Vertigo
Considered by many as
Hitchcock's master work,
starring Jimmy Stewart.
This film includes great shots
of SF, Muir Woods, and
Mission San Juan Bautista.

See also Hitchcock's The Birds
filmed in Bodega Bay just
north of San Francisco.
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Bullitt
Steve McQueen stars as a cop
against the mob is one of his early classics, with Jacqueline Bisset.
Featuring one of the greatest
chase scenes ever filmed,
on the streets of SF.

See also The Maltese Falcon,
with Humphrey Bogart as Sam
Spade, along with Peter Lorre
and Sidney Greenstreet, in a
classic film noir set in SF.
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The Graduate
Dustin Hoffman stars in this funny
coming of age movie, set in and
around SF in the late 60s. Very controversial at the time for its
frank portrayal of adultery.

See also American Graffiti
(25th Anniversary Edition,
another great coming of age
movie set in California 1962,
starring Richard Dreyfus,
Ron Howard, and many others.
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Basic Instinct
A modern classic, set in and
around SF, with Michael Douglas
as the cop trying to figure out
the psycho Sharon Stone.

See also: The Game,
a very suspenseful movie
with Douglas and Sean Penn,
set in San Francisco.
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The Birdman of Alcatraz
Burt Lancaster's famous
portrayal of Robert Stroud,
the Birdman of Alcatraz.

See also Clint Eastwood
in Escape From Alcatraz,
the true story of a possibly
successful prisoner escape
from The Rock.
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The Dirty Harry Collection
All five of Clint Eastwood's
"Dirty" Harry Callahan movies.
Go ahead, make my day! You
gotta ask yourself, do you feel
lucky? Well, do you, punk?

See also: Play Misty for Me
Clint Eastwood's directorial
debut! Clint is a jazz DJ stalked
by a woman scorned, in and
around Carmel. Sort of the
precursor to Fatal Attraction.
Featuring a young Donna Mills.
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