It's hard to believe just how many iconic scenes from our favourite movies and TV shows have been filmed here in Devon and Cornwall.
From out-of-this-world escapades, to 007 himself, the region has welcomed a number of superstars to its countryside, coastline and towns and villages, too.
And though some may think it's all Poldark this and Doc Martin that, we've been a pretty big deal in the world of film and television for many decades.
So, where should you visit if you want to recreate your favourite movie moments?
We've compiled a list of some of the top filming locations in Devon and Cornwall. How many have you visited without realising?
Think we've missed something from this list? Let us know in the comments below or email ellie.kendall@reachplc.com.
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1. Charlestown
We begin our list with the village of Charlestown, situated about a mile from St Austell.
Of all the places on the list, Charlestown has seen the most action (and romance and thriller and comedy) than anywhere else.
In the hit TV series Poldark many locations in Cornwall were used o film and Charlestown posed as the harbour at Truro.
It was an ideal alternative since the harbour at Truro now lies beneath the paving of Lemon Quay. The company which makes Poldark was criticised for filming the scenes set in Truro in Somerset, but then Truro has changed a bit since the late 18th century.
Charlestown's harbour was also used as the ideal location for a credible 18th century harbour in the late Nineties and early Noughties TV movie adaptations of Hornblower, starring Ioan Gruffudd.
In 2011, when the role of the Doctor was portrayed by Matt Smith, Dr Who filmed scenes in Charlestown.
There were pirates in space, believe it or not, however space just so happened to be the Cornish coast.
If that's not all, parts of the 2009 film Creation - which stars Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly - were filmed in Charlestown.
The film follows English naturalist Charles Darwin as he struggles to complete 'On the Origin of Species' while maintaining a relationship with his wife.
Charlestown is also the location of scenes in 1976 war film The Eagle Has Landed, starring Michael Caine.
In one scene, he and his fellow soldiers are being forced to suicidally ride torpedoes. It’s supposed to be the Nazi-occupied Channel Islands but is in fact good old Charlestown.
Parts of the 2010 motion picture adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland were filmed here in Charlestown, too, notably at the Harbour.
Finally, star of the 2016 Netflix series Frontier, Jason Momoa (who played Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones and Aquaman in DC Comics' Justice League) was spotted around the historic port of Charlestown while filming.
The drama focused on the American fur trade in the 18th century so, again, this was the perfect filming location.
After spending a few days in the county, Momoa recorded a video message saying: "Cornwall, I love you. Thanks for having me. I'm out."
2. Saunton Sands
Another on the list with more than one claims to fame, Saunton Sands, near Braunton, was the spot used for filming one of the big battle scenes in the 2014 film Edge of Tomorrow.
The film starred Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt in an action-packed time-bending blockbuster, which follows a soldier fighting aliens and reliving the same day over and over again. It's a bit like a sci-fi version of Groundhog Day.
Imagine stumbling upon Tom Cruise in action, right here in Devon!
Speaking of travelling back in time, our next item on the list takes us back to 1946 and the film A Matter of Life and Death.
Starring Kim Hunter and David Niven, this fantasy-romance is set during the Second World War and tells the story of an RAF pilot who cheats death and must argue for his life before a celestial court.
When the pilot wakes up after his Lancaster bomber is shot down, he's actually on Saunton Sands.
The beach must have something about it for these types of war films as, in 2018, Saunton Sands played hose to another WWII fighter plane in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (which starred Lily James, Matthew Goode and Katherine Parkinson.
Much of the rest of the film was shot on location in Devon, too.
3. Dartmoor
With a vast expanse of moorland to play with, it's no surprise Dartmoor is a firm favourite in the world of filming locations.
In 2011, Dartmoor became the backdrop for the big-budget adaptation of War Horse - the novel of which had been written by Devon writer Michael Morpurgo, of course.
It follows the story of a horse sold to the cavalry, before being shipped to France during the First World War and his young owner's mission to bring him home.
Morpurgo was pleased that filming was happening in Devon, as he'd used his home village of Iddesleigh, near Winkleigh, North Devon as a location for the novel.
The BBC series Sherlock also decided that Dartmoor was a perfect place for the setting of its second episode of series two - The Hounds of Baskerville.
In their quest to discover the infamous hound, Sherlock Holmes and Watson (played by Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman) rest at the Cross Keys Inn – a cosy nook full of crackling fires and squishy sofas supposedly in the middle of Dartmoor.
Devonians were disappointed to discover this charming pub was nowhere near Dartmoor - it’s actually the Bush Inn in the Vale of Glamorgan - where most of the mock-Dartmoor footage was filmed.
However, Haytor and Hound Tor do feature in brief sequences as Sherlock and Watson go gallivanting across the landscape.
Dartmoor has become synonymous with Sherlock’s most famous tale and adds to a whole host of legends and myths surrounding the moor.
Doctor Who makes its second appearance in this list as back in 1975, when Tom Baker was not long into his stint as the Doctor, Dartmoor's landscape (as well as the Hound Tor) featured in the cult series' episode The Sontaran Experiment.
The episode was watched by 11 million people during its original broadcast and saw an alien race (known as the Sontarans) dazzled by the landscape.
If you're wondering what on earth a Sontaran is, it's a baked potato on legs and - fun fact (though not so much for the man himself): Tom Baker slipped on a patch of wet grass and broke his collarbone while filming, so had to conceal a neck brace under his coat and scarf for many of the scenes on Dartmoor.
4. Port Isaac
If you didn't know by now, the seaside village of Port Isaac in Cornwall is where everyone's favourite medical dramedy - Doc Martin - is filmed.
Martin Clunes stars as the grumpy village doctor, Martin Ellingham and has been a favourite in households all over the world, for the past 16 years (its first episode was released in September 2004).
Though it was revealed this year that the next series of Doc Martin will be the last, the show has put Port Isaac firmly on the map and has done much for tourism in the county.
You can even stay in Doc Martin's cottage for a holiday.
5. Dartmouth
Running for five years from the year 2000, Down to Earth was a BBC series starring Pauline Quirke and Warren Clarke as the head of a family who leave London for a very different life in Devon.
They work to keep their holiday home "Phyllishayes" - a roomy farmhouse, offering memorable holidays for children who may never have experienced the countryside in their lives.
Large parts of the series were filmed here in Dartmouth, as well as in...
6. Clovelly
...Clovelly!
If you're wondering where the farmhouse was located, it could actually be found over an hour's drive away in Cheriton Bishop (well for the first two seasons anyway).
After that filming moved to a purpose-built property all the way in Buckinghamshire.
7. Tamar Valley
If you're visiting the Tamar Valley, make a pitstop at Pentillie Castle and you will find yourself in the hotel of Sky One drama Delicious.
Starring Dawn French (who is much loved in our neck of the woods) as well as Emilia Fox (Silent Witness) and Iain Glen (Game of Thrones) the show follows sparring hoteliers caught up in a love triangle.
8. Prussia Cove, Mount's Bay
Hollywood glamour in Cornwall? Yep, that's right.
In 2003, we were treated to Ladies in Lavender and the royalty of the acting world themselves, Dames Maggie Smith and Judi Dench.
Set in 1930s Cornwall, there was nowhere else they could have filmed this, surely?
Their cottage was filmed at Prussia Cove, on Mount's Bay between Helston and Penzance.
A scene with the two sisters in a car takes place along Church Street in Helston, too.
9. Tintagel
Areas around Tintagel were transformed into the set of major 2019 20th Century Fox movie, The Kid Who Would Be King.
Starring Patrick Stewart and written by Joe Cornish, the film tells the story of Alex - a 12-year-old British schoolboy whose everyday problems are dwarfed by his discovery of the mythical sword Excalibur.
With the most powerful sword in history in the hands of the most powerless schoolboy in Britain, an epic adventure begins as Alex and his friends must thwart a medieval villain named Morgana, who is hell-bent on destroying the world.
10. Devonport Naval Base
One for all you Bond fans - and yes, even 007 himself has roamed the county (on more than one occasion).
The first Bond feature on this list is Tomorrow Never Dies, released in 1997, in which Pierce Brosnan plays James Bond as he tries to stop a media mogul's plan to induce war between China and the UK, in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage.
The 18th big screen outing for Bond, James Bond featured a number of Royal Navy locations including aboard HMS Westminster, which became HMS Devonshire, HMS Chester and HMS Bedford in the film.
But part of the action was even filmed at the Devonport Naval Base.
Look out for another James Bond entry...
11. Royal William Yard
Back in 2004, Plymouth welcomed a star-studded cast all the way from Hollywood when Churchill: The Hollywood Years was filmed here.
Christian Slater and Neve Campbell were in Plymouth for three days to shoot scenes at the Royal William Yard in Stonehouse.
Scripted by South Devon writer and director Peter Richardson, the film is a comedy tale about American movie moguls producing ‘Churchill’ – a movie about World War Two.
The crew also visited Buckfastleigh, Totnes and Exeter and, for the Plymouth scenes, producers hired local people to play extras.
Were you one of them?
12. Bideford
The seaside town of Bideford was another of the places transformed into a film set for The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society in 2018.
It was transformed into a street in the midst of Nazi-occupied Guernsey in the Second World War, with Nazi troops even marching through Bideford during filming.
13. St Michael's Mount
It's no surprise that St Michael's Mount would feature in this list, though that's probably not the case as you read on.
A very brief shot of St Michael's Mount appears in Johnny English, starring Rowan Atkinson who plays the hilarious secret agent in the 2003 movie.
St Michael's Mount actually poses as the outside of the castle belonging to bad guy Pascal Sauvage (played by John Malkovich) despite the story taking agent English to France.
14. Jamaica Inn
Cornwall's scenery was a huge inspiration for novelist Daphne Du Maurier, that it's no surprise to see that many adaptations of her work have been filmed in the county too, over the years.
The 1983 movie adaptation of Jamaica Inn was filmed right here, at the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.
And that's not all...
15. Helford River
The 1998 TV film Frenchman's Creek was shot on the Helford River, right next to the real creek.
Other Daphne Du Maurier adaptations include 2017's My Cousin Rachel (starring Rachel Weisz and Sam Caflin) which was filmed at various locations in Devon and Cornwall.
The 1983 adaptation was also shot down here, as was the 1979 adaptation of Rebecca.
16. Caerhays Estate
Tim Burton fans look out, as this is the second of a fair few Burton productions on our list.
The Caerhays Estate in St Austell was taken over by the cult director and his cast and crew, for filming of the 2016 film Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
The film stars former Bond girl Eva Green, alongside Rupert Everett, Chris O'Dowd, Dame Judi Dench, Samuel L Jackson and Terence Stamp and is loosely based on the New York Times bestselling novel by Ransom Riggs, released in 2012.
Tim Burton was, himself, based on the estate, near Gorran Haven and the filming and exact location were kept a closely guarded secret by studio Twentieth Century Fox ahead of the film's release.
Fox location managers spent months scouring the UK's coastlines for the fictional Welsh island setting of Miss Peregrine's abandoned orphanage.
17. Devonport Dockyard
Backtracking to 1953 and one of our more obscure items on this list - The Cruel Sea.
Starring Donald Sinden and Jack Hawkins, the film told the story of a British convoy ship and its officers.
Devonport Dockyard doubled as the docks of Liverpool for the adventure and the film also included a crashing warship on the Tamar.
Donald Sinden once said: "We rammed one of Her Majesty's destroyers.
"Our anchor tore a hole nine feet long in the side of the destroyer. Rather embarrassing."
18. Penwith
The 2019 British drama film Bait was filmed here in Penwith, as well as Charlestown.
It stars Edward Rowe as a struggling fisherman and deals with the tensions that arise between locals and tourists in a Cornish fishing village.
19. Start Point/Great Mattiscombe Sands
Back to the gothic quirks of Tim Burton again and this time we're talking about a run-in with a vampire.
In the 2012 film Dark Shadows Johnny Depp plays the role of Barnabas Collins - an imprisoned vampire who is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection.
Though Tim Burton actually decided against using one of our many coastal villages in the film, you can see Depp's character walking along Great Mattiscombe Sands near Start Point, in one scene of the film.
20. Compton Castle
In 1975, writer and director Stanley Kubrick brought period drama Barry Lyndon to Compton Castle - a manor house just a few miles northwest of Paignton, now owned by the National Trust.
The film follows an Irish rogue who wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
It seems like the 18th-century is a match made in heaven for us when it comes to film locations.
21. Portloe
There was a big fanfare and premiere in Cornwall when Richard Curtis launched his time travelling romantic drama About Time.
Domhnal Gleeson played a British lawyer attempting to win the hand of an American girl (Rachel McAdams).
Much of the movie was filmed at Portloe on the Roseland Peninsula and even at the nearby church at St Michael Penkivel...
22. Porthpean House
Porthpean House was another main location in About Time (2013) and it's since been listed on Airbnb for people to holiday in.
23. Carland Cross on the A30
OK, you might be thinking we've gone a bit mad, but the A30 and the wind turbines at Carland Cross have starred in a Danny Boyle classic.
The zombie apocalypse film 28 Days Later, which came out in 2002, features a scene in which main characters (including Cillian Murphy) head off on a road trip to Manchester in search of other survivors and, at one point on the deserted roads, they pass a wind farm – poignantly still turning and generating electricity despite the collapse of civilisation.
That scene is none other than our very own A30 and the wind turbines at Carland Cross - a much straighter version, of course.
24. Powderham Castle
In 1993 period drama The Remains of the Day, Anthony Hopkins plays a butler who sacrificed his body and soul in the years leading up to World War II.
In the film, Darlington Hall is actually Powderham Castle in Kenton, near Exeter.
25. Polgaver Beach
If you think of films and TV shows with a Cornish setting, you'd most likely think of a period drama or a little seaside rom com, but how about using scenes from Cornwall to recreate the Mayan homeland of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico in the 16th century?
That's exactly what Mel Gibson did when he directed 2006 film Apocalypto.
The film follows one villager's fight to save his family from their bloodthirsty Mayan neighbours.
There isn’t a hint of Cornwall in the 2006 film, as you’d expect, but as the hero runs exhausted onto the beach at the end, look out for Polgaver Beach in Carlyon Bay, near St Austell.
26. Saltram House
As we come to the 1995 adaptation of Sense and Sensibility (starring Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant) it's worth knowing that we're keeping the next few entries rather brief.
Spoiler: they're all filming locations for the film!
Saltram House is one of them - it's in fact Norland Park, the house Mrs Dashwood (Gemma Jones) and her brood have to leave following the death of Mr Dashwood (Tom Wilkinson).
In real life, it's a George II house within a landscaped park at Plympton, between the A38 and A379.
27. Flete Estate
Another Sense and Sensibility location is Flete Estate, which homes the cottage we then see the Dashwood family.
It is actually the perfect place for a holiday by the sea in real life (with accommodation close by and plenty of beaches and walks), is set among a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Heritage coast and Site of Special Scientific Interest and is alive with wonderful wild flowers, birds and animals.
The estate has an extensive history in its own right.
28. Efford House
Efford House, which is a place you can stay in real life, poses as Barton Cottage in the film - the modest home to which the Dashwood family relocates.
29. Berry Pomeroy
Finally, Berry Pomeroy was used for the final wedding scene in the film and much more of the county makes an appearance, too.
30. Plymouth Hoe
Something a bit different, The Marine Biological Association (MBA), based on Plymouth Hoe, helped the BBC’s Natural History Unit with information and facilities for the filming of Blue Planet II (2017).
Episode Green Seas highlighted the role of the ocean and its inhabitants in regulating the atmosphere and mitigating the effects of climate change.
The sequence showing phytoplankton in close-up was filmed at the MBA laboratory on the Hoe using cells from its microalgal culture collection and samples collected on the day from Plymouth Sound by MBA staff members.
31. Lizard Peninsula
At first mistaken for Poldark filming when it was reported that Aiden Turner had been seen down on the Lizard Peninsula in 2015, it was really a new TV adaptation of a classic Agatha Christie murder mystery.
And Then There Were None starred Sam Neil and Charles Dance, too, who were spotted bobbing about in a boat with the Poldark star himself at...
32. Kynance Cove
...Kynance Cove!
A misty day off Kynance proved the perfect creepy backdrop for the fictional location of the mysterious island, where the guests, who are unknown to each other, are invited to an isolated house to be bumped off one at a time.
They were also seen "bobbing about" around Mullion Cove, too.
We welcome any jokes you can think of as to what you might call a dinosaur wrangler, a Westerosi bad guy and Poldark sitting in a boat.
33. Plymouth's Naval Base
The 1978 sequel to The Guns of Navarone, Force 10 From Navarone starred Harrison Ford, Edward Fox and Robert Shaw and among the filming locations was Plymouth’s naval base.
Look out for a railway scene where you can read the letters PSTON – that’s Plymouth.
The stamp stands for Principal Supply and Transport Officer (Navy).
34. Falmouth Docks
Would you believe that Brad Pitt and Angelina were in Cornwall filming scenes for Pitt's 2013 end-of-the-world adventure, World War Z?
How about the fact that scenes were even shot at Falmouth docks and out to sea - it's hard to spot but it's true.
One giveaway is a scene where Pitt and his family are airlifted to a task force safely out to sea off the eastern United States.
However, keen-eyed observers might be a little disappointed at the size of that aircraft carrier - it is in fact a familiar sight in Falmouth - the Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship Argus. They used the ship to film in Falmouth Bay and renamed her for the film as USS Argus.
35. Teignmouth
Biographical drama The Mercy (2017) was shot in Teignmouth and stars Rachel Weisz and Colin Firth.
It tells the incredible story of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst and his solo attempt to circumnavigate the globe.
36. The Eden Project
Welcome back, Bond fans!
That's right, James Bond (and Pierce Brosnan) returns to the list due to the fact that Die Another Day (2002) was partly filmed at the Eden Project.
When Bond breaks into the ice lair of villain Gustav Graves – one moment he is tearing around in his car in Iceland and the next he’s landed in the Eden Project’s tropical biome.
37. Holywell Bay
Die Another Day also sees Bond surf his way to a fortified beach in North Korea.
Only, some of 'North Korea' is actually Holywell Bay near Newquay.
Of course, the rest of it is in Hawaii, but we know where we'd rather be.
38. RAF St Mawgan
We already know where Michael Caine rode torpedoes, but did you know that other scenes in 1976 war film The Eagle Has Landed were filmed at the runway of RAF St Mawgan?
That's not all...
39. Rock, Padstow
In another scene, Donald Sutherland and Jenny Agutter run wild on the sand dunes near Rock, Padstow, which stand in for the east English coastline.
40. Antony House
The dark fantasy of Tim Burton’s imagination collided with Lewis Carroll’s beloved, warped Wonderland in 2010 for the motion picture Alice in Wonderland.
Garden party guests assembled at the Ascot Estate as, much to Alice’s horror, a snivelling Hamish Ascot attempted to propose. Admittedly it was very difficult to focus on all this with the silvery image of Antony House, playing the role of the Ascot home, stealing the show.
Antony House is the ancestral home of the Carew family and dates back to the early 18th century. It’s easy to see what drew Burton and his location scouts to Antony.
With grounds bordering the Lynher Estuary in Cornwall, full of topiaries and sculptures, it’s more than worthy of Carroll’s classic.
