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

• 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 (Budapest, Hősök tere)
• 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"

Films and television series shot in Budapest

• Étoile (1988)
• Music Box (1989)
• Howling V: The Rebirth (1989)
• The Cremaster Cycle (Episode 5) (1997)
• Gloomy Sunday (1999)
• Au Pair (1999)
• In the Beginning (2000)
• An American Rhapsody (2001)
• Last Run (2001)^[2]
• Dinotopia (2002)
• Perlasca – Un eroe Italiano (2002)
• I Spy (2002)
• Underworld (2003), venue: Ferenciek tere,^[3] Gozsdu udvar^[4]
• 8mm 2 (2005)
• Munich (2005)
• Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (2008)
• Transporter 3 (2008)
• Iris (2009)
• Budapest (2009 TV series)
• Pillars of the Earth (2010)
• Juan (2010)
• La Rafle (2010)
• Carlos (Carlos the Jackal) (2010)^[5]
• The Rite (2011)
• The Borgias (2011)
• Season of the Witch (2011)
• Bel Ami (2011)
• Silent Witness (2011)
• Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)
• In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)
• A Good Day to Die Hard (2012)
• Dracula (2013)
• Doctor Stranger (2014)
• Hercules (2014)
• Spy (2015)
• The Martian (2015)
• Inferno (2016)
• Terminal (2016)
• Spy (2016)
• Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Films that have disguised Budapest as other cities

• as Paris: Escape to Victory (1981)
• as Moscow: Red Heat (1988)
• as Paris: Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
• as Paris: M. Butterfly (1993)
• Mortal Kombat (1995)
• as Buenos Aires: Evita (1996)
• Il Fantasma dell'Opera (directed by Dario Argento, 1998)
• as Rome: Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (Straight from the Heart, 1999)
• as East Berlin: Spy Game (2001)
• as Berlin: Max (2002)
• as London: Being Julia (2004)
• as Rome, Paris, and London, among others: Munich (2005)
• Eragon (2006)
• as Berlin: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
• as Vienna: The Nutcracker in 3D (2010)
• as East Berlin: The Debt (2010)
• as Paris: Bel Ami (2011)
• Season of the Witch (2011)
• The Eagle (2011)
• as Monte Carlo: Monte Carlo (2011)
• The Raven (2012)
• as Moscow: A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
• World War Z (2013)
• The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
• as Beijing: "The Martian" (2015)
• as Paris and Rome: "Spy" (2015)

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 Sullivan 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)

Sources

1. 1 2 "Magyar közreműködők világsztárok klipjeiben" (in Hungarian). RTL Klub. Retrieved 2012-01-07. 
2. ↑ "The Last Run". Filming locations. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-05-13. 
3. ↑ "Lemosták a vámpírkastélyt a Ferencieken". Kultúr (in Hungarian). index.hu. 2009-06-15. Retrieved 2010-05-13 13.  Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
4. ↑ "Underworld (2003)". Filming locations. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-05-13. 
5. ↑ "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. 

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