27 Real Locations That Made Movie Magic in the 80s, 90s, and Beyond

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Jun 6, 2025 7:00 PM EDT

Before the advent of immensely huge studios and computer generated images in movies, there were locations. Thousands of them, real places that once the movies were released, you yourself could go and see and walk a mile or a minute in the footsteps of your acting heroes. You could walk upon the basket ball courts where the filmed White Men Can't Jump, you could take a look inside the pawnshop where they filmed that one scene from Pulp Fiction, you could even take a serene stroll through some of the places they filmed Lord of the Rings.

But seeing as that time honored tradition is fast fading, we figured you might enjoy a little taste of nostalgia with the exact locations of some of our favorite movies from the 80s, 90s, and beyond. So what are you waiting for, take a scroll and plan your next vacation. Just stay away from Bridget Jones' location, that's ours…

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  • With the advent of CGI and soon AI, it is a little lackluster to look upon the locations of some of these shots. For example, the bollards are totally different and the ones in the movie likely never existed. So one has to begin questioning at what point does the location stop mattering.

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    HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, WC2 HITCHCOCK'S FRENZY movie-locations.com
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    BROMPTON CEMETERY, OLD BROMPTON ROAD, SW5 SHERLOCK HOLMES movie-locations.com
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  • Movies have the brilliant ability to completely flip realities. Just look at how many things are different between the film set shot and the location shot. You could literally play spot the difference. It is just a shame that you cannot go there and recreate scenes because of the pond.

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    ST BARTHOLOMEW'S, WEST SMITHFIELD, EC1 TRANSFORMERS THE LAST KNIGH movie-locations.com
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    WHITEHALL PLACE, LONDON SW1 MARVEL DOCTOR STRANGE movie-locations.com
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    FOXFIRE ROOM, VALLEY VILLAGE, CA magnolia movie-locations.com
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    MONTROSE AVENUE, SOUTH PASADENA, CA HALLOWEEN movie-locations.com
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    MORNINGSIDE SCHOOL, SAN FERNANDO, CA SCHOOL CARRIE SCHOOL movie-locations.com
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    MISSION DOLORES, SAN FRANCISCO VERTIGO movie-locations.com
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    MONTROSE AVENUE, SOUTH PASADENA, CA HALLOWEEN movie-locations.com
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    UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, TORONTO STON POLICE DISTRICT 6 DEPT THE BOONDOCK SAINTS NOLICE SOLICE Omovie-locations.com
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    CULVER BOULEVARD, CULVER CITY, CA FLYNN'S TRON Bake STOPPING ANY TIME Culver CITY <--Watseka Parking Town Park/ Theatres Cardiff Porking Ivy Substation Main Street 9543 movie-locations.com AKASHA PLY ASSE
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    ALTA VIEW DRIVE, STUDIO CITY, CA ONCE UPON ATIME IN... HOLLYWOOD 0969 movie-locations.com
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    187th STREET, TORRANCE, CA Boogie Nights movie-locations.com
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