1. The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)


James Bond’s showdown with Scaramanga did more than spark bullets. It shot Phang Nga Bay’s limestone towers onto the world’s radar. Officially Koh Khao Phing Kan, but the world knows it as James Bond Island. The film also captured Bangkok’s rough-edged canal life in the ‘70s, throwing a high-speed chase into the middle of the city’s humid, chaotic sprawl.