Films in this library shot in San Francisco, a city whose hills and fog give it a geography no set can fake. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.
CanadaStar Trek: Starfleet Academy rates minus ten thousand on the rewatch scale. It is the worst thing I have ever watched, film or television, and that includes Battlefield Earth. Pure garbage. Horseshit. Something written by small children with crayons on…
CaliforniaPoint Blank (1967) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Lee Marvin threw the script in the bin, handed his script and casting approval to a British director who had never worked in Hollywood, and the result is…
CaliforniaAll About Eve (1950) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The best script ever written about ambition, in a film where everybody is intelligent and nobody has to be dim for the schemer to win. Fourteen nominations,…
CaliforniaGeorge Lucas's 1973 1962 California teen ensemble. Soundtrack establishes nostalgia template.
CaliforniaSteven Spielberg's 1981 archeology adventure launcher. Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones.
CaliforniaNeil Jordan's 1994 Anne Rice adaptation. Cruise as Lestat, Pitt as Louis.
CaliforniaA View to a Kill is John Glen's 1985 British spy film. The work represents Moore's final Bond appearance at age fifty-seven and the weakest late Moore Bond entry.
CaliforniaSiegel's 1979 prison thriller. Clint Eastwood as Frank Morris.
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CaliforniaHuston's 1941 directorial debut. The film that established American film noir as a coherent style.
CaliforniaDavid Fincher's 2007 procedural on the SF Zodiac killer investigation. Three protagonists, no killer caught.
CaliforniaJon Turteltaub's 1996 Northern California drama. John Travolta as ordinary mechanic with accelerating capabilities.
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