A look back at 10 great films shot in Monterey County.

OK, in all truth, Big Little Lies isn’t a movie. But the series may end up being as well-known as any of these timeless films.

1. Play Misty For Me (1971)

Clint Eastwood’s directorial debut put him in the lead role as a jazz DJ fending himself off from an obsessed woman, which includes footage of the Monterey Jazz Festival and the scenic Big Sur coastline.

2. Vertigo (1958)

The classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring James Stewart and Kim Novak chronicles a detective who falls in love with a woman he’s tracking. Scenes were filmed at Carmel Beach and Mission San Juan Bautista.

3. Turner & Hooch (1989)

The loveable Tom Hanks stars as a police detective with a slobbery canine partner in the fictional, coastal town of Cypress Beach, which was transformed with 10 days of shooting in Pacific Grove. A real estate office was transformed into a church for a wedding scene and a bank into City Hall.

4. Bandits (2001)

Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton play a bank robber duo stealing from Oregon to California, but both fall in love with a runaway housewife. One heist scene was shot at a former bank in Oldtown Salinas on South Main Street that is now 201 Main.

5. Basic Instinct (1992)

This sexy psychological thriller featured controversial violent scenes and an Oscar-nominated musical score that captured shots of Highway 1, Carmel Valley Village, Carmel Highlands and Garrapata Beach.

6. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and the rest of the classic Star Trek crew of the Enterprise go back in time to 1986, in San Francisco to save the whales, which included filming at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which was used as a fictitious aquarium across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco.

7. We Were Soldiers (2001)

Mel Gibson directed and starred in this Vietnam War film, which used South County’s Fort Hunter Liggett as Vietnam’s Central Highlands for the savage battle scene at Ia Drang.

8. The Fast and the Furious (1955)

Roger Corman, king director of B-movies, filmed scenes in Pebble Beach and Carmel. He also used the Monterey Peninsula in his film The Monster From the Ocean Floor (1954).

9. The Graduate (1967)

The verboten romance movie starring Dustin Hoffman about a student falling for both an older woman and her daughter used the Carmelite Monastery just south of Carmel in a driving scene.

10. I Melt With You (2011)

Rob Lowe and Jeremy Piven star as two of four college friends meeting up for their annual reunion in Big Sur.