List of films set in Washington, D.C.

This is a list of feature films set in Washington, D.C.

Released Title Director Comments Filmed in DC
2022 The 355 Simon Kinberg checkY
2009 2012 Roland Emmerich [1] checkY
1997 Absolute Power Clint Eastwood checkY
2023 Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
2015 Accidental Love David O. Russell checkY
2016 The Accountant Gavin O'Connor
1962 Advise & Consent Otto Preminger Main Setting [2] checkY
2018 Affairs of State Eric Bross
1997 Air Force One Wolfgang Petersen [1] checkY
1976 All the President's Men Alan J. Pakula Main Setting, National Film Registry[3] checkY
2016 All the Way Jay Roach Main Setting
2001 Along Came a Spider Lee Tamahori
1995 The American President Rob Reiner Main Setting [4] checkY
1997 Amistad Steven Spielberg
2019 Angel Has Fallen Ric Roman Waugh
1982 Annie John Huston
2015 Ant-Man Peyton Reed
2012 Argo Ben Affleck [5] checkY
1999 Arlington Road Mark Pellington Main Setting [1] checkY
1998 Armageddon Michael Bay checkY
1992 Article 99 Howard Deutch
1987 Assassination Peter R. Hunt
2020 The Banker George Nolfi
2016 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Zack Snyder checkY
2012 Battleship Peter Berg
1996 Beavis and Butt-Head Do America Mike Judge
1979 Being There Hal Ashby Main Setting, National Film Registry[6] checkY
1999 Bicentennial Man Chris Columbus
1977 Billy Jack Goes to Washington Tom Laughlin Main Setting
2009 Black Dynamite Scott Sanders
1977 Black Sunday John Frankenheimer
2022 Blacklight Mark Williams checkY
2013 Blue Caprice Alexandre Moors
2008 Body of Lies Ridley Scott checkY
1992 Boomerang Reginald Hudlin
2008 Borat Larry Charles checkY
1950 Born Yesterday George Cukor National Film Registry checkY
1993 Born Yesterday Luis Mandoki
2012 The Bourne Legacy Tony Gilroy
2007 Breach Billy Ray Main Setting [5] checkY
2015 Bridge of Spies Steven Spielberg
1987 Broadcast News James L. Brooks Main Setting National Film Registry[3] checkY
2008 Burn After Reading Joel Coen, Ethan Coen [3] checkY
2013 The Butler Lee Daniels Main Setting
1995 Canadian Bacon Michael Moore
1972 The Candidate Michael Ritchie
2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier Anthony Russo, Joe Russo Main Setting [3] checkY
2010 Casino Jack George Hickenlooper
1996 Chain Reaction Andrew Davis checkY
1989 Chances Are Emile Ardolino Main Setting [4] checkY
2007 Charlie Wilson's War Mike Nichols
2004 Chasing Liberty Andy Cadiff checkY
1994 Clear and Present Danger Phillip Noyce [1] checkY
2002 Collateral Damage Andrew Davis checkY
2015 Concussion Peter Landesman
1997 Contact Robert Zemeckis checkY
2000 The Contender Rod Lurie Main Setting
2003 The Core Jon Amiel
1996 Courage Under Fire Edward Zwick checkY
1955 The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell Otto Preminger
1947 Crossfire Edward Dmytryk
1983 D.C. Cab Joel Schumacher Main Setting checkY
1958 Damn Yankees George Abbott, Stanley Donen checkY
1983 Daniel Sidney Lumet
1993 Dave Ivan Reitman Main Setting [4] checkY
2004 The Day After Tomorrow Roland Emmerich [1] checkY
1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still Robert Wise National Film Registry[1] checkY
1998 Deep Impact Mimi Leder [5] checkY
2004 The Defender Dolph Lundgren
1999 Dick Andrew Fleming Main Setting [5] checkY
1990 Die Hard 2 Renny Harlin [1]
1992 The Distinguished Gentleman Jonathan Lynn
1991 Doc Hollywood Michael Caton-Jones
2021 Don't Look Up Adam McKay checkY
2011 The Double Michael Brandt checkY
1944 The Doughgirls James V. Kern
1964 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Stanley Kubrick Main Setting National Film Registry
1994 Drop Zone John Badham
2004 Eagle Eye D. J. Caruso checkY
1956 Earth vs. the Flying Saucers Fred F. Sears [1]
2013 The East Zal Batmanglij checkY
2006 Eight Below Frank Marshall
1999 Election Alexander Payne checkY
2016 Elvis & Nixon Liza Johnson
2002 The Emperor's Club Michael Hoffman
2006 End Game Andy Cheng
1998 Enemy of the State Tony Scott [3] checkY
1996 Eraser Chuck Russell checkY
2007 Evan Almighty Tom Shadyac checkY
1973 Executive Action David Miller
1996 Executive Decision Stuart Baird
1973 The Exorcist William Friedkin Main Setting, National Film Registry, see Exorcist steps[3] checkY
1990 The Exorcist III William Peter Blatty checkY
1964 Fail Safe Sidney Lumet
2010 Fair Game Doug Liman checkY
2011 Fast Five Justin Lin
1951 FBI Girl William A. Berke
1959 The FBI Story Mervyn LeRoy
1992 A Few Good Men Rob Reiner [3] checkY
1980 The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu Piers Haggard
2013 The Fifth Estate Bill Condon
1993 The Firm Sydney Pollack checkY
2004 First Daughter Forest Whitaker
1980 First Family Buck Henry
1996 First Kid David M. Evans checkY
1948 For the Love of Mary Frederick de Cordova
1994 Forrest Gump Robert Zemeckis National Film Registry[3] checkY
1971 The French Connection William Friedkin National Film Registry checkY
2008 Frost/Nixon Ron Howard
1997 G.I. Jane Ridley Scott checkY
2013 G.I. Joe: Retaliation Jon M. Chu [1] checkY
2009 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Stephen Sommers
1933 Gabriel Over the White House Gregory La Cava
2019 Georgetown Christoph Waltz Main Setting
2017 Geostorm Dean Devlin
1996 Get on the Bus Spike Lee
2008 Get Smart Peter Segal Main Setting checkY
2023 Ghosted Dexter Fletcher Main Setting checkY
2012 Goats Christopher Neil
1974 The Godfather Part II Francis Ford Coppola National Film Registry checkY
2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters Michael Dougherty
2013 A Good Day to Die Hard John Moore
2006 The Good Shepherd Robert De Niro checkY
1986 Good to Go Blaine Novak
1943 Government Girl Dudley Nichols
2022 The Gray Man Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
1978 The Greek Tycoon J. Lee Thompson
2001 Hannibal Ridley Scott checkY
2011 Haywire Steven Soderbergh
2003 Head of State Chris Rock checkY
1986 Heartburn Mike Nichols
2000 Hollow Man Paul Verhoeven checkY
1980 Hopscotch Ronald Neame
1997 The House of Yes Mark Waters
1958 Houseboat Melville Shavelson checkY
2010 How Do You Know James L. Brooks checkY
2018 Hunter Killer Donovan Marsh
1997 I Think I Do Brian Sloan
2016 I.T. Melville Shavelson
2006 Idiocracy Mike Judge Main Setting
1993 In the Line of Fire Wolfgang Petersen checkY
2009 In the Loop Armando Iannucci Main Setting checkY
1996 Independence Day Roland Emmerich [1] checkY
2016 Independence Day: Resurgence Roland Emmerich
2007 The Invasion Oliver Hirschbiegel checkY
2019 The Irishman Martin Scorsese
2010 Iron Man 2 Jon Favreau
2013 Iron Man 3 Shane Black
2020 Irresistible Jon Stewart
2011 J. Edgar Clint Eastwood Main Setting checkY
2016 Jack Reacher: Never Go Back Edward Zwick checkY
2014 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Kenneth Branagh
1997 The Jackal Michael Caton-Jones checkY
2016 Jackie Pablo Larraín Main Setting checkY
2016 Jason Bourne Paul Greengrass checkY
1991 JFK Oliver Stone [2] checkY
2010 Jonah Hex Jimmy Hayward [1]
1938 Judge Hardy's Children George B. Seitz
2014 Kill the Messenger Michael Cuesta checkY
2014 Kingsman: The Secret Service Matthew Vaughn
2017 Kingsman: The Golden Circle Matthew Vaughn
1997 Kiss the Girls Gary Fleder
1964 Kisses for My President Curtis Bernhardt
2017 Kong: Skull Island Jordan Vogt-Roberts
1944 Ladies of Washington Louis King
1973 The Last Detail Hal Ashby checkY
2019 The Last Full Measure Todd Robinson checkY
2016 LBJ Rob Reiner checkY
2003 Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde Charles Herman-Wurmfeld Main Setting
2013 Life of a King Jake Goldberger
2012 Lincoln Steven Spielberg Main Setting
2007 Lions for Lambs Robert Redford Main Setting checkY
2007 Live Free or Die Hard Len Wiseman [1] checkY
1992 Live Wire Christian Duguay
2012 Lockout James Mather, Stephen Saint Leger
1976 Logan's Run Michael Anderson [1]
2016 London Has Fallen Babak Najafi
1939 The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt Peter Godfrey
2019 Long Shot Jonathan Levine
2010 Lost Boys: The Thirst Dario Piana
2016 Loving Jeff Nichols
2010 MacGruber Jorma Taccone
1946 Magnificent Doll Frank Borzage
1955 A Man Called Peter Henry Koster
1983 The Man Who Wasn't There Bruce Malmuth
1985 The Man with One Red Shoe Stan Dragoti
1972 The Man Joseph Sargent
1986 Manhunter Michael Mann checkY
1962 The Manchurian Candidate John Frankenheimer checkY
2004 The Manchurian Candidate Jonathan Demme [5] checkY
1996 Mars Attacks! Tim Burton [1] checkY
2002 The Master of Disguise Perry Andelin Blake
2021 The Mauritanian Kevin Macdonald checkY
2007 Max 2: White House Hero Brian Levant
1936 A Message to Garcia George Marshall
1979 Meteor Ronald Neame
1993 The Meteor Man Robert Townsend
2002 Minority Report Steven Spielberg Main Setting [3] checkY
2016 Miss Sloane John Madden
1943 Mission to Moscow Michael Curtiz
2015 Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Christopher McQuarrie
1943 The More the Merrier George Stevens
1987 Morgan Stewart's Coming Home Alan Smithee
2002 The Mothman Prophecies Mark Pellington checkY
1939 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Frank Capra Main Setting, National Film Registry checkY
1997 Murder at 1600 Dwight H. Little Main Setting checkY
1996 My Fellow Americans Peter Segal checkY
2020 My Spy Peter Segal
1991 The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear David Zucker checkY
1995 National Lampoon's Senior Trip Kelly Makin
2004 National Treasure Jon Turteltaub Main Setting,[3] checkY
2007 National Treasure: Book of Secrets Jon Turteltaub checkY
1990 Navy SEALs Lewis Teague
1995 The Net Irwin Winkler checkY
2009 Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian Shawn Levy Main Setting,[3] checkY
1995 Nixon Oliver Stone Main Setting checkY
1987 No Way Out Roger Donaldson Main Setting[3] checkY
2014 Non-Stop Jaume Collet-Serra
2008 Nothing but the Truth Rod Lurie
2013 Olympus Has Fallen Antoine Fuqua Main Setting[1]
1976 The Omen Richard Donner
2023 Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan
2013 Parkland Peter Landesman
1992 Patriot Games Phillip Noyce checkY
2001 Pearl Harbor Michael Bay
1993 The Pelican Brief Alan J. Pakula [4] checkY
1996 The People vs. Larry Flynt Miloš Forman
2013 Philomena Stephen Frears checkY
2015 Pixels Chris Columbus checkY
1959 Plan 9 from Outer Space Ed Wood checkY
2001 Planet of the Apes Tim Burton [1] checkY
1993 Point of No Return John Badham
2017 The Post Steven Spielberg Main Setting checkY
1986 Power Sidney Lumet
1934 The President Vanishes William A. Wellman
1967 The President's Analyst Theodore J. Flicker
1998 Primary Colors Mike Nichols
1977 The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover Larry Cohen
1997 Private Parts Betty Thomas checkY
1984 Protocol Herbert Ross
2016 The Purge: Election Year James DeMonaco
1994 Quiz Show Robert Redford checkY
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark Steven Spielberg National Film Registry checkY
2002 Red Dragon Brett Ratner checkY
1935 Red Salute Sidney Lanfield
2007 Rendition Gavin Hood checkY
2019 The Report Scott Z. Burns Main Setting
2012 Resident Evil: Retribution Paul W. S. Anderson
2023 The Retirement Plan Tim Brown
1983 The Right Stuff Philip Kaufman National Film Registry
2014 RoboCop José Padilha
1996 The Rock Michael Bay
1992 Running Mates Michael Lindsay-Hogg
2023 Rustin George C. Wolfe Main Setting checkY
2010 Salt Phillip Noyce checkY
1940 Santa Fe Trail Michael Curtiz
2003 Scary Movie 3 David Zucker checkY
1973 Scorpio Michael Winner
1946 The Searching Wind William Dieterle
1979 The Seduction of Joe Tynan Jerry Schatzberg
2006 The Sentinel Clark Johnson checkY
1918 The Service Star Charles Miller
1964 Seven Days in May John Frankenheimer [6] checkY
1985 Seven Minutes in Heaven Linda Feferman
1997 Shadow Conspiracy George P. Cosmatos checkY
2003 Shattered Glass Billy Ray Main Setting checkY
1943 Sherlock Holmes in Washington Roy William Neill
1998 The Siege Edward Zwick [1]
1991 The Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme National Film Registry checkY
2007 The Simpsons Movie David Silverman
1998 Slam Marc Levin [6]
1943 So This Is Washington Ray McCarey
1956 The Solid Gold Cadillac Richard Quine
2020 Sonic the Hedgehog Jeff Fowler
2017 Spider-Man: Homecoming Jon Watts [3] checkY
2019 Spies in Disguise Troy Quane, Nick Bruno
2001 Spy Game Tony Scott checkY
1985 St. Elmo's Fire Joel Schumacher Main Setting [4] checkY
2009 State of Play Kevin Macdonald Main Setting [3] checkY
2005 Stealth Rob Cohen
1999 Storm Catcher Tony Hickox
1951 Strangers on a Train Alfred Hitchcock [2] checkY
1998 Streetwise Bruce Brown
2016 Suicide Squad David Ayer
2002 The Sum of All Fears Phil Alden Robinson checkY
1980 Superman II Richard Lester [1]
1987 Suspect Peter Yates checkY
2005 Syriana Stephen Gaghan checkY
2007 Talk to Me Kasi Lemmons
2004 Team America: World Police Trey Parker
2013 Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor Tyler Perry
1927 A Texas Steer Richard Wallace
2005 Thank You for Smoking Jason Reitman Main Setting [2] checkY
1943 They Got Me Covered David Butler
1952 The Thief Russell Rouse
2000 Thirteen Days Roger Donaldson Main Setting checkY
1975 Three Days of the Condor Sydney Pollack Main Setting [3] checkY
1992 Thunderheart Michael Apted
1994 Timecop Peter Hyams
1972 Top of the Heap Christopher St. John
1970 Tora! Tora! Tora! Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda, Kinji Fukasaku checkY
2000 Traffic Steven Soderbergh checkY
2007 Transformers Michael Bay checkY
2011 Transformers: Dark of the Moon Michael Bay checkY
2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Michael Bay checkY
2017 Transformers: The Last Knight Michael Bay
1994 True Lies James Cameron Main Setting [4] checkY
2015 Trumbo Jay Roach
2018 Uncle Drew Charles Stone III
1916 The Velvet Paw Maurice Tourneur
2018 Vice Adam McKay Main Setting checkY
2008 W. Oliver Stone Main Setting
1997 Wag the Dog Barry Levinson Main Setting [3] checkY
2007 The Walker Paul Schrader
1942 The War Against Mrs. Hadley Harold S. Bucquet
1932 Washington Merry-Go-Round James Cruze
1943 Watch on the Rhine Herman Shumlin
2009 Watchmen Zack Snyder
2005 Wedding Crashers David Dobkin Main Setting [3] checkY
1973 The Werewolf of Washington Milton Moses Ginsberg
1964 What a Way to Go! J. Lee Thompson
1951 When Worlds Collide Rudolph Maté
2013 White House Down Roland Emmerich Main Setting [1] checkY
1967 Who's Minding the Mint? Howard Morris
1999 Wild Wild West Barry Sonnenfeld
1945 Without Love Harold S. Bucquet
2021 Without Remorse Stefano Sollima checkY
2020 Wonder Woman 1984 Patty Jenkins Main Setting [3] checkY
2021 Worth Sara Colangelo
1998 The X-Files Rob Bowman
2008 The X-Files: I Want to Believe Chris Carter
2000 X-Men Bryan Singer
2016 X-Men: Apocalypse Bryan Singer
2014 X-Men: Days of Future Past Bryan Singer [1]
2011 X-Men: First Class Matthew Vaughn checkY
2003 X2 Bryan Singer
2005 XXX: State of the Union Lee Tamahori checkY
1942 Yankee Doodle Dandy Michael Curtiz National Film Registry checkY
2012 Zero Dark Thirty Kathryn Bigelow
2009 Zombieland Ruben Fleischer
2019 Zombieland: Double Tap Ruben Fleischer

References[edit]

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