Showdown

This Must Be the Place

Best films with location titles

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As Sacramento and The Ballad of Wallis Island release in the cool world of theaters, this Showdown is all about location, location, location. If you 🎹 wanna be a part of it 🎹, make your own atlas by listing your ten favorite films named after a landmark, a neighborhood, a city, a state, a country, even a continent. One rule: it must be a specific place. This means no No Country for Old Men, no Nomadland, no North by Northwest. Also, while there are scores of stories titled after spots in filmmaking hubs like Los Angeles and New York, we encourage you to go more global! If you need a road map, explore these lists by Energetic_nova, HDorrittie and Logan (though keep in mind that not everything in these lists are eligible—looking at you, Dune).

Most mentioned

  • Fargo
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Casablanca
  • Paris, Texas
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
  • In Bruges
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • Palm Springs
  • Chinatown
  • Train to Busan
  • Dunkirk
  • Jurassic Park
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
  • Chicago
  • The Florida Project
  • The Wolf of Wall Street
  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  • The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Manchester by the Sea

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