Well not all of them are great. But if
there is a city (besides Hollywood of course) that has had
more movies based on it or filmed in it partially or in
whole we’ve never heard of it. Some of these gems will
surprise you, most you probably never even heard of. See how
many you can name before reading the list.
1936 Boulder Dam
1941 Las Vegas Nights, Sinatra’s first movie
1944 Moon Over Las Vegas
1944 Sheriff of Las Vegas
1946 Heldorado
1946 Vacation in Reno
1949 The Lady Gambles
1950 My Friend Irma Goes West
1950 Dark City
1951 Painting the Clouds with Sunshine
1952 Sky Full of Moon
1952 The Las Vegas Story
1953 Sabre Jet
1953 Split Second
1954 The Atomic Kid
1954 Highway Dragnet
1955 The Girl Rush
1955 Las Vegas Shakedown
1956 Meet Me in Las Vegas
1956 Crashing Las Vegas
1956 Hollywood or Bust
1957 Eighteen and Anxious
1957 The Amazing Colossal Man
1957 The Joker is Wild
1959 Guns, Girls and Gangsters
1960 Ocean’s Eleven
1963 Viva Las Vegas, Starring Elvis and Ann-Margret
1964 Kiss Me, Stupid
1966 The Professionals
1966 Las Vegas Hillbilys
1967 In Cold Blood
1967 Spree
1968 Las Vegas Free-For-All
1969 They Came to Rob Las Vegas
1969 Machine Gun McCain
1969 Hell’s Angels ‘69
1969 Flareup
1969 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
1970 C.C. and Company
1970 Elvis: That’s the Way It Is
1970 The Grasshopper
1970 The Only Game in Town
1971 Diamonds Are Forever
1971 Play It As It Lays
1972 Banacek: A Million the Hard Way
1974 The Godfather Part II
1974 The Gambler
1974 Harry and Tonto
1975 Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
1975 Las Vegas Roundabout
1976 Las Vegas Lady
1976 McMillan: All Bets Off
1976 The Virginia Hill Story
1977 Damnation Alley
1977 The Gauntlet
1977 Grand Theft Auto
1978 Nowhere to Run
1978 Human Feelings
1978 Corvette Summer
1979 Players
1979 Going In Style
1979 Elvis
1979 The Electric Horseman
1980 Pleasure Palace
1980 Melvin and Howard
1980 Detour To Terror
1981 Red Flag: The Ultimate Game
1982 Things Are Tough All Over
1982 Stacy’s Knights
1982 Rocky III
1982 Nevada Heat
1982 Megaforce
1982 Lookin’ to Get Out
1982 Happily Ever After
1982 Funny Money
1982 Gamble on Love
1982 One from the Heart
1982 Portrait of a Showgirl
1983 Breathless
1983 Koyaanisqatsi
1984 The Vegas Strip Wars
1984 Starman
1984 Oxfort Blues
1984 Oh, God! You Devil
1984 MacShayne: Final Roll of the Dice
1984 Love Streams
1984 Las Vegas Caper
1984 Deadly Impact
1985 Beer
1985 Fever Pitch
1985 Hell Squad
1985 Las Vegas Weekend
1985 Lost in America
1985 Mugsy’s Girls
1985 Rocky IV
1985 Stark
1986 Stripper
1986 Stark: Mirror Image
1986 Over the Top
1986 Iron Eagle
1986 Desert Bloom
1987 Heat
1987 Cherry 2000
1987 Jocks
1987 Las Vegas Serial Killer
1987 Viva Shaf Vegas
1987 You Ruined My Life
1988 Rain Man
1988 Picasso Trigger
1988 Midnight Run
1988 Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
1988 Dance or Die
1988 Above the Law
1988 Aria
1988 Elvis and Me
1988 Hawkeye
1989 Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All
1989 K-9
1989 Nasty Boys
1989 The Neon Empire
1989 Speed Zone
1990 Cold Heat
1990 Flight of Black Angel
1990 Kill Me Again
1990 Little Vegas
1990 Living to Die
1990 Masters of Menace
1990 Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter
1990 Queen of Diamonds
1991 Vegas in Space
1991 Steal America
1991 The Marrying Man
1991 King Ralph
1991 Hot Shots!
1991 Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
1991 The Entertainers
1991 Delusion
1991 Bugsy
1991 Confessions of a Hitman
1991 Do or Die
1992 Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
1992 Cool World
1992 Deadly Bet
1992 Columbo: A Bird in the Hand
1992 Honeymoon in Vegas
1992 The Magic Bubble
1992 Pure Country
1992 Roadside Prophets
1992 Ruby
1992 Solar Crisis
1992 this My Life
1992 Twogether
1992 Universal Soldier
1993 To Be The Best
1993 Reckless Kelly
1993 Midnight Witness
1993 Indecent Proposal
1993 Best of the Best 2
1993 Stakeout
1993 Father Hood
1993 Huck and the King of Hearts
1994 Sword of Honor
1994 Star Trek: Generations
1994 Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas
1994 The Road Killers
1994 Night of the Running Man
1994 I Love Trouble
1994 Hard Vice
1994 8 Seconds
1994 Destination Vegas
1994 Desert Steel
1994 City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly’s Gold
1995 Bodily Harm
1995 The Burger and the King: The Life and Cuisine of Elvis Presley
1995 Casino
1995 Deadly Currency
1995 Beyond Desire
1995 Destiny Turns on the Radio
1995 Funny Bones
1995 Get Shorty
1995 Heat
1995 Heatseeker
1995 I Shot a Man in Vegas
1995 Leaving Las Vegas
1995 Leprechaun 3
1995 Showgirls
1995 Stripshow
1995 Sugartime
1995 To the Limit
1995 Tyson
1995 Virtual Combat
1996 The Winner
1996 Wedding Bell Blues
1996 Vegas and the Mob
1996 Vampirella
1996 That Thing You Do!
1996 Synthetic Pleasures
1996 Swingers
1996 Sgt. Bilko
1996 Mars Attacks!
1996 The Life and Death of Sam Kinison
1996 Independence Day
1996 The Great White Hype
1996 Desert Bloom
1996 The Corporation
1996 Bogus
1996 Feeling Minnesota
1996 Beavis and Butt-head Do America
1996 Black Moon Rising
1997 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
1997 The Bible and Gun Club
1997 Bikini Traffic School
1997 Blasted in Las Vegas
1997 Breakdown
1997 Con Air
1997 Dancing for Dollars
1997 Diva Las Vegas
1997 Don King: Only in America
1997 Dumb Luck in Vegas
1997 Fools Rush In
1997 For Which He Stands
1997 Girls’ Night
1997 Hard Eight
1997 The Las Don
1997 Love Always
1997 L.E.T.H.A.L Ladies: Day of the Warrior
1997 Navajo Blues
1997 Sexual Roulette
1997 Truth or Consequences, N.M.
1997 Vegas Vacation
1998 Very Bad Things
1998 U Turn
1998 Top of the World
1998 The Rat Pack
1998 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998 Money Plays
1998 Lethal Weapon 4
1998 Dance With Me
1998 Illusion Infinity
1998 Mafia!
1998 Mob Law: A Film Portrait of Oscar Goodman
1998 My Giant
1998 Sparkler
1999 Siegfried and Roy: The Magic Box
1999 Play it to the Bone
1999 Go
2000 Pay it Forward
2000 What Planet Are You From?
2001 The Mexican
2001 Memento
2001 America’s Sweetheart
2001 Rat Race
2001 Rush Hour 2
2001 Ocean’s Eleven
2002 Getting There
2003 The Cooler
2003 Looney Tunes: Back in Action
2004 Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
2005 Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
2005 Lucky You
2006 Rocky Balboa
2007 Ocean’s Thirteen
2007 Knocked Up
2008 21
2008 What Happens in Vegas
2009 The Hangover
2010 Somewhere
2010 Kites
