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As Sacramento and The Ballad of Wallis Island release in the cool world of theaters, this Showdown is all about location, location, location. If you 🎹 wanna be a part of it 🎹, make your own atlas by listing your ten favorite films named after a landmark, a neighborhood, a city, a state, a country, even a continent. One rule: it must be a specific place. This means no No Country for Old Men, no Nomadland, no North by Northwest. Also, while there are scores of stories titled after spots in filmmaking hubs like Los Angeles and New York, we encourage you to go more global! If you need a road map, explore these lists by Energetic_nova, HDorrittie and Logan (though keep in mind that not everything in these lists are eligible—looking at you, Dune).

  • Hiroshima Mon Amour
  • Harlan County U.S.A.
  • Bull Durham
  • Nashville
  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  • Cedar Rapids
  • Rio Bravo
  • Casablanca
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • Tokyo Story
  • American Fiction
  • The African Queen
  • From Here to Eternity
  • Cimarron
  • A Tale of Two Cities
  • How Green Was My Valley
  • The Palm Beach Story
  • A Canterbury Tale
  • Meet Me in St. Louis
  • Miracle on 34th Street
  • Red River
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • An American in Paris
  • On the Waterfront
  • Around the World in Eighty Days
  • Gidget Goes Hawaiian
  • The Young Girls of Rochefort
  • The French Connection
  • Last Tango in Paris
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
  • Grey Gardens
  • Escape from New York
  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
  • Beverly Hills Cop
  • Out of Africa
  • The Manhattan Project
  • Raising Arizona
  • Amazon Women on the Moon
  • Good Morning, Vietnam
  • Tombstone
  • Rumble in the Bronx
  • Fargo
  • L.A. Confidential
  • Arlington Road
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Gosford Park
  • Sunshine State
  • Sweet Home Alabama
  • Chicago
  • Gangs of New York
  • Northfork
  • The Triplets of Belleville
  • Garden State
  • North Country
  • Green Street Hooligans
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • Reno 911!: Miami
  • The Darjeeling Limited
  • Synecdoche, New York
  • Moon
  • Meek's Cutoff
  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
  • Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
  • The Queen of Versailles
  • The Trip to Italy
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Brooklyn
  • Sing Street
  • 10 Cloverfield Lane
  • La La Land
  • The Trip to Spain
  • Chernobyl
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7
  • The French Dispatch
  • Asteroid City
  • The Philadelphia Story
  • Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
  • Mutiny on the Bounty
  • The Wizard of Oz
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • Alice in Wonderland
  • Roman Holiday
  • The Spirit of St. Louis
  • American Graffiti
  • Chinatown
  • Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
  • The Secret of NIMH
  • National Lampoon's European Vacation
  • The Jewel of the Nile
  • Harlem Nights
  • Philadelphia
  • Murder at 1600
  • The Man from Elysian Fields
  • Bowling for Columbine
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  • Hotel Rwanda
  • Munich
  • Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
  • The Good German
  • In Bruges