Movies
Many movies have been produced (in part) on Columbia's campuses.
Movies filmed on campus
- A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
- Altered States
- Anger Management
- Lerner Hall's exterior was used to depict a hospital in Boston
- Awakenings
- Black and White
- Casino Royale (2006), Lerner Hall ramps
- Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- The Columbia Bookstore filled in for a Long Island Barnes & Noble
- Everyone Says I Love You
- Ghostbusters
- Ghostbusters II
- The Graduate
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- In one scene, Woody Allen's character takes a ponderous walk past The Thinker. In another, one of the characters meets her new boyfriend, a Columbia professor, while strolling to class up The Steps
- Hitch
- Will Smith's character meets a girl after tripping on The Steps
- K-PAX
- Kinsey
- Partly filmed in Havemeyer 309
- The Mirror Has Two Faces
- Malcolm X
- Manhattan
- Marathon Man
- Mona Lisa Smile
- Havemeyer 309 is used to depict a lecture hall at Wellesley
- New York Minute
- The Olsen Twins race across New York to reach Columbia in the nick of time. During filming, a giant clock was hung on the facade of Low Library
- Porn 'n Chicken
- The Producers: The Movie Musical
- P.S.
- Simon
- Spider-Man
- Low Library plays host to an advanced research lab, where Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive spider
- Spider-Man 2
- Peter Parker takes a physics class in Hamilton Hall
- Stay
- The Nanny Diaries
- Scarlet Johannsen's character sits on one of the fountains on Low Plaza after applying to the Columbia graduate program in Anthropology
- Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
- One of the characters is a Columbia math professor who spends time watching students at play on Low Plaza and drives one of his students to suicide
