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Here’s another list of top 10 films set in San Francisco. My Top 10 Films Set In San Francisco 2. This list has the classics and more recent hits. This is a follow up to my Top 10 Films Set In San Francisco 1 which you can find here.

Top 10 Films Set In San Francisco Part 1

Once again these are my favorite films set in San Francisco but I did not use any specific order to organize these films. If I’m missing any films please comment and let me know which I’m missing so that I can compile a part 3 in the coming weeks.

1. The Towering Inferno
2. Time After Time
3. The Woman In Red
4. Mrs. Doubtfire
5. The Rock
6. Zodiac
7. Escape From Alcatraz
8. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
9. Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner
10. Just Like Heaven

Art Deco Palace? The Golden Gate Theatre opened in 1922 as a vaudeville theatre but later became a major movie theatre. For several decades it stayed the way it was showing movies after movies. In the 1960s it boasted a Cinerama screen. Unfortunately though by the 1970s it’s popularity had declined and began showing blaxploitation films. But by the end of the 1970’s it was restored and it reopened as a performance arts venue. Over the years I’ve seen posters for so many shows including Hairspray, Chicago, Mamma Mia!, Rent, Legally Blonde: The Musical and so many more.

Spamalot seems to be a pretty popular show so was walking past the theatre the other day and thought to take some pics.

The Golden Gate Theatre is located at 1 Taylor Street at Golden Gate Avenue?

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I love this photo of these young girls getting photographed right before they were to go in and enjoy Wicked at the Orpheum thatre on Market Street. I think they were really excited to be finally seeing the show. Excited enough to take a few pictures to have as memories.

Wicked which I have never seen is running at the Orpheum Theatre here in San Francisco. Everytime I walk past the Orpheum Theatre I see the huge lines of people waiting to go and enjoy the show. It seems to be very, very popular and apparently it got it’s start here in San Francisco several years ago before debuting in New York where it became what it is today. So perhaps I should go and catch the show before it’s gone for good.

The Orpheum Theatre is a beautiful piece of historic architecture right on Market at 1192 Market street near Civic Center and City Hall. The facade was inspired by a 12th century French cathedral which is completely obvious when you look at the photos below. It’s quite a beautiful building and one of my favorites here in San Francisco. The interior features a vaulted ceiling. It first opened in 1926 – twenty years after the great 1906 earthquake. The Orpheum is a historical landmark in the city of San Francisco.

Today the Orpheum Theater is one of most popular sites in San Francisco for folks coming to see Broadway shows.

There are tons of films shot and set in San Francisco. I’ve tried to watch every one and have seen alot of them. I also make sure when I find out a film is set in San Francisco I for sure catch it. Recently I watched a film called Kiss Them For Me a film starring Carey Grant and Jayne Mansfield. It was a forgettable film shot here in San Francisco – many scenes off of a balcony in the Fairmont Hotel overlooking the San Francisco Bay. So it gave me the idea to create this list of the Top 10 Films set in San Francisco for San Francisco Photos (SFPhotorama.com). Enjoy the list and the films!

1. Vertigo
2. Bullitt
3. The Game
4. Dark Passage
5. Pacific Heights
6. Milk
7. What’s Up Doc?
8. Dirty Harry
9. The Conversation
10. The Joy Luck Club

If you have a list yourself of your favorite films set in San Francisco please feel free to comment and let me know what they are. I’ll most likely collect another top 10 list for a future post.