List of media set in San Diego

This is a list of media set in San Diego, California, including media set in either the city of San Diego proper or in surrounding portions of San Diego County.

Novels

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Films

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Feature films
Title Year Ref.
1 Night in San Diego 2020
16-Love 2012 [1]
Above the Tin 2018 [2]
Adalynn 2023 [3]
Almighty Zeus 2022 [4]
Almost Famous 2000 [5][6]
American Sniper 2014 [7]
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 2004 [8]
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues 2013 [8][9]
Antwone Fisher 2001 [6]
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes 1978 [8][10][11]
Babel 2006 [6]
Bang Bang 2011 [12]
Battle Cry 1955
Battle: Los Angeles 2011
Beneath the Leaves 2019 [13]
Beyond the Rocks 1922 [14]
The Big Mouth 1967 [10]
Blame it on the Night 1984 [15]
Blast 2004 [16]
Bloody Wednesday 1988
Borderline 1980 [17]
The Boys in Company C 1978
Bring It On 2000 [18]
The Buildout 2024 [19]
Carbon 2019 [20]
Carving a Life 2017 [21]
The Cell 2000 [22]
Chubasco 1968 [15]
The Coast of Folly 1925 [14]
The Condor 2007
Continuance 2021 [23]
Coronado 1935 [14]
Dangerous Curves 1988
A Day Without a Mexican 2003 [24]
Daydream Hotel 2017 [25]
Demolition Man 1993 [26]
Demon Protocol 2018 [27]
The Devil and Max Devlin 1981 [15]
Devil Dogs of the Air 1935 [14]
Dive Bomber 1941 [14]
Down in San Diego 1941
Driven 2018
Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade 1978
The Endless 2017 [28]
Eternity: The Movie 2014 [29]
Everybody Dies by the End 2022 [30][31][32][33]
The Evil Rises 2018 [34]
Firefox 1982 [15]
Flight Command 1940 [14]
Flight of the Intruder 1990 [35]
The Flying Fleet 1929 [14]
Francis in the Navy 1955 [36]
Freaky Friday 1976 [6][10]
Friend of the World 2020 [10][37]
Frost: Portrait of a Vampire 2002 [38][39][40]
Galloping On 1925 [41]
Ghostline 2015 [42]
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything 1980 [17]
Hacksaw 2020 [43]
Hardcore 1979 [44]
Heaven & Earth 1993 [45]
Hellcats of the Navy 1957 [14]
Hell Divers 1932 [14]
Hot Shots! 1991 [6]
I Am Not a Hipster 2012 [46]
The Immortal Edward Lumley 2013
In the Tall Grass 2019
K-9 1989 [14]
K-9: P.I. 2002 [47]
The Kid from Left Field 1979 [15]
Kung Fu Ghost 2022 [48]
The Last Ride 2004 [49]
Little Nikita 1988 [50]
The Lost World: Jurassic Park 1997 [51]
Love All You Have Left 2017 [52]
Loving Couples 1980 [53]
Lucky Lady 1975
MacArthur 1977 [15]
The Married Virgin 1918 [54]
The Master Chief: Part One 2023 [55]
The Mating Call 1928 [56]
Mega64 Version 4.1: Revengurrection 2021
Midway 1976 [15]
Mighty Oak 2020 [57]
Miracle at Manchester 2022 [58]
Most Likely to Succeed 2015
Mr. Wrong 1996 [14]
Murder and Cocktails 2024 [59]
My Blue Heaven 1990 [60]
My Husband's Wives 1924 [14]
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? 2009 [61][62]
No Man's Land 1987
On the Beach 1959
Only God Knows 2006
Paranormal Activity 2007 [6]
Paranormal Activity 2 2010
Paul 2011
Phantasm 1979 [63]
The Playground 2017 [64]
Poto and Cabengo 1979 [65]
Princess Virtue 1917 [14]
Rampage 2018
Resolution 2012 [66]
Return of the Killer Tomatoes 1988 [67]
Riley 2023 [68]
Runaway Daughters 1994
The Saint 2017
The Samuel Project 2018 [69]
San Diego, I Love You 1944
San Diego Surf 2012
San Diego's Gay Bar History 2018 [70]
Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour 2007 [71]
Satan's Blade 1985 [72]
Scarface 1983 [15]
Scavenger Hunt 1979 [17]
Sharpshooter 2007
Sideways 2004 [73]
Sins of Silence 1996
Skid Marks 2007 [74]
Skin: The Movie 2020
Slaughterhouse 1987 [75]
Sleep Dealer 2008
South of 8 2016 [10][23][76]
Spiker 1986 [15]
The Stunt Man 1980 [10][77]
Surrogates 2009
Sweet Taste of Souls 2020 [78]
Tell It to the Marines 1926
Tentacles 1977 [15]
The Terminators 2009
Thane of East County 2015 [79]
Three Way 2004
A Ticklish Affair 1963 [80]
Tiger Cruise 2004
To Fall in Love 2023
Top Dog 1995 [5]
Top Gun 1986 [77]
Top Gun: Maverick 2022 [81]
Traffic 2000 [6][10]
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 2009 [82]
True to the Navy 1930
The Very Thought of You 1944
Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie 2004
The Walk 2001
The Wedding Hustler 2023 [83]
Who Made the Potatoe Salad? 2006
Wicked, Wicked 1973 [14]
Wings Over Honolulu 1937 [14]
Zipperface 1992
Short films
Title Year Ref.
The $5 Movie 2001
Assumption 2017
"The Case of Evil" 2014 [84]
Daisy Belle 2018 [85]
Deviant 2018 [86]
Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition 1915
The Fifth of November 2018
Fletcher and Jenks 2016
The Flourish 2019
Graduation Afternoon 2021
The Heiress Lethal 2010 [87]
Hush 2016 [88]
The Last Butterflies 2023 [89]
Leave 'Em Laughing 2020
Our Barrio 2016 [90]
The Phantom Hour 2016 [91]
The Power Agent 2020
Pulp Friction 2021
A Rodeo Film 2021 [92]
Things We Dig 2020 [93]
Touch 2022 [94]
Undocumented 2016
We All Die Alone 2021 [95]

TV shows

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Reality shows

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Video games

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Comic books/Manga

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See also

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References

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