A second outing in this list for both Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino, the second installment in the Godfather trilogy follows Michael (Pacino) and his position of "Don" in the Corleone family. The film also tells about Vito (DeNiro) Corleone's beginnings and how he became one of the most powerful men in New York. The film was shot in several locations internationally, including an important scene in Miama, Florida during which Michael meets with Hyman Roth, the boss of Florida and Cuban operations.

Goodfellas follows Irish-Italian Henry Hill (played by Ray Liotta) as he rises from petty theft crimes to the top of the mobster ranks. The film explores the rites, rituals and rules of organized crime and how quickly your best friends can become your worst enemies. An act in which Henry and his partner in crime Jimmy (Joe Pesci) are jailed for beating up a bookie and threatening to throw him into the lion's den in the Tampa City Zoo was filmed on location in Florida.

Jim Stark (James Dean) is the new kid in town and has a tendency to get in trouble. Looking for love and attention in all the wrong places he finds a kindred spirit in local girl Judy, but in order to prove himself to the neighborhood teens Jim participates in knife fights and car races. Parts of the movie were filmed in Silver Springs, Florida.

After her father is convicted of treason and commits suicide Alicia (Ingrid Berman) is asked by the U.S. government to spy on a Brazilian Nazi faction to help clear her name. She agrees and later falls in love with the agent assigned to her case (Cary Grant), but he feels he still can't trust her.Notorious is famous for having the longest on-screen kiss, with Bergman and Grant enjoying a clinch that clocks in at a little over three minutes. Throughout the movie you'll see several background shots filmed in Miami, Florida.

Based off of real events of one of the worst NASA tragedy's. In 1970, NASA plans to send out people to the Moon for a lunar mission. What seemed like a routine mission goes drastically wrong. The astronauts on board (played by Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton and Gary Sinese) and the scientist on the ground are now in a race against time to get the ship home safely. Several scenes are filmed at the Kennedy Space Centre in Titusville, Florida, where the real Apollo 13 mission was launched.

James Bond (played by Sean Connery) must stop evil tycoon Auric Goldfinger from robbing Fort Knox and destroying the global economy in his third movie outing. Typically for Bond, this is an international adventure, and as such the movie was filmed in a number of locations, including Miami Beach, Florida. However, the only actor from the cast who was actually in Florida for the Miami sequences was Cec Linder (Felix Leiter). Sean Connery was in the midst of shooting of Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie and was unable to be on the Goldfinger set at the time.

In a remake of the 1932 classic, Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, a Cuban refugee turned drug lord. With the help of his best friend, Manny Ray, Tony Montana builds a strong drug empire in Miami in the early 1980s. Set and filmed largely in Miami, the movie follows the quick rise and also the hardships and eventual fall of the notorious Cuban drug lord. There was a huge controversy in the city of Miami during the making of the film over whether the producers should be allowed to shoot in the city. The Miami Tourist Board decided not to allow filming, as they were afraid the movie would discourage tourism to Miami, particuarly as it showed Miami's latest Cuban immigrants as gangsters and drug dealers, so filming was split between Florida and California.

A "cowboy," Joe Buck (John Voigt), moves to New York City from Texas to make his fortune as a hustler servicing rich Park Avenue women. Shortly after arriving, he is hustled by homeless con man Ratzo Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman). The two eventually team up, and the unlikely pair progress from partners in shady business to comrades. While the movie was primarily filmed in New York City, several scenes were captured in Miami, Florida. Al Stetson, a lucky bus driver from the Miami area, was recruited at the last minute to play an electrician in the movie, after another extra did not show up.

On an expedition along the Amazon, a group of scientists discover and capture the pre-historic "Gill Man", a species assumed to have evolved completely underwater. The creature breaks free and kidnaps Kay, the only female member, and carries her off into the rainforest. The movie was originally filmed in 3D in both California and Florida.

Humphrey Bogart travels to a run-down hotel on Key Largo to honor the memory of a friend who died bravely in his unit during WW II. His friend's widow and wheelchair bound father manage the hotel and receive him warmly, but the three of them soon find themselves virtual prisoners when the hotel is taken over by a mob of gangsters who hole up there to await the passing of a hurricane. While the hotel scenes in Key largo were filmed almost entirely in the Warner Brothers Burbank Studios in California, most scenic shots in and around the Keys are genuine Florida scenery. During Key Largo's year of release there were two genuine, major hurricanes to pass through the Keys within a month of one another.