Westchester has a rich history of filmmaking, from director D.W. Griffith's earliest 'talkies' out of Orienta Point in Mamaroneck, to the present day. Below is a list of just some of the films, famous and otherwise, shot at least partially in Westchester County.
8mm - (1999 Nicolas Cage) Elmsford, Hastings on Hudson
Analyze This - (1999 Billy Crystal, Robert DeNiro) Katonah, Ward Pound Ridge & John Jay Reservations
A Beautiful Mind - (2001 Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly dir. Ron Howard) Yonkers
The Best Man - (1999 Dir. Malcolm D. Lee) Westchester County Airport
BIG - (1981Tom Hanks) The Playland board walk, Rye
Big Daddy - (1999 Adam Sandler) Yonkers City Hall, Ceremonial Room
BILL - (1981TV movie starring Mickey Rooney & Dennis Quaid) Yonkers.
Catch Me If You Can - (2002 Leonardo DiCaprio) Yonkers
Company Man - ( 2000 Sigourney Weaver, John Turturro) Dobbs Ferry, Mt.. Vernon, New Rochelle
The Cradle Will Rock - (1999 Rebecca DeMornay) Port Chester
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - (2003 Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet)Yonkers )
The Exterminator - (1980 Dir. James Glickenhaus. Prod. Mark Buntzman. Robert Ginty) private home on North Street, White Plains
Earthly Possessions (1990 TV Movie w/. Susan Sarandon) Hastings on Hudson, New Rochelle
Faithful - (1996 Chazz Palminteri) Harrison
The Family Man (2000 Nicholas Cage, Tea Leoni) The father's tire shop was shot in Sleepy Hollow on North Broadway. Sent by Keesha-Angela Cotto
Far From Home - (1989 Drew Barrymore) Yonkers
Falling in Love - (1984 Robert DeNiro, Meryl Streep) Dobbs Ferry
Fatal Attraction (1987 Glen Close, Michael Douglas) Parts were filmed in Playland
Firstborn - (1984 (Teri Garr, Peter Weller) Bronxville High School
The Flamingo Kid - (1984 Matt Dillon) -Yonkers Raceway
Ghost Dog - (1999 Forest Whitaker) Yorktown Heights, New Castle
Good Bye Columbus - (1969 Ally McGray, Richard Benjamin) The old Colony movie theater, Mamaroneck Ave, White Plains
The Great Love Experiment - (1982 TV Afterschool Special, Dir. Claudia Weill.) Yonkers
Halloween Resurrection - (2002 Jamie Lee Curtis) Yonkers
Home Movies - (1979 Nancy Allen, Kirk Douglas)) Bronxville, Sarah Lawrence College
House of Dark Shadows - (1970 Popular TV series) The Lyndhurst Estate, Tarrytown
The Hustler - (1961Paul Newman, George C. Scott, Jackie Gleason) shot near Getty Square, Yonkers
It Could Happen to You - (1994 Nicolas Cage, Bridget Fonda) Yonkers,
Italian Lessons - (1998) Dir. by Vincent Sassone and winner "Best Short" Westchester Film Festival. Yonkers
Kate & Leopold - (2001 Meg Ryan) Yonkers
Last Ball - (2001 Dir. Peter Callahan) Hastings on Hudson
Lost Souls (2000 Winona Ryder) Mount Kisco
Meet the Parents - (2000 Ben Stiller, Robert DeNiro) Westchester County Airport, Harrison
Mona Lisa Smile - (2003 Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst) Yonkers
Mr. Vincent - (1997 John Hughes, dir. Robert Celestino) Yonkers
The Opponent - (2000 Erika Eleniak. Dir. Eugene Jarecki, DP Joe Di Gennaro) Capitol Theatre, Don Basco Center and Port Chester area
The Nesting - (1982 Gloria Grahame, John Carradine, Robin Groves) The old Octagon House, Irvington
The Paper - (1994 Dir. Ron Howard, Michael Keaton, Glen Close) Gannett Newspaper offices and plant in White Plains
Pollock - (2000 Ed Harris, starred in & directed), Purdys
The Preacher's Wife - (1996 Whitney Houston) Yonkers
Random Hearts - (1999 Dir. Sidney Pollack, with Harrison Ford) Westchester County Airport, Bronxville, SUNY Purchase, Yonkers.
RagTime (1981 James Cagney) from Novel by Westchester's E.L. Doctorow Mt. Kisco
Rear Window - (1998 Christopher Reeves, Daryl Hannah) Yonkers TV remake
Riding in Cars with Boys - (2001 Drew Barrymore)) Yonkers, Tuckahoe, & Mt. Vernon
Rollerball - (2002 Remake w/. LL Cool Rebecca-Romijin Stamos) Yonkers Soundstage on Tuckahoe Road
Rounders - (1998 Matt Damon, Edward Norton) Bronxville
The Royal Tenenbaums - (2001 Gene Hackman) Yonkers
Seven Minutes in Heaven - (1985) Jennifer Connolly Mamaroneck
The Seven-Ups - (1973 Roy Scheider) Elmsford
Six Degrees of Separation - (Will Smith 1993) Bronxville
Sleepers - (1996 Will Smith) Yonkers Courthouse
Sooner or Later - (1979 Rex Smith TV Movie) Cross County Center
The Sopranos - (1999 James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, SUNY's Edie Falco) TV Series- Yonkers Courthouse
Spiderman 2 - (2004 Toby Maguire) Some scenes at sound stage in Tuckahoe
Stepmom - (1998 Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, Ed Harris) Bronxville, Rye
Sticks and Bones - (1972 Dir. by Robert Downey Sr. Screenplay Robert Downey Jr.) Yonkers
Storytelling - (2001 Dir. by Todd Solondz) Yonkers
Summer of Sam - (1999 John Leguizamo, Mira Sorvino) Yonkers
Sweet & Lowdown - (1999 Sean Penn, Uma Thurman Dir. Woody Allen) Rye & Cold Springs along w/ other areas -
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie - (1990 Sarah Lawrence Deborah Harry, Steve Buscemi) Bronxville.
The Thomas Crown Affair - (1999 Remake Pierce Brosnan, Renee Russo) Sleepy Hollow
Unfaithful - (2002 Richard Gere Dir. Adrian Lynn) filmed in White Plains,
The World According to Garp - (1982 Robin Williams) was filmed in and around Eastchester & Bronxville.
Zoolander - (2001 Ben Stiller) Yonkers
A big "THANK YOU" to Michael Keating and "Shapemyers" who brought to our attention a large number of these films! If you know of any others that should join the list please write or email: jonkap@optonline.net and we'll give you a 'screen credit'!