15 Big Budget Movies You May Not Know Were Filmed in Texas

This filmed introduced us to Longview native Matthew McConaughey's signature "Alright, alright, alright." A majority of the film was shot in Austin.

One of my favorite movies. The cool black and white aesthetic with a splash of color when needed makes for a great viewing experience. Not for kids, though. Portions were shot in Austin.

A movie about Texas high school football has to be shot in Texas. Austin, Houston, Odessa, Elgin, Abilene, and Taylor were all used in the making of this great movie.

Robert Rodriguez likes to make these off the wall movies. Just over half of the movie was filmed in various parts of Texas, including at Rodriguez's studio in Austin. The rest in Hawaii. Two great locals.

The first 30 minutes of the movie was all shot in Texas in places like Lockhart, Pflugerville and Austin. I missed out (long story) on being able to travel down there to try to be an extra in my beloved Transformers franchise.

Kids who are secret agent spies. Most of us dreamed of that as a kid. This kid adventure was filmed in San Antonio and Austin.

Sandra Bullock is an Austin native so she probably felt right home filming at the Alamo and Riverwalk in San Antonio, the Driskill Hotel and UT Austin.

A movie about Pearl Harbor should be all shot in Hawaii but the award-winning film used the battleship USS Texas near Houston and the USS Lexington in Corpus Christi to film part of their scenes.

With the famous quote, "Houston, we have a problem", and being that movie is about our space program, the Johnson Space Center in Houston would be an obvious choice to film.

I can watch this movie over and over and it's currently on Netflix. Some filming was done in Denton and at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

While not as big budget as most Hollywood blockbusters, this became a cult classic and was filmed in Dallas. No one can ever forget that printer scene or Milton's stapler.

Another cult classic filmed on Dallas soil! While everyone has seen or at least heard of the sci-fi crime film, not many know it's roots are in Texas.

Director Wes Anderson is known for being EXTREMELY particular with his movies. The movie Rushmore is very much a 'coming of age' story and Houston had the perfect aesthetic of high schools in America.

Names like Al Pacino, Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz and Dennis Quaid are not the only big names involved with the football movie. Parts of it were filmed in Texas, naturally.

Any movie with scenery like this, I automatically think 'Texas'. This art film picked up a few awards and is likely thanks in part to Texas landscape.