Charlestown Harbour has probably appeared more than any other Cornwall film location, because it is an unspolit period harbour with fourmasters in residence.
| Street of Abandoned Children (1929) |
Silent Film. |
| The Manxman (1929) | Alfred Hitchcock film shot in Cornwall and studio Only two scenes were shot on the Isle of Man and the rest was mostly filmed in North Cornwall and Polperro |
| Yellow Sands (1938) |
ABPC |
| The Thief of Baghdad (1940) |
London Films |
| The Ghost Train 1941 | Liskeard Station Arthur Askey humour at a haunted station when passengers get stranded. |
| Next of Kin (1942) |
Ealing Films |
| Love Story / A Lady Surrenders 1944 | Minack Theatre, Porthcurno, Cornwall A half-blind airman falls for a pianist with a weak heart - set in Cornwall during WWII. Starring Margaret Lockwood, Stewart Granger |
| Johnny Frenchman (1945) |
Ealing Studios film directed by Charles Frend. Breton and Cornish fishermen bury their differences during world war two and make friends when France is occupied by the Germans. |
| Miranda (1947) |
Gainsborough. The mischievous mermaid. A film starring Glynis Johns. |
| Scott of the Antarctic 1948 | Falmouth Docks, Cornwall Story of ill-fated 1912 expedition to the South Pole. |
| Treasure Island (1949) | Carrick Roads, River Fal, Helford River, Gull Rock. RKOP/Walt Disney |
| Knights of the Round Table 1953 | Tintagel, Cornwall King Arthur's legend Hollywood-style |
| Never Let Me Go 1953 | Mullion Harbour, Newquay, Mevagissey. MGM movie, Mullion Harbour was a Russian Harbour. |
| Dangerous Exile 1957 | Porthluney Cove, Carrick Roads, Falmouth Bay & Harbour, Caerhays Castle. Rank Production |
| Another time, Another place 1958 |
starring Lana Turner, Glynis Johns, Sean Connery |
| Behemoth The Sea Monster (or The Giant Behemoth) 1959 |
Artists Alliance |
| Crooks in Cloisters (1963) |
ABPC |
| Stolen Hours 1963 |
United Artists |
| Magical Mystery Tour 1967 |
Beatles Film |
| The Bed Sitting Room 1969 |
United Artists |
| Malachi's Cove 1970 | Tintagel Area, Trebarwith Strand. Meg Owen, Donald Pleasance, Peter Vaughan, Veronica Quilligan. |
| Rebecca (1970s) | Caerhays Castle (for Manderley), Porthluney Cove. BBC production |
| Blakes Seven (1970's) | St. Austell Clay Pits BBC TV cult series |
| Straw Dogs 1971 | St Buryan, Lamorna Cove Cornwall In a Cornish village a mild American university researcher erupts into violence when taunted by villagers. A notorious Sam Peckinpah horror film. Starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George. |
| Crucible of Terror 1971 | Jericho Valley & Blue Hills near St. Agnes Mike Raven, Mary Maude, James Bolam. |
| Doomwatch 1972 |
Ian Bannen, Judy Geeson. |
| The Onedin Line 1972-80 | Charlestown, Mousehole, Turnaware Point Series about a young man's rise to wealth and power through the establishing of his own shipping line in the late C19th. |
| Poldark 1975-77 | Perranporth, Coast towards Pendeen & Levant, Locations nr St Just, Trevellas Coombe, Prussia Cove, Mounts Bay, Towednack Church, Godolphin, Mousehole, Keigwin Arms, Charlestown, Porthcurno Beach, Lands End, many locations in second series in East Cornwall around Lostwithiel, Porthluney Cove by Veryan Bay, St Mawes Castle, St Winnow's Church, St Agnes,Port Holland, Portloe, Luxulyan, St Enedoc's Church, Pendeen Manor Farm, Botallack Manor Farm (nr. St. Just, Penwith for Nampara), River Fowey, Roscarrock Farm - Port Quin, Doyden Point - Port Quin, Lanhydrock, Trerice Manor, Bocconoc Estate, Based on Winston Grahams Four Poldark novels, this C18th Cornish Romantic drama followed the life of Ross Poldark |
| Doctor Who 1975 | St Austell Clay Pits |
| The Dame of Sark 1976 | Porth Mellin, below Mullion Village. Anglia TV |
| The Eagle has Landed 1976 | Charlestown, RAF St Mawgan, Newquay Cornwall WWII drama about enemy spies infiltrating an English village with the intention of assassinating Churchill. |
| My Son, My Son 1978 | Tremayne Quay, Carwinion, Nare Head. BBC TV |
| Penmarric 1978 | Penwith Peninsulla, Zennor Head, Cape Cornwall, Botallack Manor Farm, Levant Mine, Trengwainton. Botallack Manor featured as 'Roslyn' in Penmarric. Towednack church BBC TV series from the novel by Susan Howatch about the lives and loves of a Cornish family spanning the years 1867 to 1940. |
| Dracula 1978 | Tintagel, St Michael's Mount, Cornwall Laurence Olivier and Donald Pleasence in a Stylish version of the Bram Stoker story |
| Priest of Love 1980 |
BBC Production |
| The Badness Within Him or Last Summer's Child) 1980 | Penberth Cove BBC Production |
| Jumping the Queue 1980's |
BBC Production, Sheila Hancock |
| Ripping Yarns - Whinfrey's Last case (1980's) |
Michael Palin, |
| Charles Darwin - The Voyage of the Beagle. (1980's) |
BBC Production |
| The Revenge of Billy The Kid (1980's) | Mousehole Cast: Norman Mitchell |
| Nightmare Man 1981 | Padstow, St Enodoc golf club in Rock, the Youth Hostel on Glebe cliff at Tintagel, Trebarwith Strand, but mainly filmed in Port Isaac. Cornwall doubled for the Scottish island of Inverdee. Sci-fi thriller serial from the BBC based on a novel called Children of Vodyanoi by David Wiltshire. |
| Omen III (The Final Conflict) 1981 | St. Austell, Luxulyan, Prideaux Place. TCF Production |
| The Island of Adventure 1981 | Wheal Coates, Mullion Cove, Poldhu Cove. Darrell Waters Production |
| Jamaica Inn 1982 | Port Quin, Polzeath, Pentire Glaze. HTV Production |
| The Flame & the Sword 1982 |
SKAN Production |
| My Cousin Rachel 1982 | Gribbin Head, Vault Beach, Lantivet Beach. The film is based on the novel by Daphne Du Maurier |
| To The Lighthouse 1982 | Carbis Bay, Hayle, Lelant, Railway at St. Erth, Bosrigan Head. BBC TV |
| A Distant Scream 1983 | Kynance Cove, Mullion Harbour. Hammer Films |
| Samson & Delilah 1983 |
Flamingo Pictures |
| Top Secret 1983 |
Paramount British Pictures starring Val Kilmer, Peter Cushing, Omar Sharif. |
| Robin of Sherwood 1984 | Rinsey, Mount's Bay HTV |
| The Return of Sherlock Holmes : The Devil's Foot 1986 | Lizard Peninsula - Kynance Cove, Mounts Bay, Lanyon Quoit, Cadgwith, W. Penwith Moors, Boskednan - Nine Maidens standing stones in Cornwall Acclaimed and stylish version created closely and accurately after the style of the original stories. TV starring Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke. |
| Ball Trap at the Cote Sauvage 1989 | Newquay (for Brittany), Crantock Beach, Fistral Beach, Holywell Bay. BBC TV |
| First and Last 1989 | Lands End: cliffs, Longships lighthouse, Seven Stones Reef, Wolf Rock light, Sennen Cove, Carbis Bay. BBC TV |
| Shootout at the OK Tea Rooms 1989 |
The Goodies |
| The Shell Seekers 1989 | Lands End (State House Hotel), St Ives, Lamorna Cove, Porthgwarra, Marazion, Rosamunde Pilcher story |
| The Tale of Little Pig Robinson 1990 |
Dreamscape Productions |
| The Camomile Lawn 1991 | Veryan & Portloe Harbour, Broom Parc Mary Wesley war time drama set in Cornwall and London in 1939. Starring Jennifer Ehle at her best, Felicity Kendal, Toby Stevens and Tara Fitzgerald. |
| Inspector Alleyn 1992 |
BBC Production |
| Cycle of Death (pilot for Wycliffe) 1993 |
HTV |
| The Three Musketeers 1993 | Charlestown, Bocconoc Estate, Lanhydrock, Pentire, Rumps, Pelynt, Lostwithiel Re-make of the Alexandre Dumas story. Walt Disney film with Charlie Sheen, Keifer Sutherland. |
| Wycliffe 1994-1998 | All over Cornwall including Carn Galver, Reskajeage Downs, Hemmick Beach, Cape Cornwall, Pentire, Godrevy, Rinsey, Wheal Charlotte, Truro, Perranporth, Wadebridge, Newquay, Porthtowan, Portreath, Trelissick, Church Cove Cornish based detective Series based on novels By W J Burley |
| The End of Summer 1994 | Padstow, Bude, Widemouth Bay, Prideaux Place. Frankfurter Films |
| Blue Juice 1994 | Newquay, St Ives, Mousehole, Chapel Porth, Godrevy in Cornwall Charming and offbeat story about surfers gathering in Cornwall for one last fling before succumbing to life's responsibilities. |
| Poldark - Stranger from the Sea 1995 | Rinsey, Lansallos - village & Cove, Coombe Haven, Penrose Estate. HTV |
| Wind in the Willows 1995 |
Davrod Productions |
| Bugs 1995 | Tamar Valley Carnival Films for BBC TV |
| Daisies in December 1995 |
HTV International/Hallmark |
| The Empty House. Another View. Voices in Summer. Snow in April. 1995 | St. Ives, Mousehole, Godrevy, Carngloose, Trengwainton, Penberth, Mullion, Gunwalloe, Fowey, Cape Cornwall. Frankfurter Films |
| The Vet 1995 |
Ikona for the BBC |
| Treasure Island 1995 |
Pinewood |
| Twelfth Night 1995 | Lanhydrock, Cotehele, Mt Edgcumbe, Prideaux Place, St Michael's Mount, Trebarwith Strand all in Cornwall Helena Bonham-Carter, Imogen Stubbs and Nigel Hawthorne in a lively version of Shakespeare's play |
| Jonathan Creek 1996 |
BBC Production |
| Oscar &
Lucinda 1996 |
Boscastle, Crackington Haven, Port Isaac, Bossiney, Trebarwith, Morwenstow. Story of ostracised gamblers in C19th Australia who become star-cross'd lovers. |
| Moll Flanders 1996 | Charlestown Harbour, River Fal, Turnaware Point in Cornwall A C17th tale of incest, adultery, bigamy and theft. |
| Amy Foster 1996 | Bodmin, Port Quin, Pentire Head, Crackington Haven, Port Isaac, Charlestown, St Breward, Michaelstow, Pencarrow Head, Blisland, Cornwall Based on a Joseph Conrad short story, the film tells the tale of a Russian shipwrecked near an isolated Cornish village in the C19th. |
| Rebecca 1996 |
Charles Dance, Diana Rigg, Faye Dunaway star in a Daphne Du Maurier story - Diana Rigg won a Best Supporting Actress award |
| Tea With the Professor 1996 | Antony House, Port Eliot Estate. Frankfurter Films for German TV |
| Thief Takers 1996 |
Carlton for ITV Network |
| Plunge 1997 | Fistral Beach - Newquay, Watergate Bay. Kate Winslet |
| All the Little Animals 1997 |
Recorded Picture Co. |
| A Respectable Trade 1997 |
Period drama set in Bristol about love, greed and ambition set against the slave trade in 1788. Jenny Agutter, Richard Briers, Warren Clarke, Emma Fielding, Anna Massey. |
| Coming Home 1997 | Prideaux Place, Lelant, Godrevy Point, Penzance, Porthgwarra Beach, Marazion, Cornwall Rosamunde Pilcher Story with Joanna Lumley, Peter O'Toole, Emily Mortimer, Penelope Kieth, David McCallum. |
| The Red Dress 1998 |
A Rosamond Pilcher novel filmed by a German company. |
| Frenchman's Creek 1998 | Charlestown, Helston, Padstow, St Clement, in Cornwall TV version of Daphne Du Maurier's story starring Tara Fitzgerald. |
| The Shell Seekers 1998 | Lands End. Lamorna Cove and Marazion. Rosamunde Pilcher story starring Angela Lansbury and Patricia Hodge |
| Mansfield Park 1998 | Charlestown, Cornwall |
| Wives & Daughters 1999 | Charlestown in Cornwall Period drama about middle-English society on the eve of the Industrial Revolution |
| Mrs Bradley Mysteries: The Worsted Viper 1999 | Trevose Head in Cornwall Diana Rigg in a Lavish murder-mystery stories set in the 1920's |
| Nancherrow 1999 | Chapel Porth, Wheal Coates, Towan Head Newquay, Bodmin and Wenford Railway. Sequel to Coming Home from the novel by Rosamund Pilcher. Starring Susan Hampshire and Patrick Macnee. |
| Pandaemonium 2000 | Charlestown in Cornwall The story of the relationship between Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. |
| Saving Grace 2002 | Port Isaac, St Endellion, Boscastle,Trebarwith St Tudy in Cornwall Comedy horticultural film starring Brenda Blethyn and Craig Ferguson. Plantations of cannabis have been found growing on Penwith's clifftops. |
| Bitter Sweet 2002 | Contemporary love story set in Cornwall. There are two versions of the film, one in English and a subtitled version in the Cornish language |
| Die Another Day 2002 | The Eden Project. The opening squence of the film of a North Korean battlefield was shot at Holywell Bay near Newquay. James Bond Movie. |
| Wild West 2004 |
Comedy series set in the fictitious Cornish village of St Gweep, which is actually the village of Portloe. Starring Dawn French. |
| Ladies in Lavender 2004 |
Ladies in Lavender is based on a short story by William J. Locke. Starring Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. |
| Doc Martin (2004) |
Mini series starting on ITV starring Martin Clunes. The series is based on the character Martin Clunes played in the comedy film Saving Grace |
Cold and Dark (2005) |
A horror film starring Luke Goss filmed at the South West Film Studios, in St Agnes Cornwall. |
| Guns, Money and Home Cooking (2005) |
A comedy thriller starring Vinnie Jones and Ronan Keating |