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This is a list of feature films set in Washington, D.C.
Released |
Title |
Director |
Comments
|
2022 |
The 355 |
Simon Kinberg |
|
2009 |
2012 |
Roland Emmerich |
[1]
|
1997 |
Absolute Power |
Clint Eastwood |
|
2016 |
The Accountant |
Gavin O'Connor |
|
1962 |
Advise & Consent |
Otto Preminger |
Main Setting [2]
|
2018 |
Affairs of State |
Eric Bross |
|
1997 |
Air Force One |
Wolfgang Petersen |
[1]
|
1976 |
All the President's Men |
Alan J. Pakula |
Main Setting, National Film Registry[3]
|
2016 |
All the Way |
Jay Roach |
Main Setting
|
2001 |
Along Came a Spider |
Lee Tamahori |
|
1995 |
The American President |
Rob Reiner |
Main Setting [4]
|
1997 |
Amistad |
Steven Spielberg |
|
2019 |
Angel Has Fallen |
Ric Roman Waugh |
|
1982 |
Annie |
John Huston |
|
2015 |
Ant-Man |
Peyton Reed |
|
2012 |
Argo |
Ben Affleck |
[5]
|
1999 |
Arlington Road |
Mark Pellington |
Main Setting [1]
|
1998 |
Armageddon |
Michael Bay |
|
1992 |
Article 99 |
Howard Deutch |
|
1987 |
Assassination |
Peter R. Hunt |
|
2020 |
The Banker |
George Nolfi |
|
2016 |
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice |
Zack Snyder |
|
2012 |
Battleship |
Peter Berg |
|
1996 |
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America |
Mike Judge |
|
1979 |
Being There |
Hal Ashby |
Main Setting, National Film Registry[6]
|
1999 |
Bicentennial Man |
Chris Columbus |
|
1977 |
Billy Jack Goes to Washington |
Tom Laughlin |
Main Setting
|
2009 |
Black Dynamite |
Scott Sanders |
|
1977 |
Black Sunday |
John Frankenheimer |
|
2022 |
Blacklight |
Mark Williams |
|
2013 |
Blue Caprice |
Alexandre Moors |
|
2008 |
Body of Lies |
Ridley Scott |
|
1992 |
Boomerang |
Reginald Hudlin |
|
2008 |
Borat |
Larry Charles |
|
1950 |
Born Yesterday |
George Cukor |
National Film Registry
|
1993 |
Born Yesterday |
Luis Mandoki |
|
2012 |
The Bourne Legacy |
Tony Gilroy |
|
2007 |
Breach |
Billy Ray |
Main Setting [5]
|
2015 |
Bridge of Spies |
Steven Spielberg |
|
1987 |
Broadcast News |
James L. Brooks |
Main Setting National Film Registry[3]
|
2008 |
Burn After Reading |
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen |
[3]
|
2013 |
The Butler |
Lee Daniels |
Main Setting
|
1995 |
Canadian Bacon |
Michael Moore |
|
1972 |
The Candidate |
Michael Ritchie |
|
2014 |
Captain America: The Winter Soldier |
Anthony Russo, Joe Russo |
Main Setting [3]
|
2010 |
Casino Jack |
George Hickenlooper |
|
1996 |
Chain Reaction |
Andrew Davis |
|
1989 |
Chances Are |
Emile Ardolino |
Main Setting [4]
|
2007 |
Charlie Wilson's War |
Mike Nichols |
|
2004 |
Chasing Liberty |
Andy Cadiff |
|
1994 |
Clear and Present Danger |
Phillip Noyce |
[1]
|
2002 |
Collateral Damage |
Andrew Davis |
|
2015 |
Concussion |
Peter Landesman |
|
1997 |
Contact |
Robert Zemeckis |
|
2000 |
The Contender |
Rod Lurie |
Main Setting
|
2003 |
The Core |
Jon Amiel |
|
1955 |
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell |
Otto Preminger |
|
1947 |
Crossfire |
Edward Dmytryk |
|
1983 |
D.C. Cab |
Joel Schumacher |
Main Setting
|
1958 |
Damn Yankees |
George Abbott, Stanley Donen |
|
1983 |
Daniel |
Sidney Lumet |
|
1993 |
Dave |
Ivan Reitman |
Main Setting [4]
|
2004 |
The Day After Tomorrow |
Roland Emmerich |
[1]
|
1951 |
The Day the Earth Stood Still |
Robert Wise |
National Film Registry[1]
|
1998 |
Deep Impact |
Mimi Leder |
[5]
|
2004 |
The Defender |
Dolph Lundgren |
|
1999 |
Dick |
Andrew Fleming |
Main Setting [5]
|
1990 |
Die Hard 2 |
Renny Harlin |
[1]
|
1992 |
The Distinguished Gentleman |
Jonathan Lynn |
|
1991 |
Doc Hollywood |
Michael Caton-Jones |
|
2021 |
Don't Look Up |
Adam McKay |
|
2011 |
The Double |
Michael Brandt |
|
1944 |
The Doughgirls |
James V. Kern |
|
1964 |
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb |
Stanley Kubrick |
Main Setting National Film Registry
|
1994 |
Drop Zone |
John Badham |
|
2004 |
Eagle Eye |
D. J. Caruso |
|
1956 |
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers |
Fred F. Sears |
[1]
|
2013 |
The East |
Zal Batmanglij |
|
2006 |
Eight Below |
Frank Marshall |
|
1999 |
Election |
Alexander Payne |
|
2016 |
Elvis & Nixon |
Liza Johnson |
|
2002 |
The Emperor's Club |
Michael Hoffman |
|
2006 |
End Game |
Andy Cheng |
|
1998 |
Enemy of the State |
Tony Scott |
[3]
|
1996 |
Eraser |
Chuck Russell |
|
2007 |
Evan Almighty |
Tom Shadyac |
|
1973 |
Executive Action |
David Miller |
|
1996 |
Executive Decision |
Stuart Baird |
|
1973 |
The Exorcist |
William Friedkin |
Main Setting, National Film Registry, see Exorcist steps[3]
|
1964 |
Fail Safe |
Sidney Lumet |
|
2011 |
Fast Five |
Justin Lin |
|
1951 |
FBI Girl |
William A. Berke |
|
1959 |
The FBI Story |
Mervyn LeRoy |
|
1992 |
A Few Good Men |
Rob Reiner |
[3]
|
1980 |
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu |
Piers Haggard |
|
2013 |
The Fifth Estate |
Bill Condon |
|
1993 |
The Firm |
Sydney Pollack |
|
2004 |
First Daughter |
Forest Whitaker |
|
1980 |
First Family |
Buck Henry |
|
1996 |
First Kid |
David M. Evans |
|
1948 |
For the Love of Mary |
Frederick de Cordova |
|
1994 |
Forrest Gump |
Robert Zemeckis |
National Film Registry[3]
|
1971 |
The French Connection |
William Friedkin |
National Film Registry
|
2008 |
Frost/Nixon |
Ron Howard |
|
1997 |
G.I. Jane |
Ridley Scott |
|
2013 |
G.I. Joe: Retaliation |
Jon M. Chu |
[1]
|
2009 |
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra |
Stephen Sommers |
|
1933 |
Gabriel Over the White House |
Gregory La Cava |
|
2019 |
Georgetown |
Christoph Waltz |
Main Setting
|
2017 |
Geostorm |
Dean Devlin |
|
1996 |
Get on the Bus |
Spike Lee |
|
2008 |
Get Smart |
Peter Segal |
Main Setting
|
2012 |
Goats |
Christopher Neil |
|
1974 |
The Godfather Part II |
Francis Ford Coppola |
National Film Registry
|
2019 |
Godzilla: King of the Monsters |
Michael Dougherty |
|
2013 |
A Good Day to Die Hard |
John Moore |
|
2006 |
The Good Shepherd |
Robert De Niro |
|
1986 |
Good to Go |
Blaine Novak |
|
1943 |
Government Girl |
Dudley Nichols |
|
2022 |
The Gray Man |
Anthony Russo, Joe Russo |
|
1978 |
The Greek Tycoon |
J. Lee Thompson |
|
2001 |
Hannibal |
Ridley Scott |
|
2011 |
Haywire |
Steven Soderbergh |
|
2003 |
Head of State |
Chris Rock |
|
1986 |
Heartburn |
Mike Nichols |
|
2000 |
Hollow Man |
Paul Verhoeven |
|
1980 |
Hopscotch |
Ronald Neame |
|
1997 |
The House of Yes |
Mark Waters |
|
1958 |
Houseboat |
Melville Shavelson |
|
2010 |
How Do You Know |
James L. Brooks |
|
2018 |
Hunter Killer |
Donovan Marsh |
|
1997 |
I Think I Do |
Brian Sloan |
|
2016 |
I.T. |
Melville Shavelson |
|
2006 |
Idiocracy |
Mike Judge |
Main Setting
|
1993 |
In the Line of Fire |
Wolfgang Petersen |
|
2009 |
In the Loop |
Armando Iannucci |
Main Setting
|
1996 |
Independence Day |
Roland Emmerich |
[1]
|
2016 |
Independence Day: Resurgence |
Roland Emmerich |
|
2007 |
The Invasion |
Oliver Hirschbiegel |
|
2019 |
The Irishman |
Martin Scorsese |
|
2010 |
Iron Man 2 |
Jon Favreau |
|
2013 |
Iron Man 3 |
Shane Black |
|
2020 |
Irresistible |
Jon Stewart |
|
2011 |
J. Edgar |
Clint Eastwood |
Main Setting
|
2016 |
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back |
Edward Zwick |
|
2014 |
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit |
Kenneth Branagh |
|
1997 |
The Jackal |
Michael Caton-Jones |
|
2016 |
Jackie |
Pablo Larraín |
Main Setting
|
2016 |
Jason Bourne |
Paul Greengrass |
|
1991 |
JFK |
Oliver Stone |
[2]
|
2010 |
Jonah Hex |
Jimmy Hayward |
[1]
|
1938 |
Judge Hardy's Children |
George B. Seitz |
|
2014 |
Kill the Messenger |
Michael Cuesta |
|
2014 |
Kingsman: The Secret Service |
Matthew Vaughn |
|
2017 |
Kingsman: The Golden Circle |
Matthew Vaughn |
|
1997 |
Kiss the Girls |
Gary Fleder |
|
1964 |
Kisses for My President |
Curtis Bernhardt |
|
2017 |
Kong: Skull Island |
Jordan Vogt-Roberts |
|
1944 |
Ladies of Washington |
Louis King |
|
1973 |
The Last Detail |
Hal Ashby |
|
2019 |
The Last Full Measure |
Todd Robinson |
|
2016 |
LBJ |
Rob Reiner |
|
2003 |
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde |
Charles Herman-Wurmfeld |
Main Setting
|
2013 |
Life of a King |
Jake Goldberger |
|
2012 |
Lincoln |
Steven Spielberg |
Main Setting
|
2007 |
Lions for Lambs |
Robert Redford |
Main Setting
|
2007 |
Live Free or Die Hard |
Len Wiseman |
[1]
|
1992 |
Live Wire |
Christian Duguay |
|
2012 |
Lockout |
James Mather, Stephen Saint Leger |
|
1976 |
Logan's Run |
Michael Anderson |
[1]
|
2016 |
London Has Fallen |
Babak Najafi |
|
1939 |
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt |
Peter Godfrey |
|
2019 |
Long Shot |
Jonathan Levine |
|
2010 |
Lost Boys: The Thirst |
Dario Piana |
|
2016 |
Loving |
Jeff Nichols |
|
2010 |
MacGruber |
Jorma Taccone |
|
1946 |
Magnificent Doll |
Frank Borzage |
|
1955 |
A Man Called Peter |
Henry Koster |
|
1983 |
The Man Who Wasn't There |
Bruce Malmuth |
|
1985 |
The Man with One Red Shoe |
Stan Dragoti |
|
1972 |
The Man |
Joseph Sargent |
|
1986 |
Manhunter |
Michael Mann |
|
1962 |
The Manchurian Candidate |
John Frankenheimer |
|
2004 |
The Manchurian Candidate |
Jonathan Demme |
[5]
|
1996 |
Mars Attacks! |
Tim Burton |
[1]
|
2002 |
The Master of Disguise |
Perry Andelin Blake |
|
2021 |
The Mauritanian |
Kevin Macdonald |
|
2007 |
Max 2: White House Hero |
Brian Levant |
|
1936 |
A Message to Garcia |
George Marshall |
|
1979 |
Meteor |
Ronald Neame |
|
1993 |
The Meteor Man |
Robert Townsend |
|
2002 |
Minority Report |
Steven Spielberg |
Main Setting [3]
|
2016 |
Miss Sloane |
John Madden |
|
1943 |
Mission to Moscow |
Michael Curtiz |
|
2015 |
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation |
Christopher McQuarrie |
|
1943 |
The More the Merrier |
George Stevens |
|
1987 |
Morgan Stewart's Coming Home |
Alan Smithee |
|
2002 |
The Mothman Prophecies |
Mark Pellington |
|
1939 |
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
Frank Capra |
Main Setting, National Film Registry
|
1997 |
Murder at 1600 |
Dwight H. Little |
Main Setting
|
1996 |
My Fellow Americans |
Peter Segal |
|
2020 |
My Spy |
Peter Segal |
|
1991 |
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear |
David Zucker |
|
1995 |
National Lampoon's Senior Trip |
Kelly Makin |
|
2004 |
National Treasure |
Jon Turteltaub |
Main Setting,[3]
|
2007 |
National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
Jon Turteltaub |
|
1990 |
Navy SEALs |
Lewis Teague |
|
1995 |
The Net |
Irwin Winkler |
|
2009 |
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian |
Shawn Levy |
Main Setting,[3]
|
1995 |
Nixon |
Oliver Stone |
Main Setting
|
1987 |
No Way Out |
Roger Donaldson |
Main Setting,[3]
|
2014 |
Non-Stop |
Jaume Collet-Serra |
|
2008 |
Nothing but the Truth |
Rod Lurie |
|
2013 |
Olympus Has Fallen |
Antoine Fuqua |
Main Setting,[1]
|
1976 |
The Omen |
Richard Donner |
|
2013 |
Parkland |
Peter Landesman |
|
2001 |
Pearl Harbor |
Michael Bay |
|
1993 |
The Pelican Brief |
Alan J. Pakula |
[4]
|
1996 |
The People vs. Larry Flynt |
Miloš Forman |
|
2013 |
Philomena |
Stephen Frears |
|
2015 |
Pixels |
Chris Columbus |
|
1959 |
Plan 9 from Outer Space |
Ed Wood |
|
2001 |
Planet of the Apes |
Tim Burton |
[1]
|
1993 |
Point of No Return |
John Badham |
|
2017 |
The Post |
Steven Spielberg |
Main Setting
|
1986 |
Power |
Sidney Lumet |
|
1934 |
The President Vanishes |
William A. Wellman |
|
1967 |
The President's Analyst |
Theodore J. Flicker |
|
1998 |
Primary Colors |
Mike Nichols |
|
1977 |
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover |
Larry Cohen |
|
1997 |
Private Parts |
Betty Thomas |
|
1984 |
Protocol |
Herbert Ross |
|
2016 |
The Purge: Election Year |
James DeMonaco |
|
1994 |
Quiz Show |
Robert Redford |
|
1981 |
Raiders of the Lost Ark |
Steven Spielberg |
National Film Registry
|
2002 |
Red Dragon |
Brett Ratner |
|
1935 |
Red Salute |
Sidney Lanfield |
|
2007 |
Rendition |
Gavin Hood |
|
2019 |
The Report |
Scott Z. Burns |
Main Setting
|
2012 |
Resident Evil: Retribution |
Paul W. S. Anderson |
|
1983 |
The Right Stuff |
Philip Kaufman |
National Film Registry
|
2014 |
RoboCop |
José Padilha |
|
1996 |
The Rock |
Michael Bay |
|
1992 |
Running Mates |
Michael Lindsay-Hogg |
|
2010 |
Salt |
Phillip Noyce |
|
1940 |
Santa Fe Trail |
Michael Curtiz |
|
2003 |
Scary Movie 3 |
David Zucker |
|
1973 |
Scorpio |
Michael Winner |
|
1946 |
The Searching Wind |
William Dieterle |
|
1979 |
The Seduction of Joe Tynan |
Jerry Schatzberg |
|
2006 |
The Sentinel |
Clark Johnson |
|
1918 |
The Service Star |
Charles Miller |
|
1964 |
Seven Days in May |
John Frankenheimer |
[6]
|
1985 |
Seven Minutes in Heaven |
Linda Feferman |
|
1997 |
Shadow Conspiracy |
George P. Cosmatos |
|
2003 |
Shattered Glass |
Billy Ray |
Main Setting
|
1943 |
Sherlock Holmes in Washington |
Roy William Neill |
|
1998 |
The Siege |
Edward Zwick |
[1]
|
1991 |
The Silence of the Lambs |
Jonathan Demme |
National Film Registry
|
2007 |
The Simpsons Movie |
David Silverman |
|
1998 |
Slam |
Marc Levin |
[6]
|
1943 |
So This Is Washington |
Ray McCarey |
|
1956 |
The Solid Gold Cadillac |
Richard Quine |
|
2020 |
Sonic the Hedgehog |
Jeff Fowler |
|
2017 |
Spider-Man: Homecoming |
Jon Watts |
[3]
|
2019 |
Spies in Disguise |
Troy Quane, Nick Bruno |
|
2001 |
Spy Game |
Tony Scott |
|
1985 |
St. Elmo's Fire |
Joel Schumacher |
Main Setting [4]
|
2009 |
State of Play |
Kevin Macdonald |
Main Setting [3]
|
2005 |
Stealth |
Rob Cohen |
|
1999 |
Storm Catcher |
Tony Hickox |
|
1951 |
Strangers on a Train |
Alfred Hitchcock |
[2]
|
1998 |
Streetwise |
Bruce Brown |
|
2016 |
Suicide Squad |
David Ayer |
|
2002 |
The Sum of All Fears |
Phil Alden Robinson |
|
1980 |
Superman II |
Richard Lester |
[1]
|
1987 |
Suspect |
Peter Yates |
|
2005 |
Syriana |
Stephen Gaghan |
|
2007 |
Talk to Me |
Kasi Lemmons |
|
2004 |
Team America: World Police |
Trey Parker |
|
2013 |
Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor |
Tyler Perry |
|
1927 |
A Texas Steer |
Richard Wallace |
|
2005 |
Thank You for Smoking |
Jason Reitman |
Main Setting [2]
|
1943 |
They Got Me Covered |
David Butler |
|
1952 |
The Thief |
Russell Rouse |
|
2000 |
Thirteen Days |
Roger Donaldson |
Main Setting
|
1975 |
Three Days of the Condor |
Sydney Pollack |
Main Setting [3]
|
1992 |
Thunderheart |
Michael Apted |
|
1994 |
Timecop |
Peter Hyams |
|
1972 |
Top of the Heap |
Christopher St. John |
|
1970 |
Tora! Tora! Tora! |
Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda, Kinji Fukasaku |
|
2000 |
Traffic |
Steven Soderbergh |
|
2007 |
Transformers |
Michael Bay |
|
2011 |
Transformers: Dark of the Moon |
Michael Bay |
|
2009 |
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen |
Michael Bay |
|
2017 |
Transformers: The Last Knight |
Michael Bay |
|
1994 |
True Lies |
James Cameron |
Main Setting [4]
|
2015 |
Trumbo |
Jay Roach |
|
2018 |
Uncle Drew |
Charles Stone III |
|
1916 |
The Velvet Paw |
Maurice Tourneur |
|
2018 |
Vice |
Adam McKay |
Main Setting
|
2008 |
W. |
Oliver Stone |
Main Setting
|
1997 |
Wag the Dog |
Barry Levinson |
Main Setting [3]
|
2007 |
The Walker |
Paul Schrader |
|
1942 |
The War Against Mrs. Hadley |
Harold S. Bucquet |
|
1932 |
Washington Merry-Go-Round |
James Cruze |
|
1943 |
Watch on the Rhine |
Herman Shumlin |
|
2009 |
Watchmen |
Zack Snyder |
|
2005 |
Wedding Crashers |
David Dobkin |
Main Setting [3]
|
1973 |
The Werewolf of Washington |
Milton Moses Ginsberg |
|
1964 |
What a Way to Go! |
J. Lee Thompson |
|
1951 |
When Worlds Collide |
Rudolph Maté |
|
2013 |
White House Down |
Roland Emmerich |
Main Setting [1]
|
1967 |
Who's Minding the Mint? |
Howard Morris |
|
1999 |
Wild Wild West |
Barry Sonnenfeld |
|
1945 |
Without Love |
Harold S. Bucquet |
|
2021 |
Without Remorse |
Stefano Sollima |
|
2020 |
Wonder Woman 1984 |
Patty Jenkins |
Main Setting [3]
|
2021 |
Worth |
Sara Colangelo |
|
1998 |
The X-Files |
Rob Bowman |
|
2008 |
The X-Files: I Want to Believe |
Chris Carter |
|
2000 |
X-Men |
Bryan Singer |
|
2016 |
X-Men: Apocalypse |
Bryan Singer |
|
2014 |
X-Men: Days of Future Past |
Bryan Singer |
[1]
|
2011 |
X-Men: First Class |
Matthew Vaughn |
|
2003 |
X2 |
Bryan Singer |
|
2005 |
XXX: State of the Union |
Lee Tamahori |
|
1942 |
Yankee Doodle Dandy |
Michael Curtiz |
National Film Registry
|
2012 |
Zero Dark Thirty |
Kathryn Bigelow |
|
2009 |
Zombieland |
Ruben Fleischer |
|
2019 |
Zombieland: Double Tap |
Ruben Fleischer |
|
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