As you know, London has featured heavily in films - here's some film locations and a bit of detail on the films they featured in;

• Acton Lane Power Station - Park Royal, NW10. In Batman the Axis Chemicals factory was set here - you remember - the one where the soon-to-be Joker falls into a vat of toxic poison. Aliens (the one with the orphan rather than the cat) was also filmed here.
• 2006 film Venus was filmed in a large part around this contributor's stomping ground Kentish Town. The great Peter O'Toole was filmed shopping on the main street, sitting in The Abbey pub (a very pleasant spot for a bit of outdoor grub - I believe they now have a Jamaican menu although I haven't eaten from it as yet), in a cafe, and even lived at the end of my street. Other locations for Venus were Regent's Park Open Air Theatre and Trafalgar Square. An interesting bit of trivia - apparently Peter's only on location demand was a heated arctic tent in which he could avoid the weather. See Peter O'Toole unzips for Venus.
• An American Werewolf in London, as the title would suggest, was partly filmed in and around London. Jenny Agutter's flat is to be found in Coleherne Road, Earls Cort and the hospital she worked in is around the corner at the former Princess Beatrice Maternity Hospital in Finborough Road (now a hostel for the homeless). Tottenham Court Road tube station witnessed the city gent being eaten and Piccadilly Circus was also used towards the end of the film. The werewolf is finally cornered in Winchester Walk near Borough Market posing as the West End.
• Borough Market has been a popular film location - it featured in Bridget Jones' Diary, Entrapment, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Wilde, The Young Americans, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and The French Lieutenant's Woman.
• The Elephant Man featured Borough Market also, although some locations in the film have either improved beyond measure, or disappeared completely. The Old Eastern Hospital on Homerton Row has been replaced by something more modern, and Liverpool Street Station has been vastly improved since the film was made in 1980. Some scenes were shot near Clink Street - still an area worth visiting for its cobble stones and Clink Prison.
• In The Omen (the classic 1976 version..) Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath appeared on a family day out with the young anti-christ. The actual US Ambassador to London's office in the American Embassy (Grosvenor Square) was used for Patrick Troughton's confrontation with Mr Elegance, himself, Gregory Peck. Former Dr Who Mr Troughton is then spiked not very pleasantly at All Saints Church, Fulham (on the north side of Putney Bridge).

More Information

For some sites giving you a bit more information on London film locations go to London Film Location Links