List of fictional towns in film
This is a list of fictional towns and villages in film limited to notable examples.
| City Name | Film Name | Distributor(s) | Notes |
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| Agrabah | Aladdin | Walt Disney Pictures | An Arabian city, where Aladdin, Princess Jasmine, Genie, Abu, Jafar and Iago reside. It has a marketplace and the iconic palace where the Sultan, Jasmine and Rajah live. It also has a parade where lots of people come to watch the elephants, people dancing and a marching band too. |
| Ambrose, Louisiana | House of Wax | Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures and Dark Castle Entertainment | Ambrose is a town whose population consists mostly of wax figures. |
| Amity Island | Jaws
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Universal Pictures | The main setting of the film, located in New York on the beach |
| Antonio Bay, California | The Fog | AVCO Embassy Pictures
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| Antonio Island, Oregon | The Fog | Columbia Pictures | |
| Alphaville | Alphaville | Athos Films | Alphaville is a dystopian city where secret agent (posing as a journalist) Lemmy Caution arrives on a mission to first find out what happened to his precursor and then, how to destroy the computer Alpha 60 as it controls the whole city. |
| Asteroid City | Asteroid City | American Empirical Pictures
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Asteroid Cty is a desert town. |
| Atlantica | The Little Mermaid
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Walt Disney Pictures | An underwater city where Ariel, King Triton and her mermaid siblings live. It is located in Denmark. It is also the hometown of Melody, Ariel and Prince Eric’s daughter. |
| Autobot City | The Transformers: The Movie | ||
| Belleville, USA | The Triplets of Belleville | BBC Bristol and BBC Worldwide
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Belleville is a city in the United States which is based on New York City. |
| Bedford Falls, New York | It's a Wonderful Life | RKO Radio Pictures
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| Brahms, West Virginia | Silent Hill | Silent Hill DCP Inc., Davis Films, Konami | Brahms is a town in Toluca County, West Virginia. |
| Brigadoon | Brigadoon | MGM | A miraculously blessed village that rises out of the mists every hundred years for only a day. This is based on a Broadway musical of the same name. |
| Brightburn, Kansas | Brightburn | Sony Pictures Releasing
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Brightburn is a town in Kansas the main setting of Brightburn. |
| Bismuth, USA | Brimstone | N279 Entertainment and X-Filme and Backup Media and Filmwave and Prime Time and The Jokers Films | Bismuth is a former-mining town in the Wild West. |
| Bristo Camino, California | Hostage | Miramax Films
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Located in Ventura County, California; based on Ojai and Moorpark.[1] |
| Castle Rock, Oregon | Stand by Me | Columbia Pictures | |
| Catsville | Cat City | Mokép | |
| Chesterford, Massachusetts | 211 | Momentum Pictures | A fictional town in New England. Its zip code is 02452, placing it in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. |
| Cloud City | The Empire Strikes Back | 20th Century-Fox
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| Colverdale, Massachusetts | Deck the Halls | 20th Century Fox | |
| Creek Falls | Art of Falling in Love | Brain Power Studio | The entire love story takes place in this town. |
| Crystal Lake, New Jersey | Friday the 13th | Paramount Pictures | A city where Camp Crystal Lake is located. |
| Damon, Washington | Short Circuit (1986 film) | Tri-Star Pictures
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The small town in Washington State where NOVA Laboratories that built Johnny 5 is located. |
| Deer Meadow, Washington | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me | New Line Cinema | A small town in Washington State. In 1988, a body of a teenage girl, Teresa Banks is found in the river, and two FBI agents are sent to investigate the case. Deer Meadow seems to be not so far from Twin Peaks, Washington, the main place in the series (both the 2017 continuation ) and the film.
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| Dillford, Ohio | Freaks of Nature | Sony Pictures Releasing
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Located in the vampires, who initially hate each other, but end up coming together when aliens invade the city and all end up having to face the invaders together.
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| Dinsford, England | One Hundred and One Dalmatians | Walt Disney Pictures | |
| Dogville, Colorado | Dogville | Zentropa Entertainment and Isabella Films B.V. and Something Else B.V. and Memfis Film
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Dogville is a small town located in Rocky Mountains. |
| Duloc | Shrek | DreamWorks Pictures | Duloc is a city-state. |
| Ebbing, Missouri | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Fox Searchlight Pictures and 20th Century Studios and Netflix
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| Emerald City | The Wizard of Oz
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MGM | The Emerald City is the capital city of the Oz books, first described in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . The city is sometimes called the City of Emeralds due to its extensively green architecture.
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| Flagstone, Arizona | Once Upon a Time in the West | Paramount Pictures | |
| Fly Creek, Georgia | Squirm | American International Pictures | A small rural town attacked by worms. |
| Greenbow, Alabama | Forrest Gump | Paramount Pictures | Greenbow, Alabama is a fictional town in Greenbow County which is fictional as well. |
| Green Hills, Montana | Sonic the Hedgehog | Paramount Pictures | The town in which both Sonic and Tom Wachowski live.[2][3] The name is a reference to the iconic Sonic the Hedgehog level Green Hill Zone.[4] |
| Groom Lake City | Traumschiff Surprise – Periode 1 | A Frontier city at the location of the later United States Air Force facility Area 51 | |
| Grouchland | The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland | Columbia Pictures | The main location of the film based on the Sesame Street franchise. Elmo goes to that location where grouches live there, including Grizzy, the founder. The park can be seen in the song Take the First Step where Stuckweed and some woodland creatures sing for Elmo about taking your very first step as a child. When Elmo gets woken up by the Alarm Clock Bird at the beginning of the film, he realizes that he lost his blanket after his friendship with it and has to go to Grouchland to find it. The main location can be seen inside Oscar’s trash can in Sesame Street |
| Haddonfield, Illinois | Halloween franchise | Compass International Pictures and Falcon International Productions | Haddonfield is the main setting of the Halloween franchise. The town located in Livingston County, Illinois. |
| Harper, Connecticut | The Stranger | International Pictures | |
| Hilltop, USA | Wrongfully Accused | Morgan Creek Productions and Constantin Film
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| Hill Valley, California | Back to the Future, Back to the Future Part II, and Back to the Future Part III | Universal | Hill Valley, animated spin-off series. In the trilogy, Hill Valley is seen in four different time periods (1885, 1955, 1985 and 2015) as well as in a dystopian alternate 1985. The films contain many sight gags , verbal innuendos and detailed set design elements, from which a detailed and consistent history of the area can be derived.
The name "Hill Valley" is itself a joke, being an oxymoron. However, an early script for Back to the Future Part II mentioned that Hill Valley was named after its founder, William "Bill" Hill. |
| Hope, Washington | First Blood | Orion Pictures | |
| Inferno, California | Inferno | Columbia TriStar Home Video
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Inferno is a desert town. |
| Jonathanland | Madison Park | Mason Ewing Corporation | Created by Mason Ewing, Jonathanland is the city where Baby Madison lives. |
| Karatas, Kazakhstan | Goliath Assault Ulbolsyn A Dark, Dark Man Plague at the Karatas Village |
Various | A fictional village (aul) in Kazakhstan that is used as a setting in numerous Adilkhan Yerzhanov's films. In A Dark, Dark Man, according to the license plates, the village is located in the Almaty Region. |
| Khansaar, India | Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire | Hombale Films | An autonomous dystopian city-state in India ruled by three tribes. |
| Lillian, Ohio | Super 8 | Paramount Pictures | A town in Ohio, where local children find an alien while filming their movie, and where people start experiencing problems with electricity, as well as strange disappearances of some people and electronic items. |
| Loganville, Maryland | Senior Year | Netflix | |
| Madison, Delaware | Goosebumps
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Columbia Pictures | |
| Mantua | Romeo + Juliet | 20th Century Fox | Mantua is a desert trailer park. It based on Mantua. |
| Mega City | The Matrix | Warner Brothers | Mega City is the sprawling, virtual city in which Neo lives to begin the film franchise. |
| Mega-City One | Judge Dredd | Various | Mega City 1 is an enormous megacity in which the inhabitants of the Judge Dredd universe live. The City is a conglomeration of many cities, fused into one large city with a gigantic downtown and an impressive skyline. It stretches most of the length of the US East coast. |
| Metropolis | Metropolis | Parufamet | Megacity with a wide gap between rich and poor
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| Metroville, California | The Incredibles | Pixar Animation Studios
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| Middleton, USA | 11:14 | Firm Films and Media 8 Entertainment
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Middleton is a town. The population is 14,483. |
| Midlothia, USA | Midlothia | Intentional Films | |
| Millbrook, New York | A Quiet Place 2
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Paramount Pictures | Small town in upstate New York. |
| Mill Valley, Pennsylvania | Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark | Lionsgate | |
| Moesko Island, Washington | The Ring | DreamWorks Pictures | |
| Monstropolis | Monsters, Inc. | Disney/Pixar | The town where the titular Monsters, Inc. is located and Mike and Sulley’s hometown |
| Mos Eisley | Star Wars | 20th Century-Fox | Mos Eisley is a spaceport on the planet Tatooine in the Star Wars universe. Described as a "hive of scum and villainy". |
Mos Espa
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Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace | 20th Century-Fox | Mos Espa is a spaceport on the Northern hemisphere of the planet pod race
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| Mt. Abraham, New York | Final Destination | New Line Cinema | Mount Abraham, New York is a fictional town located in the U.S. state of New York. Final Destination is set in Mt. Abraham. |
| Newton Haven, UK | The World's End | Universal Pictures and Focus Features | |
| Nickeltown, Tennessee | Silent Hill | Silent Hill DCP Inc. and Davis Films and Konami | |
| Nilbog | Troll 2 | Epic Productions
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| Oak Ridge | Acceptable Risks | 1986 ABC made-for television movie | Oak Ridge is a small American town with a major chemical plant. The plant manager has financial pressure from HQ in Chicago. Shortages and other factors lead to an accident that kills hundreds of people in the town. |
| Ogden Marsh, Iowa | The Crazies | Overture Films | Ogden Marsh is a small Iowa town with a population of 1,260 people, not so far from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A military plane, that was carrying the samples of a Rhabdovirus called "Trixie", has crashed in the Hopman Bog, contaminating the town's water supply and infecting its citizens, causing them to turn into homicidal killers. Presumably all the population of Ogden Marsh was destroyed by the military, both infected and non-infected; at the end of the film, Ogden Marsh is destroyed by a nuclear explosion, carried out by the military to contain the virus and the truth about it. |
| Old Stump, Arizona | A Million Ways to Die in the West | Universal Pictures | |
| Peacock, Nebraska | Peacock | Cornfield Productions and Mandate Pictures | |
| Perfection, Nevada | Tremors (franchise) | Universal Pictures | Perfection is a town the population is 14. |
| Pleasantville | Pleasantville | Warner Bros. | Pleasantville is a black and white 1950s town that is the setting of the in-movie television sitcom Pleasantville. |
| Pokyo | Cat City | Mokép | Pokyo is a city which is based on Tokyo. |
| Portoroso | Luca | Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar | The city of Italy that was based on the seaside towns in the Italian Riviera and the main setting of the film. |
| Pozharnov, Russia | DC Extended Universe | Warner Bros. Studios | Located near nuclear disaster similar to the Chernobyl disaster .
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| Pribrezhny, Russia | Leviathan | A Company Russia | Pribrezhny is a town in Northern Russia, located on the coast of a small bay where whales can sometimes be seen. |
| Raccoon City | Resident Evil | Screen Gems | Raccoon City is a small, industrialized city located in the Midwestern United States. It was home to the Umbrella corporation, and main character of the film series, second installment of the films.
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| Radiator Springs | Cars | Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar | Radiator Springs is a composite of multiple places in various states on U.S. Route 66. In Cars (film) its geographic position (as displayed on a map during a flashback) resembles that of Peach Springs, Arizona. |
| Ratropolis, England | Flushed Away | DreamWorks Animation, Aardman Animations | Ratropolis is a city in the sewers of London. It is based on the city. |
| Redemption, USA | The Quick and the Dead | Sony Pictures Releasing
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| Red Hill, USA | Red Hill | Sony Pictures Releasing International
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| Rockbridge, California | Christine | Columbia Pictures | |
| Rock Ridge | Blazing Saddles | Warner Bros. Pictures | |
| Rock Vegas | The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas | Universal Pictures | Rock Vegas is a city in the stone age. The city is based on Las Vegas. |
| San Angeles, California | Demolition Man | Warner Bros. | San Angeles is a utopian agglomeration that was created by merging San Diego, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. |
| San Miguel Arcángel, Mexico | Hell | Bandidos Films | This Mexican city is the main setting of the 2010 film drug trafficking .
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| Sandford, UK | Hot Fuzz | Universal Pictures and Rogue Pictures | |
| Santa Cecilia, Mexico | Cars 3 and Coco | Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar | This Mexican city was inspired by Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico and first appeared in Cars 3 as the birthplace of Gabriel, one of the secondary characters of this movie. It is also the main setting of the 2017 film Coco. |
| Seabrook | Zombies | Disney Channel | The main setting of the movie franchise; has a strict law where everything must be alike and perfect, and anything different is unacceptable. |
| Sexville | Sexville | IFG | Sexville is a town. The population is 169. |
| Silent Hill, West Virginia | Silent Hill | Silent Hill DCP Inc., Davis Films, Konami | Silent Hill is a town in Toluca County, West Virginia. |
| Silver Creek, Colorado | Misery | MGM, Castle Rock Entertainment | |
| Smalltown | The Muppets | Disney | The town where Gary, Mary and Walter live. |
| Springwood, Ohio | A Nightmare on Elm Street | New Line Cinema | |
| Suburbicon | Suburbicon | Paramount Pictures | |
| Sweetwater, Arizona | Once Upon a Time in the West | Paramount Pictures | |
| Sylvane, Illinois | Silent Hill | Silent Hill DCP Inc. and Davis Films and Konami | |
| Tenderville, Oregon | Rampage | Event Film Distribution | Located in (also fictional) Mallet County, Oregon. |
| Theed | Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace | 20th Century-Fox | Theed is the capital city of the planet Naboo and its seat of government. |
| Tipoca City | Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones | 20th Century-Fox | Tipoca City is the capital city of the watery planet Kamino and the location of the Kaminoan cloning facilities.
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| Twin Peaks, Washington | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | New Line Cinema | Twin Peaks, Washington, is the town in David Lynch's 1992 film, a prequel to the television serial drama of the same title. |
| Two-Bit, California | The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound | Hanna-Barbera Productions | A small desert town in California Gold Rush era where Huckleberry Hound is unexpectedly appointed as its sheriff to defend against the Dalton Gang .
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| Verona Beach | Romeo + Juliet | 20th Century Fox | Verona Beach is the main setting of the film. It's based on Verona. |
| Victory, California | Don't Worry Darling | Warner Bros. Pictures | |
| Waaji City | Saaho | T-Series | A fictional city ruled by gangsters, inspired by Abu Dhabi and Mumbai.[5] |
| Wardenclyffe, New York | Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween | Columbia Pictures | A fictional city in New York. It was named after the Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham, New York. |
| Warren Valley, Ohio | Trick 'r Treat | Warner Bros. Pictures | |
| Westview | WandaVision | Walt Disney Pictures and Marvel | Westview is based on the town of Leonia, New Jersey and the main place of the entire series. |
| Woodsboro, California | Scream, Scream 4, Scream (2022) | Dimension Films | |
| Woop Woop, Australia | Welcome to Woop Woop | Film Finance Corporation Australia | |
| Zion | The Matrix | Warner Brothers | Zion is a city in The Matrix films. It is the last human city on Earth after a cataclysmic nuclear war between humankind and sentient machines, which resulted in artificial lifeforms dominating the world. |
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Regarding the fictional town of Springwood, U.S.A. of the "Nightmare on Elm Street" films and TV series, there actually exists a Springwood located in New South Wales, Australia. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springwood,_New_South_Wales