Discover the real cities, buildings, studios, and landscapes seen on screen, with production context for each location.
Browse location guides for movies, television, and reality-TV productions.
Gotham’s latest screen address runs through northwest England. Clayface filmed around Liverpool and at Stockport Plaza, turning real streets, public buildings and an old cinema into parts of its fictional city. The production’s most interesting trick may be how much character those places already had before the signs and props arrived. DC lists the James…
The Diplomat Season 4 filmed in Lucca and Florence, alongside London and New York. Lucca portrayed a fictional G7 gathering. Netflix has set October 15, 2026 for the season’s premiere. Keri Russell returns as Kate Wyler, with Rufus Sewell, Allison Janney and Bradley Whitford completing the central quartet. Lucca’s fictional summit The Toscana Film Commission…
Ben Affleck and Steven Yeun took a fictional mayoral campaign to the Original Farmers Market in Los Angeles, filming amid its busy food stalls. Animals was filmed in and around Los Angeles, the same city in which its kidnapping story takes place. Affleck directs and plays Mark Kimball, a candidate for mayor whose son is…
A hardware store, a cafe and a suburban pub give Small Prophets its everyday geography. The extraordinary part happens in a shed. Mackenzie Crook’s comedy was filmed in Greater Manchester, where its story is also set, but the jar-filled room at the heart of Michael Sleep’s adventure required a carefully controlled studio setup. For viewers…
Peacock’s Crystal Lake returns to the world of Friday the 13th long before the events that made Camp Crystal Lake one of horror’s most recognizable settings. Created by Brad Caleb Kane, the A24 series stars Linda Cardellini, William Catlett, Devin Kessler, Cameron Scoggins and Gwendolyn Sundstrom, and expands the mythology surrounding the Voorhees family. The…
Lifetime’s A Doctor to Die For: The Sarah Harris Story follows Sarah’s relationship with an older medical professional and the mother and sister who seek answers when tragedy strikes. Siobhan Williams plays Sarah, opposite Luke Macfarlane as Dr. James Ryan. Directed by Siobhan Devine and written by Barbara Marshall, the drama comes from Rohm Feifer…
Hallmark’s “A Knight to Remember” gives a modern city romance an unusually old-fashioned twist. Julie Gonzalo stars as museum conservator Emily Porter, whose carefully ordered life changes after a centuries-old statue of Sir Griffin de Beauford, played by James Trevena, unexpectedly comes to life. The story moves through modern Chicago, museums, fall scenery and a…
Kill Jackie gives Jackie Price a life built around movement. Catherine Zeta-Jones’ character has spent years presenting herself as a sophisticated international art dealer, moving between expensive apartments, galleries, hotels and coastal cities while keeping her earlier life firmly out of sight. The series needed locations capable of making that world feel genuinely international rather…
Netflix’s ‘Love Is Blind: Netherlands’ takes the familiar dating experiment outside the Netherlands for some of its most important stages. The first season follows 30 Dutch singles as they date without seeing one another, get engaged, and then test their relationships in the real world. Production primarily used locations in Sweden, Zanzibar, and the Netherlands,…
The remote vacation home in M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin is supposed to feel cut off from civilization, leaving Andrew, Eric, and Wen with almost no way of knowing whether the terrifying claims made by their four visitors are actually true. The production achieved that isolation in South Jersey’s Pine Barrens, but the…
Originally titled “L’Arène,” Netflix’s The Arena brings together 38 amateur MMA fighters for a competition overseen by Ciryl Gane, Cédric Doumbè and Benoît Saint-Denis. The fighters enter an enormous Fight Camp where physical challenges, technical tests and cage fights gradually reduce the field, with €100,000 and a professional MMA contract awaiting each eventual winner. Netflix…
Paul Greengrass’ The Uprising takes viewers deep into 14th-century England, moving from rural settlements to crowded city streets as Andrew Garfield’s Ploughman becomes caught up in the Peasants’ Revolt. Yet much of the medieval England seen on screen was created hundreds of miles away from the places where the real uprising unfolded. The Uprising was…
