Personally, I think Rushmore takes the cake. * Hellfighters (1968) with John Wayne * Brewster McCloud (1970) - first film to be filmed inside the Astrodome * The Getaway (1972) - filmed in Huntsville, Texas * The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973) - set and filmed in Houston * Sugar Hill (1974 film) (1974)- set and filmed in Houston * The Sugarland Express (1974) - filmed on location at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Inmate Division Jester III Unit in Sugar Land, Texas * Rollerball (1975) - Set in Houston but filmed in Bavaria, Germany * Logan's Run (1976) - filmed inside the Houston Hyatt Regency * Futureworld (1976) - filmed at the Johnson Space Center facilities * Telefon (1977) - set in Houston but filmed on a Hollywood backlot, parts of Los Angeles and inside the Hyatt Regency located at 5 Embarcadero in San Francisco, California) * The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977) * Murder At The World Series (1977) - made-for-TV film * The Swarm (1978) * FM (1978) - filmed at Greenway Plaza in Houston * Urban Cowboy (1980) * Texas (1980-1982) - Daytime soap opera, a spin-off of Another World * Murder In Texas (1981) - made-for-TV film * Student Bodies (1981) * The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) - Character played by Dom DeLuise was based on KTRK-TV personality Marvin Zindler * Terms of Endearment (1982) * Uncommon Valor (1983) - Set in Houston, filmed in California * Cutter to Houston (1984) * Paris, Texas (1984) - shot in several cities around Texas including Houston * The Trip to Bountiful (1984) - Set in Houston but filmed in Dallas, Texas * Blood Simple (1984) * Forever Evil (1987) - filmed in Houston and Coldspring, Texas * Houston Knights (1987-1988) * My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1988) (Milby High School!!) * Twins (1988) - Sale of engine set in Houston * A Tiger's Tale (1988) - Rose's house was in League City, Texas * Cohen and Tate (1989) * For All Mankind (1989) - documentary filmed partially in Houston * Night Game (1989) - filmed in Galveston, Texas * Blind Fury (1989) - filmed partially in Houston * Vietnam, Texas (1990) Filmed and Set in Houston * I Come In Peace (1990) * RoboCop 2 (1990)- Filmed in Houston * Akkare Akkare Akkare (1990) - Malayalam movie filmed in Houston * Sidekicks (1992) * City of Joy (1992) - first scene is set in Houston * A Perfect World (1993) - Filmed in Huntsvile, Texas * Jason's Lyric (1994) * Reality Bites (1994) * The Chase (1994) - Filmed in the Rice Village area and several highways around the Houston area; one scene also shot in Kemah * Thea (TV series) (1994) * Apollo 13 (1995) * Independence Day (1996) - Houston is destroyed by a nuclear missile * Tin Cup (1996) - Final tournament shot in Kingwood, Texas * SubUrbia (1996) - Filmed in Houston, Set in Austin, Texas * The Evening Star (1996) * Don't Look Back (1996) - filmed in Galveston, Texas * Selena (1997) - Selena's final concert scene set in the Astrodome, but filmed in San Antonio, Texas * Armageddon (1998 film) (1998) - filmed at the Johnson Space Center facilities * Rushmore (1998) - written and directed by Houstonian Wes Anderson and filmed at his alma mater - St. John's School * Dance With Me (1998) * Five Wives, Three Secretaries and Me (1998) - documentary filmed in Houston * Fifth Ward (1998) - Filmed in and set in Houston's Fifth Ward * Arlington Road (1999) * 2000 WNBA Champions - Houston Comets (2000) * Space Cowboys (2000) * Reba (2001-) - set in Houston but filmed in Los Angeles * Texas Justice (2001-) - Filmed in Houston * Houston Medical (2002) * Tarnation (2002)- contains old pictures from Houston * The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron (2003) - Set in Houston, but filmed in Canada * Towelhead (2007) - Set in Houston suburb, but filmed in Los Angeles * Animal Cops: Houston (2003) * Right on Track (2003) - Disney Channel Movie set in Houston, but filmed in Utah * Where's the Party Yaar? (2003) * Friday Night Lights (2004) (In the book and real life events, the final game of the Permian High School Team is played at The University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas not the Astrodome of Houston) * 14 Hours (2005) - Made-for-TV film set in Houston, but filmed in Canada * Volver (2006) - Houston is mentioned briefly several times by a woman with cancer as a place where "they cure everything there" * Fast Food Nation (2006) - documentary filmed in several cities in the US, including Houston * American Drug War: The Last White Hope (2007) - documentary with scenes in Houston * Frieda Gilroy (2008) * Tree of Life (2009) - (in post-production) shot in Houston starring Sean Penn and Brad Pitt * Boyhood (2013) - (upcoming) directed by Richard Linklater, filming began in 2001 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_set_in_Houston
Adding Denzel Washington's "Hard Lessons" which was filmed at Austin High School. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091106/
Rushmore was decent, but for me, it's a toss-up between RoboCop 2, and Arlington Road. On a side note, is anyone else REALLY, REALLY bothered by this new TBS garbage "Neighbors from Hell"? One of the promos actually says something along the lines of "welcome to a place where pain and suffering know no bounds, and the depths of hell are experienced.....welcome to HOUSTON, TEXAS!" Gimme a freaking break. What a travesty that our city is represented in such a negative light.
Guess the link is making my thread title misleading considering that they are listing movies that may show clips of Houston, such as Arlington Road showing the Houston city skyline but technically not filmed here. Oh well.
glad_ken are you aka as Blindkilla? Snippet: There are not many movies that I have an attachment to, but this is one of them. Why do I say this? Well they actually filmed part of it in my home town when I was a teenager, and I got to see them shooting parts of it in front of my local police station. I thought that was cool as hell at the time since I was about to go into Radio Television and Filmaking at Sam Houston State University (sorry about the shameless plug there). So the scenes you see shot outside the station are of my home town Humble and others were of Houston and Galvaston Texas. http://www.hvelite.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=192&Itemid=50
I remember a scene in rushmore was filmed in my high school gym. North Shore high school. Never seen it
Scenes in Rushmore where the kid goes to public high school was filmed in my high school, M.B. Lamar high, right across from St. Johns. My old English teacher said some of his students were in that movie as extras. I think they filmed during the summer, so maybe it was the kids who failed and had to take summer school. Also the gym scene from Sidekick was filmed at my high school gym as well. Anyways, neither films were relevant and didn't make any noise in the box office, I think.
My guess is they shot that in 90? Then we were probably in the RTF dept around the same time - I was there 91-95..but hung out in Huntsville working at EVN until 98.
Back in middle school, this new kid said he had moved into the house where they filmed this. In Pearland. I don't why he would make up something like that, but who knows.
