# List of films set in Washington, D.C.

This is a list of feature films set in Washington, D.C.
| Released | Title | Director | Comments | Filmed in DC |
| 2022 | The 355 | Simon Kinberg | | Y |
| 2009 | 2012 | Roland Emmerich | | Y |
| 1997 | Absolute Power | Clint Eastwood | | Y |
| 2015 | Accidental Love | David O. Russell | | Y |
| 2016 | The Accountant | Gavin O'Connor | | |
| 1962 | Advise & Consent | Otto Preminger | Main Setting | Y |
| 2018 | Affairs of State | Eric Bross | | |
| 1997 | Air Force One | Wolfgang Petersen | | Y |
| 1976 | All the President's Men | Alan J. Pakula | Main Setting, National Film Registry | Y |
| 2016 | All the Way | Jay Roach | Main Setting | |
| 2001 | Along Came a Spider | Lee Tamahori | | |
| 1995 | The American President | Rob Reiner | Main Setting | Y |
| 1997 | Amistad | Steven Spielberg | | |
| 2019 | Angel Has Fallen | Ric Roman Waugh | | |
| 1982 | Annie | John Huston | | |
| 2015 | Ant-Man | Peyton Reed | | |
| 2012 | Argo | Ben Affleck | | Y |
| 1999 | Arlington Road | Mark Pellington | Main Setting | Y |
| 1998 | Armageddon | Michael Bay | | Y |
| 1992 | Article 99 | Howard Deutch | | |
| 1987 | Assassination | Peter R. Hunt | | |
| 2020 | The Banker | George Nolfi | | |
| 2016 | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Zack Snyder | | Y |
| 2012 | Battleship | Peter Berg | | |
| 1996 | Beavis and Butt-Head Do America | Mike Judge | | |
| 1979 | Being There | Hal Ashby | Main Setting, National Film Registry | Y |
| 1999 | Bicentennial Man | Chris Columbus | | |
| 1977 | Billy Jack Goes to Washington | Tom Laughlin | Main Setting | |
| 2009 | Black Dynamite | Scott Sanders | | |
| 1977 | Black Sunday | John Frankenheimer | | |
| 2022 | Blacklight | Mark Williams | | Y |
| 2013 | Blue Caprice | Alexandre Moors | | |
| 2008 | Body of Lies | Ridley Scott | | Y |
| 1992 | Boomerang | Reginald Hudlin | | |
| 2008 | Borat | Larry Charles | | Y |
| 1950 | Born Yesterday | George Cukor | National Film Registry | Y |
| 1993 | Born Yesterday | Luis Mandoki | | |
| 2012 | The Bourne Legacy | Tony Gilroy | | |
| 2007 | Breach | Billy Ray | Main Setting | Y |
| 2015 | Bridge of Spies | Steven Spielberg | | |
| 1987 | Broadcast News | James L. Brooks | Main Setting National Film Registry | Y |
| 2008 | Burn After Reading | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | | Y |
| 2013 | The Butler | Lee Daniels | Main Setting | |
| 1995 | Canadian Bacon | Michael Moore | | |
| 1972 | The Candidate | Michael Ritchie | | |
| 2014 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier | Anthony Russo, Joe Russo | Main Setting | Y |
| 2010 | Casino Jack | George Hickenlooper | | |
| 1996 | Chain Reaction | Andrew Davis | | Y |
| 1989 | Chances Are | Emile Ardolino | Main Setting | Y |
| 2007 | Charlie Wilson's War | Mike Nichols | | |
| 2004 | Chasing Liberty | Andy Cadiff | | Y |
| 2024 | Civil War | Alex Garland | Main setting | |
| 1994 | Clear and Present Danger | Phillip Noyce | | Y |
| 2002 | Collateral Damage | Andrew Davis | | Y |
| 2015 | Concussion | Peter Landesman | | |
| 1997 | Contact | Robert Zemeckis | | Y |
| 2000 | The Contender | Rod Lurie | Main Setting | |
| 2003 | The Core | Jon Amiel | | |
| 1996 | Courage Under Fire | Edward Zwick | | Y |
| 1955 | The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell | Otto Preminger | | |
| 1947 | Crossfire | Edward Dmytryk | | |
| 1983 | D.C. Cab | Joel Schumacher | Main Setting | Y |
| 1958 | Damn Yankees | George Abbott, Stanley Donen | | Y |
| 1983 | Daniel | Sidney Lumet | | |
| 1993 | Dave | Ivan Reitman | Main Setting | Y |
| 2004 | The Day After Tomorrow | Roland Emmerich | | Y |
| 1951 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | Robert Wise | National Film Registry | Y |
| 1998 | Deep Impact | Mimi Leder | | Y |
| 2004 | The Defender | Dolph Lundgren | | |
| 1999 | Dick | Andrew Fleming | Main Setting | Y |
| 1990 | Die Hard 2 | Renny Harlin | | |
| 1992 | The Distinguished Gentleman | Jonathan Lynn | | |
| 1991 | Doc Hollywood | Michael Caton-Jones | | |
| 2021 | Don't Look Up | Adam McKay | | Y |
| 2011 | The Double | Michael Brandt | | Y |
| 1944 | The Doughgirls | James V. Kern | | |
| 1964 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Stanley Kubrick | Main Setting National Film Registry | |
| 1994 | Drop Zone | John Badham | | |
| 2004 | Eagle Eye | D. J. Caruso | | Y |
| 1956 | Earth vs. the Flying Saucers | Fred F. Sears | | |
| 2013 | The East | Zal Batmanglij | | Y |
| 2006 | Eight Below | Frank Marshall | | |
| 1999 | Election | Alexander Payne | | Y |
| 2016 | Elvis & Nixon | Liza Johnson | | |
| 2002 | The Emperor's Club | Michael Hoffman | | |
| 2006 | End Game | Andy Cheng | | |
| 1998 | Enemy of the State | Tony Scott | | Y |
| 1996 | Eraser | Chuck Russell | | Y |
| 2007 | Evan Almighty | Tom Shadyac | | Y |
| 1973 | Executive Action | David Miller | | |
| 1996 | Executive Decision | Stuart Baird | | |
| 1973 | The Exorcist | William Friedkin | Main Setting, National Film Registry, see Exorcist steps | Y |
| 1990 | The Exorcist III | William Peter Blatty | | Y |
| 1964 | Fail Safe | Sidney Lumet | | |
| 2010 | Fair Game | Doug Liman | | Y |
| 2011 | Fast Five | Justin Lin | | |
| 1951 | FBI Girl | William A. Berke | | |
| 1959 | The FBI Story | Mervyn LeRoy | | |
| 1992 | A Few Good Men | Rob Reiner | | Y |
| 1980 | The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu | Piers Haggard | | |
| 2013 | The Fifth Estate | Bill Condon | | |
| 1993 | The Firm | Sydney Pollack | | Y |
| 2004 | First Daughter | Forest Whitaker | | |
| 1980 | First Family | Buck Henry | | |
| 1996 | First Kid | David M. Evans | | Y |
| 1948 | For the Love of Mary | Frederick de Cordova | | |
| 1994 | Forrest Gump | Robert Zemeckis | National Film Registry | Y |
| 1971 | The French Connection | William Friedkin | National Film Registry | Y |
| 2008 | Frost/Nixon | Ron Howard | | |
| 1997 | G.I. Jane | Ridley Scott | | Y |
| 2013 | G.I. Joe: Retaliation | Jon M. Chu | | Y |
| 2009 | G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra | Stephen Sommers | | |
| 1933 | Gabriel Over the White House | Gregory La Cava | | |
| 2019 | Georgetown | Christoph Waltz | Main Setting | |
| 2017 | Geostorm | Dean Devlin | | |
| 1996 | Get on the Bus | Spike Lee | | |
| 2008 | Get Smart | Peter Segal | Main Setting | Y |
| 2023 | Ghosted | Dexter Fletcher | Main Setting | Y |
| 2012 | Goats | Christopher Neil | | |
| 1974 | The Godfather Part II | Francis Ford Coppola | National Film Registry | Y |
| 2019 | Godzilla: King of the Monsters | Michael Dougherty | | |
| 2013 | A Good Day to Die Hard | John Moore | | |
| 2006 | The Good Shepherd | Robert De Niro | | Y |
| 1986 | Good to Go | Blaine Novak | | |
| 1943 | Government Girl | Dudley Nichols | | |
| 2022 | The Gray Man | Anthony Russo, Joe Russo | | |
| 1978 | The Greek Tycoon | J. Lee Thompson | | |
| 1979 | Hair | Miloš Forman | | |
| 2001 | Hannibal | Ridley Scott | | Y |
| 2011 | Haywire | Steven Soderbergh | | |
| 2003 | Head of State | Chris Rock | | Y |
| 1986 | Heartburn | Mike Nichols | | |
| 2000 | Hollow Man | Paul Verhoeven | | Y |
| 1980 | Hopscotch | Ronald Neame | | |
| 1997 | The House of Yes | Mark Waters | | |
| 1958 | Houseboat | Melville Shavelson | | Y |
| 2010 | How Do You Know | James L. Brooks | | Y |
| 2018 | Hunter Killer | Donovan Marsh | | |
| 1997 | I Think I Do | Brian Sloan | | |
| 2016 | I.T. | Melville Shavelson | | |
| 2006 | Idiocracy | Mike Judge | Main Setting | |
| 1993 | In the Line of Fire | Wolfgang Petersen | | Y |
| 2009 | In the Loop | Armando Iannucci | Main Setting | Y |
| 1996 | Independence Day | Roland Emmerich | | Y |
| 2016 | Independence Day: Resurgence | Roland Emmerich | | |
| 2007 | The Invasion | Oliver Hirschbiegel | | Y |
| 2019 | The Irishman | Martin Scorsese | | |
| 2010 | Iron Man 2 | Jon Favreau | | |
| 2013 | Iron Man 3 | Shane Black | | |
| 2020 | Irresistible | Jon Stewart | | |
| 2011 | J. Edgar | Clint Eastwood | Main Setting | Y |
| 2016 | Jack Reacher: Never Go Back | Edward Zwick | | Y |
| 2014 | Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit | Kenneth Branagh | | |
| 1997 | The Jackal | Michael Caton-Jones | | Y |
| 2016 | Jackie | Pablo Larraín | Main Setting | Y |
| 2016 | Jason Bourne | Paul Greengrass | | Y |
| 1991 | JFK | Oliver Stone | | Y |
| 2010 | Jonah Hex | Jimmy Hayward | | |
| 1938 | Judge Hardy's Children | George B. Seitz | | |
| 2014 | Kill the Messenger | Michael Cuesta | | Y |
| 2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon | Martin Scorsese | | |
| 2014 | Kingsman: The Secret Service | Matthew Vaughn | | |
| 2017 | Kingsman: The Golden Circle | Matthew Vaughn | | |
| 1997 | Kiss the Girls | Gary Fleder | | |
| 1964 | Kisses for My President | Curtis Bernhardt | | |
| 2017 | Kong: Skull Island | Jordan Vogt-Roberts | | |
| 1944 | Ladies of Washington | Louis King | | |
| 1973 | The Last Detail | Hal Ashby | | Y |
| 2019 | The Last Full Measure | Todd Robinson | | Y |
| 2016 | LBJ | Rob Reiner | | Y |
| 2003 | Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde | Charles Herman-Wurmfeld | Main Setting | |
| 2013 | Life of a King | Jake Goldberger | | |
| 2012 | Lincoln | Steven Spielberg | Main Setting | |
| 2007 | Lions for Lambs | Robert Redford | Main Setting | Y |
| 2007 | Live Free or Die Hard | Len Wiseman | | Y |
| 1992 | Live Wire | Christian Duguay | | |
| 2012 | Lockout | James Mather, Stephen Saint Leger | | |
| 1976 | Logan's Run | Michael Anderson | | |
| 2016 | London Has Fallen | Babak Najafi | | |
| 1939 | The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt | Peter Godfrey | | |
| 2019 | Long Shot | Jonathan Levine | | |
| 2010 | Lost Boys: The Thirst | Dario Piana | | |
| 2016 | Loving | Jeff Nichols | | |
| 2010 | MacGruber | Jorma Taccone | | |
| 1946 | Magnificent Doll | Frank Borzage | | |
| 1955 | A Man Called Peter | Henry Koster | | |
| 1983 | The Man Who Wasn't There | Bruce Malmuth | | |
| 1985 | The Man with One Red Shoe | Stan Dragoti | | |
| 1972 | The Man | Joseph Sargent | | |
| 1986 | Manhunter | Michael Mann | | Y |
| 1962 | The Manchurian Candidate | John Frankenheimer | | Y |
| 2004 | The Manchurian Candidate | Jonathan Demme | | Y |
| 1996 | Mars Attacks! | Tim Burton | | Y |
| 2002 | The Master of Disguise | Perry Andelin Blake | | |
| 2021 | The Mauritanian | Kevin Macdonald | | Y |
| 2007 | Max 2: White House Hero | Brian Levant | | |
| 1936 | A Message to Garcia | George Marshall | | |
| 1979 | Meteor | Ronald Neame | | |
| 1993 | The Meteor Man | Robert Townsend | | |
| 2002 | Minority Report | Steven Spielberg | Main Setting | Y |
| 2016 | Miss Sloane | John Madden | | |
| 1943 | Mission to Moscow | Michael Curtiz | | |
| 2015 | Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation | Christopher McQuarrie | | |
| 1943 | The More the Merrier | George Stevens | | |
| 1987 | Morgan Stewart's Coming Home | Alan Smithee | | |
| 2002 | The Mothman Prophecies | Mark Pellington | | Y |
| 1939 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Frank Capra | Main Setting, National Film Registry | Y |
| 1997 | Murder at 1600 | Dwight H. Little | Main Setting | Y |
| 1996 | My Fellow Americans | Peter Segal | | Y |
| 2020 | My Spy | Peter Segal | | |
| 1991 | The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear | David Zucker | | Y |
| 1995 | National Lampoon's Senior Trip | Kelly Makin | | |
| 2004 | National Treasure | Jon Turteltaub | Main Setting, | Y |
| 2007 | National Treasure: Book of Secrets | Jon Turteltaub | | Y |
| 1990 | Navy SEALs | Lewis Teague | | |
| 1995 | The Net | Irwin Winkler | | Y |
| 2009 | Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | Shawn Levy | Main Setting, | Y |
| 1995 | Nixon | Oliver Stone | Main Setting | Y |
| 1987 | No Way Out | Roger Donaldson | Main Setting | Y |
| 2014 | Non-Stop | Jaume Collet-Serra | | |
| 2008 | Nothing but the Truth | Rod Lurie | | |
| 2013 | Olympus Has Fallen | Antoine Fuqua | Main Setting | |
| 1976 | The Omen | Richard Donner | | |
| 2023 | Oppenheimer | Christopher Nolan | | |
| 2013 | Parkland | Peter Landesman | | |
| 1992 | Patriot Games | Phillip Noyce | | Y |
| 2001 | Pearl Harbor | Michael Bay | | |
| 1993 | The Pelican Brief | Alan J. Pakula | | Y |
| 1996 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | Miloš Forman | | |
| 2013 | Philomena | Stephen Frears | | Y |
| 2015 | Pixels | Chris Columbus | | Y |
| 1959 | Plan 9 from Outer Space | Ed Wood | | Y |
| 2001 | Planet of the Apes | Tim Burton | | Y |
| 1993 | Point of No Return | John Badham | | |
| 2017 | The Post | Steven Spielberg | Main Setting | Y |
| 1986 | Power | Sidney Lumet | | |
| 1934 | The President Vanishes | William A. Wellman | | |
| 1967 | The President's Analyst | Theodore J. Flicker | | |
| 1998 | Primary Colors | Mike Nichols | | |
| 1977 | The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover | Larry Cohen | | |
| 1997 | Private Parts | Betty Thomas | | Y |
| 1984 | Protocol | Herbert Ross | | |
| 2016 | The Purge: Election Year | James DeMonaco | | |
| 1994 | Quiz Show | Robert Redford | | Y |
| 1981 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Steven Spielberg | National Film Registry | Y |
| 2002 | Red Dragon | Brett Ratner | | Y |
| 1935 | Red Salute | Sidney Lanfield | | |
| 2007 | Rendition | Gavin Hood | | Y |
| 2019 | The Report | Scott Z. Burns | Main Setting | |
| 2012 | Resident Evil: Retribution | Paul W. S. Anderson | | |
| 2023 | The Retirement Plan | Tim Brown | | |
| 1983 | The Right Stuff | Philip Kaufman | National Film Registry | |
| 2014 | RoboCop | José Padilha | | |
| 1996 | The Rock | Michael Bay | | |
| 1992 | Running Mates | Michael Lindsay-Hogg | | |
| 2023 | Rustin | George C. Wolfe | Main Setting | Y |
| 2010 | Salt | Phillip Noyce | | Y |
| 1940 | Santa Fe Trail | Michael Curtiz | | |
| 2003 | Scary Movie 3 | David Zucker | | Y |
| 1973 | Scorpio | Michael Winner | | |
| 1946 | The Searching Wind | William Dieterle | | |
| 1979 | The Seduction of Joe Tynan | Jerry Schatzberg | | |
| 2006 | The Sentinel | Clark Johnson | | Y |
| 1918 | The Service Star | Charles Miller | | |
| 1964 | Seven Days in May | John Frankenheimer | | Y |
| 1985 | Seven Minutes in Heaven | Linda Feferman | | |
| 1997 | Shadow Conspiracy | George P. Cosmatos | | Y |
| 2003 | Shattered Glass | Billy Ray | Main Setting | Y |
| 1943 | Sherlock Holmes in Washington | Roy William Neill | | |
| 2024 | Shirley | John Ridley | | Y |
| 1998 | The Siege | Edward Zwick | | |
| 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme | National Film Registry | Y |
| 2007 | The Simpsons Movie | David Silverman | | |
| 1998 | Slam | Marc Levin | | |
| 1943 | So This Is Washington | Ray McCarey | | |
| 1956 | The Solid Gold Cadillac | Richard Quine | | |
| 2020 | Sonic the Hedgehog | Jeff Fowler | | |
| 2017 | Spider-Man: Homecoming | Jon Watts | | Y |
| 2019 | Spies in Disguise | Troy Quane, Nick Bruno | | |
| 2001 | Spy Game | Tony Scott | | Y |
| 1985 | St. Elmo's Fire | Joel Schumacher | Main Setting | Y |
| 2009 | State of Play | Kevin Macdonald | Main Setting | Y |
| 2005 | Stealth | Rob Cohen | | |
| 1999 | Storm Catcher | Tony Hickox | | |
| 1951 | Strangers on a Train | Alfred Hitchcock | | Y |
| 1998 | Streetwise | Bruce Brown | | |
| 2016 | Suicide Squad | David Ayer | | |
| 2002 | The Sum of All Fears | Phil Alden Robinson | | Y |
| 1980 | Superman II | Richard Lester | | |
| 1987 | Suspect | Peter Yates | | Y |
| 2005 | Syriana | Stephen Gaghan | | Y |
| 2007 | Talk to Me | Kasi Lemmons | | |
| 2004 | Team America: World Police | Trey Parker | | |
| 2013 | Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor | Tyler Perry | | |
| 1927 | A Texas Steer | Richard Wallace | | |
| 2005 | Thank You for Smoking | Jason Reitman | Main Setting | Y |
| 1943 | They Got Me Covered | David Butler | | |
| 1952 | The Thief | Russell Rouse | | |
| 2000 | Thirteen Days | Roger Donaldson | Main Setting | Y |
| 1975 | Three Days of the Condor | Sydney Pollack | Main Setting | Y |
| 1992 | Thunderheart | Michael Apted | | |
| 1994 | Timecop | Peter Hyams | | |
| 1972 | Top of the Heap | Christopher St. John | | |
| 1970 | Tora! Tora! Tora! | Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda, Kinji Fukasaku | | Y |
| 2000 | Traffic | Steven Soderbergh | | Y |
| 2007 | Transformers | Michael Bay | | Y |
| 2011 | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Michael Bay | | Y |
| 2009 | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | Michael Bay | | Y |
| 2017 | Transformers: The Last Knight | Michael Bay | | |
| 1994 | True Lies | James Cameron | Main Setting | Y |
| 2015 | Trumbo | Jay Roach | | |
| 2018 | Uncle Drew | Charles Stone III | | |
| 2024 | Unfrosted | Jerry Seinfeld | | |
| 1916 | The Velvet Paw | Maurice Tourneur | | |
| 2018 | Vice | Adam McKay | Main Setting | Y |
| 2008 | W. | Oliver Stone | Main Setting | |
| 1997 | Wag the Dog | Barry Levinson | Main Setting | Y |
| 2007 | The Walker | Paul Schrader | | |
| 1942 | The War Against Mrs. Hadley | Harold S. Bucquet | | |
| 1932 | Washington Merry-Go-Round | James Cruze | | |
| 1943 | Watch on the Rhine | Herman Shumlin | | |
| 2009 | Watchmen | Zack Snyder | | |
| 2005 | Wedding Crashers | David Dobkin | Main Setting | Y |
| 1973 | The Werewolf of Washington | Milton Moses Ginsberg | | |
| 1964 | What a Way to Go! | J. Lee Thompson | | |
| 1951 | When Worlds Collide | Rudolph Maté | | |
| 2013 | White House Down | Roland Emmerich | Main Setting | Y |
| 1967 | Who's Minding the Mint? | Howard Morris | | |
| 1999 | Wild Wild West | Barry Sonnenfeld | | |
| 1945 | Without Love | Harold S. Bucquet | | |
| 2021 | Without Remorse | Stefano Sollima | | Y |
| 2020 | Wonder Woman 1984 | Patty Jenkins | Main Setting | Y |
| 2021 | Worth | Sara Colangelo | | |
| 1998 | The X-Files | Rob Bowman | | |
| 2008 | The X-Files: I Want to Believe | Chris Carter | | |
| 2000 | X-Men | Bryan Singer | | |
| 2016 | X-Men: Apocalypse | Bryan Singer | | |
| 2014 | X-Men: Days of Future Past | Bryan Singer | | |
| 2011 | X-Men: First Class | Matthew Vaughn | | Y |
| 2003 | X2 | Bryan Singer | | |
| 2005 | XXX: State of the Union | Lee Tamahori | | Y |
| 1942 | Yankee Doodle Dandy | Michael Curtiz | National Film Registry | Y |
| 2012 | Zero Dark Thirty | Kathryn Bigelow | | |
| 2009 | Zombieland | Ruben Fleischer | | |
| 2019 | Zombieland: Double Tap | Ruben Fleischer | | |