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Dead Man's Shoes is the big one for me in Matlock.
Quite poignant for me too, spending a bit of time growing up on the estate where most of it was filmed.
Other than that, there was the Princess Bride around Haddon Hall and probs quite a few period dramas around there/Chatsworth
I was born in Sheffield, so there's a bit to choose from there too. Threads (which I've never seen) and When Saturday Comes to name a couple
Not films but telly, Juliet Bravo and Brassic in Bacup. Not sure the second one is something to be proud of....
Not having a home town to speak of, how about something filmed near where I live?
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Main one for me would be Kes
The League of Gentlemen... well, technically just over the hill in sunny Hadfield, but more than close enough I reckon. You'll never leave. But I did.
Technically I guess not a 'film' however.
Human Traffic is a big one, well one that was filmed here and was actually set here, usually we get to double up for cooler city.
We do a lot of TV here
Dr. WHo was shot here for years, usually doubling up as London or some nameless town. Casualty is mostly filmed here, doubling for a Bristol, or a fictional South West England town like Bristol, Holby City which is supposedly set in the same hospital is filmed in England somewhere. A discovery of Witches is made here, I visited the set with work it's HUGE. Sex Education, His Dark Materials, Sherlock (again doubling for London), War of the Worlds (the new one) doubling for bits of France, probably in one of the big TV studios rather than on location.
The Nature of the Beast. Film Four straight-to-TV outing that no-one's ever seen or heard of.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272747/
The school scenes were filmed at my school, I'm just out of shot in like a quarter of the film.
It's really weird to watch as a local because it maps like a dream. The kids will be running down a street, turn the corner and be somewhere that's actually five miles away.
Dead Man’s Shoes is the big one for me in Matlock
I love that film. Kinky Boots is the only one I know of that had any filming in Northampton.
Superman IV had scenes shot in Milton Keynes, the station where I have coffee after my morning commute features. Lob a yellow school bus and a red fire hydrant in and there you have it, a realistic American scene.
Nothing in my home town but my adopted town the list is massive.
Under the Skin
Mister P
MemberI love that film. Kinky Boots is the only one I know of that had any filming in Northampton.
.......although I suspect the rail station with the fields behind it was filmed somewhere else?
EDIT - google tells me they used the quiet sleepy village of , err, Wellingborough for that bit
Rita Sue & Bob Too
The council estate bits were filmed on the Buttershaw Estate, South of Bradford, where Andrea Dunbar grew up.
Bob’s house is one one of the 70s estates in Baildon, about half a mile from where I live now
I’m sure there have been others too
Rita,Sue and Bob too . The costumer designer actually came into our clothes shop for advice about the sort of clothes for the actors. I don't think trackie bottoms were as popular then.
Loads of stuff here in Croydon
https://www.croydonist.co.uk/films/
Some TV series too - Peep Show was filmed a lot here. Their local was the Oval Tavern.
Seems Bolton is a hotbed of filming activity.
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?locations=Bolton%2C+Greater+Manchester%2C+England%2C+UK
Yanks was filmed in town when I was really young, and we were dragged in as extras waving american flags as the "troops" walked through town.
But the highlight as a teenager was seeing an episode of Jossy's giants being filmed while aimlessly wondering round the town centre in my school lunch hour.
Control
…….although I suspect the rail station with the fields behind it was filmed somewhere else?
EDIT – google tells me they used the quiet sleepy village of , err, Wellingborough for that bit
I have to admit I haven't seen the film so I wouldn't know. And there's no fields behind Wellingborough station now as there's a housing estate being built.
The Damned United
Leeds United - not about the football team but a BBC TV play about a strike by female textile workers
Some of Billy Liar was filmed in Leeds and neighbouring Bradford (where I went to school).
Mischief Night
White Girl - BBC film shot in Leeds and Bradford
Red Riding - based on David Peace's Red Riding Quartet
Emmerdale is filmed locally
They filmed quite a bit of "The Fourth Protocol" (Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan) round near where I grew up. Mind you, Suffolk was/is a hotbed of USAF bases, so made it an easy choice for the film. The most memorable part of it for me was when the helo flew up the Orwell past Cliff Quay power station (back when it was actually a power station) and he stayed in The White Horse back when it was actually a hotel, rather than a (shit pub filled with students|empty|Blacks outdoor shop|Starbucks & Whetherspoons).
Other than that, it seems most of the Ipswich-related stuff is all about serial killers.
Where I grew up... some bits if Chariots of Fire
where I live now a few seconds of mission impossible
The only one I know of was a music video, a few seconds of which was filmed about 100m from our house
There's been quite a lot filmed in Birmingham - although not Peaky Blinders apparently.....
Closest they got to Brum was the Black Country Museum in Dudley - majority is filmed in Manchester & Liverpool.
Some of Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One was filmed around Digbeth.
Zombie apocalypse movie The Girl With All The Gifts was filmed in Brum and my now home Cannock (well filmed on the Chase - although some parts of Cannock look they they're from a Zombie apocalypse movie......).
My Mrs was born & grew up in Jersey during the 80's so Bergerac was a big thing over there.
Like some others here there's nothing from my home town. Would a bike stunt film for my adopted home town's tourist agency be acceptable? 🙂
I'm looking straight at Baildon Moor where they shot "that" scene in the car in Rita, Sue and Bob too. Theres no snow on it currently.
"The Revenge of Billy the Kid" was partly filmed at a farm just down the road. If you've not seen it then it comes highly recommended if you like the worst kind of British horror/comedy B-movies. Also filmed literally just up the road are the opening scenes to An American Werewolf in London. I can't ride there at night without the hairs on my neck standing on end. "don't stray from the path"...
And finally there was a film made here a few years back called "Resistance" based on a story by a local author. They used several local farms as locations and 2 of my sheepdogs appear in the opening scene (and are in the credits). I even had a small part in one scene as a German officer, along with loads of other locals as extras, but that whole scene ended up on the cutting room floor!
That is the back of my head at 42 seconds 🙂
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi1218092569?playlistId=tt1391116&ref_=tt_ov_vi
Trainspotting, and Filth. Still great ambassadors for the city.
Tons of stuff gets filmed here but not that much is actually set here. Avengers though, and the great work of cinematic art that is the next fast and furious film.
Happy Valley... shot mostly on location. (doesn't half block up the town when all the Buses, vans, lorries for outside broadcast rock up.
Also I used to live near where they filmed all the Midsummer Murders, and as it happens the Vicar of Dibley. Mostly a couple of locations/villages in the Chilterns. Also in the Chilts, frequently rode past the pond into which Truly Scrumptious drives at the start of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. (which coincidentally is the same village where a certain Rob Warner lives.) and the Windmill where the Grandfather lives is not far from there either. I think mostly as the Chilts is the easiest "proper woods" you can get to from Pinewood Studios.
Coming from Portsmouth, i had to have a search:
Cool Answer - Tommy
Not so cool answer - Tomorrow Never Dies and unsurprisingly Carry on Admiral!!
I now live in rural Norfolk and the only thing i know of that was filmed here was Allo, Allo
EDIT - used IMDB- now found out that actually where i love now is cooler than i thought, The Eagle has Landed filmed on Holkham Beach, Dad's Army filmed at Thetford
Tyrannosaur is filmed round where I live and work, great cast too
mischeif night was filmed around where i used to teach in Beeston /belle isle leeds
had to watch it with kids on a residential... 'my cousin/brother/ mate lives there' it was pretty grim and realistic from what i remember. fortunately Not my home town. Apologies to leeds residents.
BUT Teletubbies was filmed where i grew up!( stratford upon avon) Apologies to everyone:)
I live up the road from Rowley Way/Alexandra Road, so loads, recent one being Hard Sun.
http://alexandraandainsworth.org/on-film
Also used by me for photos 🙂
Nearest was Much Wenlock where I went to secondary school. Gone to Earth (1950) was filmed around Wenlock; some of my mates' parents had been extras. Clockwise (1984) - John Cleese film, was partly shot in and around the town.
Get Carter
Thankfully lots of the bits of town (Gateshead) used are long gone.
Atonement down the road at Redcar. The beach doubled for Dunkirk. I was an extra, along with hundreds of others. I was a French soldier with helmet, great coat and rifle. Got about £100 for 2 days.
We had an episode of Vera filmed in the street opposite me last year. We got wine and chocolates for letting the wardrobe and costumes truck park outside our house.
The World’s End was filmed in my home town and a similar one up the road. Not sure it’s a good advert for growing up there...
Get Carter
Thankfully lots of the bits of town (Gateshead) used are long gone.
I can remember going to the top of the car park when I was about 10, and dropping water bombs onto the shopping precinct below - I was born in Gateshead and my grandparents lived there.
Part of Get Carter was also filmed in Blyth, where I grew up, at the staithes on the river
Also Alien 3, at Blyth power station
And Vera
The nearest to me (although not my home town) would be Hot Fuzz (Wells). I was sat eating my lunch in the market square and got moved on so they could film a scene.
there was a similar thread a few weeks back, so this one was linked...
Full Metal Jacket
Plus Call the Midwife, World is Not Enough (probably other Bond movies too), Sherlock Holmes, , had a feeling Harry Potter had a bit filmed nearby too, loads of period dramas on BBC/ITV,...
My house and kids were in the background of Me Before You. Emilia Clarke has been on my local swings looking sad!
Twin Town but to be honest some parts of Swansea make it look like a documentary
Tons and tons of stuff in/around Vancouver & North Vancouver. In normal times I work in downtown Vancouver and just about every couple of weeks a block or two of parking is devoted to all the trucks transporting all the filming paraphernalia, what seems like miles of cabling criss-crosses the pavements and mobile changing rooms & mobile catering facilities popup.
I've walked through countless "sets" at lunch times and watched the stunt teams set up the rigging for Deadpool/Deadpool 2 on the top of the multi story car park opposite my office.
The novelty wore off a long time ago and sometimes the disruption can be a pain in the arse (however, film & TV are big business so the city enjoys the extra revenue)
This is just down the road from where I was brought up. Used to wait for my mate at the phone box