Recent David DeCoteau films, including his soft-core erotic 1313 series and talking animal films like A Talking Cat!?!, all use the same house, which is DeCoteau's summer house in Los Angeles. Things like the half-car couch, the backyard pool, the spiral staircase, the upstairs bedroom, and the side table made out of a boot make appearances in all of these movies. The place is often referred to as "THAT HOUSE" by DeCoteau fans.
Locations:
The Aqaba set constructed for Lawrence of Arabia in Spain was left standing for several decades, turning up in films like The Hill and The Wind and the Lion.
The Crank House in Altadena, CA, also known as Fair Oaks Ranch, has been used for Miss Trunchbull's house in Matilda, the Omega Beta Zeta sorority house in Scream 2, and Roger Strong's house in Catch Me If You Can.
Coral Harbour in the Bahamas has been visited by the series on three different occasions. Originally a luxury resort, Bond stays at the Coral Harbour Hotel in Thunderball. After the filming of that movie, the resort went bankrupt due to a failed expansion plan and its property found its way into the hands of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force, who built the Coral Harbour Base on the site, keeping some of its buildings around to use as training and administrative facilities. For The Spy Who Loved Me, Coral Harbour was used to film many of the models on water shots needed for Atlantis, taking advantage of the former resort's height to allow for easy aerial shots. Finally, in Casino Royale, the opening construction site chase was filmed in the stripped down husk of the same resort that the series had visited 42 years earlier.
The courtyard of London's Somerset House appeared in two back-to-back films as different locations. In GoldenEye, it was a Saint Petersburg city square. In Tomorrow Never Dies, it is the exterior of the Ministry of Defence.
The series has filmed at the Gran Hotel Ciudad de México on two separate occasions. In Licence to Kill, it's the El Presidente hotel that Bond and Pam Bouvier stay at in Isthmus. In Spectre, the hotel appears as itself in the pre-credits sequence. The hotel's distinctive elevator with a stained glass backdrop is seen in both films.
Chisum: The title character's ranch house was built in Durango, Mexico. It would be re-used a year later for the house in Big Jake with white siding added to the exterior.
The Cook Movie Ranch (later the Cerro Pelon Ranch) is a famous filming location in New Mexico that has appeared in western films for decades.
The first major set was built for Silverado was reused throughout the 1980s and 90s, including in Wyatt Earp, until it was unintentionally destroyed by the production of Wild Wild West.
The rebuilt set was expanded for 3:10 to Yuma (2007) and has appeared in a number of other western films, including Cowboys & Aliens and even Marvel's Thor.
Films:
Tim Burton's Batman (1989): The set for the Axis Chemicals facility was originally the alien nest and colony from Aliens.
The film used abandoned sets from Cleopatra, which had moved its production base from London to Rome. This at least ensured that the construction costs on the original sets were not completely wasted.
For Victor Maddern, appearing in his fourth Carry On film, the interior scenery was familiar:
I'd just been in a play in London called Caligula. At the end of the production, I asked the producer what happened to sets like the one we were using, which had been built for the play at a huge cost of £40,0000. Sold £150, that's all we could get, he said. I offered £155. I no sooner got the lot than I heard that a film called Carry On Cleo was being made soon. I loaned the set out for £800!
With the exception of Rick's café, which was a purpose-built set, most of Casablanca was filmed on sets recycled from earlier Warner Bros. productions. Also, for the Paris flashback, the set used as a Casablanca street was redressed to become a Parisian street.
In a weird example, the hospital wing was represented in the first film by the interior of Oxford Divinity School. In the fourth film, by which time the hospital wing had been redesigned and built as a permanent set in Leavesden Studios, the interior of Oxford Divinity School was used again, but as a different room in Hogwarts.
A similar example involves the chapter house at Lacock Abbey. In the first movie, it represents the room in which Harry finds the Mirror of Erised. The second film uses the same room as a Hogwarts study hall.
A straight example occurs in the third film. The room in which Lupin teaches Harry to defend against dementors is a rather obvious redress of Dumbledore's office. Some fans were even confused as to whether it was meant to be Dumbledore's office.
Ollivander's in the first film, Flourish and Blotts in the second film, and Honeydukes in the third film are all the same set. Note the same bay windows out front and the same staircase leading up to the same balcony. (Honeydukes hides the balcony by lowering the ceiling.) They just kept repainting the set and changing the set dressing.
Moaning Myrtle's bathroom from the second film, the prefects' bath from the fourth film, and the "Sectumsempra" bathroom from the sixth film are all obviously the same set. Apparently, the girls' bathroom from the first film has different architecture than every other bathroom in Hogwarts.
The spiral staircase at St. Paul's Cathedral has been used as a location more than once. Since the room it leads to is always different (the Divination classroom in the third film, the Defense classroom in the fourth film, and the Ravenclaw common room in the eighth film), they're presumably three separate, similar-looking staircases in-universe. Either that or the staircases moved, as they tend to do at Hogwarts.
Holiday Inn: In universe. The set used to make the movie "Holiday Inn" is the same set used to make the "real" Holiday Inn.
In The Italian Job (2003), the first half of the final heistnote after Lyle identifies the truck until it falls through the street is filmed entirely on a one-block stretch of Hollywood Boulevard (between Highland Ave. and Orange Drive), even though the truck travels several miles in the sequence. The distinctive architecture of Grauman's Chinese Theater makes it easy to identify the reused shots.
The dream sequences from The Little Rascals short Mama's Little Pirate utilized sets previously used the previous year in the feature Babes in Toyland, which was also produced by Hal Roach.
The Little Shop of Horrors was filmed with sets from A Bucket of Blood, which in turn reused sets from Diary of a High School Bride. In fact, the entire reason The Little Shop of Horrors was made is because Roger Corman (who directed it and A Bucket of Blood) was given use of the sets after filming for 48 hours before they were dismantled, which also resulted in the film's famous Absurdly Short Production Time.
To create expansive ruins in The Lord of the Rings, especially the city of Osgiliath, the set team would often reuse pieces left over from previously filmed scenes.
The full-scale sets for Minas Tirith were a rebuild of the full-scale set for Helm's Deep. The second gates of Minas Tirith are little more than a redressing of the gates of the Hornburg.
There were both location shoots and set shoots for Emyn Muil. The set was designed to look very different when shot from different angles, allowing one set to take the place of a large number of locations within Emyn Muil.
The Dead Marshes and the Gates of Moria were built on the same parking lot as wet sets when the marshes originally found for the Dead Marshes turned out to be as hard to operate in as the real thing would have been.
The Matrix (1999) recycled a lot of exterior sets from 1998's Dark City. The rooftops that Trinity runs across at the beginning of the film are the same ones that John Murdoch runs across in Dark City.
The exterior of "Pete's Luncheonette" from The Muppets Take Manhattan is used as the locale for the restaurant where Jerry and his friends meet in the original Seinfeld pilot.
The Conn-Pods of all the Jaegers in Pacific Rim are the same set. While they built two sets for the production, the sets were intended for different stunts, meaning both had to be redressed and relit to portray the four Jaeger Conn-Pods shown in the film.
To save money, the Bathroom set in Saw III was reused from the Saw parody in Scary Movie 4.
It was never explicitly stated by the producers, but the set used for the bread factory where Fitch's test takes place in Spiral is clearly the same one for the warehouse that Edgar enters in Jigsaw.
The wrecked plane set from Scary Movie 4 is actually from the movie they were parodying, War of the Worlds (2005). It has also been used in at least two music videos. First by Ayumi Hamasaki for "do it again", then by Nicki Minaj and Rihanna for "Fly".
In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the bridge of the Reliant was in fact the bridge set for the Enterprise with a few tweaks. Justified, as keeping bridge layouts standardized would simplify the orientation process for transfers from other Starfleet ships.
The Torpedo Bay is an important set piece but has unusual architecture for Starfleet. The set originated as the Klingon Bridge from Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country were shot while Star Trek: The Next Generation was still in production. As a result the movies share sets with the TV show. Some of them, such as Enterprise corridor, engineering, transporter room, and sickbay were originally designed for the movies, re-purposed for TNG, then re-purposed again for the movies, and back to television. Some sets were built specifically for TNG and found their way into the movies. For example, the Federation President's office is Ten-Forward from Star Trek: The Next Generation, with some curtains. The Enterprise-D's observation lounge became the Enterprise-A's officer's mess. Later the Enterprise-D's observation lounge became the Enterprise-E's starting with Star Trek: First Contact.
The Enterprise-B bridge in Star Trek: Generations is the Enterprise-A bridge with repainted Enterprise-D consoles.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens makes use of an angular wall twice in the same film. First it appears as part of the hangar of Kylo Ren's Star Destroyer, during Finn and Poe's escape. Later, it is redressed and used as a wall of the oscillator room aboard the Starkiller Base when Kylo confronts Han.
The ruined Norwegian outpost in The Thing (1982) is actually the same set as the main American station. Scenes at the Norwegian station were filmed last, after the American set was destroyed to film the movie's climax.
Silent film serial Les Vampires constantly reuses the same sets for every single room in Paris, with absolutely no attempts to hide it.
Done deliberately in Young Frankenstein. The set and most of the props are from Frankenstein (1931). The crew obtained them at great expense to keep true to Frankenstein.
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