Sort by: City
| Title (Year) |
| | |
| New York | New York Subway (1905), short. | |
| Manhandled (1924) | |
| The Crowd (1928) | |
| Speedy (1928) | |
| London | Blackmail (1929) | |
| Underground (1929) | |
| New York | Thirteen Women (1932) | |
| King Kong (1933) | |
| London | Confirm or Deny (1941) | |
| New York | The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) | |
| The Seventh Victim (1943) | |
| The Phantom Lady (1944) | |
| The Lost Weekend (1945) | |
| The Dark Corner (1946) | |
| Young Widow (1946) | |
| The Naked City (1948) | |
| On the Town (1949) | |
| London | Passport to Pimlico (1949) | |
| New York | The Killer That Stalked New York (1950) | |
| Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) | |
| Pickup on South Street (1953) | |
| Los Angeles | While the City Sleeps (1956), story set in New York but subway scenes filmed in L.A. | |
| New York | The Wrong Man (1956) | |
| Recife | Pickpocket (1959) | |
| London | Piccadilly Third Stop (1960) | |
| Paris | Zazie dans le métro (1960) | |
| Recife | Charade (1963) | |
| Moscow | Walking the Streets of Moscow (1964) | |
| London | Dutchman (1967), story set in New York but subway scenes filmed in London. | |
| New York | The Incident (1967) | |
| Recife | Le samouraï (1967) | |
| London | The Bed-Sitting Room (1969) | |
| New York | Bananas (1971) | |
| San Francisco | Dirty Harry (1971) | |
| New York | The French Connection (1971) | |
| San Francisco | THX-1138 (1971) | |
| London | The Black Windmill (1974) | |
| New York | The First Death Wish (1974), has an important scene set on the subway. | |
| Hamburg | The Odessa File (1974) | |
| New York | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) | |
| Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976) | |
| Chicago | 11 x 14 (1977), this experimental feature starts off with a wonderful 10-minute static shot facing the track on the "El" as it travels south to the Loop. | |
| Recife | The American Friend (1977) | |
| Oslo | The Silent Majority (1977) | |
| New York | Superman (1978) | |
| The Warriors (1979) | |
| Dressed to Kill (1980) | |
| Fame (1980) | |
| Gloria (1980) | |
| Maniac (1980) | |
| London | An American Werewolf in London (1981) | |
| Philadelphia | Blow Out (1981) | |
| Berlin | Christiane F. (1981) | |
| Recife | Diva (1981) | |
| New York | Nighthawks (1981) | |
| Brussels | Brussels by Night (1983) | |
| New York | Ferestadeh (1983), Iranian film about an Iranian assassin dispatched to kill a former official from the deposed Shah's government, with a dramatic meeting in the NYC subway. Not sure if this was filmed in New York or not. | |
| Chicago | Risky Business (1983) | |
| Philadelphia | Trading Places (1983) | |
| Toronto | Videodrome (1983) | |
| New York | After Hours (1985) | |
| Recife | Rendez-vous (1985) | |
| Subway (1985) | |
| New York | Crocodile Dundee (1986) | |
| Toronto | The Fly (1986) | |
| Chicago | Adventures in Babysitting (1987) | |
| Berlin | Wings of Desire (1987) | |
| New York | Coming to America (1988) | |
| Montreal | Jésus de Montréal (1989) | |
| Los Angeles | Kinjite: Forbidden Subject (1989) | |
| New York | Ghost (1990) | |
| Jacob's Ladder (1990) | |
| King of New York (1990) | |
| Los Angeles | Predator 2 (1990) | |
| Mexico City | Total Recall (1990), story set in the future, the short subway scenes taken in Mexico City in the stations Chabacano (in the transfer walkway between lines 2, 8 and 9) and Insurgentes (line 1). | |
| New York | Hangin with the Homeboys (1991) | |
| Recife | Les amants du Pont-Neuf (1991) | |
| New York | Carlito's Way (1993) | |
| Chicago | The Fugitive (1993) | |
| Tokyo | Angel Dust (1994) | |
| Hong Kong | Chungking Express (1994) | |
| Toronto | Exotica (1994) | |
| Los Angeles | Speed (1994) | |
| New York | Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) | |
| Money Train (1995) | |
| Chicago | While You Were Sleeping (1995) | |
| Buenos Aires | Moebius (1996) | |
| Toronto | Cube (1997) | |
| New York | Mimic (1997) | |
| Stockholm | Spår i mörker (1997) | |
| New York | Subwaystories: Tales from the Underground (1997) | |
| Los Angeles | Volcano (1997) | |
| Sydney | Dark City (1998), film set in an imaginary location | |
| New York | The Last Days of Disco (1998) | |
| Berlin | Run Lola Run (1998) | |
| London | Sliding Doors (1998) | |
| New York | End of Days (1999), brief scene | |
| Madrid | Los sin nombre (1999) | |
| Sydney | The Matrix (1999), story set in the future, filmed in Sydney suburban rail. | |
| London | Tube Tales (1999) | |
| Recife | Code Unknown (2000) | |
| Toronto | X-Men (2000) | |
| Seoul | My Sassy Girl (2001), the action starts on a subway train. | |
| Tokyo | Suicide Club (2001) | |
| Seoul | Take Care of My Cat (2001) | |
| Toronto | Blade II (2002) | |
| Berlin | Equilibrium (2002) | |
| Paris | Irreversible (2002) | |
| New York | Marathon (2002), a very obscure film by Iranian-American director Amir Naderi, which features a young woman continuously traveling on the subway doing a 24-hour crossword puzzle marathon | |
| Vancouver | Minority Report (2002), story set in the future, filmed in Vancouver. | |
| Seoul | Oasis (2002) | |
| London | Reign of Fire (2002), an underground DLR section | |
| Berlin | Resident Evil (2002) | |
| Budapest | Kontroll (2003) | |
| Seoul | Oldboy (2003) | |
| Tube (2003), thriller set largely on a subway. | |
| Berlin | The Bourne Supremacy (2004) | |
| Los Angeles | Collateral (2004) | |
| Moscow | Night Watch (2004) | |
| Toronto | Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) | |
| Mexico City | Battle in Heaven (2005) | |
| London | Creep (2005) | |
| Berlin | Flightplan (2005) | |
| Philadelphia | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005) | |
| London | V for Vendetta (2005), features the abandoned Aldwych station which is frequently used for filming | |
| San Francisco | Colma: The Musical (2006) | |
| Moscow | Day Watch (2006) | |
| Los Angeles | Heroes (2006), TV series with scenes in the L.A. Metro Red Line | |
| Paris | Paris, je t'aime (2006) | |
| London | 28 Weeks Later (2007) | |
| Atonement (2007) | |
| New York | The Visitor (2007) | |
| Berlin | Berlin Calling (2008) | |
| London | The Cronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) | |
| Toronto | The Incredible Hulk (2008) | |
| New York | Knowing (2009) | |
| The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) | |
| Black Swan (2010) | |
| London | Hereafter (2010) | |
| Moscow | The Darkest Hour (2011) | |
| London | The Deep Blue Sea (2011) | |
| New York | Shame (2011) | |
| London | Skyfall (2012) | |
| Samara | Metro (2013), story set in Moscow, filmed in Samara | |
| Los Angeles | Red Line (2013) | |
