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Oregon Movie Chronology, 1969-Present
 Ken Kesey |
 Gus Van Sant |
Writer Ken Kesey and Filmmaker/Director Gus Van Sant both figure strongly in Oregon film history.
Learn more about them in the Notable Oregonians Guide: Ken Kesey | Gus Van Sant |
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Source note
The following information about some of the Oregon feature films since 1969 is derived from the Oregon Film and Video Office Web site.
An asterisk * denotes a film with an Oregon producer;
A double asterisk ** denotes partial only.
2012
Redwood Highway*: filmed Southern Oregon, Redwood Highway
C.O.G.*: filmed in Portland, Hood River
Night Moves*: filmed in Roseburg, Medford, Ashland
The Wilderness of James*: filmed in Portland area
The A-List*: filmed in Lake Oswego, Portland
ParaNorman: filmed in Portland
2011
The Kill Hole*: filmed in Portland area
Gone: filmed in Portland
Rid of Me*: filmed in Portland
2010
Walk In*: filmed in Ashland, Medford
Shiver: filmed around Portland
Cell Count*: filmed around Portland
The Weather Outside*: filmed around Portland
Story of Hurt: filmed around Portland, Corvallis, Hood River
House of Last Things*: filmed around Portland
A Walk in My Shoes: filmed around Portland Area
Wake Before I Die*: filmed around Portland
Population 2*: filmed around Oregon
Did You Kiss Anyone?: filmed around Portland Area
The Wait*: filmed around Black Butte Ranch, Sisters, Bend
Little Blue Pill*: filmed around Portland
Blue Like Jazz**: filmed in Portland area
How the Fire Fell: filmed around Portland, Corvallis, Hood River
The "Coraline" stop-motion animated movie was filmed around Portland in 2008.
2009
Restless*: filmed around Portland
Extraordinary Measures: filmed around Portland, Manzanita, Estacada, St. Paul
Golf in the Kingdom: filmed around Oregon Coast, Bandon
Meek's Cutoff: filmed around Harney County
Trainmaster II - Jeremiah's Treasure: filmed around Portland, Sherwood, West Linn
Something Wicked: filmed around Eugene Area
2008
Coraline: filmed around Portland Metropolitan Area
Twilight: filmed around Portland, Oxbow Park, St. Helens, Carver
The Presence: filmed around Mt. Hood Forest
The River Why: filmed around Portland Area, Wilson River
Everyman's War: filmed around Mt. Hood, Scappoose, St. Helens
Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling: filmed around Portland Area, Clackamas County
The Road**: filmed around Portland Area, Fort Stevens
Not Dead Yet*: filmed around Portland Area, Estacada, North Coast
The hit vampire film "Twilight" was filmed in northwest Oregon in 2008.
The Burning Plain**: filmed around Portland Area, Depoe Bay, Lincoln City
2007
Street: filmed around Portland Area
Calvin Marshall: filmed around Medford, Ashland
Management: filmed around Portland Area, Madras
Follow the Prophet: filmed around Portland, Mt. Hood
Selfless*: filmed around Portland
Untraceable: filmed around Portland, Clackamas County, Tualatin
Wendy & Lucy: filmed around Portland, Salem, Astoria, Woodburn
2006
Seraphim Falls*: filmed around McKenzie River, Sahalie Falls
Mr. Brooks**: filmed around Portland
Dark Horizon* **: filmed around Salem
Paranoid Park*: filmed around Portland
My Name is Bruce*: filmed around Medford
Gus Van Sant's "Paranoid Park" about a skateboarder and an accidental death was filmed around Portland in 2006.
Into The Wild**: filmed around Astoria, Cascade Mountains
The Feast of Love: filmed around Portland
The Music Within: filmed around Portland
2005
Conversations With God: filmed around Ashland
Kate’s Smile: filmed around Portland
Valley of Light**: filmed around Scott’s Mills, Marion County
Spiral: filmed around Portland
Drama Queens: filmed around Portland
Path of Evil: filmed around Portland
Cthulhu**: filmed around Astoria
The Go-Getter: filmed around Eugene
Tillamook Treasure: filmed around Manzanita, Tillamook, Vernonia
The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang: filmed around Portland, Milwaukie, Clackamas County
2004
Damaged Goods*: filmed around Portland
Behind The Mask*: filmed around Portland, Banks, St. Helens, Estacada
Zerophelia: filmed around Eugene, Cottage Grove
Yesterday’s Dreams*: filmed around Ashland
A young girl finds adventure and treasure in the film "Tillamook Treasure" from 2005.
Monday Night Gig*: filmed around Portland
Nearing Grace: filmed around Portland
Ring II**: filmed around Astoria
Donut Hole: filmed around Portland
Bigger Than the Sky: filmed around Portland
Sisters*: filmed around Eugene, Cottage Grove
Are We There Yet**: filmed around Portland
Fahrenheit 911**: filmed around Florence
The Good Lot*: filmed around Portland
2003
Losers Lounge*: filmed around Portland
Harvest of Fear*: filmed around Estacada
Indigo: filmed around Ashland, Medford, Talent, Phoenix
Mean Creek: filmed around Estacada, Troutdale
Thumbsucker: filmed around Tigard, Vernonia, Portland
Twilight Conspiracy: filmed around Portland
Coming Up Easy* **: filmed around Portland
A teenage boy does some growing up in the 2003 movie "Thumbsucker," which was filmed in the Portland area.
2002
Elephant: filmed around Portland
Raspberry Heaven: filmed around Ashland
Sacred Science: filmed around Portland
The Skin Horse: filmed around Portland
Dust Factory: filmed around Mt. Hood, Clatskanie, Hillsboro, Portland
Don’t You Cry For Me: filmed around St. Helens
The Ring: filmed around Newport, Columbia Gorge
2001
The Hunted: filmed around Portland, Oregon City, Salem
2000
Eban and Charley: filmed around Portland, Astoria, Seaside
The Wise Ones: filmed around Gresham
Rennie’s Landing**: filmed around Eugene
World Traveler: filmed around Pacific City, Enterprise
AI**: filmed around Gresham
Bandits: filmed around Salem, Wilsonville
Swordfish**: filmed around Redmond
Antitrust**: filmed around Portland
Down And Out With The Dolls: filmed around Portland
Delicate Instruments: filmed around Ashland, Medford
Therese: The Story of a Soul*: filmed around Portland, Salem, Eugene
Pay It Forward**: filmed around Portland
The Sexy Chef*: filmed around Portland
Haley Joel Osment tries to make the world a better place in the film "Pay it Forward" from 2003.
1999
Men of Honor: filmed around Rainier, Portland
Dog Story: filmed around LaGrande
1998
Sammyville: filmed around LaGrande
The Joyriders: filmed around Columbia Gorge, Portland
Bongwater: filmed around Portland
No Alibi: filmed around Portland
Physical Graffiti: filmed around Scappoose, Portland
Double Jeopardy**: filmed around Salem
1997
Inconceivable: filmed around Eugene
Anoosh of the Airways*: filmed around Portland
Big Red**: filmed around Portland
Ricochet River: filmed around Eugene, Cottage Grove
Zero Effect: filmed around Portland
The Postman: filmed around Central Oregon
Total Reality: filmed around Portland
1996
Without Limits: filmed around Eugene
Reggie’s Prayer*: filmed around Portland
Nowhere Man: filmed around Portland Area
A frustrated composer finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher in the 2000 film "Mr. Holland's Opus."
1995
Lords of the Tanglewood: filmed around Hood River
Assassins**: filmed around Portland
Foxfire: filmed around Portland
Things I Never Told You: filmed around St. Helens
1994
Dead Man: filmed around Grants Pass
Tinkercrank*: filmed around Portland
The Ox and the Eye: filmed around Coos Bay, Portland
8 Seconds**: filmed around Pendleton
Free Willy II**: filmed around Astoria
Grizzly Mountain: filmed around Grants Pass, Eugene
Gathering Evidence: filmed around Salem
Mr. Holland’s Opus: filmed around Portland
1993
Fallen Fortress: filmed around Cape Lookout
Guns on the Clackamas: filmed around Oregon City
Imaginary Crimes: filmed around Portland
The River Wild: filmed around Grants Pass
Maverick**: filmed around Columbia Gorge
A 12-year-old street kid and a 3-ton orca find adventure in the 1992 movie "Free Willy."
1992
Sam & Ed: filmed around Portland
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues*: filmed around Bend, Portland
Frameup: filmed around Newport
Fire in the Sky: filmed around Roseburg, Oakland
White Wolves: filmed around Bend
Free Willy: filmed around Portland, Astoria
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: filmed around Astoria
Dr. Giggles: filmed around Portland
Danger Sign: filmed around Portland, Columbia Gorge
The Temp: filmed around Portland, North Coas
The Bed You Sleep In: filmed around Toledo
Body of Evidence: filmed around Portland
Devils Keep*: filmed around Portland
1991
Claire of the Moon*: filmed around Portland, Coast
Wild Child*: filmed around Portland
Incredible Journey: filmed around Portland, Wallowa County, Bend
Frozen Assets: filmed around Portland, Columbia Gorge
Point Break**: filmed around Wheeler, Ecola State Park
A cop goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher in the film "Kindergarten Cop" from 1990.
1990
Love & Dynamite: filmed around Portland
My Own Private Idaho*: filmed around Portland, Maupin
The Favor: filmed around Portland
Shattered**: filmed around North Coast
Run (portion): filmed around Portland
Kindergarten Cop: filmed around Astoria
Grand Tour: filmed around Eugene, Oakland, Bend
1989
Martial Marshal: filmed around Jacksonville
Come See the Paradise: filmed around Portland, Astoria, Willamette Valley
Love at Large: filmed around Portland, Bend
1988
Spirit of the Eagle: filmed around Grants Pass
Drugstore Cowboy*: filmed around Portland
Breaking In: filmed around Portland
Homer and Eddie (portion): filmed around Mt. Hood, Oregon City
A injured Benji must survive in the wilderness in the 1986 movie "Benji the Hunted."
1987
The Year in Lincoln Plains: filmed around Condon
Permanent Record: filmed around Portland
1986
Benji the Hunted: filmed Statewide
Shadow Play*: filmed around Portland
1985
Mala Noche*: filmed around Portland
Short Circuit: filmed around Astoria, Portland, Columba Gorge
Stand By Me: filmed around Eugene, Cottage Grove, Brownsville
1984
Toby’s Gorilla: filmed around Salem
The Dream Chasers: filmed around Medford, Jacksonville
Adventures of Mark Twain*: filmed around Portland
Station to Station*: filmed around Portland
Goonies: filmed around Astoria
American Taboo*: filmed around Portland
Eugene's track scene is the backdrop for the 1980 movie "Personal Best."
1983
Sacred Ground: filmed around Chiloquin, Klamath Falls
Mystery Mansion: filmed around Jacksonville
1982
Cry For The Stranger: filmed around Florence
Unhinged*: filmed around Portland (Pittock Mansion)
Up the Creek: filmed around Bend Area
1981
California Mix: filmed around Astoria
Hysterical: filmed around Cannon Beach, Newport, Depoe Bay
1980
Premonitions: filmed around Coos Bay
Paydirt*: filmed around Newberg/Yamhill County
Just Before Dawn: filmed around Silver Falls State Park
Personal Best: filmed around Eugene
The 1978 comedy classic "Animal House" was filmed in the Eugene area.
1978
Animal House: filmed around Eugene
1977
The Shining: filmed around Timberline (portion)
1975
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest: filmed around Salem, Central Coast
1974
Rooster Cogburn: filmed around Bend, Grants Pass
1972
The Circle*: filmed around Portland
Emperor of the North: filmed in and around Cottage Grove
Kansas City Bomber: filmed around Portland
Lost Horizon: filmed around Mt. Hood
Napoleon and Samantha: filmed around John Day
The 1969 musical film "Paint Your Wagon" featured Clint Eastwood... singing!
1971
American Wilderness: filmed around Central Oregon, Rogue River
1970
Drive, He Said: filmed around Eugene
The Great Northfield MN Raid: filmed around Jacksonville
Sometimes a Great Notion: filmed around Central Coast
Five Easy Pieces (portion): filmed around Eugene, Portland
Getting Straight: filmed around Eugene
1969
The Mightiest Clydesdale: filmed around Estacada
Paint Your Wagon: filmed around Baker