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Los Angeles

seat of Los Angeles County, and largest city in California, United States

🇺🇸 United States · 34.0522, -118.2437

Los Angeles is recorded as a filming location for 539 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Los Angeles, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 58 more.

252 productions were filmed at 251 places inside Los Angeles rather than at Los Angeles itself — listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“The production used many locations in and around Los Angeles.”
Back to the Future (1985) · Wikipedia

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Movies and TV series filmed in Los Angeles

The 60 most widely covered are above. The other 479 filmed in Los Angeles:

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Los Angeles 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.

And 217 more, per Wikipedia:

Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in Los Angeles

252 productions shot at 251 places inside Los Angeles, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Los Angeles itself.

The 60 most widely covered are above. The other 192, each with the place inside Los Angeles it was shot at:

239 more places are inside Los Angeles — see them on the map.

Set here, per Wikipedia

Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in Los Angeles, 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.

And 67 more, per Wikipedia:

Drawn from this place

Video games whose Japanese Wikipedia article names Los Angeles as a real place their setting was modelled on. Nothing was filmed here and no story happens here: somebody drew it from here. That is the weakest claim this atlas makes about a place, which is why it sits under its own heading, and each production’s page links the article the claim came from.

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Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Los Angeles?

1,066 productions are recorded as filmed in Los Angeles, 252 of them at places inside it, including Pulp Fiction (1994), The Dark Knight (2008) and Back to the Future (1985). 275 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Los Angeles?

Pulp Fiction (1994), covered by 107 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Los Angeles?

Los Angeles is in the United States, at 34.0522, -118.2437. The day trip guide for Los Angeles lists 675 filming locations within 100 km.

What other filming locations are near Los Angeles?

Long Beach, Santa Monica, Ambassador Hotel, University of Southern California 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 Alek Leckszas, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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