List of films set in Houston

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Part or all of these movies/shows take place in Houston, Texas and/or the surrounding area:

Hellfighters (1968) with John Wayne
Brewster McCloud (1970) - first film to be filmed inside the Astrodome
The Getaway (1972) - filmed in Huntsville, Texas
The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973) - set and filmed in Houston
Sugar Hill (1974 film) (1974)- set and filmed in Houston
The Sugarland Express (1974) - filmed on location at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Inmate Division Jester III Unit in Sugar Land, Texas
Rollerball (1975) - Set in Houston but filmed in Bavaria, Germany
Logan's Run (1976) - filmed inside the Houston Hyatt Regency
Futureworld (1976) - filmed at the Johnson Space Center facilities
Telefon (1977) - set in Houston but filmed on a Hollywood backlot, parts of Los Angeles and inside the Hyatt Regency located at 5 Embarcadero in San Francisco, California)
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977)
Murder At The World Series (1977) - made-for-TV film
The Swarm (1978)
Urban Cowboy (1980)
Texas (1980-1982) - Daytime soap opera, a spinoff of Another World
Murder In Texas (1981) - made-for-TV film
Student Bodies (1981)
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) - Character played by Dom DeLuise was based on KTRK personality Marvin Zindler
Terms of Endearment (1982)
Uncommon Valor (1983) - Set in Houston, filmed in California
Cutter to Houston (1984)
Paris, Texas (1984)
The Trip to Bountiful (1984) - Set in Houston but filmed in Dallas, Texas
Houston Knights (1987-1988)
My Best Friend Is A Vampire (1988)
Twins (1988) - Sale of engine set in Houston
A Tiger's Tale (1988) - Rose's house was in League City, Texas
Cohen and Tate (1989)
Night Game (1989) - filmed in Galveston, Texas
I Come In Peace (1990)
RoboCop 2 (1990)- Filmed in Houston
Sidekicks (1992)
A Perfect World (1993) - Filmed in Huntsvile, Texas
Jason's Lyric (1994)
Reality Bites (1994)
The Chase (1994) - Filmed all throughout the Rice Village Area
Thea (1994)
Apollo 13 (1995)
Independence Day (1996) - Houston is destroyed by a nuclear missile
Tin Cup (1996) - Final tournament shot in Kingwood, Texas
SubUrbia {1996) - Filmed in Houston, Set in Austin, Texas
The Evening Star (1996)
Don't Look Back (1996) - filmed in Galveston, Texas
Selena (1997) - Selena's final concert scene set in the Astrodome, but filmed in San Antonio, Texas
Armageddon (1998 film) (1998) - filmed at the Johnson Space Center facilities
Rushmore (1998) - written and directed by Houstonian Wes Anderson and filmed at his alma mater - St. John's School
Dance With Me (1998)
Arlington Road (1999)
2000 WNBA Champions - Houston Comets (2000)
Space Cowboys (2000)
Reba (2001-) - set in Houston but filmed in Los Angeles
Texas Justice (2001-) - Filmed in Houston
Houston Medical (2002)
The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron (2003) - Set in Houston, but filmed in Canada
Animal Cops: Houston (2003)
Right on Track (2003) - Disney Channel Movie set in Houston, but filmed in Utah
Where's the Party Yaar? (2003)
Friday Night Lights (2004) (In the book and real life events, the final game of the Permian High School Team is played at The University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas not the Astrodome of Houston)
14 Hours (2005) - Made-for-TV film set in Houston, but filmed in Canada
Volver (2006) - Houston is mentioned briefly several times by a woman with cancer as a place where "they cure everything there".

Though Houston and its suburbs are a prime spot for the filming of movies, the storylines do not usually include the story taking place in the city. (For example, The Chase (1994), was filmed entirely in Houston.)