Movies made in and around Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is becoming the Hollywood of the east with such a variety of locations in and around Pittsburgh.  Movies about areas around Pittsburgh such as Groundhog Day, it's starting to draw filmmakers like a magnet. if you are fan of the big screen chances are you have seen a film made in southwestern Pennsylvania.  We have put together a list of some of these films and books with information on the movie industry and movies made in Pittsburgh Pa.  Also check out our recent DVD releases and original movie posters. Find the next big Pittsburgh movie.
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Pittsburgh movies and books
'Pittsburgh Film History' is the hottest book in the 'Burgh, covering all of the movies and television shows made in the Steel City!  Read all of the unbelievable stories from behind-the-scenes and discover a new side of Pittsburgh with dozens of rare set photos! Don't miss out on this collectors' item for all Pittsburgh lovers and grab your copy today!  View more Books
The Dark Knight Rises: The Official Novelization. Parts of the movie was filmed in Pittsburgh
Unstoppable
By Mark Bomback, and starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine
The Mothman Prophecies tells the story of a man's investigation into the mysterious circumstances surrounding his wife's death.
Wonder Boys
Based on a novel by Michael Chabon, a University of Pittsburgh graduate, this movie stars Michael Douglas and Frances McDormand.
Desperate Measures
A riveting suspense thriller starring Andy Garcia and Michael Keaton.
Diabolique (1996)
Two women, one man. The combination can be a killer.... Sharon Stone is the star of this drama-thriller.
Kingpin
This comedy movie stars Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid and Bill Murray.
  

More movies made in Pittsburgh

Boys On The Side
A perfect entertainment (New York Daily News) teams Whoopi Goldberg, Drew Barrymore and Mary Louise Parker as the unlikeliest of friends on a cross-country journey of discovery.
Sudden Death
In this action film terror goes into overtime in this action movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Powers Boothe.
This romantic comedy stars Melanie Griffith, Ed Harris and Michael Patrick Carter.
Groundhog Day
This classic movie stars Bill Murray stars in this romantic fantasy about a crazy weatherman forced to relive on strange day over and over, until he gets it right.
A psychopath nicknamed Buffalo Bill is murdering women across the Midwest. Believing it takes one to know one, the FBI sends Agent Clarice Starling (Foster) to interview a demented prisoner who may provide clues to the killer's actions. That prisoner is psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hopkins), a brilliant, diabolical cannibal who agrees to help Starling only if she'll feed his morbid curiosity with details of her own complicated life. As their relationship develops, Starling is forced to confront not only her own hidden demons, but also an evil so powerful that she may not have the courage or strength to stop it!

A hit movie that became a cultural sensation, Flashdance delivers an electrifying mix of music, drama and dance that dazzles the senses as it touches the heart. Jennifer Beals stars as Alex Owens, a fiercely determined 18-year-old with one all-consuming dream: to study at the Pittsburgh Conservatory of Dance. Working during the day as a welder and at night as an exotic dancer. Alex bravely pursues her dream, undertaking an unforgettable journey that reveals the power of her convictions and teaches her the meaning of love. Directed by Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction, 9 ½ Weeks) and featuring the Oscar –winning song "Flashdance—What a Feeling," Flashdance is sparkling entertainment.

The short-tempered manager of baseball's struggling Pittsburgh Piratesmends his ways in return for a little divine assistance. With cameos bystars of 1950's baseball.
It's hard to imagine how shocking this film was when it first broke on the film scene in 1968. There's never been anything quite like it, though it's inspired numerous pale imitations. Part of the terror lies in the fact that this one's shot in such a raw, unadorned fashion it feels like a home movie, and all the more authentic for that. Another is that it draws us into its world gradually, content to establish a merely spooky atmosphere before leading us through a horrifically logical progression that we could hardly have anticipated. The story is simple. Radiation from a fallen satellite has caused the dead to walk and hunger for human flesh. Once bitten, you become one of them. And the only way to kill one is by a shot or blow to the head. We follow a group holed up in a small farmhouse to fend off the inevitable onslaught of the dead. And it's the tensions between the members of this unstable, makeshift community that drive the film. Night of the Living Dead establishes its savagery as a necessary condition of life. Marked by fatality and a grim humour, it gnaws through to the bone, then proceeds on to the marrow.--Jim Gay

Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, The Deer Hunter is simultaneously an audacious directorial conceit and one of the greatest films ever made about friendship and the personal impact of war. Like Apocalypse Now, it's hardly a conventional battle film--the soldier's experience was handled with greater authenticity in Platoon--but its depiction of war on an intimate scale packs a devastatingly dramatic punch. Director Michael Cimino may be manipulating our emotions with masterful skill, but he does it in a way that stirs the soul and pinches our collective nerves with graphic, high-intensity scenes of men under life-threatening duress. Although Russian-roulette gambling games were not a common occurrence during the Vietnam war, they're used here as a metaphor for the futility of the war itself. To the viewer, they become unforgettably intense rites of passage for the best friends--Pennsylvania steelworkers played by Robert De Niro, John Savage, and Oscar winner Christopher Walken--who may survive or perish during their tour through a tropical landscape of hell. Back home, their loved ones must cope with the war's domestic impact, and in doing so they allow The Deer Hunter to achieve a rare combination of epic storytelling and intimate, heart-rending drama. --Jeff Shannon
When it arrived on the big screen in 1987, Paul Verhoeven's  RoboCop was like a high-voltage jolt of electricity, blending satire, thrills, and abundant violence with such energized gusto that audiences couldn't help feeling stunned and amazed. The movie was a huge hit, and has since earned enduring cult status as one of the seminal science fiction films of the 1980s. Followed by two sequels, a TV series, and countless novels and comic books, this original RoboCop is still the best by far, largely due to the audacity and unbridled bloodlust of director Verhoeven. However, the reasons many enjoyed the film are also the reasons some will surely wish to avoid it. Critic Pauline Kael called the movie a dubious example of "gallows pulp," and there's no denying that its view of mankind is bleak, depraved, and graphically violent. In the Detroit of the near future, a policeman (Peter Weller) is brutally gunned down by drug-dealing thugs and left for dead, but he survives (half of him, at least) and is integrated with state-of-the-art technology to become a half-robotic cop of the future, designed to revolutionize law enforcement. As RoboCop holds tight to his last remaining shred of humanity, he relentlessly pursues the criminals who "killed" him. All the while, Verhoeven (from a script by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner) injects this high-intensity tale with wickedly pointed humor and satire aimed at the men and media who cover a city out of control. --Jeff Shannon

A grandfather and his grandson find themselves living together as roommates.
Gritty suspenser with Bruce Willis as a smart-alecky Pittsburgh cop who accuses his colleagues of corruption and the framing of a man in a serial murder case, and is demoted to the river patrol for his efforts. Two years later, the killings start again, and this time the culprit is targeting women connected with Willis. With Sarah Jessica Parker, Robert Pastorelli, Brion James. 102 min. 
Amazon review. In this outrageous comedy, Kirk (Jay Baruchel, “Knocked Up”, “Tropic Thunder”), an average guy, can’t believe his luck when the successful and gorgeous babe Molly (Alice Eve, “Sex and the City 2”) falls for him. His smart-ass friends, his crazy family, and even his obnoxious ex-girlfriend are just as shocked as he is. Now, see what the critics are calling a “rowdy blast”* as Kirk goes to great lengths - including some hardcore man-scaping - to make the relationship work and prove that she’s not out of his league.

The fish that saved Pittsburgh With the Dr. in the house, trademark cloud-walking, net-shredding slam dunks are plentiful. More hoops excitement follows as the Harlem Globetrotters' Meadowlark Lemon handles the rock as if he had more arms than an octopus and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar shows his winning style as well. Off the court, Flip Wilson is a beleaguered coach and Jonathan Winters plays the dual roles of an ill-natured mogul and a sweet-natured nitwit. The world isn't round in The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh. It's roundball. Fish fever - hook it!

George Romero's 1978 follow-up to his classic Night of the Living Dead is quite terrifying and gory (those zombies do like the taste of living flesh). But in its own way, it is just as comically satiric as the first film in its take on contemporary values. This time, we follow the fortunes of four people who lock themselves inside a shopping mall to get away from the marauding dead and who then immerse themselves in unabashed consumerism, taking what they want from an array of clothing and jewelry shops, making gourmet meals, etc. It is Romero's take on Louis XVI in the modern world: keep the starving masses at bay and crank up the insulated indulgence. Still, this is a horror film when all is said and done, and even some of Romero's best visual jokes (a Hare Krishna turned blue-skinned zombie) can make you sweat. --Tom Keogh

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