Many famous filming locations are becoming major tourist attractions and this book features information on locations for over 1500 films. Entries for each film include a description of key scenes shot at the location, along with travel details and insights into what the place is really like.

For all those fans who wonder where their favorite movies were filmed or what it would be like to visit the sites, this book is the ultimate resource. It features information on blockbuster, cult, and art house favorites from Saturday Night Fever to Men in Black, from Belle du Jour to Ben Hur. The entries for individual films include brief descriptions of key scenes shot at the location, travel details, photographs, film stills, behind-the-scenes information, and insights as to what these places are really like. Also included are full-color features on major sites of special interest—Vertigo’s San Francisco, Woody Allen’s Manhattan, and a world Star Wars tour, among others—along with more obscure locations that have become sought-after travel destinations simply because of their connection to the movies.

World Film Locations: New York is a visually compelling and incisively written examination, and celebration, of New York's unique place in cinema. Essays focusing on quintessential New York filmmakers like Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and those of the Beat movement are presented alongside others on key features of the New York landscape and role of the city in the imaginations of filmmakers and viewers. Over 45 reviews of location-specific scenes from films made and set in New York present a varied and thought-provoking collage of the city onscreen. Some scenes are iconic - King Kong scaling the Empire State Building - while others show the often un-discussed extent of New York's role in filmmaking. The book is illustrated throughout with evocative, scene-specific screengrabs, stills of filming locations as they appear now and city maps that include location information for those keen to follow the 'cinematic trail' of this most photographed city, making World Film Locations: New York a guide for film fans wishing to tour New York either physically or in the imagination.

Rome is a city rich in history and culture and imbued with a realism and romanticism that has captured the imaginations of filmmakers throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. With over two and a half thousand years of continuing history, Rome has served as the setting for countless memorable films, creating a backdrop that spans all genres and emotions. World Film Locations: Rome takes the reader on a cinematic journey through the city with stops at key locations that include the Pantheon, Piazza Navona, Via Veneto, Piazza del Popolo, Sant’Angelo Bridge and, of course, the Trevi Fountain, made famous world-wide in its appearances in Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and Jean Negulesco’s Three Coins in the Fountain. A carefully selected compilation of forty-five key films set in Rome, including The Belly of an Architect, The Facts of Murder, The Bicycle Thief, Roman Holiday and The Great Beauty, is complemented by essays that further examine the relationship between the city and cinema to provide an engaging, colourful and insightful page-turning journey for both travellers and film buffs alike.

A guide to London locations used in movies. It covers the whole of the metropolis area by area. It includes 'then' and 'now' photographs - stills from the films and the same locations photographed later; others show the locations mentioned in the text. The films featured include "Notting Hill", "Love Actually", "Patriot Games", and others.

From Notting Hill, to Lock, Stock, James Bond, An American Werewolf in London, Bridget Jones's Diary and Harry Potter - London is one of the greatest cities in cinema. Now, following the unprecedented success of The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations, Titan Books is proud to present what is - amazingly - the first ever dedicated guide to movie locations in London and the South East. The first in a major new series of movie location city guides, London includes full-colour features on major locations and is packed with anecdotes, behind-the-scenes information and everything the traveller needs to know, but all with a movie-related slant. It also contains a brief introduction to the city and its place in film history, maps of walks around different areas, details about key yearly festivals and events, such as the London Film Festival, and an index of film titles.