I used to drive over the same bridge that Bill Murray stopped his cab on in the opening scene in “Stripes.” In fact, Louisville, KY (where I live) is a stand-in in spots for New York. In fact, if you look at the opening scene, when he picks up the two guys (and has a parking ticket for parking too close to a fire hydrant), you can actually see the word “Louisville” on the building on the right side of the screen.
Absolutely. The building I work in was used in a couple of scenes in Spectre. Anything beyond that is barely worth a mention.
It’s TV, but most of the exterior stuff for the BBC’s Fleabag is shot very locally. All within about a 10 minutes walk. I’ve been an occasional - the standard has varied too much for me to be a regular - customer for two decades at the café used as her guinea pig themed one. There’s a lot of locations I recognise. (Still haven’t figured out the father’s house.)
Them part of the recent adaptation of A Sense of an Ending was filmed just around the corner. Even had to walk through the crew as they set up a shot. The location doesn’t fit the novel, but has the appropriateness that Julian Barnes is a local.
Which is used in a massive amount of films, etc. Just off the top of my head, the exterior is part in one of the Pirates of the Caribbean films, the Place de Bastille in the film version of Les Mis (notably the final number) and the BBC’s SS-GB. It’s really an utter cliché, particularly since the lamps are so distinctive.
Add to which films using the Painted Hall …
I was flipping through channels a while back and saw either the end credits or the very end of a movie. I was like, “Hey! That’s Hillsboro Pike!” – the main commercial thoroughfare of a ritzy Nashville neighborhood. I didn’t realize it at the time, but the movie was The Thing Called Love, which is about Nashville songwriters and features the Bluebird Cafe, which is on Hillsboro Pike.
The other big reactions I recall having when seeing locations I’ve been to in real life weren’t in movies. One was recognizing the geography of a very futuristic Vancouver in the opening of Mass Effect 3. The other was watching Daenerys and Khal Drogo get married [spoilers!] at Malta’s Azure Window in Game of Thrones.
I’ve been in the University of London’s Senate House, used in a bunch o’ movies; my favorite was Ian McKellen’s Thirties Fascist take on Richard III: Senate House, London - Wikipedia
Tell me about it. And the game scenes from the first movie were filmed at the ballpark in Milwaukee!
I have a few. First was the movie Bachelor Party with Tom Hanks. The theater they run into at the end was my local theater in Simi Valley, CA.
Fair enough to count is the World Trade Center, which had several movies filmed, including the finale of King Kong (1976). I was also at The Sopranos’ Bada Bing in New Jersey. I installed a cell site just down the street back in 2003.
It’s been mentioned, but when I was in Seattle, I spent a day going to the Twin Peaks sites. I was at the Great Northern falls, had lunch at the RR Diner, dinner at the Road House. I visited the Saw Mill (before it was torn down) and the office doubled as the Sheriff’s office. I found the train cars that hosted the murder and even found a pre-cut log in a pile. I went to Ronette’s bridge. I also stood at the spot where the Twin Peaks town sign was.
Finally, I was in Pittsburgh last October and spent a day at the Evans City Cemetery where Night of the Living Dead was filmed. I found all the relevant grave stones. The funny thing is that they drive all over the cemetery and walk quite far while the stones they filmed are literally right up front when you first drive into the cemetery. I then went to see Night of the Living Dead at the Monroeville Mall, where Dawn of the Dead was filmed. Scoured the whole mall to find the filming spots. Most of it is gone. The ice rink is now the food court and Pennys moved to the other end of the mall was was replaced by the movie theater.
Two come to mind immediately. The first is the “ferry dock” in Wargames where Matthew Broderick and his girlfriend are (supposedly) running to catch the ferry to the island where the reclusive scientist lives. As I said in another thread, they must plan on swimming since they’re actually running down a boat ramp in Steilacoom, WA — the actual dock is on the far side of the railroad bridge.
And both my daughters went to “Padua High” in Ten Things I Hate about You.
I been to Acoma, NM and visited the chuch where they filmed “My Name Is Nobody”. The church is about 400 years old and would have looked the same at the time the movie was set, but really I have no idea why they filmed in Acoma. Henry Fonda is looking for someone and is told the person is in Acoma. “Why” he asks, “is he in Acoma?” Then he’s in Acoma and five minutes later he is somewhere else and they never go back. So that’s five minutes, but you can stick around and watch the rest of the film. It’s a pretty good flick.
There was a fad for filming in Montreal a while back and you used to see the view from the scenic lookout on top of Mont Royal in every movie. Very pretty, not iconic.
The neighborhood where Adena Watkins was killed in the first episode, and Bayliss mishandled the crime scene for much of the season? I don’t know for a fact that that was my mom’s neighborhood in the 1920s and 30s, but it sure looks like Ashburton St. to me!
The road M’s car was stuck on when MI-6 headquarters was blown up? I don’t know the name of that street, but I know I’ve been on it. Maybe the Victoria Embankment?
A few scenes in the movie, Romper Stomper, were set in a derelict tram depot/maintenance building in North Fitzroy, Victoria (Australia).
As a kid, my friends and I would hang out in the very same building, exploring the underground tunnels and climbing up precarious ladders to get to god knows where.
Good times. 
You’re not the first person to notice this. It’s got to the point of being very annoying!
My examples of other places are too numerous, not because I’ve been to lots of exotic places but because I’m the sort of person who takes an interest in the details of historic buildings. So I will confine myself to one especially pretentious example. When I first saw L’Année dernière à Marienbad, I was particularly proud with myself in nerdishly spotting that some of the close-ups of Rococo decoration in the opening sequence were from the Amalienburg at Nymphenburg, a building I had visited over twenty years previously. That much of it was filmed at Nymphenburg does become more obvious later on.
At the beginning of Hairspray, Tracey is going to school, singing “Good Morning Baltimore.” When she gets to school, we see that it’s a 1960s-ish modern building. That building is a real school–Lord Landsdowne Public School, near College Street and Spadina Avenue, in Toronto. I went by it many times when I lived in Toronto, and recognized it immediately when I saw the movie.
The episode of Due South set in Chicago’s Chinatown opened with a shot of a tram going down Spadina Street. I didn’t know this when I first saw the episode, but I sure realize it now that I’ve lived in Toronto for eight years.
Rewatching the series now I notice all kinds of things in the background, from Canadian flags to the CN Tower.
I live in New York City so this is hardly fair, but here are just a few:
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The intersection where Dustin Hoffman says, “I’m walkin’ here!” in Midnight Cowboy (58th St. & 6th Ave.)
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The bank that was robbed in Dog Day Afternoon, which is no longer a bank but condominium apartments
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The apartment building Barbara Streisand lives in in For Pete’s Sake (1974)
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The “Terminal Bar” from Martin Scorsese’s After Hours, which in real life is a bar of a different name
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The shop where Madonna buys a jacket in Desperately Seeking Susan
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The deli where Meg Ryan fakes an orgasm in When Harry Met Sally
Also I’ve stood on the subway grate where Marilyn Monroe stood and had her dress blown upwards, but this was only for the publicity photos, as the shot in the movie Seven Year Itch was recreated on a Hollywood set.
That high school is unbelievably beautiful.
“The Lost Boys” was partly filmed around the Santa Cruz Boardwalk while I was going to school at UC Santa Cruz. I remember seeing Alex Winter and Kiefer Sutherland in costume. Didn’t know who they were until much later…
Nope on all levels. 
That scene is from Skyfall, not Spectre, and, from memory, they’ve been held up on the Vauxhall Bridge when the HQ explodes.
The road you’re probably thinking of is Millbank, which runs along the river past Tate Britain, before intersecting with the north end of the bridge. Opposite the real MI6 HQ, which the series had adopted as the fictional one. That area is however used in Spectre as the new HQ for Andrew Scott’s bogus organisation, but that’s all CGI
“That was Maine Township High School North” said the guy who attended in 1971-2.
Top Gun filmed scenes on/from the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) while I was aboard; I made the closing credits, right there where they thanked the officers & crew of the ship.
I haven’t been approached about being in the sequel 
In The Princess Bride, the scene where the Princess pushes Westley down a hill into a valley is filmed at Cave Dale in the Peak District.
This is one of my regular dog-walking routes.