Films shot in New Jersey

The Godfather is a 1972 American epic gangster film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte and Diane Keaton. It is the first installment in The Godfather trilogy, which chronicles the Corleone family under patriarch Vito Corleone (Brando) and the transformation of his youngest son, Michael Corleone (Pacino), from reluctant family outsider to ruthless mafia boss.

2001 film by Ron Howard

Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. It follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film dramatizes Oppenheimer's studies, his direction of the Los Alamos Laboratory and his 1954 security hearing. Cillian Murphy stars as Oppenheimer, alongside Robert Downey Jr. as the United States Atomic Energy Commission member Lewis Strauss. The ensemble supporting cast includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh.

2002 film by Steven Spielberg

2019 musical film directed by Todd Phillips

The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American biographical dark comedy crime film co-produced and directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Terence Winter, and based on Jordan Belfort's 2007 memoir. It loosely recounts Belfort's career as a stockbroker in New York City and how his firm, Stratton Oakmont, engaged in rampant corruption and fraud on Wall Street, leading to his downfall. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort; Jonah Hill as his business partner and friend Donnie Azoff; Margot Robbie as his second wife, Naomi Lapaglia; Matthew McConaughey as his mentor and former boss Mark Hanna; and Kyle Chandler as FBI special agent Patrick Denham portraying Gregory Coleman. It is DiCaprio's fifth collaboration with Scorsese.

1990 film by Francis Ford Coppola

1994 film by Luc Besson

Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is a film adaptation of Pileggi's 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy. Starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino, the film narrates the rise and fall of Mafia associate Henry Hill and his friends and family from 1955 to 1980.

2012 superhero film by Christopher Nolan

1996 film directed by Roland Emmerich

2019 film directed by Jon Watts

2004 film directed by Michel Gondry

1995 film directed by Terry Gilliam

2008 film by Louis Leterrier

1997 science fiction film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld

2007 film directed by Paul Greengrass

1984 film by Sergio Leone

1954 film by Elia Kazan

2007 film directed by Len Wiseman

1992 film by Martin Brest

2007 film directed by Francis Lawrence

2004 film by Mark Waters

2009 science fiction film by Michael Bay

2005 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2013 American film directed by David O. Russell

2007 film by Ridley Scott

1997 film directed by Taylor Hackford

2013 film by Francis Lawrence

1987 film directed by Oliver Stone

1999 film by Spike Jonze

2019 film directed by Martin Scorsese

2004 film by M. Night Shyamalan

1998 American film directed by Martin Brest

1986 film by Russell Mulcahy

1980 film directed by Sean S. Cunningham

1998 film by Nora Ephron

2003 film directed by Mike Newell

1998 film directed by Roland Emmerich

1993 film by Martin Scorsese

2008 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

2008 film directed by Darren Aronofsky

1903 American silent short Western film directed by Edwin Stanton Porter

2023 film directed by Nia DaCosta

2016 film directed by Clint Eastwood

1984 film directed by John G. Avildsen

1985 film by Woody Allen

1988 film by Penny Marshall

2003 film by Richard Linklater

1992 film by Mick Jackson

2009 film by Nora Ephron

2024 film directed by Todd Phillips

1975 film directed by Sydney Pollack

Zoolander is a 2001 American comedy film directed, co-produced, co-written by and starring Ben Stiller. A satire on the fashion industry, the film follows fashion model Derek Zoolander (Stiller) who is tricked by fashion mogul Jacobim Mugatu (Will Ferrell) into assassinating the Prime Minister of Malaysia, whose progressive laws on the fashion industry would harm his businesses. The cast also features Owen Wilson, Christine Taylor, Milla Jovovich, Jerry Stiller and Jon Voight.

1982 film by Martin Scorsese

1999 film by Kevin Smith

2023 superhero film by James Wan

1988 film by Mike Nichols

1996 film by Jerry Zaks

1994 film directed by Kevin Smith