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* ''The Stone Killer'' (1973). After massacring a mob commission meeting, the HiredGuns flee to their cars in the parking garage beneath the building, only to get into a shootout with police who have gotten wind of the plan and rushing to intercept them.

* ''The Stone Killer'' (1981). After massacring a mob commission meeting, the HiredGuns flee to their cars in the parking garage beneath the building, only to get into a shootout with police who have gotten wind of the plan and rushing to intercept them.

* In the 2012 movie ''Film/JackReacher'', a gunman guns down 5 people from the inside of a parking garage. This is actually a plot point, [[spoiler: since the person being accused of the massacre would not have chosen that spot since it would be hard to accurately shoot from that range.]]

* Inverted in ''Film/TheBourneIdentity''. An exciting CarChase ends with Bourne driving the Mini Cooper into a multilevel garage and telling Marie to take everything she needs because they're never coming back to this car.

->'''Agent Smoulder:''' Sore Throat, my mysterious informant. Why are you always meeting me in the parking garage?
->'''Sore Throat:''' I parked my station wagon here in ’89 and can’t remember where I left it.
-->-- ''The X Fools''

* In ''The Peking Target'' Literature/{{Quiller}} finds himself on the run from organised crime hitmen who [[ParanoiaFuel keep turning up everywhere he goes]]. He meets [[TheHandler Ferris]] on the top floor of a multistory carpark on a weekend, which means no-one else should bother coming up here, only to [[OhCrap hear someone driving up to their level]]. Quiller and Ferris leap into their car and drive off, right past a car with a young man and woman clearly looking for a MakeoutPoint.

* In ''The Peking Target'' Literature/{{Quiller}} finds himself on the run from an organised crime group that [[ParanoiaFuel keeps turning up everywhere he goes]]. He meets [[TheHandler Ferris]] on the top floor of a multistory carpark on a weekend, which means no-one else should bother coming up here, only to [[OhCrap hear someone driving up to their level]]. Quiller and Ferris leap into their car and drive off, right past a car with a young man and woman clearly looking for a MakeoutPoint.

* ''Videogame/{{Driver}}'' had the first installment have the first mission in a parking garage, where the undercover cop, Tanner, had to prove his skills as a driver to work for a criminal organization. Said mission is also infamous for being NintendoHard.

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* The Chicago mission in ''PerfectDark'' involves sneaking into a corporate headquarters through the parking garage, where you're ambushed by armed guards.

* Becomes a plot point in TheMovie of ''GhostInTheShell''. Togusa is on stakeout in his car when he notices that the automatic doors for the parking garage take longer to close than they normally would. He then finds out that the pressure-sensitive floor picked up far more weight than the two people he saw walking in. [[spoiler: The reason is because mooks with optical camouflage snuck in behind them.]]

* A parking garage is the primary venue for the (illegal) drift competitions in ''Film/TheFastAndTheFuriousTokyoDrift''.

* The basis of the movie ''Film/{{P2}}'', which woman stuck in a closed parking garage with a psycho.

->'''Agent Smoulder:''' Sore Throat, my {{mysterious informant}}. Why are you always meeting me in the parking garage?

* The basis of the movie ''Film/{{P2}}''.

* ''DeathWish4TheCrackdown'' opens with three guys trying to rape a woman in a parking garage, and Paul Kersey intervening in his trademark lethal fashion. [[spoiler:It's actually a dream he's having]].

* A parking garage is the primary venue for the (illegal) drift competitions in ''TheFastAndTheFurious Tokyo Drift''.

* In ''Film/{{The Terminator}}'', Kyle Reese and the Terminator shoot it out while driving through a parking garage. This leads to Kyle being captured by the police and the Terminator escaping.

* An episode of ''{{Seinfeld}}'' takes place in a mall parking garage, and features the goldfish mentioned above.

* On an episode of ''TopGear'', a "road test" of a Ford Fiesta includes a car chase through a shopping mall and its associated parking structure.

* The "Lowlife" chapter of ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}: Episode One'' has the player racing through crumbling underground parking garages which are also swarming with zombies, headcrabs and antlions.

* In PAYDAY2's Hoxton Breakout heist (and the promotional trailer it's based on), the escape truck holding Hoxton and the rest of the Payday crew is forced to make a detour through a parking garage while being tailed by SWAT forces. Security bollards prevent the truck from continuing through the garage, and SWAT teams halt an escape from the entrance. A firefight between the Payday crew and the SWAT ensues as the crew searches for a security room, so they can lower the bollards and complete their escape.
* Videogame/TheSecretWorld has a couple missions set in parking garages, that combine most of the elements mentioned above. In one, a stolen artifact has become the center of a deal gone bad, with numerous dead and zombified gangsters as a result. The other is the site of an assassination gone bad, with numerous dead bodies, and later ghosts, filling the garage.
* Videogame/WatchDogs has several, complete with security cameras. They're excellent for online pvp, because there are so many levels for you to hide when in the role of the hacker, and the other player has to search through them all.

* In PawDugan's Top 11 Video Game Composers video, the final confrontation with [[EvilCounterpart Dark Paw]] takes place on top of a parking garage.

* Parodied in an episode of ''TheSimpsons'' where the Simpson kids go to meet an informant (who turns out to be Mr. Smithers) in a garage. He goes to great lengths to conceal his identity (wearing a trench coat, smoking, standing in the shadows, etc.) but the effect is ruined when Homer drives up and turns on his headlights.

* In ''BadBoys 2'', Syd's undercover meeting takes place at the top of a parking garage. Things quickly turn sour and it develops into a shootout and car chase.

* TheCall: The victim is abducted from a mall parking garage.
* ''Best Seller'' (1987) opens with the VanInBlack driven by the robbers through an underground garage, with fades used to make the corridor they're driving down seem endless until they finally drive out into blinding daylight. Cue Title.

While a person should always be alert of their surroundings while on their own alone in a public place, in RealLife a parking garage is just as safe as any of the other places you have to walk through to get to said parking garage. Walking through one alone at night, however, is scary because [[NothingIsScarier nothing is scarier than your imagination cooking up what ''could'' happen.]]