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Santa Monica

beachfront city in Los Angeles County, California, United States

🇺🇸 United States · 34.0219, -118.4814

Santa Monica is recorded as a filming location for 84 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Santa Monica, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 10 more.

3 productions were filmed at 8 places inside Santa Monica rather than at Santa Monica itself — listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“A Big Blue Bus was featured prominently in the action movie Speed.”
Speed (1994) · Wikipedia

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Santa Monica
Photo: Mike Gonzalez (TheCoffee) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Movies and TV series filmed in Santa Monica

The 60 most widely covered are above. The other 24 filmed in Santa Monica:

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Santa Monica 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.

  • City Lights 1931
    “While seeing a film shoot with bathing women in a Santa Monica beach, he found a casual acquaintance, Virginia Cherrill.” Wikipedia
  • The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 2004
    “The film features live-action scenes directed by Mark Osborne in Santa Monica, California.” Wikipedia
  • Rocky IV 1985
    “Stallone, suffering from labored breathing and a blood pressure over 200, was flown from the set in Vancouver, British Columbia to Saint John's Regional Medical Center in Santa Monica, California and was forced into intensive care for eight days.” Wikipedia
  • Beverly Hills, 90210 1990–2000
    “Most of the filming during the second season of the summer season at the Beverly Hills Beach Club took place in Santa Monica, at the old Sand and Sea Beach Club.” Wikipedia
  • CSI: Miami 2002–
    “Footage from the Biscayne Courthouse, visible prominently in the episode "Recoil", among others, was filmed at the Water Garden Park in Santa Monica, at 34.028728, −118.471331.” Wikipedia
  • Bound 1996
    “Bound was filmed over a 38-day period in Santa Monica, California.” Wikipedia
  • Blind Date 1987
  • Private Practice 2007–2013
    “Private Practice filmed many of its exterior shots, as well as some outdoor storylines, in Santa Monica, California.” Wikipedia
  • Like Crazy 2011
    “At its largest, the crew consisted of around 20 people, while some scenes were shot with as few as three crew members, such as a scene on a Santa Monica beach where only Doremus, Guleserian and a boom operator were present in addition to the actors.” Wikipedia
  • Saved by the Bell 1989–
    “Due to budget constraints, much of the film was shot in Santa Monica, with only location shots that could not easily be faked shot in Hawaii.” Wikipedia

Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in Santa Monica

3 productions shot at 8 places inside Santa Monica, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Santa Monica itself.

Named here by Santa Monica’s own Wikipedia article

Productions this page’s own Wikipedia article says were shot at Santa Monica, where neither Wikidata nor the production’s own article records it. That is the weakest evidence on this atlas, so these get no pin on the map and stay out of the downloads — the sentence is quoted in full below each one so you can judge it.

Set here, per Wikipedia

Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in Santa Monica, 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.

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Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Santa Monica?

97 productions are recorded as filmed in Santa Monica, 3 of them at places inside it, including Forrest Gump (1994), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and The Social Network (2010). 10 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Santa Monica?

Forrest Gump (1994), covered by 136 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Santa Monica?

Santa Monica is in the United States, at 34.0219, -118.4814.

What other filming locations are near Santa Monica?

Long Beach, Los Angeles, 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 Mike Gonzalez (TheCoffee), CC BY-SA 3.0.