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'!

MOVIES MADE IN WESTCHESTER