Rankings by Metro / Chicago

The Screen of Chicago

United States · #4 by film pedigree · 80 notable figures · 14 canon films set here

Metro rank
#4
Screen score
1025.5
People
181
Films set here
14

What Chicago is known for

Box office 27%Prestige 21%Audience 52%

Chicago skews toward audience.

Canon films set here, by decade

4
'30
1
'40
2
'50
3
'70
2
'80
2
'00

From Chicago

  1. 1Orson Welles49.15
  2. 2Harrison Ford38.16
  3. 3Robert Zemeckis33.79
  4. 4Preston Sturges28.52
  5. 5Charlton Heston25.71
  6. 6Jason Robards21.82
  7. 7William Friedkin21.71
  8. 8Mark Ruffalo20.97
  9. 9Carl Foreman20.3
  10. 10Bill Murray20.17
  11. 11Bob Fosse18.69
  12. 12Karl Malden18.37
  13. 13Waldo Salt16.85
  14. 14William Goldman16.44
  15. 15Norman Taurog16.4
  16. 16John G. Avildsen16.28
  17. 17Ring Lardner Jr.15.01
  18. 18Gloria Swanson14.78
  19. 19Philip Yordan13.41
  20. 20Don Ameche12.49
  21. 21Mercedes McCambridge12.15
  22. 22Frederic Raphael11.46
  23. 23Robert Lord11.37
  24. 24Richard L. Breen11.07
  25. 25Robert Z. Leonard10.96

+55 more

Set in Chicago

  1. Some Like It Hot 1959#41
  2. The Dark Knight 2008#93
  3. Halloween 1978#95
  4. His Girl Friday 1940#192
  5. Scarface 1932#207
  6. The Asphalt Jungle 1950#214
  7. The Public Enemy 1931#221
  8. Days of Heaven 1978#262
  9. The Sting 1973#291
  10. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932#347
  11. The Breakfast Club 1985#373
  12. The Incredibles 2004#390
  13. Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986#475
  14. Little Caesar 1931#480

Canon films by Chicago filmmakers

  • Citizen Kane 1941 · Orson Welles#2
  • The Exorcist 1973 · William Friedkin#44
  • Back to the Future 1985 · Robert Zemeckis#83
  • Rocky 1976 · John G. Avildsen#94
  • Forrest Gump 1994 · Robert Zemeckis#100
  • Touch of Evil 1958 · Orson Welles#115
  • The French Connection 1971 · William Friedkin#131
  • Pinocchio 1940 · Hamilton Luske#165
  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 · Don Siegel#168
  • Steamboat Willie 1928 · Walt Disney#204
  • Dirty Harry 1971 · Don Siegel#211
  • Cabaret 1972 · Bob Fosse#218
  • Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 · Vincente Minnelli#242
  • Heat 1995 · Michael Mann#295
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 · Robert Zemeckis#305
  • Groundhog Day 1993 · Harold Ramis#306
  • Aladdin 1992 · John Musker#350
  • National Lampoon's Animal House 1978 · John Landis#374
  • The Great Escape 1963 · John Sturges#391
  • An American in Paris 1951 · Vincente Minnelli#393
  • The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 · Orson Welles#412
  • Chimes at Midnight 1965 · Orson Welles#415
  • The Lady Eve 1941 · Preston Sturges#427
  • Sullivan's Travels 1941 · Preston Sturges#477

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