Towns & cities

Key West

county seat of Monroe County, Florida, United States

United States · 24.5597, -81.7836

Key West is named as a filming location in the Wikipedia articles of 17 productions, in the section each entry below links back to. No Wikidata filming statement points here yet, so this page says plainly which kind of evidence it rests on. 1 video game is also set here.

5 places inside Key West have a page of their own: listed below. Everything shot at them is already named above, recorded against Key West as well.

“The evacuation sequence was among the first scenes filmed on the ship, and was shot in Key West, Florida over a two-week period.”

Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) · Wikipedia

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Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Key West as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, and labelled as what it is, each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

Licence to Kill 1989
Speed 2: Cruise Control 1997
The Rose Tattoo 1955
“Much of the film was shot on location in Key West, Florida, although the setting is not specifically mentioned in the film.” Wikipedia
Havana 1990
“The end scene was filmed in Key West, Florida.” Wikipedia
Act of Valor 2012
Operation Petticoat 1959
The Final Countdown 1980
Nyad 2023
Reap the Wild Wind 1942
The Leisure Seeker 2017
Matinee 1993
Running Scared 1986
“Filming spanned September 1985 to January 1986 across MGM Studios in Culver City, California, in addition to location work in Key West, and Chicago.” Wikipedia
A Murder of Crows 1999
The Frogmen 1951
“The filming of the submarine sequence took place on the deck of USS Kleinsmith while the ship was near Key West, Florida on January 11, 1951.” Wikipedia
Bad Monkey 2024–
“Filming locations included Blue Springs in Orange City and Duval Street, Key West.” Wikipedia
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef 1953
“The film was shot on location in Key West and Tarpon Springs, Florida.” Wikipedia
Devil Fish (film) 1984

Filming locations inside Key West

5 places inside Key West, each with a page of their own. Every production shot at them is already listed above, because Wikidata records them against Key West too.

Set here

Video games that take place here. A game is filmed nowhere, so this is where the story is set rather than where a camera stood: a different claim from everything above, and kept under its own heading for that reason.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project 1991

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Key West?

17 productions are recorded as filmed in Key West, including Licence to Kill (1989), Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) and The Rose Tattoo (1955). 17 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Key West?

Licence to Kill (1989), covered by 55 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Key West?

Key West is in the United States. Its coordinates are 24.5597, -81.7836.

What other filming locations are near Key West?

Basilica of St. Mary Star of the Sea (1 km south-west), Duval Street (2 km west), Ernest Hemingway House (2 km south-west), Truman Annex (2 km west) and 2 more, all within 40 km and listed on this page with photographs.

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 Tore Sætre, CC BY-SA 4.0.