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Houston

seat of Harris County, and largest city in State of Texas, United States

🇺🇸 United States · 29.7628, -95.3831

Houston is recorded as a filming location for 2 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Houston, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 15 more.

2 productions were filmed at 12 places inside Houston rather than at Houston itself — listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“On October 16, a flashback scene that takes place in the later 1960s was shot at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, using extras with period fashion and hairstyles.”

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) · Wikipedia

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Movies and TV series filmed in Houston

A Passion For Vengeance 2014–2015
Namumkin 1988

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Houston 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.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon 2011
RoboCop 1987
“Dallas was chosen over Houston because it has modern buildings and older, less-maintained areas where explosives could be used.” Wikipedia
Terms of Endearment 1983
“The exterior shots of Aurora Greenway's home were filmed at 3060 Locke Lane, Houston, Texas.” Wikipedia
The Tree of Life 2011
“Locations included Smithville, Houston, Matagorda, Bastrop, Austin, Dallas, and Malick's hometown of Waco.” Wikipedia
Boyhood 2014
Dallas 1978–
“Jacobs knew nothing about the city other than the Kennedy assassination and the Dallas Cowboys; only after visiting the state to prepare for filming did he realize that the show should be called Houston as the petroleum industry is much more important there, while Dallas has banking and insurance.” Wikipedia
RoboCop 2 1990
Space Cowboys 2000
“Scenes were filmed on location at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.” Wikipedia
Rushmore 1998
“Instead, the film was shot in and around Houston, Texas where Anderson grew up.” Wikipedia
Dazed and Confused 1993
“The final scene shot was the one in which Pink, Slater, Simone, and Wooderson drive to Houston to buy tickets.” Wikipedia
Crazy Heart 2009
Selena 1997
Reality Bites 1994
Fast Food Nation 2006
“The film was shot on location in Austin and Houston, Texas, and Colorado Springs, Colorado, as well as in Mexico.” Wikipedia
Akkare Akkare Akkare 1990

Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in Houston

2 productions shot at 12 places inside Houston, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Houston itself.

Apollo 13 Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center 1995
Local Hero Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center per Wikipedia 1983

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Houston?

19 productions are recorded as filmed in Houston, 2 of them at places inside it, including A Passion For Vengeance (2014–2015), Namumkin (1988) and Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011). 15 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Houston?

A Passion For Vengeance (2014–2015), covered by 20 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Houston?

Houston is in the United States, at 29.7628, -95.3831.

What other filming locations are near Houston?

Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Cullen Center, Downtown, George R. Brown Convention Center 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 Katie Haugland Brown, CC BY 2.0.