I've been an expatriate Clevelander for almost 10 years now and to make up for time and distance, I've been casually collecting movies that are filmed in, or contain major focus on Cleveland.  More and more keep coming out of the woodwork, but I don't feel that I've given a good enough effort to find them all.

 

So, all of you out there...what movies do you know of that fit the above criteria???

 

Here's my short list:

 

Major League (duh), Telling Lies in America, Welcome to Collinwood, Stranger Than Paradise, American Splendor, Antoine Fisher, Against the Ropes, Battle of Shaker Heights...

 

What else?

Filmed in?  A Christmas Story! 

The guy from Eurotrip is from Cleveland and ends up going to Oberlin College.

^eurotrip -- we went to see a free preview of that in hoboken with the publishing crew because they mention frommer's travel guides in the movie -- yeah everyone yelled out when the lead character would say, "let me check my frommer's guide." ha, stoopid! actually, the kids supposedly come from a suburban cleveland hs -- one of the writers is from cleveland. it's a silly cute movie, worth a rental.

 

my fav clev movie of all is double dragon -- they made cleveland into l.a. & it has a cool skateboarding scene in tower city!

 

for yin, puh-leese don't forget academy award winner the deer hunter -- and it's yang -- howard the duck!

 

lastly, i thought battle of...was filmed entirely in california? eh. otoh, lots of eminem's boring movie 8 mile was actually filmed in clevo. that's hollywood.

 

 

 

 

Which movie was filmed in City Hall? I think it was city hall... or maybe it was another civic style building downtown... also had some shots outside in downtown as well and views of the skyline etc...  All I remember beyond that was really bad bullet effects in the gun fights.

 

In EuroTrip there's mention of a real mall (I can't remember it's name) and from a conversation I had with my girlfriend we surmised the guy might have lived in the Hudson area.

 

So Detroit wasn't ghetto enough for Eminem's life they had to come to Cleveland... nice...

in the kid's room in eurotrip he has 3 tribes posters on his wall. plus, he ends up going to oberlin college. there's also teh sequel to a christams story, 1994's my summer story, also called it runs in the family.

Ok, so Deer Hunter I knew of, but there isn't really much in Cleveland, right?  And mentions of Cleveland?  Not really what I'm looking for!  I know, I'm hard to please...but I'm looking for movies that capture the true feeling of Cleveland.  I feel like Telling Lies does a great job of this...as do parts of American Splendor and Stranger Than Paradise.  Woody Allen captures his version of New York better than anyone I can think of.  Spike Lee does the same with Brooklyn.  Wong Kar Wai is the expert on Hong Kong and Tom Tykwer is fabulous with cities in Austria.

 

Either way, this is a fun convo...keep it up!

OK, here's one...

 

Rob Lowe and James Coburn star in Proximity, a straight-to-video movie that has some pretty decent action sequences, and is filmed in, and set in Cleveland. The only scenes filmed outside of Cleveland are at the state prison in Grafton, in Lorain County.

 

You'll love the car chases through the streets of Cleveland, the chase between a car and an RTA Rapid, the shootout at Tower City Center, and some of the transition scenes involving time lapses of the sun setting over the city, a big boat going up the Cuyahoga River at about "150 mph" and more. It's a very gritty movie, with a lot of hokie dialogue and goofy premises, and turns out to be a cheap knock-off of the Fugitive, but it's still a lot of fun to watch.

 

Here's a link to a description of Proximity:

 

http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1804850514&cf=info&intl=us

 

But, you know it's not a good movie when Amazon has it for 47 cents!!!

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005KHKT/103-1913976-0179019?v=glance

 

KJP

that's great!  I'm going to go get that one ASAP!

 

eh. otoh, lots of eminem's boring movie 8 mile was actually filmed in clevo. that's hollywood.

 

 

that's a big niner my dude, most definately a majority of the movie was filmed in detroit (or warren or highland park)

 

anywho, i digress

ha - sorry pope, i knew you'd have a problem with that, of course not the majority of scenes, but its true.

 

the only out of set location was in queens when they had to wrap up something post-production. I can name you the locations for practically every scene (or hell, google it yourself)

 

As i said, i digress. If you want to discuss, we can take it to PM

While I was working at Tower City in '98-99 they were filming a movie called "One" in the Tower City basement/parking garage.  It was an HBO movie I believe.  I don't know if it ever actually aired.  I don't think it was actually set in Cleveland.  If so, it was some sort of post apocalyptic Cleveland.  Who could tell?

 

Anyhoo, the actors would come into browse in our store (Record Town, before it became FYE) and they had on these cheap felt costumes.  It turns out that they were playing some sort of human freedom fighters.  They had all sorts of stage dust stuff on their outfits and it would get on everything in the store.  They eventually weren't allowed to eat in any of the restaurants because of the mess they made.  It was fun though, we'd be going about our work when "BOOM!" they would let off some stage pyrotechnics.

 

 

"Air Force One".  A few scenes were filmed at city hall, the county courthouse and Case.

 

And don't forget "A Christmas Story", as well as its little known (and terrible) sequel "My Summer Story".

 

EDIT: Oops, somebody already mentioned Christmas Story.

Here's another one:

 

Teamster Boss--The Jackie Presser Story. It's an early-90s movie, by HBO, starring Brian Dennehy and Jeff Daniels. It's an OK mob movie, about the life of Jackie Presser, but it spends most of its script during the bombing wars of the 1970s in Cleveland, with the rest in the 1980s when the Justice Department was trying to rein in the union's corruption with the Mafia. It wasn't filmed in Cleveland (I think most of it was filmed in Milwaukee!), but it does mention a lot of Cleveland locations, politicians and notorious gangsters of Cleveland's past.

 

http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/6302649897/imdb-jp-23/702-8018672-7956841

 

KJP

 

lets not forget the upcoming "the OH in Ohio"

lets not forget the upcoming "the OH in Ohio"

 

Spring break Cleveland!  Yeah!  Seriously, what is "the OH in Ohio" about?  Sounds awesome. 

from IMDB:

 

A woman with a seemingly idyllic life has a secret: she's never had an orgasm. Leaving her husband, she finds her G-spot with a very unlikely companion. With Parker Posey, Paul Rudd, Danny DeVito, Mischa Barton, Miranda Bailey, Liza Minnelli

Awesome indeed.  I'm an instant fan of anything with Parker Posey and OHio in it.

pope i stand corrected, i heard it several places but could find no news. zip. maybe it was just pre-production or just nothing --- now i dk.

 

i did find a few more:

 

from the 60's, the popular comedy movie for it's day called the fortune cookie w/ walter matthau & jack lemmon starts off at cleveland stadium during a browns game. pretty cool!

 

something older is called the kid from cleveland, i think babe ruth makes a cameo. all the tribe greats are there, boudreau, speaker, paige, greenberg, etc. i remember seeing this back on ch43 or something long ago.

 

here's a newer one, prob straight to video?: Starring Billy Zane, Deep Attack shot for 28 days in and around Greater Cleveland. The movie was produced by LA producer (and Cleveland native) Alan Schechter, and the city's skyline and distinctive bridges are featured heavily in the film. This is the fourth feature film project that Mr. Schechter has brought to Cleveland.

 

speaking of straight to video, last but not least from 2003 -- striptease babydolls from cleveland meet the unkillables?!?:

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0228906/Ss/0228906/stripbmm.jpg?path=gallery&path_key=0228906

 

 

i can't beleive i didn't think of this before, the kid from cleveland (1949). it has to do with some kid whos having trouble and the world champion cleveland indians help him out. not only was it shot in cleveland, it has bill veeck, bob feller, hank greenberg, tris speaker, satchuel paige, bob lemon, ken ketler, mel harder, and tons of others. i'm not sure you can even buy it anymore, it's not that great of a movie if i remember correctly.

 

you should check out go tigers!, the documentary about the massilon tigers 1999 football season. great movie, even if you don't follow ohio high school football.

Stranger Than Paradise, tho set in Cleveland doesn't show the city very well...I seem to recall alot of snow.

 

The Deer Hunter was filmed in Tremont, I think, as a stand-in for Pittsburgh. 

Speaking of American Splendor..

 

My sister lives next door to Harvey Pekar in Cleveland Heights.  She says that they are just like the movie. And, he doesn't keep up his yard very well.

now that's the real dirt!  thanks ya'll this will give me some fodder for weeks to come!

MGD, did you, or anyone, mention that old standard bearer: Billy Wilder’s"The Fortune Cookie" w/ the late great messrs Lemon and Matthau?  It's Cleveland (esp Browns) to the core, even mentions Art Modell (er, sorry...), the PD, etc.  There was the moving "Antone Fisher" story directed/acted in, by Denzel Washington, a few years ago that got little attention.  It was filmed mostly in San Diego, but ping-ponged back 'n forth btw the 2, and ended up here.  And how about "Light of Day" (I think that's the name) that then healthy Mike J. Fox & Joan Jett filmed here that made the now defunct Euclid Tavern nationally famous... And what about that indie flim the "Battle of Shaker Heights"?  I know it was the subject of that HBO "Project Green Light" a year or so ago.  Apparently, though it was based on our famous burb, it was actually not filmed here and the woman who wrote it had never even been here but heard of the town through a friend from college... oy!

 

I'm glad more of these are being filmed here, but few really show off Cleveland imho.  It's as though our seedy side is what Hollywood is looking for.  But you know Hollywood types: most are rather shallow -- easier to present the "perceived" Cleveland than that which really exists.  "Against the Ropes" did have one quick, real nice scene facing the skyline from the R&RHOF basin -- one of the best vistas of downtown imho...

 

Wasn't Joe Esterhauses "F.I.S.T" supposed to be set in 1930s union-town Cleveland (although, again, I don't think it was filmed here).  Esterhaus, though, went on to make millions on "Flashdance" which REALLY made Pittsburgh look beautiful and sexy (er, well, in additon to Jenny Beals).  AND ESTERHAUS IS A CLEVELANDER!!!

 

Oy, II.

 

 

 

KJP, wasn't "Proximity" the movie that started out with an opening panorama of Public Square?  I know, I was just about to leave a friend's home after some sporting event in Philly (maybe an Eagle's playoff loss) a few years ago, and this movie came on HBO, to where he'd switched the channel, and I started freaking out:  “That's the Soldiers & Sailors; hat's a Cleveland (RTA) bus and shelter; ... that's Cleveland!”  I yelled; then apologetically I explained: "... well, you see, we don't often get films shot in Cleveland; it's so rare seeing it..."

 

I'll have to rent "Proximity."  Coburn, of course, is now dead.

 

Proximity starts out with a older woman crying about the need for justice (er, vengeance) for the murder of her child. The film then follows a prison bus through the city, and then out of the city to the prison (in Grafton). That's where our story begins....

 

After seeing this list of Cleveland films, I think we're doing all right when it comes to the number of movies filmed here, set here, etc. Not spectacular, but not bad either.

 

KJP

David Wain, the filmmaker of Wet Hot American Summer, is from Shaker Heights. The movie makes a couple references to Cleveland, and features another Shaker Heights native; Molly Shannon.

 

Airforce One from a while back now features a shot and scene of Severance Hall in the openning. Severance in the movie is supposed to be some kind of ambassador's mansion.

"Oh in Ohio" update!

 

The "Oh in Ohio" indie movie with Danny DeVito, Parker Posey, and Misha Barton filmed in Cleveland has released its trailer and launched a website. I'm not sure if it will be released nationwide, but I'm sure it will play in Cleveland Cinemas sometime this summer.

 

The official website:http://www.theohinohio.com/

 

The Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KM8jMGg3O0&search=The%20Oh%20in%20Ohio%20Mischa%20Barton%20Paul%20Rudd%20Parker%20Posey

 

PD Coverage of premier:

http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1142674680192320.xml?eaall&coll=2

 

It sounds like some interesting national exposure for the city. The filmmaker also had great things to say about the city, and that it plays something like a character in the film.

 

I could pick out a view of the lakefront from an office window, and a short clip from the Civic Center. I heard they also filmed at a local school, a neighborhood in Avon Lake, and a game at Jacob's Field when the film was in production. I don't know how much I'll like the film when it is released, but appearance-wise it looks pretty good. It seems like one of the most significant recent films shot in Cleveland because the story line takes place entirely in Cleveland, and the movie makes viewers aware of it.

Donnybrook, which is being shown at this years Cleveland International Film Festival was filmed entirely in Cleveland. Most of the film takes place on the east side and is centered around the Beachland Ballroom/Collinwood area.

Mr Good Day, how can you say there is no Cleveland in the Dear Hunter?  The parts in the grocery store (which still exists today) where Meryl Streep works, the phone booth Robert DeNiero uses in front of St. Theodisis church in the background at night under the street lights? 

It wasn't meant to be Cleveland in the movie, but the director wanted a steel neighborhood church to base the movie around, and Tremont had it and still does.  Those are some of the most urbanly gritty scenes of any movie I've ever seen.

Classic Cleveland.

 

Another very obscure movie that I remember seeing when I was a kid on WVIZ in the 80's, was "The Kid from Cleveland."  It's a movie from the 1940's about a local Cleveland kid playing the sandlots throughout the city.  It has some great shots of sandlots around the port with all its rail spurs and industrial character.  I haven't seen or heard of the movie for quite some time, so maybe give it a Google search.

While I was working at Tower City in '98-99 they were filming a movie called "One" in the Tower City basement/parking garage.  It was an HBO movie I believe.  I don't know if it ever actually aired.  I don't think it was actually set in Cleveland.  If so, it was some sort of post apocalyptic Cleveland.  Who could tell?

 

Anyhoo, the actors would come into browse in our store (Record Town, before it became FYE) and they had on these cheap felt costumes.  It turns out that they were playing some sort of human freedom fighters.  They had all sorts of stage dust stuff on their outfits and it would get on everything in the store.  They eventually weren't allowed to eat in any of the restaurants because of the mess they made.  It was fun though, we'd be going about our work when "BOOM!" they would let off some stage pyrotechnics.

 

 

 

Shhhhh...don't talk about that movie.  I worked on that....you wont find it anywhere but your local trashcan!  :-o

 

American Splender was about a Clevelander and there was light filming in cleveland

 

Other movies made (in full or part) in Cleveland that I think of

 

Air Force One - Cleveland City Hall / Univ. Circ. (cleveland was turned into Moscow for a few scenes!)

American Splender

Happy Gilmore

Light of Day w/Joan Jett  - Coventry / Univ. Circ.

Major League - Muni Stadium

Welcome to Collinwood - Collinwood, Slavic Village,

Another very obscure movie that I remember seeing when I was a kid on WVIZ in the 80's, was "The Kid from Cleveland." It's a movie from the 1940's about a local Cleveland kid playing the sandlots throughout the city. It has some great shots of sandlots around the port with all its rail spurs and industrial character. I haven't seen or heard of the movie for quite some time, so maybe give it a Google search.

 

They showed it on WUAB just prior to the 1994 Indians season (opening of Jacobs Field). I have it on tape. It was filmed in 1949, and is about a kid who was getting into trouble, but loves baseball. So several members of the Cleveland Indians (who won the World Series the prior year) take him under their wing. They didn't use actors to play the Indians. They used the actual Indians players, including hall of famers Bob Feller, Lou Boudreau, Larry Doby and others. It's an OK movie, but the scenes of 1940s Cleveland and the Indians are terrific.

 

EDIT:  Oops, I just realized others posted on this movie.

 

I was able to watch the trailer of "The OH in Ohio" though it downloads with lots of hiccups (even though I have a cable modem) but runs smoothly the second time. I like the appearance of it, since it doesn't seem to go for the usual Hollywood stereotype grit view of Cleveland. Looks like it shows Cleveland's youthful, upscale settings.

Try this on for size:  A list of all movies, TV shows and documentaries filmed in or set in Cleveland (go to the link and you can click on all of these titles to learn more)......

 

http://www.imdb.com/List?endings=on&&locations=Cleveland,%20Ohio,%20USA&&heading=18;with+locations+including;Cleveland,%20Ohio,%20USA

 

Titles with locations including

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Here are the 159 matching titles:

 

"American Idol: The Search for a Superstar" (2002) TV Series

...aka "American Idol 2" (2002) (USA: promotional title)

...aka "American Idol 2" (2003) (USA: promotional title)

...aka "American Idol 3" (2002) (USA) (USA)

...aka "American Idol 4" (2005) (USA: fourth season title)

...aka "American Idol" (2002) (USA: new title) (USA: new title)

"Antiques Roadshow" (1997) TV Series

"Blowin' Up! Fatty Koo" (2005) TV Series

"Brice Kennedy Show, The" (2002) TV Series

"Cops" (1989) TV Series

"Drew Carey Show, The" (1995) TV Series

"Evening Magazine" (1976) TV Series

...aka "Evening: The MTWTF Show" (1976) (USA: first episodes title)

...aka "P.M. Magazine" (1976) (USA)

"Insomniac with Dave Attell" (2001) TV Series

"Live at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame" (2001) TV Series

"Midnight Movie, The" (1998) TV Series

"Mike Douglas Show, The" (1961) TV Series

"Motormouth" (2004) TV Series

"NFL Monday Night Football" (1970) TV Series

"Northeast Golf" (1997) TV Series

"Raw Is War" (1997) TV Series

...aka "Monday Night Raw" (1997) (USA)

...aka "WWE Raw Is War" (2002) (USA: new title)

...aka "WWF Raw Is War" (1997) (USA)

...aka "WWF Raw" (2001) (USA: new title)

...aka "WWF Warzone" (1997) (USA: second part title)

"Real Magic TV" (2002) TV Series

"Room by Room" (1994) TV Series

"WWF Smackdown!" (1999) TV Series

...aka "Smackdown! Xtreme" (1999) (USA)

...aka "Smackdown!" (1999) (USA: new title)

...aka "WWE Smackdown!" (2002) (USA: new title)

...aka "World Wrestling Federation Smackdown!" (1999) (USA)

'60s Pop Rock Reunion (2004) (TV)

1997 World Series (1997) (V) 8.1/10 (11 votes)

3 Days of Rain (2002) 6.7/10 (41 votes)

51st State (2005)

Absence of Light, The (2004) 6.8/10 (17 votes)

Access Nation (2004) 5.4/10 (83 votes)

Against the Ropes (2004) 5.3/10 (1573 votes)

...aka Promoter, The (2004) (Germany) (Germany)

...aka Promoterin, Die (2004) (Germany) (Germany)

Air Force One (1997) 6.2/10 (30548 votes)

...aka AFO (1997)

Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill - Live (1997) (V) 6.4/10 (90 votes)

All That You Love Will Be Carried Away (2004) 6.3/10 (24 votes)

America at 10 mph (2005)

American Beer (2004) 9.0/10 (34 votes)

American Blackout (2006)

American Scary (2006)

American Splendor (2003) 7.8/10 (11257 votes)

Antwone Fisher (2002) 7.4/10 (5768 votes)

Babe Ruth (1991) (TV) 5.4/10 (91 votes)

Bet Your Life (2004) (TV) 4.3/10 (217 votes)

Bleeding Orange & Brown: A Cleveland Tradition (2005)

Blood Kiss (2002) 2.1/10 (7 votes)

...aka Blood Kiss: Soul of a Woman (2002) (USA)

Bone Thugs n Harmony: The Collection Volume 2 (2004) (V)

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony: Greatest Video Hits (2000) (V)

Born to Be Mild (1990) (TV) 8.2/10 (6 votes)

Bride of Killer Nerd (1992) 4.4/10 (39 votes)

Brooklyn Goes to Cleveland (1955)

Bus Is Coming, The (1971) 4.0/10 (8 votes)

...aka Ghetto Revenge (1971) (USA: video title)

Capt. Schuyler Post of Philadelphia (1901)

Carnage for the Destroyer (2006) (V)

Cathode Fuck (1986) (V)

Chapin Post of Buffalo (1901)

Chase, The (2003) 5.4/10 (11 votes)

Christmas at Maxwell's (2004) 8.2/10 (10 votes)

Christmas Story, A (1983) 8.1/10 (24524 votes)

Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man (2004) (V) 6.9/10 (92 votes)

Cuyahoga Gorge (1901)

Dead Man's Bluff (2006)

Deep Dark Woods, The (2003) (V) 1.8/10 (14 votes)

Deep Dark Woods: No Witnesses, The (2004) (V) 5.7/10 (6 votes)

Deer Hunter, The (1978) 8.1/10 (34983 votes)

Devil's Filmmaker: Bohica, The (2003)

Donnybrook (2005) 5.9/10 (11 votes)

Double Dragon (1994) 3.4/10 (2100 votes)

...aka Double Dragon: The Movie (1994)

Double-Stop (1968)

Dreaming on Christmas (2005)

Dusk & Shadow: The Mystery of Beverly Potts (2004) (V)

Empire Theatre, The (1901)

Enemy (1996) 3.7/10 (7 votes)

Escalator (2003) 9.6/10 (5 votes)

Escape Artist, The (1982) 5.9/10 (121 votes)

Fahrenheit 9/11½ (2007)

Farragut Naval Post, Ohio State (1901)

Flattered (1995)

Fortune Cookie, The (1966) 7.4/10 (1866 votes)

...aka Meet Whiplash Willie (1966) (UK)

Fourteenth Victim: Eliot Ness and the Torso Murders, The (2003) (V)

Giant Coal Dumper (1897) 4.3/10 (13 votes)

Hail Columbia (1935) 4.9/10 (10 votes)

Happy Gilmore (1996) 6.8/10 (21995 votes)

Headquarters, Staff and Band, Ohio State (1901)

Hellhounds On My Trail: The Afterlife of Robert Johnson (2000) (V) 6.3/10 (13 votes)

...aka Hellhounds On My Trail (2000) (V) (USA: short title)

Hiphopbattle.com: Detroit vs. Cleveland (2003) 9.4/10 (5 votes)

HipHopBattle.com: Hip Hop 4 Life (2001) 5.9/10 (17 votes)

Howard the Duck (1986) 3.8/10 (7685 votes)

...aka Howard: A New Breed of Hero (1986)

Invasion (2001) (V) 7.0/10 (123 votes)

...aka WCW Invasion (2001) (V) (USA: informal alternative title) (USA: informal alternative title)

...aka WCW/ECW Invasion (2001) (V) (USA: informal alternative title) (USA: informal alternative title)

...aka WWF Invasion (2001) (V) (USA: informal alternative title) (USA: informal alternative title)

...aka WWF vs the Alliance: Invasion (2001) (V) (USA: informal alternative title) (USA: informal alternative title)

...aka WWF vs. WCW/ECW Invasion (2001) (V) (USA: informal title) (USA: informal title)

It Runs in the Family (1994) 5.4/10 (267 votes)

...aka My Summer Story (1994)

Joe Nosferatu: Homeless Vampire (2004) 1.0/10 (12 votes)

Jogger, The (1984) 3.3/10 (7 votes)

John Doe's A Business Day (2001) (V) 9.0/10 (7 votes)

John Doe's A Fly in My Soup (2004) (V)

John Doe's The Vigilante (2001) (V) 3.1/10 (19 votes)

Joker's Card, A (2005) (V) 6.6/10 (26 votes)

Lambs Club, G.A.R. (1901)

Language of Kickball, The (1999)

Last Alarm, The (1900) 3.6/10 (5 votes)

...aka Cleveland Fire Department (1903) (USA: copyright title)

Liberty Bound (2004) 5.7/10 (70 votes)

Life Is the Only Thing Worth Dying For (2004)

Line of Masculinity, The (2003) 6.9/10 (13 votes)

Living Flag, The (1901)

Losers, The (1968) 3.5/10 (9 votes)

Love Commune (1970) 6.2/10 (9 votes)

...aka Ghetto Freaks (1970)

...aka Sign of Aquarius (1970) (USA: reissue title)

...aka Wages of Sin (1970) (USA: reissue title)

Lyttle Post of Cincinnati (1901)

Major League (1989) 6.7/10 (9789 votes)

Major League Baseball All-Star Pregame Show (1981) (TV)

Major League II (1994) 4.7/10 (4189 votes)

Making of 'Antwone Fisher', The (2001) (TV) 5.9/10 (5 votes)

Martians from Venus (2004)

Midnight Days (2001) 3.3/10 (15 votes)

Miracle Dogs (2003) (TV) 5.9/10 (38 votes)

Mistaken Identity (2004/I) (TV)

My Brother's Light (2002) 8.9/10 (23 votes)

My Soul to Take (2006)

My Soul to Take 2 (2006)

Nightowls of Coventry, The (2004) 6.8/10 (9 votes)

Not-So-Grim Reaper, The (2001) (V)

Of Ashes and Atoms (2004)

OH in Ohio, The (2006)

On the Cleveland and Eastern Railway (1900)

One Night (2000/I)

One Trick Pony (1980) 5.4/10 (173 votes)

Out of Darkness (2004) (TV) 8.5/10 (6 votes)

Panorama, Public Square, Cleveland, O. (1901)

Paper Dolls (2005)

Pizza: The Movie (2004) 6.6/10 (50 votes)

Playing for Keeps (2004) (V)

Proximity (2001) 4.9/10 (228 votes)

Public Square, Cleveland (1900)

Pulp Diction (2003) 6.1/10 (18 votes)

Rainmaker, The (1997) 6.8/10 (10170 votes)

...aka John Grisham's The Rainmaker (1997)

Renegade Force (1998) 5.2/10 (231 votes)

...aka Rogue Force (1998) (USA)

...aka Six Angry Men (1998) (UK: video title)

Restorers, The (2004)

Script Doctor (1999) 5.5/10 (47 votes)

Seekers of the Statue (2003) (V)

Shadow Creature (1995) 3.2/10 (20 votes)

Shooting Star (1993) (V)

...aka Let Me Hear It Out There (1993) (V)

Showing a Giant Crane Dumping a 40-Ton Car (1900)

Slaughter of the Innocents (1994) 5.1/10 (341 votes)

Sleep of Reason, The (2003) 7.4/10 (12 votes)

Static (2004)

Stranger Than Paradise (1984) 7.5/10 (3611 votes)

Striptease Baby Dolls from Cleveland Meet the Unkillables (2005)

Summerslam (1996) (V) 6.5/10 (37 votes)

Surrogate, The (1984) 4.1/10 (70 votes)

...aka Blind Rage (1984)

Survivor Series (2004) (TV) 7.6/10 (48 votes)

...aka WWE Survivor Series (2004) (TV) (USA: promotional title)

Telling Lies in America (1997) 6.3/10 (759 votes)

Traffic (2000) 7.8/10 (47688 votes)

...aka Traffic - Die Macht des Kartells (2001) (Germany) (Germany)

Triangles and Tribulations (2001) (V)

Twisted (2001) 8.2/10 (15 votes)

Two of Us: A Film About Mates of State (2004) (V) 7.9/10 (8 votes)

Universal Newsreel (1945)

Unusual Occupations (1937/III)

...aka Unusual Occupations L-7-2 (1937) (USA)

View from the Top (2003) 5.1/10 (4599 votes)

Vinyl (2000) 7.1/10 (45 votes)

Walk, The (1996) (V)

Warped Boxes (2002) (V) 4.7/10 (12 votes)

We Have Your Daughter (2003)

Welcome to Collinwood (2002) 6.1/10 (3536 votes)

...aka Safecrackers oder Diebe haben's schwer (2002) (Germany)

Will Work for Food (2005)

Women in the Wind (1939) 5.9/10 (16 votes)

Women Men Love (1920)

WWF No Mercy (1999/II) (V) 8.5/10 (12 votes)

You're Right...I'm Sorry (1990) (TV)

Zombies in My Neighborhood (2005) (V) 9.2/10 (12 votes)

 

 

Stranger Than Paradise was a wierd movie.  From what I recall one did not see much of Cleveland in the flik.

 

You have to wonder what "Joe Nosferatu, Homeless Vampire" is all about....I like the title. 

My vote is for "Love Commune" (1970)

I like these titles:

 

Bus Is Coming, The (1971) 4.0/10 (8 votes)

...aka Ghetto Revenge (1971) (USA: video title)

 

Carnage for the Destroyer (2006) (V)

grrr...grrrr....grrrr.....kill!

 

Cathode Fuck (1986) (V)

 

And this is one old damn movie!

Giant Coal Dumper (1897) 4.3/10 (13 votes)

 

Another old one.  I wonder what the plot entailed?  I'm guessing it's either a piece of early 20th century avant-surrealism, or it has something to do with a giant crane dumping a 40 ton car.

Showing a Giant Crane Dumping a 40-Ton Car (1900)

 

And my next rental:

Striptease Baby Dolls from Cleveland Meet the Unkillables (2005)

 

Some of those movies in that list were documentaries, like the "Fourteenth Victim: Eliot Ness and the Torso Murders" (2003). I suspect "Giant Coal Dumper" was also a documentary-type film, same with "Bleeding Orange & Brown: A Cleveland Tradition."

Two that weren't mentioned:

 

In "Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael" (starring Winona Ryder as a teenage misfit), there's a brief shot of what was then Higbee's on Public Square in downtown Cleveland.... the movie took place in Clyde, Ohio, which I think was supposed to be a stand-in for Sandusky, and the Higbee's shot was when Winona Ryder's teacher (or guidance counselor or whoever, I forget) takes her into "the city" for a clothes-shopping expedition.

 

"Edge of Seventeen" was about a gay teenager who's spending the summer working at Cedar Point while exploring his sexuality for the first time... there were interior shots of Legends, which was a gay bar that used to be located on Detroit at West 117th in Lakewood, although it was passed off as a Sandusky bar in the movie.

 

I have a friend who was in that Edge of Seventeen movie.  (I guess I should really see it...)

I'm also told that a couple of episodes of Route 66 were filmed in Cleveland, including some shots of passenger trains in Cleveland Union Terminal. I must see these!

I count the following threads dealing with TV, film makers, productions etc in Cleveland (Grasscat, help!)....

 

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=8345.0

 

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=8340.0

 

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=3329.0

 

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=5559.0

 

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=7872.0

 

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=8168.0

 

I just turned on to HGTV and they were showing the downtown skyline, from an elevated angle I've never seen before and it looked AWESOME.

 

the show "room by room" is in Ohio City/Tremont.  The area looks great and they host said the first thing she thought was "why does anyone want to live so close to the husstle of a big city downtown" then they did a wide area pan of Ohio City and Tremont and said, "look a the architecture details of this fabulous neighborhood!"

 

All the houses seem to have "ohio city" flags hanging, the flags match what you see on (www.ohiocity.com)  it appears the show was tapped in the early fall or late spring. they are giving detailed historical facts about various homes.  One being this ALL RED BRICK home

 

Anyone know when this happened??  These homes look fabulous!  One of the home owners "sophie" is being highlighted right now.  The daughter of a neighbor, is like, "living in the city is great - its not like the boring 'burbs, all my cousins who live in the 'burbs want to hang out with me on weekends"

 

Shows like this do wonders for a neighborhood, the city and the region in general.  The only bad thing is they don't say "Cleveland" but did show the L-C Bridge, the tops of Key Tower and Term. Tower and the WSM.

^cool!

"Legends, which was a gay bar that used to be located on Detroit at West 117th in Lakewood, although it was passed off as a Sandusky bar in the movie."

 

Wow - Legends, now THAT brings back memories!

I just turned on to HGTV and they were showing the downtown skyline, from an elevated angle I've never seen before and it looked AWESOME.

 

After I saw your message, a few minutes before 9 a.m., I turned on the TV and looked for HGTV (never watched it before) and saw the last seconds of the show. Anyone know if/when it might be on again? I'm searching he HGTV site but haven't found anything yet.

 

Room by Room is actually already shot out of the Cleveland area (Westlake maybe???).  So it makes sense that they only said the names of the neighborhoods since they're already located in the area.  I know this because my mother would torture me when I was young and make me watch home remodeling shows instead of Power Rangers.  And she wonders why I'm in therapy.

also, filmed in Mansfield, Ohio:

  Shawshank Redemption

  Tango & Cash

Coming Soon...

 

Out of Place: a portrait of surfing the Great Lakes

 

A film I've been working on for almost 5 years. Ninety percent is shot in Cleveland. I hope it will make a positive impact and change perceptions of how people view the coastline here. It should be edited and released by next fall!!

 

 

^ Is that near Cleveland?  :-D