Movies Set in San Francisco

Kinora's catalogue lists 35 films set in San Francisco, spanning 1941–2015. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.

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• 2000

  Almost Famous

  San Diego · San Francisco · New York City — 1960s · 1970s
  Urbandir. Cameron Crowe
• 1992

  Basic Instinct

  San Francisco — 1990s
  Urbandir. Paul Verhoeven
• 1986

  Big Trouble in Little China

  San Francisco — 1980s
  Urban · Undergrounddir. John Carpenter
• 1962

  Birdman of Alcatraz

  Leavenworth · San Francisco — 1940s
  Islanddir. John Frankenheimer
• 1968

  Bullitt

  San Francisco — 1960s
  Urbandir. Peter Yates
• 2012

  Cloud Atlas

  San Francisco · London · Hawaii · Chatham Islands — 1800s · 1930s · 1970s · 2010s · Far Future
  Urban · Island · Coastal Sea · Off Worlddir. Lilly Wachowski
• 1949

  D.O.A.

  San Francisco · Los Angeles — 1940s
  Urbandir. Rudolph Maté
• 1947

  Dark Passage

  San Francisco — 1940s
  Urbandir. Delmer Daves
• 1971

  Dirty Harry

  San Francisco — 1970s
  Urbandir. Don Siegel
• 1979

  Escape from Alcatraz

  San Francisco — 1960s
  Island · Coastal Seadir. Don Siegel
• 1967

  Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

  San Francisco — 1960s
  Urbandir. Stanley Kramer
• 1979

  Hardcore

  Grand Rapids · Los Angeles · San Francisco · San Diego — 1970s
  Urbandir. Paul Schrader
• 1962

  How the West Was Won

  St. Louis · San Francisco · Arizona — 1800s
  Wilderness · Rural · Mountaindir. John Ford
• 2015

  Inside Out

  San Francisco · Minnesota — 2010s
  Urbandir. Pete Docter
• 1994

  Interview with the Vampire

  New Orleans · Paris · San Francisco — 1700s · 1800s · 1990s
  Urbandir. Neil Jordan
• 1978

  Invasion of the Body Snatchers

  San Francisco — 1970s
  Urbandir. Philip Kaufman
• 1973

  Magnum Force

  San Francisco — 1970s
  Urbandir. Ted Post
• 2008

  Milk

  San Francisco — 1970s
  Urbandir. Gus Van Sant
• 1993

  Mrs. Doubtfire

  San Francisco — 1990s
  Urbandir. Chris Columbus
• 1947

  Out of the Past

  Lake Tahoe · Acapulco · San Francisco — 1940s
  Rural · Mountain · Urbandir. Jacques Tourneur
• 1972

  Play It Again, Sam

  San Francisco — 1970s
  Urbandir. Herbert Ross
• 1967

  Point Blank

  Los Angeles · San Francisco — 1960s
  Urbandir. John Boorman
• 2011

  Rise of the Planet of the Apes

  San Francisco — 2010s
  Urban · Suburban · Wildernessdir. Rupert Wyatt
• 1992

  Sneakers

  San Francisco — 1960s · 1990s
  Urbandir. Phil Alden Robinson
• 1954

  The Caine Mutiny

  Pacific Ocean · San Francisco — 1940s
  Coastal Seadir. Edward Dmytryk
• 1974

  The Conversation

  San Francisco — 1970s
  Urbandir. Francis Ford Coppola
• 1997

  The Game

  San Francisco — 1990s
  Urbandir. David Fincher
• 2007

  The Kite Runner

  Kabul · San Francisco · Peshawar — 1970s · 1980s · 2000s
  Urbandir. Marc Forster
• 1947

  The Lady from Shanghai

  New York City · San Francisco — 1940s
  Urban · Coastal Seadir. Orson Welles
• 1941

  The Maltese Falcon

  San Francisco — 1940s
  Urbandir. John Huston
• 1996

  The Rock

  San Francisco — 1990s
  Islanddir. Michael Bay
• 1974

  The Towering Inferno

  San Francisco — 1970s
  Urbandir. John Guillermin
• 1958

  Vertigo

  San Francisco — 1950s
  Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock
• 1972

  What's Up, Doc?

  San Francisco — 1970s
  Urbandir. Peter Bogdanovich
• 2007

  Zodiac

  San Francisco — 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. David Fincher