13 Very Famous Movies Filmed in Rainy Washington State Cities

There's nothing like watching a good rainy day movie!

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The best kind of movies to watch are those on a rainy day, the kind you watch when you're sad and lonely or when you want to curl up with a snuggly blanket, ~~a whole pepperoni and cheese pizza to yourself, cheese sticks, a Snickers bar, microwave popcorn, and a whole bag of Funyuns to yourself~~ and some of your favorite snacks.

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Looking for movies filmed in rainy locations? Try one of these 13 famous movies filmed in our rainy cities (that you forgot you love)!

The filming locations on this list would make for some great road trips.

You could tour the places that showed up in the movies and you can sightsee the rest of the town in one fell swoop!

The other day, someone was reminiscing on how the movie Benny & Joon, starring Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Aiden Quinn (who is so HOT), was filmed in Spokane.

Spokane is not a rainy city by any stretch; it's located in Eastern Washington which typically gets more sunshine than rain.

This leads to a discussion about which famous movies were filmed in rainy cities and towns in Washington state.

I just joined a public Facebook group called, RAIN - for those of us who like rain. Can you think of a few rainy movies that you love, off the top of your head?

The first one that comes to my mind is Snow Falling on Cedars.

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I remember watching this movie in my room back when the movie was released back in 1999 (I think I rented it from Blockbuster Video).

I was living in Tennessee where I grew up and somehow through all my blocked out memories from the 90s, I got kind of stoked that the movie was set in Washington state (and written by a Washington resident, too).

All I remember is that I was sobbing at the end of it; it is, after all, a dark and depressing movie. (See the gorgeous filming locations in the gallery below.)

Despite the devastating and painful movie plot, I am not the only one who felt moved by the visual beauty of this film; Robert Richardson was nominated for an Oscar for Best Cinematography in 1999. (The Academy Award that year instead went to that Kevin Spacey movie, American Beauty.)

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Imagine how excited I was to drive near the town the movie was filmed in! I should have stopped, hopped out of the car and taken a selfie, but I didn't want to look like a TOURIST. Ha.