See also: List of television shows shot in Pittsburgh and List of fiction set in Pittsburgh
This list includes major feature films shot either completely or partially in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and/or the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. Some of these are set in the city; others were shot in Pittsburgh but set in another real or fictional location
1890s
Academy Award Winner | Golden Globe Winner | Nominated, or minor award winner |
1897
1898
1899
1900s
1902
1903
1904
- Assembling a Generator
- Assembling and Testing Turbines
- Casting a Guide Box
- Coil Winding Machines
- Coil Winding Section E
- Girls Winding Armatures
- Panorama Exterior Westinghouse Works
- Panorama of Machine Co. Aisle
- Panorama View Street Car Motor Room
- Panorama View Aisle B
- Steam Hammer
- Steam Whistle
- Taking Time Checks
- Taping Coils
- Tapping a Furnace
- Testing a Rotary
- Testing Large Turbines
- Welding the Big Ring
- Westinghouse Employees Boarding Train
- Westinghouse Air Brake Co. Westinghouse Co. Works (Casting Scene)
- Westinghouse Air Brake Co. Westinghouse Co. Works (Moulding Scene)
- Westinghouse Air Brake Co. Westinghouse Works
1905
1910s
1912
1914
1915
1918
1919
1920s
1920
1922
1924
1926
1930s
1931
1936
1939
1940s
1940
- Valley Town
1941
1942
1945
1947
1948
1950s
1951
1952
1955
1958
1960s
1960
1963
1965
1968
1970s
1970
- Imago
- Looking for Me
- Inside/Outside Station 9
1971
- There's Always Vanilla
- Vagrant Woman
- Going Home
- The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
- Eyes
- Deus Ex
- Three Domestics
1972
- Jack's Wife
- Investigation of a Hit and Run
- 901/904
1973
- The Crazies
- The Song Remains the Same
- After the Game
- A Forty Dollar Misunderstanding
- The Informant
- A Legal Discussion of a Hit and Run
- Manifold Controversy
- Nothing Hurt But My Pride
- Two Brothers
- $21 or 21 days
- Wrong Kid
- You Wasn't Loitering
- Henry Is Drunk
- The 4th, 5th, & Exclusionary Rule
1974
1976
1977
1978
- Martin
- The Deer Hunter
- Death Penalty
- Dawn of the Dead
1979
1980s
1980
1981
1982
- Creepshow #1Top 10
- Ed Harris, Hal Holbrook, Ted Danson, Leslie Nielsen
- Midnight
- Second Challenge
- King's Bane
- Poland: Two weeks in Winter
1983
- Flashdance #1 Top 5 Top 10 Top 15
- All the Right Moves Top 5 Top 10
- Hambone & Hillie
1984
- Mrs. Soffel Top 10 Top 20
- Reckless Top 5
- The Muppets Take Manhattan Top 5 Top 10 Top 15
- Maria's Lovers
- The Boy Who Loved Trolls
1985
- Day of the Dead
- Rappin' #5 #14
- Moon over Pittsburgh
- Silent Witness
1986
- Gung Ho #1 Top 5 Top 10
- The Majorettes
- The Suicide Squeeze
- Flight of the Spruce Goose
1987
- RoboCop Top 5 Top 10 Top 15
- Lady Beware
- Drive-In Madness!
- Alone In The Neon Jungle
1988
- The Prince of Pennsylvania
- Heartstopper
- Monkey Shines
- Kenny
- Dominick and Eugene Top 20:
- Tiger Warsaw
- Flesheater
- Lightning Over Braddock
- Street Law
1989
1990s
1990
- Pretty Woman #1 #2 #3 Top 5 Top 10 Top 15
- Night of the Living Dead #7 #14
- Two Evil Eyes #17
- Superstar
- Dennis Hopper, Shelley Winters
- The 10 Million Dollar Getaway (TV Film)
- Iron Maze
- Simple Justice
- Criminal Justice
- Forest Whitaker, Anthony LaPaglia, Rosie Perez, Jennifer Grey
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099321/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3
1991
- The Silence of the Lambs #1 #2 Top 6 Top 15
- My Girl #2 #3 #4 Top 10
- Diary of a Hitman
- Waterland
- Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh (also known as Picking up the Pieces)
- Tom Tully, Maureen McCullough
- My Worst Enemy
- North of Pittsburgh
- Dead and Alive: The Race For Gus Farace
1992
- Passed Away #14
- Whispers in the Dark #8 #11
- Bob Roberts Top 15 Top 20
- Innocent Blood #8 #12
- Hoffa #6 #8 #12
- The Cemetery Club
- The Fire Next Time
- The Jacksons: An American Dream
- No Pets
- Triumph of the Heart
1993
- Lorenzo's Oil Top 20
- Groundhog Day #1 #2 Top 18
- Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell
- The Dark Half #6 #8 #11
- Money for Nothing #16
- Striking Distance #1 #4 Top 10 Top 15
- Roommates
- Heartstopper
- Coming in Out of the Rain
1994
- Boys on the Side #2 #4 Top 10
- Milk Money Top 5 Top 10
- Timecop #1 #3 #6 Top 15
- Only You #3 Top 10 Top 15
- Street Corner Justice
- Baskin's Run
- No Pets
1995
- Houseguest #3 #6 Top 11
- Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Kim Murphy
- Sudden Death Top 11
- Captured Alive
- Bloodscent
- Undertakings
- Bleeding Orange and Brown
1996
- Bed of Roses #2 #5 #7
- Diabolique #3 #5 #11
- Independence Day
- Kingpin #4 #6 Top 20
- That Thing You Do! Top 5 Top 10
- Santa Claws
- Naked Christmas
- Struggles in Steel
1997
- Fire Down Below #1 #3 #10
- The Journey
- Sprung (Written, directed and starring native Rusty Cundeiff)
1998
- Desperate Measures Top 10 #11
- Transatlantic
- Star of Jaipur
- Whatever
1999
- Inspector Gadget #2 #5 #7
- Stigmata #1 #4 Top 10 Top 15
- Dogma #3 #7 #6 #8 #13
- The Nest
- Out for Vengeance
- Cola for Tea
- Achilles Heel
2000s
2000
- Eye of the Beholder #1 #5 #9
- Wonder Boys #7 #10 #13 Top 20
- Screwed #8 #12 #20
- Civility
- View from the Vault
- Brother 2
- Reign of the Dead
- Out of the Black
- Achilles' Love
- Ketchup King
2001
2002
- The Mothman Prophecies #6 #10 #18
- The Murder
- Daddy Cool
- Memories of a Forgotten War
- Project: Valkyrie
- Icarus of Pittsburgh
2003
- Bringing Down the House #1 Top 5 Top 15 Top 20
- Beautiful Girl
- August Underground's Mordum
- Vicious
- Klownz
- Mr. Smith goes to Pittsburgh
- Shooting Home
- The Battles for Fort Duquesne
2004
- The Clearing Top 20
- 10th & Wolf
- Grim
- Fragile
- The War that Made America
- Deadline
- Atlanta
- When Tyrants Kiss
- Lift
- The Stranger
- Speilburgh
- Day of the Scorpion
- Dvorak and America
2005
- Land of the Dead #6 #10 #15 23
- Devil and Daniel Johnston
- The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania
- Me and the Mosque
- Dumpster
- Squonkumentary
- Missing Jane
- The Smallest Things
- A Thousand Windows
- Squonkumentary
- Missing Jane
- The Smallest Things
- A Thousand Windows
- On Every Corner
2006
- Pittsburgh
- Chasing 3000
- God Grew Tired of Us
- a/k/a Tommy Chong
- American Scary
- Bewilderness
- Abattoir
- 30
- Karloff and Me
- Project: Adam
- Sofia for Now
- Grace
- Doing Therapy
- Prison Girl
2007
- The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
- Nick Nolte, Sienna Miller, Mena Suvari
- Golden Days
- Strange Girls
- The Haunting Hour Volume One: Don't Think About It
- Pain Within
- Gravida
- The Screening
- The Lottery
- Dr. Ravie and Mr. Hyde
- Germanity
- Gender Redesigner
- Happy Walter
- Silent Knights
- All Saints Eve
2008
- Smart People #7 #11 #15 #18
- Zack and Miri Make a Porno #2 #5 #6 #12 #14 #18
- Seth Rogen, Kevin Smith, Elizabeth Banks
- Graduation
- The Mausoleum
- My Bloody Valentine 3D
- Deadtime Stories
- Deadtime Stories
- Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
- The Bridge to Nowhere
- Homecoming
- On Sabbath Hill
- I Am a Schizophrenic and So Am I
- Served Cold
- Staunton Hill
- Tremble
2009
- Adventureland #6 #9 #13 #16 #25
- The Road #10 #16 #17 #19 #18
- Hollywood & Wine
- Shannon's Rainbow
- Sorority Row
- Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3-D
- End Game
- If It Ain't Broke, Break It
2010s
2010
- She's Out of My League #3 #6 #7 #9 #14 #25
- Unstoppable #2 #3 #5 #4 #6 #12 #17 #15 #18
- The Next Three Days #6 #9 #10 #13 #25
- Love & Other Drugs #10 #6 #5 #8 #16 #22 #19
- Dog Jack
- The Chief
- Chasing 3000
- Since I Don't Have You
2011
- I Am Number Four #3 #4 #9 #12 #15 #19
- Super 8 #1 #2 #5 #7 #9 #14
- Warrior #3 #8 #12 #17 #24
- Abduction #4 #8 #11 #13 #20
- Death from Above
- Margaret
- River of Darkness
- On the Inside
- Sibling
- Riddle
- Mafia
- A New York Heartbeat
- Spineview
2012
- One for the Money #3 #6 #13 #18
- The Avengers #1 #2 #3 #5 #7 #8 #11 #12
- The Dark Knight Rises #1 #3 #5 #6 8 10 12 14
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower #13 #11 #10 #12 #16 #17 #14
- Won't Back Down #10 #13 #23
- Jack Reacher #4 #5 #11 #16
- A Separate Life
- Progression
- Homemakers
- 13 Score
2013
- Promised Land #29 #10 #19
- Out of the Furnace #3 #7 #29
- Grudge Match #12 #11 #11 #15
- The Lifeguard
- 6 Souls
- Generation Iron
- Elixir
- Blood Brother
- Rocky Braat
2014
- The Fault in Our Stars #1 #4 #7 #8 #11 #15 #19
- Foxcatcher
- Heroes Behind the Badge: Sacrifice & Survival
- Bridge
- The Family Next Door
2015
- Me & Earl & the Dying Girl
- American Pastoral
- Fathers and Daughters
- The Last Witch Hunter
- Concussion
- Southpaw
- Let It Snow
2016
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
See also
References
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External links
Media related to Film and television production in Pittsburgh at Wikimedia Commons
Works cited
- Complete list of films shot in Pittsburgh
- Complete list of films shot in Pittsburgh
- "Hollywood East"
- Israeli filmmaker project
- Pittsburgh Film History
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