List of fictional towns in film


This is a list of fictional towns and villages in film limited to notable examples.
City NameFilm NameDistributorNotes
AlphavilleAlphavilleAthos FilmsAlphaville is a dystopian city where secret agent Lemmy Caution arrives on a mission to first find out what happened to his precurson and then, how to destroy the computer Alpha 60 as it controls the whole city.
BrigadoonBrigadoonMGMA miraculously blessed village that rises out of the mists every hundred years for only a day.
Castle Rock, MaineCujo
The Dark Half
The Dead Zone
Needful Things
Stand By Me		VariousA fictional city in Maine that is the setting for a number of Stephen King's novels and their respective film adaptations.
Crystal Lake, New JerseyFriday the 13thParamount PicturesA city where Camp Crystal Lake is located.
Deer Meadow, WashingtonNew Line CinemaA 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 and the film.
Emerald CityThe Wizard of OzMGMThe Emerald City is the capital city of the Land of Oz based on L. Frank Baum's 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.
Hill Valley, CaliforniaBack to the Future
Back to the Future Part II
Back to the Future Part III		UniversalHill Valley, California, is a town that serves as the setting of the Back to the Future trilogy and its. In the trilogy, Hill Valley is seen in four different time periods 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.
Madison, DelawareGoosebumpsColumbia Pictures
Mega CityThe MatrixWarner BrothersMega City is the sprawling, virtual city in which Neo lives to begin the film franchise.
Mega-City OneJudge DreddVariousMega 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.
Mill Valley, PennsylvaniaScary Stories to Tell in the DarkLionsgate
Mos EisleyStar Wars20th Century-FoxMos Eisley is a spaceport on the planet Tatooine in the Star Wars universe. Described as a "hive of scum and villainy".
Ogden Marsh, IowaThe CraziesOverture FilmsOgden 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 it's 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.
PleasantvillePleasantvilleWarner Bros.Pleasantville is a black and white 1950s town that is the setting of the in-movie television sitcom Pleasantville.
Raccoon CityResident EvilScreen GemsRaccoon 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, Alice. As in the video game series, it is the birthplace of the infection that eventually consumes the city. Raccoon city is destroyed in the second installment of the films.
Radiator SpringsCarsWalt Disney Pictures, PixarRadiator Springs is a composite of multiple places in various states on U.S. Route 66. In Cars its geographic position resembles that of Peach Springs, Arizona.
San Miguel Arcángel, MexicoHellBandidos FilmsThis Mexican city is the main setting of the 2010 film Hell and this city is notoriously known for its drug trafficking.
Santa Cecilia, MexicoCars 3 and CocoWalt Disney Pictures and PixarThis 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 and is the main setting of 2017 film Coco.
Springwood, OhioA Nightmare on Elm StreetNew Line Cinema
Twin Peaks, Washington'New Line CinemaTwin Peaks, Washington, is the town in David Lynch's 1992 film, a prequel to the television serial drama of the same title.
Wardenclyffe, New York'Columbia PicturesA fictional city in New York. It was named after the Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham, New York.
Warren Valley, OhioTrick 'r TreatWarner Bros. Pictures
ZionThe MatrixWarner BrothersZion 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.