Films set in Oregon

1975 film directed by Miloš Forman

Stand by Me is a 1986 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Rob Reiner. Based on Stephen King's 1982 novella The Body, the film is set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Oregon, in 1959. Stand by Me stars Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'Connell as four boys who set out on a journey to find the dead body of a missing boy. The film's title is derived from the 1961 song of the same name by Ben E. King, which plays during the film's closing credits.

1985 film directed by Richard Donner

WarGames is a 1983 American techno-thriller film directed by John Badham, written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes, and starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood and Ally Sheedy. Broderick plays David Lightman, a young computer hacker who unwittingly accesses a United States military supercomputer programmed to simulate, predict and execute nuclear war against the Soviet Union, triggering a false alarm that threatens to start World War III. Martin Brest was originally the film's director, but was fired early into production.

2005 film by Cameron Crowe

2014 film by Jean-Marc Vallée

1997 film directed by Kevin Costner

1992 film by Penny Marshall

1994 film by Richard Donner

2005 American film directed by Hideo Nakata

2003 drama film directed by Gus Van Sant

1954 film by Stanley Donen

2016 film by David Lowery

1986 film directed by John Badham

2023 film directed by Ben Affleck

2009 film by Christian Alvart

1974 film by Alan J. Pakula

2025 film directed by Leigh Whannell

Longlegs is a 2024 American mystery horror thriller film written and directed by Osgood Perkins. The film stars Maika Monroe, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, and Nicolas Cage. Set in the 1990s, the story follows a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent assigned to hunt down an occult-obsessed serial killer responsible for a string of family murders across Oregon. The killer is dubbed Longlegs, and baffles the FBI with his perfect ability to seemingly leave zero trace of involvement at the crime scenes.

1979 film directed by Don Coscarelli

2001 film by Barry Levinson

1995 film by Dwight H. Little

2003 film by William Friedkin

1987 film by Garry Marshall

1952 film by Anthony Mann

2005 film by Rupert Wainwright

2018 film directed by Jacques Audiard

2007 film by Gus Van Sant

2010 film by John Carpenter

2021 film directed by Scott Cooper

2015 film by Jeremy Saulnier

2017 film directed by Stuart Hazeldine

1967 film by Andrew V. McLaglen

2004 American film by Steven Brill

1991 film by Dennis Dugan, Brian Levant

2010 film by Roger Kumble

2007 comedy film by Steve Carr

1988 film by Don Coscarelli

2020 film directed by Dave Franco

2019 film directed by Kelly Reichardt

2018 film directed by François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell

2009 film directed by Nelson McCormick

1973 film directed by Robert Aldrich

2024 film directed by Renny Harlin

1971 film by Paul Newman

2009 film directed by Uwe Boll

1996 film by Aaron Norris

2004 film by Jacob Aaron Estes

2023 film directed by JT Mollner

2005 film by Mike Mills

2009 film by Joe Dante

2001 film by J. B. Rogers

2008 film by Guillermo Arriaga

1990 film by Alan Parker

2004 film by William Arntz

2008 film directed by John Glenn

Blackway is a 2015 thriller film directed by Daniel Alfredson and written by Joseph Gangemi and Gregory Jacobs, based on the 2008 novel Go with Me by Castle Freeman Jr. The film stars Anthony Hopkins, Julia Stiles, Ray Liotta, Alexander Ludwig and Hal Holbrook. Filmed in Canada in 2014, the film premiered under the festival title Go with Me at the 2015 Venice Film Festival on September 11, 2015, and was released theatrically on June 10, 2016.

2020 film directed by Tyler Spindel

1995 film by Kevin James Dobson

1946 film by Jacques Tourneur