There is a long thread begun by Dennis Nyback of Portland, OR at 35mmforum about movies that show projectors, projection booths, and projectionists.
Here is a partial list as identified in that thread:

1941 1979
52 Pick-up 1986
976-Evil 1988
A Boy and His Dog 1975
A Foreign Affair 1948 Silent 16mm Ampro
A Movie Star 1916
Abbott and Costello in Hollywood 1945
Anguish 1987
Apartment Zero 1988
Artist, The 2011
Bad and the Beautiful, The 1952 Kirk Douglas and Barry Sullivan take their film into a theater for a sneak preview in 1934. They go into a booth equipped with the latest Simplex projectors for the movie's production date. Apparently a screening room on the MGM lot.
Bait 1953
Bellboy, The 1960 Studio booth features a small built-in rear projection screen.
Below the Sea 1933 No projection booth but 35mm Projector set up in a ballroom
Big Premiere, The 1940 Our Gang short where the kids shoot a film and premeire it in a barn.
Blob, The 1958
Blob, The 1988
Buddy's Theatre  1935 WB cartoon
Buen Viagje, Excelencia 2003
Bugsy 1991
Bulletproof Monk 2003
Bye Bye Brasil 1979
Carol 2015 A projectionist running SUNSET BLVD. while a bunch of people clamber around the viewing ports to watch. Simplex or Century. But whatever lamphouses are attached are definitely not 1950s-era!
Casino Royale 1967
Cecil B. Demented 2000
Celluloid and Cigarettes 2004
Children On Trial 1946
Chillerama 2011
Cinema Paradiso 1988
Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus 2005
Clash By Night 1951
Cleo from 5 to 7 Agnes Varda's 1962
Closer You Get, The  2013
Come See The Paradise 1990
Coming Up Roses 2011
Daddy Long Legs 1955
Daffy Duck in Hollywood 1938
Damien: Omen II 1978
Day For Night 1973
Death Kiss 1932
Demons (Argento Version) 1985
Der Fall Gleiwitz (The Gleiwitz Case) 1961
Desparately Seeking Susan 1985
Dirty Work 1998
Dogs of War 1923
Double Exposure episode Columbo with Robert Culp & Chuck McCann 1973
Drive-in 1976
East is East 1999
El Viento Se Llevo Lo Que 1998
Eskimo Nell 1975
Evita 1996
Ex-Mrs. Bradford, The 1936
Fall, The 2006
Family Way. The 1966
Fight Club 1999
Forgotten Lady episode Columbo with Janet Leigh 1975
GAS, FOOD LODGING 1992
Game Called on Account of Marriage Honeymooners 1954
Gangster Squad 2012
Godspell 1973
Good German, The 2006
Goodbye Dragon Inn (Bu San) 2003
Green Mile, The  1999
Gremlins 1984
Gremlins 2 1990 Only in Theatrical Release
Hail, Caesar! 2016
Halfway to Hollywood 1938 short subject with a 16mm screening in a home.
Hart's War 2002
Hellzapoppin (Shemp as a projectionist) 1941
Hercules Returns 1993
Here Come the Marines 1952 16mm projection with an Ampro.
Hitchcock 2012
Hollywood Boulevard 1976
Hollywood Canteen 1943 An outdoor screening (in the rain) of 1942's "The Hard Way".  The booth appears but for an instant during a pan/dissolve shot in the first 5 minutes of the film.
Hollywood Cavelcade 1939
I Wished on the Moon 1935 Fleischer cartoon
Inglorious Bastards 2010
Inner Circle, The 1991
Kings of the Road Wim Wenders 1976
Knick Seasont, The  2 Episode 6 2015
La Cite de la Peur 1994
Last Action Hero, The 1993
Last Man on Earth. The 1964 Vincent Price watches home movies on as yet not identided 16mm, or 8mm, or maybe 9.5 projector.
Le Mepris (Contempt) 1963
Le ragazze dello swing 2010
Lepke 1975
Leur Derniere Nuit 1953
Luck By Chance 2009
Luke's Movie Muddle 1916
Mabel's Dramatic Career 1913
Magic Box 1963
Mahana aka The Patriarch 2016
Majestic, The  2001
Make Me a Perfect Murder episode Columbo with Patrick O'Neal & Trish Van Devere 1978
Man With a Movie Camera. , The 1929
Masculin Feminin Goddard 1966
Matinee Joe Dante 1993
Meatrack, The 1970 A scene in a theater showing ports, with POV from the booth or balcony
Midnight Movie 2008
Most Terrible Time in my Life, The (Waga jinsei saiaku no toki) 1994
Movie Orgy, The 1968
Mr. Bean's Holiday 2007
Mr. Skeffington 1944
Muppet Movie, The 1979
My Favorite Year 1982
Mystery Science Theater 3000 1988
Nancy Drew 2007
Nice Guys 2016
Nickleodeon 1976
Night Of The Comet 1984
Omega Man, The 1971
Omega Man, The 1971
Passion Pit, The 1985
Persona 1966
Phantom of the Paradise 1974
Picture Show Man 1977
Popcorn 1991
Postman, The 1997 Cool scene of a projection booth on a raft on a lake projecting The Sound of Music
Projectionist, The 1971
Projectionist. The Pete and Gladys Episode 1961
Quadrophenia 1979
Red Light 1950
Renoir 2013
Ruby 1977
Saratoga 1937 Simplex Sp
Shawshank Redemption, The 1994
Sherlock Jr. 1924
Show Girl in Hollywood 1930
Silent Movie 1976
Slumdog Millionaire 2006
Small Change 1976
Smallest Show on Earth 1957
Spiral Staircase, The 1946
Spirit of the Beehive 1973
Sullivan's Travels 1941
Sunset Boulevard 1950
TARGETS Projectionist gets shot in the head through the port glass 1968
Tales of Midnight Madness 1991 Canadian TV
That's Carry On 1977
Things to Do In Denver When You're Dead 1995
Three Amigos! 1986
Tingler, The 1959
Too Hot to Handle 1938 Possibly same Simplex Sp as used in Saratoga.
Too Late 2015 A projection booth at a drive-in.
Twilight Zone # 1 Where's Everybody 1959
Twister 1996
Two Weeks in Another Town 1962
Unknown Brother, The 1982 No projection booth 35mm setup in a hospital
Variety 1983
Waking Life 2001
Wartime Romance 1983
Way We Were. The 1973
What Price Hollywood 1932
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane 1962
White Dog 1982 No booth - rear projection setup
Wisher, The  AKA Spliced 2002
Women, The 1939 Bell & Howell 129 silent 16mm projector operated by Norma Shearer
Wrong Turn 4 aka Albino Farm 2009
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