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San Francisco

city and county in California, United States

United States · 37.7750, -122.4194

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San Francisco is recorded as a filming location for 224 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level: somewhere in San Francisco, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 49 more. 1 video game is also set here. Published sources name it for more, each listed below with its publisher.

6 productions were filmed at 123 places inside San Francisco rather than at San Francisco itself: listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“Also, Reed indicated that in addition to Georgia, filming would take place in San Francisco.”
Ant-Man (2015) · Wikipedia

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Movies filmed in San Francisco

The 59 most widely covered are above. The other 166 filmed in San Francisco:

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names San Francisco 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 143 more, per Wikipedia:

Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in San Francisco

6 productions shot at 123 places inside San Francisco, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against San Francisco itself.

The 120 most notable are above. Every place inside San Francisco, A to Z, with how many productions each carries:

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.

And 16 more set here:

Set here, per Wikipedia

Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in San Francisco, 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 45 more, per Wikipedia:

From published sources

Productions a newspaper, a film office, a broadcaster or the production itself says were filmed at San Francisco, where no wiki records it. Each sentence below was found on its page and read before it was added, and its publisher is linked beside it.

Drawn from this place

Productions whose Japanese Wikipedia article names San Francisco 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 San Francisco?

422 productions are recorded as filmed in San Francisco, 6 of them at places inside it, including Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Ant-Man (2015) and All About Eve (1950). 192 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in San Francisco?

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), covered by 80 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is San Francisco?

San Francisco is in the United States. Its coordinates are 37.7750, -122.4194. The day trip guide for San Francisco lists 340 filming locations within 100 km.

What other filming locations are near San Francisco?

San Fierro (under 1 km), Market Street (under 1 km), Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall (under 1 km), War Memorial Opera House (under 1 km) 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 Lightandtruth, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Planning a visit? Filming locations near San Francisco: 340 places within 100 km, with distances and directions.