France Film Locations

France's oldest city and busiest port featured in The Bourne Identity, its gritty old town streets standing in for part of Jason Bourne's European manhunt.

Paris's most famous landmark features throughout Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, including the film's dreamlike midnight scenes.

Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette was filmed on location inside the real Palace of Versailles — the first production granted access to shoot within the palace itself in decades.

This perfectly preserved double-walled medieval citadel doubled for Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, its turrets and ramparts needing almost no set dressing.

The glamorous Mediterranean coastline around Nice provided the backdrop for Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly — who would return to the Riviera two years later as Princess of Monaco.

Montmartre is one of the most atmospheric film locations in Paris, made globally famous by the 2001 cult film Amélie. The neighbourhood’s winding streets, vintage cafés and hillside views were a perfect backdrop for the film’s whimsical portrayal of Parisian life. One of the most visited spots is the real-life café Café des Deux Moulins, where Amélie works in the film. Unlike many movie locations that are recreated or closed off, this café is still open today and operates as a fully functioning Parisian brasserie. It remains a popular film pilgrimage site, attracting visitors from around the world who come to sit where scenes from Amélie were filmed and explore the surrounding Montmartre streets, which still retain much of their old village charm above modern Paris.

This Roman aqueduct bridge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site spanning the Gardon river, appears during Mr. Bean's journey across France in Mr. Bean's Holiday.

Wes Anderson shot much of The French Dispatch in this southwestern French town, already famous as the home of Europe's largest comic book festival — a fitting match for the film's comic-strip visual style.

The medieval château above the village of Beynac-et-Cazenac features in the opening of Chocolat (2000), as Vianne and Anouk arrive in their fictional Dordogne village.

This hilltop village above Monaco, home to the ancient Roman Trophy of Augustus, provided a backdrop for the car chase sequences in Ronin — regularly cited as one of the greatest chase scenes in film history.

The dramatic chalk cliffs and natural arches of this Normandy coastal town are the hometown and a recurring setting of Omar Sy's hit Netflix series Lupin.

This medieval bastide town above the Aveyron gorge stood in for the fictional French village at the heart of The Hundred-Foot Journey, its honey-stone houses and riverside setting central to the film.

The world's most-visited museum, its glass Pyramid entrance a key visual motif of Dan Brown's novel, doubles as the site of the opening murder investigation and climactic reveal in The Da Vinci Code.

This dramatic hilltop village in the Luberon, one of the most photographed in Provence, doubled as the fictional village near Russell Crowe's vineyard estate in Ridley Scott's A Good Year.

This quiet Left Bank square in Paris's 5th arrondissement is the real-life location of Emily's apartment building in the hit Netflix series Emily in Paris.

This colourful fishing port on the French Riviera, tucked beneath the hills above Nice, appeared in The Transporter, one of several Côte d'Azur towns used for the film's high-speed driving sequences.

This grand 17th-century chateau near Paris played the private estate of Sir Leigh Teabing in The Da Vinci Code, and can still be booked today as an exclusive event venue.