List of films shot in Budapest
This article lists internationally distributed films that:
- were shot on location in the city of Budapest, capital of Hungary
- use the city of Budapest as a set to portray other cities
- have the story or part of the story set in Budapest, but were not shot there
- if they are animated films, have Budapest as their identifiable venue
Since the 1990s, Budapest has been home to many international film productions. More recently the level of filming has increased, and at peak times up to three or four films will be in shooting. The reasons for this were given by film producer André Szőts in lectures given at the Eötvös Loránd University and in a 2004 television interview on Hungarian television TV2. According to Szőts, Hungary provides for a relatively cheap budget (e.g. salaries are much lower than just about anywhere in the West), and Budapest has kept the image of a city that is so diverse in building types from different eras that it could be substituted for (or disguised to be) any large European city. Szőts has given an example of a French film he produced in which Budapest was a set for 30 different cities.
Music videos shot in Budapest
- Davichi: "Sorry I´m Happy "
- Arash: "Pure Love"
- The Chemical Brothers: "The Boxer"
- Clueso: "Mitnehm"
- Sarah Connor: "From Sarah With Love"
- David Deejay ft. Dony: "So Bizarre"
- Deepside Deejays: "Never Be Alone"
- Mylène Farmer: "Désenchantée" (1991)
- Selena Gomez & The Scene: "Round & Round"
- Groove Coverage: "Moonlight Shadow"
- Michael Jackson - HIStory teaser, venue: Budapest, Hősök tere (1995)
- Jovanotti: "Mi fido di te"
- Lenny Kravitz: "Dancing Till Dawn"
- Liberty X: "Holding On For You"
- maNga: "Cevapsız Sorular"
- Katy Perry: "Firework" (2010)
- Ziggi Recado: "Need To Tell You This"
- Ela Rose featuring David Deejay: "I Can Feel"
- Gwen Stefani: "Early Winter"[1]
- Jolin Tsai: "A Wonder in Madrid"[1]
- Jamie Woon: "Lady Luck"
- Daniel Docherty: "Hold Me"
- Ellie Goulding: "Close To Me"
- Minhyun (NU'EST): "Universe"
- Will Smith, Nicky Jam, Era Istrefi, Diplo: "Live It Up (Official Song 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia)"
Films and television series shot in Budapest
- The Golden Head (1964)
- The Fixer (1968)
- Bluebeard (1972)
- Love and Death (1975) (as Russia)
- The Prince and the Pauper (1977) (as England)
- Escape to Victory (1981) (as Paris, France)
- Grizzly II: Revenge (1983) (released in 2021)
- Red Heat (1988) (as Moscow, USSR)
- Etoile (1988)
- Music Box (1989)
- Howling V: The Rebirth (1989)
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) (as Paris, France)
- M. Butterfly (1993) (as Paris, France)
- Stalin (1992)
- Maigret (1992) (as Paris, France)
- My Girl 2 (1994)
- Citizen X (1995) (as Moscow, USSR and other Soviet locations)
- A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995) (as Ancient Camelot)
- Mortal Kombat (1995)
- Evita (1996) (as Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (1996)
- The Hunchback (1997) (as Paris, France)
- The Cremaster Cycle (Episode 5) (1997)
- A Knight in Camelot (1998) (as Ancient Camelot)
- Il Fantasma dell'Opera (1998)
- Gloomy Sunday (1999)
- Au Pair (1999)
- Jakob the Liar (1999) (as Poland)
- Straight from the Heart (1999) (as Rome, Italy)
- In the Beginning (2000)
- An American Rhapsody (2001)
- Spy Game (2001) (as East Berlin, East Germany)
- Last Run (2001)[2]
- Dinotopia (2002)
- Perlasca – Un eroe Italiano (2002)
- I Spy (2002)
- Max (2002) (as Berlin, Germany)
- The Lion in Winter (2003)
- Underworld (2003), venue: Ferenciek tere,[3] Gozsdu udvar[4]
- Being Julia (2004) (as London, England, UK)
- 8mm 2 (2005)
- Munich (2005) (as Rome, Paris, and London, among others)
- Day of Wrath (2006) (as Spain)
- Copying Beethoven (2006) (as Vienna, Austria)
- Eragon (2006)
- Severance (2006)
- Painkiller Jane (2007)
- 100 Feet (2008)
- Good (2008)
- Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (2008)
- Transporter 3 (2008)
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008) (as Berlin, Germany)
- Iris (2009)
- Budapest (2009 TV series)
- Pillars of the Earth (2010)
- The Nutcracker in 3D (2010) (as Vienna, Austria)
- Juan (2010)
- La Rafle (2010)
- The Debt (2010) (as East Berlin, East Germany)
- Carlos (Carlos the Jackal) (2010)[5]
- The Rite (2011)
- The Borgias (2011)
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011)
- Season of the Witch (2011)
- Bel Ami (2011) (as Paris, France)
- Die Samenhändlerin (2011)
- Silent Witness (2011)
- Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)
- In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)
- Monte Carlo (2011)
- The Eagle (2011)
- Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia (2012) (as Ancient Britannia)
- The Raven (2012)
- Dracula (2013)
- A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) (as Moscow, Russia; and Budapest Franz Liszt Int'l Airport as LaGuardia New York Airport)
- World War Z (2013) (as Moscow, Russia)
- 47 Ronin (2013)
- The Art of the Steal (2013) (as Warsaw, Poland)
- Doctor Stranger (2014)
- Hercules (2014)
- Kenau (2014)
- The Last Kingdom (2014-2019, 4 seasons)
- Underdog (2014)
- Spy (2015) (as Paris and Rome; and Budapest Franz Liszt Int'l Airport Terminal 1 as Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport)
- The Martian (2015) (as Beijing, China)
- Inferno (2016)
- Maigret (2016)
- Spectral (2016) (as a Moldovan city)
- Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
- Surga Yang Tak Dirindukan 2 (2017)
- Atomic Blonde (2017) (as West Berlin, West Germany and East Berlin, East Germany)
- Red Sparrow (2017)
- Raabta (2017)
- Man to Man (2017)
- Budapest (2018)
- Homeland, season 7
- Sunset (2018)
- Terminal (2018)
- The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)
- Colette (2018)
- The Alienist (2018)
- Robin Hood (2018)
- Alarm für Cobra 11 (season 24, episode 1: "Most Wanted", original air date: September 13, 2018)
- The Witcher (TV series) (2019-)
- Midsommar (2019)
- Hanna (2019- )
- Treadstone (2019- ) Budapest is the sole filming location for the entire series
- Gemini Man (2019)
- Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
- 6 Underground (Netflix original film) (2019)
- Strike Back (TV series) (2010-2020) seasons 2, 4-6
- Bloodshot (2020)
- Radioactive (2020) (as Paris, France) premiered in July 2020 on Amazon Prime Video
- Outside the Wire (Netflix original film) (2021) Budapest is the sole filming location for the entire film
- Dune (2021)
- Black Widow (2021)
Films set in Budapest
The following films or television series episodes had a plot or part of a plot set in Budapest but were not shot on location.
- Ladies in Love (1936) - with Tyrone Power, Janet Gaynor, Loretta Young, Constance Bennett and Don Ameche. Three women rent a luxury apartment in Budapest while in search of wealthy husbands.
- The Shop Around the Corner (1940) - with James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan and Frank Morgan. Two employees of a Budapest shop clash with each other, neither knowing that the other is the unmet lover they have been corresponding with.
- MacGyver Season 1 Episode 3, "The Thief of Budapest" (1985) - In this episode Budapest looks like a mixture of a city in Turkey and one in Italy. Also, Budapest is set to be a five-minute drive away from the Austrian border, when in reality it is about 200 kilometres away.
- Van Helsing (2004) - Important pieces of plot take place in the Budapest of the 1890s, which was only shown as a background image which merged artist's concepts with a contemporary tourist photograph of the city.
Animated films featuring Budapest
- Willy the Sparrow (1989)
- The District! (2004)
- Hotel Transylvania movie franchise (2012-2021)
Sources
- "Magyar közreműködők világsztárok klipjeiben" (in Hungarian). RTL Klub. Archived from the original on 2012-07-15. Retrieved 2012-01-07.
- "The Last Run". Filming locations. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
- "Lemosták a vámpírkastélyt a Ferencieken". Kultúr (in Hungarian). index.hu. 2009-06-15. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
- "Underworld (2003)". Filming locations. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
- "Budapesten forgatott külföldi sorozatok - 2. rész: Carlos (Carlos the Jackal)" (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2012-02-07.
- "Budapest Hungary". Filming Location. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-05-13.