Towns & cities

San Francisco Bay Area

Metropolitan area in California, United States

United States · 37.8100, -122.3700

Official site

Wikipedia names San Francisco Bay Area as where 29 films and series were filmed; each title’s page links to the sentence that says so. Wikidata records no shoot here yet.

San Francisco Bay Area
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Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Wikipedia says these were filmed in San Francisco Bay Area. Each title’s page links to the sentence that says so.

10 of 29

Set here, per Wikipedia

Wikipedia says these games are set in San Francisco Bay Area.

Filming locations nearby

What Wikipedia says about San Francisco Bay Area

12 sentences quoted word for word from Wikipedia, each with the production it describes and a link to the article it comes from.

  • Vertigo 1958

    “The film uses extensive location footage of the San Francisco Bay Area.” Wikipedia
  • MythBusters 2003–

    “Experiments requiring more space or special accommodations were filmed on location, typically around the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere in Northern California, going to other states, or even countries, when required.” Wikipedia
  • Hulk 2003

    “The project was filmed primarily in California from March to August 2002, mainly in the San Francisco Bay Area.” Wikipedia
  • The Caine Mutiny 1954

    “In addition to the Pearl Harbor and San Francisco Bay Area locations, including the Caine steaming back and forth several times under the Golden Gate Bridge, the romantic subplot features scenes shot on location at Yosemite National Park.” Wikipedia
  • Watch Dogs 2 2016

    “The game features an open world set in the San Francisco Bay Area, an area more than twice as large as the Chicagoland setting from Watch Dogs.” Wikipedia
  • The Champion 1915

    “The Champion was filmed entirely on location in downtown Niles, California, at the corner of G Street and Niles Boulevard, around the Essanay Studio, as the second of five films Chaplin made for Essanay in the San Francisco Bay Area before returning to Los Angeles to finish out his one-year contract with Essanay.” Wikipedia
  • Nash Bridges 1996–

    “The show was produced and filmed on location in the San Francisco Bay Area.” Wikipedia
  • Hemingway & Gellhorn 2012

    “Pat Jackson, the film's sound effects editor, said that the biggest challenge in doing sound for the film was "making the archival footage and the live-action footage shot locally appear seamless." Much of the film was shot in the San Francisco Bay Area, with the abandoned 16th Street station in Oakland standing in for the Hotel Florida.” Wikipedia
  • Leonard Part 6 1987, The Boat Builder 2015, Nina Takes a Lover 1994

    “The film was shot in the San Francisco Bay Area.” Wikipedia
  • Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine 1965

    “The climactic chase sequence was filmed in the Bay Area.” Wikipedia
  • The Chilling 1989

    “The film was shot from January through February 1989 with a few days worth of reshoots in April of that year in and around the San Francisco Bay Area.” Wikipedia
  • I Believe in Unicorns 2014

    “According to Meyerhoff, the live-action scenes in the film were shot in three weeks in the San Francisco Bay Area.” Wikipedia