In the hostage rescue film Argo, the swooping aerial shots feature a unique Iranian structure in Tehran.

That tower is the Azadi Tower (translated as the Freedom Tower). Completed in 1971, the tower is constructed primarily of white marble, and is a blend of Sassanid and Islamic architecture.

The architect of the building, Hossein Amanat, won the commission for the tower in an architectural contest shortly after graduating from the University of Tehran. A member of the Bahá'í faith, he continues to work, often designing buildings for that reflect his religion.

This "Gateway into Iran" was initially named the Shahyad Tower, meaning "Kings' Memorial" in commemoration of the 2,500th anniversary of the Persian Empire, but was renamed the Azadi Tower after the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Today, the plaza is a park with several fountains and an underground museum below the tower.

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I'm not sure if this was a furniture and mattress store at the time of filming, but it currently looks like it's a 99-cent store. This was the store front for Philip Seymour Hoffman's business (D & D Mattress Man) in Punch-Drunk Love located in Pomona, California not Provo, Utah.

Here's a commercial for D & D Mattress (and here's the Furniture Guy's original).

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Location of Elliot's house in ET.

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Barry Egan's funger (fun + plunger?) business in Punch-Drunk Love is located in a garage behind this auto body shop on Canoga Ave in LA. Although Adam Sandler is just playing a variant of the same man-child he plays in everything he's ever been in, when this came out I thought it meant he might be branching out into better movies. Ten years later it turns out he decided making good movies is too hard or something.

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The exteriors for motivational speaker / pedophile Jim Cunningham's house in Donnie Darko were shot in Long Beach. It didn't really burn down. That was just the magic of cinema.

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