Lawrence of Arabia (1962, Best Picture at Academy Awards, preserved in the US National Film Registry; in 1999, the British Film Institute named the film the third-greatest British film of all time), Gladiator (2000, Best Picture at Academy Awards, Best Film at BAFTA)

Schindler's List (1993, won Best Picture at Academy Awards, Best Movie at BAFTA, Best Motion Picture Golden Globes)

Life of Brian (1979)

Oktyabr (Ten Days That Shook the World) (Eisenstein 1928)

Sissi (1955)

Mycenae: Ilektra (Elektra) - 1962 B+W, Dir - Kakogiannis, Nominated for Oscar and Cannes Palm d'Or

Tea with Mussolini (1999); Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991) with Helena Bonham Carter, directed by Merchant Ivory.

Lara Croft Tomb Raider (2001), Lord Jim (1965)

Durham Cathedral (Hogwarts - "views of the exterior of the entire school were created from shots of Durham Cathedral with a digital spire added to the towers. Durham Cathedral also served as a set for Hogwarts interiors." in the Harry Potter movies )

Three Coins in the Fountain, a 1954 American romantic comedy film (won 2 Oscars in 1955)
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the 1922 version of Nosfaratu ("One of the silent era's most influential masterpieces") is set and filmed in Wismar
See en.wikipedia.org

Venice is the location of "Summertime" (1955) with Katherine Hepburn, directed by David Lean

Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (1955)

In 1964, film director Cy Endfield shot the exterior locations in the mountainous Drakensberg National Park for the epic war film Zulu starring Michael Caine and Stanley Baker (wiki)

In Bruges (2008)
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2001: A Space Odyssey - "a 1968 epic science-fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick" (according to nom file) (preserved in the US National Film Registry)
See www.movie-locations.com

The Salzspeicher in Nosferatu (1922, "One of the silent era's most influential masterpieces")
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Our Man in Havana (1959)

Othello by Orson Welles (1952): "Portuguese cistern.... Several movies have been filmed there, of which Orson Welles' Othello is the best known internationally" (wikivoyage El Jadida)

Church of the Blessed Sacrament at Rua do Passo: O Pagador de Promessas, a 1962 drama film by Anselmo Duarte, was filmed on the staircase of the church. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival (wiki)
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"THE MILKY WAY" (BUNUEL/1969) AT THE CATHEDRAL Milky Way / La Voie lactée refers to the Route itself. It is about two pilgrims walking on the Routes in France and Spain to Santiago de Compostela.

"ANDREI RUBLEV" (TARKOVSKY/1966) AT THE TRINITY CATHEDRAL. FIPRESCI Award at Cannes.

Scenes set in the palace of the Capulets for the 1968 movie "Romeo and Juliet" by Franco Zeffirelli were shot at Palazzo Piccolomini. Some of the street scenes were also shot in Pienza.
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"Aguirre, the Wrath of God" . Herzog/Kinski 1972. On the steps of Huayna Picchu

Rashomon (1950, won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1951)
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Invictus (2009)

Christ the Redeemer: As early as the 1940s, Hollywood captured the structure's iconic appeal in such cinematic vehicles as the 1942 Bette Davis film Now, Voyager and Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film Notorious starring Ingrid Bergman. (wiki) + That Man from Rio (French adventure film 1964)

The Last Emperor (1987, Best Picture at Academy Awards, Best film at BAFTA, Best foreign film at César Awards)

Kharanaq Caravanserai appears in several scenes in The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) (2025 Oscar Awards Best International Feature Film Nominee, 2025 BAFTA Best Film Not in the English Language Nominee, 2024 Cannes Palme d'Or Nominee, Jury Special Prize, Fipresci Award, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, François Chalais Award Winner, 2025 Golden Globe Best Motion Picture - Non-English Language Nominee)

Roman Holiday (1953, preserved in the United States National Film Registry) / "L'AGE D'OR" (BUNUEL & DALI/1930) WITH VARIOUS SHOTS OF ROME / "LA DOLCE VITA" (FELLINI/1960) AT FONTANA DI TREVI AND OTHERS Palme d'Or at Cannes FF. / "SATYRICON" (FELLINI/1969) AT COLOSSEUM Best Italian Film at Venice FF. / "NOSTALGHIA" (TARKOVSKY/1982) AT CAMPIDOGLIO AND ON VIA CONDOTTI Best Director & FIPRESCI Award at Cannes FF.

Intolerance (1916, preserved at the United States National Film Registry)

Spartacus (1960, Best Motion Picture – Drama at the Golden Globes)

The Potemkin Stairs, made famous by Sergei Eisenstein in his film, Battleship Potemkin.

Up to His Ears: "The film also includes approximately 15 minutes of footage of the central area of Kathmandu"
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"ANDREI RUBLEV" (TARKOVSKY/1966). Most of the movie was shot on locations at Vladimir and Suzdal. FIPRESCI Award at Cannes. There is even a Tarkovsky monument in Suzdal for making this movie there.

The Last Emperor (1987, Best Picture at Academy Awards, Best film at BAFTA, Best foreign film at César Awards)

The Mission (1986, won the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or)

Director William Friedkin filmed in Hatra for the first scene in The Exorcist (1973, Best Motion Picture at the Golden Globes), in which a priest at an archaeology dig unearths an ancient talisman belonging to Pazuzu, an ancient Mesopotamian demon.
See www.telegraph.co.uk

The Mission (1986, won the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, won best foreign language film awards at BAFTA, Academy Awards and Golden Globes)

Wulingyuan (known as Zhangjiajie in Wiki), many scenic areas have been used as Pandora planet's Hallelujah Mountains in Avatar (2009)

The Assassin (2015, released on DVD without cinematic release)
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Lawrence of Arabia -much of the movie directed by David Lean (1962, Best Picture at Academy Awards, preserved in the US National Film Registry; in 1999, the British Film Institute named the film the third-greatest British film of all time)

The Third Man (1949, in 1999 the British Film Institute voted The Third Man the greatest British film of all time), Amadeus (1984, Best Picture at Academy Awards)

Various, such as A Little Romance (1978) and Dangerous Liaisons (1988, best foreign film at the César awards)
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Interstellar, a 2014 American science fiction film

Fort St Elmo - Midnight Express (1978, Best motion picture at the Golden Globes)

"NOSTALGHIA" (TARKOVSKY/1982) AT BAGNO VIGNONI. Best Director & FIPRESCI Award at Cannes.

The Lord of the Rings (2001, 2003)

Lord of the Rings (2001, Best motion picture at Academy Awards for The Return of the King), Oldboy (2003)

This dramatic scenery has been featured in films such as One Million Years B.C. (1966), Clash of the Titans (2010),[22] and Wrath of the Titans (2012).

Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Best Picture at Academy Awards and Golden Globes, Best Film at BAFTA), Shiraz (silent film from 1928)
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On the Town (1949, preserved in the United States National Film Registry)

The Alamo (1960): an American historical epic film about the 1836 Battle of the Alamo produced and directed by John Wayne and starring Wayne as Davy Crockett
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The Sound of Music (1965, Best picture at Academy Awards and preserved in the US National Film Registry)

The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
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Scenes for The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) as well as the movie Outbreak (1995) were filmed at the nearby Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. (wiki)

Gandhi (1982, Best picture at Academy Awards, best film at BAFTA)

Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (2004, Best film at Golden Horse Film Festival)
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Amadeus (1984, Best Picture at Academy Awards)

La Traversée de Paris (Claude Autant-Lara 1956), Á bout de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard 1960), Paris brûle-t-il? (René Clément 1966) and others

"La Nuit américaine" (1973), Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (Nomination file, p. 207)
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About Dry Grasses (2023 Cannes Palme d'Or Nominee, Best Actress Winner): The last scene (5-10 minutes) of this masterpiece movie is taking place in Mount Nemrut WHS, covering both components (karakus tumulus and main site)
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Los Olvidados (1950), by Luis Buñuel, ranked as the second-best Mexican movie in history, published in 1994; and that (after public scorn in Mexico for its content and subject matter) won the Palme d'Or for best direction at Cannes. The film's negatives were added to the "Memory of the World" list by UNESCO. Example: • The exact filming locations are pretty unclear to me. Many scenes are shot in slums outside the city center, and in areas that there were just starting to be urbanized. However, some scenes do clearly happen in the historic center, and at the very start, the image of the Zocalo (after those of Paris, London and New York) is shown.

Othello directed by (and starring) Orson Welles (1951, winner at Cannes Film Festival). A bust of Welles is situated just outside the Medina.

Sense and Sensibility (1995, Best film at BAFTA, Golden Bear at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival)

Scenes for Farinelli (1994, won Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film), about the life and career of the 18th-century Italian opera singer Carlo Broschi, were filmed here

Le Havre (2011, prize of the critics at Cannes Film Festival)
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Schindler's List (1993, won Best Picture at Academy Awards, Best Movie at BAFTA, Best Motion Picture Golden Globes)

The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
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La Battaglia di Algeri (Dir - G Pontecorvo, 1966, B+W). Won Venice "Leone d'Oro" and "occupies the 120th place on Empire Magazine's list of the 500 greatest movies of all time" (Wiki). Shot on location in the Algiers Kasbah, it tells the story of the organisation of the FLN guerilla movement there between 1954-57 during the Algerian war against France. Once banned in France and elsewhere it has been accused of inspiring political violence and spreading guerilla tactics around the World.

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, Best Picture at Academy Awards, Best Film at BAFTA, preserved in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress)

Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque in Argo (2012, Best Picture at Academy Awards, Best film at BAFTA, Best foreign film at César awards)
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Il Postino (1994, won BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language)

Rocky II (1979)

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000, won best foreign language film awards at BAFTA, Academy Awards and Golden Globes)

Shogun (European theatrical film remake of the miniseries, 1980), Ran (1985, "Despite its limited commercial success at the time of its release, the film's accolades have improved greatly, and it is now regarded as one of Kurosawa's masterpieces.")
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The Sound of Music (1965, Best picture at Academy Awards and preserved in the US National Film Registry)

Many films have been shot on location in Montecatini Terme, some examples including scenes from Franco Zeffirelli's "Camping" (1957), Anthony Asquith's "The Yellow Rolls Royce" (1964), Mario Monicelli's follow-up to "My Friend" (1982), and Nikita Michalkov's "Oci Ciornie" (1987). (Nomination File, p. 268) Marcello Mastrioanni won the award for Best Actor at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for "Oci Ciornie".
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Into the Wild (2007)

Winter Sleep (2014, won the Palme d'Or and the FIPRESCI Prize in Cannes)
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The Shining (1980, preserved in the United States National Film Registry)

Amadeus (1984, Best Picture at Academy Awards)

Throne of Blood (1957)
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Various, including Guggenheim museum in Manhattan (1979, preserved in the National Film Registry.)
See franklloydwrightsites.com

Elmina. "Cobra Verde" - Herzog/Kinski 1987

"The Garden of the Finzi-Continis" is set in Ferrara and used the city for exterior shots. The film won the Golden Bear and 1972 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Khao Yai's waterfalls Heo Narok and Haeo Suwat featured in The Beach (2000).

The Postman's White Nights - Winner of a Silver Lion in 2014
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Cyrano de Bergerac (1990, best Film at César awards, Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and held Oscar & BAFTA nominations)
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Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Best Picture at Academy Awards and Golden Globes, Best Film at BAFTA)

Dersu Uzala (1975, winner of the critics' prize at Moscow International Film Festival)
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Dr Zhivago (1965, Best Motion Picture at Golden Globe Awards)

That Man from Rio (with JP Belmondo) (1964), where Brasilia during its construction can be seen.

Welcome to the Sticks (Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis, 2008) : one of the most famous scenes sees the hero playing "I Just Called to Say I Love You" on the carillon atop the Bergues belfry.
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The Desert of the Tartars (1976, it won the Italian film prize David di Donatello and was one of the selected Classics at the Cannes film festival)
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Some scenes of the film "Brother Sun, Sister Moon" from 1972, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, were filmed inside the Sacro Convento. The film won the David di Donatello Award for Best Director and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Art Direction.
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The Ten Commandments (1956, preserved in the United States National Film Registry)
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Rashomon (1950, won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1951)
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The Mission (1986, won the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or)

Timbuktu (2014, winner of AMAA 2015 Prize for Best Film), filmed in Oualata
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