Compiled through Google searching of "architecture in film", "architects in film", "film architecture", and "fictional architects". Sources for when remembered, and skipped titles when already mentioned.

  • Steam: The Turkish Bath (1997)
  • Life As A House (2001)
  • Architects (1990)
  • Strangers When We Meet (1960)
  • 500 Days of Summer (2009)
  • Inception (2010)

1

  • The Fountainhead (1949)
  • The Towering Inferno (1974)
  • Antonio Gaudi (1986)
  • Mr. Blandings Builds His Deram House (1948)
  • The Naked City (1948)
  • The Clock (1945)
  • Skyscraper Souls (1932)
  • 42 Street (1933)
  • Weekend at the Waldorf (1945)
  • The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
  • The Heiress (1949)
  • Mildred Pierce (1945)
  • The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
  • The House of Usher (1960)
  • The Alamo (1960)
  • The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
  • Quo Vadia (1951)
  • Marie Antoinette (1938)

2

  • Theme 1: Early Film and Its Use of Architecture as Significant Set
    • The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920)
    • The Golem (1921)
    • Waxworks (1923)
    • Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1926)
    • Sunrise (1927)
    • Just Imagine (1930)
    • The Black Cat (1934)
    • H.G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come (1936)
  • Theme 2: Animated Film's Take on the World of the Future
    • Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis (Japanaese Anime 2001)
    • On Your Mark (Studio Ghibli 1995) (6 min.)
  • Theme 3: Modern and Contemporary Film and its Version of Architecture of the Future
    • Soylent Green (1973)
    • Playtime (1973), Jacques Tati
    • Alphaville (1965), Jean-Luc Godard
    • Diva (1982)
    • Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985)
    • Blade Runner (1982)
    • The Fifth Element (1997)
    • Batman (1989)
    • Dick Tracy (1990)
    • Minority Report (2002)
  • Theme 4: The Architecture of Space: Contemplating a Zero Gravity World
    • Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924)
    • H.G. Wells: First Men on the Moon (1964)
    • Silent Running (1971)
    • Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
    • Outland (1981)
    • Solaris (1979)
    • Super Structures: The Making of the International Space Station (2000) (52 min.)
    • Total Recall (1990)
    • Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002)
  • Theme 5: The Architect in Film
    • (previously mentioned, and will always be in this subject) The Fountainhead (1949)
    • The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
    • The Belly of an Architect (1987)
    • Indecent Proposal (1993)
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3 Architecture and Design

  • A Man Named Pearl (2007)
  • Chavez Ravine (2004) (24 min.)
  • Objectified (2009)

4 "Architecture in the Movies"

  • The Third Man (1949), Carol Reed
  • The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
  • Ghost Busters (1984)
    • New York City architecture
  • The Cruise (1998)
    • "...but you have to respect a guy who'd fuck the Brooklyn Bridge if he could".

5 "Fictional Architects in Movies"

  • Keanu Reeves in "The Lake House" (2006)
  • Steve Martin in "HouseSitter" (1992)
  • Woody Harrelson in "Indecent Proposal" (1993)
  • Michael Keaton in "White Noise" (2005)
  • Jude Law (landscape architect) in "Breaking and Entering" (2006)
  • Adam Sandler in "Click" (2006)
  • Liam Neeson in "Love Actually" (2003)
  • Wesley Snipes in "Jungle Fever" (1991)
  • Luke Wilson in "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" (2006)
  • Ashton Kutcher (architecture student) in the "Butterfly Effect" (2004)
  • Matt Dillon in "You, Me and Dupree" (2006)
  • Tom Hanks in "Sleepless in Seattle" (1993)
  • Charles Bronson in "Death Wish" (1974)
  • Michelle Pfeiffer in "One Fine Day" (1996)
  • Matt Dillon in "Something About Mary" (1998)
  • Tom Selleck in "3 Men and a Baby" (1987)
  • Henry Fonda in "12 Angry Men" (1957)
  • Zach Braff in "The Last Kiss" (2006)
  • Virginia Madsen in "Firewall" (2006)
  • Matthew Broderick in "The Cable Guy" (1996)

6

  • The Money Pit (1986)
  • Heatwave (1982)
  • Life As a House (2001)

7 "Top Ten Movie Architects"

  • Peter Ibbetson (1935)
  • Don't Look Now (1973)
  • Dead of Night (1945)
  • The Black Cat (1934)

8 "The Architect in Fiction" A book list

9 "Top 10 fictional architects on TV and film"

  • Anna, "Paperhouse" (1988)
  • Art Vanderlay, "Seinfeld"

10 "Seven great movies that star architecture"

  • North by Northwest (1959)
  • Il Posto (1961)
  • The Passenger (1975)
  • 24 City (2008)
  • The International (2009)

"And now let us praise hot architects. Hollywood can't get enough of them.", San Francisco Chronicle.

    • "Architecture and the act of building have a lot of metaphorical power. Building something good seems admirable in itself, beyond what it pays as work. Architecture also has a bit of the common touch, which is important for a movie hero."
    • Elliott Gould in "Falling in Love Again" (1980)
    • Martin Donovan in "The Quiet" (2005) and "Heaven (1998)
    • Walter Pidgeon in "Mrs. Miniver" (1942)
    • Albert Finney in "Two for the Road" (1967)
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