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San Francisco

consolidated city and county in California, United States

🇺🇸 United States · 37.7750, -122.4194

San Francisco is recorded as a filming location for 149 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in San Francisco, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 23 more. 1 video game is also set here.

9 productions were filmed at 91 places inside San Francisco rather than at San Francisco itself — listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“Much of Milk was filmed on Castro Street and other locations in San Francisco, including Milk's former storefront, Castro Camera.”
Milk (2008) · Wikipedia

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San Francisco
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Movies filmed in San Francisco

The 59 most widely covered are above. The other 90 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 1 more, per Wikipedia:

Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in San Francisco

9 productions shot at 91 places inside San Francisco, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against San Francisco itself.

79 more places are inside San Francisco — see them on the map.

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 17 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 18 more, per Wikipedia:

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.

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in San Francisco?

182 productions are recorded as filmed in San Francisco, 9 of them at places inside it, including Titanic (1997), The Matrix (1999) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). 24 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?

Titanic (1997), covered by 137 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is San Francisco?

San Francisco is in the United States, at 37.7750, -122.4194. The day trip guide for San Francisco lists 238 filming locations within 100 km.

What other filming locations are near San Francisco?

San Francisco Zoo, San Fierro, San Rafael, Skywalker Ranch 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 Lightandtruth, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Planning a visit? Filming locations near San Francisco — 238 places within 100 km, with distances and directions.