List of films set in Houston

Part or all of these movies/shows either take place, or are set, in Houston, Texas or the surrounding area:

• 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 and Jones Hall
• 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)
• Local Hero (1983) Filmed in Houston and Scotland
• 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)
• Pray for Death (1985) - Set and filmed in Houston
• Forever Evil (1987) – filmed in Houston and Coldspring, Texas
• Houston Knights (1987–1988)
• My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1988)
• 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
• City of Joy (1994) Set in Houston, never filmed there
• Jason's Lyric (1994)
• Thea (TV series) (1994)
• Apollo 13 (1995) Johnson Space Center
• The Evening Star (1996) - Sequel to Terms of Endearment (1982)
• 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)
• Mercy (film) (2000)
• Space Cowboys (2000)
• Reba (2001-) – set in Houston but filmed in Los Angeles
• Texas Justice (2001-) – Filmed in Houston
• Pearl Harbor (2001) - San Jacinto Battlefield State Memorial Site
• 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)
• Suburban Madness (2004) Details the Clara Harris story.
• 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)
• Mao's Last Dancer (2009) - Drama about the life of ballet dancer Li Cunxin. Filmed in Houston at the China Garden Restaurant and JP Morgan Chase Tower downtown, Miller Outdoor Theatre in Hermann Park, and the Wortham Theater Center downtown. Mostly filmed in Australia and Najing Province, China.
• Tree of Life (2011) – shot in Houston and other cities in Texas starring Sean Penn and Brad Pitt
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
• Boyhood (2013) – (upcoming) directed by Richard Linklater, filming began in 2001

External links

• Internet Movie Database – Titles with locations including Houston, Texas, USA