Craig Smith knows a lot more about this than I do. But, here's a list of 55 films about San Francisco and the Bay Area that I put together for guests. I always enjoy watching films about places that I've been or am going to. Some of my guests do also.
Ruth Gordon in Harold and Maude, with music by Cat Stevens, is one of my favorites. Enjoy if you like.
All except 2 rated at least 7.0 By IMDB
1) The Barbary Coast, 1935 - 6.8
2) The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1978 - 7.4
3) Harold and Maude, 1971 - 8
4) Bullitt, 1968 - 7.5
5) Vertigo, 1958 - 8.3
6) The Maltese Falcon, 1941 - 8.1
7) The Conversation, 1974 - 7.9
8) San Francisco, 1936 - 7.3
9) Dirty Harry, 1971- 7.8
10) Rise of the Planet of the Apes, 2011 - 7.6
11) Star Trek IV, 1986 - 7.3
12) The Pursuit of Happyness, 2006 - 8
13) Mrs. Doubtfire, 1993 - 7
14) Dark Passage, 1947 - 7.6
15) What’s Up, Doc, 1972 - 7.8
16) Time After Time, 1979 - 7.2
17) Milk, 2008 - 7.6
18) Play It Again, Sam, 1972 - 7.7
19) The Rock, 1996 - 7.4
20) Magnum Force, 1973 - 7.2
21) After the Thin Man, 1938 - 7.7
22) Out of the past, 1947 - 8.1
23) Woman on the Run, 1954 - 7.4
24) Thieves’ Highway, 1949 - 7.7
25) The Lineup, 1958 - 7.4
26) Shadow of a Doubt, 1943 - 7.9
27) The Lady from Shanghai, 1947 - 7.7
28) The Joy Luck Club, 1993 - 7.6
29) Interview with the Vampire, 1994 - 7.6
30) All About Eve, 1950 - 8.3
31) American Graffiti, 1973 - 7.5
32) Big Trouble in Little China, 1986 - 7.3
33) Point Blank, 1967 - 7.4
34) The Game, 1997 - 7.8
35) Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart,1985 - 6.6
36) Blue Jasmine, 2013 - 7.3
37) The Sniper, 1952 - 7.2
38) The Birds, 1963 - 7.7
39) Sudden Fear, 1952 - 7.5
40) The Towering Inferno, 1974 - 7
41) Charley Chan at Treasure Island, 1939 - 7.3
42) Nora Prentiss, 1947 - 7.2
43) Born to Kill 1947, - 7.2
44) Experiment in Terror, 1962 - 7.2
45) The Last Black Man in San Francisco, 2019 - 7.3
46) The Waiting Room, 2012 - 7
47) The Lineup, 1958 - 7.3
48) Woman on the Run, 1950 - 7.3
49) D.O.A., 1949 - 7.3
50) Basic Instinct, 1992 - 7
51) Impact 1949, - 7.1
52) East Side Sushi, 2014 - 7.1
53) The House on Telegraph Hill, 1951 - 7
54) Blindspotting, 2018 - 7.4
55) Gentleman Jim, 1942 - 7.6
Greg