The Screen of San Francisco-San Jose

United States · #5 by film pedigree · 43 notable figures · 14 canon films set here

Metro rank
#5
Screen score
690
People
115
Films set here
14

What San Francisco-San Jose is known for

Box office 33%Prestige 19%Audience 48%

San Francisco-San Jose skews toward audience.

Canon films set here, by decade

1
'20
3
'40
3
'50
3
'60
3
'70
1
'10

From San Francisco-San Jose

  1. 1Tom Hanks
  2. 2Clint Eastwood
  3. 3Robin Williams
  4. 4Olivia de Havilland
  5. 5George Stevens
  6. 6Frances Marion
  7. 7Mark Hamill
  8. 8Janet Gaynor
  9. 9Joan Fontaine
  10. 10Mahershala Ali
  11. 11Ryan Coogler
  12. 12James Ivory
  13. 13Sidney Howard
  14. 14Mervyn LeRoy
  15. 15Kathryn Bigelow
  16. 16Sam Rockwell
  17. 17Katharine Ross
  18. 18Danny Glover
  19. 19Jo Van Fleet
  20. 20Charles Barton
  21. 21Zendaya
  22. 22James Franco
  23. 23Jack Sullivan
  24. 24Edward Dmytryk
  25. 25Colin Trevorrow

+18 more

Set in San Francisco-San Jose

  1. Vertigo 1958#12
  2. The Graduate 1967#50
  3. The Maltese Falcon 1941#87
  4. The Birds 1963#152
  5. Greed 1924#200
  6. Dirty Harry 1971#211
  7. Out of the Past 1947#220
  8. The Conversation 1974#303
  9. Inside Out 2015#361
  10. Bullitt 1968#392
  11. East of Eden 1955#436
  12. Shadow of a Doubt 1943#462
  13. Harold and Maude 1971#463
  14. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1954#494

Canon films by San Francisco-San Jose filmmakers

  • Unforgiven 1992 · Clint Eastwood#141
  • The Lion King 1994 · Rob Minkoff#172
  • Beauty and the Beast 1991 · Kirk Wise#243
  • Shane 1953 · George Stevens#259
  • I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 · Mervyn LeRoy#347
  • 42nd Street 1933 · Lloyd Bacon#355
  • Million Dollar Baby 2004 · Clint Eastwood#356
  • The Hurt Locker 2009 · Kathryn Bigelow#449
  • Little Caesar 1931 · Mervyn LeRoy#480

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