Cinema in and near San Francisco, CA

In San Francisco, movies are always right around the corner. Sometimes you’ll find them playing in an old-fashioned San Francisco theatre, but just as often you’ll find them in the places you least expect. A stroll through the city can quickly turn into a stroll through cinema history; on Drumm Street, you might flash back to a certain iconic scene from Dirty Harry, while Fisherman’s Wharf might evoke memories of Steve McQueen’s 1968 Ford Mustang GT peeling out in Bullitt. In any case, it’s clear that San Francisco tourist attractions aren’t limited to cable cars and Alcatraz—not when so much of the city is recognizable in cinematic love letters by Hitchcock, Coppola, and others.