Films in this library shot in North Carolina, a state whose Wilmington studios supported decades of production. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.
GeorgiaForrest Gump (1994) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A technically remarkable film with a genuinely great performance at its center and a politics it has spent thirty years being argued about, which beat Pulp Fiction and…
North CarolinaDirty Dancing (1987) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A film about class and an illegal abortion, marketed as a summer romance. Made for five million dollars by people nobody expected anything from, and still running forty…
CaliforniaTony Stark hunts a terrorist called the Mandarin while battling PTSD from the Avengers, with Christmas as the season-long backdrop. Iron Man 3 is Shane Black's 2013 American superhero film depicting Tony Stark hunting an apparent terrorist called the Mandarin…
North CarolinaPatrick Wilson plays Ed Warren. The Conjuring is one of the most commercially successful contemporary supernatural horror productions and the foundational document of the Conjuring Universe franchise that has dominated mid-2010s through early-2020s horror cinema.
North CarolinaSam Raimi's part-remake, part-sequel where Ash returns to the cabin and battles increasingly absurd demonic forces. Evil Dead II is Sam Raimi's 1987 American horror-comedy film operating as part remake and part sequel to his 1981 The Evil Dead, depicting…
North CarolinaTom Shadyac's 1998 Hunter Adams biopic. Robin Williams as the unconventional doctor.
North CarolinaRon Shelton's 1988 minor league baseball comedy. The rare sports film that captures the actual sport's culture.
North CarolinaFinal film of Sellers' great period. Being There is Hal Ashby's 1979 American satire adapting Jerzy Kosinski's 1971 novella.
North CarolinaLynch's 1986 small-town surrealist thriller. MacLachlan, Rossellini, Hopper as Frank Booth.
North CarolinaForman's 1975 mental hospital drama. Nicholson as McMurphy, Fletcher as Nurse Ratched.
California
CaliforniaThe production achievement of The Abyss is extraordinary even by Cameron's standards. The Deepcore rig is a superbly designed setting, confined, functional, full of the specific texture of working machinery that Cameron consistently brings to his industrial environments.
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