Movies Based in San Francisco?

Milk is a 2008 American biographical film on the life of LGBT rights activist and politician , who was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, and one of the first three in the United States as a whole, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Directed by

Gus Van Sant

Produced by

Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen

Written by

Dustin Lance Black

Starring

Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, Alison Pill, Victor Garber

Gross revenue

53,796,834

Running Time

129min

I did a quick search and adding one movie per answer would take a long time. Here is a link to all the movies based in SF:

Hope you have the time to watch them all :-)

It's such an old movie, I don't know why I suddenly remembered it, but "George of the Jungle" is set in SF, and is a h-i-l-a-r-i-o-u-s movie. Recommended if you haven't watched it yet :)

The Rock, starring Sean Connery, Nicholas Cage, Ed Harris.

1906 is an upcoming disaster film directed by Brad Bird and based on events just prior to and during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The film examines corruption within the then government of San Francisco, as well as the policemen who worked to defeat these criminal activities.

it's expected to come out in 2012

80's pop-rocker Rick Springfield demonstrates a "Human Touch" in Hard to Hold (Universal, 1984). Rick literally runs into his love interest, played by TV's B-grade Janet Eilber, at California and Kearny.