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Cleveland

city in and county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States

🇺🇸 United States · 41.4992, -81.6947

Cleveland is recorded as a filming location for 2 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Cleveland, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 9 more.

3 productions were filmed at 21 places inside Cleveland rather than at Cleveland itself — listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“While shooting scenes in both Cleveland, Ohio, and Toronto, Ontario, in early 1983, Clark told a reporter that it had taken him a considerable number of years to get the film into production.”
A Christmas Story (1983) · Wikipedia

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Cleveland
Photo: Erik Drost · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Movies filmed in Cleveland

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Cleveland as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

  • The Avengers 2012
    “Downtown Cleveland doubled for Manhattan in Spider-Man 3 (2007), The Avengers (2012), and The Fate of the Furious (2017), and for Metropolis in James Gunn's Superman (2025).” Wikipedia
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier 2014
  • Spider-Man 3 2007
    “During April, some of the crew filmed the armored car fight scene in Cleveland, Ohio, after the Cleveland Film Commission offered free production space at the Cleveland Convention Center.” Wikipedia
  • The Deer Hunter 1978
    “The wedding scenes were filmed at historic St. Theodosius Russian Orthodox Cathedral in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio.” Wikipedia
  • Superman 2025
    “Pre-production work in Ohio began in early February 2024, with the Ohio Department of Development announcing that Superman: Legacy would be partially filmed in Cleveland and Cincinnati.” Wikipedia
  • Air Force One 1997
    “General Radek's palace, seen in the film's opening, was portrayed by two locations in Cleveland, Ohio: the exterior was Severance Hall, and the interior was the Cuyahoga County Courthouse.” Wikipedia
  • Judas and the Black Messiah 2021
    “The opening shots of Air Force One (1997) were filmed in and above Severance Hall, and Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) was filmed in Cleveland, although set in Chicago.” Wikipedia
  • The Soloist 2009
  • The Rocker 2008
    “The Rocker was mostly filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with some exterior shots filmed in Cleveland, Ohio from July to September 2007.” Wikipedia

Movies filmed elsewhere in Cleveland

3 productions shot at 21 places inside Cleveland, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Cleveland itself.

9 more places are inside Cleveland — see them on the map.

Named here by Cleveland’s own Wikipedia article

Productions this page’s own Wikipedia article says were shot at Cleveland, where neither Wikidata nor the production’s own article records it. That is the weakest evidence on this atlas, so these get no pin on the map and stay out of the downloads — the sentence is quoted in full below each one so you can judge it.

Set here, per Wikipedia

Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in Cleveland, where Wikidata’s narrative-location statement stops at the country. Still a setting and not a shoot, and still a sentence rather than a statement — two steps from the strongest evidence on this atlas, and labelled at both.

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Cleveland?

14 productions are recorded as filmed in Cleveland, 3 of them at places inside it, including Stranger Than Paradise (1984), A Christmas Story (1983) and The Avengers (2012). 9 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Cleveland?

Stranger Than Paradise (1984), covered by 32 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Cleveland?

Cleveland is in the United States, at 41.4992, -81.6947.

What other filming locations are near Cleveland?

Public Square, Detroit–Superior Bridge, Glenn Research Center, Parma and 2 more, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.

Where does this information come from?

Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Erik Drost, CC BY 4.0.