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Showdown: This Must Be the Place

Letterboxd Showdown #210: My favorite films named after a landmark, a neighborhood, a city, a state, a country, or a continent. Rankings reflect my fondness for the movie and how integral the location is to the movie. 

For my related list of movies with titles referring to places I’ve actually traveled, see I’ve Been There

List started 4/14/25

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There are 26 films in this list available on Amazon Video US.

  • Notting Hill

    1

  • The Battle of Algiers

    2

  • Chungking Express

    4

  • Munich

    5

  • In Bruges

    6

  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

    7

  • Brooklyn

    8

  • Belfast

    9

  • Midnight in Paris

    10

  • Fargo

    13

  • The Banshees of Inisherin

    15

  • Letters from Iwo Jima

    16

  • If Beale Street Could Talk

    17

  • The Bridges of Madison County

    19

  • The Bridge on the River Kwai

    20

  • Sing Sing

    21

  • Out of Africa

    22

  • The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

    23

  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

    24

  • West Side Story

    26

  • Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

    27

  • Judgment at Nuremberg

    28

  • Capernaum

    29

  • Chicago

    30

  • Philadelphia

    31

  • Crossing Delancey

    32