List of fictional towns in film

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This is a list of fictional towns and villages in film limited to notable examples.

City Name Film Name Distributor(s) Notes
Amity Island Jaws Universal Pictures The main setting of the film, located in New York on the beach
Alphaville Alphaville Athos Films Alphaville is a dystopian city where secret agent (posing as a journalist) Lemmy Caution arrives on a mission to first find out what happened to his precursor and then, how to destroy the computer Alpha 60 as it controls the whole city.
Brigadoon Brigadoon MGM A miraculously blessed village that rises out of the mists every hundred years for only a day. This is based on a Broadway musical of the same name.
Castle Rock, Maine Cujo
The Dark Half
The Dead Zone
Needful Things
Stand By Me 		Various A fictional city in Maine that is the setting for a number of Stephen King's novels and their respective film adaptations.
Creek Falls Brain Power Studio The entire love story takes place in this town.
Crystal Lake, New Jersey Friday the 13th Paramount Pictures A city where Camp Crystal Lake is located.
Deer Meadow, Washington Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me New Line Cinema A small town in Washington State. In 1988, a body of a teenage girl, Teresa Banks is found in the river, and two FBI agents are sent to investigate the case. Deer Meadow seems to be not so far from Twin Peaks, Washington, the main place in the series (both the 1990 series and 2017 continuation) and the film.
Dillford, Ohio Freaks of Nature Columbia Pictures, LStar Capital and Sony Pictures Releasing Located in the state of Ohio, Dillford is a city known for its population being composed of three different species: humans, zombies and vampires, who initially hate each other, but end up coming together when aliens invade the city and all end up having to face the invaders together.
Emerald City The Wizard of Oz MGM The Emerald City is the capital city of the Land of Oz based on L. Frank Baum's Oz books, first described in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The city is sometimes called the City of Emeralds due to its extensively green architecture.
Green Hills, Montana Sonic the Hedgehog Paramount Pictures The town in which both Sonic and Tom Wachowski live.[1][2] The name is a reference to the iconic Sonic the Hedgehog level Green Hill Zone.[3]
Grouchland The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland Columbia Pictures The main location of the film based on the Sesame Street franchise. Elmo goes to that location where grouches live there, including Grizzy, the founder. The park can be seen in the song Take the First Step where Stuckweed and some woodland creatures sing for Elmo about taking your very first step as a child. When Elmo gets woken up by the Alarm Clock Bird at the beginning of the film, he realizes that he lost his blanket after his friendship with it and has to go to Grouchland to find it. The main location can be seen inside Oscar’s trash can in Sesame Street
Hill Valley, California Back to the Future
Back to the Future Part II
Back to the Future Part III 		Universal Hill Valley, California, is a town that serves as the setting of the Back to the Future trilogy and its animated spin-off series. In the trilogy, Hill Valley is seen in four different time periods (1885, 1955, 1985 and 2015) as well as in a dystopian alternate 1985. The films contain many sight gags, verbal innuendos and detailed set design elements, from which a detailed and consistent history of the area can be derived.

The name "Hill Valley" is itself a joke, being an oxymoron. However, an early script for Back to the Future Part II mentioned that Hill Valley was named after its founder, William "Bill" Hill.

Jonathanland Madison Park Mason Ewing Corporation Created by Mason Ewing, Jonathanland is the city where Baby Madison lives.
Lillian, Ohio Super 8 Paramount Pictures A town in Ohio, where local children find an alien while filming their movie, and where people start experiencing problems with electricity, as well as strange disappearances of some people and electronic items.
Madison, Delaware Goosebumps Columbia Pictures
The Matrix Warner Brothers Mega City is the sprawling, virtual city in which Neo lives to begin the film franchise.
Mega-City One Judge Dredd Various Mega City 1 is an enormous megacity in which the inhabitants of the Judge Dredd universe live. The City is a conglomeration of many cities, fused into one large city with a gigantic downtown and an impressive skyline. It stretches most of the length of the US East coast.
Mill Valley, Pennsylvania Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Lionsgate
Mos Eisley Star Wars 20th Century-Fox Mos Eisley is a spaceport on the planet Tatooine in the Star Wars universe. Described as a "hive of scum and villainy".
Oak Ridge 1986 ABC made-for television movie Oak Ridge is a small American town with a major chemical plant. The plant manager has financial pressure from HQ in Chicago. Shortages and other factors lead to an accident that kills hundreds of people in the town.
Ogden Marsh, Iowa The Crazies Overture Films Ogden Marsh is a small Iowa town with a population of 1,260 people, not so far from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A military plane, that was carrying the samples of a Rhabdovirus called "Trixie", has crashed in the Hopman Bog, contaminating the town's water supply and infecting its citizens, causing them to turn into homicidal killers. Presumably all the population of Ogden Marsh was destroyed by the military, both infected and non-infected; at the end of the film, Ogden Marsh is destroyed by a nuclear explosion, carried out by the military to contain the virus and the truth about it.
Pleasantville Pleasantville Warner Bros. Pleasantville is a black and white 1950s town that is the setting of the in-movie television sitcom Pleasantville.
Portoroso Luca (2021 film) Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar The Italian city was based on the seaside towns in Italy and the main setting of the film.
Pozharnov, Russia DC Extended Universe Warner Bros. Studios Located near Moscow, Pozharnov is a ghost city that has suffered from a nuclear disaster similar to the Chernobyl disaster.
Raccoon City Resident Evil Screen Gems Raccoon City is a small, industrialized city located in the Midwestern United States. It was home to the Umbrella corporation, and main character of the film series, Alice. As in the video game series, it is the birthplace of the infection that eventually consumes the city. Raccoon city is destroyed in the second installment of the films.
Radiator Springs Cars Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Radiator Springs is a composite of multiple places in various states on U.S. Route 66. In Cars (film) its geographic position (as displayed on a map during a flashback) resembles that of Peach Springs, Arizona.
San Miguel Arcángel, Mexico Hell Bandidos Films This Mexican city is the main setting of the 2010 film Hell and this city is notoriously known for its drug trafficking.
Santa Cecilia, Mexico Cars 3 and Coco Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar This Mexican city was inspired by Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico and first appeared in Cars 3 as the birthplace of Gabriel, one of the secondary characters of this movie and is the main setting of 2017 film Coco.
Seabrook Zombies (2018 film) Disney Channel The main setting of the movie franchise; has a strict law where everything must be alike and perfect, and anything different is unacceptable.
Springwood, Ohio A Nightmare on Elm Street New Line Cinema
Twin Peaks, Washington Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me New Line Cinema Twin Peaks, Washington, is the town in David Lynch's 1992 film, a prequel to the television serial drama of the same title.
Waaji City Saaho T-Series A fictional city ruled by gangsters, inspired by Abu Dhabi and Mumbai.[4]
Wardenclyffe, New York Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween Columbia Pictures A fictional city in New York. It was named after the Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham, New York.
Warren Valley, Ohio Trick 'r Treat Warner Bros. Pictures
Westview WandaVision Walt Disney Pictures and Marvel Westview is based on the town of Leonia, New Jersey and the main place of the entire series.
Zion The Matrix Warner Brothers Zion is a city in The Matrix films. It is the last human city on Earth after a cataclysmic nuclear war between humankind and sentient machines, which resulted in artificial lifeforms dominating the world.

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