that opens the film
• The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
  14 exact places
  The Wall Street offices, Long Island mansions and Italian coast of Jordan Belfort's rise, most of them filmed around New York
• Titanic (1997)
  1 exact places
  The Atlantic crossing was filmed in a water tank in Mexico, and the Southampton departure was shot in reverse.
• Wall Street (1987)
  7 exact places
  Gordon Gekko's Wall Street was shot all over New York: the real Stock Exchange floor, offices at 222 Broadway, the 21 Club, the Roosevelt Hotel ballroom and a Hamptons mansion.
• When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
  9 exact places
  Twelve years of New York talk, and most of the places can be walked into today
• Whiplash (2014)
  4 exact places
  The story is set in New York, but the cameras were in Los Angeles.
• You've Got Mail (1998)
  6 exact places
  Two rival booksellers write to each other every night, and the whole story fits inside a few blocks of the Upper West Side.

Set in vs. shot in

Walkable clusters of filming places

• 72 places within about 1.5 km, around 57th Street subway station, Sixth Avenue (23 films)
• 38 places within about 1.5 km, around Chinatown, Manhattan (21 films)
• 23 places within about 1.5 km, around AT&T Switching Center, 420 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles (10 films)
• 20 places within about 1.5 km, around Loop (5 films)
• 17 places within about 1.5 km, around North Beach · Columbus Avenue (4 films)

Cities

• Los Angeles
• Atlanta, Georgia
• Las Vegas
• San Francisco
• New York
• New York City
• Chicago
• Atlanta

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