Seattle Film History

Filmmakers have been flocking to Seattle ever since the city's film debut in 1933's Tugboat Annie. Seattle has been a backdrop for some of Hollywood's biggest movies and remains among one of the best cities to film in because of our diverse scenery, commitment to arts and culture and experienced local cast, crew and support services.

Film History Timeline

2024

Feature films

Jack in Time for Christmas, Phil Ashton

TV/Episodic

The Bachelorette - Season 21

Mysteries of the Abandoned 

2023

TV/Episodic

Love is Blind - Season 4

2022

Feature films 

Due Justice, Javier Reyna

Finding Bapu, Sudeshna Sen

Know Your Place, Zia Mohajerjasbi

Year of the Fox, Megan Griffiths

TV/Episodic 

Penelope

Top Gear America - Season 2 

Sex Lives of College Girls - Season 2 

2021

Feature films

KIMI, Steven Soderberg

TV/Episodic 

Three Busy Debras - Season 2 

2020

Feature films

The Unforgivable, Nora Findscheidt

2019

Feature films

Malignant, James Wan

Nishabdham, Hermant Madhukar

The Paper Tigers, Quoc Bao Tran

Potato Dreams of America, Wes Hurley

TV/Episodic

Station 19 - Season 3

Three Busy Debras, Anna Dokoza

2018

Feature films

The Art of Racing in the Rain, Simon Curtis

Language Arts, Cornelia Duryee

Thin Skin, Charles Mudede

Super Intelligence, Ben Falcone

Short films

Hunky Boys Go Ding Dong, Todd Rohal

TV/Episodic

Grey's Anatomy Season 15

Station 19 Season 2

2017

Feature films

Prospect, Zeek Earl and Chris Caldwell

Where'd You Go Bernadette, Richard Linklater

TV/Episodic

Grey's Anatomy Season 14

Station 19 Season 1

2016

Feature films

50 Shades Darker, James Foley

Wallflower, Jagger Gravning

TV/Episodic

Automata, Van Alan

The Real World Seattle: Bad Blood

2015

TV/Episodic

Rocketmen, Webster Crowell

2014

Feature films

Beta Test, Nicholas Gyeney

Captain Fantastic, Matt Ross

TV/Episodic

Man in the High Castle

2013

Feature Films

The Architect, Jonathan Parker

A Bit of Bad Luck, John Fuhman

Lucky Them, Megan Griffiths

Laggies, Lynn Shelton

2012

Feature films

Four Minute Mile, Charles-Olivier Michaud

Matt's Chance, Nicholas Gyeney

Pacific Aggression, Shaun Scott

Safety Not Guaranteed, Colin Trevorrow

Touchy Feely, Lynn Shelton

You Can't Win, Robinson Devor

TV/Episodic

Top Chef - Season 10

2011

Feature films

21 and Over, Jon Lucas and Scott Moore

Desert Cathedral, Travis Senger

Eden, Megan Griffiths

Fat Kids Rule the World, Matthew Lillard

Mine Games, Richard Gray

Wheedles Groove, Jennifer Maas

Short films

While You Weren't Looking, Jeremy Mackie

2010

Feature films

Grassroots, Stephen Gyllenhaal

Judas Kiss, J.T. Tepnapa

Late Autumn, Kim Tae-yong

Nothing Against Life, Julio Ramirez

Rogue Saints, Adam Lubanski

1982

Feature films 

Coming Out of the Ice, Waris Hussein 

The Fighter, David Lowell Rich

Plaza Suite, Harvey Medlinksky

The Prodigal, James F. Collier

Thursday's Child, David Lowell Rich

War Games, John Badham

1990s

1999

Feature films

Get Carter, Stephen T. Kay

Highway, James Cox

Preston Tylk, Jon Bokenkamp

TV/Episodic

Cold Feet

1998

Feature films 

Book of Stars, Michael Miner

Ten Things I Hate About You, Gil Junger

TV/Episodic

The Real World: Seattle

1997

Feature films 

Delivered, Guy Ferland

Practical Magic, Griffin Dunne

Under Heaven, Meg Richman

TV/Episodic

Frasier "The 1000th Show" 

1996

Feature films 

Black Circle Boys, Matthew Carnahan

Dark Drive, Phillip J. Roth

Hype!, Doug Pray

Prefontaine, Steve James

The Sixth Man, Randall Miller

TV/Episodic

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Pandora's Clock

1995

Feature films

Assassins, Richard Donner

Eden, Howard Goldberg

The Rich Man's Wife, Amy Holden Jones

Slaves to the Underground, Kristine Peterson 

TV/Episodic

Under One Roof

1994

Feature films

Born to Be Wild, John Gray

Disclosure, Barry Levinson

Georgia, Ulu Grosbard

Mad Love, Antonia Bird

Threat of Innocence, Michael Switzer

TV/Episodic

Medicine Ball

1993

Feature films 

Little Buddha, Bernardo Bertolucci

1992

Feature films 

Better Off Dead, Neema Barnette

The Danger of Love, Joyce Chopra

Sleepless in Seattle, Nora Ephron 

The Vanishing, George Sluizer

With a Vengeance, Michael Switzer

1991

Feature films 

American Heart, Martin Bell

Crazy in Love, Martha Coolidge

Face of a Stranger, Claudia Weill 

The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, Curtis Hanson 

Singles, Cameron Crowe

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, David Lynch 

1990

Feature filmes

Dogfight, Nancy Savoca

To Cross the Rubicon, Barry Caillier

She'll Take Romance, Piers Haggard

1980s

1989

Feature films

Comes See the Paradise, Alan Parker

The Fabulous Baker Boys, Steve Kloves

Ghost Dad, Sidney Poitier

1988

Feature films 

Third Degree Burn, Roger Spottiswoode

Class of 1999, Mark L. Lester

Catchfire, Dennis Hopper

Shredder Orpheus, Robert McGinley

Say Anything, Cameron Crowe

1987

Feature films 

Daredreamer, Barry Caillier

Plain Clothes, Martha Coolidge

Seven Hours to Judgement, Beau Bridges

Stamp of a Killer, Larry Elikann

The Stepfather, Joseph Ruben

TV/Episodic

A Year in the Life

1986

Feature films 

Black Widow, Bob Rafelson

Harry and the Hendersons, William Dear

House of Games, David Mamet 

Nutcracker, Carroll Ballard

Starman, John Carpenter

1985

Feature films 

Dark Mansions, Jerry London

Power, Sidney Lumet

The Rape of Richard Beck, Karen Arthur

Trouble in Mind, Alan Rudolph

1984

Feature films 

Twice in a Lifetime, Bud Yorkin

TV/Episodic 

Hot Pursuit

Murder She Wrote 

1982

Feature films 

Coming Out of the Ice, Waris Hussein 

The Fighter, David Lowell Rich

Plaza Suite, Harvey Medlinksky

The Prodigal, James F. Collier

Thursday's Child, David Lowell Rich

War Games, John Badham

1981

Feature films

An Officer and a Gentleman, Taylor Hackford

Bustin' Loose, Oz Scott

Divorce Wars: A Love Story, Donald Wrye

Frances, Graeme Clifford

An Innocent Love, Roger Young

1980

Feature films 

An Act of Love, Jud Taylor

Barefoot in the Park, Harvey Medlinksky

Bombs Away, Bruce Wilson 

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Leonard Nimoy

1970s

Feature films

The Changeling, Peter Medak

Cinderella Liberty, Mark Rydell 

Eleanor and Franklin, Daniel Petrie

Harry in Your Pocket, Bruce Geller

HIT, Sidney J. Furie

Joyride, Joseph Ruben

The Lives of Jenny Dolan, Jerry Jameson

MC Q, John Sturges

The Night Strangler, Dan Curtis

99 and 44/100% Dead!, John Frankenheimer

The Parallax View, Alan J. Pakula

Reflections of Murder, John Badham

Scorchy, Howard Hikmet Avedis

Sweet Revenge, Jerry Schatzberg

Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy, Richard T. Heffron

TV/Episodic

The Last Convertible 

The Magician 

1960s

Feature films 

It Happened at the World's Fair, Norman Taurog

The Slender Thread, Sydney Pollack

Feature Films

You Came Along, John Farrow

Feature Films

Tugboat Annie, Mervyn LeRoy

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